Chapter 11 Chapter Eleven

For ten days in a row, the city of Xijing was cloudy and rainy. One day and night, I didn’t seem to hear the ticking of the water from the eaves. When I woke up at dawn, Mrs. Ku had already lit Tibetan incense in front of the Bodhisattva statue. Yu Bai asked on the bed: “It will be sunny today. Right?" Mrs. Ku said: "It's raining again, and the wind is still blowing, you can put on a vest." Yu Bai suddenly became upset, lifted a corner of the curtain and looked out, and there was a pool of water in the yard, twisted. There are flowers, and the rain feet are all slanted, the branches and leaves of the cluster of bamboo are flying, and the ground is covered with broken leaves of ancient locust trees.Yu Bai cursed, thinking that if the ancient pagoda trees on both sides of the street outside the wall could blow down into the courtyard, it must be the east wind, and the east wind is blowing, and the rain still cannot last for two hours a day.He just put on a vest over the sweater, got out of bed bulging, sat on the sofa in a daze without combing his hair or washing his face.Mrs. Ku tiptoed to tidy things up and down, muttering that it doesn’t rain in summer, but it rains in autumn, but it’s so cold in this season, and it’s winter, and the stones are going to freeze to pieces.After muttering, he said again: "It's not cold in winter, it's not hot in summer, and the five grains don't grow."Yu Bai chuckled, the laughter was mocking her old lady, but also self-deprecating, and said, "It's fine, it's fine, let's cut pictures when the weather is cloudy." He washed his face indiscriminately, and hugged a bunch of them. The colored cloth is cut up there.What she cut was a wall, the lower part of the wall was made of yellow cloth, and the upper part of the wall was made of green cloth. In front of the wall was a cluster of bamboo, and the bamboo leaves were all inscribed with the character "Ge".Sitting under the bamboo was a woman with her hair combed clean and her body white.After cutting it, I pasted it on a black cloth with paste, and went to the bathroom to urinate.There is a muddy footprint on the floor of the toilet, with five fingers separated, it is clear that I came back from the outside yesterday, stepped on the muddy water with my feet, and left it on the ground before washing my feet there, but suddenly felt that the footprint looked like half of a woman Face.When he had an idea, he ran outside, took off the pasted woman, stepped on the cloth with bare feet together, and cut out a head of a woman with bangs with her footprints.She was very proud of her own creation, thinking, this woman should be her, the head made of human feet seems to have a long face, so she thought of Yelang: walking barefoot like this, where are you going?Don't walk on the thorn bushes, women in their thirties dare not move, move!If it doesn’t work, it’s like the wind after autumn, when the wind blows, it gets colder every day, and it’s winter.Thinking about it this way, and looking at the bamboo leaves with the word "ge" one by one, it's a bit bleak.I didn't feel bored for a while, but I always felt wronged, a little resentful, and started to paste the bamboo leaves again, so that the bamboo had no leaves, and only cut a triangle on the top of each bamboo pole, like an arrow on each pole.Yu Bai was brewing words in his stomach, and it was so smooth that he cut out four sentences in one breath: the moss on the green wall, the shadow of a beautiful woman under the bamboo;I looked at it again, and seemed to think that there were two characters for "bamboo", and couldn't think of a better one for a while, so I ran over to see Mrs. Ku.Mrs. Ku has already cut it and pasted it on the big paper. In the middle of the picture are a big red circle and a big white circle. The planes of the circle and the circle intersect at one corner.Yu Bai could see that it was the sun and the moon, and what the old lady was going to talk about was probably the interlacing of day and night. Was she trying to express this gray weather that was neither yin nor yang?Surrounding the sun and the moon, the upper part of the picture is a flock of birds, and when it flies down, it becomes a bird head and a fish body, and then it becomes a fish, and when it goes up, it becomes a fish head and a bird body, and when it reaches the upper part, it becomes a bird again.Yu Bai said: "Hey, you fish and birds transform into each other!" Mrs. Ku said: "I was thinking about it. Birds fly in the sky and fish swim in the water. They are actually the same. One strokes the water and the other strokes the air. "Yu Bai exclaimed: "Miao! Miao!" But he was ashamed that he was not as good as the old lady.Inspired, I cut it again, and the upper part of the picture was a large spiral pattern, with several birds under the pattern, indicating that the pattern was a cloud in the sky, and the lower part of the picture was a large spiral pattern, under the pattern There are several fishes, indicating that Wen is the water on the ground.The sky and the earth are formed, and the confluence of the sky and the earth depends on the cloud and the water. The ancients talked about clouds and rain. Could it be that the presence of clouds and rain means that the sky and the earth are in harmony?But Yu Bai didn't know what to cut out in the middle of the picture.

Hesitating, he tilted his head and looked into the distance. The kitchen door was open, and he could see the kitchen window.One of the windows is closed, and the other is only lit with screens. From the other side of the building, you can see the car shed of the entire building area. A woman is pushing a bicycle, with the corner of a crumpled poncho on her head, dragging it back for a long time. The inside was gurgling like a rolling watermelon, and when it reached the door of the carport, the poncho was removed, and there was a child lying on the back seat.Another one shrank his head and hurried forward. When he passed by the car, half of his body was already out of the window pane, but he stretched out his hand and squeezed the child's face. The child cried and heard "I don't know how to play, I don’t know how to play”!The bicycle was pushed, and there was no picture of the crying child, only the sound of crying.But the pot of poppies on the window sill was blooming, a small one, very red, blooming quietly.

Yu Bai said softly: "The poppies are blooming!" But a face appeared beside the flowers.Yu Baichu thought it was someone going to the carport again, but his face became vivid, and he winked, clearly seeing her inside the house from the outside.Yu Bai sat without moving, and waited for someone to open the door. Ding Lin was wearing a pair of beige rain boots and a beige windbreaker. Her hair was cut as short as a man's, and she stomped her feet at the door.Yu Bai said: "Who is this?" Ding Lin said: "Did you like this windbreaker?!" Yu Bai said: "I don't know who you are." Ding Lin said: "If you don't recognize it, you don't—it's not me I haven't come for a long time, and you didn't put up the phone, so I asked Qingpu to transfer the call to ask you to call me, but you didn't call, why are you being arrogant, and I blame others for not coming!" Yu Bai said: "Today is in What are you doing nearby?" Ding Lin said, "Tell me, ma'am, how can there be such a mean person?

