Sao Nian, you lost your integrity

A sea of ​​black wooden photo frames, large and small, covered almost the entire wall. The glass surface of the photo frames reflected the gradually darkening sunset light, and my shadow reflected on the glass moved from one frame to another. .

After quickly confirming that there were no silkworms in it, I began to admire them one by one—the whole thing in front of me was a microcosm of the insect kingdom.

Spiders, grasshoppers, centipedes, scorpions, beetles that look familiar but can't be named, unicorns... Besides these, the most common ones are ants, big and small, all kinds of ants.

From the ones as small as sesame seeds to the ones as long as my fingers, they fully filled half of the wall.

I was looking carefully at the giant ant in the photo frame in the middle of the wall when Ye Wen’s figure flashed past and appeared on the glass. Ants in Australia are called bulldogs."

The big ant with two big eyes like black beans has two large pliers that are almost as long as the head. A broken needle pierced the third segment of its body and held it in place in the black velvet lining.

Ye Wen continued to introduce, "The one you see is 8 centimeters long, which is considered big. Their average body length is 5 centimeters."

I twisted my neck and glanced across the insects, and my eyes fell on a palm-sized blue spider, "Is this a real spider or a model? Why is it blue and so big?"

Ye Wen held Guan Xiaosan in one hand and gestured at the spider through the glass with the other, "Singapore blue spider, referred to as Singapore blue, is a large tarantula. It is quite colorful among blue varieties, so it is very popular among players. This one The foot is 21 centimeters, not too big, it was originally raised by a friend, but after it was accidentally raised to death, I asked someone to make a specimen." He gestured to the wall, "There are many on this wall. That's how the specimens come from."

I stared at these strange insect specimens until my eyes became straight, "I really have everything to raise these days. I thought it was quite individual to have a centipede in the dormitory next door. It turns out that there are still people who keep such a big one. A tall spider as a pet... and these ants." I pointed to a termite, "Someone even raises these things?"

Ye Wen shook his head, "Spiders and centipedes are basically collected by the way. Friends know that I collect specimens, and if there are suitable ones, they will leave them to me. As for these ants... they are the first specimens I collected. You see On this wall, almost all the major ant species in the world are collected.”

I opened my mouth wide and made an exaggerated expression of surprise, "You really can't tell what you look like, Ye Wen, you actually like ants so much? Ah, it's easy to handle. I'll go and check around the garbage dump in the neighborhood in two days. You bring a litter back to raise it."

Ye Wen's eyes flicked over several photo frames with ants in them, and he smiled, "When did I say I like ants?"

I couldn't figure it out, "If you don't like it, why do you collect so many?"

Ye Wen looked at me, "Do you have to keep what you like in order to keep it by your side?"

"Then why don't you put the things you don't like in front of your eyes?"

Ye Wen laughed silently, "Guan Guan, these are specimens, in other words, they are all corpses, would you like to see the corpses of things you like?"

"Uh, you shouldn't be..."

"Well," Ye Wen nodded, "The insects I hate the most are ants."

How does it feel to treat specimens like corpses, and collect so many ants of different colors and species and put them in your own home, just take a look at them when you have nothing to do?What kind of hatred does this guy have with ants?

I asked doubts, "Ye Wen, you must have been bitten by ants when you were young, right? Or maybe you are just like me...cough, have you accidentally eaten ants?"

Ye Wen rolled his eyes and smiled, pointing in the direction of the terrace, "I haven't finished introducing my family yet, let's go and see the terrace first, it won't be clear after a while."

Leaving Guan Xiaosan in the house, Ye Wen and I went to the terrace. Before opening the door, he changed a pair of shoes.

The terrace is about [-] to [-] square meters. Ye Wen’s family lives on the seventh floor, so the terrace is equivalent to the height of the eighth floor. The ground is covered with fine velvet turf, and the corners are built with rough stones along the corners. There is a small flowerbed with a climbing frame in it, and a white rose and many flowers and plants that I can't name. Among them, there is a kind of thin leaves and small red flowers that grow very vigorously. the entire railing.

In the other corner of the terrace, there is a simple iron double swing, with several pots of flowers and plants placed beside the swing.

I pointed to the climbing vine with small red flowers, and asked Ye Wen: "Did you plant these flowers?"

"Basically, I remodeled the top floor on a whim, waterproofed it, laid turf, and made such a small garden, but after it was done, I didn't have much interest in managing it. Usually, the cleaning lady did it together with watering, fertilizing and weeding. , she's not here these days, I can't even remember to water it." He said, taking a water bottle from the tool shelf beside the railing, "Do you want to come together?"

I took the old copper watering can. "Is this thing old?"

Ye Wen nodded, and took a watering can to the small pool in the corner, "I found this at Panjiayuan."

