Author: Zhou Gangan
Translation credit: Jia
Chapter 55
When
Mo arrived at the station, it was more than nine o'clock. She slept a little
dull in the car. She looked around the carriage and found that she was the only
one to the terminal station. The driver said in a strong local voice, ‘Young
girl, you are the only one, I won't go in. Would you like to get off here?’
Mo
answered, picked up the phone, trying to ask Gu Weiyi to pick her up, only to
find that the phone had turned off, perhaps had been carelessly pressed by her when
she was sleeping.
Mo
got out of the bus and, before entering the waiting room, she found Gu Weiyi
sitting on the bench waiting for the bus, concentrating on pressing his phone
through the glass door.
She
hid behind the pillar and looked at him from afar.
The
waiting room of the small station was very desolate at night. There were only
Gu Weiyi and a watchman in the large waiting room. The excessively dim light made
the light from Gu Weiyi’s phone screen shine on his face in a cool and quiet
way. With his locked eyebrows and tight lips, seemed very lonely.
The
sound of Mo’s phone's text message suddenly sounded, and it seemed particularly
harsh and strange in this quiet and dying place.
Gu
Weiyi heard the sound and raised his head abruptly.
Then
Mo came out from behind the pillar and laughed embarrassedly, ‘How long have
you been waiting?’
Gu
Weiyi kept his face stiff and did not speak or move.
Mo
went to him and squatted down, waved her hand in front of him and said with a
grin, ‘Hey, is Gu Weiyi there?’
He
did not respond.
Mo
went to take his hand, shook it and said, ‘Come on, I'm hungry.’
He
stared at her thoughtfully, making her blood froze.
Mo
stood up awkwardly, took his hand and tried to pull him up. Suddenly, he pulled
back and she sat on his lap in an odd position. He lowered his head and bit her
lip viciously, as if to vent something.
Mo
struggled with pain, He held her so as tightly as if to squeeze water out of her.
Mo
could not move and let him kiss like a storm, he was so strong that she doubted
whether she had any deep hatred with him.
When
Gu Weiyi stopped, Mo had even forgotten the time. She clutched him around the
neck in a foolish way, and she couldn't come back for a while.
Gu
Weiyi pressed her head into his arms and said in a mute voice, ‘Don't show your
face.’
Mo
raised her head to see him strangely, and was quickly pushed back by him.
Mo
was puzzled and protesting, ‘Are you suffocating me?’
Still,
he kept her from moving by pressing her head and whispered in her ear, ‘Are you
sure you want to look at the watchman behind me?’
Mo’s
face heated up with a bang and the momentum was absolutely enough to fry eggs.
She tried to drill her head into his arms, hoping to hide in a hole.
At
last Mo was carried out of the waiting room like a pillar by Gu Weiyi, and her
face was buried deep in his neck.
Near
the door of Mo’s home, he let her go, but he held her hand very tight.
Mo
hadn't seen Gu Weiyi so emotionally intense that she dared not say a word and
let him grip his hand painfully.
When
she returned home, her mother did not have much enthusiasm for her arrival. She
just kept blaming, said that Mo was so unsensible, how could she have shut down
her phone, making Weiyi so worried. She also said that on such a cold day, she
had kept Weiyi waiting outside for more than an hour. In a word, Gu Weiyi was
the son of Mom, who had been lost for many years. Mo was picked up by the
garbage dump.
When
Gu Weiyi returned to her house, he became normal. Mo’s mother gave both of them
a bowl of soup. Mo’s soup was corn rib soup. Gu Weiyi’s soup was ginger soup.
After drinking, Gu Weiyi went to the kitchen to wash dishes spontaneously.
Mo
sat at the table and listened to her mother's chatter. Her mother said that
when he graduated, you should get married.
Mo
was so guilty that she dared not say a word, but just kept laughing.
Mo’s
mother said that she could see that Weiyi was really good to her. Don't
frighten him away with her bad temper. She wouln’t be able to meet a better one.
Mo
diverged from the topic, ‘Where's Dad?’
Mo’s
mother said, ‘Your father went on a business trip in the afternoon, and it was
Weiyi who saw him off. Later, your father called me and told me that this young
man was really good. Before getting on the bus, he ran out and bought him water
and food to eat in the car.’
Mo
looked at her mother, who had become a fan of Gu Weiyi, and nodded blankly, ‘Yes,
I'll marry him as soon as he graduates.’