Thanks to my carelessness, who can stand it? "Yu Bai said: "I'm living alone, and the chickens and dogs don't even come to the door." Ding Lin said: "I came here specially for you today, and I was afraid that you would go to the dumpling banquet restaurant in the dumpling banquet restaurant. But Pu was crying in the office. I asked him if he had been to your place, and he said no, so I let him come with him. He went to the post office to send a telegram, and he will be here in a while." Mr. Ku The wife said: "Why is he crying? Boss Zou doesn't live up to his expectations. He eats, drinks, prostitutes, and gambles. What's the use of crying?" Ding Lin said: "You know what happened over there?" Yu Bai said: "There is no restaurant. A few days ago, he didn’t have a meal and couldn’t remember me coming here. He was earning money, so he wouldn’t come if he had nothing to worry about. The day before yesterday, he asked me to persuade Boss Zou. What should I persuade? He sold the restaurant and gambled. Debts, cigarette debts, can I ask someone to sell them? They have already sold them, but if he wants to go back on his word, how can the buyer agree?! The brothers and sisters of the Zou family are all too smart and capable. Look at that Zou Boss can earn money as well as spend money, and he is the type of person who is most suitable for the reform and opening up, but often things are almost done, and troubles will happen?? In the end, the quality is too poor, and people have no quality!" Ding Lin Said: "It's not such a thing! It's Zou Yun's business. Zou Yun wrote a letter. In the letter, he proposed to withdraw the engagement. He said that after a while, the Dumpling Banquet Restaurant was given to Qing Pu, and she only got back her investment. That cash. Tell me, what’s the matter with Zou Yun? They were so hot that even I looked at them with jealousy and hatred. If I say no, I won’t. This love is fragile like glass?” Yu Bai said: “You thought Is it a diamond?!" Ding Lin looked at Yu Bai in surprise, and Yu Bai also looked at her, Ding Lin said: "What do you mean, Qing Pu cried so much?" Yu Zi said : "Why is he crying? All the mistakes in this world are made by himself, who is he crying for? As soon as Zou Yun went to Batu Town, I had a premonition that she would not come back, and Qing Pu was still talking to her. A too To be honest, one is too shrewd, originally it was not a match, good morning if we broke up early, and we will suffer after getting married and having children and then breaking up!" Ding Lin said: "We are people on the shore, but we are simple but in the water. If I don’t believe Zou Yun’s heart is broken, he went to send a telegram to Zou Yun and asked her to come back and have a good talk. Maybe Zou Yun’s idea was a mistake. It's been so long, and I'm not too young. This breakup, even if Qing Pu has money, it doesn't mean that he can find someone he likes right away. As sisters, if we don't match up at the moment, we will look at jokes like everyone else Is it?" Yu Bai said, "I don't care!" Ding Lin and Mrs. Ku were stunned for a moment, at a loss.Yu Bai didn't look at them, turned on the VCR with a sullen face, and then sat down, not wanting to touch the people and things nearby, so he went through the kitchen doorway and saw poppies on the windowsill again.What came out of the VCR was Jiang Baishi's lyrics again:

The green silk flicked the mandarin ducks down, thinking that Taoye would call for crossing at that time.And will worry about the eyes and the spring breeze, to go.Yilan is even less stationed.Jinling Road, Yingyingyanyanwu.Counting the tide, knowing people is the hardest.Manting Fangcao can't return, the sun is setting.Where to move the boat further? The music was so loud that it was cold from the tips of the hair to the heels, and the eyes were full of tears, no one dared to say it, no one dared to look at it, and the tears rolled down after saying it.Yu Bai didn't get up to turn off the VCR, but he pulled down the main switch on the electric panel behind him. Without Jiang Baishi and the lights, the room suddenly became dark.Yu Bai said, "I'm going to find Liu Yishan!" Ding Lin and Mrs. Ku didn't respond, so Yu Bai said again:

"I'm going to find Liu Yishan! Ding Lin, don't you want to accompany me?" The two went to Liu Yishan's house in silence, the rainy feet danced noisily, with umbrellas on their heads, and their shoes and trousers were wet.Lu Tianying was painting a tiger at Liu's house, Danqing had just drunk wine in his hand, the wine bowl hadn't been removed, his face was red and sweaty; a large piece of rice paper was spread on a lacquered wood table with the Eight Immortals, Liu Yishan stood beside the table, his hand in his hand Holding a Yixing teapot in his hand and sipping, a young man was standing opposite the table. Lu Tianying supported the table with one hand, and held a dripping ink pen in the other. He bowed his waist and buried his head almost under the table, just so still, Quietly, suddenly there was a sound of brushing, the ink pen he was holding flicked on the paper, and with a swish down, the pen flew away on the paper, and he shouted urgently: "Quick! Quick! Quick!" Front pull paper.It was the first time for Ding Lin to see Lu Tianying, and it was also the first time to see Lu Tianying painting a tiger. She was shocked by the momentum and applauded repeatedly!Liu Yishan took a gaiwan teacup, brewed three bowls and brought them over. Looking at Ding Lin's naive look, he smiled and said, "This is an old lunatic, the more you applaud him, the more energetic he is!" A little monkey jumped onto Lu Tianying's chest. on the left shoulder.Ding Lin was startled, and waved her hand to push it away, but the monkey jumped onto the table, picked up the ink stone and rubbed it in the inkstone, making funny faces for her while grinding it back.Yu Bai said: "Ding Lin, Ding Lin, this is a black monkey! Don't move anything, just look at the painting." Ding Lin was shy for a while, but sure enough she could only look at it but couldn't speak.Liu Yishan asked Yu Bai what happened again?Is it true that what he said before, that man surnamed Ye is not compatible with you?Yu Bai's face turned red all of a sudden, he looked at Ding Lin quickly, and then gave Liu Yishan a wink.Ding Lin listened, but didn't react, just watched the tiger's tail grow like a stick.Liu Yishan and Yu Bai went to the room behind the screen to talk.Ding Lin still ignored it, seeing that Lu Tianying had finished painting the tiger, sat down and drank, she took out her business card and handed it over, saying that Boss Lu was famous, and she was lucky enough to see it with her own eyes today, and she was so happy in her life that she could Live in the same city as the great painter!Lu Tianying likes to be flattered, and when he saw a beautiful girl being flattered, with white hair and a childlike face, he said: "Then let me draw a tiger for you too!" Ding Lin was overjoyed, but said: "Then I will draw you a tiger!" Don't dare, drawing a tiger is too much effort, you can draw something small." Lu Tianying said: "Okay then, drawing a tiger is not an anti-dog, so I will draw a puppy for you." Start drawing.Ding Lin said: "Mr. Lu, are you painting with gong? After seeing your painting, it can cure diseases?" Lu Tianying said: "It's not that mysterious. Qigong is popular now, and it is said that qigong is omnipotent. In fact, I think that everyone has gong, as long as you put yourself into a certain realm, you will generate gong. For example, when I paint, a singer sings, or a chess player plays chess, the more they perform to the fullest, the people who watch and listen will benefit physically and mentally. As the saying goes, when you meet a bosom friend, you seldom toast, and if you don’t speculate, you don’t have a lot of words. If you don’t speculate, you don’t correspond, and if you don’t correspond, you lose your aura. Now we have an aura——look at this puppy, the head is more effective It’s been a long time since I drew such an effect!” Ding Lin said: “Then I will come here often in the future, and I’m afraid my coronary heart disease will gradually recover, Mr. Lu, don’t you dislike it?” Lu Tianying said: “Welcome, welcome. Miles!" The puppy was finished and hung on the wall. Lu Tianying looked at it for a while with a glass of wine in his hand, smiled with satisfaction, and then took off the painting to inscribe and stamp on it. Rinse in the sink.When Yu Bai and Liu Yishan came out, Yu Bai called out: "Old Lu, I have seen you several times, and you haven't painted it for me yet. Ding Lin just came and you drew it!" Lu Tianying said: " I've finished brushing, let's do it next time." Yu Bai pursed his lips and said, "Lao Lu loves to draw beautiful girls, next time I have to get a beauty treatment!" Lu Tianying laughed hoho.Ding Lin said:

"Who is prettier? I am more prettier than you. The more prettier you are, the more Mr. Lu won't draw, and he will not gossip about ugly girls." Liu Yishan said, "They are all beautiful, they are all beautiful!" Everyone laughed again.Yu Bai said: "Ding Lin, Mr. Lu's paintings are worth several thousand yuan now, you are rich now!" Ding Lin said: "I don't sell them, they are mounted and hung in the house, and I only worry about those that don't get painted. The five people sat down to drink T tea, Ding Lin stretched out her hand to Liu Yishan, and said, "Mr. Liu, show me." Liu Yishan said, "Now when I talk about fortune-telling, I think it's palmistry. , That’s a lot of calculations, but I don’t know palmistry.” Yu Bai said: “A good man doesn’t ask for divination, so what’s your gossip?” Ding Lin said: “Don’t disturb me. Mr. Liu, just look at your face. Who is blessed, Yu Bai or I?" Liu Yishan said: "Of course you are blessed, but Yu Bai's bones have shrunk and his spirit is lonely." Ding Lin said: "Then why do I have to listen to her?" Yu Bai said: "Old Liu You don't know, Ding Lin is an official fan, what she wants to ask is when she will be able to have an official position, so she can appoint me!" Ding Lin said: "I don't seek an official, and I know I can't get one Look, Mr. Liu, I have a scar on my forehead, and it was disfigured when I was young." Liu Yishan said with a smile: "You know faces too, what can I say? Scars don't get in the way, God knows The image of a lack, the shape of a hole in the ground, the sun and the moon??" Before finishing speaking, there was the sound of a car at the door, and someone came in to talk to Lu Tianying, Lu Tianying seemed displeased, and the man continued to say:

"The director's wife is already waiting at home. You like to eat double noodles. The director's sister specially went to the countryside to get some mung bean noodles." Lu Tianying said, "You greeted him, why didn't you say hello to me beforehand? I am On call?" The man almost begged: "This?? You should go there anyway." Lu Tianying said, "No!" He sat back here, furious asthma.Liu Yishan got up to smooth things over, and said kindly to Yan Yuese that the weather was bad, so it's fine if Lu Tianying didn't go, but the man didn't go.Yu Bai guessed that some leader wanted Lu Tianying to paint. Seeing that the two sides were frozen, and it was impossible to say anything, he winked with Ding Lin and got up to say goodbye.

On the way home, Ding Lin said: "What did Mr. Liu do to you? Look at your bravery just now, you seem to be a different person!" Yu Bai said: "You said you have small feet, so you walked on the wall. Is it me being brave or are you frivolous?! I asked Mr. Liu to predict the matter between Qingpu and Zou Yun. Mr. Liu said that things are not good, and now the key is to get Zou Yun back. He taught me a way, which is to Don’t wash the shoes that Zou Yun wears. Write her name, surname and date of birth inside, and wrap them with a weighing scale. She will come back within five days. If she still doesn’t come back within five days, she will be forced to Look for her, if the person looking for her goes out smoothly, the marriage will be done." Ding Lin said: "That's good, Qing Pu went to send a telegram, Zou Yun couldn't help but be tempted, and use this method, really Maybe it’s because the mountains and rivers are full of doubts and there is no way out, and there will be another village.” Yu Bai said: “I hope so.” Ding Lin said: “Didn’t you say that you don’t care?” Yu Bai said: “Can I ignore it? If you can get your heart out, you will see that everything has turned into tofu dregs in a hurry!—Shall we go in and take a look around?" Ding Lin looked up, and it turned out that she had arrived at the gate of Lianhu Park.Ding Lin said: "As long as you are in a good mood, you can go wherever you say. No wonder Mr. Lu drew me a dog. I am the life of a running dog!"

This is a very small park. There are only various rockeries and a small lake in the park. The lake is full of lotus.Because he came out of Liu's house talking and laughing, he didn't notice that the rain had already stopped. When he entered the park, Yu Bai saw that the lake was calm and quiet, but he was leaning against a tree, and said, "The rain used to be warm." But now it’s lonely.” Ding Lin said: “I’m finally happy, what’s the hurt!” and dragged Yu Zi around in the rockery.It was wet everywhere, and the ground was full of tender green grass. From the Jiuqu stone bridge to the island in the middle of the lake, the two sat in the pavilion.The weeping willows around the lake have drooping branches and leaves. From a distance, they look like women standing on their backs. The lotus on the lake has no flowers, and the leaves are half yellow and half green. They are broken like umbrellas under a hailstorm. And the water hyacinth is very green.Yu Bai seemed to be excited again, saying that she really wanted to jump on the duckweed to stretch and have a good night's sleep. Later, she said that she wanted to drink and make cloth paintings.Ding Lin said: "Neurotic! You can really be an artist." Yu Bai said: "I am not an artist. I have seen some artists nowadays. Art does not create anything, but people become art. Opening and shutting is art. , as if living is art, forgetting that he is still a human being. Humans are divided into poets and non-poets, but whether poets or non-poets, I want to be my own person and live my life!" Ding Lin said: "Oh Yo, do you still want a real person and life? I really hope you can do this! Are you in a good mood now? Then let me tell you, I haven’t come for so long, it’s not that I don’t want to come, it’s that I dare not come, I really I’m afraid I’ll have nothing to say to you when I come here. Do you know about Yelang?” Yu Bai said, “I know you’ll talk about him, so I’ve been waiting. Tell me, what’s the matter with him?” Ding Lin said: “ Of course you know, I’ve seen the couplet you gave him?? Yelang kept it from me, and you didn’t say anything.” Yu Bai said, “Oh, are you talking about Yelang’s marriage?” Ding Lin said: "Are you calm?" Yu Bai said: "Is it a good thing for a friend to get married? If he can get married, he must feel that the other party is suitable and happy. As friends, we should not only be calm, but also be happy for him. " Ding Lin said: "Ah?? Yu Bai, I am very relieved. Speaking of which, Yelang is really meaningless. He won't give us a message! I went to him that day and met you at the door I only knew he was married because of the couplets I gave you, and he just asked about you and your situation." Yu Bai said, "Can he still ask me now? Last time I said it must be that little girl, why don't you I don't believe it, what's the matter, women in their thirties are still frivolous when there is no one around, once we see a little girl, we know it's time to settle down." Ding Lin said: "I didn't pay much attention to that girl last time, This time I went to see clearly that she was not wearing well, the top was a blended sweater, the shoes were not genuine leather, the hair was not blown, and the twists and turns were not smooth." Yu Bai said, "I heard that she is a model?" Ding Lin said: "In Lanmeng Fashion Show Troupe. In the past, there was only one fashion show troupe in Xijing City, which was quite serious. Now there are more than a dozen of them. Where is fashion show? How many of those who went to the fashion show saw the fashion? They all looked at the people. Why did Yelang just like her?!" Yu Bai's face darkened again, his eyes stared at the rusty green lake, and murmured Said: "Why is there no wind!" Ding Lin said: "When the wind blows, it makes it rain?!" Yu Bai said: "If there is no wind and water does not flow, the fish in the water will die without oxygen." With a whoosh sound, a gust of wind really swept through, and then the willow branches by the lake shook up. The duckweed looked unmoved, and was stunned for a while, but the piece of green was already one meter away from the front of the pavilion.Ding Lin said: "He Yelang will regret it, he will definitely regret it. Do men like small and beautiful ones? I went to see him, and he had gauze wrapped around his hand. He said that he had lost a finger. The nanny whispered I got into a fight because of Yan Ming. I lost my finger just after getting married, and I don’t know what will happen in the future?!" The wind blew the duckweed away, and the lotus leaves in the lake turned white, hissing and shattering ring.Yu Bai said: "Let's go back." Then he left.

