"Uh-huh" Toto lay listlessly on the floor next to the sofa in the living room, whining slightly.
The tables and chairs in the living room are filled with antique dolls, scattered in every corner. All the gifts have been unpacked from the gift boxes, and they are all in bloom. The gift boxes have been thrown away, and the wrapping paper has been put into the attic where the sundries are kept.
"Let's go, it's dawn, let's go to the dog park." Ye Wei looked at Toto who didn't want to move and said, "It's Independence Day today, it's very lively outside, let's go."
Toto still didn¡¯t move. He seemed to be suffering from depression.
Dogs can also suffer from depression. Toto was very sad because Duoduo was lost. He could feel how anxious the whole family was that day. A few days later, he was sent to a kennel for foster care, where he stayed for most of his life. Months, it must have made it feel abandoned, thinking it had done something wrong.
Parents and Duoduo will not come back until this weekend. Maybe Toto will not be happy before then. Fortunately, there is no hunger strike.
"It's okay." Ye Wei bent down and picked up Toto, holding it in his arms and walking out of the house.
Under the dawning sky, he drove Toto to the Barrington Dog Park. Everyone and the dog were quiet along the way. He drove the Volkswagen Polo, but he returned the Porsche 911 to the manufacturer. The Ferrari F430-spider and the Mercedes-Benz G55-AMG were both sold as ordinary second-hand cars, which were boring to drive.
There were not many people in the park in the early morning. As soon as he walked into the grass of the park, Ye Wei untied Toto and let him run freely, but Toto was lazy and a little downcast.
He called: "Run, run, girl."
But Toto stood squatting on the spot, looking up at him with its round eyes.
The man and the dog looked at each other for a while, and he suddenly nodded and said: "Okay, I'll run too." After doing a few warm-up movements, he started to trot, with Toto following behind, and he ran from the barbed wire fence at one end of the park to the other. The barbed wire fence above my head was running back and forth.
The sky is getting brighter and brighter, and there are more and more people and dogs walking their dogs.
The usually lively and generous Toto did not play with the dogs today, and he did not run away with Ye Wei. He walked aside to smell and look for something.
Ye Wei gradually stopped and stood in the middle of the park in a daze, not knowing what he was thinking of. A big yellow Labrador dog came up and sniffed his jeans. He said hello "Hey" and was about to stroke its head, but the Labrador dog turned and walked away.
He smiled and laughed, then sighed.
"Toto, let's go."
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Various Independence Day celebrations are being held across Los Angeles, with parades walking in the lively streets; Independence Day concerts held at the Hollywood Bowl; street parties held in many parks, with Stars and Stripes waving and worn everywhere. , full of happy tourists.
There are also different celebrations on each school campus, and the students are filled with youthful laughter.
Ye Wei drove around Brentwood and headed towards the northwest section of the Mandeville Valley.
When we drove onto the dilapidated mountain road, the car became a little bumpy and drove further and further until we reached a deserted place with only telephone poles one after another. Through the windshield, Ye Wei looked at the hills and woods in front of him without thinking about anything. Suddenly he heard a bang and the car immediately turned to the right.
He quickly braked gently, parked the car aside, and turned off the engine.
Ye Wei sat quietly for a while with his back straight, then suddenly unbuckled his seat belt, tightened the handbrake, opened the door and got out of the car.
He walked straight to the back of the car, opened the trunk, and all the sundries in the trunk came into view. The car had not been driven since it was abandoned in the garage at home. Until he recently drove it again, the contents were still there, but it was covered with all-pervasive dust.
I moved away the debris, lifted up the black partition, took out the jack, wrench, warning triangle and other tools that had not been used for a long time, and then took out the spare tire.
Ye Wei went to the back of the mountain road to place the warning triangle sign, then came back and took the tool towards the blown right front tire.
