Chapter 6: Strange Friendship 1

readx; Uncle Zheng and Zhao Qiuhong agreed to give Cao Li three days to see if he could make friends. Three days have already passed, and ten days and half a month have passed, and Uncle Zheng has not seen anyone looking for Zhao Qiuhong every day, so he knocked on the door of her next-door neighbor.www.biquge.info There lived a young couple who had just arrived in the south of the wet rainy Jiangnan, annoyed to death by him, ignoring the dignity of the old and the young, and complained: "How many times have you said that you have returned to your mother's house, you are old and deaf." ”

What makes Uncle Zheng sad is not only the unreasonableness of the young couple, but when Uncle Zheng tries to persuade everyone that they can testify even if Zhao Qiuhong is not there, the indifferent faces are ushered in one after another.

I came home late that day, and I don't remember what I was doing during the day. may go to the granary with Liu Weijian to catch sparrows, may go to the same school to play, or may go to the screw factory with his mother. Because it doesn't matter, I don't remember it very clearly, and the distinction between priorities and priorities is the shrewdness of my memory.

My memories of that day began when I stepped into the compound under the pale sky, and it had a dim quality, and the lights of the tenant's house were like stars. I walked up the stairs, and during the day I was more active when I went upstairs, because I always took two steps and leaped up.

In the past, it was okay to have a night, because there was a light in the corridor, but that night was not good, the lamp that emitted a dim yellow light since a year ago after the tungsten wire burned out, no one replaced, whenever night fell, not to mention two steps and one step, even if it was a step to go, there must be a psychological preparation for groping.

As soon as I got to the third floor, I heard talking, and there were few tenants on the third floor, and there was no one who liked to talk loudly. It was strange to hear a loud voice that day, and no matter how closely I listened, it was unfamiliar. What made me even more strange was that the sound came from Cao Li's house.

Walking past her door, my eyes rarely look into hers. I was afraid to make eye contact with her, I was afraid that she would stare at me and ask, "Hey, would you like to be friends with me?" I will not know how to answer. Honestly, it's something I'm afraid of even dreaming.

I couldn't stop being curious that day, although I didn't slow down, although it was also a passing by, but my eyes looked in through the door, and what I saw was the same furnishings as when the Chen family's father and daughter lived, but the people were different. There is an idiom called "things are people", which is what I see at the moment.

Cao Li sat at the door, her head bowed. I couldn't see her expression, just through the gestures, I could clearly feel her depressed mood. At the table sat a man in his thirties, one leg on the other, the other on a stool, smoking a cigarette in his mouth. The cigarette that came out of his mouth was not honest, and he did not have the patience to rise quietly, but danced lightly in the air, and the dance was more ruffian than his smoking posture. Hovering, amusing the hair on the top of his head that was no more than two inches long.

It was this man who spoke, and I couldn't hear what he said before, only then I heard a sentence: "What is our relationship, we don't need eyes, we don't need ears, we can find it by feeling." ”

It's interesting, but it's more confusing to me. If sensation could replace the eyes and ears, the wonder of that feeling would be unimaginable.

Not long after I got home, I ate leftovers of cold rice at noon. I don't want to eat cold food, but I hate moisture, which makes the food lose its original taste and lose its stickiness like a rancid meal. It's apt to describe that dinner with the same chewing wax. However, no matter how unpalatable the food is, it can't escape my inertia of chewing and swallowing, and I swallow it one by one.

Soon I didn't care about the taste of the food. I heard the sound of falling things, bowls or cups, either glass or porcelain, shattering on the concrete floor, which was extremely damp even in the house. It's hard to pinpoint which room the sound is coming from, or even from which floor.

I don't know what's wrong, my mind seems to be inseparable from that place, as long as there is a wind and grass, it will be associated with that place, I don't say you also know, that place refers to Cao Li's rental house.

The father said, "What's wrong with Cao Li's family? "It seems that my father, like me, also has a subconscious that connects unexpected things with Cao Li.

The mother said, "I just dropped something." ”

Father has a new idea: "Is it that Old Man Zheng came to the door, maybe there was a quarrel." ”

My father and I are in many ways indisputably similar because I am my father's son. My mother always said to us, "You two are really a virtue. "Now we both have a virtue, which means that we both have a strong curiosity.

