Chapter 4 Pearl Phoenix

I'm thinking, maybe it's the years of living abroad that have blinded me I can't think of anything particularly happy, It's like I haven't seen the clouds in the distant sky for a long, long time. In the rice fields after autumn, the milk vetch grows taller again and begins to send out purple flowers.The weather in those years was very good, and the clouds were piled high and high.All kinds, let your imagination. I didn't think much about it, and in those years I was obsessed with the cartoon animals on the TV I just bought.There is a kind of dog with soft white hair on the tip of the two ears.In fact, I am not sure whether it really exists, it always appears in the clouds in the distant sky in my afternoon.

Grandpa built a pigeon house for the children. The pigeons were too fat to take off.Small animals in the countryside all have a common fate in the end. I know that I never ate anything that could fly anymore, and it had something to do with the fact that my family ate the fat pigeons I raised. The pigeon house later became the children's secret suite.Whoever plays the role of father and who plays the role of mother, the children are studying elementary sociology, communication, and health education here. It's funny to think about it. After growing up, I still think that the most difficult and interesting chapter 13 of health education is where a few children are there, chirping and educating each other.

Ah San said that when his father was still there, his mother would make strange noises from the next bed when she slept at night.He also invited us to sneak into the guest room of his house after twelve o'clock, saying that it was the TV they bought newly, and after twelve o'clock, there would be a scene with that strange sound. At that age, I found that my body was changing every day, and I gradually became weak when I stepped on the bicycle after school. The distant sky looked fine at first, but the dog-like clouds gradually changed... First, the appearance of the dogs changed, becoming a pair of dogs, like those wild dogs chasing around the gully all day long, some lying on top of the other.

I hate the feeling of being dead. A few days later, at the Pigeon House meeting, I carefully told Ah San and the others about my troubles. Fusuke said that his condition was more serious, and his mother forbade him to eat rooster eggs now. I said, "What is a male egg?" "It's that one!" He compared each of us to the next level. "When I woke up for the holidays yesterday morning, there was that again..." Ah San said with her head straight and dejected.He's got a lot of nasty pimples on his face, and he's been talking like an old man for weeks, making it even more repulsive.In our conversation, there are many more 'that and that'!

"That, that..." was not popular at that time. There were many people who didn't understand, but there was nowhere to ask people. I started hating my family and I guessed that they killed my pigeon and horribly ate him must have something to do with the latest string of conspiracies. After enduring the silence of the assembly for several days, we all agreed that we should rush out to find out what had been keeping us from being happy. Fuzhu is older, and we want him to make a suggestion.He winked, as if he had trapped a secret as big as a cow in his heart.I can say cow because my grandma scolded me.

"Taking it to Beijing and coming back is also a bull." I know what Beijing is.The cow is probably the animal used to ride to Beijing!My lord is like this, what am I going to Beijing with a cow.Quite boring.Another conspiracy. "I've been to the sugar factory once." Fukusuke said bravely. "Wow!" The children were all dumbfounded. "A village in another province...?" Ah San said reverently. "Damn it! Didn't you agree that everyone would go together?" The little Aji, who didn't talk much, also cursed.And rushed to him excitedly, as if desperate.

Let me start over again. Fusuke's older sister works in a pastry factory in the next village and is getting married, but the date has not been fixed yet.Fuzhu promised us that before his sister got married, he would take us over the wall to Gu Cangli, his home, and peek at her tryst. Anyway, it's over.His sister ran away with someone before the Chinese New Year and was never seen again.The great dreams accumulated in the hearts of the children suddenly came to naught, and they couldn't stand the children's insistence. Fusuke said that there are many such things in villages in other provinces.That's what he said, that his uncle told him.There should be nothing wrong with his uncle working in a village in another province.

"There is also a public bathhouse!" Uncle Fu Zhuxue said to us like offering a treasure before. "Public bathhouse!" Ajizai seemed to be foaming at the mouth. "Wow! That must be like going to heaven!" I thought so too. Children are easy to forget.Since Fusuke's sister left, we almost forgot what she looked like.The villages in other provinces are at the end of the gully.In fact, I am not very clear about where the town in front of our house came from and where it went. In the rainy season of summer, there are occasional dead people.Pick it up, cover it with straw mats and put it on the shore, and people in the village will always hear that people from the village floated here.That village is far away!It seems that Fusuke's elder sister ran to that village with someone.Never came back and you know how far.

