Chapter 6 Fives

Lu Yiyi has nothing to do with Lao Lu, but Lao Lu once looked at her house and said with emotion: "The same surname is Lu, why is there such a big difference?" The house of Lu Yiyi's house should not be as big as the Tan Palace, but it is also limited in size. Out of respect for wealth and self-consciousness, Lu Yiyi invited me once or twice, but I didn't go.I just heard that there is a 40-square-meter house dedicated to Lu Yiyi’s train rides. Lu Yiyi likes model trains. The rails at home are 250 meters long. The small trains go uphill and downhill in that big room. When the station crossed, Lu Yiyi held the remote control and buttoned a train conductor's big hat, and directed them to pass through the intersection one by one.

There is probably no need to say anything else. Lu Yiyi is studying journalism as an undergraduate at Fudan University. She writes well and can play the violin well—although her skills are declining because of her laziness.Lu Yiyi is also the backbone of the Fudan Chess Association, a reporter for Fudan News, a director of the Red Cross, and a sports committee member of her class.In fact, all the above titles point to the same job, which is photography.For example, when the Chess Association was promoting, Lu Yiyi played chess quietly in a black and white photo. On the website of the news website, she held a microphone very seriously. On the poster of the Red Cross, she became a nurse. Running around in the well-fitting sportswear, the physical education teacher held the camera and said, "Lu Yiyi, let your hair loose, run against the sun again, and call it a day!"

The reason why I know Lu Yiyi is very simple.I came out of Peking University to join the reserve service. In name, I was a soldier who did not graduate from a military academy. So when the students were called to organize wartime volunteer teams, I was named and dragged to various universities to give reports.Transitioning to give a report is tiring. When we arrived in Fudan, my last bit of patience was exhausted.As Big Pig spoke impassionedly about his military school life, I sneaked out to buy a roll of Holly's mints at the vending machine outside. It's a bit more expensive to buy at the vending machine, so I've never used this stuff before.After reading the instructions, I dropped two dollar coins and pressed the mint button.I just heard the machine buzz and start beeping...then it continued beeping...still beeping...I don't know if it's looking for my mints or if it's...something wrong?But I only had two bucks in my pocket and my mouth was so dry I was craving mints and I didn't want to go back to the venue.

When the student-like girl came to me, I was squatting there, facing the buzzing vending machine, and kept opening the lid to look inside. The girl asked me what I was doing. I'll just have to be honest and say I'm waiting for my mints. That's how I got to know Lu Yiyi. After I told her the first sentence between us, she laughed. The laughter was so loud that the big pig who made the report inside was a little uneasy. Later, Lu Yiyi took on an additional position as the vice-chairman of the Fudan University Wartime Volunteer Association. I often saw her and a group of bouncing little girls handing out the "Emergency Survival Handbook" to passers-by under our CITIC Pacific Plaza. She laughed loudly every time she saw me, and I walked past the girls amidst her laughter, looking at her angrily.

We became friends, and sometimes she would call and ask me to write a slogan for her, and in return she would treat me to dinner.Sometimes she would wait for me below after distributing the promotional materials, and we would play arcade games at the Sega game hall above the Shimen 1st Road subway station.Of course, I saw her hold up the promotional materials together with such handsome boys, and said loudly to passers-by with great expression: "Please keep your manual, it may save you and your family." I hadn't seen her in a few days, and the last thing I knew was that she was competing in the Young Ambassadors in the Field competition.

"What is another thing? It seems that I often hit you." I said, "Why are you here? Don't bother me." Lu Yiyi was pulling my sleeves and dancing, her long hair falling down.Standing behind her was a girl with a small face, her eyes were swollen from crying, her head was bowed, her hairstyle and clothes were not the same as Lu Yiyi's.Lu Yiyi wore a brown suede knee-length skirt, suede boots of the same color, with a few centimeters of thigh exposed between the skirt and boots, wrapped in checkered socks, a white sweater on the upper body, and a pair of color The bright ELLE scarf rises and falls as she dances. "I'll accompany my classmates to see her off." Lu Yiyi pointed at the girl: "Her boyfriend is going to Lanzhou today."

