ALOUETTE

"ALOUETTE" Author: He An

I suddenly thought of you, like a lark breaking through the dark land to break through the dawn to attack and receive two angles, parallel timelines, details complementing each other, I am in love

Content tags: soft spot

Search keywords: Protagonist: Lin Cang, Gu Qingji┃Supporting role: Mu Ran┃Others: short stories, finished in one post

1. Braun

(One)

I'm probably sick.

After my seventh birthday I started to hear a lot of sounds that normal people can't hear, and as I got older, I heard more and more sounds.

I would initially hear the sound of glass shattering and heavy objects falling on quarreling parents, and birds chirping in loving couples, and different people exhibit different sounds.I regard it as a magical superpower, and show it off to everyone around me regardless of place and time, and let the joy brought by this ability ferment in my heart, but unfortunately I can't hear myself.

I first tried to judge people's emotions by the sounds I heard, but before I succeeded a few times, my attempt hit a wall.These sounds that shouldn't be heard are becoming more and more complex. I try to split these sounds so that they can be described by audible sounds in life, hoping to make myself feel better, so this kind of daily life like a nightingale singing loudly in a spring is produced. Matches that are impossible in life.

I thought I could live peacefully in these complicated sounds all the time, but I made a mistake.These more and more chaotic sounds almost drove me crazy, I began to resist all crowded places, unfamiliar places, and finally began to prick the eardrum with needles, hoping to obtain eternal silence.

Sadly it didn't work out, my parents who witnessed and prevented my self-harm thought I was depressed and took me to a psychiatrist.Doctors think I'm just misophonia, or delusional.In the name of loving me, my parents followed the doctor's advice and made an appointment to take me to an animal training institution with a small number of people, preparing to adopt milder animal therapy.I was slightly rescued by the touch of fluff, but soon passed out under the double attack of fur allergy and too chaotic sound.

The treatment was put on hold, and with no clue, I could only live with difficulty every day.Thanks to the Internet age, when I couldn't hold on, relying on the Internet and self-study, I actually passed the college entrance examination, and then entered the university as an art student.I like to draw plants, they only make one sound, probably water and nutrients flow along the tissue, simple and specific.

(two)

I gradually got used to these sounds, because they no longer get louder every day, and each individual can make no more than six sounds at most.When I am free, I will find a place in the library where there are few people, turn on the computer, start listening to the voices of the people around me, and then guess what kind of book this person is reading, and get inspiration from the voice.I often hear the sound of a volcano erupting, and after being startled I will try to ask politely, and most of the time I will get an answer like "because what this character is doing is so annoying", and sometimes I will get one or two friend.

In order to be able to identify more sounds, I listened to each sound from various channels, listened to each sound individually, imagined the sound after they were mixed, and guessed when they appeared.

Then on an ordinary day, an ordinary friend I knew dragged me into a store that also looked ordinary. That was the first time I saw a miracle.

(three)

My friend is very interesting. I can often listen to a coherent rock music by his side, which is extremely inconsistent with her good girl appearance.So when I entered the store, I heard the complete conflict of classical piano and modern rock at the same time, which made my spine tingle.

The young shopkeeper left the piano to greet us, but the sound of the piano still passed through his body and reached my ears.After the sounds I heard became complicated, it was the first time I met a person with only one sound, who was single-minded like a plant growing silently, which was a bit unexpected.Then this man, who will be equated with miracles in my eyes from now on, looked at me for a while,

"You've been sick for a long time, don't you know that?"

Since then, I finally got rid of that possibility and came to the conclusion that I was indeed ill.

(four)

He put a pair of earbuds that looked like bluetooth headsets into my ears, and the sound of the piano that was close at hand just dropped a chord, as if announcing the end of something.The sound that had haunted me for 13 years was taken away in this way, and the huge silence even scared me.Then I heard some sounds, like water flowing, like lava.

"What did you hear?"

"Deep sea, and...probably a whale."

"Ah, it suits you very well." I almost thought he was laughing at me, but he looked very serious. "That's yourself."

Then I was sent out the door together with the rock cassette bought by my friend and the free antique carved comb and my friend.

