CHAPTER 40
Tian Donkey returned home with nothing, and there was not a single advertising paper in his pocket, and he was a little depressed. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
This should be regarded as a disadvantage for being a teacher, although Tian Donkey's life should have been accustomed to being a disadvantage, from replacing the two deceased brothers to continue the birth of incense, to the lonely wandering of the world, and then to the absurd blind date of wanting to sleep with a woman but eating a beating, none of which took advantage of the time and place, so the failure of this advertising paper is just an addition to the frustrated fruit of his life strung together like a sugar gourd, which is not worth mentioning. However, the sorrow of human beings is not to live in the past and live in the present, so for Tian Donkey, who should be regarded as standing at the peak of his life at this time, his gloomy mood makes him extremely tired. He took off his raincoat and rain boots, sat on a stool in the room without the lights on, and looked out the window at the lights on a rainy night, when the gray figure in his mind hit again.
Is she Ah Xia or not? Her voice is familiar, and her memory is profound, but her face is far from Ah Xia's face in her memory, and there are not many traces of Ah Xia on her body, and if she is Ah Xia, does he still recognize herself? Why did she have a stiff expression when she heard the name Ah Xia and wanted to flee in a panic?
Tian Donkey recalled everything that happened on the street over and over again, denied it over and over again, hovering between memory and reality, and in the end, even, hoping that person was not Ah Xia anymore.
"No, no, don't be cranky, can't be cranky......"
In fact, Tian Donkey'er is resistant in his heart, for him who has a new life, any past should not jump out to disturb him again, so whether that person is Ah Xia or not, he should not recall it again. He shook his head a few times to stay awake, and then glanced at the lights outside the window again, the lights of those rainy nights seemed to be dim and dim against the mood of the donkey.
For a long time, Tian Donkey smiled self-deprecatingly, when did he become no longer the Tian Donkey he was at the beginning? Is it because you have been following the local customs for too long and have learned to be indifferent and sentimental? It's ridiculous to think about! It should be said that what has nothing to do with survival has nothing to do with your donkey! In the final analysis, Tian Donkey stole Sister Ling's life, how long can this kind of happiness caused by accident be comfortable? So, every day of life, Tian Donkey should be afraid, right? At the very least, you should be cautious.
There are no customers to bathe, there are no people who need to wait, quiet, only quiet, Tian Donkey felt that life is so quiet for the first time. In fact, the pain of life is to think too much about one's own troubles, and then give birth to too much sorrow. Sitting in the dark, Tian Donkey was like the embodiment of a thinker, and he instantly saw through life as if he had an epiphany, and smiled self-deprecatingly again, stood up, and prepared to go to bed, because if he didn't want to continue to panic, and didn't want to ask for troublesome pain, he had to go to bed early. So, he stood up, stretched and yawned, and was about to go back to bed when he heard a knock at the door. In the silence of this rainy night, the knock on the door seemed clear and loud. Tian Donkey thinks that no one will come to him on such a night, and no one should come to him on such a rainy night, is it wrong? Just when Tian Donkey wondered if his ears were hallucinating, he heard a real knock on the door.
Timidity, doubt, fear, doubt, all the emotions were pulled by the knock on the door, and the donkey's nerves were beaten. All the memories that had been deliberately forgotten and hidden by Tian Donkey burst the embankment in an instant, and the sound of rain outside the window drowned him. It was as if the heavy rain outside the window had turned into the black water in the bathhouse that was rushing down with Sister Ling's blood, and it flowed madly into the house, flowing to the feet of Tian Donkey, and was corroding his soul. The knocking on the door continued, like the claws of Sister Ling who jumped out of hell, knocking on Tian Donkey's tense nerves over and over again.
"Who?!"
Finally, Tian Donkey, who was struggling in the mudslide in his heart, tried his best to burst out with an angry cry and threw it out of the door, but the door did not answer, and the knock on the door rang again.
"Who's knocking on the door?!"
The knock at the door stopped, but there was no answer.
Silence, black silence, pitch-black silence on a rainy night, between the donkey and the knock at the door. At this moment, Tian Donkey can hear the sound of almost every drop of raindrops. He stood there and listened with bated breath for a moment, there seemed to be no movement outside the door, but there must have been something, because the knock was real.
Finally, he mustered up the courage and prepared to open the door to see what was going on. Just in case, he picked up the mop behind the door of the house, after all, in the city, there will be countless unexpected situations, such as the knock on the door tonight, it is too weird and shocking.
"Who's outside the door?"
Tian Donkey walked to the door and asked again, to his surprise, this time, he heard a weak answer.
"It's ...... me"
The voice sounded faint, very weak, like the sigh of a man who was dying, more like a call from a distant memory. And, I could hear it, it was a woman's voice. So, Tian Donkey hurriedly turned on the light and opened the door, and sure enough, he saw a woman standing at the door, and it was Ah Xia who met on the street.
"Is that you?"
Ah Xia raised her head and glanced at Tian Donkey, as if she was trying to squeeze out a smile, but she was so weak that her trembling body didn't have time to support her to say a word, so she fainted and fell at Tian Donkey'er's feet.
"Hey...... Xia, hey...... What happened to you? ”
The unconscious Ah Xia had no way to answer.
Tian Donkey looked at Ah Xia on the ground, surprised and delighted. Shocked how could Ah Xia appear at the door of his house in the middle of the night, and happily, Ah Xia appeared at the door of his house like a lost return, so he hurriedly dragged the unconscious Ah Xia into the house and closed the door. Looking at the wet Ah Xia on the ground, like a green vegetable that had just been blanched out of boiling water, shrunk into a ball, lying on the ground, her body was still shivering. Tian Donkey had no choice but to pick her up in a hurry, walk to the bedroom, put her on her bed, and hurriedly took care of her all night, until Ah Xia opened her weak eyes the next day.