He looked at the collapsed right front tire, the car, the rusty wrench in his hand, etc. He couldn't find any gloves, so he said "ok" to himself and started to change the tire. The spare tire was padded under the car, the flat tire screws were loosened, and the jack was used to set up the fulcrum on the side of the car to stabilize it. He held the rocker with both hands and shook it vigorously. With a squeaking sound, the car was slowly turned over and lifted up.
Ye Wei stood up, wiped the sweat from his head, and was about to remove the right front tire. Suddenly, the jack tipped over, and the whole car fell back to the ground in the blink of an eye.
He looked at the car, sighed and said "fine" for a long time, and got back to work again.
The fierce summer sun was shining down, and the mountain road was hot. The car, tools, and tires were all hot. When he finally changed the spare tire and put away the jack after almost all his efforts, he was already covered in hot sweat. It penetrated and the white T-shirt stuck to my body, which was very uncomfortable.
He continued to pack the broken tires, warning triangles and other items. Just as he was putting the jack back into the trunk, his right palm was scratched by an edge of the jack for some reason, creating a large gash, and blood immediately poured out. A burning, cracking pain.
With his brows furrowed, Ye Wei took a deep breath and finally exhaled slowly: "Nice."
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UCLa Medical Center, Ye Wei has been sitting on the chair in the waiting room of the emergency department for almost an hour. His palms and the gauze given by the nurse have been glued together by blood. It is not his turn yet. It¡¯s not that there are many patients, there are several groups of patients lined up, and there are several groups of patients sitting around, it¡¯s just a matter of efficiency.
Some patients were reading magazines, some were pressing cell phones, and some were talking softly to accompanying relatives. Ye Wei was leaning on the back of his chair in a daze.
After waiting for nearly half an hour, a black nurse came over and said it was his turn. He got up and followed him to the emergency room.
The doctor treated, sutured and bandaged the wound, administered a tetanus shot, and settled the bill for nearly a thousand dollars. After leaving the hospital, Ye Wei bought a few burritos on a nearby street for lunch. After eating, he drove home and didn't want to go anywhere.
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The night sky in Los Angeles is very bright today, and the Independence Day fireworks displays in many places are brilliant in the sky, attracting the admiration of tourists.
Carpenter's songs were played on a loop in the boy's bedroom on the second floor of Ye's house. A Guy Fawkes mask fell on the floor. A copy of "Dummys-101:hmtl" was opened and placed upside down beside the bed. Ye Wei carried it on his back. The right one lay in a ball on his side, eyes closed, motionless.
After listening to the song over and over again, he suddenly opened his eyes and turned around, took the hmtl language textbook, read it for a while, then put it down, picked it up again, read it, and put it down again.
???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Out out? What to do? Everything he does makes her angry.
After thinking for a while, Ye Wei put down the textbook, took the mobile phone on the bedside table, looked at it and put it back. How could she send a text message? He closed his eyes and turned around, his thoughts drifting here and there amid the singing, and kept drifting back and forth, gradually converging into one place.
You are such a fool. You think you are better, but in fact you are still a fool.
Recently, I have been too fanatical, too reckless, too impatient, like a child, and I will always act like a child in front of her.
But now it¡¯s not July 2004, it¡¯s July 2006. So much has happened and so much has changed. You want to get her back with a month and a half of crazy enthusiasm? If she does, is she Lily? The girl you love?
Lily is a mystery, a mystery that cannot be catered to, her heart is incredible.
To pursue her, just be yourself, your ideal self.
"Cheer up." Ye Wei turned around and lay on his back, blinking his eyes and looking at the ceiling, having an idea about lovelilyjane, yes, it's very interesting.
Lily-Jane, maybe you like Prince Charming, maybe you like hooligans, maybe you like heroes, maybe you like villains, maybe gentlemen, maybe villains, maybe sissies, maybe men, maybe geniuses, maybe fools, maybe rich men, maybe paupers, Maybe a good guy, maybe a bad guy.
I have no idea.
¡°I can¡¯t control what kind of person you like, I just happen to make you like it.¡±