Back home, Mrs. Ku said that Qing Pu had been here, sat for a while and left.Ding Lin said: "He's really in a hurry!" Yu Bai told Ding Lin to stop by the Dumpling Banquet Restaurant on his way back, tell Liu Yishan's forecast, and find a weighing scale to bring over.Ding Lin said many more happy words, and played with Chu Chu for a while, until Yu Bai's complexion improved a little before leaving.As soon as Ding Lin left, Yu Bai felt lonely, with no place to talk, and no mood to paint. He picked a book from the shelf to read, read half a page and put it back in, flipped through other books, and finally looked at the shelf I posted the couplet written by myself, "There is tea to entertain guests, and there is nothing to flip through books", and I laughed at myself.Later, I sat down to keep a diary. I originally wanted to record the scenery of Lianhu Lake, but I wrote a poem: The voice of the autumn cicadas is soft, and the green lotus leaves are broken. I am approaching middle age, and I am in love with butterflies without red. I sit quietly on the shore of the lake, silently counting the calls of the frogs. After finishing writing, he giggled, went to the telephone room at the carport in the courtyard, dialed Zhu Yihe's home, and said loudly, "I want Yelang, I want Yelang!" Yelang happened to be at home that day.In the morning, he, Nan Dingshan, Kang Bing, Wenxiu, and Jiang Ke handed over the materials of reporting Gong Changxing, which had been revised several times, to the director of letters and visits. Talking about going to the poverty alleviation benefit performance in several counties in the north again, the phone rang.When Yan Ming went to answer the phone, there was a call for Yelang.Yan Ming covered the earpiece with one hand, and said, "Yelang, I want you!" Yelang said, "If you're busy, just say you're not here!" Kang Bing said, "Is it a man or a woman?" Yan Ming said "It's a woman, with a crisp voice." Nan Dingshan said: "I almost missed a good thing!" Kang Bing said: "What was wrong? It was a mistake, and it fell into Yan Ming's hands!" Everyone was together. laugh.Yelang answered the phone and recognized that it was Yu Bai.Yelang said: "Ah, it's you, are you okay?" Yu Bai said: "No, not as good as you! Congratulations to you! How was your honeymoon?How does it feel to be the groom? Yelang felt a pain in his heart and didn't make a sound. Yu Bai asked, "Why didn't you make a sound?"Are you afraid to call?Is there someone in charge nearby? Yelang said, "Speak." "Yu Bai said: "Is it the bride who answered the phone just now?"Is it that girl? Yelang said, "She's not young anymore." Yu Bai said, "Really?"Is it almost thirty?I heard that you are in good spirits now. You are wearing a suit, a tie, and a ring. You go for a walk together in the evening?Yelang is so chic!Now that you have moved to Zhu Lao's house, do you still leave my violin in the broken house on Baoji Lane?It must have been placed on the ground. It has been raining for such a long time, and the qin is probably going to break. Can you ask Wu Shun to bring me the qin? Yelang said: "I brought the qin here a long time ago. I play it every day when I have nothing to do. The qin still sings at night." Yu Bai said, "Really?"When gold is empty, it sings, but don't forget that water flows when it is empty, fire explodes when it is empty, and earth collapses when it is empty!You who are coiling dragons and lying on the wind, let the qin play music for you?Remember, let Wu Shun bring it to me. Yelang said, "I don't want to. I want to borrow it for a few more days. If you insist, I want you to come and get it." Yu Bai said, "I'm not going." "Yelang said: "You should understand things? ?Don't you want to see me?Is the friendship gone?Is our club about to disband? Yu Bai said: "Are you still interested in running a music club?" Yelang said, "It's done, of course." "There was no sound on the phone for a long time. Yelang said: "Hello, hello," Yu Bai suddenly asked: "Is it annoying for me to call you?"Is there someone at home? Yelang said, "A few friends are here and they are talking about something important." " Yu Bai said: "I don't care, I just want to talk more, let them all go, if they can't go, just sit there, I don't care if you are annoying or not, I will talk more!I heard you posted the couplet I