She still tugged on my sleeve: "Why are you here?" "I'm also here to send someone off. My classmate and his wife are going to Lanzhou today." The girl opposite seemed to be touched by something, her shoulders twitched, and she cried out in a low voice.No one is stupid and knows what's going on, but how can it be so easy to get a plane ticket to Lanzhou? "Tangtang don't cry, it's all right." Lu Yiyi ran over to hold the girl's hand again: "I asked my dad to help you get a ticket." Lu Yiyi's father really has this ability, because the chubby man who often speaks on behalf of the city government on TV is surnamed Lu.

The girl named Tangtang was still twitching, and Lu Yiyi shook her hand. "Okay, good cry, let's go." Lu Yiyi patted the girl on the back, looked up at me, "Are you free recently? Shall we go sing?" "Singing? Well, it's okay." I nodded, a little beast jumped in my heart, and then fell silent. "when?" "Tomorrow night, I'm not on duty tomorrow night." "Okay, then the Shanghai Song City on Wuning Road, the one we visited last time. Seven o'clock." "Okay." Lu Yiyi supported the girl to leave, then looked at me again: "Where are you going now?"

"I'm waiting to sell my maglev ticket," I suddenly remembered, "Do you want to go back by maglev? I'll sell you this ticket." "I don't, I drove here." Lu Yiyi stuck out her tongue at me, "Ming'er sings, don't forget!" The two girls left, and I stood alone at the entrance of the maglev, watching their backs.Lu Yiyi had a nice BMW Z4 sports car, and I thought maybe I could have asked Lu Yiyi to give me a ride, which would have saved me another 19 bucks. In the end, I stood for 45 minutes and waited until an old lady sold the return ticket for 45 yuan, which means that I only spent 35 yuan on the maglev ride. I kind of admire my economic acumen.

I went back to Jing’an Temple by the special line No. 1 at the airport. The empty bus was just me and an old man who had been smoking a kind of menthol cigarette. I connected my mobile phone to the earphones and started listening to "One Night in Beijing". I was practicing. I thought it was a song that could kill the world. If I practiced it well, I would not lose face in front of Lu Yiyi and those girls.It was getting dark gradually, the bus entered the city via the elevated road, and turned left and right on the empty street.I saw the high-end office buildings on both sides standing silently. Some of the glass curtain walls on the upper floors were broken piece by piece, and there were no lights inside. with us.

