Dow and Carbon-Based Monkey Breeding Guidelines

Chapter 886 The Eve

Yu Xiaorong's surprise reaction after returning home triggered Leo's second wave of barking.The whole house was filled with its noise and Malcolm's laughter.When he hugged Yu Xiaorong and spun around on the spot, Yu Qingshu sternly stopped: "She's not five years old, Mal!"

Malcolm put Yu Xiaorong back on the ground, and admitted that he could hardly hold the big girl anymore.But in addition to the tricks they used to do as children, he also has new tricks in his extra-heavy suitcase.He pulled out all kinds of exotic small items like magic: a piece of olive oil handmade soap, a pair of lifelike ornaments of a bull and a matador, a carved folding fan painted with pomegranate flowers and red skirt dancers, and finally There is a thick photo album.

Nothing attracts Yu Xiaorong more than a photo album, and Yu Qingshu picked up the gorgeous and exquisite folding fan and looked at Luo Binhan with a half-smile.

"What's the matter?" Luo Binhan said pretending to be innocent, "Is there room for two fans in this room? Besides, the one I brought is ink painting."

Yu Qingshu's words were critical, but not too harsh: "You just want to buy such flashy things."

In order to prove that the souvenirs he bought were not useless, Malcolm quickly held a folding fan, pretended to be wearing a gorgeous dress, danced a flamenco in style, and cast a silky wink at the audience. Everyone laughed out loud.

"I heard that Spanish women have a way of expressing meaning with fans," asked Hannah, who was coming to stay overnight again, "so is the fan language true?"

Malcolm immediately performed this set of fan language again.He spread out the fan to cover the lower half of his face, blinked at Yu Qingshu, or opened it for a while, then closed it for a while.When Luo Binhan deliberately asked him if he felt too hot, he pretended to be annoyed and shook his folding fan violently.

"That's gotta drive us away," Hannah said, giggling.

Malcolm threw the fan on the table, jumped over and hugged Yu Qingshu's shoulder, but the latter pushed him away and said, "I have something to show you too."

"What is it?"

"The seafood in the refrigerator is waiting for you to deal with." Yu Qingshu said kindly, "Go honey, I still have some work to do."

Malcolm was a little disappointed and went to the refrigerator, but soon became motivated by the seafood in it.This scene reminded Luo Binhan of the bet he had made with Yu Xiaorong. "Is the one in the basement still alive?"

Yu Xiaorong held his head high, pretending to be indifferent but telling him proudly that the lobster was still alive and well.This was her moment of victory, until Robin Han asked her again with a smile if she was going to do homework with Hannah tonight, and she walked into the kitchen viciously, saying that she would help Malcolm cook the lobster.

Luo Binhan didn't really want to piss her off on this happy day of reunion, and he also knew that Yu Xiaorong must have a lot to say to Malcolm.He got up and went back to the guest room, and asked Zhou Yu to go out with him, only to see Hannah Zahn sitting in the room with her innocent and charming smile, greeting Zhou Yu with a very flattering tone of respect. ask questions.

"Are you a medical student?" she asked. "Is the medical career interesting? I think your exams must be difficult. What animals have you dissected?"

Zhou Yu answered her questions one by one.He answered every question, but it was extremely brief, like filling in the blanks with very short horizontal lines.But this didn't bother Hannah at all, because she could always find a natural topic in a reply of even one word.

"I think medical students are very brave," she looked down at her hands. "I can't dissect animals. It must feel strange, to disassemble a living whole into many... part."

"Just get used to it."

"But haven't you ever thought about it? A living thing is of course higher than a dead thing. It is a living thing with thoughts and emotions, not an object assembled from fat and flesh. But if one day , you find it so easy to switch between the two, you may feel that life is nothing special, like a magic trick whose principle has been debunked..."

Luo Binhan tiptoed behind her, and put his hand on her shoulder suddenly: "Maybe you think this thing is more special, after all, it can turn the fake into the real."

Hannah jumped up from her chair.She was indeed frightened by Luo Binhan, but she still had a smile in her eyes, showing the dimples on her cheeks unsuspectingly to Luo Binhan.That made her resemble Momoro in some ways, so that Robin Han couldn't get seriously angry, although he was sure she was about to play tricks.

"The fake show comes true." She said happily as usual, "then who is the one who performs the magic? It is not easy to make a good show with all the parts on us! Do you believe it is just Is it a trick? Or is this actually a sorcerer playing tricks on us? Do we have anything beyond our bodies?"