sent you? Yelang said: "I posted it the same day I got it back, and everyone said that the handwriting was good." Yu Bai said, "What do you think, huh?" Yelang said, "Are you making fun of me?" ?originally? ?How can I say it?I think it is my life experience? ?When do you come, I will tell you in detail. Yu Bai said, "What are you here for?"I hate you to death, you are a bad person, the worst person in the world! Suddenly there was laughter again. Yelang didn't know what to say, but Yu Bai called again on the phone: "Yelang, Yelang!" Yelang said, "Speak." "Yu Bai said: "Is this your temper? " Yelang said: "I mean you say, I listen. Yu Bai said, "Do you know where I can call you?" Yelang said, "In the phone booth?" "Yu Bai said: "It's my family. A friend came here. He is a rich man and uses his mobile phone. Yelang said, "Have you made friends with rich people?" "Yu Bai said: "Is it the rich and blessed who pay, Yelang has no money but has beauty! "The phone clicked and fell silent. Nan Dingshan said: "Yeah, I've never seen such a long phone call! Just leave us here and pay it off, but Yan Ming is going to be jealous!" Yan Ming said: "I'm not jealous, girls love you!" Yelang, but Yelang is my husband, so that makes me stronger than them!" He got up and went to the bedroom.Yelang sat down with a smile, and everyone discussed about going to the charity performance, and finally decided to go to the performance for ten days.Then, when he mentioned that there was a new theater costume shop opened at the west gate, and he wanted to buy some sets of python robes, Yelang refused him not to go, and turned them back when he brought them downstairs.A man flashed out from behind the trash can at the stairs, smiling flatteringly at him.He has a shaving face and clapper head, but has extremely thick broom eyebrows. Yelang realized that this person was looking for him, and was hesitating. The man said, "Mr. Ye, how are you?" Yelang also became enthusiastic, Said: "Ah, hello!" The man said: "You are afraid you will forget me!" Yelang really couldn't remember who it was, but said: "How can I forget?? Eat cigarettes." He said, "I must have forgotten! Tell me, who am I?" Yelang froze immediately, and his face turned red.The man said: "I'm so sad, you really can't remember me! I'm Faxiang, Zou Faxiang!" Yelang said: "Second brother Zou, I can recognize it even when it's burnt to ashes! Let's go home and have a drink." Let's have tea." Zou Laoer said: "I came here today to walk on the road, and I only said that I found out your address before I came back, but I didn't expect it, but I ran into it. How can I go home empty-handed? I said a few words, change it. Bring the water gift every day, I don’t want to drink tea, I want to drink!” So ​​he dragged Yelang to the side of the building to kick him down.Yelang couldn't help it, and knew that he was a difficult villain, thinking that the Zou family's siblings had always been at odds, he usually helped Zou Yun and Qingpu, and if the second child came to him, he probably wanted to find something for Qingpu If it's troublesome, let's act first and say: "Second brother's business is okay? Zou Yun is not here, and Qing Pu has no experience. It's all thanks to the second brother and eldest brother who helped him. We, a group of simple friends, are very grateful Yes. In the future, I will rely on you, my second brother, to go and guide me diligently!" Zou Laoer said: "Half of my heart is devoted to Qingpu, he is really good, he created a dumpling banquet, and the business is down. Better than me and my elder brother! I am also planning to hold a snack banquet. They have Cantonese cuisine in the south, Sichuan cuisine in Sichuan, and Shandong cuisine in Shandong. We are so big and there is no cuisine in the northwest. If we gather some snacks, it will have its own characteristics , such as oil tower, noodle, bubble oil cake, persimmon cake, saliva noodles, glutinous rice noodles, spicy pimples, steamed pork?? Serve the same one, quite rich." Yelang said: "People say that the second brother is empty Teng, this is really a good idea!" Zou Laoer said: "You agree, I will do it, it is a deal, you have to help brother!" Yelang said: "It goes without saying, I Yelang did not Officials have no money, but they are idlers, and they know some crooks and gangsters. Some