I rushed up to the 31st floor of CITIC Pacific Plaza, feeling a little out of breath.Only half of the people were left in the huge circular office. I went to Lin Lan's desk, but she wasn't there. "Where's Lin Lan?" I asked Zhang Hao next to me, "Going to Hang Lung Plaza?" Lin Lan is the coordinator and has two desks, one at the CITIC side and the other at the staff department at Plaza 66. "Hey, send flowers? Let me see, have the prices of flowers increased recently?" Zhang Hao smiled. "Bring it for her, where is she?" "It's off work, you don't even look at what time it is." "Oh." I scratched my head. My eyes fell on Lin Lan's table. There was a glass vase with a thin neck. It was empty yesterday, but now there was a bouquet of perfume lilies in it. Across Nanjing West Road is our dormitory, and our current dormitory is in Jincang Wenhua Hotel.Before the war, it was one of the few luxury hotels in Shanghai. It is said that a single room is more than 1,200. However, as CITIC Pacific Plaza and Hang Lung Plaza were requisitioned by the army, the Jicang Mandarin Hotel was also included in the military management. It is far away from these two buildings. High-end office buildings are the nearest, and all technicians can be dispatched in full force in case of emergency. The magnificent lobby of Jicang Mandarin Hotel looked a little messy, and most of the service staff had gone home to rest, and all the people who came in and out were soldiers.Everyone didn't care, the lobby was full of shoe prints, and the camel-colored carpet was soaked with sewage and was abandoned in the aisle on the side. My room is 1103, and the sheets have not been changed. I opened the thermos, and it was empty.I threw the flowers on the table, and as soon as I sat down, there was a knock on the door outside.I opened the door, and a tall man poked his head in immediately. "Jiang Yang, Empire?" The tall man had a thin face, his cheeks were sharp as if he had been shaved by a knife, and his eyes were shining brightly. He was looking at me from the corner of his eyes, which seemed to be provocative. "Who else?" "Er Zhu, we've been waiting all afternoon." "Two-on-one, I won't do it, you two are cheating, and come to demolish my base as soon as the game starts." "How can it be, I have equipped you with elite soldiers and strong generals!" "Who is it?" "Su Wan..." "Damn it, why don't you equip me with a computer." I sighed, "Forget it! It's settled, you are not allowed to come and demolish the base at the beginning." "Too underestimated us, rookies will improve! How can we always stick to that set of tactics? We are all online, you go to the novo channel." The tall man was full of air, turned around, and went to his own room. I entered the novo channel, the game has been built, there are three people in it, Big Pig, Er Zhu and Su Wan. All three were technicians on the same team as me.The tall one is the big pig named Pan Hantian, the second pig is called Zeng Yu, and Su Wan is his real name. The two pigs got these two nicknames because when everyone played "Age of Empires II" online, they all put killing pigs in the wild as the top priority in the early development.Erzhu's method is more traditional, send a person out to lead the pig to the gate of the town center, a group of brothers ambushing under the porch of the town center swarm out, shoot bows and arrows and throw guns, and the pig is wiped out.And his strength is that he is very clear about the running speed and possible distribution of pigs, almost to the point of sixth sense, and is known as the "Prince of Pulling Pigs".The micro-control of Big Pig is much worse. When a farmer was sent out without leading the pig to the door, the farmer was beaten to death by the pig. Later, Big Pig adopted the most unrestrained method. A group of people went out to find the pig and slaughtered it on the spot. , Build a mill next to the pig to collect pork, which is called "wherever it is killed and built". "Jiang Yang, you have to cover me. When I get numb Luke, I will go to the ranger who stepped on the big pig!" Su Wan said in the chat channel when the game started. I said, "I'm dizzy." Su Wan is a girl, a super rookie, who always builds countless arrow towers to hide and defend, and then desperately engages in production at home and organizes military forces.She will never dispatch until two teams of golden soldiers are accumulated.Of course, by the time she moved out her allies had been trampled down, and she herself had been swallowed by a massive army. I taught this group of people this game, and then I became their sparring partner. At the beginning of the game, on the vast ice field, I am a small group of French people, with a town center, a few farmers and a scout horse in a jungle forest. I found six sheep and two berry forests in the wild, and built a double logging camp, and started construction step by step.At this time, the big pig and the second pig should be struggling to kill the pigs, so I can take a little errand for a while.I quickly clicked on Farmer Construction twice, took off the earphones, and took out the phone from my pocket. "I have flight training today, I came back late, you are not here. We will go to karaoke tomorrow, will you go?" I wrote a text message to Lin Lan. "I have something to do tomorrow, I don't have time tonight, so I won't go singing." The little beast in my heart that had been jumping for joy for a while said "Yeah" and got back. How did I know Lin Lan? Every time I think about this, I have to think about it for a while, because time has passed so long.Looking back, those pictures are like colored paintings that have been blurred by moisture, and all the figures have a soft