Chapter 11 10

Very hot summer night.The hot eggs may become half-boiled. As usual, I pushed open the heavy door of Jay's Bar with my back and breathed in the cold air.The shop smelled of cigarettes, whiskey, French fries, underarms, and drains, layered on top of each other like Baumkuchen. I sat down at the counter as usual, with my back against the wall, and looked around the store. There were three French sailors in military uniform with strange faces, two women, and a group of couples in their twenties. That’s all. , did not see the mouse. I ordered a beer and a corned beef sandwich, got out my book, and decided to wait for the rat.

After about ten minutes, a woman in her thirties with grapefruit-like breasts and a gorgeous dress came into the store, sat down next to me, and looked around the store just like I did just now. After a week here, ordered a gimlet cocktail.She stood up after taking a sip of her drink, hung up an impatiently long phone call, and walked into the toilet with her purse in her arms after speaking.The results were repeated three times during the forty minutes period.A gimlet, long phone, purse, toilet. The bartender Jie came up to me and said with an impatient expression: You are not afraid of your butt being worn out?Although he is Chinese, he can speak Japanese better than me.

When the woman came back from the toilet for the third time, she looked around and slid next to me, whispering: Hi!Excuse me, can you lend me some coins? I nodded, searched out the coins in my pocket and lined them up on the counter.There are a total of thirteen ten-yuan coins. Thank you!marvelous.With these, I don't have to change them in the store, just to see their faces. You're welcome, I'm also happy to relax. She nodded with a smile, quickly grabbed the coins and disappeared in the direction of the phone. I give up reading again and please Jay take the portable TV out of the counter and watch the baseball while I drink my beer.The game wasn't great.By the top of the fourth inning, two pitchers had been changed, two home runs, six hits, and an outfielder fainted from an anemia attack. During the pitcher change, six commercials were inserted, including Ads for beer, life insurance, vitamin pills, airlines, potato chips and tampons.

One of the French sailors, who didn't seem to have caught the woman, came up behind me with a beer glass in his hand and asked me in French what I was looking at. baseball.I answer in English. Baseball? I briefly explained the rules.The guy throws the ball, the guy hits it with a stick, one run a lap, the sailor watches TV quietly for five minutes, but when the ad starts, for some reason, he asks me if there's any Johnny in the music box Alidi's record. Because it is not red, there is not.I said. So who is the most popular French singer? Adama. That's a Belgian. Michelle Polnareff.

Shit. After saying that, the sailor went back to the original table. By the first half of the fifth inning, the woman finally came back. Thanks!Let me please you something! You are welcome. My temper is that I must return something I borrowed, otherwise I will feel uncomfortable, no matter whether it is good or bad. I was going to smile, but I couldn't do it well, so I just nodded silently.The woman called Jie with her finger, and said: Give this beer, give me gimlet.Jay nodded correctly three times.Disappeared at one end of the counter. The person you were waiting for didn't come, did he?

Seems to be. Is the other party a girl? It's a man. That's the same as me.We seem to be able to talk. I had no choice but to nod. Hey!How old do you think I am? Twenty-eight. Are you lying? Twenty-six. The woman smiled. But I'm not angry, you see I'm single?Still have a husband? Got a prize for guessing right? all right. get married. Well guessed half right.Just got divorced last month.Have you ever spoken to a divorced woman before? No.But I've seen cows with neuralgia. Where? in a university laboratory.It took a total of five people to finally push the cow into the classroom.

The woman seemed to be smiling happily. student? Um. I used to be a student too, around 1960, that was a wonderful era. which aspect? She didn't say anything, just giggled and took a sip of the gimlet, then suddenly looked at her watch as if remembering something. I have to call again.He picked up his purse and stood up. After she disappeared, my question remained suspended in the air for a while without being answered. I drank half of the beer and told Jay to settle the score. Want to escape?Jay said. right. Hate women older than you? It has nothing to do with age.In short, if the mouse comes, give me a greeting.

When I walked out of the store, the woman was finishing her phone call and going to the toilet for the fourth time. On the way home, I kept whistling.It seems to have heard the melody somewhere, but I can't remember the title of the song, it was a song from a long time ago.I stopped the car on the coastal road, looking at the sea in the dark night, trying to think of the title of the song. It's the Mickey Mouse Club song, and I think the words go like this: Happy promise to all. Mic. KEY. MOUSE. Maybe it was a good time.