Chapter 13 Chapter Twelve

When Cen Jin woke up, he found himself lying in the shade of a tree on the bank, covered with a few lotus leaves, Wei Guo was pinching her nose, and she yelled: "You pinched me!" He said happily: "Are you awake? I almost scared to death. If you drown today, I won't go home, so as not to be beaten to death by my father." "what's wrong with me?" "You fell into the water and got swept away." "You brought me up?" "If it's not me, who else could it be? There's no one else here." "Then you saw my...where?"

"How can I care about it? I'm scared to death." "You must have seen it." "No." "you are lying." "I'm not lying." "You're lying!" "Well, I lied, I saw it, so what?" "What did you see?" "I saw...you are so strange there, it must be very uncomfortable?" "why?" "It's uncomfortable to watch." She said worriedly: "People say that if a man sees a woman, then, the woman will have a child, will I have a child?" "Will not." "how do you know?"

"Anyway, no, if you don't believe me, go back and ask your mother." "I dare not ask my mother, and you are not allowed to tell what happened today, or others will laugh at me." "I promise, I will never tell it." He pulled her up, "Go, wash in the water, the clothes must be dry soon, after washing, put them on, and the clothes will be dry when you get home." She was still hesitating, but he said, "I've already seen it, so what are you afraid of? Come, I'll hold you by the hand, so that you won't be washed away by the water again."

She thought for a while and said, "Then I want to see you too, or it won't be fair." "Look." He took off his shorts and turned them around for her to see. "Is it fair now?" She thought there was nothing unusual about him from behind, but there was something strange about the lump of meat between his legs in front, and she couldn't help sighing: "You still said that my place is strange, but I think yours is strange, it must be very uncomfortable. ?” "You'll know when you become a man in your next life." After washing off the mud on her body and putting on half-dry clothes, Wei Guo took her to the house in a hurry, and said as he walked, "After you go back, you have to wash your arms and legs with cold water several times, because the stream water It's a bit muddy, if you soak in muddy water, you will have 'water scorched' on your body, if your mother scrapes your arm with her nails, she will see a white mark, and she will know that you have been in the water."

She scratched her arm with her fingernails, and there was really a white mark. He also said: "And your clothes, also soaked in muddy water, will be hard. When you get home, you will change them, wash them with clean water, rub out all the muddy water, and hang them outside to dry." "You are really smart." "I was beaten to death by my father for not being smart." But when she got home, she found that there was no need to do these aftermath measures, because her mother had already returned and was lying on the bed.She ran over in a hurry and asked, "Mom, have you fainted again?"

Mom seems to have cried, her eyes are red, and her voice is a little hoarse: "Today, your father is gone." "Didn't he leave long ago?" "He just left the house and moved to the union office, and now he's gone further and isn't coming back." "Where did he go?" "He went back to his hometown, and his country wife and son took him back." "Didn't you say he didn't want to go back?" "He didn't want to go back then, but now he can't help it. Today, the Public Security Bureau came to the school to hold a public judgment meeting. Your father was sent back to his hometown to control labor. When he returned to that place, he went to the low eaves of others. His wife The entire family is a cadre of the production team, a company commander of the militia, and your father's arm is twisted past his thigh?"

She was trying to figure out whose arm was whose thigh, when she heard her mother cry and say: "Today, now mother is only you, you have to depend on mother for life." She quickly put her head on her mother's face, but she didn't cry, and she was not so sad, because she still had her mother, and her father had been away for a long time, and now she couldn't imagine "going further" and "moving to Union Office" What's the difference. She was wiping her mother's tears when the military representative came in with two big bowls. When he saw her, he said, "Jinjin, you're back? I called the rice. Let's find a bowl to put the rice in."

The military representative put the food on the dining table, walked to the stove by himself, picked up the medicine jar on it, poured out a bowl of black medicine soup, and told his mother to drink it. Mom doesn't drink, just cries. The army representative said: "At this time, you can't cry. It's a matter of position. If you refuse to speak at the meeting today, the masses will have a lot of opinions. You must pay special attention in the future. Drink the medicine, don't drink it, How can the disease be cured? If you cry yourself to death, what will the child do?"

Mom took the medicine and drank it while crying. The next day, after taking a nap, my mother went to school to participate in political studies. She was dancing rubber bands in front of her house alone. While she was dancing, Wei Guo came running with a pot: "Quick, come and eat ice!" "You went to the factory again?" "Well, yesterday's ice was poured into the ditch, didn't you eat it?" "Why didn't you call me when you went to get some ice?" "It's too troublesome to call you, and you dare not cross the water. After crossing the water, you fell into the water, and the ice cubes fell into the water. Why don't I go by myself, faster."

Wei Guo entered her house, spread a newspaper on the ground, put ice cubes on the newspaper, got a kitchen knife, and started chopping ice, the ice shards splashed everywhere, and the ice cubes jumped everywhere.He picked up the ice cubes and touched them with his hand, and the dirty things disappeared with the ice water. He said it was "washing the ice". He put the cleaned ice cubes in her thermos. If you can't fit it in, just chop it again. She was curious: "Why is it in a thermos?" "There's so much ice, you can't finish it all at once. If you put it in a hot water bottle, it will melt slowly, and you will have ice to eat tomorrow."

