He reached into his crotch on the porch, and a thick stream of urine floated forward along a parabola and poured it on a cluster of snowballs. He shook himself, got good pants, walked out of the courtyard and stepped on the path outside. It was already dark, and he hummed while walking with his cigarette bag in his mouth. Inman listened to him sing that the emperor told Noack to go to the rainbow, not that there would be no more floods, but that there would be secondary fires to attack.
Inman followed Lila to the back of the house, surrounded by a circle of smoked rooms, hidden rooms, cold storage rooms, chicken houses and corn warehouses, surrounded by a patio-like land. In the middle, a large piece of firewood was burning with a fire, and the flames jumped up to Lila’s head, splashing higher. The night was four, and the edge of the forest was covered with a shadow. Here is a garden full of weeds, with corn beans, which have been picked up. A fence was also enclosed nearby, and some light dead crows were poked at the top of the garden, with different degrees of decay.
Hi, Lila shouted
A pair of pale-faced women came from the smoking room. It is obvious that the Lila sisters are very similar in appearance characteristics, and they may be triplets.
Then a pair of black-haired boys walked from the refrigerator. They all gathered around the fire. Lila said, is dinner ready?
No one spoke. There was a clay pot by the fire. One of the two sisters explored the yellow and uncovered the color. She put her index finger into the ring hand at the neck of the clay pot, picked it up in her arms, took a big gulp of it and handed it to a person. Inman was hard to drink home-made bad wine. Who knows that the wine he drank was very different, full of fertile soil, and some strange tastes should be strong medicinal liquor made from the glands of some arboreal animals. Some people know that few of these things are medicinal.
One of the women turned around and lifted her skirt and bent down to lift it toward the fire. Then she stared at Inman’s blue eyes, and her round breasts hung down as if to burst her corset. Inman thought to himself, what kind of whorehouse is this?
The other of the three sisters curled up one hand by the fire and buckled it in the groin. She looked at the cornfield to the west for a moment, then went into the fumigation room to retrieve a wooden rake. She raked several bundles of jade in the ashes at the edge of the fire, and the skin wrapped things, which had been scorched by the fire. The boys seemed to be interested in it. They watched as one of them came forward and mechanically said that dough soldiers were dough.
Except for this sentence, the two children kept looking blank, and their eyes were sunken. They seemed to walk around the courtyard lit by the fire along a certain route, dragging their feet without saying a word like a ghost. When Inman spoke to them, they didn’t even glance at him and heard his voice. Inman thought that maybe what the little boy just said had already included the vocabulary they had mastered.
Several sisters began to peel off the corn husks wrapped in those big things, and the steam emitted into the cold night. There were six pieces of black bread wrapped inside, each of which was shaped like a human head and a small belly. They threw the corn husks back into the fire and burned them to ashes in a flash.
We knew you were coming, Lula said
The two sisters gave each of the two children a loaf of bread. They wolfed it down, tore it up once, and stuffed it into their mouths about the size of their fists. After eating it, Inman walked along the vague footprints they had trodden on, watching and trying to figure out what the pattern of their route was. Perhaps it implied that he should not miss the secret, but he couldn’t see it. After a while, he gave up.
The two women walked back to the room with the remaining four loaves of bread. Lila came over and put one hand on Inman’s shoulder and said, you are really a strong man.
Inman wondered if he should answer. In the end, he untied Lematte’s revolver bag with money and put it on his foot. It was almost dark the day before yesterday. He saw a yellow light on the hillside in the distance, moving vacantly among the trees, and suddenly it became blurred and hazy, and then it became a shiny spot. The light looked so strange that Inman suspected that it was not from the outside, but from his brain. He was hallucinating.
What’s that? Inman asked
Lila stared at the light spot for a while and said that it was nothing tonight, but sometimes it was as big as a moon in the sky. When I was a little girl, junior killed a man in that mountain. His dog cut off all the heads of people and dogs and placed them side by side in a hickory stump. We all ran to see that man’s head and face became almost as black as a nigger, and his eyes were very strange. From then on, the mountain will float around. You can go there now to ensure that you can’t see anything, but maybe something will lean over and rub against you. It feels like cowhide that has been dried for a long time.