I fetched water with him to water the flowers. The unknown plants with thin leaves and small red flowers are even more flattering when they are drenched in water. I asked casually, "What's the name of this flower? I seem to have seen it when I was young."

"Pine-leaf quill is a common flower, and it's easy to raise."

I looked at the well-growing white roses while watering them, and asked Ye Wen, "Isn't it enough to just water? Do you want to fertilize? I just happened to be holding back my urine."

Ye Wen gave me a white look, and went straight to sit on the swing after pouring the water, and I sat down too.The setting sun was shining, the breeze was blowing, and the scent of roses wafted over one after another, and the slight shaking of the swing was very comfortable. I couldn't help but sigh, "It's so fucking comfortable, I'm planning to move now No, you can rent this terrace to me."

Ye Wen sneered, "Are you telling me to lure wolves into the house?"

I pointed to my face, smiled and approached Ye Wen, "Look, look, I just look like a wolf, but I'm actually a silly husky."

"Husky?" Ye Wen drew his voice, "I'm sorry, I just got a cat, so I can't keep a dog anymore."

"Damn Guan Xiaosan!"

"Why do you want to move?"

I put my hands under my neck and leaned back comfortably, "San Fatty needs a place to make a studio. I want to make room for him. It's convenient to take this opportunity to move to a place close to the company."

"Well, call me when you need help moving."

I smiled at him, "By the way, I haven't mentioned ants yet."

"You still remember."

"That's right, the specimens on the whole wall, and the ants on half the wall, this is not ordinary shock!"

Ye Wen also raised his head and looked at the clouds slowly passing by in the sky, "When I was very young, I saw a beautiful butterfly under the locust tree in the backyard of my home. At that time, I saw that the butterfly's wings were as big as my palm's. It's so big, with blue stripes on a pure black background, when I saw it at first, it crawled slowly on the ground, and after a closer look, I found that it was being besieged by a large group of ants..."

I interjected, "Did you catch that butterfly back?"

Ye Wen smiled, "I picked it up from the ant colony, and got rid of all the ants crawling on it, then put it in the palm of my hand and stood in the backyard watching it all afternoon...you guessed it, What happened afterwards?"

"Being besieged by ants is inherently weak, plus being willing to eat a few bites will not last long, so the butterfly is dead, and you will hate the ants from now on?"

"Almost." Ye Wen raised his hand and looked at his palm, as if there was a butterfly inside, "The butterfly crawled slowly in my palm, stopping and going, and when it was getting dark, It flapped its wings and flew up without warning. At that moment, I felt very happy, I felt that I saved it, and saved such a beautiful life from the dirty ant's mouth... So, when the next day When I found only a butterfly wing left in the corner of the backyard in the morning, you should be able to imagine the feeling."

"The ants couldn't finish eating and couldn't drag them into the hole, so they stayed here?"

"The ant hole is nearby, and I can see many ants going back and forth, and a few of them are crawling on the wings. I buried the wings, then found insecticide and mixed it with water, and poured it one by one. Fill the hole..." Ye Wen closed his eyes, "The next day, I put away the dead ants in the corner of the wall and put them in a small box. In fact, thinking about it now, it's not a big deal. It's nature for the weak to eat the strong. Collecting ant specimens is mainly a habit."

I looked at Ye Wen's face under the sunset, quiet and peaceful, although he was just talking about killing ants, something that almost every child has done, but he said it so calmly with this expression, it still made me There is a weird feeling that can't be described, and I can't tell what is wrong.

A subtle feeling flashed by, and when Ye Wen opened his eyes and looked at me with light brown clear pupils, I immediately felt normal, "It's nothing to kill a few ants, let me tell you, I followed Yue Chen when I was young The stinky boys in the neighborhood catch grasshoppers and roast them for fun, fight crickets, use mother’s silk stockings to make net bags to catch small fish and roast them, and even turn over the stone piles by the river to catch crabs, mussels and eels on rainy days. As long as they are caught, they will all be shot and killed, roasted and sprinkled with salt, they will all be sacrificed to the Temple of the Five Viscera."

Ye Wen frowned and pursed his lips, "Hearing what you said, I suddenly felt that my childhood was incomplete."

I leaned over and kissed him on the face, "How about I take you to make up for your childhood when you have time? Let's catch grasshoppers in summer, shall we? When we were young, we all caught more grasshoppers than anyone in an afternoon. The one who caught the most On the second day, I will be the leader, and I can give orders to occupy the mountain and become the king. In other words, it seems that Yue Chen wins eight out of ten times. Obviously, I caught him with him, and it feels like the two of them caught the same, but the results are the same every time. It’s his at most and I don’t know why.”

Ye Wen sat up, propped his chin with one hand, and said slowly: "You and Yue Chen... have a really good relationship."