Deer in deep forest

Chapter 67 Do you know the name of the loneliest whale in the world?

On a small street in City H, a bookstore opened quietly.

Next to the bookstore is the flower shop. Xiguang has walked back and forth many times and is already familiar with it. She is not worried about falling down. While Luo Nanzhou is busy arranging the books on the bookshelf, she goes out alone and buys a bunch of sunflowers and puts them on the counter. in the bottle.

"Nan Zhou, I think there is still a string of wind chimes missing..." Xi Guang thought for a while and said.

Luo Nanzhou looked up at the door, thinking that he should really hang a string, so that if someone came in, when the wind chime rang, Xi Guang would know and would not be suddenly frightened.Turning around, I saw golden yellow flowers, "Xi Guang, you sneaked out again, and you didn't tell me..."

There was a sense of helplessness in the words, but no blame could be heard.

"Next time I will ask you to go with me, don't worry." Xi Guang promised, but couldn't help muttering in a low voice: "Actually, I'm familiar with this street..."

"It's still too early now, there shouldn't be many customers coming, I'll go buy wind chimes first, you stay in the shop and don't run around," Luo Nanzhou said.

Xi Guang waved his hand at him, "Got it, got it, you hurry up, I'm not a child, I won't lose it, and no one will come to abduct me."

Luo Nanzhou reluctantly went out.

Sitting on the wooden chair in front of the counter, Xiguang fumbled to turn on the radio and tuned to the music station, which was singing folk songs, which seemed to be Ma Di's songs, but she couldn't remember the title of the song.

Slow rhythm, soothing singing, flowing quietly.Following the music, her fingers flicked on the table, but she couldn't see it. The sunlight coming in from the window also danced on her fingertips, casting mottled shadows.At the back, she also hummed softly.

She didn't think about anything, didn't dare to think about anything.

Stay here and be a comfortable blind man.

I have heard several news about Gu's one after another. They have entered the foreign market and developed very well. They announced that the young boss who took office has made a lot of achievements in France.The domestic company is still headed by the previous chairman, Lu Wanliang.Although Gu Yanshu never showed his face and appeared in front of people, Xi Guang knew that he was probably doing well.

There was a strange sound at the door, like a ball of meat hitting it.

Xi Guang stood up hesitantly, an idea popped up in his mind, and walked along the counter, there was another knock on the door.

Xi Guang waved his hand twice in the air, but didn't grab anything.She squatted down slowly, her hand was suddenly swept by the fluffy tail.

"Cherish the light..." Luo Nanzhou came back in time and saw the dog huddled under the eaves, "Where did the little golden retriever come from?"

"Huh!" Xi Guang asked, "Is it a golden retriever?"

"Well, it's just a little dirty. It seems that I haven't bathed for a long time. The hair is yellow and I'm a little malnourished." Luo Nanzhou touched the golden retriever's head, it hummed twice, and its head drooped even lower.

"Could it be lost by someone nearby?" Xi Guang asked.

Luo Nanzhou said: "I seem to have seen this little guy a few days ago, looking for food in the trash can. Its one leg is a little lame, and it may have been abandoned by its owner."

The little golden retriever seemed to understand what he said, sobbed aggrieved twice, expressing his dissatisfaction pitifully.As if hurt by Luo Nanzhou's two words, he moved towards Xiguang.

Xiguang decided to adopt this little golden retriever.

Together with Luo Nanzhou, he took it to the pet hospital for an examination, and washed his whole body.The veterinarian said there was nothing wrong with it, but the lameness was born and it couldn't be cured.

After hearing this, the golden retriever drooped his head sadly, and carefully peeked at Xi Guang again.

It's just that Xi Guang couldn't see its appearance, so it scratched its back and said comfortingly: "It's okay, I will raise you, let's do it together, shall we?"

The golden retriever rubbed against her palm, licked it, and wagged its light yellow tail.

"I almost forgot, I haven't given you a name yet!" Xi Guang thought for a while and said, "Why don't you call it 'Fifty'? I really like the one named Sijiu in "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" Shutong, you are still young, and when you grow up, you will probably be very big, so let's call it 'Fifty'."

Luo Nanzhou couldn't help laughing, "What kind of messed up logic are you talking about?"

