Chapter 13 jennifer on the nose

It was dusk when the flood came to Cotton.It was very dark that day, and for some reason the apple peddler didn't close his stall, and the roasting machine was still running.The housewife held the white rice for dinner, but she stood in front of the stove for a long time without putting the rice into the pot.Everything seemed to be waiting for the dark to go down, and the dark was restlessly waiting for something.The colorful clouds ooze out little by little like blood biting a lip, gradually rippling so that the whole sky is swaying. The maid had just changed him into a straw-colored pajamas, and now he smelled of soap.It was some time before eating, and he could see a bit of the sky from where he lay down.The sky was bright, especially red.Like so many dusks, he gradually fell asleep listening to the last cries of the hawkers before closing the stall.Then, he heard the sound of great water.Then came the cries of women, the cries of children, the sound of houses collapsing, and the wailing of livestock.When he looked out again, he felt that the whole sky was about to be lifted up.

It took a few minutes before he was sure his guess was right, a flood was coming.He was irritable for the first few minutes.He heard a strong man shouting, and he guessed that that man must be leading the whole town to flee for their lives, so he became uneasy for no reason, and kept shaking his arms on both sides of his body.But everyone fled away very quickly, and soon the whole town was only the sound of water.He also slowly quieted down.He gently called the maid's name twice, but no one answered, he was sure that everyone should leave.At this time, a small stream of water rushed in, and the first thing to float was a dark green plastic basin.

He was about to talk to God about his last wish when she came in.In fact, he had no definite wish, so he had no choice but to recall the past, hoping to find some regrets for God to help make up for.Then she came in.Did she float in, because she is a very short old woman who has not yet got a cane and can hardly stand upright, let alone walk.She almost tripped over the floating plastic basin, but she still didn't look at her feet, she looked at him.Fixed eyes looked at him.Strangely, she wasn't intimidated by his appearance.Instead, she quickly called out his name.Did he hear it right? Amidst the loud sound of water and the sound of basins colliding, he heard the little old woman call out her name:

"Pinocchio!" "I'm Jenny!" The old woman finally grabbed the handle of the bed and said to him with her head bowed.He didn't like people visiting him at such a bad time, but he had to admit that the name Jenny was still a symbol of comfort in his memory.He and Jenny, how many years have they not seen each other.Forty, forty-five, maybe longer.In his mind, Jenny was a little girl with freckled cheeks and a round head.Now, like a rotten apple abandoned by the farmer, she has experienced four seasons of misery alone in the wilderness. "Jenny, run for your life. You see, I can't move. My nose is too long. I can't stand anymore. I can only lie down and live like this." He and Jenny focused their eyes on him As high as a chimney on the snout.He thought that Jenny had discovered that his room was specially made and the ceiling was extraordinarily high, but even so, his nose almost touched the ceiling.The nose is full of scratches like a tree grown in a harsh environment, and many places have been damaged. The round and oval holes hide behind this dull python like eyes that cannot close.The nose has become very thin, just a little bit of strong wind will definitely break it.

He sighed faintly, and said: "Actually, this is not the saddest thing for me. The saddest thing is that I can only lie down and live, and all my tears flow into my own mouth." At this moment, Pinocchio thought that maybe his last wish should be to be able to sit up again and shed tears heartily.Maybe those waters could be bigger than this flood. The first time Jenny met Pinocchio was in her back garden.Ten-year-old Jenny has just learned how to weave by hand.She moved a small bench and sat under the grape arbor, and the afternoon sun made her face red and hot.The fragrance of roses was very strong in that season, and Pinocchio was hiding behind the rose bushes.He wore a pair of small red shiny wooden shoes.Jenny likes red very much, so she is very sensitive to red.The corner of her eye met the light of the little red shoe.She yelled: "Who is behind?" The rose flower creaked from inside, and then the wooden child came out.At that time, he would show little expression, not even blush.

"Are they bullying you just because you are made of wood? Then why don't they bully their table and see if their father doesn't beat them!" Jenny said angrily.Pinocchio didn't speak. He looked carefully at his body and hers. They were indeed different: Jenny was pink and tender, while his complexion was yellower, with a pungent smell of freshly painted paint.He wished every child had a can of paint poured over them, yellow would be the best. "Did they burn you with a match? You didn't really get set on fire, did you?" Jenny asked again.Pinocchio shook his head.

"Well, are you really made by your father? Is it as simple as nailing wood for firewood? Then I can also make a wooden figurine?" Jenny touched Pinocchio's hard arm, curious asked. "My dad made it. But you can't. My dad is a great carpenter." Jenny was a little frustrated, so she didn't continue to ask questions.The two of them stood under the grape trellis for a long time before Jenny realized that Pinocchio's mood should be even worse.So she patted Pinocchio's shoulder like a wooden box, and said very forcefully: "It doesn't matter, they don't play with you, I play with you. I like wooden figures."Pinocchio looked up at Jenny, and he thought he should show his gratitude, but he couldn't.Not even the eyes get wet.At that time our hero hadn't learned to cry.