halo, which makes me feel very unreal. The day after the teaching director revoked my admission letter from Columbia University, the enlistment mobilization meeting of PLA Unit 7488 was held in the sports center.In addition to our class in the Department of Physics, there is also a class in the Department of Mathematics, all of which are restricted majors by the Central Military Commission. Seat moved his fist.Now that the four eyes are facing each other, the rabbit dies and the fox is sad, and they suddenly become intimate, and the two groups of people pat each other on the shoulder and enter the sports center. Contrary to our expectations, there are no people in the sports center with sharp military uniforms and serious faces.It looked like a cafeteria. The silver plates on the left and right rows of long tables contained fresh prawns, fruit salad, and small pieces of pizza. Standing behind the tables were well-dressed waiters, who seemed to be invited from the Friendship Hotel. here.A group of students had already achieved enough awareness, but seeing how friendly the formation was, they felt a little uneasy about drinking dead wine. At this time, I was eating in a hot pot restaurant outside the south gate.Liang Kang and the others hired me as hosts, and it is a pity that my wonderful life on Wall Street has been wasted since then.I drank countless beers, and I was full of courage. I wanted to stand up and say that I just don't go to the army, and see if they can kill me?Liang Kang said Jiang Yang, you must not do it. This is the discipline of the army. If you surrender to the enemy and treason, you will really go to a military court.The arrogance in my heart sank, and I continued to boil the meat, and everyone had nothing to say. At this time, I saw the girl from Liang Kang's shoulder.She was sitting by the window facing a small pot by herself.I don't know why I pay attention to her, it seems like the world goes quiet when I stare at her, maybe she is beautiful, but that's not the main reason.I later thought maybe it was because of what she was doing at the time. She breathed lightly on the glass and drew something with her fingers, all kinds of messy and flying lines.After finishing the drawing, she looked at the lines and smiled, and then watched the water vapor disappear and the lines disappeared. During the whole time I watched her, she didn't eat a bite, just breathed, drew things, and laughed alone. Then Liang Kang and the others dragged me away, and when I passed by her, I turned my head, her face was sideways, her thin curly hair was curled up by her ear, like a delicate hook. I mixed in the noisy crowd and looked at the podium in front of me. The officer who was supposed to speak was already late, and the grade director kept telling us to be quiet, while the brothers who hadn’t eaten looked at the cold food and their stomachs were growling. "Everyone applauds and welcomes the representatives of Unit 7488 of the People's Liberation Army!" The grade director suddenly felt relieved. Everyone turned their gazes over, and a girl in a light purple skirt hurriedly ran up to the podium from behind, smiling awkwardly at everyone.The venue was so silent for a while, everyone wondered if the grade director had made a mistake. Isn't what we were waiting for a representative of the 7488 troops of the People's Liberation Army? "I'm sorry, I'm late." The girl nodded her head, the hooked hair beside her ear trembled slightly, "I've never been to Peking University, I was reading in the library just now, and I forgot the time all of a sudden." Her seemingly awkward smile largely dispelled everyone's hostility. No matter how you looked at it, she was just a girl who was late for a date. The grade director took the lead in applauding: "Everyone welcome, let Lieutenant Lin speak!" "Thank you, feel free to do whatever you want. In fact, there is no political task today. I just want to get to know you first. But if you have any questions, we will answer them for you." The girl straightened her hair, "My name is Lin Lan, the lieutenant coordinator of the PLA 7488 Unit. " Then she came down from the podium, made a gesture with everyone, and took the lead to get the dinner plate.I was a little later than everyone else, and I stood there thinking of the messy lines on a glass that had been breathed out. Yes, what I saw at the hot pot restaurant is the same person I saw on the podium.The first time Lin Lan attracted me was because I knew she had lied. She wasn't visiting the library at all, but was doing something boring by herself in a hotpot restaurant.Those messy lines formed a cartoon-looking little beast, and it has lived in my heart since then. The buffet was over and there was a dance, Lin Lan led the first dance.At that time, Peking University Literacy Dance was still teaching the national standard, while Lin Lan danced the Salsa dance. She took all the limelight of the event that day. Fortunately, these two classes were typical Arhat classes. There were not a single girl, and no one was jealous because of it. dissatisfied.But I also understand the purpose of all this. In the middle of the dinner party and the dance, young soldiers in plain clothes chatted with us, most of them were girls, and they were exquisite and restrained in the lively atmosphere.I can feel that they are responsible for the communication of one or two students. I think the army is eager to know whether the technical force they have cultivated is enough to send to the battlefield. It was a round-faced girl who spoke to us, and I later learned that it was Su Wan.I was chatting with Su Wan and saw Lin Lan walking through the venue. When she looked around, she saw me and smiled