Luo Binhan maintained a reserved and ambiguous smile.He doesn't know if religion has a place in Hannah's spiritual life—he's also skeptical about her devout qualities, considering she's a close friend of Yu Xiaorong's—but it's best not to discuss such matters explicitly .Whether or not they truly believed in the immortality of the soul, most of Regenberg's residents ended up being buried in the graves surrounding the church.

"I believe it would be more useful for us to focus on this life rather than the afterlife," he replied with the surefire line, knowing that it was the same line his mother used to address neighbors who believed in an eternal afterlife.He quickly invited Hannah out politely under the pretext of discussing personal matters with Zhou Yu.

"Strange," he closed the door, "what did she come to see you for?"

"Just for a few words."

"She asked you about me?"

He asked Zhou Yu to repeat the topics that Hannah had chatted with him. From the meaning of Zhou Yu's name to his career, it was completely aimless chatting, and it really had nothing to do with Luo Binhan's trip to Africa.This made Luo Binhan completely clueless.He just felt that this little girl would not be aimless.

Zhou Yu looked at him in confusion, and asked in an ignorant tone of an outsider, "She's just a middle school student, what do you think of her?"

"Fox." Luo Binhan muttered in a volume that only he could hear, "...the fox and the hunting dog are good friends forever."

When he and Zhou Yu led Leo out, the images of foxes with sharp mouths and eyes hanging from the old animations with sinister expressions were still rolling in their minds.He also knew that there was a cartoon called "Fox and the Hound", but he couldn't remember if he had seen it.He made up his mind that if Hannah came to chat with Zhou Yu again tonight, he would drag her to watch this movie with Zhou Yu.

By the time they returned from the town square, the sun had touched the tops of the woods.The sofas and low stools in the living room were full of visiting neighbors, and many painted balloons and flower baskets were placed on the table and cabinets, making Luo Binhan suspect that he had gone to the wrong door.But when he sees the Van der Lins hanging out, he's not too surprised at how these flamboyant trinkets came to be.

He quietly led Zhou Yu to the backyard, slipped into the guest room in the most unobtrusive way, and then went out alone to greet the guests.There were two or three acquaintances living nearby who came to visit Malcolm, so Luo Binhan got away quickly.He went to inspect the kitchen again, and saw that Malcolm was very busy, Yu Xiaorong might have gone back upstairs to do her homework, and it was Yu Qingshu who replaced her to help.She shuttled between the living room and the kitchen, frowning and cutting a bunch of onions and said, "We should go out and order a restaurant..."

"Come on, bunny, it's my first day back here," said Malcolm cheerfully. "I've got a lot of new tricks I want to show you—"

Luo Binhan quietly retracted his head.Malcolm has never had a concept of "elders" or "property".He sometimes wonders in private whether Yu Xiaorong will become like this in the future.What a bizarre scene that would be, in a house like this, Yu Xiaorong calling her husband "my little bear" while chopping vegetables.

In order not to let people see his weird face, he walked into the backyard as if nothing had happened.Leo was busy digging holes in the white sand by the pool.When Luo Binhan approached to see its secret treasure, it turned around quite vigilantly, and while kicking the bunker flat with its hind legs, it bared its teeth at Luo Binhan.

"Don't be so stingy," Luo Binhan discussed, "Just let me take a look?"

Leo's ears shook violently from the barking.Until Luo Binhan retreated to the farthest willow tree, it remained suspicious of him.Luo Binhan grabbed a willow branch resentfully and shook it until it rattled.The long, green leaves danced, reminding him how rare they were in Regenberg.He remembered that it was also Yu Xiaorong's birth gift, from his mother's friend.The old saying came to his mind: a willow in front of the door, gold, silver and treasure go home.

But his mother didn't plant the tree in front of the door.For some reason, she planted it in the backyard.In terms of traditional standards, it was actually not a very suitable location. He felt that Yu Qingshu must have heard the old saying about planting willows in the backyard.Then it occurred to him that of course his mother didn't care about traditions, she'd been challenging them almost all her life.

He grasped the willow branches in a daze until Zhou Yu came and asked him to enter the house.The darkness that enveloped the whole field made him wake up suddenly, and let go of the willow that was almost torn off by him.It drooped listlessly between the green leaves, like a thin dying snake.The scene was, if not ominous, at least disappointing.Luo Binhan couldn't help frowning, hesitating whether to cut off the branch directly, but felt that it might grow back.His thoughts were exposed on his face, so Zhou Yu asked him: "Aren't you going to break it?"

