"Damn!" Shaking off Charles' hand, Daniel glared at Charles fiercely, then took out a few bills from the wallet in his pocket, threw them at him, and said displeased, "You're so damn annoying!"
After Charles took the banknotes, he laughed loudly and said: "Thanks, brother, I'll go out for a while!"
After saying that, he immediately turned around, opened the door and walked out.
Staring fiercely at Charles's leaving back, Daniel gritted his teeth and tried to calm down, calm down, and not be angry at this kind of rogue who deliberately broke into his life.
But the harder he tried, the more his teeth trembled.
This kind of life will not last long, Charles. My unchanging life pattern will not be broken by you. Just wait and see, Charles, I will let you voluntarily leave my world and get out of here——!!!
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In the blink of an eye, it was already dark.
The moon hung high in the sky, and the night seemed extremely quiet without a breeze.
The cool moonlight secretly poured in through the gaps in the dense curtains, falling on the red wooden floor, dragging the shadow of the window very long and wide.
There was no light in Daniel's house.
It's dark and empty, and you can't even smell the slightest bit of popularity.
He turned off the light and sat in the study, holding his breath, seemingly sleeping, but his fingers were tapping the armrest of the chair invisibly.
Again and again...
Like the sound of the second hand of a clock...
His handsome face was shrouded in darkness, and only the resolute outline could be distinguished. He squinted his eyes slightly and kept staring at the clock on the wall opposite him, the frequency of his fingers tapping on the armrest and the frequency of the second hand wandering
same.
It's already 8:50 now.
Daniel has always had the habit of going to bed early, at 9 o'clock, on time. And he also has a habit of counting down the last ten minutes before going to bed. Within these ten minutes, he will clear all his thoughts and enter a daydream.
It's as if I'm using that countdown to completely release myself from the stress of the day's work, so that I can sleep well.
"Tick tock...tick tock...tick tock..." The sound of the second hand moving is like a stiff mechanical lullaby.
"Dong-dong-dong-" As soon as 9 o'clock arrived, a low chirping sound automatically sounded all the time.
Daniel breathed a sigh of relief, then stood up and walked to his room to prepare for bed.
His room was exactly the same as Charles's, equally unadorned and even quite cold.
Wisps of clear night wind kept blowing in from outside the half-open window, and the atmosphere that had just been as quiet and lifeless as Silent Hill suddenly became a little lively because of the fluttering curtains.
Daniel walked over, opened the curtains, and prepared to close the windows.
Unexpectedly, he inadvertently looked through the glass of the window and saw a man and a woman chatting inside the fence of a house on the street opposite him.
He narrowed his eyes.
The colorful flowers are blooming beautifully whether during the day or at night. Although the color is slightly dull, they are still outstanding and gorgeous, adding a lot of vitality to the snow-white fence.
There is a hanging chair surrounded by the fence. The white hanging chair swings like a swing. There are two people sitting on it, a young and handsome man and a woman over fifty years old.
The woman was wearing a floral pajamas. She had a bloated figure, but her complexion was rosy and healthy, and she was energetic. Her light blond curly hair had begun to turn gray, and her face was also covered with fine wrinkles, but she seemed to be well-maintained.
If you don't look closely, you may not notice her wrinkles at all. At most, you can only see that the skin on her face is loose due to her age.
Just when he came back from the supermarket, he met Mrs. Hosking walking outside the house. He greeted her warmly and chatted like this. The two of them sat on the hanging chair outside Hosking's house.
Chatted for a while.
"It has been decades, and you are used to all the ups and downs. Charles, you are still young now. You can do whatever you want, you know?" Mrs. Holskin curved her lips kindly and looked at the sitting person in a friendly manner.
The man next to her sighed seriously.
Charles sat very casually, his body moving vaguely, shaking the white hanging chair, swinging back and forth.
Charles' expression was a little sad, but he still managed to smile and said: "I have gone through a lot of ups and downs to get to where I am today. It's so difficult. Many incredible things have happened to me, which you would never expect.
"
Mrs. Hoskin was not too surprised. She smiled and said: "Have you experienced a terrorist attack twenty years ago? If not, then what you usually experience is not a real storm. Twenty years
Before, that would be called a nightmare!"
Charles was in such an extremely relaxed state that he blurted out without any thought: "How could I not know that at that time, the president's mansion was bombed, causing countless casualties, and bank robbers took advantage of the chaos?
When I went to rob, I could hear those horrific gunshots all over the road. I still clearly remember that the streets were full of corpses at that time, and many people were running for their lives."
Mrs. Hoskin's eyes really lit up in surprise at this moment, and she said hurriedly: "How do you know, you must have been only a few years old at that time? And your accent doesn't sound like a local, how could you?
Do you know that much detail?"
After Mrs. Hoskin said this, Charles was suddenly stunned.
After a few seconds, he immediately returned to normal and behaved naturally: "I can find out those old things by looking at the news. And I was more than six years old at that time, and my memory system has matured. These things have happened to me.
I can’t forget it either!”
After hearing this, Mrs. Hoskin nodded in agreement and sighed: "It's true, you know? I lost my wife in that terrorist attack."