at me. The event ended very late, and Lin Lan happened to be standing by the door when I walked out. "I have a few questions," I said. "Well, let's go all the way and say, I want to go from Xiaonanmen." The two of us strolled side by side, Lin Lan's heels ticking. "Lieutenant Lin, the country asked us to serve, but it was rather sudden to us," I scratched my head, "We don't know much about military life, but in fact, many of us are very hesitant." "What are you afraid of?" "Restricted, not free." "Actually, from my heart," Lin Lan thought about his words, "the army must be a frame, not as free as in school or in the enterprise, but the frame is nothing, there are no rules, you can learn a lot. In the army .” "Ok." "What is freedom? If you are really free, you will fly. It seems that there is only one point in the world for you to take off. If you fly into the air, you may not be able to find a way to fly back." "Ok." "I haven't had complete freedom, and I will get used to life in the army gradually. It's not such a terrible thing." Lin Lan shrugged, "I'm fine now, but I wasn't like this before." "Ok." "Hmm, do you know?" She bent down and looked up at me again.She was about my height and I kept my head down so she could see my face. "Well, I was thinking about it." I saw her little crochet hair again. "Then you miss you. Hey, how far is Xiaonanmen? Why do we seem to be going around in circles?" Lin Lan said suddenly. I stopped suddenly and looked back and forth. We were strolling and left everyone else behind, and we were on the path in front of the 28th floor. "Oh, then I'll take you out." I said. We walked all the way, and my curiosity finally jumped out: "You didn't go to the library, did you? I saw you at the shabu-shabu." "Well, I didn't go." Lin Lan also confessed. "Congealed time, flowing language, in the black mist, there is a faint light..." After walking for a while, Lin Lan started to sing without saying anything, lonely. There were no dust clouds in the sky, no rain, no predators.Lin Lan and I were walking on the small road in front of the 28th floor of Peking University. Lin Lan sang a song I had never heard before. The ginkgo tree above his head was as black as ink, and the leaves rustled when the wind blew. I was 22 years old that year, and Lin Lan was 23 years old. That night I lay in bed thinking for a long time, and sent the first text message to Lin Lan: "Lieutenant Lin, I am Jiang Yang from today's mobilization meeting. I still have a few questions to ask. I wonder if you are free." "Well, I know, I wrote down your mobile phone number, you said." "What's the penalty if I don't want to participate in the troop assignment?" "You can also give up your assignment and be a reserve staff. Your account will be kept at the school and you will not be able to work, waiting for an emergency call-up order." "ok, I got it." "Are you afraid?" "No, it just changed too much suddenly." "You still have to think about some things yourself. I can't help you. Is there any problem?" "that's all, thanks." "Then I won't chat with you anymore. I'm removing my makeup. Good night and sleep well." All night I was thinking about a person's smile and the lines she drew on the glass. Lin Lan taught me one thing, that is, I never understood what women think.And she is the first woman I met in my life. I don't understand what this woman is thinking, but I really want to know. When I saw Lin Lan again, it was still in the sports center. After just one night, the layout of the sports center changed completely.Dozens of semi-closed grids are next to each other. Students who have filled out the application form enter one of them one by one. Those who have finished the interview are directly invited out from the back by the military representative. The people who line up outside do not know what happened inside. , and the person who came out was expressionless.The whole scene was silent, it must be the most strict job fair in the world. Lin Lan and I faced each other across a table.She has already changed into the standard military uniform of Unit 7488, which is a simple and close-fitting white dress with a pattern of an eagle raising one wing embroidered on the neckline, and two stars on the epaulets. I flipped through the military service agreement of Unit 7488 page by page, but actually didn't read a single word.Such a thick stack of legal documents, after reading it, forgetting the front, I can't remember it at all, and I almost decided to sign it.Last night everyone discussed in the class that apart from serving in the army, the only way to do it is to take the postgraduate entrance examination, or to be idle as a reserve member.The postgraduate entrance examination can only take the major, in other words, you can only serve in the army, sooner or later.Another advantage of going early is that you can choose Beijing or Shanghai first. When it comes to Beijing and Shanghai, I can feel a little beast jump in my heart-I remember someone who is the coordinator of the Shanghai department of the 7488 troops. "Hey, you've been watching for half an hour." I raised my head, and Lin Lan was looking at me with interest, playing with a pencil in her hand. Even on such an occasion, she didn't look like a soldier at all.I watched her for a few seconds, noticing the starry highlights under her eyebrows, where she hadn't had time to remove the make-up last night.The weight in my heart was lightened by this little discovery, and I grinned. "Can you go back on your word if you sign?" "cannot." "It's like selling your life." I muttered in a low voice. Actually, I know that even if you have the guts, you wouldn't dare to break the contract with the military, but