The same can be proved!Back then, we liked to say that the same reason can be proved.Because it's in math textbooks.In the same way, it can be proved that when people in our village drowned, they floated to villages in other provinces. "Will it take an hour to ride the bike?" The children came back to their senses and asked around Fusuke. "It's far! Farther than the biggest chimney in the sugar factory!" Fusuke became authoritative. "Then how do we get there? It will take two or three hours to go back and forth!" The children became worried again.

"Play truant!" Ajizai said loudly as if realizing something. "Stupid! Why are you running away! Someone is taking a bath during the day!" Fusuke pushed the stupid Aji away and said. I noticed that Fukusuke didn't mention seeing people for trysts anymore.This matter is connected with the public bathhouse, we are going to attack the public bathhouse.My chest felt hot just thinking about it. "Wow!" I heard myself exclaim in a daze. "Okay?" Ah San didn't have any ambitions after seeing her sister's tryst and being scolded by his mother.I was a little hesitant at the moment.

Fusuke looked at Yuantian outside the Pigeon Building, and said mightily like a commander: "I want to see! Just look at the best!" "Yes! Just watch the best ones!" Si Aji also echoed. This may sound familiar to you.Later, many bad advertisements also used this word.Unfortunately, we have long since understood it better than anyone. I leaned against the pillar of the pigeon house.Looking at the clouds in the distant sky.The cloud, which was no longer a small animal, suddenly turned into a naked woman.I broke out in a cold sweat from fright, and the heat in my chest was still slowly falling down, and it stayed on the lower gear all the time.When I grew up, I still couldn't take it away. That feels so sad!Can only 'ah! ' How do you say it? The long-awaited night finally arrived. "Old Monkey! Old Monkey!" That was my childhood nickname!I really don't like it. When I climbed over the window sill, my brother grabbed my leg and wouldn't let go.How could he believe me when I told him to go to Ah San's house to watch TV? Ah San probably relied on his uncle to go on an expedition to other provincial villages in this way!He gritted his teeth.I thought to myself that if I don't take him, the plans for tonight and forever will be ruined.I had no choice but to imitate the swearing words in foreign films, cursing and saying to him: "Go to hell! (Note 1) Let's go!" "Why is he here?" Fusuke asked, frowning. "Don't yell, don't yell!" I saw my brother's disgusting expression come again.busy talking. After planning for so long, how did it become like this? " Fusuke shook his head. "Aiyo! Aiyo! Let's go!" Fusuke picked up his bicycle and stumbled along the edge of the field in the dark night. "Gather with Ah San and the others at the bridgehead, save time and hurry up..." After the autumn harvest, the Ziyunying field is cold and windy.I was sweating all over.My younger brother hugged me tightly, and I pushed his hand away in disgust.I really hope he accidentally falls into the gully and drowns.Other than that, everything looks great. In the field after the autumn harvest, there is a fishy smell of newly piled manure.Occasionally, some dung from cows became dirty after being exposed to the sun all afternoon. Fusuke was at the front, murmuring something. The fever that I hadn't been able to take away, which was placed on the lower gear, flared up again. "Alas!" I heard another sigh in my heart! "When the sun goes down, I will still climb up tomorrow morning! My young bird will never come back..." I followed the steps of pedaling, thinking of the song I learned in school recently.We all laughed and said that what was placed in the next file was 'Youth Bird'. And the cloud that becomes the naked woman. Male eggs can cause acne on our faces.And he speaks in a rough voice like an old man.I thought of the fat pigeon I had raised for a year, and my family ate it without asking. "I want revenge!" "I must take revenge!" It seemed that all the answers, love, desire, and hatred would be revealed tonight.We pedaled desperately on the ridge after the autumn harvest....The bridge is almost here. In the trance of night.There seemed to be many people standing at the bridgehead.Fusuke stopped the car.For a moment, neither of us could speak. "Why are you here!" Fusuke asked Ah Ji and Ah San's younger brothers. "Ouch!" "My mother told me to take him out with me!" Aji actually shifted the responsibility to his mother. "We all know about you." Aji's brother said confidently. "Aji! You running dog!" Fusuke echoed our brother's aspirations. "I didn't say it, how could I say it!" Aji tucked his tail like a lost dog.It doesn't look like he betrayed us either.I'm dizzy and every