Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Strange Rain and the Strange Ants
When I woke up the next day, I sent a WeChat message to Brother Chao to ask about his situation, and only after receiving the reply did I know that Wang Yang and Xiaoxi were not at home.
In the call of Chao Ge's pitiful Baba, I had to get up and take the car to find him, but fortunately Chao Ge had a high-tech entertainment product at home that I didn't have at home: a color TV.
When I went to Brother Chao's house, we chatted while watching TV, and then I realized that the two girls did not leave him alone, but were paid by him. Wang Yang went to interview for a new job, and Xiaoxi went to work in a new unit.
However, after the two girls had left, the thing felt lonely, so he called me in.
In my ridicule, Brother Chao was like an uncle, indifferently commanding me to serve him tea, pour water, light cigarettes, beat his legs, I scolded while helplessly obeying his arrangement, alas, who made the family a wounded?
Wang Yang came back at noon, and he was not surprised to see me here.
The three of us had lunch together, in addition to chatting in the afternoon, we watched TV, and Brother Chao couldn't even fight a landlord because of an arm injury, and I was quite bored. It wasn't until Xiaoxi came back and had dinner together that I took the car home again.
This kind of day lasted for several days, until Brother Chao's conscience found out and let me rest at home for a day, I looked at the rare light rain outside the window and sighed, alas, I am tired from work, and I have no salary, and I have to pay for the road by myself, and sometimes I have to pay for the meal, I want to change with Brother Chao, how good would it be if I was injured?
Although the city is close to the sea, I don't know if it has something to do with the province where it is located, the rain is not abundant, and even most of the year can be classified as "drought".
Actually, I like the rain, when it rains, I feel that the surroundings are very quiet, and even my heart is much calmer, and the air smells much fresher than usual.
During this time, I was busy with Brother Chao's side, and I didn't bother with my work, so I just took advantage of today to hurry up and sort it out.
I put all the information I needed on the table and got to work.
I don't know how long it took, but I suddenly felt a little itchy on my legs, I didn't care, scratched it and continued to be busy.
After a while, my other leg was also a little itchy, and I scratched it again and didn't care about it.
Suddenly, my back was a little itchy, but this time the position was awkward, and I needed to bend my arms to a very clever angle to get there.
In order to reach this position, I naturally straightened my waist, and at the same time subconsciously twisted my neck, and naturally took my eyes off the information on the table in front of me.
In an instant, I didn't itch at all, not only did I stop itching, my whole scalp began to tingle, and goosebumps crawled on both arms.
Oh my god, why are there so many ants?
The walls, the floor, and even the beds were full of dense black-brown ants.
I stood up and looked down to see that there were all these ants at my feet, and several of them had even climbed up my legs. I hurriedly bent down to pat the ant off my leg, and at the same time grabbed one and held it in front of me to take a closer look.
Except that the ant seems to be a little bigger, it looks no different from a normal ant.
I pinched the ant in my hand and threw it to the ground, tiptoeing out.
I don't have much fear of ants, even if there are many of them, it is just ants, when I was a child in my hometown, there are several entertainment activities related to ants in summer, one is to use a magnifying glass to condense the sun's rays, burn ants; The second is to use mothballs to trap ants in a circle on the ground, and if you make a circle around the ants, the ants will not be able to get out, and will only run around in the circle; The third is to scald the ant colony with boiling water, and kill a group of people, and they are happy to watch.
As for why you torture ants, it's not that you want to bully the weak, but you really hate ants when you were a child, and the reason for the hatred is very simple, this kind of little thing loves sweets, and sometimes a piece of candy falls on the ground, and before you have time to pick it up, they climb up first.
Sometimes even the candy that is placed on the table, if you are not careful for a while, will attract a bunch of ants, and as soon as they eat it, I will not have to eat it.
It's just that now I live in a residential building, and I can't solve it with a pot of boiling water like I did in the yard when I was a child, and besides, I can't pour boiling water on the bed, right?
After thinking about it, I decided to go downstairs and buy an insecticide, get rid of the ants first, and then study where they crawled in and block them at the source.
Tiptoe to the door, glanced at the living room, the floor was also dense. I pulled the goosebumps off my arm, slapped the ants off the doorknob, and went out to buy pesticides.
The ground outside the door was as clean as usual, there was nothing unusual in the elevator, and there were no ants downstairs.
Walking out of the unit building, it was still drizzling outside, and the aunts in the middle of the garden were riding the shade as always. Ay? It's raining, which door are they riding on? Why do they all talk and laugh and seem to be very happy?
