Chapter 31 Twenty-eight

In the morning, the weather really changed.It was sunny for a while, and it was raining for a while, the air pressure became low, and the sweat on the skin did not break out. Typhoon Amelie might really be coming soon.I got up first, and my younger brother was still sleeping soundly on his side. On his thin white back, there were horizontal and horizontal red marks, which were caused by the hard bed board.I walked into the bathroom, and Abasan was squatting by the sink, scrubbing his clothes.As soon as she saw me, she pointed to the mattress hanging in the bathroom and shouted: You can't even walk in this bathroom room!

I'll put it away right away, and I said with a smile, the little guy drowned in the bed last night, didn't he bother you, Abasan? Still talking!Abasang snorted, don't look at that little nerve, he is skinny, he snorts like a piglet when he eats, give him a dish, wipe it all at once, and grab the meatloaf in Little Johnny's bowl, I Can't stop it.Last night, Li Yue made you laugh and cry with that idiot of yours! Why? Abasan flicked the soap foam off his hand, but laughed first: Last night, Zhu Di, Meng Na, and Wu Lulu from China Dolls came to chat with Liyue. A few crazy women gnawed watermelon and croaked. They laughed at Wu Lulu and her for making fake milk.While talking lively, that idiot of yours rushed in, naked, and sat next to Li Yue.Several people were taken aback.The little idiot stretched out his hands to touch Li Yue's face, and beat her chest with his head, Li Yue laughed loudly and shouted: "I'm going to kill your mother!"Pushing him into Wu Lulu's arms, Wu Lulu, Zhu Di, and Meng Na hid and shouted, making a fuss.Later, it was Liyue who took a piece of watermelon and even coaxed and tugged to get that little nerve out.

Unexpectedly, the little guy would make trouble in the Fragrance Kingdom!I laughed. I see you, hurry up and get him away, Abasan sighed again, I don't know what evil his parents have done! I was trying to figure out a way to find his home and take him away as soon as I found it. I comforted Abasang and said: Abasang, last night I brought back a bunch of lychees for you, the lychees are so big!I compared it with my hands. Well, Abasan snorted and said: I don't believe it, let's take a look. After I washed my face and returned to the house, my younger brother had already got up, sitting on the edge of the bed, his eyes were sleepy, and he was in a daze.When he saw me, he grinned and laughed.I went over and pulled out a set of my old clothes from under the bed, and handed them to him, asking him to put them on, while instructing him:

Brother, I have something to do when I go out, so you stay at home and don't go outside, do you understand? oh.The younger brother nodded and responded. Then you are not allowed to take off your clothes, I pulled my brother's shirt, spanked his buttocks, and said with a smile: Running around with bare buttocks, are you ashamed? Ball, ball.The little brother cheered, a big red, blue and white colored ball rolled into the room, rolled to the little brother's feet, the little brother kicked it away, and the kick made the ball spin around.Little Johnny ran in wearing open pants, crawled to the ground and went to catch the ball, giggling non-stop.The little brother also crawled on the floor and grabbed the ball with little Johnny.

I picked up the hanging lychee I bought last night and took it to the kitchen for Abasan. Abasan peeled one and put it in his mouth, then he groaned.I handed her two hundred yuan and asked her to transfer it to Li Yue. This is the rent I owe Liyue, and the rest will be given to her in two days. I left another 20 yuan and asked Abasan to bring back two steamed buns for my brother to eat when he bought vegetables.Walking out of the door, the sky is drizzled and clouds are moving up and down.Looking up, I saw a bright green head popping out of the window of my room upstairs. The little brother was lying on the window sill, looking in. I waved to him, and he raised his hands and waved twice.

I yelled, little one. Yeah he replied upstairs. I rushed to the Silver Horse Carriage in Ximending, and the afternoon shift just started. Manager Yan saw me reporting for duty, and he praised me quite a bit, saying: It looks like you're on your way? Manager cultivation, do you still dare to be ignorant of flattery?I laughed. When did you know what is good or bad?Manager Yan curled his lips, and quickly changed his uniform. I changed into the uniform of the waiter in a white coat and black trousers, and started to turn around to hold trays of iced coffee, lemonade, red bean soup, and sugarcane juice.The guests who came in to escape the rain and heat were all talking about Amelie. The typhoon's wind speed strengthened again, and the radius of the storm expanded to 500 miles. It will land in northern Taiwan around tomorrow afternoon.After the shops in the Ximending area closed at night, they all added windproof wooden boards to the outside of the glass windows.The silver carriage closed at ten o'clock, and Manager Yan shared the small account among us, thirty-five yuan each.He called me to the manager's office, took out two hundred-yuan bills from his pocket and gave them to me.