time I feel like this it guarantees that I'm going to be sick the next day.I guess it's the heat in my chest in the vetch field, which is too hot.My younger brother still held me tightly, and I was still thinking that he might as well just fall into the ditch. "You all fall into the ditch and die!" Yizhong became ashamed and annoyed as if his greatest privacy had been exposed.What kind of public bathhouse in a provincial village, who knows what the hell is there. Aren't the female star calendars that my father secretly read are all women from other provinces?It looks like my mother is no different. "I don't want revenge!" Just go back and peek at my dad's female star calendar.Like it was said in the puppet show on TV. "Safe and proper." Fusuke obviously couldn't let go of his figure as a leader.Must ask who leaked the secrets of our meeting.He should be worried.He was afraid that we would make a small report, saying that he went to a village in another province to spy on women taking a bath.I suddenly gloated. "Old monkey! Don't go!" It seemed as if he had read my mind.I was really startled, and hurriedly braked the car. "Go to hell! I didn't say anything!" "Then how does your brother know?" "Me! How would I know?" "Beautiful! Who told you that?" That's my brother's nickname because I'm an old monkey.That's why my brother's name is Meipenpen.There are puppet shows on TV.It seems that our family is all monkeys, which is so funny when I think about it.But my younger brother obviously didn't like his nickname very much all the time; I only heard my younger brother, who had sucked up the smell of cow dung and the methane of compost in the vetch field after the autumn harvest, screamed with the energy he had endured all night . I’m sure my younger brother is still a child and hasn’t eaten too many male eggs. The long and thin scream should have been heard by the village head, as well as the naked girl in the cloud who went back to sleep at night, and the cow that was leading to Beijing. heard it. Of course, my dad, who was peeking at the female star calendar, should have heard it too. My head became more dizzy, and I got goosebumps all over my body. I fell a few steps back weakly, and accidentally stepped on a person in the field. The soft one should be more like a woman. I bounced away, thinking to myself Is it another dead man floating upriver? Following the muffled sound of that person, the children frightened into a pile.what!what!what!None of them could make a sound.Met a ghost!I'm thinking.I finally encountered a ghost, the old man's words were finally fulfilled, and the air froze!Time also freezes! The man sat up from the ridge of the field, unable to see clearly in the dark, the man stretched and spoke. "Let's go! Go to another provincial village to watch women take a bath." "Zhufeng!" The voice was so loud that there seemed to be an echo in Kuangye... The children shouted in unison, and the answers to the children's mutual attacks and questions were revealed. Zhufeng is the younger brother of my second aunt's family who can't have his wife... "Oh!" Whoever she is, anyway, when I was sensible, she was walking around in the woods, a few years older than us, and my mother said that she was so poor that she couldn't go to school.But I think she is too shrewd, so shrewd that even this era can't tolerate her. When she was a teenager, she was sold to the old taro in the next village as a wife, and she killed the old taro in a few days, or she was angry. Who knows who is dead. When someone in the village gets married, she rolls and cries in the hall to ask for money; when someone goes to a funeral, she is not idle, she just jumps into the earth hole where the coffin is about to be buried, and also gives money. Later, when she ran out of moves, she made a fake car accident on the provincial road, and was brought back by the police several times. The police said that she had special skills, and no one would take her in. "Zhufeng!" It's a cute name. She can be regarded as our playmate!Although the children don't like her very much!But she seemed to like us very much and always wanted to play with us. She often didn't go home or take a bath in the village for several days, and her long hair was covered with straw. The children were afraid, so they threw stones at her. She ran far away, but she still stood there watching us screaming, dancing and laughing. A few years ago, I went home for the Spring Festival. In the cold winter, I was sitting by the stove full of firewood and drinking hot soup. Suddenly I asked about my mother. "Mom! Where's Zhufeng? It seems like I haven't seen it for a long time." "Sick, it seems!" "What's the matter?" I suddenly remembered many, many years ago, the night when we were going on an expedition to other provinces, and she