Forced to focus on daily life [Comprehensive English and American]

Just thinking of Mrs. Mathers dialing the Manhattan Police Department, walking up and down behind the sofa in the living room, and yelling "my daughter is missing" to the police station operator on the other side of the phone, Rosie feels The back of her head was numb, and she didn't even have time to think about the fried chicken cutlet next to her mouth. She directly lifted the quilt and wanted to get off the bed, but the next second, she fell back on the bed because of the sharp pain in her waist that was caught off guard.

Jason's bed wasn't soft, it was even a bit harsh, so that when her body fell back, she was traumatized a second time and let out a scream of "Aww".

Jason leaned against the wall and smoked a cigarette. After watching her series with cold eyes, he gave a short laugh, pointed the cigarette butt at the ashtray on the bedside table and shook it, then said: "Although I said that your self-healing The ability is much stronger than that of ordinary people, but it is not enough to be alive and kicking in a few minutes." He put the cigarette to his lips again, "Wait a little more."

Rosie sat up enduring the pain in her waist, put her hands behind her back, and said weakly: "You don't know how terrifying a mother in a state of rage is."

Jason exhaled a smoke ring, and the smoke spread layer by layer in the air, covering the expression on his face in the faint smoke.

Outside the window came the sound of a group of children laughing and running past. The soles of their shoes collided with the concrete pavement, making a "stamping" sound, mixed with the voices of women and men living next door cursing, and the wheels of bicycles rolling over the uneven road. The puddles on the road splashed the pedestrians on the side of the road, causing another wave of curses.

Rosie always felt that her words were like a deep water bomb. In this old and dilapidated room, the air seemed to stop flowing, and the unrelated sounds outside the house were like explosions. / The lingering sound after the explosion is buzzing in the ears.

She felt that the atmosphere was obviously not right, so she tilted her head, trying to see Jason's expression clearly. At this moment, Jason lowered his head slightly, and put out the half-remaining cigarette in his hand into the ashtray on the bedside table. Said: "In this case, I'd better borrow the neighbor's Chevrolet pickup."

Rosie was taken aback, coughed dryly,

He raised his eyes to look at Rosie, curled up his lips, and snorted in his nose, as if he was laughing. The cigarette butt that he extinguished in the ashtray was left with only a blue smoke floating up, and it reached his chin again. dissipated in the air.He clapped his hands, and when he was about to turn around, he paused, as if he suddenly remembered something, and said to Rosie: "By the way, during the time you were unconscious, your boss also called several times. you."

Rosie's eyes widened again, and her body reflexively wanted to jump up from the bed. Jason had already pressed her shoulders first, raised one eyebrow and said, "It seems that the boss in a state of rage is more powerful than a mother." Is it even more scary?"

While rubbing her waist, Rosie said extremely weakly: "Please, give me the phone."

Jason opened the drawer with the other hand, took out Rosie's cell phone, held both ends of the cell phone with his hands, shook it in front of Rosie's eyes, and said, "The boss has to arrange work in the middle of the night, it seems that Marce Miss Si's job is not easy."

Rosie grabbed the phone and hurriedly pressed the HOME button. However, after pressing it several times, the [-]-inch screen of the iPhone still didn't light up. The phone was turned off, and she quickly turned on the phone. However, after entering the power-on password and waiting for the signal to recover for a few seconds, she felt anxious again, as if someone had put her on a barbecue grill. Looking at him, frowning slightly.

After a whole day of use and endless calls the night before, Rosie's phone had only 5% battery left. After looking at the red battery icon on the upper right of the screen, she took a deep breath and used extremely fast Quickly opened the call log, but before she could see the missed call record, the phone rang first. She was startled by the sudden ringtone in a state of high nervousness, and almost threw the phone Go, however, before she could adjust to get on the phone, the ringtone stopped abruptly and the phone screen returned to darkness.

The room fell into silence again, only the noise of children riding bicycles outside could be heard.

Rosie held the phone in her hand, froze for a while, then raised her head and looked at Jason.

Jason folded his arms and met her gaze.

"Cough...that..." Rosie laughed dryly, "Do you have an Apple phone charger?"

Jason said naturally, "No."

"..." Rosie remained silent for a few seconds, "Then... can I borrow your mobile phone?"

"No problem." Jason quickly opened the drawer, took out a brick-like black object, and handed it to Rosie.

Rosie took this electronic product from Jason's hand with a complicated expression, and tentatively pulled out its antenna, her fingers froze just as she entered a number on the dial.

She didn't remember any of the boss Tony's back and forth five numbers.

She seems to have returned to the familiar and cramped McLaren car, the boss is sitting on her co-pilot, with his hands folded, wearing a pair of brown sunglasses, with a mocking smirk on his face, lightly Said: "Secretary Mathers didn't even remember one of my numbers. He is really not a qualified secretary to the chairman of the Stark Group."

She sighed, rubbed the center of her eyebrows with her left hand, squinted her eyes and stared at the dial, and moved her right hand quickly on the dial, dialing the landline phone in the living room of Mathers House.

