Chapter 15: Materialism
This Liang Yuan, although I haven't seen him for such a long time, can be regarded as knowing the roots, maybe he can really help me with something.
I said, "There are two rooms in the attic, and my dad is in the hospital, so why don't you stay on my dad's side for the time being?" ”
When Liang Yuan heard this, he seemed to be unable to ask for it, so he naturally agreed.
I cleaned out the kimchi jar in the small compartment, and standing at the door, the smell of kimchi water had faded a lot, but I could still smell the peculiar smell.
It's greasy, I can't tell what it is, but it smells very uncomfortable anyway.
Liang Yuan's amount of alcohol is really good, and after drinking all night, the complexion on his face has not changed at all. Many people drink wine, and their faces and eyes will become very red, but Liang Yuan's face does not change and his heart does not beat.
I asked him, "You've always been so good at drinking?" ”
"I didn't drink much before." He wiped his face: "I don't know what's wrong tonight, after drinking so much wine, I don't feel at all." ”
"You seem to have a good appetite too."
"I guess I'm hungry today, and I can't hold on after eating so much. Actually, my own amount of rice is really not large, a small bowl of rice is enough. ”
He smiled innocently, and I was depressed.
With his appetite, I have seen it with my own eyes, and I can eat the meat that I and my dad eat for a week. Perhaps, his father either failed in business, and their family was destroyed by him.
Thinking of this, I actually smiled.
Liang Yuan asked me what I was laughing at, and I waved my hand and said it was nothing, let him go and rest.
Lying in bed at night, I made a phone call to the hospital, and the nurse who answered the phone said that my father's condition was still the same, and all the indicators of his body were normal, which reassured me.
Everything is normal?
Isn't that just talking? He's all in a vegetative state, and he's still fine?
I'm thinking that the hospital in this small county town is not very reliable, or just take my dad to the provincial capital to have a look, the doctor there heard that he is either an expert or a professor, maybe my dad will be cured of the disease as soon as he goes.
Thinking of my dad's illness, I was worried again. In the intensive care unit, you can only go in at half past four in the afternoon for half an hour, and other times are not visiting times.
My dad didn't know what was going on inside, maybe he was conscious, but I wasn't with him.
Liang Yuan said, let me rest at ease, maybe tomorrow morning, I will wake up, my dad has come back, and he is alive again, so all the problems will be solved.
I hope so.
I thought about the good, but I just lay down for a while, and I still couldn't sleep.
With the help of the bedside lamp, I touched out the "Autumn Moon Eclipse List" again. After roughly going through it again, I really didn't see any place that said that cigarettes could catch ghosts.
I don't believe that cigarettes can catch ghosts, but it's true that drinking alcohol hurts your brain. And drinking alcohol is not only misleading, but also prone to hallucinations.
Xu Yinyin is forty years old, and I heard that she has been drinking since she was twenty years old, so she must have been drinking for twenty years. For more than 20 years, I have been soaked in liquor every day, and my brain is likely to be different from that of normal people.
That's how it should be.
I am a materialist, and the theory of ghosts and gods does not hold up to me.
With a yawn, I was about to put the book down when I remembered something. Second Aunt Xu seemed to say that in the attic that day, my father was very angry and snatched the book from her hand.
She said that at that time, the book was ripped open from the middle.
Thinking of this, I turned to the last page again and took a closer look before putting it down. I was shocked by this look, because I did find some traces of repair.
The patched up is not very obvious, I didn't care about it before, but now that I look at it, is this book really half missing?
So, the other half that was torn off, and where did my dad put it again?
Now Liang Yuan is sleeping at my dad's side, and tomorrow I must go to the next room to look through it and see if I can find the second half of "Autumn Moon Eclipse List".
I was about to turn off the lights and go to bed, when I suddenly heard a "bang" from downstairs, which was the sound of the roller shutter door being opened.
I was stunned and quickly sat up from the bed.
I'm the only one with the keys to this chicken noodle shop, and I'm now lying on the bed in the attic and my dad on the bed in the intensive care unit.
Then the question is, who opened the roller shutter door of my house!?
The first thought that came to my mind was that there was a thief in the store. This thief really doesn't have a long brain, running a small noodle shop to steal something?
Noodles sauce or something, heavy and worthless, this has to be a lot of thieves with eyes to come here to steal things?
But no matter how much he doesn't have a brain, he is still a thief.
A thief in the house should not be taken lightly. Fortunately, Liang Yuan is also there, if it really starts, my chances of winning are not small. So I put on a piece of clothing casually, and looked left and right, and there was only a metal mobile phone holder that could defend myself.
With my ear to the door, I listened to the movement outside.
I heard the sound of a pot moving and the man seemed to be rummaging for something by the stove. I muttered to myself, if someone did steal those things, they would be too hungry to eat.
The noise downstairs was getting louder and louder, and I even heard the sound of stir-frying, the spatula scratching the iron pot, the ingredients and seasonings boiling together, a very cheerful sound, a very familiar sound.
Is this thief hungry? Actually started to do it yourself?
After a while, I heard the man walking up the stairs with a "pop". This guy is so bold, it was not enough to steal downstairs, this thief really didn't give up, and was finally ready to enter the house.
Taking a deep breath, I opened the door with one hand, and with the other hand, I held the phone holder and rushed at the head and smashed it on the head.
"Oops!"
The man screamed, fell backwards, and rolled down the stairs.
I heard the voice very familiarly, threw away the mobile phone holder and hurriedly followed, the person sitting at the corner of the stairs covering his head "whooping" kept calling, it was my dad Tang Sihai.
I quickly helped him up: "Dad! How are you? Aren't you in the hospital? ”
I saw a big, red lump on the left side of my dad's head, he looked at me, and the corners of his mouth moved a few times: "Xiaofan, I'm your father, why are you so ruthless?" ”
"Dad, aren't you in the hospital? Why did you run back all of a sudden? ”
"I don't worry about you."
I let out a sigh and asked, "And when did you wake up?" ”
"I'm ......" He was about to say something, when he suddenly heard a voice from upstairs: "Xiaofan, is there anyone else in the family besides you?" ”
I told him that it was Liang Yuan, the former neighbor of the Tube Building, and that his business had failed and his family had mortgaged his house, and now he has no place to live. My dad listened intently to me, frowning all the time.
He said: "You are a girl, you casually bring people to your home, what has Liang Yuan been doing for so many years?" Do you know him? ”
I was stunned for a moment.
My dad was right, after graduating from elementary school, Liang Yuan moved away, what he has experienced over the years, what kind of people he has made now, and what he has become, I don't seem to know.
Just based on the impression when I was a child, I believe in a person indiscriminately, and I am indeed a little bolder.
"Go upstairs, I'll go see him!"
With that, my dad got up and went upstairs. He also put his ear to the door and listened, as I had just done. Through the door, it was quiet inside, Liang Yuan was probably asleep, and there was no movement in the room at all.
"Dad......" I was about to say something, but he held out his index finger at me, put it to his mouth, and shhh
Then he kicked the door open.