Water lanterns and dreams in 1 nights

With the hand/gun pointed at my head, Ello stood up straight and commanded condescendingly: "Now, kneel down."

48. Pierrot 07

April 7

Elo got a car from nowhere, a cream-white van with only two seats, the driver's seat and the co-pilot's seat. The back compartment is open to the open air, surrounded on all sides, and the things placed in the middle can be seen at a glance.

I was developing photos in the dark room when I suddenly heard a loud horn from outside the door. Elo called me a few times. I hurriedly put down what I was doing and went out to see what was wrong. The door saw Elo, he parked the car on the side of the road, poked his head out of the cockpit, and waved to me happily.I walked over slowly and asked him where he got the car. He said that he had bought it for a long time and had been parked at a friend's place.I was very skeptical about this, because he didn't drive here when we first met, and I didn't hear him mention it during this period.

I looked back and saw that the carriage that was supposed to be carrying the cargo was crowded with sunflowers in a mess, a piece of yellow, the heads of the sunflowers were slanted to the left, and the green leaves were messy. I walked over and reached out to catch one. Only then did I realize that the car was full of raw cut flowers, enough to set up a flower shop with monotonous products.

"You want to do business?"

Elo rolled down the window completely, leaned over the window frame and told me it was decoration with a smile.

He wore a thin purple suit with a blue and red checkered pattern today, buttoned up neatly, but the V-shaped neckline was wide open, exposing the entire neck and a small piece of chest skin, because of the hot weather , he rolled up his cuffs a few times, so he looked less formal.He asked me if I didn't think the weather was fine today.I answered yes, it was indeed a sunny day, not only did it not rain, the blue sky did not even have a single dark cloud, it was noon, and there was no third person in sight except us.

"The weather is rare, and it's Sunday again. Let's go for a walk."

"You mean walking?"

"It's not necessary." Elona tapped her knuckles on the car body a few times, "Come on, I can take you wherever you want."

I hesitated for a moment, because things happen in a hurry, I am used to planning before acting, and it is difficult to respond to unexpected requests, but I went back and locked the door, and sat in the passenger seat.

Elo asked me where I wanted to go, and I told him I could go anywhere, but it was a drive anyway.There were no other cars or pedestrians, so we drove along the road in front of the door and ran happily. The wind came in through the window, blowing our hair in all directions.From the rearview mirror, I can see a sunflower flower disc hanging outside the car. As the body trembles, it can’t keep its balance and is shaky in the wind. I told Elo that a flower is about to fall, but Elo didn’t care. A little speed He didn't lose weight and drove straight forward. He said that one flower is not important, and it doesn't matter if all the cars are lost.I asked him what these flowers were for, and he still said they were decorations. It was ugly to drive the car back empty, and the sun was very good, so he thought he should put some sunflowers on it.

"How much is a sunflower?"

He looked at me in surprise, "I thought you didn't value things like money."

"Not so much, but not wasted."

"One has to learn to waste something."

"You know the flowers shrivel up very quickly when they're cut."

"At least they look good now." Elo told me lightheartedly that he felt it was necessary to live a little more freely. "Thinking of something and doing it right away can make people feel good, and you are not so easy to get cancer."

It's very close to the sea.We drove to the end of this road first, turned right, at the end, and turned right again, which is equivalent to walking half a word. People built a part of the sea with big stones. People built a part of the sea with big stones. The breakwater, a long road was built behind the breakwater, and we are on this road now.In fact, it is almost parallel to the road in front of my house. If I walk, I can walk from the back door to the beach within 10 minutes.

We pulled over and walked down the road to the beach.When the tide is not high, the tidal flats are exposed, and the mud all over the ground bends regularly layer by layer, like a relief of water waves, shining silver and shining brightly under the sun.A road extends from the shore into the sea. It is paved with irregular large stones. Each stone is covered with the remains of gray kelp shells. Over time, these shells and stones grow together. The road continues. It is about one kilometer to the place covered by seawater downstream of the tidal flat.