He responded vaguely, delaying the moment to make a decision.Before he started to do anything, Zhou Yu seemed to break off the wicker without thinking and stick it in the field next to him. "Aunt told you to come in for dinner." He said to Luo Binhan naturally, and turned his head to go into the house. Only Luo Binhan was still staring at the willow planted on the ground in amazement, wondering if it would really take root. .Can cuttings be such a random thing?It can't really grow into a sapling, maybe Leo will pick it out of the ground after dinner.But in the end he let it stand in place, because Zhou Yu did it anyway.

Neighbors who came to visit Malcolm did not stay for dinner.They had only come to arrange a more suitable date, to have a formal welcome party, or to go fishing with Malcolm.The only outsiders staying at the dining table were Zhou Yu and Hannah.

There has never been a rule of not talking at the dining table in Yu Xiaorong's house, and the presence of Malcolm will always make the room more lively.He would discuss with Hannah who was the best portrayed villain in fantasy movies, and then turned to ask Zhou Yu if he had experienced any strange things in the hospital. "I heard a particularly frightening ghost story from a country doctor, and he assured me that it was all true," he said enthusiastically. Here comes the police..."

"Mar." Yu Qingshu said kindly but clearly.

Malcolm wisely stopped and turned the conversation to flamenco and country dances.Hannah held her chin in regret, watching Yu Xiaorong fight with the chopped onions stuck to the lobster meat.In such an atmosphere, Luo Binhan almost fell asleep due to excessive relaxation and boredom.He pretended to look sideways at a potted flower on the window sill, but his eyes had slowly closed.He could still smell the aroma of seafood and grease, and hear Malcolm and Hannah's equally bright laughter, but he couldn't understand what they were saying at all.How Spanish dancers swim in the deep sea, or are planted in the soil.These meaningless words were like rising and falling waves, which made his sleepy and overwhelmed mind shake from time to time.But he has been trapped by sleepiness and security, trapped in this dark and closed cabin.At this moment, the sound and color of the outside world are nothing but thin phantoms, without any definite shape.

How still, he thought half asleep, the island-like stillness that makes one feel at ease.His left hand loosened and fell down, touching the cold water waves.The waves are so still, as smooth as a piece of silk, like the dark eyes and black hair of a witch.She's still watching him, with contempt or resentment, you who've slept in boats all your life—

Robin Han opened his eyes.He lowered his left hand behind his ear and looked into his palm.Naturally there is nothing.It turned out that it wasn't the waves that woke him up, but the movement of other people standing up to clear the table.Zhou Yu was staring at him, and had already discovered his doze just now.Robin Han made a face at him, signaling him not to hurt Malcolm's feelings—how could he fall asleep in front of Malcolm's elaborate meal?It must have been because the atmosphere in Regenberg was so easy to let loose.

Hannah helped Yu Xiaorong tidy up the tableware and asked, "So, do you all know how to play mahjong?"

This is an odd question.He almost thought he heard it wrong, until Yu Qingshu brought a boxed set of melamine mahjong from upstairs.Luo Binhan recognized this set of mahjong, because Liu Ling, who tried his best to promote his mother, was a good player on the mahjong table.Every New Year, she would bring her family over to play with Yu Qingshu for a whole afternoon, showing off her skill of picking cards and distinguishing suits.Very much a skill to watch, as she almost never gets it wrong.But when Liu Ling was away, the family didn't play much mahjong.There are always not enough people willing to participate.

Luo Binhan glanced at Zhou Yu, wondering what happened when he was dozing off.Zhou Yu noticed his eyes, said nothing, but tilted her head slightly to Hannah's shoulder, hinting at him whose idea it was.

"I've always wanted to learn how to play mahjong." Hannah admitted generously, "I like the sound of these little cubes hitting each other. It's more crisp and sweet than playing cards. It sounds very pleasant, Isn't it?"

"How's your homework going?" Luo Binhan asked in a friendly tone imitating his mother.But this time he is doomed, because Hannah Zahn is not the school bully Yu Xiaorong, she has done her homework early.His mother and Malcolm were also in high spirits, only Yu Xiaorong slumped on the sofa looking at her phone boredly—she and Zhou Yu were the last two people in the room who could neither play mahjong nor have any interest in understanding .Whenever Liu Ling and Yu Qingshu sit at the mahjong table to welcome the New Year, her most active action is to serve tea and pour water, and wait for an opportunity to earn a big tip.Luo Binhan reckoned that it would not be a small amount, because Liu Ling loved this restless little girl very much, and would always secretly give her extra banknotes in addition to the lottery she won, but Yu Qingshu couldn't do it every time. Find.