Why did he kill that man? Inman asked.
He never said that he had an ugly temper, and when he got angry, he even shot his own mother and killed him. According to him, he thought his mother was a swan because she wrapped her apron around her.
I didn’t find many swans in this place.
rarely
The mountain became brighter, turned blue, sped up, jumped in the forest and then suddenly disappeared.
What do you think that light is? Inman asked
The emperor has made it clear in the Bible that there is no idea in the dead man’s head, and all thoughts have flown away from his head. It should not be the one who was beheaded. I believe it is like people saying that dogs and ghosts were wearing lights, but I may be wrong. Old people say that there were more ghosts in the past than now.
Lila stared at Inman for a long time and rubbed her hand on his forearm. I believe you have been carrying the black flag of killing and forgiving all the way, she said
I don’t play any flags, Inman said
As soon as the two sisters came to the back door steps to greet them for dinner, Inman put the food bag on the porch. Lila reached out and grabbed his shoulder bag and took it from his arms. Inman looked down and thought it might be a mistake, but she couldn’t figure out what it was anymore.
When Lila’s sister turned around and entered the room, he picked up the food bag and stuffed it into the gap between a pile of firewood on the porch, reaching to the elbow. He walked in after two women, and the room somehow looked much bigger than before. They led him through an inclined aisle with unpainted wooden boards on both sides. He felt that his feet always seemed to slip in the dark room, which gave people a feeling that it was still a huge rabbit hole divided into many complicated rooms, and each wall was covered with a set of doors. It was incredible that Inmanlira finally came to the inclined main room, and the tableware was nailed to the rail table to set up Weixi.
There is a smoke lamp on the table, and the faint light shines on the wall floor. The tablecloth is reflected in the shadow of the stone at the bottom of the stream. Lila makes Inman sit first, puts a plaid napkin on his neck, takes a loaf of bread from the ashes of the fire and wraps it in the table.
As soon as the two sisters came from the fireplace to a large shallow dish with a large piece of meat soaked in oily gravy, Inman didn’t think it was a pig leg. It couldn’t be so big and the beef would be darker. It was a piece of meat with thick bones at both ends. White tendons and ligaments were woven vertically and horizontally. The woman put the dish in front of him, turned it upside down and inserted a cooking spoon into the bottom to flatten the handle. In front of Inman, there was a rusty knife. He picked up the knife and looked at Lila.
We don’t even have a fork, she said
Inman grabbed the bone with his left hand and cut it with a knife, but the mucous membrane of the flesh did not move at all, leaving no trace.
Three women are now gathered at the table and looking at him. They smell like estrus, coquettish and damp, and the smell of lex grass has covered up the strange smell of meat. Lila moved to Inman’s side, and the soft skin of her abdomen clung to his shoulder. She rubbed her front paws against him. He could feel the furry place in her legs squatting on her skin through a thin skirt.
You Zhang Zhenjun, she said, I bet women look like moths when they see you.
The other sister stared at Inman and said, I hope he will hold me until I am called.
Lila said she was me, so you should take a look at him and dream about your autumn dream.
Inman feels tired and stiff. He is still cutting the meat, but his arms are getting heavier and heavier. It seems very strange that the lamp center projects light into the dark room. Inman remembers that he just drank that can of food and feels a little drunk.
Lila pulled his greasy left hand from the bone to the bottom of her skirt and put it at the root of her thigh. Inman noticed that she was naked.
Go, she told the other two sisters that they walked to the hall, and one of them turned around at the door and said, you are like a priest, building your church on a penis.
Lila thumb pushed the meat plate from the spoon on the surface to the height of the table. A gray meat spilled on the low side and dripped along the table. Lila squeezed and rubbed it. Finally, she sat down on the table facing Inman and put him in the middle with her legs crossed. She put her bare feet on the armrests on both sides of his chair. She put her skirt back to her waist and leaned back with her elbows on the table. What did Inman say?
Nothing is like Inman’s thought except it, but his brain is as confused as Yan’s, and he can’t speak. Her white thigh still has his sweaty handprint, and then it seems so charming.