Xi Guang said: "I'll ask it if it likes this name. Come on, little golden retriever, if you also think the name I chose is good, just call me."

"Wang Wang!"

Xiguang proudly said to Luo Nanzhou: "Look, it likes it too."

Luo Nanzhou said: "But it seemed to bark twice just now, not just once."

"You can shut up."

"Yes, Her Lady Queen."

Luo Nanzhou wanted to train Fifty to be a guide dog for the blind, but it would be very difficult in practice.Xi Guang didn't care, "Fifty is already very good, it doesn't need to do so much for me. As long as it is willing to stay with me obediently and not break the vase, I'm already thankful."

When she said this, Shishi brought a slipper for her and put it at her feet.Then he ran back with a flutter, bouncing, and carried the other one.

Nobody commands Fifty, let it do that, but it's self-taught.As if knowing that her master is invisible and wants to take care of her.

Luo Nanzhou smiled with satisfaction: "It seems that I don't need to teach."

Fifty put their front paws on Xiguang's knees, as if asking for credit.Xi Guang rewarded it, "Tonight, I'll ask Nan Zhou to make a big bone soup for you to drink."

Luo Nanzhou quietly took out the camera from the drawer under the counter, pointed it at them, and took pictures.Luo Nanzhou has secretly photographed a lot these days, but Xi Guang didn't let Xiguang find out.Time passed unhurriedly, and Xi Guang stayed with him in City H, as if he could spend his life peacefully like this.

The summer sun is already outside the door, most of which are blocked by a few camphor trees, and it is still cool when it penetrates into the house.A few students with schoolbags came in, and the wind chimes were ringing crisply and jingling.

Xi Guang hugged the golden retriever vigorously, so that it would not move around, and not rush out suddenly to scare the guests as a prank.One person and one dog sat upright on the carpet in front of the bookshelf, and after a while, they all began to doze off.

Luo Nanzhou watched, his empty heart seemed to be gradually being filled.

Later, Xiguang woke up from hunger, with a gurgling sound in her stomach.Feeling around with his hands, he found that it was his bed.

Suddenly there was a breath in front of her, and something came over, very close to her.At first she thought it was a little golden retriever, "Fifty, come here..." She reached out to fish, but what she caught was a slender arm.

"It's Nanzhou, why don't you make a sound?" Xiguang was about to let go of her hand when she said that, but Luo Nanzhou tightened her grip again.

"Nan Zhou, what's wrong with you?" Xi Guang was puzzled, "Did something happen?"

Luo Nanzhou hugged her without saying a word, and said hoarsely, "Xi Guang, shall we be together?"

Xi Guang fell asleep in a daze, his mind was not clear, and he was emotionally dull, so he asked puzzledly: "Aren't we together now?"

"I mean—like lovers, staying together for life, getting married, starting a family..."

Before Luo Nanzhou finished speaking, Xi Guang broke away from his arm suddenly and rolled off the bed.Luo Nanzhou didn't expect her to have such a big reaction, he was stunned for a moment, and then went to hug her in a panic, but Xi Guang avoided him.

The movement attracted Fifty, and when it saw Xiguang fall to the ground, it screamed uneasily.

After such a fall, Xiguang was completely awake.

Xi Guang felt that she and Nan Zhou were very similar.

Luo Nanzhou lost Luo Beixi who depended on her for life, and she couldn't find Gu Yanshu once.Both she and him have lost important things in this life. Up to now, they are living a lonely life, not as good as an old man who is over fifty years old.

Luo Nanzhou used all his savings to open a bookstore called "Tian Nan Di Bei" in this completely unfamiliar place, smiling and greeting different people every day, and living like this.After she dropped out of school and lost her sight, she spent less time in grief and pain than ordinary people. Even the doctor who treated her at that time praised her for being in a good mood.

It seems that everything is slowly getting better.But the well-covered wound is slowly festering, and only you know when it hurts.

They are just two people who are equally cold, snuggling together for warmth.

Waking up from a big dream, there is another person by my side.

But Xi Guang thought, this can't go on like this.

The food was brought to the table, and the bone soup given to fifty was not forgotten. Luo Nanzhou first filled Xiguang with kelp and pork ribs, and the bowl was steaming.The soup is light, with a layer of oil floating on it.

Xi Guang thanked him, then immersed himself in eating and sweating profusely.

