chapter 21 The meaning of a cockroach

Penelope and I walked towards Father Ban, and I asked: "Father Ban, why didn't you call me when you came? The temperature has dropped so much this night, how cold it is for you to sit there like this?" "Hit, you turned off your phone."Father Ban's answer was still dull, without any emotion. When the Father Ban said this, I remembered that I had thrown my cell phone into the moat in a drunken rage, and I couldn't help but feel a pain in my heart. I didn't make much money, and all I did was waste money. Penelope greeted Father Ban: "Uncle, hello." "Hello, you haven't eaten yet. I bought some vegetables in the supermarket to cook for you."Father Ban said and took out a convenience bag from behind, which contained fish and some vegetables. "Uncle, the porridge you cooked last time was delicious, so the cooking must also be delicious."Penelope said to Father Ban with a smile that he had never seen before in front of me. This made me realize that I really He is an unpleasant person, not Penelope's high profile. In response to Penelope's compliment, Father Ban just smiled and then motioned for us to go upstairs. When we went upstairs, Penelope was walking in front, Father Ban and I were lagging behind. I asked Father Ban somewhat unexpectedly: "Father Ban, have you been staying in Suzhou these days and not gone back?" "I went to Guangzhou again to participate in an exhibition, and I passed by Suzhou when I came back."Father Ban's answer was still simple. I think about it, winter is coming soon, and the state-owned enterprise where Father Ban works has the most orders for heaters. At about this time every year, Father Ban has to go to many places to purchase raw materials. Back in the house, Father Ban went directly into the kitchen and started to move his hands. Penelope wanted to go to the kitchen to help Father Ban, but Father Ban refused. Then he went back to his room and didn't know what to do, while I Sitting in the living room in a daze, I still felt bitter in my heart. I knew that this bitterness would stay with me for a long time until I completely forgot about Emily's day. After a while, Penelope walked out of the room and changed into home clothes. This made her look much more friendly, but she was still beautiful. It seemed that beauty was in her bones, and she looked beautiful no matter how she dressed up. "Can't you go to the kitchen and help your dad while you're sitting like a sculpture?"Penelope seemed dissatisfied that I was doing nothing while my Father Ban was busy. "You don't understand, he likes to cook alone." "There is such a thing" "Because he regards cooking as a pleasure, and others helping him would rob him of his pleasure." "Oh, then the food he cooks should be delicious." "You're not a foodie, why are you asking so many questions?" "Do you have to be a foodie to ask? Everyone has the right to be curious."Penelope confronted me tit-for-tat with dissatisfaction again. "You'll know later, won't you? It won't be long before now." Penelope didn't follow me to get to the bottom of it. She turned around and went back to her room, then walked to the bathroom with a dirty clothes basket. I was a little surprised. It turned out that the goddess also wanted to wash clothes. The sound of water running came from the bathroom, and then the washing machine started rolling. Listening to the regular rolling sound, I became even more distracted, and for a moment I couldn't even feel my own existence. The scream came from the bathroom, and it was naturally Penelope's voice. The loudness of the decibel instantly woke me up from my daze. But Father Ban had already run to the bathroom with a big spoon in his hand before me, and then I ran over too. Although Father Ban and I made the battle very large and the wolf could be killed, Penelope was just confronting a cockroach lying on the bathtub. The cockroach was shaking its tentacles fearlessly, but Penelope was already The beauty is pale, this is obviously an asymmetrical contest, and the funny thing is that the one on the weaker side turns out to be a big living person. When Penelope saw me coming, she instinctively stepped back and hid behind me. It was exactly the same as the plot in the bloody Korean drama at 9 o'clock. I also got a chance to be a hero to save the beauty, even though my opponent was just a dog. cockroach. I walked to the edge of the bathtub and picked up the cockroach by its tentacles. The cockroach was very unstable and struggled violently. Penelope screamed again. It was funny in my heart. Every time she choked me, I thought When she was vomiting blood, a cockroach lurking in a dark corner could scare her to death. This is how one thing kills another. I lifted up the cockroach and said to Father Ban: "Let's add some vegetables. I haven't eaten meat for a long time. Should I stir-fry or steam?" Penelope felt nauseated for a while. Father Ban seemed to be very protective of Penelope. His face sank and he said: "Don't make trouble, throw it away quickly." I held up the cockroach and smiled disdainfully at Penelope, then threw the cockroach out of the window. Then I sighed and said, "Well, if I hadn't fallen to death, I would have become a homeless, disabled cockroach that couldn't take care of itself. How could I have done it?" It’s better to have some snacks and then fall to death.” Penelope naturally