"Are you okay?"
Tian Donkey, who had been guarding Ah Xia's bedside, asked Ah Xia about her physical condition with red eyes.
"Isn't it better? How do you feel now? ”
"I'm much better......"
As she spoke, Ah Xia struggled to sit up, but Tian Donkey hurriedly helped her up.
Ah Xia sat on the bed with her back against the wall, and then put her hand on her head.
Seeing this, Tian Donkey hurriedly asked with concern, "How is it?" Is there anything else you feel uncomfortable with? ”
Ah Xia shook her head and said weakly.
"No, it's just a little dizzy, it's old, it's not in the way......" After speaking, he smiled at Tian Donkey, and continued to ask, "Have you been taking care of me?" ”
"Yes, I'm worried about you, so I don't dare to leave, Ah Xia, why are you at the door? Yesterday on the street, that person was you, right? ”
"Hmm...... It's me."
"Haha, I'll just say, I won't admit my mistake!" Tian Donkey was a little excited, after all, meeting Ah Xia in this strange city should be regarded as meeting an old acquaintance in a foreign country, Tian Donkey couldn't hide the joy in his heart, and continued.
"It's really good, Ah Xia, then you rest first, I'll go prepare something to eat, you see you're thin, you're out of shape, I'm about to lose my mind."
"No, don't be in such a hurry......" Ah Xia wanted to speak and stopped, as if she had a thousand words but couldn't say it, and she frowned, which was really distressing. Finally, after several hesitations, she said to Tian Donkey, "Can you sit with me for a while?" ”
So, Tian Donkey sat down again and looked at Ah Xia. Yes, Ah Xia has changed a lot. Her face was bloodless, pale like a piece of jade buried deep in the ground for thousands of years, and without makeup, she was like the previous flaming red-lipped and beautiful Ah Xia.
Ah Xia seemed to see Tian Donkey's surprise, so she smiled hard and said.
"I've changed, haven't I?"
"Well, it looks different, but you're still Ah Xia."
"Yes, I'm still Ah Xia."
"That's okay, you just need to be Ah Xia, Ah Xia, then look at me, do you still recognize me?"
Ah Xia looked at Tian Donkey'er's rich and white face, which symbolized a well-off society, stared at it for a few seconds, and then shook her head blankly.
"Look at it again, you are Ah Xia, how can you not recognize me?"
Tian Donkey was sure that Ah Xia should know herself, but Ah Xia's performance disappointed him a little. She smiled wryly again and said lightly.
"I guess I know...... Since you can call my name, I should know me...... Yesterday, the reason why I didn't dare to admit that I was Ah Xia was because I was afraid of being recognized......"
"Recognized by whom?"
"By those guests I have served, so I want to deny it strenuously, no one wants to live with their own dirty life in this world that demands dignity, no matter how unbearable my past is, I am also a human being, and I also need dignity, so, I can only do that, but I have nowhere to go, I see that you are alone, posting advertisements, although you know my name, but I am not sure what kind of person you are, but I intuitively feel that you should be a good person, so, I followed you, all the way to your door...... ”
"Oh, that's right."
Tian Donkey listened to Ah Xia's story, and it seemed that he was nostalgic and grateful, so that Ah Xia, who wanted to repay him, didn't seem to know himself, and he mistakenly regarded himself as a previous prostitute, which was really a disappointing thing for Tian Donkey. However, the weak are the easiest to sympathize, and the kind-hearted Tian Donkey sympathizes with Ah Xia's suffering, not only because she and he have suffered at this time, but also because they are both weak and live in the lowest strata of this society, so what reason and qualification do they have to blame Ah Xia's life. But soon, the unwilling Tian Donkey rekindled his hope, he hoped that Ah Xia would recognize him, because Ah Xia gave him a great encouragement and comfort, so to speak, gave him a second life, such a great gift, even if Ah Xia forgets, he himself can not forget, so he wants to repay Ah Xia, and thank God for letting Ah Xia come to his side, this, that's enough.
"Ah Xia, then you really don't recognize me?"
"I don't know"
"If you take a closer look, do you recognize me or remember me?"
Ah Xia shook her head again and smiled reluctantly, the smile seemed to float on her face, it was not real at all, and it didn't seem to belong to her.
She said leisurely: "My youth is not short, I have been sleeping with men since I was a teenager to earn money, sometimes, there are dozens of men I have slept with in a day, so I can't remember what they look like at all."
After speaking, Ah Xia looked at Tian Donkey in a daze, she didn't seem to understand why the person in front of her had been struggling with whether she recognized it or not.
"Oh, that's okay, I know you"
"Then why do you recognize me? Isn't it ...... us? ”
"No, no, really not" Tian Donkey hurriedly shook his head and waved his hand, negating Ah Xia's guess. "Ah Xia, we weren't like that, although we almost became like that, but at that time I ...... Forget it, don't talk about it, I was different from me now anyway, it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter if you don't recognize me, I recognize you, it's just ...... I feel like I know you ......"
Tian Donkey's explanation was clumsy and far-fetched, but fortunately, Ah Xia didn't dig deeper, and just like that, the memories between them ended in embarrassment, Ah Xia smiled at Tian Donkey again, and asked again.
"Then what's your name, I don't know your name yet"
"Sanjun, my name is Tian Sanjun"
"Tian Sanjun...... It's a good name, it sounds like you're a good person, and I can't be wrong about seeing people."
After speaking, Ah Xia smiled easily, and that smile finally became real.