Chapter 3: Revisiting the Treasury
According to the good life that parents have in mind, there should be a garden with an appropriate area in the yard, which is a beautiful place that can be found as soon as you go out of the house and raise your eyes. There are long tables made of solid wood, chairs made of solid wood, and a swing that can swing in the wind. On the walls and porches outside the house, the vines are covered in summer, and the walls look picturesque; There should also be a small pond in the yard, and when there is nothing to do, there will be frogs chirping in the summer.
See now? I looked up and saw that the weeds had been removed, and all that was left was the broken bricks and stones on the ground. I stood here, not in a very beautiful mood, and kicked out at random, and a few blades of grass mixed with many nameless wildflower petals scattered in all directions, and fell back to the ground.
Not long after, my mother shouted in the house and asked me if I wanted to come in for lunch. I was so angry that I couldn't say that I wanted to stay in the yard. So my mother came out with a plate of several large pieces of pot-wrapped meat, some rice, and even a canned drink.
After stuffing the chopsticks into my hand, she looked at me apologetically, "I'm sorry, the house is messy now, and even my mood is a mess, so my mother didn't mean to be so fierce just now." She said.
Seeing that I was still silent, she touched my arm again.
"I'll forgive my mother, won't I, Zhuo Mo?"
I was still eating with my head down, but nodded.
She nudged me again, then sighed.
"After Mom and Dad get everything done, I promise that there will be earth-shaking changes here, and we will definitely live happily here." She said.
When my mother returned to the house, I sat cross-legged on a piece of grass and ate lunch with a pair of friends. I heard someone greeting me, and then Uncle Liu pushed open the courtyard door and walked in. Uncle Liu is an old friend of my father, and I guess he is here to help today. As I watched him drag his bloated and fat body into the living room, I wondered what his size could help with. But don't look at Uncle Liu's figure like that, but he is the attending physician of a serious 800 specialized hospital, and he is very ruthless.
After drinking and seeing the adults talking intently in the room, I walked to the storeroom again. No time was wasted, and there was no effort to find the little animals that were stumbling at first. I lit my phone's flashlight, took a deep breath, stood on tiptoe, and tiptoed straight inside.
On the floor of the warehouse, there are some small objects scattered everywhere that do not know what their function is. The door of the storeroom behind him creaked in the wind, and it was a long time before it fell silent. Where the flashlight's beam of light swept through, dust was constantly churning in the air. I kept walking inside, and I don't know how many cobwebs my hair had torn apart.
In fact, in good conscience, the rules of the east and west here (the meaning of tidying) are also neat, with construction tools, stacks of wooden planks, rolls of tarpaulin, and piles of water pipes. There were also a lot of steel wires and thick ropes hanging on the beams, so that I had to bow my head from time to time to avoid touching them. I reached out and pushed some of the wood squares away, and the dust and sawdust flew in front of me.
Covering my mouth and holding my breath, I looked inside, only to see a large oil drum standing in the corner, and there were some small animal corpses around, and I don't know where they all came in. As for dead flies, dead cockroaches are all over the field.
I frowned, endured my tickling nose choked by dust, and continued to walk inside, I had to speed up a bit, because I didn't know how long it would be before my parents found out, and I was in this hellish place again. Until then, I'm sure I'm going to finish my adventure.
I saw her as the flashlight swept over the space behind the oil drum.
Seriously, at first I thought she was dead. Because she was curled up motionless with her head down. At first glance, she was almost the same as the clutter here, covered in cobwebs, and her face was so thin and pale. What's even more outrageous is that there are large swaths of dead flies falling from her head and shoulders.
I couldn't help but shine my flashlight on her face to get a better look.
"What are you going to do?" She asked. At the same time, she raised her head and stared at me, her voice was hoarse, as if she hadn't spoken for a long time, but if you listen carefully, behind the hoarseness, her voice is actually very good.
But I was still startled by her sudden movements, my heart beating in my chest. In order to hide my panic and at the same time embolden myself, I asked, "I should ask this, what do you want to do?" ”
That's when I heard someone calling out to me outside.
"Murphy! Murphy! Where did you run again? ”
I jumped out of the storeroom with my ass on fire.
This time, my dad was calling me, and he was slowly walking towards me not far away.
"Didn't we all tell you so many times......" Dad looked preachy.
"Okay, okay, I know, this time I promise to obey." Before he could finish speaking, I hurriedly interrupted him. Then I started to dust off my body and tear off the cobwebs on my head.
"We're all for your good." Like an old friend, my dad put one hand on my shoulder and said this. The other hand also pushed hard against the side wall of the storeroom, as if to prove to me how unstable it was. And the whole warehouse also shook twice according to the situation, as if it was about to be dismembered.
This frightened me and I quickly grabbed his hand, for fear that he would do it again.
"Na, na. What are you doing? Sabotage? I screamed.
My dad patted me on the shoulder and told me that the house would be renovated soon. Finally, he smiled and promised. "Don't worry, this will be your best secret base in the end."
Then he gently "snapped" my buttocks. "So, now go and get you clean, lest your mother find out."