Just as Luo Nanzhou wanted her to slow down, Xiguang let out a cry, and exhaled with his mouth wide open, "My tongue is burned!" The appearance was really similar to Fifty, and Luo Nanzhou couldn't help laughing.

The awkward atmosphere eased a lot.

After a meal, Xiguang helped Nan Zhou clean up the dishes and made two cups of tea.She couldn't see and was afraid of overflowing, so she only poured more than half of the water in the glass.The TV was on the movie channel, and a British comedy was playing, and laughter burst out from it from time to time.

Luo Nanzhou turned down the volume of the TV, sat beside Xiguang, and heard her say, "Nanzhou, I'm leaving."

finally come……

What Luo Nanzhou thought was that this moment has finally come.Xi Guang said that she was leaving.

He was like a prisoner condemned to death, waiting for the gunshot to kill him.Like a traveler trekking on the snow in a winter night, the last match in his hand burns to ashes.Like a lonely patient drifting to a deserted island, watching the only raft being washed away by the waves.From a person, back to a person's fate again.

"Are you going back to Nanyao?"

"Well, grandma is still there, I should go back there."

"when are we leaving?"

"...just tomorrow."

"How about fifty, do you want to take it with you?"

Xi's bare feet felt hot, and her big soft tail covered her calf.Xi Guang smiled silently: "I want to take it."

But you want to leave me here alone, Luo Nanzhou thought.

"Xi Guang, do you know the name of the loneliest whale in the world?" Luo Nanzhou asked.

Xi Guang thought for a while and said, "Is it 52 Hz? I read a children's picture book written by a foreign author when I was young, and it seemed to mention it."

"Normal baleen whales sing at a frequency of 15 to 40 hertz, except for its song, which is 52 hertz."

"It is said that in 1989, the underwater probe set up by the U.S. Navy captured its voice while listening to enemy submarines. In the following ten years, scientists recorded its singing many times, but they have not heard any other cetaceans. Respond to..."

"It travels more than 40 kilometers every day and migrates in the North Pacific Ocean every year, but it is always lonely..."

After Luo Nanzhou finished speaking, he tilted his head back silently, the time was slowed down, and there was an inexplicable ticking, ticking sound in his ears, like a bomb installed in the ventricle, entering the countdown, silently waiting for the last second .

Xiguang almost thought he was asleep.

"Then I'll see you off." Luo Nanzhou exhaled with an erratic ending.

"What?" Xi Guang didn't hear clearly.

"I'll take you to the bus station tomorrow." Luo Nanzhou repeated it accurately.

He didn't say a word to persuade him to stay, and he seemed to know that even if he persuaded him to stay, the person in front of him would not stay.He just looked earnestly and eagerly at this face close at hand, but couldn't hide his sadness, and muttered to himself: "Xi Guang, I didn't expect that I would be separated from you so soon."

Is that 52-hertz whale still living alone in the sea?Or has it slept forever at the bottom of the sea?
This night after Xiguang fell asleep, Luo Nanzhou wrote in his room as usual.

Under his pen, there is another world.He wrote about the peerless heroes in the warring states, about the actors and actresses in the Republic of China, about the beauties in the late twilight, about the last flower withered in the morning light, about the snow-covered plains, and about wandering in the deserted Gobi. The three-eyed monster...

Write all kinds of absurd and unimaginable stories.

At dawn, he was thirsty and went out to drink water, staring at the decayed flower branches under the night light at the window, unable to realize what kind of beautiful scene Kawabata Yasunari said "at four o'clock in the morning, seeing the crabapple flowers not sleeping".

He wasn't in that mood either.

On the evening when Luo Beixi left, his heart turned into ashes with no warmth left.

The sky will soon be bright, the door next door will open, and the smiling girl will come out with a salute, take her puppy, and leave from this place.See you again, I don't know which day it will be, which street is bustling with crowds.

In the future, there will be a vacant wooden chair in front of the bookstore cabinet.Go to the street corner to buy roasted sweet potatoes, and there is no need for two people.No more embarrassment about accompanying her to the underwear store and buying hygiene products.When arranging the bookshelves, through the gaps in the rows of books, I couldn't peek at the smiling face.

Thinking of this, he raised his face in the dark, and said to the air, "Xiaobei, I'm so lonely..."

(End of this chapter)