things are up to you if you can't do something serious!" Zou Laoer said: "That's why I came to ask you Yelang. Do you know, boss Sell ​​the store?" Yelang said: "I seem to have heard this somewhere two days ago. What's the matter, your Zou family opened three restaurants, and it only became famous in Xijing City, so why didn't he do it? Already?!" Zou Laoer said: "Can my brother mention it? Is he out of his mind? First, as soon as Zou Yun left and Qing Pu was doing well there, he got angry and asked me to take Qing Pu back. The shares of the money belonged to my own brothers and sisters. How can a compatriot whose nipples hang down be so wicked? I won’t go. Of course he didn’t make it, but he hated me from then on. My sister-in-law came to find trouble every three days, and the sisters-in-law blushed a few times! I can bear it. But once he sold the store this time, he deliberately tricked me!" Ye Lang said: "I heard from people on the street that the boss smokes and loves to gamble. If he really got that problem, then no one can save him." Don't be a joke, the boss likes to smoke a cigarette, which made my nephew look at it too. Not only does he smoke, but he also sells. He has hooked up with a cigarette dealer from Gansu. I set up a dried fruit shop, and advertised on TV every time. Every time the advertisement was made, the cigarettes arrived, and the cigarette sellers would go there to wholesale. Isn’t this against the law? If it goes on like this, is it okay? I went to tell the police station, People from the police station went to his place to check a few times, but nothing was found. ——I wanted to give him a wake-up call. The boss didn’t appreciate it, but he hated me. On the one hand, he sold the store because he owed cigarette money and gambling debts On the other hand, the police station has searched several times, but the reputation has been ruined, and it can’t be done.” Yelang felt chills in his heart when he heard this, and said, “Oh, so that’s the case.” Zou Lao Er said: “Selling Just sell it, if you don’t do it, it’s good for my business, but you can’t hurt me! It turned out that when I bought this front house, there was a toilet in the backyard, which was on his site, but nowHe sold the facade and the backyard, bought and hosted the company, and he didn't let us use the toilet!People have to urinate when they eat and drink. How can it be possible for more than ten people in my shop to go to the public toilet at the alley?Doesn't this also harm me?Yelang, do you know Li Gui from the bank? Yelang said, "I can recognize you."Is it the store where Li Gui and the others bought it? " Zou Laoer said: "You know everything!The boss sold the backyard. It is reasonable to say that the toilet is public, but Li Gui and the others don’t allow it. The meaning of that one is very clear, that is, they want to buy my land, and the family is so powerful that the tax bureau will come to check every three days. Did I evade taxes and force me to sell the land!You are acquainted with Li Gui, I will move you, you tell him not to be too worried, you do what you do, I do mine, it is right, even if you want this land, you let me do it for a few more years, in your hands If you have some money, you can find another place to hide.Toilet, I can pay him some money every month, right? Yelang lowered his head and thought, Li Gui once helped Qing Pu, and now he is working with the son of the Bureau of Letters and Calls. The long hand overturned Gong Changxing! He said: "Second brother, Li Gui and the others are going too far, but I can't do this.I, Yelang, only dare to promise what I can do, and what I promise will be done; if it is a small matter to respond to someone, it is a big mistake to make a mistake, so I dare not promise it. "Zou Laoer said: "Yelang, if you don't want to help me, then I'm out of business!" "Yelang said: "Li Gui and I are just acquainted once, and my words are useless. " Zou Laoer said: "Isn't it possible? Yelang said, "No." Zou Er Er lowered his head, but gritted his teeth and said: "The boss has harmed me, the boss has harmed me!" Yelang stood up and said, "Second brother, let's sit at home for a while, and I'll drink a few cups with you!" "Zou Laoer said:" I won't go, since things don't work, I'll go back. "Yelang didn't insist on staying, he sent