It's starting to rain again. But after a day or two she went out into the woods in the rain, and when she got to the woods she went to the hut. It was raining, but it wasn't very cold. The silence in the forest made people feel very distant, and in the dim rain, it seemed inaccessible.

She came to the clearing, and there was no one there! The door to the hut was locked. She sat down on the steps made of stakes under the rough wooden porch. She sat like that and watched the rain, listening to the sounds of the silent woods, to the strange rustling of the wind high up in the woods, though there seemed to be no wind. Surrounded by old forests, the strong gray trunks of the trees are black in color after being wet by the rain, round and strong, with dense foliage. There are few bushes on the ground, wildflowers are dotted, and one or two bushes are occasionally seen. Maybe that's where it's unsullied. Undefiled! The whole world is defiled.

There are some things that cannot be defiled. You can't defile a sardine. Many women are like sardines, and so are some men. But the earth!

The rain gradually stopped. It's not so dark in the woods. Huang Siyao wanted to leave, but she still sat still. She felt cold, but the disgust in her heart created a great inertia that made her stay still, almost as if she were paralyzed.

Defile! A man is defiled without contact! Words are frozen until they are defiled, ideas are frozen until they are obsessive, and these can defile people.

Then a wet dog came, and it didn't bark, but just cocked its wet tail. The man followed, dressed in a black tarpaulin coat and looking like a taxi driver, with a slightly red face. Huang Siyao felt that he stopped his rapid pace a little when he saw her. She stood up, and there was only a small dry spot under the eaves of the thick wooden porch. He bowed wordlessly and slowly approached. Huang Siyao began to retreat.

"I'll go." She said.

"You're waiting to get in, aren't you?" He asked, not looking at her, just at the hut.

"Nope! I'm just sheltering from the rain under the porch. She said quietly and solemnly.

He looked at her, and she looked cold.

"Boss Zhang, don't you have any other keys?" He asked.

"Nope! But it doesn't matter. I can sit under the porch and not get wet. Goodbye! ”

She hated him for speaking in tongues, even though they often spoke Cantonese.

He stared at her departing back. Then he pulled up his jacket, took the key to the hut out of his trouser pocket, and said to her, "Maybe it's better for you to have this key, I'll have to think of another way to raise chickens." ”

She looked at him and asked, "What do you mean by that?" ”

"I mean, maybe I'll be able to find some other place to raise chickens. If you wanted to stay here, you wouldn't be happy with me going up and down in this realm. ”

She looked at him, probably guessing what he meant in his dialect.

"Why don't you speak Mandarin?" She asked indifferently.

"Me! I think I'm speaking Mandarin. ”

Huang Siyao was angry and didn't speak for a long time.

"If you want the key, take it. But I'd better give it to you tomorrow, and I'll clean up the mess in the house first. Is that going to work? ”

She was even angrier.

"I don't want your keys," she said, "and I don't want you to clean anything." I don't want to kick you out of your house at all, thank you! I just want to come and sit here sometimes, like today. I could have just sat under the porch, so don't talk about the keys. ”

He glanced at her again with those malicious blue eyes.

"What do you say," he said, still speaking in a thick dialect, but speaking at a slower pace, "I welcome the lady to the cottage, and the keys are all with the lady." That's it, every year at this time, I have to lay the chicks and take care of them inside and out! I don't need to come to this place in winter, it's just the beginning of spring, Boss Zhang is going to hunt pheasants, boss, you're here, I'm afraid you won't be happy to see me grinding......"

She listened to him and was secretly surprised.

"Why don't I like to see you here?" She asked.

He looked at her curiously.

"It's in the way!" He said simply, but that was enough.

Her face turned red when she heard this. "That's good!" She finally said, "I'm not going to trouble you. But I don't think there's anything wrong with sitting here and watching you take care of the chicks, I like that. But since you think you're interfering, I'm not coming, don't be afraid. You are Zhang Haifei's forest farm guard, not under my control. ”

"Zhang Haifei's forest farm guards are not under my control."

This sentence was incomprehensible, and she didn't know how to say it, but she said it.

"No, hostess. This is the hostess your cottage, you can come as you want, you can also quit me with a week's notice, just ......"

"Just what?" She asked, puzzled.

He pushed his hat up, looking a little strange and funny.

"It's just that you want to stay here alone, and if you come, I won't be busy."

"Why?" She said angrily, "Aren't you a civilized person? Do you think I'm going to be afraid of you? Why should I stare at you, whether you're here or not? Does it matter? ”

He looked at her, a malicious smile on his face, and said, "It's not important, boss, it's not important at all." ”

"And why?" She asked.

"Do you want me to give you another key for the hostess?"

"No, thank you, I don't."

"I'll get another one anyway. It's better to have two keys. ”

"I think you're pretty rude." Saying that, Huang Siyao blushed, and her breathing became a little short.

"No, no!" He quickly said, "Don't say that! No, no, I didn't mean that! Just thinking that you will come, I should clear it out. That work is enough to bear, can you start anew? If the hostess doesn't care about me, that's fine. This is Boss Zhang's house, and the boss can do whatever you want. Whatever you want, as long as the proprietress likes it, just don't worry about me being busy, I have to work. ”

Huang Siyao left, completely inexplicable. She didn't know if she had been insulted or offended. Perhaps the man did mean that he thought she wanted him to avoid it. I thought she was dreaming about it! I thought he was so important! Just his stupid look.

She came home with a confused mind, not knowing what she was thinking or how she was feeling.