We Live In Nanjing

  Chapter 18 Nanjing Library and Temple of Doom

  It rained all night last night. When Banxia woke up from bed, there was a rustle outside the window.

The rain in Nanjing came quickly and violently. At first, only a crackling sound was heard, and it fell on the window lattice once a second. Within half a minute, the frequency suddenly increased and poured down in an instant. In the end, no raindrops could be heard. The voice, I only felt that the high-pressure water tap was unscrewed in the sky.

  Usually this weather condition is not suitable for going out, but today I am going to Nanjing Library.

Banxia brought two white plastic buckets downstairs and placed them in the heavy rain in front of the unit building. Two black broken umbrellas opened upside down on the bucket mouths. Just for today’s rainfall, when she comes back, two The bucket is full.

This is how Pinellia’s daily water comes from. Rainwater is cleaner than lake water, but it still needs to be purified. Her general practice is to put some alum in the bucket.

  Next, carrying a bag, putting on a raincoat, putting on sandals, holding an umbrella, and pushing a bicycle to start.

  "Deep love and rain, how many buildings are in the mist and rain!"

   "Remember that you and me were like a horse and a horse!"

  Change the song on rainy days, switch different songs according to different weather.

   Pinellia sang very loudly, and a sad and tender love song was sung to the heart.

You have to sing without singing. Your voice will be suppressed by the world. The teacher once said that everyone has an AT force field—Banxia doesn’t understand what an AT force field is. She understands it as Yang Qi, everyone is There is yang, some people have strong yang, and some people have weak yang, and those with strong yang are not afraid of evil evils.

   There was a period of time that Pinellia had believed in this theory, so I was looking for food that could aphrodisiac.

  The heavy rain made white smoke. Walking on the street of Clover Garden, looking into the distance, there were tall buildings under the dark rain clouds, but there was no light. It seemed that everyone was gone overnight, but the city was still in place.

   "Deep love and rain, the world is only in your eyes..."

  Banxia gradually couldn't sing, because she walked more and more difficult.

The city soon became waterlogged. The water on the road submerged to the ankles, and the muddy water rushed through the street. The girl stepped on the water in sandals, and the water mixed with sand and washed her toes. She could only walk for a while. The road stopped to shake the shoes and wash the mud away.

After the wind got strong, the umbrella couldn’t be hit. So Pinellia put the umbrella away and clamped it on the luggage rack of the bicycle. The rainstorm leaned against the hard top of the plastic raincoat. The raincoat’s function was limited and it was soaked and sticked by the rain not long. Fortunately, short-sleeved shirts and shorts are worn on the arms and thighs before going out. This is the prevention.

  In fact, it’s better to run naked on a rainy day.

   Banxia thought silently.

  Go out naked without wearing your clothes, so you don’t have to worry about getting your clothes wet by the rain.

  She even seriously thought about the feasibility of doing this. Can she stop and take off her clothes now? Wrap the clothes in waterproof plastic cloth and stuff them into the backpack so that she won't be afraid of rain.

  As long as I don’t wear clothes, I don’t have to worry about getting wet, I can even swim on the road!

   Forget it, it’s stupid.

  The girl shook her head.

  Nanjing Library is almost five kilometers away from Meihua Villa. It takes an hour to walk, and the time will be prolonged or even doubled in bad weather conditions.

Teacher    said that you should avoid going out in bad weather, and don’t go out if you can. If you catch a cold, you will catch a cold, and if you catch a cold, you will have a fever. If the fever is severe, it will cause pneumonia. Pneumonia can't be cured!

   Banxia suddenly stepped on empty.

I haven’t realized what’s going on. My body tilted and sank suddenly. Banxia’s first foot was still stepping on the solid road, and the next step was stepping into the bottomless water, with a scream. Without shouting out her throat, the girl's waist slammed into the hard edge of the well, and the intense pain radiated from the impact to the surroundings. The pain made her sob weakly, and the whole person curled up reflexively.

   hurts!

But the groan still didn't come out, and the muddy dirty water filled her mouth and nose. Most of the girl sank into the water with a "boom!" In the manhole.