On the way back, I walked in a muddle, wrapped in the salty sea water, fell on the bed in the apartment, couldn't breathe under the pressure of the water, and was still happy that I had moved out of the dormitory long ago, otherwise I would have to bother to explain myself status.

I took off the earplugs, relaxed my nerves in the green of the apartment, and fell asleep with the sound of their growth.In the dream, the dark sea water rolled me to follow a huge whale. The cry of the whale was no different from the cry to me, which made me feel that I was about to be smashed by the sea water.

(Fives)

The cat sent by the boss saved Nightmare from my nightmare.

It was a white cat with a soft blond at the ends, and more importantly, it didn't have those voices.Like those cats I saw before I was seven years old, quiet and soft, with a comfortable purr when scratching its chin.

I hugged the cat under the quilt and didn't think about why I didn't have allergies.But the cat was not satisfied with this posture. It struggled to get out of my arms and motioned me to read the letter hanging around its neck.

"Zhanxinjia

Jinhua cat is a ghost that absorbs moonlight, so there will be no allergy problems without those sounds, and you can give it to you if you like it. "

I feel that I have been spoiled, and I am in a very unbeautiful mood.

"I'm a little curious about whether you still wear that earplug now. I guess not. After all, the world is suddenly quieter and I'm not used to it. I don't know if you have deep-sea phobia. It's quite pitiful. If you need it , come to my shop tomorrow and I can tell you something about your ears.

Of course, if you can't sleep, you can come now. "

I just had a nightmare and read a bunch of texts, so I can't fall asleep, but I don't want to go to him.So I brought back the earplugs, hugged the cat again, and lay back under the soft quilt.The sound of sea water flowing over the reef fits with the sound of heartbeat, pulling me up the broad back of the swimming whale.

Facing the blue-black sea water again, there was no panic and helplessness. This free island in the sea greeted me with a long voice. I couldn't make a sound, so I had to pat it on the back in response.

(six)

I was woken up by a cat stepping on me in the morning. I didn’t know what to feed it, so I had to wash it and take it to the store. The boss took me to the balcony on the second floor, where I was basking in the sun. Tiramisu, I don't know where he is, it's early in the morning, it's so sweet that I want to vomit.After the dessert was the bitter espresso. I took a sip and quickly chose the recommended black tea, and decided not to say "anything is okay" to this person again.

"Your ears should be parasitized by a kind of worm. I call this kind 'alouette', of course it has other names. It can be taken out when it was first parasitized, but now its root grows with your blood vessels. Together, it can’t be removed. So unfortunately my dear, you can only choose to continue to live with those voices, or with this earplug.”

"I choose these earplugs. Besides, don't you think it's more than a little strange that you, as a man, call another man who just met for the second time dear?"

"Ah, I'm used to it. I'm sorry to bother you. Then let's discuss the remuneration. Please rest assured that the remuneration I propose is definitely within your acceptable range."

Today, the boss wears gold-rimmed eyes, leaning against the back of the chair with a cup of coffee, his long legs folded together, smiling like a gentle rascal.

"You said before that you can draw, I remember correctly." I nodded to signal him to continue. "Draw me a picture, you can draw it before, I want to hang it there."

I looked in the direction of his finger, and there was a picture frame hanging on a counter on the first floor, inside which were mass-produced posters that came with the products. The placement is in stark contrast.

"Is that all your reward?"

"Bingo! I also plan to use it as a blind date corner. Guests who need it can choose what they like, and I will provide the contact information. How about it, do you want to try it?"

As soon as my mouth made a plosive sound, the boss found out what I was going to say and stopped me, "It's no use refusing, it's mine after I get paid, but you can give me a fake contact Way."

(Seven)

I began to doubt my own IQ who regarded this person as a miracle, and there were too many places to complain, so I chose to shut up.

(Eight)

The boss later transformed the earplugs into stud earrings, and persistently made them into colors according to his preference.I was silent for a long time about the bright red and purple that I could choose, and finally decided to continue to be a deaf man with a hearing aid and an impolite fool who wears earphones all day long in the sympathetic eyes of others.

It's a bonus for me not to have to hear the noise that other people make