Chapter 157: Juggling
Today is August 24th, the busiest day in town, and the streets are full of people. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info They gathered around the market, chattering and talking.
Mary apologized as she carried her bag and turned sideways to avoid the crowd on the other side. She tried her best to show herself nobility and dignity. Her mouth kept saying, "I'm sorry, let go, please let go." There was not a hint of a smile on her indifferent face, not even a slight hypocritical twitch of flesh. Mary will turn 35 in two days, and Li Zhen has asked her to play a very important role in the company. She knows almost all her secrets as well as her possessions. If it weren't for her manipulation in the middle of that hotel, she thought that Li Zhen would not have given the hotel to the Jin family so easily. She is still single to this day, and the only reason is this woman. She squeezed through the crowd and looked up halfway up the mountain. She is a strange woman from a small village in Shanghai. But no one knew that she came from a small village, but the story didn't need to be known. Her mother is indeed in the United States now. In a way, she owes Li Zhen that if it weren't for her, her mother might still be living in a dilapidated house in that small village instead of in the United States. Yes, she has to thank Li Zhen, and at one point, she thought that if Li Zhen wanted to, she would be on her side. After all, she used to love this woman so much. But this woman was just playing with her feelings, and she felt disgusting. She should be to her father, to her brother, who, though sorry for their mother and daughter, at least, gave her the best possible education, though on condition that her mother should not leave the village for the rest of her life, and that she should not tell anyone who her daughter's father was. But what does it matter, she will still enjoy her father's love at some point. She used to hate her brother, but now she doesn't hate, she didn't expect her brother to be so stupid, since he was defeated at the hands of a woman. She won't, she will never lose at the hands of this woman.
"Oops, I knew it was so, I knew it. A voice rang out. "Hey—did you hear me? That man, that devil is really back!" another voice replied sharply. "Hopefully he won't come to me, we don't need his help with that house, our house is good, we have the money to install it ourselves. The rice noodle shop owner stood in the crowd, and her husband stood next to her, both frowning. Dried cowpea was also standing there, and next to him stood an old man of about 80 years old. Mary had seen it, and it was a tinkerer.
"Hey—Miss Mary!" Cowpea beckoned as he tiptoed at Mary. In fact, they were not far apart, at most 5 people in between, in fact, she could hear him without being so loud.
"Do you want to check out? But I-I don't have it yet, and you have extra room to pay. ”
"No need, boss. Mary responded. "Don't give it back to me, I think you can keep the room for me if you like. She gave him a smirk.
"She's the girl in the city you said. The whitebeard tinkerer next to him said.
Dried cowpea nodded at him and smiled weirdly.
Mary looked at them again, and quickly walked out of the crowd. She couldn't understand why there were so many people all of a sudden. She retreated unnaturally into the crowd, and she squeezed forward, and through the gap between the people, she saw that someone was juggling in the empty dam of the bazaar—she saw a little child, about nine years old, with a serious face, and opposite him stood a steel ring with a raging fire, which seemed to be ready to pass through. She shook her head, not interested in this kind of juggling. She walked more than 10 meters forward, and was about to walk out of the crowd. At this moment, a pair of hands grabbed her clothes. She looked back, didn't see anyone, and she was about to turn away. At this point, her captor seemed to be pushing harder than before.
"Miss Mary. An old voice came from below her. She looked down and saw a very old woman, sitting in a very shabby-looking wheelchair, and the years had cut her face with an unknown number of knives, making her look deeply wrinkled. Her hair was completely white, her cheeks were pulled down, and her hands on the armrests of her wheelchair were covered in age spots. Her white eyes were staring at her. "Miss Mary. She called out to her again.
Although Mary was not very happy, she still half-crouched down. She smiled again. "Do we know each other, grandma!" she speaks very standard Mandarin. The voice is also sweet and greasy.
"If you don't mind, can you push me over there?" the old woman gestured to the dirt road opposite. "It's so noisy here. Mary looked at the jugglers, and then at the deserted dirt road opposite. There is only one owner selling roast meat on the side of the road who is cleaning up.
"Thank you very much, kind young lady!" said the old woman again.
Mary shook her head, slung the bag she was carrying over her shoulder, then turned to stand behind the old woman's wheelchair and pushed her towards the dirt road opposite.
The two sides were actually only a few meters apart, so they arrived quickly.
"So, is that all?" said Mary, settling her wheelchair and walking in front of her. "I'm leaving. ”
"Wait. The old woman suddenly took hold of her hand, it was a pair of dry hands, and Mary could not help but be startled, she had never touched such dry human hands, and she felt, she had a feeling, that only grave people could have such hands. So she couldn't help but let out an exclamation. The owner of the roast shop stopped sweeping the floor and looked up at them. She smiled awkwardly at her.
"I'm sorry, I scared you. The old woman said.
"No, no. Mary pressed her pounding heart with one hand and smiled awkwardly, how could she be frightened by an old woman in a wheelchair.
"You think this town is unusual, don't you?" said the old woman's old voice, which seemed to float from far away.
Mary looked at her strangely and did not speak. She did feel this way, whether it was the people in this town or anything else, it was different from what she knew, she had never heard of an institution like an insane asylum in a small town, and she had heard that the people in it were all shackled.
"I'm Dongzi's great-grandmother, do you know Dongzi?" the old woman continued. "I know Dongzi can't come back, he's missing, just the day before you came here. ”
"I swear we have nothing to do with this kid. "Mary was really a little scared of this old woman. This strange town, such a hot day to play such juggling, although it is now evening, the foot of the mountain is not so hot, but it is still very strange.
"Dongzi was born on the 7th of July, when were you born, Miss?" the old woman continued to ask her, and did not seem to hear her.
"Uh-me, do you mean the lunar calendar?" Mary frowned, not wanting to answer such a strange question. "I don't know, I know the new birthday, sorry. ”
There was a round of applause from the show, and the kid succeeded.
"Will you let him come to me?" said the old woman.
"Who? Who do you want to see?"
"Hu Sheng, the guy you're going to see right now. (To be continued.) )