We stood on the shore, looking at the white waves crashing against the stones in the distance. Elo stuffed something cold into my mouth. I wanted to take the peeled orange candy and eat it myself, but Elo insisted on delivering it to my mouth, and then licked my finger with the sweet taste of candy in satisfaction.

Although it is a tidal flat, it is not completely devoid of water. When I looked far away, Elo walked around in the tidal flat, trying to find crabs from the puddles, but found nothing.After a while, he returned to the shore, wiped the muddy soles of his shoes on the rocks, and then got out of the car with a bunch of sunflowers, a big bunch, full of sunflowers in his arms, and his hands were inflexible. His jump from the breakwater was still crisp.

He walked towards the sea with these flowers in his arms until the end of the stone road, and inserted the sunflowers one by one into the roadside mud.I found a smooth rock and sat down, squinting at the added color in the distance.Elo quickly finished the job and walked easily ashore to stand beside me. I couldn't actually see the shape of the sunflower because it was too far away. I could only see a small piece of yellow connected together. I asked him if he thought Happy, Elo shook her head, putting her palm on her forehead to block the blinding sun.

We watched quietly for a while, and a few minutes later a wave came, and most of the sunflowers fell out. After a few more passes, nothing could be seen there, and there was no sign of anyone having been there.Elo is still sweating. After all, it is indeed a bit hot today. I am wondering that it has been a long time since I have seen such a good sun.

Elo watched the sea take away those sunflowers, and told me that everything would be washed away, but at least the things I did would leave some traces in my mind, and we can't expect too much from this world.

"I'd like a friend if that's okay." Elo grinned over my shoulder.

"If you want to make friends it should be easy to do."

"I don't choose my friends lightly. Everyone loves too many things," he said suddenly sentimentally. "House, car, furniture, food, clothing, jewelry, stocks, companies, the big city set They are so dizzy that they can't even figure out who they are." But I don't think the sadness in his words is real, it should be his drama addiction and pretending to be compassionate. "I need an assistant."

"Assistants, friends, disciples, anything is fine. I want a collective, so that we can do some less boring things together in this boring place."

Acting is not a good word.I can read his lures, but I am unmoved, I don't want that much, hope he finds his assistants, friends or disciples, I only need to see them occasionally, and know the wanton people outside of me What can be done is enough, I love watching the adventure without wanting to be a part of it.Once you embark on a journey, in addition to excitement and surprises, there may be fatal things that follow. I don't want to leave what I can hold firmly now to reach the moon in the sky. The moon can never be caught, I can only fall To drown in a well, to be an overthinking monkey.

I sat with my knees hugged, looking at the blue water aimlessly, and let go of all my thoughts. This state is a bit similar to meditation, but it’s not so pure. It can be said that I didn’t think about anything, and at the same time, I didn’t think a lot. Not a word was spoken during the process. "You are really a strange person." Before I spoke, it was a bit dramatic to be evaluated by Elo first. I kept sitting and looked up at him, but Elo didn't look at me, but looked around. Seeing that he had no intention of explaining, I took the initiative to ask him the meaning of what he said.

"You should know better than I do," Elo said.He didn't find anything else he was interested in, so he asked me to go back together.

It took us a total of forty minutes at the beach to get back to the car, and there were still many sunflowers left behind.Out of curiosity, I have been asking Elo the reason for what he said just now. He pressed the button, and the car window "chucked" up, and the car suddenly became quiet. He asked me if I hadn't thought about this matter carefully. .

"You're a little too honest. We all know that's not your nature, you just pick and choose what's easy to do." He told me that if you don't care, you don't have to force yourself into everyone, and you'll just lose yourself in the end, " Forcing superficial harmony, creating a popular situation and covering up your true self for this is tantamount to sacrificing the basics. If a person wants to survive in a group of people, he must hold the mentality of 'let them die', otherwise It is you who are swallowed up by the crowd."

I thought he had some kind of far-sightedness, but in the end he just said such empty words. I don't know what he said, but any child can understand the words "do as the Romans do in the Romans". I have my own will, just I don't want to show it clearly in front of others. Once I do, the disadvantages definitely outweigh the advantages.After all, most people don't care about other people's personalities. Faithful friends, loving parents, kind passers-by, all