  The flood water ran away the sewer manhole cover, and the muddy water on the road covered the well head. The space under the well was filled with water, which was a death trap.

  Banxia almost drowned in this well, she subconsciously grabbed the well, crawled out desperately, collapsed on the road and coughed violently.

  Now it’s all right, the muddy body is soaking wet with people and bags.

  Banxia clutched her waist and smiled bitterly, her smile changed from the pain, and the rain rushed on her face.

  Sitting in the rainstorm and taking a rest for a while, the girl got up and went to help the bicycle, but found that the umbrella on the car was gone.

  "Where's the umbrella? Where's my umbrella?"

   Banxia was taken aback.

   Could it have fallen into a well?

  She bent down and looked at the mouth of the well. The mouth of the well was black and bottomless.

  At this time, there was a loud noise of "Squeak—" over my head. Pinellia looked up and saw, good deed, monkeys were crawling on the lush canopy of the French plane trees!

  A large group of monkeys are sheltering from the rain under the canopy, and they **** them with a blue folding umbrella in their hands.

   "Return the umbrella to me!"

   Banxia shouted angrily, Zhang bow and arrow.

  "No tears! No bites! No bites—!"

The umbrella came and passed, Pinellia moved the head and didn’t know which one to shoot. In the end, the umbrella was snatched by a little gray monkey. Nailed to the trunk under its buttocks.

  This scared the monkey. The umbrella fell from its hand and landed in the green belt.

  Banxia went to pick up the umbrella and watched sadly as it shattered into rags.

  The monkeys scurried around above their heads, making noises and making faces at the girl under the tree, but Banxia couldn't understand what they were saying.

  The sorrows and joys of humans and monkeys are not connected, I just think the world is noisy.

No matter   .

  She was too lazy to breathe with a group of monkeys. The girl silently lifted the bicycle, clamped the broken umbrella to the car, and carried a soaked backpack on her back, carrying muddy water all over her body, and she walked far in the rainstorm.

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Nanjing Library is located at No. 189, Zhongshan East Road. It is one of the largest libraries in China. Its main body is a seven-story glass curtain wall building. If this building is placed in a religious world that worships knowledge, it is appropriate. Temple.

  Banxia pushed the bicycle through the square in front of the temple. Under the steps of the library, there are huge marbles. The marbles have large gilded characters. No one has cleaned them, and they are covered with dry bird droppings.

  The girl looked up at the dark blue glass curtain wall, step by step up the stairs, like the last pilgrim to visit the temple.

The door of the library was still open and the revolving door was smashed, but the side door can be entered and exited at will. The last person who left it must have no intention of locking it. Pinellia passed through the glass door and entered the hall, only to find this old book collection. The hall had already been empty, and there was only **** all over the place.

On the south side of the third floor of the library is the newspaper area, but Pinellia did not find anything. She walked alone through the dim hall, leaving ticking muddy water all the way, and the rows of bookshelves were covered with dust, and all she could find was a little waste paper. .

  The sixth to seventh floors of the library are the archives, which are still empty.

  Banxia spent three hours searching the building, and finally came to a conclusion that she ran for nothing.

  The library was emptied. In the most turbulent years of the early years, books, newspapers and magazines were all fuel, and they were transported back in bundles and burned, leaving nothing left.

  The girl stopped in front of the bookshelf. She finally found two books in the huge library. They were forgotten in the corner. She took them off on tiptoe, brushed away the thick dust, and barely saw the cover of the book.

   "Dead on... Mars?"

   "There is no sound from the Titan..."

  Banxia doesn’t know why they escaped, probably because these two books are non-burnable garbage.

  She went downstairs silently and started a fire in the rest area. She just burned the two books she had just found as a firelight, and then took off all the clothes soaked in mud and hung them on a chair next to her.

  The girl was naked, and the fire crackled on the floor. Outside the transparent glass curtain wall was a downpour. Listening to the sound of the rain, she buried her head in her knees, and the muddy water fell drop by drop on her wet hair.

  Deep fatigue came from my heart.

  Banxia is very tired.

  Too tired to say a word.

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  (The author Jun's gossip: Nantu did not go to work.)

  (End of this chapter)