I went back to where I lived, and during the hurricane and heavy rains, I was worried that my house would be hung into the sea, but fortunately, when I left, I had planked the windows on both sides tightly as Yingxiu said. Because there was no one living for half a month, coupled with heavy rain, the house was filled with the smell of coldness and dampness. It took me more than an hour to remove the wooden planks nailed to the windows, and the planks were crawling with insects that like humid environments, densely packed, and some mollusks were disgusting to look at. I also wanted to burn them like Yingxiu, but in the end, I spared them and threw the planks into the grass along with them.

The house I rented was more than a dozen kilometers away from where Yingxiu lived, and that was after I found this stable job. The house is in an old and remote small courtyard on the outskirts of the city, and living in that courtyard always reminds me of the lifestyle of the Republic of China decades ago that I read about in books. My house is on the second floor, which has not been affected by heavy rain, and the first floor room has even a flooded bed. The area where the house is located is far away from the city, and after 10:30 in the evening, I can only hear the snoring of the obese middle-aged man next to me, who has only lived for three months, and finally moved out because he was complained by the residents because of his loud snoring. I was the only bachelor in the whole courtyard, and when I lived there for almost a year, a single girl who had just graduated and was playing the piano in the lobby of a hotel moved into the room of a man who used to snore loudly.

The first time I saw her was on the evening of a business trip, where I flew back with my colleagues from one of the northernmost cities in the whole country on a four-hour flight. I had asked the company to exchange my plane ticket for a train ticket, which was a rare train line, even though it took 42 hours to spend on the train. But we can buy a soft sleeper and see the gradual change from cold to warm over the course of two days, and I'm curious to see if this change is the same as the gradient color on the painting. But the company made me focus on my work.

"Abominable boss. A colleague said on the plane: "I can't see anything except the clouds." ”

I got off the airport bus, just in time for the last bus that passed by my place, and it was already blackjack when I got to the yard. When I passed by her house, the door was open, and I thought to myself that a new occupant had moved into this room. I looked into her room and saw nothing. I packed up my things and, as usual, went to the other side of the balcony to blow the wind. She had just opened the door when I passed her door, and I was shirtless, wearing a pair of baggy shorts, with a narrow balcony, and I was very close to her door. As soon as she opened the door, she saw me naked, the light was dim, and the time was short, she only saw my upper body and thought I was naked. She screamed and slammed the door shut. I was also taken aback, so I quickly turned around and went into the house, and did not go out all night, taking a soak of urine and waiting until dawn the next day to go to the toilet at the end of the hallway.

She leaves at 8:30 a.m. and comes back at 18:30 p.m. every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and leaves at 13:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and comes back at 21:30 p.m. every day. It was already late in this place at half-past twenty-one in the evening, and there were few pedestrians on the road, and I didn't know if she was afraid to walk on the road alone so late. The first time I talked to her was a week after she moved in, I forgot to buy laundry detergent and went to borrow it from her. I knocked on her door, and she asked who it was, and I replied that she was the next door, and she asked what was the matter, and I said to borrow some laundry detergent.

She slipped the door open and handed the laundry detergent bag out of the doorway. I saw her through the crack in the door, she had just washed her hair, the smell of the shampoo reminded me of that night more than a year ago, this shampoo that Hai Linlin also used, just for a moment, all the memories related to this shampoo flashed in my mind like an electric shock, and not a single picture was left. Her fingers were long, whitened by the light of the fluorescent lamp, a tiny black mole on the back of her hand, and a green bracelet on her wrist. From the time she opened the door to the time she handed me the laundry detergent, she didn't lift her head. Even though we had a few photo shoots after that night's nudity, I still think the embarrassment of that night was kept at her door, so she didn't even lift her head.

When I finished washing and returning the laundry detergent, I knocked on her door, and she asked who it was, and I replied that the laundry detergent was returned to her, and she told me to leave the laundry detergent at the door. I did as I was. When I went to work the next day, I took a special look and saw that the laundry detergent was no longer at her door.

It was also a night for her to be relieved of her strangeness and vigilance towards me. I was lying on the bed reading a book with only a kick of empty underwear. There was a scream from her room, followed by a door, and I was startled, threw down my book and hurried to the hallway to read. Her door was open, she was dressed in a silk nightgown, her hands clasped to her chest, her whole body trembling, the fluorescent lamp making her face even paler. In those days, it was just me and her in the courtyard, and there was a deaf old man downstairs who could only hear himself. Her frightened expression almost made me shudder, I forgot that I was only wearing a pair of panties, I asked her what was wrong, she didn't say a word and just looked at her room in horror. I leaned over and saw a snake coiled around her room, and it was a colorful and horrible snake. I went into her room, and with the snake catching skills I learned from Yingxiu, I grabbed the snake's tail, the snake was cold and had no temperature, I threw the snake in the air a few times, took it downstairs, and threw it in the woods in the distance. I think if Yingxiu were to burn it to death.

She was overly frightened, her eyes blank, as if she had just been resurrected from the ground. She didn't dare to enter the house again, I told her that it was a non-venomous snake, it was actually very docile, there was no need to be afraid, and I let her into my room to relieve her emotions. She looked at me, didn't refuse or agree, and in that case, I was too embarrassed to go to bed first. We stood on the balcony and after a long time I told her again that there was nothing to be afraid of and let her go to sleep, and I even plucked her shoulder with my hand to let her into the house, and she was stiff and had no intention of going in. I told her that if she really didn't want to go in, she should go to my room first to ease her mood. She hesitated and walked inside.

She sat in the only chair in my room, and I wanted to pour her a glass of water.

"Can you put your pants on first. She said, "It's better to wear another top." ”

I put on my shorts and t-shirt and brought her a glass of water, which she took a few sips, held the cup in her hand, and glanced around my room. The walls of my house had been repainted after the hurricane and heavy rains, and I had repainted a cabinet that looked like something from the last century, and I painted three paintings on the wider wall. The three paintings were only painted for an hour, and I filled the picture with random and messy colors, one with cyan as the main color, one with red as the main color, and one with yellow as the main color. On the wall where I entered was a bookshelf full of books I had bought since I came to the city. In the worst of the economy, I still insisted on buying at least three books a month, which were carefully selected, and if I did, I had to make sure I read them all. I've only been to the city's library once, and the messy categories and the half-month borrowing period kept me from stepping into it again. I prefer to buy books to read, there is no time limit, and I can read them whenever I want. Besides, there is nothing else.

She was wearing white loose silk pajamas, she didn't show much when she stood, and occasionally moved, and when the clothes were close to her body, the point of her breasts would protrude, she seemed to be frightened, and she didn't expect that the secret that she wasn't wearing a bra would be exposed. In order to avoid the embarrassment of the cold scene, I emphasize once again that there really is nothing scary about that snake. She said that she was not afraid that the beast was poisonous or not, she was just naturally disgusted and fearful of the soft, elongated body.

"When I saw them, I felt like they were crawling on my body. She said, "I'm going to get goosebumps all over my body." ”

Her family is a hundred kilometers away from the city, and after graduating from a non-conservatory with a music major, her first job was playing the piano in the lobby of a five-star hotel, playing six hours a day, playing three pieces and one piece until the end of the six-hour period. The hotel was in the city, and he had to spend more than an hour on his way to and from work every day, and the reason why he lived here was because the rent was cheap, and she had just graduated and needed to save everywhere. What's more, there is a very quiet environment. I always thought that my music students would have a rich family and would not have to live in such an old place, but she said that she was not born into a rich family.

I told her I had lived here for more than a year, and in order not to scare her, I didn't tell her that I had seen snakes in the yard three times in more than a year. When she asked me what I do, I lied to her that I was doing software development in a company, and I conveyed some professional information I heard from Yingxiu to her to make her believe that I didn't lie to her, and she did believe that I didn't lie to her. I didn't want to tell her that my job was mainly painting, and when she saw the easel in my room, she asked me if I could draw. I told her yes, just a hobby. I was afraid that she would be like those people in the past who would say "help me draw a portrait", and then I would say, "Yes, I will help you draw it whenever I have time", and I would fall into an irreparable situation. But luckily, she didn't say that, just said, "Painting and music are connected." "I also believe that what she said is true, when I paint for clients in the company's studio, the real time schedule is to spend two-thirds of the time looking for music, listening to music, and then spending one-third of the time painting. I wanted to apologize for the fact that she was scared that night of being topless, but there was no part of the conversation that allowed me to pick up on the topic naturally.