It's hard to guess if there's some sort of conspiracy going on here, but they really played mahjong.Yu Qingshu took the manor, and Hannah took his next home.At first Luo Binhan thought they were going to play Liu Ling's favorite Sichuan mahjong, but Yu Qingshu chose the national standard mahjong instead.She explained the rules to Hannah, who seemed to find the symbols on each card extremely interesting.

"A terrible eye." She touched the suits on the cards, memorizing their respective characteristics, "circle and circle eyes."

"Oh no," Malcolm explained eagerly, "that's a 'barrel.' It means a musket, because it looks like a cross-section of a musket barrel."

Hannah thought it was very funny.She picked out all the "barrels" and counted the number of circles on them: "We have so many muskets!"

"It's for shooting sparrows," said Malcolm. "Look, I've got a 'sparrow' on this card. The game originated in ancient times when people hunted sparrows that slipped into granaries."

Luo Binhan squinted at the pattern on the Yaoji card. It has a pair of emerald green wings, a bright red crest and tail feathers, and it doesn't look like a sparrow at all.The first thing he thought of was Jing Huang, and then he called out softly.Everyone turned to look at him.

"It's nothing," he said with a shrug. "I remembered that there was a parrot in Zhou Yu's house."

He turned his head to look for Zhou Yu, who was lying on the sofa, holding a coffee cup in both hands, and had fallen asleep peacefully.For some reason, he looked more tired now than when he was awake, and no one with an ounce of conscience would be ashamed to wake him up just to find out the whereabouts of a parrot.

"He probably found someone to foster him." Luo Binhan explained to himself and put the matter behind him.

If this is indeed the first time Hannah has learned about the rules of mahjong, the speed with which she has mastered the game is astonishing.She also slammed and slammed the cards played by Luo Binhan as she wished, making these cute and charming little squares rattle and rattle endlessly.Luo Binhan didn't intend to pretend to be clumsy, but his thoughts always drifted to the Yaoji card.Don't think about it now, do you?he tried to say to himself.What a beautiful and warm reunion night.In such a small town surrounded by forests and flowers, the most important people in his life almost all stayed in this comfortable and warm house, playing games together, or doing their favorite things.

"Six!" said Malcolm, making a small mound in front of his hand.Luo Binhan glanced at the cards in his hand, thinking that it was more hopeless than the vat of bloody parrot fish that was kept at the front desk of the start-up company.He leaned back in his chair and lazily announced that he was done.

"Don't play tricks." Yu Qingshu urged, "There is no one who would admit defeat after such a short fight."

Luo Binhan pushed out a card casually in self-imposed exile.

"Red!" Hannah happily took his discard, "Boom!"

"That's not called a bang." Luo Binhan corrected lazily, "It's called a 'bar'."

"But I hit the sparrow," said Hannah. "I got the red one, which means 'hit', does that mean? Boom boom!"

She gestured and pretended to shoot Luo Binhan, but suddenly turned to Yu Xiaorong who was on the sofa.Yu Xiaorong dropped the phone swiftly, turned over to cover herself with a pillow, and then lashed out at Hannah.This movement also awakened Zhou Yu on the other side of the sofa. He stood up in a daze, and took half a step forward, just in the middle of the two confrontational cold-blooded gunmen.

"It's broken." Luo Binhan told him, "You were shot to death."

Zhou Yu looked down at his chest in confusion but rigorously.He hesitated for a moment, then slowly put down the glass, then sat back on the sofa and fell asleep with his head bowed like a man shot to death.

"Are you really dead?" Luo Binhan asked in disbelief.But Zhou Yu went to dream again wholeheartedly.Hannah blew on her fingertips: "I'm sorry for implicating your friend in my dispute with the dog Jania."

"Dongfeng." Yu Qingshu said, "Mar, it's your turn."

"Touch," said Malcolm. "What a tragedy!"

"That's bullshit." Luo Binhan said, throwing away the [-] he just picked up.

Hannah took a deep breath.Her emerald green eyes widened suddenly with incredible surprise.Then she stood up solemnly, and knocked down all the cards in her hand.

"Nonsense!" she announced excitedly.Yu Xiaorong gave her a victory gesture from afar on the sofa.

Luo Binhan thinks this is purely the luck of the novice, and has nothing to do with whether he is a stinky chess basket feeding cards to the next player.

"I want to avenge my best friend." As he said, he quickly smeared his cards, and pointed out his finger to the cheering Hannah: "Boom!"

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(End of this chapter)