"At Christmas, everyone will send gifts to each other. The Christmas tree turns and turns in the center of the house, and the turkey jumps and jumps in the pot. It's very interesting." Jenny described a beautiful Christmas blueprint on Christmas Eve To Pinocchio.But when Christmas came, Pinocchio found that neither the Christmas tree nor the turkey came to his house.His dad sits on a chaise longue and polishes an expensive wooden pipe.Time passed very slowly.For the fifth time, Pinocchio slipped out to watch from other people's windows.The tall green shiny guy stood in the middle, and everyone circled around it.

Pinocchio sits sadly on the doorstep, drowsy to the sound of bells.Until later he was woken up by Jenny.Jenny's face was strawberry that day. She must have eaten a lot of good food, and she came to Pinocchio dancing and dancing.Then she immediately felt that Pinocchio's house was very deserted, and there was no light in the dark. "Your dad is such a weirdo. Doesn't he have a friend?"Jenny pressed her strawberry-colored face to the window and looked in.She saw the carpenter sitting quietly in the middle of the room, with the pipe in his mouth flickering on and off. "Forget it, leave him alone, I brought you a Christmas present!" Jenny pulled out a limp thing from her messenger bag.

"What is what," said Pinocchio loudly, and he felt his own face turn strawberry color quickly.He felt that his heart was steaming like a boiling spring. "Ha, I knitted a thick coat. No one will be able to tell that you are made of wood when you put it on!" Jenny shook a fluffy navy blue coat out of the bag, but she didn't immediately Pass the coat into Pinocchio's hand, but lift it up with both hands above his head. Pinocchio felt that it was a long time waiting for this sentence to be finished. He said eagerly: "Oh, how nice you are, how I love you, Jeanne. Give it to me, give it to me!" Then he took Jenny's arm with one hand , the other hand quickly grabbed the coat that already belonged to him.In fact, the coat is quite rough, and many places have been unthreaded, exposing the white lining.But it is Pinocchio's first dress, and it will give him real life as a boy.

