November 28, 2012

Early morning. After washing his face and brushing his teeth, he walked to the living room and was startled. The few chairs and electrical appliances left in the house were wrapped in cloth.

Soeren does sit-ups on the balcony. The sun shone on him, and as he lay on his back, the golden light shortened and lengthened.

It turns out that people with white skin will turn golden when the sun shines.

"Are you looking at me?" He asked me mischievously, gasping for air.

"It's so pretty." I say.

The color and taste of the sun seemed to have been forgotten by me for a long time, and it turned out that there are more than just chilling cicadas in winter.

"Me?"

"Sunshine."

"It has to be me!"

"Why are you wrapping the chair and the air conditioner in a cloth?" I asked him curiously.

"Because it's cold! Changsha is very cold! I feel like they're unclothed and colder than me! He said as he did.

"If it's cold, turn on the air conditioner!"

"The air conditioning is broken!"

"Nonsense!"

"We knew it three days ago. You forgot today. ”

"Then you can make a fire, where is the stove where we put it?"

"You didn't tell me. You don't talk to me when you go home, you say Changsha people don't talk when they go home. ”

I've been so tired these days that I've been so distracted that I've fallen into a dry well like a stone, and I've almost forgotten that I still have a guest named Soeren at home.

"Did I say that?" I asked, a little guilty.

"You also said that the way of life of Changsha people is 'picking'." He said. So quickly, he was able to breathe evenly.

"Pick? What to pick? ”

"I don't know!" He said aggrievedly: "You said that I should go out alone to see what Changsha looks like." ”

"Oh!" It dawned on me: "It's not 'picking', it's 'home'!" ”

"What do you mean?"

“stubenhocker！” (German, squatting at home, similar to the Chinese 'house')

He nodded his head. I think I'm just a witch, and people are also a guest, and that's how I treat him.

I walked to the balcony, and there were elderly people walking slowly in the community, and the sun shone silver above their heads.

"I'll take you out for breakfast."

"Really? Great！ ”

I bit the churros and asked him, "Aren't you not very athletic in winter?" You wouldn't think of any hilltop in Changsha to go camping, would you? ”

"It's not." He said aggrievedly: "You can't sit in the toilet, I haven't had it for three days." ”

Most toilets in southern China are squatting, not toilets like in Germany.

I looked at him drinking the noodle soup with relish: "I haven't been on the tuba for three days?" ”

"Tuba? abignumber?”

"No, toilet related, guess what?"

"Oh! Igetit！ He nodded straight and smiled unguardedly: "Yes! howbaditis！ ”

"Cut!" I waved my hand, "Is that okay?"

He smirked: "That day, your sick friend said you weren't human!" ”

I snorted disdainfully and got up to find the stove.

"How's it going?"

"The Chinese in Changsha are even stranger than the Chinese in Guangdong!"

"What's weird?" I asked as I looked for the stove.

"People in Changsha like a long, long queue, it's already very cold, it's going to be a long, long queue, why don't you go to the next place to eat, there's no one there!"

"If there is no one, it will be defaulted to not being delicious, who wants to spend money to eat something that is not delicious?"

"I ate it, it was delicious!" He retorted to me.

"It's up to people like you who have no taste to save them!" I made fun of him.

My heart was faintly touched, and there was actually a common ground between Soeren and Yi Xu.

"Anything else?" I asked.

"Yes. Changsha people like this very much, like animal brains! He swiped his phone with a scared expression.

I looked, preserved eggs.

"No mouth! How delicious! I'll take you to eat tomorrow! I said.

"You eat too?"

"Of course!"

He immediately took his bowl and hid to the other table, as if I were the brain of an exposed animal!

We went home after eating, and within two minutes of falling on the couch, someone actually opened my door with the key, and when I looked at it, the air instantly froze.

My mom and dad are back.

Soeren and I stood up like electric shocks, and my parents were petrified in the doorway.

"What's going on?"

My mother broke the silence, didn't take off her shoes, and asked me in a high-pitched voice as she rushed in, "Where's the sofa?" What about the coffee table? What about the dining table? ”

I hurriedly followed: "Mom, listen to me. ”

"Robbers are coming?" She asked me.

"Nope." I say.

"What's going on?"

"Didn't you say you like rattan furniture now, I'll help you make room for it first!"

"What?" My dad was surprised. He was a little calmer than my mother, he changed his slippers and rushed into the house.

"You're selling? How much did it sell? My mom asked angrily.

"Hey, you see you and my dad, dusty and dusty, take a bath first and rest first, we will buy the new home when we have time, only buy the rattan you like!"

I hurriedly pushed their boxes into the room.

My mom followed her into her room, opened the cabinets and checked them one by one, "What else are you selling?" ”

"I'll keep whatever you like." I say.

She rushed to my room before she could check her jewelry.

"Don't dare to answer my question directly, I'll see ......"

She opened my closet door and froze suddenly.

"Why did you put a pickle jar in the closet?"

I immediately ran over, picked up Yi Xu's mother's urn, and rushed out the door! I couldn't wait for the elevator and ran to the stairwell.

After a while, Soeren appeared behind me calling my name.

"Oh, I forgot about you!"

"It's okay."

"Did my parents see you?"

"See. I'm Sayhi. ”

I waved my hand, "It's okay if you don't say it." ”

"Where are we going now?"

"Did you bring any money?"

"Look!" He said.

I looked back and saw that he was carrying two bags.

"Wow, how did you do that, so unfazed?"

"I don't understand. But, your father gave it to me. ”

I clutched my chest: "Let me introduce you, my father is a bodhisattva." ”

"Where's your mother?"

"Hades."

"What?"

"I'm saying the wrong thing, by the way, why do you like doors?" A possibility suddenly occurred to me.

"Because I can take care of them."

I took out my mobile phone and called my dad: "I'll go to Zhang Yi's house for a few days, and I'll talk about it when my mom is angry, don't worry about me." ”

"Because your first part-time job at 14 was repairing doors, right?" I asked Soeren.

"Yes." He bared two rows of white teeth and said, "You remember." ”

"I remember, you said you could pick the lock, didn't you?"

"Yes!"

"Without breaking the lock?"

"Of course!"

"Like in the movies, soon?"

"Yes!"

"You don't have to get the whole lock off and open it with a card or something else?"

He patted his bag and showed that it contained his tools: "Yes! ”

"Let me ask you again, you have come to China this time, arranged for such a long time, and visited so many cities, do you not plan to come to China in the future?"

He said with great anticipation: "There are still many countries that I have not been to, so I will not come to China for a long time." You also go to a lot of places in Hamburg, you go to United States, FranceandBrazil, right? We can see you there. ”

I can't answer him. I can't tell him now, my idea of going all over Hamburg is that after I leave Germany, I'll stay with Yi Xu for the rest of my life, sticking to him, where he goes, where I go, where he doesn't go, I don't go anywhere. The United States, France, Brazil, it doesn't matter if you go or not, it doesn't matter if you don't leave Changsha for the rest of your life. Where the easy continuation is, I am there.

He shook his head again and said, "And NorthAmerica, SouthAmerica, and Africa." ”

I moved the corners of my mouth, not knowing if it was enough to form a smile. Even if I pretend, I can't laugh, he is so simple, so naïve, so carefree, and I, intend to use him, at the risk of harming him.