Chapter 6: Ganluo's Dull Nightlife
It was nearly dark when Ganlo returned home, and Dada circled around her, "Ah, I forgot, you haven't eaten yet." โ
When he went to school during the day, Dada only made up for breakfast and didn't eat at noon, so he should have been hungry for a day.
Open the refrigerator, take out two eggs, knock on the edge of the porcelain white bowl, the yolk is the first to slip out of the eggshell, and the white egg white is torn into a long translucent line.
Peel off a ham sausage, cut half into dices, and take a bite of the remaining half Ganluo, seeing Dada's shining eyes, he broke off half of it in his hand and threw it to Dada, "Catch it." โ
The other jumped up and bit it.
"Don't go to the house next door in the future, the boy of the Zhou family is a melon baby (foolish). โ
"Don't give him a good face in the future, just scare!"
"Woohoo!" Dada jumped with his head up, wagging his tail at Ganlo's chopping board, and rubbed against her trouser leg.
Chopped half of the green pepper, plus a spoonful of kimchi, Gan Luo saw that the oil in the pot was not hot, opened the door and went to the courtyard to pick up two pepper leaves, wash them and tear them in half, and after the oil was cooked, the minced green peppers, garlic paste, diced pickles, and pepper leaves were put into the oil pot together.
She likes the light yellow of the omelette and the low degree of mixing of the egg white, the chopsticks will puncture the thin membrane of the egg yolk, the chopsticks pull the egg yolk into the egg white, back and forth a few times, keep the two mixed and independent, slide along the edge of the pot into the hot oil layer, and then into the intestines, salt, chicken essence, sprinkle a little green onion fine, and finally settle in the fluffy rice.
Stir-fry for 5 minutes, until the grains are clear, and finally put into the plate.
The summer nights are very noisy, especially around Ganluo's house, and all kinds of insects chirp at night, half of which are attracted by the flowers around the yard.
In the living room, the TV was turned on, the pitch was turned up, Ganluo went out with a plate of egg fried rice, sat under the verandah, the kitchen door opened, and the goose-yellow beam of light in the house poured out from the door and covered Ganluo.
Dada's small food bowl was placed next to Ganluo, wagging his tail, taking a bite and looking up at Ganluo, seeing that there were still a lot of egg fried rice in her porcelain plate, he buried his head in solving it at a very fast speed, and after eating, he squatted on the ground and looked up at Ganluo, not screaming, staring at her in a daze.
"Again?" Gan Luo squinted and smiled, pulling half of the rice from his porcelain plate to reach the food bowl.
โโฆโฆ A few days ago, Zhang Qian bullied Xue Qian, and I bumped into him, and I helped him. When Zhang Qian's fist swung over, I was very scared, but I didn't move, and I couldn't bear to hit him with the stick in my hand. โ
Gan Luo pulled the rice on the porcelain plate, tilted his head and looked at Dada, who was eating fragrantly, "I couldn't help it at that time, thinking in my heart was my parents, if I really pulled it with a stick, I would definitely have to take responsibility, if it was more serious, maybe it would be the same as that time...... So I gambled with my eyes closed. โ
"Am I a little impulsive? But I see it. Her voice grew to a murmur.
"Before that, I met Xue Qian's grandfather at the school gate, he came to take him home, I passed by them, he said that grandpa is old, he will walk back in the future......"
Putting the porcelain plate on the ground, Gan Luo held his chin with one hand and looked into the depths of the bamboo forest, "I can't even remember what my grandfather looks like." When I grew up so big, I only met a few times when I was a child, and I remember one of the times he gave a handful of candy, and it was mint-flavored...... Next time I buy it back for you to taste. โ
Seeing Ganluo's voice gradually lowering, Dada approached her and slipped around his trouser leg to the side.
"I told you you you didn't understand. โ
Ganluo looked up at the graveyard at the end of the bamboo forest, and pulled up the purslane growing in the brick cracks of the steps with one hand, and the goose-yellow light pouring out of the house surrounded a man and a dog in the night.
"Not even a living person to speak. If only there were ghosts. โ
Ganluo was talking to himself, when he suddenly noticed that Dada's figure was missing at his feet, "Where did you go?", turned his head to see that the egg fried rice on the porcelain plate on the ground had been eaten.
"What kind of fat have you become, you're still stuffy" Gan Luo's voice was raised, and he glared at Dada, "Little fool, I'll close the door immediately after I go in!"
"Three, two......" Ganluo picked up the porcelain plate and got up, counting down in his mouth, Dada ran towards the house.
She is alone at home, the house is partial, sometimes there will be drunkards in the village to wander around, her house has no courtyard wall, when Dada barked towards the bamboo forest, Ganluo noticed that something was wrong and had to direct and act by himself, "Mom, I took the clothes and put them next to your bed." โ
Pinching his nose and pressing his throat: "Oh, just put it there." โ
"Brother, give me the remote control!"
Generally, the dog barks very strongly, and the neighbor Grandma Li will go over to accompany Ganluo for a while when she hears it, and then go back after the sound.