knew that I was using the cockroaches to damage her behavior of always driving me out, but she still didn't recover from the cockroach incident just now. She just remained silent with a horrified expression, so I suddenly had a childish and somewhat funny thought. I thought, if rich people are as afraid of cockroaches as Penelope, I will carry a bag of cockroaches and extort money, and I will definitely get rich easily. After the emergency was over, Father Ban was still busy in the kitchen, but Penelope didn't allow me to leave the bathroom and asked me to accompany her to finish washing the clothes. She was afraid that another cockroach would pop out from any corner, or it might be a swarm, but it was definitely a group of cockroaches. Relatives of that cockroach just now. After a while, the washing was finally finished. Penelope took the clothes out of the drum, and I sat on the bathtub and looked at her. After a moment of silence, I said to her: "I'm moving out tomorrow." "I know." "You must be quite lonely alone." "Why should I be lonely?" I pretended to be disappointed and said: "Yes, why are you lonely? There are cockroaches A, B, C and D here to accompany you. They play hide-and-seek games with you when they have nothing to do. It's very lively." Penelope was stunned, and then looked at me angrily, but I said calmly: "Hurry and hang the clothes, we will have dinner later." At the dinner table, Father Ban, me, and Penelope were sitting on each side. Father Ban, who was usually dull, surprisingly took the initiative to ask Penelope: "Is the food still to your taste, girl?" Penelope nodded and said, "The food cooked by uncle is delicious." I know this is definitely not a compliment. The food cooked by Father Ban is really great, especially the sweet and sour fish. Penelope is also very knowledgeable and eats all the sweet and sour fish. After Penelope praised him, Father Ban nodded and smiled, then looked at me, as if telling me: "Son, your dad can only help you up to this point, the rest is up to you." I prefer that I misinterpreted the meaning expressed in Father Ban eyes, because it is completely impossible for Penelope and I to develop into lovers. Firstly, she is extremely disgusted with me; secondly, I have not grown from Jian Wei and Brian. Step out from the shadow of her; thirdly, and most importantly, I am not good enough for her. Who has ever seen a beautiful girl driving a luxury car fall in love with an unreliable scumbag? It's not a wonderful arrangement for us to meet. It's just that God wanted me to understand how big the gap between people is, and then let me die in shame. What a fucking wicked God. In my wild thoughts, the Father Ban said to me again: "Maxwell, you can repair the water pipe after dinner. There is a slight leak at the joint. If the weather gets colder, the pipe may burst." "Got it." I responded. The Father Ban nodded, and after a while he said to me: "Next time I come here to bring more rice and flour. You should go home and cook early after work. Eating outside is wasteful and unhygienic." After that, After a while, he added: "You two live together. You should take more care of her girl. You can also cook and do more work." According to the agreement between Penelope and I, I have to move out tomorrow. The Father Ban also used his fantasy to forcibly bind Penelope and me in our future lives. I was a little helpless, but I couldn't say anything about things like moving out. Tell him that he will most likely be disappointed. I nodded again, then looked at Penelope, but her expression didn't change much, she was just eating her meal very focused. Finally, the Father Ban's attention shifted from me to Penelope, and he asked Penelope: "Girl, does our Maxwell living with you cause no trouble for you?" I was afraid that Penelope would reveal all my crimes, so I kicked her under the table to signal her to stop talking nonsense, but I didn’t want her to take advantage of the situation and step heavily on my toes. The pain made me almost throw away the chopsticks in my hand. . "Uncle, he's very nice, but he always likes to smoke in the house and won't change his words."Penelope first praised and then derogated, revealing my crime to Father Ban. Father Ban looked at me with a stern face, I pretended not to notice, but Father Ban's eyes were still sharp and he looked at me unwillingly, while Penelope looked gloating. "Change, I will change." I compromised in desperation, but felt that such a compromise was meaningless, and Penelope was boring enough. I moved out immediately. Is it worth fighting over whether to smoke in the house or not? After this little episode passed, Father Ban seemed to be in a good mood and asked me to go to the kitchen to get the glutinous rice wine he brought last time. I poured a glass for Father Ban and asked Penelope: "Do you want to drink some?" Penelope passed the empty cup in front of her and said, "Drink a little." I poured a little bit for Penelope and a little bit for myself, so the three of us gathered around a small table and had a family-style dinner in this night with thousands of lights on. Don’t get me wrong, the family atmosphere I’m talking about is only different from dining out, because Penelope and we are not members of the same family. I’m afraid that after I move out, it will be difficult for me to meet each other in this huge city: