Chapter Twenty-Five: Loneliness
Bo Tai also cares about Huang Siyao, and feels that as a woman and a professional obstetrician and gynecologist, she must also protect Huang Siyao. She always urged her to go out for a walk, drive to Shenzhen, drive back to Chaoshan, and get some fresh air.
This is because Huang Siyao is used to sitting quietly at home, either reading absentmindedly or embroidering weakly, and hardly going out.
As soon as Huang Siya left, a strong wind began to blow. Bo Tai said to Huang Siyao: "Why don't you go for a walk in the forest and go to the back of the house guarded by the forest farm to see the scenery?" The view is the best. You can also pick some and put them in your house, it's not like in the city, you can pick it here. ”
Huang Siyao understood the kindness in her words, no matter how she is, she can't always ask for trouble like this, right? Spring is back.
And the hunting ground guard, his emaciated body is like a lonely stamen in a flower, half hidden and half visible! In the unspeakable depression, Huang Siyao forgot about him. But now something in her heart has been awakened.
She's stronger than ever, and she's better able to walk. The wind in the woods doesn't sweep through everything like the wind on the farm, and she's tired of coping. She wanted to forget, to forget the world and all those horrible walking dead!
A gust of wind blew, and a piece of sunshine finally sprinkled in the sky, illuminating the grass under the lychee forest, shining and green.
The woods were silent, so still that they couldn't be quieter, but when the wind blew, a ray of sunlight would shine through
She stood up, stiffened a little, and pinched a few wildflowers before leaving. She doesn't like to pinch flowers, but she really wants to take one or two with her. She had to go back to the bungalow and into the big wall. She began to hate the house, especially its thick walls. But people need walls, on windy days like this.
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After entering the house, Zhang Haifei asked her, "Where did you go?" ”
"Walked through the whole forest! Look, how cute these wildflowers are! It's hard to imagine that they grew out of the ground! ”
"They can't grow without air and sunlight." Zhang Haifei said.
"Anyway, it was formed in the soil first." She immediately retorted, surprised herself a little by the speed with which she spoke.
The next day she went into the woods again. This time she took a wide road that winded up, through a lychee forest, to a spring. The springs are surrounded by pebbles.
What a clear spring! That's great! There is no doubt that these new pebbles were laid by that Lee Kwang Suke. Huang Siyao could hear the faint tinkling sound of the trickle as it went down the mountain. As crisp as a bell made of water. This well must have been a place where people drank water for hundreds of years, but now people don't come here to draw water. This small clearing is green, but it is also terrifying.
She stood up and walked slowly towards home. As she walked, she heard a banging not far to her right, and she stopped to listen. Is it the sound of a hammer or a woodpecker pecking at the wood? It must be the hammer hitting something.
She continued walking, listening. Then she noticed a narrow path ahead of her, leading somewhere. But she felt that someone was always walking this way. So she ventured down the road. The farther she walked along the road, the nearer the hammer struck. In this silent forest, the sound of the wind cannot drown out the sound of the hammer, because even when there is wind, the woods are quiet.
She saw a secret little clearing, and in the clearing was a small log cabin made of unprocessed wood. She has never been to this place! She realizes that this quiet place is used to raise free-range chickens. She didn't know it as the hostess. The forest keeper was wearing a T-shirt and was kneeling on the ground and banging something. When the dog saw someone coming, he barked and ran over. The guard looked up suddenly, saw her, and a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes.
He straightened up to greet her, silently watching as she walked weakly. He did not like the encroachment of others on his territory, because he saw solitude as the last and only freedom in his life.
"I want to know what's going on with this banging." She gasped as she spoke, snorting in a round. And since his eyes were looking directly at her, she felt a little scared.
"I'm preparing the cages for the chicks." He said in a thick local accent.
She didn't know what to say, she just felt weak.
"I want to sit for a while." She said.
"Come, sit in the house." As he spoke, he led her into the house, picked up some wood or something, and pulled out a chair.
And he continued to bang outside. She didn't really want to sit in it fixedly, but wanted to watch him work by the door, but since she was taken care of, she had to obey.
There were still tools in the room, there were no windows, and light was letting in through open doors. It's a clutter, but it's also a little refuge.
She listened to the sound of the man beating with a hammer, and from the sound of the hammer she could tell that he was not happy, he was a little depressed, because someone had invaded his private territory, and it was a dangerous person, a woman! He had reached a point where he desperately needed to be alone, but he was unable to keep his loneliness. He was a hired hand, and the people who hired him were his masters.
He's a guy who doesn't want to be in contact with women anymore. He was afraid of contact because it had left him with great trauma from past contacts. He felt that if he couldn't be alone, if others wouldn't let him be alone, he would die. He has completely avoided this world, and his last hiding place is this forest, hiding himself in the forest!
Huang Siyao still felt a little stuffy in the room. So she sat down on a stool in the doorway and watched the man at work. He didn't seem to notice her, but knew she was watching from the sidelines. But he continued to work, seemingly preoccupied. His dog crouched right next to him, watching the suspicious world around him.
The tall man was silent, but he was quick to get to work, and in a short time the chicken coop was ready. He never showed that he was aware that there was a woman around.
Huang Siyao then stared at him. She had seen him so lonely before, that time he was naked, and this time he was alone. Lonely, concentrated, like an animal busy doing something, avoiding human contact and thinking alone. Even now, he was silently and patiently avoiding her.
The man was impatient and passionate, but this person was so quiet and had infinite patience, which touched her heart. She could see his patience and restraint in his lowered head, his flexible but steady arms, and his bent thin and sensitive waist. She could feel that this person's past experience must be more complicated and complicated than her own, perhaps someone who had experienced life and death. It made her breathe a sigh of relief, and she almost felt that she didn't need to feel guilty about offending him today.