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Chapter 39 Thinking Back then Story No. 5: Elopement

Short Stories by Ni Kuang 倪匡 1857Words 2023-02-05
If he hadn't met the young man a few times, he would never have had the heart to listen to their conversation. Although they were close to him, the distance between them would not exceed half a centimeter, but they couldn't see him. The environment is actually not very strange. In the back alley, he built a shed out of iron sheets to live in. The young man and his girlfriend sat on the ground leaning on the iron sheets, discussing about elopement. He first heard the angry voice of the young people: We can elope! The word eloped touched his old scars and made him vibrate. He felt that the decades-old wounds were beginning to ooze blood again, so he sat up slowly, and looked outward from the rusted iron sheet. Looking around, under the flickering lights, he saw a man and a woman embracing each other. He had seen the man several times, and he was selling lunch boxes at the deli on the opposite street.The girl snuggled into the arms of the young man, and just happened to raise her head at this moment, with tears in her eyes, and a surprised expression: Elope?

The young people were a little excited and waved their hands: Elope!Regardless of how much gift money your mother wants, how many banquets you want to set up, how much money you want The more the young people talked, the more indignant they became, and the girl said timidly: How can I do that?How can I see my aunts and aunts in the future? The young man punched hard with his backhand and hit the iron sheet, making a loud bang: You are going to marry those aunts and aunts of yours! The girl lowered her head, only to hear her sigh faintly: It's hard!Difficult! He couldn't help it, and he also said a sentence in his heart, it's really difficult!What he loves is the daughter of the boss's family, who owns a wine shop with a radius of hundreds of miles and is well-known.He was not even a master brewer, but just a day laborer. In those days, there were not many young men like him. Of course, due to his poor family, whenever there was a school holiday, he had to go around to work to earn money and prepare for the next tuition.The owner has already praised him, saying that he is an aspiring young man with a bright future.But it's one thing to say a few compliments, and another thing to marry his daughter.When he was expecting Ai Ai and mentioned the matter between him and her to his boss, he would never forget the way his boss stared at him.

The result was: Four big men carried him a hundred miles away, and the owner threatened that if he dared to step in with his right foot within a hundred miles of the winery, his right leg would be broken; Just break his left leg! Of course he was not intimidated by that kind of words, he drove in the dark at night, the power of love made him completely unaware of what it meant to be tired, the sun set and set off, a hundred miles away, before dawn, he arrived at the back of the wine shop , quietly over the wall.The two big yellow dogs under the corner stood up abruptly, and he made a gesture. After all, he had worked in the winery for nearly two months, and his body smelled of distiller's grains. The dogs smelled the familiar smell, so they didn't bark. Called, fell down again.

He turned the corner and came out of her bedroom window.He put his ear on the window and listened, and heard a heartbreaking low cry, her cry!She must have been crying all day and all night, otherwise, why would her sobs be so angry? He took a slow breath, stretched out his hand on the window, two short and two long, and lightly tapped four times. The sobbing stopped!His heartbeat almost stopped. She heard it. That was the secret signal they had agreed upon. She heard it! He held his breath, and after a small sound, the window opened. In the dark, her face was paler, and her face was full of surprises. Through the window, she actually held onto his hair tightly. !

(It is very different from the actions of men and women who meet in this situation in movies or novels. Because that is not a movie or a novel.) She sobbed: thought I'd never see you again! He gritted his teeth and grabbed her hair. The two of them pressed their foreheads together. He and she said almost at the same time: Let's elope! He added: Hurry up, as soon as the sun breaks, you won't be able to leave! She nodded vigorously.How he helped her jump out of the window, because I was so nervous at the time, I can't remember how, and I think it must not be pulled out by pulling her hair.

When it was time to pull her up to the wall, he found the red rope marks on her wrist, and he couldn't help being shocked: Your father hit you? She and him walked hurriedly while shaking their heads: No, father asked Wen Po to see if I had a good time with you. If I refused, he asked someone to tie me up. If you can't live, you can't live either! Gritting his teeth, he listened to her panting and talking, and after passing through the darkness before dawn, they had already walked seven or eight miles and entered a small mountain depression. During the day, he didn't dare to hurry, so he entered a cave. Someone had been to the cave before, and the cave was covered with hay. He lay down next to her, and his eyes fell on her chest that rose and fell due to shortness of breath.

They were all young, and they never thought about what would happen in the future at that time.Just suddenly, their eyes met, and the invisible eyes were suddenly ignited, turning into invisible flames, which burned inside and outside their bodies, and the flames flickered on their faces. By his side, she said in an irresistible voice: I want to be with you, it will be easy, and death is worth it! It's better. He didn't know whether she was dead or not. Soon after dawn, the dog barked loudly, and the owner chased up with the man and the dog. The promise was fulfilled. Both his legs were broken, and he dragged out another He had thought about climbing back hundreds of miles away, but it was too far away.

The young man and woman outside the metal fence walked away, did they decide to elope?
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