That kind of situation is rare, after all, drunkards have homes, and Ganluo is afraid of people who go into the forest at night to hunt and hunt birds, and I don't know whether people are good or bad.
Once in the middle of the night there was a noise outside, in the courtyard, the voices of three or four people, most of them were night bird hunters.
The door was not locked enough and a chair was added against it, Dada's barking woke her from her sleep, Ganluo lay by the window, opened the corner of the curtain and looked out, and fell asleep only when she saw that the person was gone.
Early the next morning, the two pots of gardenias in the yard that were growing very well were gone, and they should have been taken away in the middle of the night.
Calm nights are the majority.
Ganluo entered the house and turned on all the lights, walked from one end of the house to the other, and locked the doors and windows, which was her daily routine.
What happened at home is not very serious, she usually does not tell her parents, and routine check-ups have slowly become a habit.
There is one more thing she hasn't done today, she hasn't got the dried flower specimens of acacia flowers.
I took it out of my pocket and crumpled it a long time ago.
There was no hope of making a specimen, so I took a glass mixed with half a glass of water, put all of them in it, and put it next to the bedside table, with a faint fragrance.
It is her habit to read poems before going to bed, not much, two.
The first favorite poet was Xu Zhimo, followed by Haizi.
In the end, it was reversed, and Haizi became the first.
Xu Zhimo, Lin Huiyin, Zhang Youyi, Lu Xiaoman...... Those drunken fans after pure love make her a little awkward, even if the poems are really good, projected in the subtlety of the heart of the waves.
Ganlo admits that she is not a passing reader of poetry.
I read a little, and I like modern poems, and they are the only ones. She also likes Hu Shi, half of his talent, half of his unique handsomeness, she yearns for Shen Congwen.
If you talk about the most admired, it is still Su Dongpo, she raised her hand to declare: It is not because of Dongpo's elbow.
Dada stayed at her feet, his chin drooped on the instep of Ganluo's feet, waiting for Ganluo to read him poetry, he couldn't understand the words, but he would cheer, and when Ganluo stopped, he would "Wangwang" a few times in response, or wagging his tail.
Today's opening is Haizi's poetry collection.
Take out the daisy bookmark that you put in last time, and it's the next one:
I Request: Rain
I ask to be extinguished
The light of pig iron, the light of lovers and sunshine
I ask for rain
I plead
Died in the night
ยท
I asked in the morning
You meet
The one who buried me
ยท
The dust of time is boundless
autumn
I request:
It's raining
Wash my bones
ยท
My eyes closed
I request:
rain
Rain is the fault of a lifetime
Rain is joys and sorrows
I realized that I had finished reading it, but I couldn't make a deep sense of it. Dada didn't bark, but wagged his tail in agreement.
"Jingle bell!" the alarm went off. Ganlo put down the book in his hand, pressed the alarm clock and headed for the living room.
Her alarm clock and watch are not accurate, and the setting is always three minutes faster.
There is a channel in the evening, I forget which station, at 9:20 p.m. Chaplin's mime will be played, no matter whether the homework is written or not, when the alarm clock rings, Ganlo sits in front of the TV on time.
Her favorite is "City Lights".
That funny and affectionate Charlotte.
Chaplin, who made her laugh non-stop.
Today's replay is "City Lights", and Dada is lying happily at her feet.
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Chapter 7 only has a chapter title, "Wait for you, after school" Ganluo closed the notebook, got up and stretched.
It was dark outside the window, and when I saw that it was ten o'clock in the evening, I made a cup of instant coffee and leaned against the balcony railing, looking up at the scattered starlight.
The WeChat class group was very lively, one message after another, discussing the graduation dinner.
The mobile phone vibrate, it was Li Yi's phone, and Ganluo turned on the amplification. "Ganluo, are you going to have a class dinner the day after tomorrow?"
"Don't go. โ
"This is the last dinner party in high school, don't you really want to go? โ
After a moment of silence, Gan Luo spoke: "...... There's something going on, I can't go. โ
"It's only been a few days since the holiday, what can you do?" Li still wouldn't let her go.
"Moving. Tickets have already been booked. Ganluo looked back at the house sideways, the salute had been neatly tidied up, her things were very few, the house was not big, she was moving to live with her parents this time, thinking of her parents, Ganluo's heart was very warm.
"Alright then, take care of yourself on the road. Check back when you have time. โ
"Good. โ
In the WeChat group: Li still counted the number of people who were going and pulled those people into another group. The class group was much quieter all of a sudden.
WeChat, my mother sent a voice: "Girl, what time is the car tomorrow? I called your brother to pick you up." โ
Gan Luo curled up on the sofa with a cup in his hand: "9 o'clock in the morning, about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, catch the bus from the station and go directly to the door of the house, no need to call my brother to pick it up." He's going to be busy. โ
"Okay, what do you want to eat, I'll call your dad to buy it, and I'll get you something delicious when you come back." โ
"I want to eat sauerkraut fish and duck. When Gan Luo thought of his mother's craftsmanship, his stomach was a little gurgling, and he turned sideways and hugged a pillow in a somewhat coquettish tone: "There are also pea sprouts, the kind that don't put salt or oil." โ