him around the corner of the building, shook hands, and let him go. Yelang returned to the house, the wine table in the house was not cleared away, but Yan Ming sat on the chair with a livid face.Yelang said, "Why haven't you packed it yet?" Yan Ming ignored it and went back to the bedroom.Yelang felt it was strange, and followed him in, but Yan Ming was lying half up on the bed, smoking a cigarette.Yelang smiled and said, "You smoke too?" Yan Ming said, "Learn!" Yelang said, "Smoking is not a beauty product, it will make your face dark." You have a bad face." Yelang said, "Hey, are you angry with A Chan?" Yan Ming said, "Yelang, let me tell you, no matter what happened to you, we didn't get a marriage certificate at that time.现在你要伤害我，我可是受不了了！”夜郎说：“什么事这么严重的？我送了客人原本立马就回来的，谁知却遇着邹老二，浆浆水水说了许多事，耽搁了一会儿时间你就成这样子了？”颜铭说：“你只要有事，就是忙你的一年两年我不管的，我只问你，那电话是谁打的，你明明在说家里有人有事，她还是在和你说话，她怎么就有这么大的势？你有什么短处在她手里捏着？没有什么关系她敢这样待你，你又肯这样的听话？”夜郎怔了一下，笑了。颜铭说：“你笑什么，没话说了用笑掩饰？我再老实，可我也是有血有性的，不至于就这样欺负吧？！”夜郎说：“那是虞白打的电话，虞白你知道吧？就是吴清朴的表姐？？吴清朴就是邹云的男朋友，这下清楚了吧？” 颜铭说：“我当然清楚，就是那一回我在你房子里，来的那两个女子吧。她们见了我那副傲慢的劲儿，好像她们与你是真熟，翻这样看那样，根本不把我放在眼里，当时我心里就犯疑惑，知道你们关系不一般。你们是不是过去有过什么，你对她许过什么话，现在咱们结婚了，她是气不顺还是暗里还和你来往？”夜郎说：“什么事也没有的。”颜铭说：“你看着我。”夜郎直了眼睛看颜铭。颜铭说：“真的没事？”夜郎说：“真的没事。”就把同虞白的交往原原本本地说了一遍。颜铭说：“噢，你和我都有了那段事情，你还爱过人家，这还不是事了？”但夜郎说：“我能这么说给你，我心里就没个鬼的。正因为咱们有了那一段事情，我心里不畅快，遇见虞白，她确实是好人，但我们相处了又都觉得做朋友是好朋友，要成那事却不行的。说真的，我也生气过她，我是经过一番比较后和你结婚的？？和她在一起只觉得累的。”颜铭说：“我瓜嘛，好哄嘛。”说完了，扑哧笑了一下。夜郎说：“笑了笑了，没事了。”颜铭说：“你能把啥话都说出来，我就信着你。虞白在电话里说那样的话，她是在你和我不成的时候，犹豫这样，拿做那样，一旦得知我和你结婚了，她就又心里不畅，若是现在你和我又不行了，再去和她，说不定她又是豌豆心儿拿不了主意呢！我是没本事的人，要跟你就跟铁了心，你也别把到手的东西不当一回事。既然结婚了，我也不论你以前，只注重你以后，你不要毁了我！”夜郎说：“这我知道，青菜配豆腐，我只有寻你，你只有寻我。可话说回来，虞白确实是好人，她比我好，我倒盼望你不要吃醋，她要来了，你该以礼相待的。”颜铭说：“我再没文化，我也懂得这个理！”就走过来让夜郎抱了，说： “你说我爱你不？”夜郎说：“爱的。”颜铭就在他脸上亲吻，喃喃地说：“你是我的，噢，你只是我的。”夜郎便抱了她往床上去，在身上胡摸乱揣，解扣撕带的。颜铭说：“门，门没关！”翻起身来，一指头戳在夜郎脸上，说：“你是个惹不起！你不要命啦？也不要孩子命啦？”过去把门开了，去客厅收拾残汤剩菜。夜郎没有动，兀自地仰头看天花板，天花板是五合板装修的，上面钻有整齐的小圆孔，他数了一遍，又数了一遍，一遍和一遍数目不同。 戏班去了城北三个县扶贫义演，第四天的晚上，演的是“夜魔挂灯”的一场。说的是目连戏的主角罗卜见佛赐宝后，急急奔到铁围城，打破了铁门，众鬼在神灯照耀下纷纷逃走，罗卜之母即刘氏也在饿鬼中慌不择路，那狱官见此状，惊慌失措，连呼何因？便有一老鬼卒，似乎是什么小小头目之类，面黑如铁，眼小似豆，踉踉跄跄上来，先跌了一跤，跪在了台子左边禀告——鬼卒：老爷！Oh no! （唱） 夜郎站在戏台幕侧处正监台，一女演员还未卸了青面獠牙的鬼妆，走近说：“班主叫你哩！”夜郎在后台的一问屋里，南丁山正扭曲着脸向一个人发脾气：“为什么不让演了？这活动是报请了市文化局的，错在哪里？”那人说：“南先生你不要给我发火，这是市文化局发的电报，又不是我们县为难你们。”南丁山摊了摊手，未说出话来，给夜郎说：“这位是县文化局的同志。”两人握了手，夜郎一边问“什么事”，一边拿了电报看。电报是市文化局发的，意思要鬼戏班立即停演，尽快返回西京城。夜郎就问： “几时收的电报？”那人说：“一收到我就拿来了。”夜郎说：“文化局出尔反尔，他说不演就不演了？戏班的损失谁担承？就是别的县不再去演了，在这里只剩下两场，总得有始有终啊！”那人说：“实不相瞒，市文化局发来两份电报，这一封是让转给你们的，另一封给我们，说戏班执意继续上演，就要求县文化局禁演的。”南丁山闷了半会儿，说：“好吧，明日一早我们就回！难道文化局是潘仁美，要演风月亭不可？！” 翌日，戏班拆台装箱，人马返城，南丁山、夜郎即去了文化局，接待他们的却是演出处，说宫副局长责令他们来查处戏班的，理由是戏班以扶贫义演之名，将收入的十分之二只作了捐资，十分之一上缴管理费，十分之七装入私囊，并要求戏班把会计账目拿来，再要南丁山详细写一个义演的全部经过材料。两人听了，嘴头上还十分强硬，口口声声这是污蔑，要亲自见宫副局长面谈。但演出处的人说宫副局长不在，一出文化局大门，南丁山的脸面就煞白了，说：“局里怎么知道这内幕？上次回来，没什么动静，这次外出，申请书又批得挺顺利的，怎么才四天他们就知道这么多？”夜郎说：“会不会是戏班里有了内奸？”南丁山说：“这不可能，每个人都得了红包，是自己和自己过不去吗？是不是哪个县的文化局协作人员告的密？可咱都是给他们回扣的呀？！”夜郎说：“知人知面难知心，咱现在受宫长兴直接管，是不是告他的事泄了？若没泄，现在哪一类义演不是这样，他也睁一眼闭一眼就过去了，文化局还落个政治上的好名声；若是泄了，那他听了谁一句半句谗言就要整咱们了。”南丁山点着头说：“夜郎，咱会不会栽在他手里？”夜郎说：“晚上你我去找找信访局长摸摸情况再说。他宫长兴就是成心要整治咱，咱有信访局长，一物降一物，还不知到底是咱要栽还是他要栽！” 晚上，南丁山和夜郎正详细地列了应付回答的几个问题，才要起身去信访局长家，民俗博物馆长却急急火火赶来，把南丁山叫出去了。夜郎觉得蹊跷，也有些生气，嫌馆长眼里瞧不起他。正取了酒喝，偏巧颜铭也来了。夜郎说：“今日这是怎么啦？一个接一个的都来了？！”颜铭说：“听说你们中午回来，饭做了那么多，左等右等却没人影，我就放心不下了。别人提心吊胆的，你倒悠闲得在这儿喝酒！” 夜郎说：“心才烦哩！”南丁山就进来，向颜铭打个招呼，就说：“事情更糟了！”夜郎问：“馆长鬼鬼祟祟的又说什么了？”南丁山说：“你拿回去的毛毯、踏花被用了没有？”颜铭说：“还没用的，怎么啦？”夜郎说：“颜铭你甭多嘴，我们说戏班的事哩。”颜铭说：“你们忙，我是不是出去一会儿？”南丁山说：“颜铭，这事也不避你；你就坐下吧，只要你不怨恨我们就是，有什么事情了，我南丁山顶着，与夜郎没关系的。”颜铭听南丁山这么说，知道出了什么事，也不言传，心揪成了一疙瘩。南丁山就对夜郎说：“那些东西没用的好？？文化局已经派人去民俗馆查了，馆长是个怕事的人，把分的东西全都往回收，是他们那儿漏的风？？”夜郎也就抱了头，闷了半会儿。两人就叽叽咕咕商议起来，最后还是拿定主意去找信访局长，让信访局长出面向宫长兴施加压力，至于拿回去的东西，明日一早先送回民俗馆，一口咬定咱是没有拿的。两人越说越神神秘秘，颜铭并不知底细，听着听着，听出些门道，就说出她所知道的一宗事来，当下让南丁山和夜郎从头顶到脚底全凉了。 原来，时装表演团里，有一个长得小巧玲珑的出纳，人称袖珍美人的，与人谈了恋爱，团里人都知道每天下班有个骑摩托的男人来接她，却并不知道那男人是谁。前日，突然离开表演团，说是有了正式工作，而且是文化局演出处的。全团就议论起来，模特们无不热羡，团长就告诉大家，人和人是比不得的，看别人吃肉，自己就不要流口水，人家的男朋友的爹是信访局长嘛！并说了内情：那男的想让女朋友去文化局工作，曾托人说了数次，未能成功，不想信访局长收到了反映宫长兴问题的信件，信访局长就给宫长兴打了电话，让宫去他那儿一趟。宫长兴去了，信访局长吓唬说群众有了检举信，是八条问题，一条一条都列出来，宫长兴浑身就软了，信访局长便说你宫长兴才提拔上来，下边怎么就这么多意见，材料呈送上去怎么了得？正是因为都是熟人，偷偷先犯着纪律让你看看这材料，你要觉得这些问题都是事实，那我们就呈送上去；不是事实，是一些人要陷害诽谤你，信访局当然要保护坚持改革的领导干部了，这材料到这儿就为止了。这话当然是说给宫长兴听的，宫长兴也当然说这些材料全是诽谤之辞，现在是上边不提拔谁谁就是好人，一提拔谁谁就成了臭狗屎。信访局长就笑着说：好啦，这事天知地知你知我知就对了。宫长兴千谢万谢告辞回去，第二天信访局长的儿子就去找了宫长兴，又说起未婚妻的工作之事，事情自然而然地便解决了。 南丁山和夜郎骂了一通信访局长，骂过了便垂头丧气，长吁短叹，南丁山就软下来要坦白，先写一份检讨，又要把分给戏班成员的钱和物再收回来上缴。夜郎却不，说让他再想想办法，便打发颜铭回去，他要和南丁山睡在戏班，得专心处理这麻烦事了。颜铭一走，即给宽哥打电话，问宽哥认识不认识文化局别的头儿？