followed us all day and night.Perhaps, she is our guardian angel!I think so romantically.No matter how much we teased her, she never hated us. Presumably, like us, she also felt that peeking at women's baths that year was more important than homework!In this regard, she belongs to the same country as us. Compared with the adult who is full of conspiracy, she should really belong to our country. "At that time, it was not convenient for everyone to say..." Mom bowed her head in thought. "Our village head... and the one at your aunt's house... It's not always like that, it's been years with strong... Your grandma told her mother that it would be easier to take her for a ligation. Well, her mother can't bear it, just say that the wild dog will kill the wild dog! Zhufengzi, it's like that, who really knows what kind of illness she has." "Diseases are passed around like that, and the cures are brought along for cures. How can they be cured well!" The light of the fire was reflected on the sticker of the God of the Kitchen God next to the stove. Holding the empty bowl, I felt it was as heavy as a stone mill. I saw the two lines of the God of the Kitchen God on the side of the sticker: Virtuous and capable of setting fire, selfless can reach the sky Guess Zhufeng may not only be the angel of the children in the village, but also the guardian angel of all the old, young, good and bad people in the village. I haven't seen the clouds in the distant sky for a long, long time, or maybe I haven't raised my head to look at the distant sky for a long, long time; or maybe since that night's expedition failed and I fell ill, I became blind up. When I went back to my hometown for the festival last year, I deliberately went to sit on the bridge again. After several floods in the gully the year before last, it had long been clogged with mud and the water was shallow, and it was never heard that anyone would drown in it. I'm thinking, maybe it's because of my life outside in the past few years that I've become blind.I can't think of any particularly happy things, like I haven't seen the clouds in the distant sky for a long time. Many, many maybe…. I rode my bicycle and strolled slowly in the village, wondering that I never had the courage to visit those old friends, but I only hoped to meet by chance on the road.I became an indifferent person, but I was eager to pick up some fragments of memory to organize my relationship with the people in this village.At dusk, I went back to the bridge that had no name but a number. I suddenly remembered that a few years ago, when my grandma passed by, the long funeral procession stopped here to let the passing cars pass by.At that time, my mind was blank, and behind the curtain of Yishi Yingfeng Banner, I vaguely remembered seeing a woman who followed far behind the team. In fact, I can't say what kind of special affection or care my grandma has for Zhufeng. My grandma is a silent woman who spent most of her life working in the fields. One day I fell and bitten in the field and couldn't go out again.In the following years, she often sat alone under the phoenix tree in front of the hall in a daze. Zhufeng, I think it’s because she’s getting old, she can no longer jump up and down, and she can’t go hiking far away from the village, so she often sees her sitting next to grandma, whispering something to grandma. In the afternoon. Because my grandma's consciousness was really not very clear afterwards, and the youngest one smiled at her, as if the old grandma was Zhufeng's child. It seems that only my grandma understands the words, and I believe they have made friends. My grandma has been gone for several years, and Zhufeng should be over 40. An angel is an angel, so there should be no age problem, but she no longer has the energy to entertain people anymore. I remembered when I was in middle school, when some old friends rode by the backyard of Zhufeng’s house, they often saw her naked, washing her already developed body by the water pump in the backyard.Always smiling like a child. And we have all grown up, far away from the era of the Pigeon House, always riding in a hurry with our heads bowed in shame. I used to have some creatures that are easily extinct, and they came to this world just to hold back the ecology, so that the whole world would not collapse.In this way, lions don’t have to apologize to the antelopes; humans don’t have to apologize to all living things, so they just live rough, right? When we were young, Zhufeng was still smiling when we drove away Zhufeng with stones.As for when the adults in the village abused her later, what was she thinking?Later, as long as I passed that bridgehead, I always stopped for a while.I know that one day, the clouds in the distant sky will pile up again, and the answer may be there.