Pinocchio raised his arm, which was still barely bent, and stretched it into the sleeve of his coat with great effort.Finally, he fastened every button meticulously.Then he rushed to the big window to take a good look at himself, and turned around again. "Now, can you still see that I'm made of wood?" Pinocchio shrank his body, wrapped himself tightly, and asked cautiously. "Uh-----, you must keep your mouth shut when you speak. Otherwise, everyone will see the big nails in your mouth." Jenny walked forward, lifted Pinocchio's upper lip, and looked at the dense nails inside. , frowned. The flood continued to approach.He glanced sideways, and the water had already covered Jenny's calf.She trembled several times and almost fell into the water.He couldn't lie down a bit, it was as if he was in the boat comfortably and she was struggling in the water holding on to the boat. "Don't you have a walking stick?" he asked reproachfully.Of course he wouldn't know that she hadn't used any wood since he left.She has been paying attention to the relationship between wood and life for so many years.Last time a magician came to the town. He conjured a girl out of a wooden box, and Jenny watched intently.She followed the magician for a long distance, chasing Ask how this man was made. "Fake! It's just a trick, haven't I told you many times!" The magician flicked his sleeves and jumped into his carriage. The girl was sitting in the carriage eating a piece of bread. The horse kicked up its hooves and pushed Jenny away left behind. "Then, grab my nose. Come on, while it's still strong," Pinocchio ordered Jenny. She hesitated for a moment, because it was indeed odd, but she caught it anyway.The cold stick warmed up bit by bit in her palm. "Eh, how did you find me?" When she stood still and everything calmed down a little, he asked, which he couldn't understand. "It's not very difficult to find a rare person with a long nose. I didn't come to look for it before, but now I know that if I don't look for me, I might not be able to see it in the future. My health is getting worse and worse." Jenny smiled Sometimes wrinkles swayed in front of his eyes like water ripples. "Well, did you guess that my nose would grow forever?" He felt a little hurt from being poked, and immediately asked back. The nose is on the face, how could it not leak.As it turned out, he couldn't lie.Not even a little lie will work.He only needs to tell a small lie and his nose will grow half an inch.He could even hear the sound of the wood growing. "This is terrible! My father is a wizard, why did he make me like this?" Pinocchio complained loudly in front of Jenny. "Your mother must have lied to him and ran away. That's why your father hates all deception." Jenny was very smart to make this conclusion. "Is that so?" Pinocchio will never know the answer, but the problem at hand is that he hates the town so much, he hates his father and even all healthy children.He couldn't bear all attacks from behind, all ridicule and contempt.He even always suspected that Jenny would be gloating at him behind his back.She is always smiling, who knows what she is thinking! "I want to get out of here," Pinocchio touched his nose lightly with his fingers, and found that it had grown up like a sapling, very strong, with the green smell of new-born wood.He touched it over and over again, and suddenly felt a strong love for his nose, "I can't allow my nose to be ridiculed!" It was midnight when he left town.He was sure that his only friend, Jenny, was still asleep.He sometimes didn't bother to talk to her, a healthy, strawberry-colored child over Christmas. Pinocchio with the three-inch long nose left the town and never heard from him again. She paused and said, "I know your nose is always getting longer, because I remember what you told me, that you sometimes lie to get some new try. I believe that this try is always there in your life." She looked up at the long misshapen nose. "Yeah, I love new things. Don't ask me what I've been up to all these years. Every lie I tell is worth it. I get everything I want with the lies I tell. Why not, since we If you can’t do it at all, why don’t you just have fun!” But as if she didn't hear what he said, she squinted her eyes and said in a deep way: "I still remember the first time you lied." "I remember the day your father asked you to deliver a packed wooden box to a wealthy family living in the center of the town. I was with you. The family's house was very large, with tall rose walls, and inside You can't see the scene at all. When you got to the gate, you said to me: "You wait for me here, I will come out soon. " But it was a long time before you came out.You cover your face.Don't let me see your nose. So you saw that rich lady eating chocolate.You hadn't eaten chocolate then.You watched the little brown, sweet, soft thing melt away between the young lady's teeth.You are dying to try it.You just flatter that lady and say how beautiful she is.How much you adore her.Well, of course you can but say it, and your face will never turn red.But in fact she was crippled, and very ugly.You said something you didn't mean.By the time you put that reward piece of chocolate in your mouth, your nose is getting longer.When you escaped in a panic, I saw that your nose had already grown an inch.But you told me that you thought it was worth it because you got the chocolate.What a valuable attempt this is. " After she finished speaking, she stopped speaking.She did see a small stream of water go into his mouth.She wondered how long it took him to learn to cry. After a long time, he suddenly smiled. "You're not right! That wasn't the first time I lied. The first time I lied was when you gave me the sweater coat, do you remember, I told you how much I love you. Actually I It’s just a piece of wood, how can I know what love is! Hey, come and knock on me, I’m hollow, I don’t have a heart or lungs at all!” He pointed to the position of the heart, and said cheerfully, Beat your body with your fingers. She stared at him blankly, and heard the drum-like sound from his body.But suddenly, she shook her head repeatedly and said, "No, no, that's not the case! If that was really the first time you lied, then why didn't your nose grow longer then?" He said impatiently: "Anyway, I have never liked you, so hurry up and don't be sentimental." As soon as he finished speaking, she heard the sound of creaking wood stretching, she raised her head, Found that his nose is growing again.Then she knew that he was lying again. "If you want to deny your feelings, it's impossible." Jenny said softly. "But I want you to leave here. Why do you want to lose your life for nothing?" He suddenly responded to her in a low and sad voice. "Can you not deny your previous feelings? People who are still lying at the last moment should be ashamed." Jenny said loudly, crying like a little girl.He raised his hand with difficulty, touched Jenny, and said to her patiently, with a tone like a loving father coaxing his little daughter: "Jenny, if I hadn't left and stayed by your side and been a kind and innocent wooden man forever, I would also have felt unhappy. Because I can't see the bigger and farther world. I won't meet all kinds of people, so I will also know that you are the best for me. Now, although the price of this journey can be described as heavy, but I finally know that you are the best for me." His words were gentle, she looked down, It was found that the water had flowed over his chin and would soon flow over his nasal cavity.Jenny went to lift his head, but because of the huge nose, she really couldn't bear the weight of his head.She knew he was going to choke to death.She has been busy for a long time without seeing any improvement, only water, rushing more and more violently. "Pinocchio, now I finally understand what the true meaning of love is. It is willingness. Once a person loves someone willingly, he will devote himself to doing everything for him, and feel happy, and will never regret it. Don't you think this kind of emotion is very beautiful? And you left in the early years, so that the people who love you can't do anything for you. Now it is finally possible. I am willing to stay by your side and leave with you. This is My last choice contains my emotions from girlhood to now." She leaned over and kissed Pinocchio on the cheek: "How about it, just agree." But Pinocchio didn't answer, the water had already passed his nostrils and covered his eyes. Jenny put her face on the face of Pinocchio who was immersed in the water, and said softly and sweetly: "Then you agree, Pinocchio. Well, well, let us sleep now." She lay on Pinocchio's body, with her face pressed against his chest, waiting for the water to gradually flow over her. There was no longer any sound of fluctuations in his chest, only the sound of the water, the sound of the water coming in waves. "Good night, Pinocchio, good night, my dear little wooden man." That was a pretty quiet and sweet ending.But the unwilling child always likes to ask his father to add "Pinocchio's nose later bloomed, and it is a large red love flower." "That's Jennifer," the child said on his own. "Jennifer is in Pinocchio's body. So, they are inseparable." He said, taking colored pens to record the beautiful moment .Satisfied with the happy ending he had arranged for himself, he giggled.