My father went out with the bowl, and I followed, but I didn't walk up to the balcony like my father, but leaned against the door, poked my head out, and our eyes went forward and backward, up and down, but the end was the same, both in front of Cao Li's house. The man who smoked a ruffian walked out of Cao Li's rental house first, and Cao Li followed. She wanted to say something to that man, and when she saw us father and son, she changed her mind in an instant. She raised the corners of her lips and said with a smile that was forced out, "Friend, former friend." ”

My father looked up at the sky and pretended to go out just to see the sky. I responded by nodding my head, but it was dark, and the way I nodded her head might not have been noticeable.

That night, instead of talking about work, my homework, or the chewy and tasteless dinner, my parents talked about the sound of bowls and the men who walked out of Cao Li's rental house.

For the relationship between Cao Li and the man, they analyzed various possibilities, relatives, friends, fellow villagers, and so on. Either one of them will not drop the bowl, so they are rejected one by one. In the end, they agreed that the greatest possibility was that Cao Lituo invited the man to his home in the name of making friends, and later the man found that Cao Li's original intention was not out of friendship, but mainly to deal with the conflict with Uncle Zheng.

I was impressed by the working couple's ability to make up stories, which sounded reasonable and unassailable, but I knew in my heart that their speculation was false, and I remember the man saying, "You don't need eyes, you don't need ears, you can find them by feeling." It shows that the man was not invited by Cao Li, but took the initiative to find the door.

My parents were still talking about the same topic, but I was already sleepy, and my sleepiness caused my subconscious to reject the distractions of external sounds, so I quickly disconnected from their conversations.

Until it suddenly occurred to me that he only said that he could find it by feeling, but did not say that he could find anything. Finding Cao Li was the first thing that came to my mind, but it doesn't mean that it is correct, it is possible to find a certain place, to find something, or it is possible to just find feelings and ideas, and it sounds reasonable to rely on feelings to find feelings.

After rejecting my previous opinion, I fell asleep, and when I opened my eyes, I could hear what they were saying again. The content is the same as before, and their inferences are still repeated. Somehow, I opened my mouth and said in a firm tone, "You guys have a point. ”

My father told me about this the next day, and they thought I was talking in my sleep.

In those days, I wandered aimlessly around the compound, and heard the tenants talking about the man, and their words were similar to the inferences of my parents that night, except that they described them in more depth than my parents, because someone heard the man say, "Old immortal, dare to lie to me, and show you sooner or later." ”

In their opinion, the meaning of this sentence is very clear, Cao Liyu's purpose of deceiving him to be a friend was discovered, so he scolded and threw the bowl away. The man didn't know anyone, he must be someone from outside the compound, according to Uncle Zheng: "Even the people outside the courtyard are cheating, this girl is hungry." ”

Cao Li's strange friendship with that man made me inquisitive. I wanted to ask her what happened that night, and I wanted to ask her why the man had been friends with her in the first place. In reality, I naturally couldn't do anything to ask Cao Li to explain in person, only once in a dream, I stood at the door of Cao Li's door and asked the question I wanted to know, she said: "Do you need a reason to be a friend?" As long as you love me, you'll be friends. As for what happened that night was emotional, everything that happened to me was emotional. ”

That's right, but I don't think these words were said by Cao Li, she contacted me a few times to express herself bluntly, and she couldn't say such things, but it was more like what my father said with mud walls and like to engage in philosophy.

I thought about it and finally asked my father one day before going to bed, "Have you recently said anything about emotions and friends?" ”

He asked me when.

Since I don't remember, there's only one possibility: "While I'm asleep." ”

"Unless I'm talking in my sleep," he said. ”

He didn't mean it, but I think it's quite possible that he's talking in his sleep. I heard him talk in my dreams, so I applied his dream words to my dreams, and it made sense to interpret them from any angle.

There is another thought, my personality does not have a strong curiosity about other people's things. In this matter, I went against my character. But if you think about it deeply, maybe this is not the case, maybe the purpose of trying to find out what happened is to further understand how that man could have the possibility of becoming friends with Cao Li, and does this possibility exist in me? It's like looking for the answer to whether I can be friends with Cao Li.