Mo’s
mother patted her thigh hard and said, ‘You dead child, your mother is serous.
When he found that you couldn't get through, he couldn’t sit or stand, making
me like a ruthless mother.’
‘Mom,
You still had the good mood to watch TV when I’m lost?’
Mo’s
mother laughed and stood up, ‘Weiyi, when you finish washing the dishes, remember
to dry them. I’m tired, and going to rest first. Don't go to bed too late.’
Gu
Weiyi responded in the kitchen, ‘Okay, good night, aunt.’
Mo
shook her head and looked at her mother's fleeing figure. She stood up and said
to the direction of the kitchen, ‘I'm going to take a bath. You just go to bed
after washing the dishes.’
When
Mo went out of the bathroom, Gu Weiyi was nowhere to be seen, and her brother's
room door was closed (Mo’s brother was working in the field). Mo thought that
he was probably tired, but she still complained in her heart that she had waited
for him to go home until two or three o'clock, and even cooked noodles for him,
but he did not know that little help should bring much return.
She
lay in bed and was about to shut down the phone to sleep, when she found that
there were more than a dozen of text messages on her phone sent by him. At
first, five or six of them threatened her to turn on the phone quickly, then five
or six were coaxing her, and the last two or three answered her threatening
text message seriously.
He
said, Situ Mo, before I met you, I could only imagine the satisfaction of one
more person in my life who could not be cut off, just as children in the South
could only imagine what snow would look like. Without you, it's like you can't
tell your child that what you see is not snow, but salt. You are snow to me.
Without you, the snow in the world is only salt in my eyes.
Mo
worshipped his bad metaphor, and knew that he was really frightened by her
today. Otherwise, he who hated texting would not crash so many lines. It would
be hard for him to come up with such a pitted metaphor.
Mo
sent a text message to him: Husband, I'm sorry, but your metaphor was so bad
that you couldn’t forget your mother tongue even if you go abroad. Well, in
order to match your Chinese level, you are also the snow in my heart, and the others
are the salty salt.
After
texting, Mo fell asleep, feeling her neck rubbed by something warm and soft.
She sided her head, barely opened her eyes, and muttered, ‘What are you doing?’
Gu
Weiyi did not speak, his lips was sliding slowly behind her neck and ears.
Mo’s
sweat stood on end by him, and she didn't even know when was her pajamas falled
to her waist.
He
wrapped his arms around her waist from behind, and his lips swept lightly or
heavily over her bare back.
Just
as Mo felt she could turn into a pool of water, a continuous cough came from
the next room, which scared them both into a shock and almost rolled off the
bed.
The
cough lasted for a long time. Gu Weiyi and Mo dared not gasp for a minute. After
a long while, when the cough stopped, Mo pinched his hand which was holding her
tightly with her nails. At first, he frowned silently. Later, he was pinched
too painfully. So he took a bite to her ear. Mo’s hand trembled and she let go
of him.
Gu
Weiyi began to be brash and clumsy again. Mo pushed him and whispered, ‘Are you
crazy. Get out to your room.’
Suddenly
Gu Weiyi turned up and pressed her, licked her lips and then buried his head in
her neck, closing his eyes to sleep.
Mo
was so anxious but she did not dare to struggle excessively. She was afraid of
making any noise so she had to whisper to him, ‘Gu Weiyi, get up. Husband, get
up...’
Mo
asked for a while but Gu Weiyi did not respond. She thought he had fallen
asleep, gently pushed him away, trying to sneak away to sleep with her mother, and
told her that she felt like to talk to her.
Before
she had pushed him far away, Gu Weiyi pressed her down with a sudden force and
frothed her mouth.
Having
pushed, been pressed and tossed several times, the breathing difficulties and
heavy sleepiness made Mo unconscious. In the morning, Mo was awoken by a
nightmare. She dreamed that her mother was angry when she found that she was
sleeping with Gu Weiyi. She asked a group of people to put them in a pig cage
and throw them into the river.
She
reflexively touched the other side of the bed, which was empty, so she got up
and went out of the room.
Gu
Weiyi was in the kitchen trim vegetables with her mother, and they talked
happily together.
Mo
coughed softly.
At
the same time, Gu Weiyi and her mother looked back and continued to trim vegetables.
Oh,
it's cold.
Disappointed, Mo moved to the bathroom to wash herself. Suddenly she remembered: Did Gu Weiyi sneak into her room last night? Or did she have a mysterious empty dream?
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