You asked me to borrow this from you yesterday, and collected five hundred yuan to pay your rent. Didn’t you come to lie to me this time? I took the banknote and quickly swore: This time it was indeed true. I paid the landlord 200 yuan yesterday, and I still owe 100 yuan. Manager Yan sized me up and said in a deep thought: What are your plans after three days of work?Are you going back to that line again? I suddenly felt heat on my face, lowered my head and said vaguely: I'll give it a try and get a job. If the manager needs someone here, I'd love to come back. There is no shortage now. A younger brother will leave next month. I will inform you again. Manager Yan said seriously, go back quickly, the typhoon is coming.

Before leaving the silver carriage, I went to the kitchen and took out a brown paper bag from the cupboard. There were two pieces of chestnut cake in the bag, which were left behind by a table of moviegoers in the afternoon.I put it in a bag and hid it in the cupboard, ready to take it home at night and spend the night with my younger brother.Sitting on the bus home, I began to think in my heart: How long can I let my little brother stay with Liyue?I can't drag it any longer, where do I put that little guy?I want to finish the three-day shift and tell Manager Yan that I am willing to move back to his apartment on Jinhua Street to live with him. I still have a key to his apartment that I haven’t returned to him. I can tell him that the younger brother belongs to me. Brother, please take him in temporarily.If I was formally a waiter in the silver coach, carrying trays properly, maybe he would say yes.Manager Yan is very kind to me and always wants me to correct my evil ways.If he doesn't agree, I still think of the adoptive mother of one's mother, our grandmother Wu Haomei.After the mother's adoptive father passed away, the mother and grandma started dating again.My mother took me and my younger brother to Longtan, Taoyuan County to visit my grandmother.Grandma Wu Haomei is a fat and strong woman, with a pair of enlarged feet, and when she walks, she walks faster than the ducks she raises.Grandma is a caring person and loves us very much. Early the next morning, she led my brother and I to the duck shed with a big basket to collect duck eggs. Hundreds of ducks had already been put into the pond.In the duck shed, among the piles of duck feces and duck feathers, blue duck eggs were exposed.My brother and I screamed in excitement, and we didn't care about the smell of duck feces, we went all over the ground to dig duck eggs.The younger brother couldn't even walk steadily, and wobbled in the duck shed, grabbing duck feces with one hand.Mother also rushed over, and grandma smiled at her and said:

A Li, forget about leaving them here, and pick up duck eggs for me. Last year my grandmother came to see us in Taipei and brought two baby Muscovy ducks, one black for me and one white for my younger brother.When she mentioned my mother, she cursed a few more words and shed a few tears. Before leaving, she said to me: After the holiday, let's take my younger brother and go to the countryside. Those two Muscovy ducklings grew up in one autumn, one black and one white, with shiny feathers and bright red fleshy crowns, and they would wag their buttocks and laugh at people they saw.We call them black and white.Feeding those two muscovy ducks has become a daily event for me and my younger brother.We often went to the small river on Shulan Street to dig for earthworms. The soil by the river was fertile, and the earthworms were as thick as little fingers.We dug a foreign tin can and came back, fed two muscovy ducks so fat that their buttocks almost fell to the ground.When it was Chinese New Year, my father caught two ducks, cut off each duck, and chopped off the heads of both ducks.My father thought that the two muscovy ducks had filled the yard with duck droppings, which smelled bad and attracted many flies, and last year's Chinese New Year, my father didn't have the money to add more vegetables.Two ducks, Ah Hei used to stew soup, Ah Bai crispy.My father gave one of the crispy duck legs to me and the other to my younger brother, but he ate the duck neck to drink.I ate very appetizingly, but my brother was pale and didn't even touch the duck's legs.When his father asked him, he said he had an upset stomach.I know that he loves his Ah Bai so much that he can't eat it.After dinner I whispered to him:

Fool, what's so sad.Let’s go to Taoyuan during the summer vacation, and we’ll just ask Grandma for two baby Muscovy ducks to raise. I’ll choose a white one for you, okay? My brother and I never went to Taoyuan.I think if I take my younger brother to my grandmother's house, it will probably not be a problem to stay for a few days.I can help my uncle catch ducks, and my younger brother can follow my grandmother Wu Haomei to pick up duck eggs, probably it will be okay. Miss Liyue, how are you doing?The rent has been paid, why don't you drive us away now? Back on Jinzhou Street, the first thing to do is to give Liyue one hundred yuan and pay the remainder.I know Liyue's temper. Although she is generous to me and Xiaoyu, she doesn't owe the rent for a long time.Liyue was discussing something with Abasang in the room. She took my money and said to me:

Sit down, Ah Qing. Sister Liyue, I am also at work, I sat down and said with a smile, in the silver carriage, my shift for a month is less than your one-night business trip expenses. Ah Qing, Li Yue took a drag on her cigarette and said slowly, something happened to your crazy boy this afternoon. What happened?I asked anxiously. He hurt our little Johnny!Abasan hurriedly said. It's like this.Li Yue explained that in the afternoon he and Johnny were fighting for the ball, he pushed Johnny, and Johnny fell onto the corner of the table and knocked out a front tooth Poor, a mouthful of blood!Abasang pointed to his mouth and gestured. Damn it!Wait for me to beat him!I cried. I had spanked him a long time ago, and Abasang was annoyed, that idiot is still laughing! I stood up and wanted to go to my room, but Li Yue stopped me and said: You don't have to go, I've already sent him away. I froze for a moment, staring at Li Yue without making a sound. sent away?Where did it go?After a while, I asked, my voice trembling a little. The police came, Abasan interjected. The police station sent a car to take him away, Li Yue said, and she added, forget it, and save you trouble Why are you calling the police?I suddenly shouted loudly, I felt a burst of anger, where did you get my little brother? You are crazy too!Li Yue called out. I went to find him, I threw the bag of chestnut cakes on the table, and shouted angrily: "I can't find it, I want you to be responsible." I kept running on Zhongshan North Road, facing the strong wind and scattered raindrops.The head of the typhoon has arrived.There are no pedestrians on the road, and the fluorescent lights on both sides are purple and foggy in the wind and rain.I ran to the third sub-bureau at the intersection of Nanjing East Road in one breath, and explained my purpose to the policeman on duty at the gate of the sub-bureau. He led me in and met a police officer in the office inside.The police officer was about forty, scorched and thin, but kind.There is a portable radio on his desk, which is playing Beijing opera carefully.The police officer knew that I was looking for someone, so he took out a form, asked me to fill it out, and asked me: Who are you looking for? I hesitated for a while, then replied: is my brother. what name? Brother, I had no choice but to answer. I was asking his real name. Sir, I explained that there is something wrong with my little brother. I mean, his brain is not very good, like a child of two or three years old. Hey, the officer stopped me from sighing with a wave of his hand, I see, you mean your brother is an idiot?This is another unsolved case.Last month, near the circle, we also captured a crazy woman. She was naked on the circle street, bouncing around.We asked her what her last name was, but she couldn't tell herself that she was still locked up in a mental nursing home in Taipei, and no one claimed it. Sir, my little brother, have you sent the three-pointer?I inquired. We have no records here, even if they are sent, we will not take them in.Such cases are usually sent to the General Administration for special handling and distributed to several mental hospitals.The hospitals in Taipei are full, and sometimes they are sent to Hsinchu and Taoyuan The police officer stopped talking and listened intently. The radio on his desk was reporting the news of the typhoon: the strong typhoon Amelie had advanced to 24 degrees north latitude and 124 degrees east longitude at 10 kilometers per hour. The wind speed hits the northern tip of Taiwan Brother, the police officer said to me seriously, Amelie is about to land. Seeing that I was still standing in a daze and refused to leave, he comforted me and said: Well, you go back first.We will let you know tomorrow when we have news here.You'd better go to the General Administration to check. If it has been sent to the hospital, it will be fine. Don't worry, there are doctors and nurses there to take care of it anyway, and nothing will happen. Coming out of the three-point office, I wandered in a daze on the street, and walked up to the Zhongshan Bridge.The wind blew up my shirt, but the sweat on my back kept dripping down.The sky was dark, but Taipei City under the bridge was submerged in a sea of ​​dim lights.Standing on the bridge, I began to feel the boundless loneliness again.