The bench used to rest in the middle of the garden was made of wood, and the old lady in a flower dress was still sitting on the bench as usual, surrounded by the aunts, some standing, some squatting, and even some with children playing.
It is said that this scene is normal, but now that it is raining, the wooden bench must be soaked, it feels cold when you think about it, why did the old lady just sit on it?
Because I didn't bring an umbrella in a hurry, even I felt a little cold in the rain at the moment, and these people didn't have umbrellas, but none of them showed discomfort, their hair was already wet by the rain, and they all stuck to their scalps, looking very embarrassed, but they themselves didn't notice it, and they were still talking and laughing.
One of the aunts glanced at me, but only at me, and then as if she didn't see me, what should I do?
Do these aunts live in the same space as me? Don't they feel the rain?
I don't know who told a joke or what's going on, a group of people suddenly began to laugh out loud, and it could be seen that their laughter was from the heart, and even the old lady who usually had few expressions raised the corners of her mouth slightly.
Suddenly, a chilling sensation arose that I felt that their laughter was more intimidating than the endless ants in my room, and that they were a bunch of nervousness.
A gust of cold wind hit my face with raindrops, I shivered involuntarily, and hurriedly let go of the supermarket outside the super community.
The supermarket cashier is a big sister who is not smiling, she should be the proprietress of this store, she usually doesn't like to talk, I didn't talk to her, and went directly into the store to find pesticides.
But the strange thing is that after looking around, let alone pesticides, there is not even a mothball.
Is it missing? I bought all my induction cookers here, how can a supermarket with such a complete stock not have something as commonly used as pesticides?
I didn't give up, I looked around again, but there was still no insecticide, mothballs, cockroach medicine, rat poison, mosquito coils, all of them.
I had no choice but to go back to the cashier at the door and ask the cashier: "Hello sister, do you have any pesticides here?" ”
The cashier looked up at me and asked, "You live in this community?" I nodded "um", and the cashier lady said two words: "No." ”
I rolled my eyes in frustration, and just said no, why do I have to ask where I live? What's up? Could it be that I don't live in this community, and you have it?
I was a little annoyed and asked, "Oh, where else is there a supermarket nearby?" The cashier replied very simply this time: "I don't know." ”
This must be the legendary 'peers are enemies', not to mention pulling down, I will find it myself.
Coming out of the supermarket, the rain outside was a little heavier, I looked around, recalled for a long time before I found that there really were no other supermarkets around, just take the bus away a little farther, I can always find it.
I got into the car casually, found a seat and looked out the window after punching the card, and after a while, I saw a shopping mall, and I hurriedly got off the bus.
This time I bought it very smoothly, I took the insecticide back to the community in the car, and when I got off the car, I calculated it, and it took about an hour to toss back and forth.
Walking to the gate of the community, the cold-faced doorman suddenly came out of the guard room, pointed to the insecticide in my hand and asked, "What are you holding in your hand?" ”
Because the shopping bag has to charge an extra two cents, I am not willing to buy it, so I hold this insecticide directly with my hands, as long as I am not blind or illiterate, I should be able to see at a glance what I am holding, right?
I held up the insecticide to the doorman and said, "Insecticide, what's wrong?" Do you have to go through a security check? The doorman waved his hand in front of him suddenly, his expression revealing disgust, as if someone had just farted in front of him.
I was puzzled by his action, but the doorman said something that made me very uncomfortable: "No need for security, I just want to remind you to be careful when using it, beware of an explosion that hurts you." ”
I replied to him directly with a cold face: "Thank you for reminding me, you usually have nothing to do, so let's wander around more, don't stay in the sentry box all the time, beware of the wind blowing the sentry box down and killing you." ”
The doorman didn't reply, but after a little disdainful "cut", he stared at me with playful eyes.
I held up the insecticide again and said, "Then I'll leave if it's okay, you get busy first." ”
I don't know if the doorman was disgusted by my action or the insecticide, but when I made this action again, he frowned and waved his hand as before, and then hurried back to the guard box, and closed the door with his hand.
Neuropathy.
I also strode towards the community, and what made me feel more comfortable was that the aunts were gone, the rain was still falling, and the little garden was empty.
"That's normal." I muttered something to myself and got into the elevator to go home.
When I arrived at the door, I was a little hesitant, wondering if the number of ants in the house had increased exponentially in the past hour or so.
But no matter how hesitant I am, I took a deep breath and plucked up the courage to open the door and take a look. How is the house so clean?