Chapter 35 6 What was found in the garage.Thoughts in the middle of the grassland

Birds that I had never seen before, swarmed on the zelkova tree in front of the entrance like Christmas tree decorations, and cried.Everything glistened wetly in the morning light. I toasted bread with my nostalgic manual toaster, fried a poached egg with butter in a pan, and drank two glasses of grape juice from the refrigerator.Although she was lonely without her, I felt as if just being able to feel lonely was a little bit of salvation.The so-called loneliness is not a bad feeling.Like the quiet zelkova after the bird has flown away. After washing the dishes, I washed the egg yolk off my mouth at the sink and spent a good five minutes brushing my teeth.

After hesitating, he shaved.There is as new as new shaving cream and Geely razors on the washstand.Even toothbrush, toothpaste, facial soap, skin care lotion, cologne, etc. are all available.There are about ten towels of various colors neatly stacked on the shelf.Exactly like the meticulous style of a mouse.Neither the mirror nor the washstand was dusty. Toilets and bathrooms are roughly the same.The joints of the tiles were all whitened with an old toothbrush dipped in detergent.It's amazing.As soon as I entered the toilet, the aroma of gin like drinking in a high-end bar wafted from a spice box.

Get out of the bathroom and sit on the sofa in the living room, smoking a morning cigarette.There were still three packs of Larks cigarettes in the backpack, but nothing else.If you finish smoking these, you will have to quit smoking in the future.While thinking this way, he smoked another one.The light in the morning is so comfortable.The sofa is completely integrated with the body.Just like that, an hour passed in the blink of an eye.The clock leisurely struck nine. I seem to understand the reason why the mouse tidied up the furniture and utensils in the house one by one, painted the seams of the bathroom tiles white, ironed the shirt when it was impossible to meet anyone, and took the trouble to shave.If you don't keep moving your body here, you will lose your normal sense of time.

I got up from the sofa and walked around the room with my arms folded, but I couldn't think of what to do next.The rats had been swept where they needed cleaning, and even the high ceilings had been swept clean of soot. never mind!Will always think about it soon. Let's take a walk around the house for now.The weather is fantastic.The sky seems to have been brushed with a few strands of white clouds.Birds could be heard everywhere. There is a large garage behind the house.A cigarette butt fell in front of the old double doors. Seven Stars.This time the cigarette butt was older, the paper had been torn, and the filter tip was exposed.I remembered that there was only one ashtray in the house.And it's an old ashtray that hasn't been used in a long time.Rats don't smoke.I fiddled with the cigarette butt in the palm of my hand and threw it back where it came from.

Pulling the heavy bolt to open the door, the inside is wide and wide, and the sunlight coming in from the cracks in the planks clearly traces several parallel lines on the black soil.A smell of gasoline and earth. The car is TOYOTA's old Land Cruiser.The car body and tires are not stained with any dust, and the gasoline is almost full.I reached out to test where the mouse hid the car keys every time.Sure enough, the key was there.Put the key in and try to turn it, and the engine immediately makes a refreshing sound.Usually, the mouse cleans the car well.I shut off the engine and put the key back.Still sitting in the driver's seat and looking back around.Nothing of importance was in the car.Just maps, towels, and half-eaten chocolate.On the back seat was a coil of wire and a large pliers.The back seat is uncommonly dirty for a rat's car.I opened the rear door, collected the debris that fell on the seat with the palm of my hand, and moved it to the sunlight that leaked through the knotholes in the wall to look at it.It seemed to be stuffing leaking from the seat cushion, and it also seemed to be sheep's wool.I took the toilet paper out of my pocket, wrapped it up and put it in my breast pocket.

Why didn't the mouse drive out?I can not understand.There is a car in the garage, which means that he walked down the mountain, or he didn't go down the mountain. There are only two possibilities, but neither of them makes sense.The road down the cliff should have been quite clear three days ago, and I don't think the rats will keep the house empty and go to some place on the terrace to continue camping. I gave up thinking and closed the garage door, and went into the prairie to have a look.No matter how you think about it, it is impossible to draw reasonable conclusions from unreasonable situations.

As the sun rises, water vapor begins to rise from the grasslands.Through the water vapor, the front mountain looks hazy.The smell of grass is everywhere. Stepping on the wet grass to the middle of the grassland, there is an old tire in the middle.The eraser had completely turned white and cracked.I sat there and turned my head to look around.The house I came out of looked like a white rock jutting out from the coast. Sitting alone on the tire in the middle of the grassland, I suddenly remembered the long-distance swimming meeting I used to attend when I was a child.In the middle of swimming from one island to another, I often stood up and looked around.And it gets weird every time.How wonderful it is to be equidistant from both places, and how strange that people in remote lands still go on with their daily business.The strangest thing is that society goes on without me.

After sitting there and thinking about it for fifteen minutes, he walked home and sat on the sofa to continue reading "Detective Sherlock Holmes". At two o'clock the sheep man came.