hearing such an affirmative answer still makes people feel chills. "It's nothing. If you go to the company, you can't quit easily after signing a contract." Lin Lan shrugged and smiled, "I'm still active, so I can't either!" I looked up at her, she was still smiling, and I found out later that she was always like this, never feeling uneasy just because others looked at her, always smiling casually.Her teeth are so white and her eyes are so clear that the reflected light can dazzle my eyes, so I just look at the mischievous curls around her ears, which vibrate slightly with her laughter.Finally I lowered my gaze and nodded. She pointed me to where the signature was. I signed my name flamboyantly and put the pen down.Lin Lan smiled at me and pointed to the exit on one side of the venue. I turned around and walked there, and heard Lin Lan's voice coming from behind, she began to receive the next student.I put my hands in my pockets and whistled, trying to make the decision feel easy. In fact, when the game started, it was just because of one sentence - you can't quit, and neither can I. The phone rang. "Wood wood! I want wood! I want to make a halberd! Are you asleep? The big pig has almost leveled my house!" Su Wan yelled into the microphone. I went to look at the screen, Su Wan had already sent me countless conversations, but I was distracted just now. The new tactic of the big pig and the two pigs is probably to crush Su Wan first, and then surround me with the brigade.I sent Su Wan a thousand pieces of wood, and then drew a box, and sent two teams of rangers at the gates of my five stables to support her.Her base is full of smoke, and Big Pig's rangers are burning and killing.After all, she is a woman, and when the critical moment comes, Su Wan is reluctant to part with her little inheritance. The peasants frantically repair the castle, and they will go up to whichever halberd comes out, and they all die in vain.Although the long halberds had an advantage over rangers, they didn't even have a chance to make a move when they went up one by one. My mouse clicked over, and two overwhelming armies of rangers charged forward.And almost at the same time, I saw the white team moving over on the map, it was Erzhu's army.It's another big pig and two pigs' tactic, come here while my house is empty.But it was too late, while the population of my rangers was decreasing, my ten barracks had already started pouring out sword warriors.When Erzhu comes to the gate of my base, he will see a neatly lined human wall. "Counterattack and counterattack! Fight across the Yangtze River!" Su Wan became happy. Ten minutes later, my baler crossed the glacier below the map, and after unfolding, it smashed down the big pig's castle, and the big pig quit the game.And Su Wan has completely recovered, leading her light cavalry team to hunt down Erzhu's farmers all over the world. Now Erzhu's base is only a few pieces of burning farmland, and standing next to my brigade's champion sword scholar.The game is not over yet, I think a strong guy like Erzhu must be opening a new base at a certain base on the map. "Er Zhu, your farmer, stop cutting down trees, give up, I still have a team of rangers here!" I sent him a message. Ten seconds later, Erzhu also withdrew. "Invincible is the most lonely!" I threw away the mouse, leaned on the back of the chair and stretched vigorously, twisting like Maggie Cheung inside. In the chat channel, the two big pigs and Su Wan were arguing, and the big pig said that it was actually one step away, just one step away, and I should have raised my lineage.Er Zhu said that Jiang Yang's sword bravery was too ruthless, I thought he was still a knight-errant, and sent three captain halberds, all of which were sliced ​​by his sword bravery.Su Wan said heh heh heh heh heh heh heh, you two men united to bully me! "Come again?" Big Pig said. "I'm not coming, I'm going to sleep. I'll be on duty all day tomorrow, and I was dragged to karaoke at night." I said. "Yo, karaoke? Be honest! Are there any beautiful women?" "There is a beauty, the famous little beauty, Lu Yiyi." "Is it that little beauty with a swimming pool at home you mentioned last time?" "I mean a huge bathtub, how does this turn into a swimming pool?" "Apply to see the beauty!" Big Pig said. "Sign up, I'm going too!" Er Zhu booed. "Okay! Let's go together! Tomorrow at 8 o'clock in the evening, that Shanghai song city at the intersection of Wuning Road and Changshou Road!" "Is there any handsome guy?" Su Wan said. "Er Zhu is a handsome guy." "Blind eyes, tired of watching." I have logged out of the chat channel. I picked up my phone, thought about it, and sent a text message: "Are you asleep?" "not yet." "I want to ask if you still want that bunch of flowers?" "Why don't you bring it to me tomorrow, and I'll give you the money." "No, I'll intervene and see for myself." "Alright." "what are you doing?" "Counting." "counting?" "I have insomnia. I read a book for a while and ate something, but I still can't fall asleep. I have no choice but to count. I have counted to more than a thousand just now." "Do you want some milk powder?" In times of war, the near-fantasy of fresh milk was out of the question, but there was still a limited supply of powdered milk for officers and babies. "No, I fell asleep counting." "Good night." "Good night." The rising and falling text message ringtones stopped.I put a piece of calamus, and put six tulips one by one in my twisted sugar-like glass vase, like an unfolded golden fan.I put the whole vase on the window sill, turned off the light, looked outside through the gap between the flowers and leaves, turned over and fell into the pillow, and fell asleep.