但宽嫂回电话，宽哥已去了巴图镇，去干什么，几时回来，人家没说，从来做事都不给她说的。事到如此，两个相对看着，突然都笑了一下，南丁山说：“兄弟，熊管了，明日砍头今日还是要吃的，我请客，南门外环城中路上新开设一家蒙古饭店，卖烤羊腿，酥油茶，还有驴鞭、牛鞭、狗鞭三宝汤的。”夜郎说：“吃个饭用不着跑那么远，我给清朴打个电话，让小工提几笼蒸饺来。”遂电话打过去，半小时后，果然一男一女小工提了三笼蒸饺，一保温饭罐的八宝稀粥，两人分着吃起来。送饭的一男一女第一次到戏班来，看见了房子里各种剧装和乐器，十分稀罕。南丁山见那女的眉清目秀，心里爱惜，说：“好玩吧？好玩了也穿着玩玩。”就过去把一副胡须戴给那男的，从衣架上取了凤冠让女的戴了，又取了裙衣、霞披让她穿了，女的连热带羞，脸色白里透红，俨若施了粉妆。女的也是个好轻狂的，学着抛了几下水袖，抛得不开，却嚯嚯有风，后来还做了个兰花指来，坐到那古筝前竞拨了一曲《康定情歌》。喜得南丁山一颗饺子在嘴里，还未嚼烂咽下，口齿不清地说：“好的，好的，叫什么名字？”女的说：“艳艳。”南丁山又问：“艳艳十几岁啦？”艳艳说：“十七岁零三个月，我生日小。”南丁山说：“有扮相，人又伶俐，如果愿意到戏班来我可以要你的！”艳艳说：“我愿意的，真能到戏班，那我就辞那边的工啊！”夜郎见南丁山感情用事，就说：“艳艳，你别听他的笑话，戏班要招聘也是明年招聘，你要爱唱戏，有空练练身段和嗓子，到时候来应聘，现在还是好好在酒楼工作，别一头抹脱了一头又翘了担儿！”南丁山笑笑说：“夜郎说的也是，但古筝弹得不错，该奖励哩！”夹了一颗饺子让艳艳吃，艳艳竟也身子从古筝上弯过来，张嘴把饺子吃了。夜郎在桌下用脚踩南丁山的脚，南丁山还要再喂一颗的，夹起来，就送到自己口里，说：“世上的事分分合合，得得失失，都是有缘分的，艳艳有演戏的素质却在酒楼上做工，这也是命运所定。我小的时候，一个道师看我的相，说我银盘大脸，浓眉阔嘴，是能当官的，官还不小，不是五品就是三品。长大了没有当成官，却演了戏，都演的是官！？？”夜郎说：“这话你不知说过多少遍了！ 当不了官就认个没有官命罢了，还掩饰着让艳艳他们笑话了！”艳艳说：“我不笑话，你们在南郊机电公司演出时，我还没到酒楼的，去看过南先生演的甘脱身的——那演得真好！”南丁山说：“我演的不是甘脱身，是代理阎王聂正伦。甘脱身在阴间的铁围城里做鬼，目连打破铁围城，甘脱身趁机溜脱，吹牛撒谎说他的外公是玉皇，外婆是王母娘娘，真武祖师是舅父，何仙姑是舅母娘，我吓得战战兢兢，手足无措，尊其为上司的。，'艳艳说：“我记起来了，是代理阎王的——你能唱一段吗？”南丁山说：“唱哪一段？这代理阎王上场是念引子的——”就长声念道： 休说官吏有区别，七十二者皆一脉，千里为官只为财，哪管杀人遍地血。 念完，张口要唱，眼睛却红红的，喉咙发哽，说他去擤擤鼻涕——去了屋左边的洗手间去。夜郎忙给艳艳和男小工使眼色，让他们赶快回酒楼去。艳艳还要说把笼拿上，夜郎说不必了，过后我送过去，推着让他们走了。南丁山擤完鼻涕回到屋里，问：“人呢？”夜郎说人家忙人忙事的，你哕哕唆唆没个完，就都走了。南丁山很有些遗憾，说：“夜郎，我是不是说得多了？”夜郎说：“今日没喝酒，倒像是醉了。你给他们说那些干什么？我看你是累了。”南丁山说：“是累了，是累了。”两人又吃，直到笼干罐净，草草洗了手脸，就搭铺睡觉。南丁山说：“兄弟，啥事都不要想了，明日的事明日再说，咱睡，睡着了全当是死去了！” 但是，夜郎很快就入睡了，睡不着的却是南丁山。他先是听着屋外不断地有响声，是车驶过去鸣着喇叭，是邻近哪一家打麻将，牌洗得哗啦哗啦响，是有人从窗外走过，女的，铁钉的高跟踏着水泥路面？ ?他翻了个身，面朝这边睡一会儿，又翻了个身面朝那边睡一会儿，就闻着臭气，骂夜郎脚洗过了还这么熏人！后来就把枕头抱过来和夜郎睡在一头。这么折腾了半夜，才要迷迷糊糊睡着，似乎感觉夜郎又起身去厕所了，但没有听到厕所的马桶水响，他睁了眼才要问“你也睡不着吗？”好像夜郎在开屋门。一时清醒，觉得奇怪，起身看时，便见夜郎开了门竟一直往前走。南丁山不知道他这是要去干什么，也就跟了，一直穿街过巷，到了竹笆街，夜郎又在贴了售房字样白纸的门上掏钥匙开锁，开不开，又不言不语地返回去。等到南丁山再回来，夜郎却已在被窝里咝儿咝儿发了轻轻的鼾声。 南丁山就拉着了灯，叫夜郎，叫了数声，夜郎醒来，说：“天亮啦？”南丁山说：“你装什么洋相？半夜四点半。”夜郎说：“才四点半你起来干啥？你不睡我还要睡的。”南丁山说：“是我害得你睡不成，还是你害得我睡不成？！”夜郎说：“你？？”就又起了鼾声。南丁山蓦然醒悟，过来一把拉起夜郎，说：“夜郎，夜郎，你有夜游症？！”夜郎清醒了，说： “我有夜游症？胡说！”南丁山就把刚才的一幕原原本本说了一遍，夜郎倒害怕起来，说：“我去开戚老太太家门？我怎么会去开戚老太太家门？我是那再生人啦？！”就从脖子上取下系着的钥匙，疑惑不已地看着。南丁山说：“真是怪事！这一定是这钥匙有什么异处。你不敢再系这钥匙了，脖子上什么戴不了，偏戴这玩意儿，你在乡下得那怪病，恐怕也是这钥匙作祟哩！”就把钥匙收了，装在自己口袋里。夜郎却不，说这钥匙不是他的，他就是不系，也要还给人家的——从南丁山口袋里又掏了回来。 吴清朴拍过了电报，又用刘逸山的办法，将邹云的鞋里装上秤锤，邹云仍是人不归，信不来。吴清朴到虞白和丁琳处哭诉过几次委屈，两人除了劝说也无能为力，寻夜郎，夜郎又去义演了，便约了宽哥商议，宽哥自告奋勇，要去寻邹云。为了不惹人显眼，宽哥换了一身便服，当天搭车去了巴图镇。在镇东七里铺的弯道处，有人穿了孝服跪在路边焚冥钱，路面上还用石头围了一个圈儿，似乎还看得见圈儿里有发干的血迹，便知道前几天这里出过车祸了。车上的人都伸了头往出看，口里呸呸地吐唾沫。宽哥瞧着那穿孝服的人又焚纸又奠酒，眼里便有些潮了，却并未吐唾沫，旁边人还说：“你不吐的？鬼怕唾沫的，莫让横死鬼寻了替身去！”宽哥哼了一下，心里说：它要不嫌牛皮癣痒，它来寻我来？ ! 到了镇上，打问着去了宁洪祥的公司，大门口里却有一个老头和一个穿西服的小伙吵闹，似乎已经争执了许久。老头说：“我要见他的，他为啥不肯见？他心虚嘛！我可是惟一的证人，我正蹴在石堰后屙屎哩，小车就像喝醉了酒一样从拐弯处开过来，我瞧着是女的开的，那人往左一跑，又往右跑，车子也是往右一下又往左去，咚地就撞上了，车轮是从那人的腿上碾过去的，车就在前边停了。我只说车上的人要下来救人的，可那车却又发动了，而且还往后倒，端端往那人身上倒去，那人也是急了，拖着断腿往路边爬，一边爬一边还喊：'别再碾我，别再碾我！'但车还是倒后去，就把那人轧死了。我看见倒车的是宁洪祥，我眼睛没瞎，就是他宁洪祥！”小伙说：“你再胡说，我告了你去！”老头说：“告了好嘛，公堂上对质，看判了谁的刑去？！”宽哥听着是是非之事，立即意识到自己此时是不宜前去的，忙掩身在旁边一个厕所墙后。听得老头又在说：“私了不成，那咱就公了嘛！那女的那阵尖声叫，不让倒车，我听着宁洪祥说：你甭管，要轧就轧死着好，他不受罪了，咱也安生。轧个残废，你一辈子得养了他，那是花钱的无底洞，轧死了，出万把元的命钱，什么事也没有了——你当这话我没听见？我听得清清楚楚的！”小伙说：“鬼信着你！你既然看着听着，现场处理事故时你咋不说？”老头说：“我不说就留着现在说嘛，我也是能人，我难道不知道我该怎样发财呀？！”小伙说：“老无赖！滚！”老头说：“我就不滚，宁洪祥不给我钱，我就到处说呀！”小伙说：“我告诉你，事故早处理了，人也埋了，你胡说八道顶了屁用？”将老头推开去，老头又扑过来，打不离的狗一般，老头后来就抱住了门框不丢手，一只鞋被小伙拽脱了，“日”地撂到丈外远的场地去。宽哥听出个八成轮廓，心里也怦怦直跳，作想路上见到的那个现场莫非就是宁洪祥出的车祸吗？才要走近去说话，门里又出来一个人，一颗贼光贼光的大头，便又躲到墙后，听着说：“老头，你是疯了，要讹钱也不该胡说，这可是人命关天的事！”老头说：“天上油盆大的太阳照着，我说谎？”那人说：“已经给你说了，宁总不在，他回来了你寻他好了。”老头说：“他有钱他能去坐了牢？你别诓我！”那人说：“宁总当然不会坐牢！死者横穿马路出了车祸，赔了一万两千元，已经够他的了！说不定他是拿老命给儿子换钱的。”老头说：“话说到这个份儿上，那我就天天来，我不走的，我也死在这里挣笔钱的！”那人就召了小伙在一边，叽叽咕咕了一会儿，过去说：“老头，这样吧，你说怎么办？”老头说：“灭口有两条，一是把我弄死了，二是掏这个数。”爹了五个指头。那人说：“五百？”老头说：“再加个零！”那人说：“付了钱你还要胡说咋办？”老头说：“我是地上爬的！让我人经三代都是哑巴，行了吧？！”那人拿眼瞪着老头，呼呼出气，从口袋掏出一沓钱来，数过了，数出是三千二百元，抽回二百，说：“算你发财，拿走吧，拿走吧。我可警告你，你要再敢说一个字儿，啥下场你会明白的！”老头说：“我是猪狗啦，拿碌碡打月亮，不知轻重呀？！”忽地夺了那人手里的二百元，撒脚跑了。那两人骂了数声，砰地把门关了。宽哥知道此时还不宜过去，在场边转了一会儿，才去敲门，开门的还是那个小伙，就问起宁洪祥。小伙倒盘问了他多时，才说宁洪祥领人在山上矿洞，不在家的。宽哥忙问邹云，小伙却说邹云病了，指点了让到镇上门牌ｌ０１号去找。 宽哥心就急起来，不知邹云害的什么病。在镇上寻到１０１门号，窄窄的一个门洞进去，里边却是一幢小楼，进去又问了人，上到二层中间房里，果然邹云在里边，脸子寡白白的，一见宽哥，顺门出来就走……宽哥还以为她是出去喊人提了茶水来的，或是去拿什么东西，在屋里坐了一会儿，却再不见邹云的影，就出来到隔壁的房子也看了，也到楼下看了，邹云都不在。最后上楼梯到楼顶，平台上，邹云靠在栏杆上发呆，身边卧着一只怪模怪样的短腿长毛狗。宽哥说：“邹云，你记不得我吗？我是汪宽。”邹云说：“宽哥，你是到巴图镇有公务？”宽哥说：“我是特意来找你的——清朴让我来的。”邹云说：“清朴让你来的？我已经给他去了信，又拍了电报，他还叫你来？宽哥，那我认不得你了，原谅我不能接待你。”宽哥说：“邹云，我远远赶来，你不问吃不问喝，拧身就躲开了，你怎么冷落我我不在乎的，可你得回去呀！你和清一朴闹什么意见，你回去好好谈谈嘛，一封电报过去，说退婚就退一婚了，清朴受得了吗？他现在的样子，谁见了谁都可怜？？” 邹云说：“所以我不能回去。”宽哥说：“这到底是怎么回事吗？听你白姐说：你和清朴原本好好的，已经在筹划着结婚了，事情咋就弄成这样