Chapter 12 Firefly Light (Part 4)
The bread was not taken in the end.
Watching the figure running farther and farther away and disappearing at the end of the shelf, Xie Mian retracted the flashlight, stuffed the bread into E Shifang's mouth, and stood up from the ground.
"Haha?" Again?
Goose Shifang burped while holding the bread in his mouth.
That's all.
I hoe the field at noon, my sweat dripping down to the soil. Who knows that every grain of rice on the plate is the result of hard work?
Cherish food, starting with geese, and don’t waste it.
Remove the bread, roll it into a ball, toss it into your mouth and swallow.
Xie Mian came out from basement level 1 and climbed to the sixth floor.
The flashlight beam rose and fell with my footsteps, and the escalator spiraled downward behind me, sinking into darkness.
Xie Mian stopped at the entrance of the cinema.
He walked to the ticket counter, filled a large bucket of popcorn, and received two cups of Coke.
The Coke was not ice cold and the popcorn was a bit dry.
Xie Mian entered the couple's theater with popcorn and a Coke in his arms.
There are double beds in the hall. The beds are heart-shaped, covered with pink mattresses, and filled with bolsters, pillows and blankets of the same color.
The beds are properly spaced and equipped with partitions.
There were thirteen such beds in the theater. Xie Mian walked to the bed in the middle, put the popcorn and Coke on it, and then lay down.
The flashlight went out.
The theater fell into darkness.
Goose Shifang rolled over like a cannonball and hit the bed heavily.
A hole was smashed into the soft mattress, and a few drops of Coke spilled from the cup lid onto the headboard.
"We're leaving tomorrow."
Xie Mian put his arms over his eyelids and said sullenly.
"Ga!" Good!
E Shifang spread out the blanket at the head of the bed, gently covered Xie Mian with it, and lay down beside Xie Mian.
Xie Mian had a dream.
He dreamed of an orphanage with heavy snow falling. He was locked up in a small dark room because he resisted and beat up the people who bullied him.
In the harsh winter of December, the lime floor was cold and the mottled and peeling walls were cold.
The wind blowing in from the tall, narrow iron window was also cold.
The biting cold wind, mixed with snowflakes, blew onto his red and swollen face.
He couldn't understand why he was bullied so many times and the teachers and the dean didn't care.
He was locked up in a small dark room just for resisting once.
Xie Mian shivered in the cold wind, the chilblains on his hands itching and aching. He counted the vertical lines his fingernails had scratched on the wall. Today was his fifth day locked in the small dark room.
No water, no food.
"Are you going to die here?"
Just as he was curled up in the corner with his knees hugged, ready to die, he heard the iron window creaking.
A strong, beautiful face like a summer rose appeared outside the iron window.
The owner of the face is a young boy.
The boy's face was divided into pieces of gorgeous rose petals by the window bars.
The petals fluttered, accompanied by cold snowflakes, drifting in from the window and landing in the palm of your hand.
The snowflakes seemed to be tainted with the scent of roses.
He heard the boy say:
"Little boy, do you want to go on an adventure with your brother?"
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The dream suddenly woke up.
It was still pitch black in front of him. Xie Mian turned on his phone and the time showed 08:49, which was already the next morning.
E Shifang's goose head was still resting on his chest, and his clothes were soaked with saliva.
For some reason, several buttons on the shirt were broken.
Xie Mian sat up from the bed, took the goose head aside, and got out of bed.
Seeing Xie Mian leaving, E Shifang stopped pretending to be asleep, jumped out of bed and followed Xie Mian.
The man and the goose finished washing up and came out of the cinema.
As I walked out of the cinema, the building suddenly became brighter.
Although it is still far from the brightness outside, it is much better than the dim and dark night.
Xie Mian carried E Shifang downstairs.
Passing by the men's clothing area on the third floor, Xie Mian found a suitable white shirt and jeans to change into.
Seeing that Xie Mian had changed into new clothes, Daye also found a blue bow tie of the same color and tied it around his neck.
"Quack, quack, quack!"
Goose Shifang, wearing a bow tie, held his head high and hummed the wedding march. He turned around in front of Xie Mian and pretended to kneel on one knee to propose.
"hehe."
Xie Mian tilted his head, raised the corners of his lips, and smiled brightly.
He raised his arm towards E Shifang and slowly extended his ring finger.
Seeing his wife's sweet smile and the jade finger she extended, E Shifang felt as if he had fallen into a sugar jar, his heart pounding non-stop.
It bent its head and was about to kiss its wife's slender fingers, but suddenly felt itself getting farther and farther away from the ground.
"quack?"
No, why did I fly?
Goose Shifang looked left and right, flapping its wings and kicking its short legs in the air.
This time, Xie Mian did not carry E Shifang downstairs, but hooked the bow tie around E Shifang's neck with his fingers.
Like carrying a dead goose, he carried the goose in all directions and swung it down the stairs.
"Wuwuwuwu..." My wife cheated on me!
Thinking of sleeping in the same bed and staying in the same room last night, E Shifang felt a chill in his heart.
The goose only knows that out of the two cups of Coke last night, neither one was the goose's.
The tongue was strangled and was about to come out of the mouth, and the eyeballs were about to fall out of the eye sockets.
Fortunately, my wife has a slim waist and long legs and walks fast, otherwise it would have become the first goose to be strangled in world history.
The light on the first floor is dimmer than that on the upper floors.
Xie Mian looked around. The building was quiet and there was not a single insect monster at the open entrance of the shopping mall.
"Ga?" Let's go?
Goose Shifang slumped on the ground, rubbing his neck with his wings.
Now that there are no insect monsters outside the door, it is a good time to leave.
"I'm hungry, let me go downstairs to find something to eat."
Xie Mian did not answer E Shifang's words, turned around and walked down to Basement One.
E Shifang stared at the backpack behind Xie Mian, shook his head and sighed deeply.
"Ha!" A guy with a hard mouth and a soft heart!
Compared to the windowed first floor, the basement level was nearly dark. Xie Mian turned on his flashlight and wandered between the rows of shelves.
From the daily chemical area to the fruit and vegetable area, from the beverage area to the snack area.
Chips, candy, chocolate, jelly, nuts, cookies...bread.
Xie Mian stopped in front of a shelf displaying various kinds of bread.
Among the dazzling array of bread, there were two inconspicuous one-yuan coins.
The coins were gray and neatly stacked together.
Xie Mian stretched out his hand, wanting to touch the coins on the shelf.
After hearing footsteps behind him, his fingertips moved slightly and he picked up the bread next to the coin.
The bread was chocolatey and bitterly sweet.
"Why did you come down?"
Xie Mian raised his head and asked unnaturally.
"Quack!" The goose is also hungry and comes down to find something to eat!
E Shifang stuck the straw into the milk and handed it to Xie Mian.
Xie Mian took the milk and took a sip. The light milk aroma diluted the bitterness left by the bread.
"The bread is so bitter, I don't want to eat it anymore."
Xie Mian turned around, grabbed the bread in his hand, and looked at E Shifang.
Noticing his wife's red eyes and the milk stains at the corners of her lips, E Shifang jumped up and took a bite of the bread in Xie Mian's hand.
My wife’s leftovers are not called leftovers, they are called love!
After swallowing the bread in a few bites, Goose Shifang stood upright beside him like a knight guarding a princess, waiting for his wife's instructions:
"Haha?" My dear wife, where are we going?
"...Well, let's go rob!"
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