She straightened her sitting position and looked at the endless sky, as if her thoughts had drifted to a far, far away place, and said hoarsely: "I raised my son by myself. Maybe my education was not good. He
I did a lot of bad things when I grew up. After I got married at the age of 25, my wife ran away because of alcoholism, leaving me with a son who I raised. He is five years old and is a very cute child."
As soon as she finished speaking, a loud roar suddenly came from the room: "Go to bed, damn it!"
Then came the whimpering sounds of a little boy.
Mrs. Hoskin seemed to be used to it and didn't react much. She sighed and said, "Life is very hard. Young people like you don't understand."
Charles listened intently to Mrs. Hoskin's exclamation and did not say much. It was not until Mrs. Hoskin chatted a few more words that he heard the curses in the room getting louder and she couldn't sit still.
After saying goodbye to Charles, he got up and planned to walk back into the house.
Charles stopped rocking the chair and was about to get up, pick up a large bag of things placed in the corner, and leave. Unexpectedly, Mrs. Hoskin suddenly stopped him.
"Child, can you help me take the two pots of flowers in the corner and give them to your friend Daniel? I have always wanted to give them to him, but he seems to be very busy and is not at home all day. I see that his house is deserted. If you add more
If there are two pots of flowers, they will look more lively." After saying that, she opened the door and went back to the house.
"Thank you!" Charles looked at the two pots of purple orchids in the corner, smiled knowingly, then squatted down, held the two pots of flowers in his arms, and took them away.
Carrying a large bag of things in his hand and holding two heavy flowerpots in his arms, Charles trudged back to Daniel's house. After much difficulty, he was able to free one hand to ring the doorbell.
After pressing the button for a long time, there was no movement in the house.
Charles was so worried that he simply walked outside the house, raised his face to the second floor, and shouted at the top of his lungs: "Hey——!!! Daniel——!!!!"
He spoke Daniel's name very long and loudly, as if he wanted to wake up the neighbors on both sides.
The shouting sounds kept coming to mind, and Charles continued to shout Daniel's name.
Finally, Daniel, who had been observing Charles' movements in the house, couldn't help being angry and walked quickly downstairs to open the door for Charles.
As soon as the door opened, Charles rushed into Daniel's home unceremoniously, panting and putting down the things in his hands while saying: "Hey! Brother, I'm exhausted!"
The lights in the hall were suddenly turned on.
The whole house is bright.
Daniel's face was ugly. He glanced at the pile of things and two pots of flowers bought by Charles, and said angrily: "You disturbed my rest."
Charles turned a deaf ear and poured out all the things he bought, and then said: "It's really troublesome to buy things in the supermarket here. You have to queue up and have to go through the machine before you can pay."
Daniel walked over, took a rough look at the things he bought, and then asked coldly: "You bought these things with the money I gave you?"
"Cigarettes, wine, clothes, and daily necessities are all necessary, aren't they?" Charles was so tired that he simply sat down on the sofa and took out a pack of cigarettes he had just bought from the supermarket.
He lit it up and asked, "Want one?"
Daniel stood in front of him, staring at him. After a moment of silence, he picked up the water glass on the table and splashed it on Charles' face with a "Whoosh!"
The smoky cigarette was extinguished with a "sizzle" of water. Charles was splashed with water on his face. His eyes widened in disbelief as he stared at Daniel's face that looked like he was paralyzed.
"No smoking in my house!"
After saying that, he immediately turned around and returned to the second floor without leaving a single word.
Charles recovered from the chill and saw that Daniel had already walked up to the second floor. He immediately shouted: "Hey! Where to put these two pots of flowers?"
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The early morning sunshine filled the whole house wonderfully, making it gentle and warm.
The curtains were blown up by the wind, and the sunlight fell dappled on the face of a sleeping man on the bed. That handsome face had a lot of green beard residue overnight, and his face looked extremely tired.
The eyes are a little puffy.
Feeling a little uncomfortable under the dazzling sunlight, he opened his eyes drowsily and looked at the alarm clock he bought last night. Only then did he realize that it was already 8 o'clock in the morning.
"Huh..." He climbed up with difficulty, stretched greatly, breathed a sigh of relief, and walked into the bathroom tiredly to wash up.
The sunlight illuminated the entire deserted hall magnificently.
There is some fine dust floating in the air.
The spray of water from the sprinkler is thin and dense.
A pair of big white palms are caressing a green flower leaf with great care, like mist spraying water droplets on the petals and green leaves, like the beautiful dewdrops in the morning.
Daniel placed the two pots of flowers that Charles had moved from Mrs. Hoskin's house last night on the windowsill near the door. Although the expression on his face last night seemed to be displeased, judging from his actions in watering the flowers, Daniel placed them on the window sill near the door.
Look, he is still a person who cherishes and loves flowers.
This scene happened to fall in the eyes of Charles as he came down the stairs.
Charles walked over calmly, and when he was about to tease him, Daniel's phone suddenly rang.
Daniel answered the phone and replied seriously: "Um...ok...we'll go there right now!"
He immediately hung up the phone and as soon as he turned around, he bumped into Charles who was walking behind him. He staggered back two steps. Charles held his waist and opened his lips and said in a dumb voice.
He said: "Brother, are you okay?"
His tone and eyes were so ambiguous that Daniel's hair stood on end.
Daniel pushed him away suddenly, and then said urgently: "We have a mission, we must go back immediately!"