She put the big brother next to her ear, quietly listening to the "beep" sound from the receiver, thinking about how to explain to Kailani that she disappeared for a day without any reason, and she hasn't figured out a reason yet. The "beep" sound in the ear suddenly disappeared, and a middle-aged male voice with a little tiredness answered the phone: "Hello?"

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sp; Rosie was taken aback. At this time, Mr. Mathers should not be at home, but sitting in his office on Wall Street, starting a new day of busy work.

She exhaled and said cautiously, "Dad?"

The other side was silent for a few seconds, but Rosie seemed to hear her own heart beating faster and faster in this silence. Just as her left hand touched the position of her chest, she heard a faint sob from the other side. He frowned, and then heard Mr. Mathers' nasal voice: "Rosie? Is it really my baby Rosie?"

Rosie was caught in the heart by Mr. Mathers' voice. Before she had time to think about the reason, she nodded her head in a panic and nodded several times before realizing that across the phone, Mathers Si couldn't see her movements, so he could only hold the big brother tightly, put it against his face, and said, "Yes, it's me, Dad."

Mr. Mathers on the other side of the phone breathed out, seemed to wipe away his tears, and then shouted loudly: "Madam, our Rosie is still alive, she called."

Rosie: "???"

How did you jump directly from "missing" to "death"? ? ?

For the first time this day, Mr. Mathers did not turn on his laptop to deal with work matters, and Mrs. Mathers ignored the draft appointment calls to her private phone. In Mathers’ house, only Kailani Bracing herself to finish her work, she cooked three sumptuous breakfasts, but whether it was the two masters of Mathers House or herself, they still had no appetite after looking at the delicious food.

The police officers from the Manhattan Police Department left after taking notes. Before leaving, one of the female police officers looked at the Mathers couple sitting silently on the sofa, sighed, and said, "Mr. Mathers, Mrs. Mathers, we have cooperated with S.H.I.E.L.D., and the superheroes will catch that serial killer as quickly as possible."

The Mathers couple still didn't respond, only Kailani, who was seeing off the guests, forced a smile to the policewoman.

She has worked at the Mathers House for many years, watching Rosie Mathers grow from a toddler to a tall and graceful girl, and now Rosie has disappeared overnight and is likely to be killed by the recent rampage in New York. Killed by a serial murderer, just thinking about it made her feel desperate, let alone the Mathers couple who loved Rosie so much.

After sending the police away, Kailani sighed and put the three untouched breakfasts on the table into the microwave oven, and then practiced her smile against the reflection of the microwave door. Saying "Now this time should be the time when Rosie's favorite TV series is broadcast, why don't we watch the TV series and wait for the police to notify", while picking up the remote control of the TV, and turning on the TV that has not been favored all morning.

"It is understood that a vicious incident occurred in a private hospital in New York in the early hours of this morning. A total of 38 medical staff, hospital staff and unidentified people died in the incident. According to a survivor, the incident is related to the serial killings that have been committed in New York in recent days. crime related."

Kailani: "..."

The Mathers couple: "..."

Kailani immediately turned off the TV, and then hurriedly said: "The police didn't say that Rosie was among the dead in this incident. Our Rosie must be alive!"

Mrs. Mathers huddled in the corner of the sofa in the living room, lowered her head and shed tears. Mr. Mathers closed his eyes, waved his hands, and was about to say something when the landline phone on the armrest of the sofa beside him rang. He sighed, adjusted his state, and answered the phone.

It took Rosie 10 minutes to comfort the rest of the Mathers House members who took turns to answer the phone. She repeatedly emphasized that she just temporarily slept at the house of her college classmates and that both her and her cellphones were out of battery. After returning home, the three members of the Mathers family obediently agreed to eat breakfast.

She hung up the phone, rubbed her forehead with her left hand, and then looked up at Jason.

Jason still maintained the posture of leaning against the wall next to the bedside table with his hands folded, without any change, like a sculpture.He looked at Rosie, without the usual hostility in his eyes, but with a bit of inquiry.

"I made you laugh." Rosie whispered, handing the big brother to him.

He didn't take the big brother right away, but stared at her, and then asked, "Family?"

Rosie was stunned for a moment, then nodded: "Hmm..." She closed her eyes, remembering that before she hung up the phone, she heard Kailani nagging that there was almost no food in the refrigerator and she had to go to Shopping for vegetables in the supermarket, and cooking a sumptuous dinner for Rosie in the evening, she smiled and said, "Family."

Jason lowered his eyes, and his thick eyelashes covered his sharp eyes, making him look much gentler. He took the mobile phone from Rosie, opened the drawer, and threw the mobile phone into the in the drawer.

Rosie followed his movements and looked into the drawer, only to see a photo frame under the big brother. She casually glanced at the person in the photo, only to see that it was a woman, but when she saw the woman's face , her pupils suddenly dilated, she suddenly looked up at Jason, and asked, "You..."

Before she finished speaking, she heard the group of noisy children outside the window suddenly shout loudly:

"iron Man!"

"It's Iron Man!"

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