"Isn't the thermos very hot? Will the ice melt in the thermos?" "Fool, the thermos is not hot, but the water inside is hot. If you put ice in it, the thermos will become an ice water bottle. But sometimes the ice cubes will freeze together and won't come out. Then you have to open the cap. , it will be poured out in a while." "You know everything? You're so clever." "Nobody ever told me I was smart." "Really? But you are very smart, why don't others say you are smart?" "Because I can't read well." When it comes to studying, she has no words, because she hasn't gone to school yet, she was born in October, and missed the registration time for this year, and she will not be able to study until next year. While she was talking, she ate ice cubes, which were sweet and icy, so delicious. He asked, "Is it delicious?" "tasty." "It's delicious, I'll get it again tomorrow." "Can I take it every day?" "Why not? Anyway, I'll help them shovel coal. Now we have to hurry up and eat. When the weather is cold, there will be no ice to eat." A few children seemed to smell the ice, ran to her door to look around, and said enviously: "She is eating ice!" "A lot of ice!" "I really want to eat ice cream too!" She asked Wei Guo: "Can I give them some ice to eat?" "Whatever you want, I'll give you the ice, it's yours, you can give it if you want." "I want to give it, I want them to play with me after eating my ice." She took the bowl of ice and went to the door to distribute it to the children, saying as she distributed it, "I will give you ice to eat, but you to play with me." The children all promise: "I will play with you, I will play with you." Wei Guo also chimed in and said, "If you have fun with Jinjin, I will give you ice to eat again. If you don't have fun with her, I won't give you ice." The children held the ice and switched from one hand to the other because of the cold, but Dong was also happy, staring at her bowl while eating: "She still has a lot of ice!" "Did she eat that much by herself?" "If you eat too much, your stomach will hurt." A few older boys also gathered around to ask for ice. She saw that they were children who never played together, so she didn't want to give them ice, knowing that they would not play with her if they ate it. The children waited for a while, but when they didn't get any ice, they started making trouble. One said: "This is the ice that Weiguo gave to his friend, don't even think about it, you can't think of it." Another said: "Wei Guo and Jinjin are married." Wei Guo pointed to those children and said, "Are you asking for a beating?" Those children ran away, shouting as they ran: "Guo Wei is a hooligan!" "Wei Guo saw Jinjin's ass, Jinjin's belly is getting bigger, and he is going to give birth to a baby." Wei Guo chased them out, and all the children ran away. She was not in the mood to eat ice anymore, thinking about the words of the children with fear.When Weiguo came back, she asked anxiously, "Didn't you say you wouldn't tell others?" "I didn't tell anyone." "Then why do they know you've seen me?" "Are they talking nonsense?" "but--" Wei Guo was anxious: "Why don't you believe me? I said I didn't tell others and I didn't tell others. I promised that if I told others, I would be arrested and go to jail!" "Then why would they say that?" "They talk nonsense to everyone. Didn't they also talk about your father?" She asked in surprise, "You know what they said about my dad?" "Why don't I know? The whole school knows." "But my dad is not a hooligan." "I didn't say he was a gangster, he was a rightist, and he committed bigamy. Don't worry, he is not your father now, and your mother has divorced him." She began to cry, and he panicked: "What's the matter? Didn't I already beat those guys up? What do you want from me?" She cried and said, "I didn't tell you to beat them. I was afraid that my belly would really grow up." "I said it won't be big, why don't you believe it? Only grown-ups have big stomachs, how can such a small person like you have a big belly? Have you ever seen a little girl with a big belly?" "But no one else has been seen." "If you don't believe me, just ask your mother." She really couldn't hold it anymore, and lay on the bed at night, she timidly asked her mother: "Mom, how did you give birth to me?" My mother was puzzled: "It was born in the hospital!" "Yes, but how were you born?" "Didn't I tell you that it was born by surgery? My pelvis is thick enough, but not wide enough. Your head is stuck there and you can't get it out. After giving birth for a day and a night, it was finally taken out by surgery." "I'm not asking that." "Then why are you?" "I'm asking how your belly got bigger?" Mom was a little embarrassed and said: "You will know this when you grow up." "Is it because Dad saw your—" "What did Dad see me?" She bravely said, "Did you see your... ass?" "Who told you this?" "It's... Sister Hong and the others said that Dad is a hooligan who saw women's butts. They also said that when a man sees a woman's butt, a woman's belly will grow and she will give birth to a baby." Mom murmured, "These kids are too complicated in their thinking, so don't play with them anymore." After a while, she asked, "Why did you think of asking this, did some guy see your ass? " She dare not say. My mother mobilized and said: "Today, don't hide anything from Mom. If something like this happens, you tell Mom, and Mom will know what to do. If you keep it from Mom, if something happens, it will be too late to regret it. Did you know that there was a girl in No. 3 Middle School who died because she had a big belly and didn't tell her mother about it?" She didn't dare to hide any more, so she had to hesitate to tell her mother what happened by the creek yesterday. Mom was silent for a while, and asked seriously: "He just watched it, didn't he do anything else?" "No." Mom asked with difficulty: "Did he touch you anywhere?" "He touched my back while he was washing it." "Have you touched anywhere else?" "No." "Do you remember how he got you ashore after you fell into the water?" "I do not remember." "That is to say, you have been unconscious for a while, who knows what he did to you?" "He covered me with some lotus leaves." Mom was silent for a while, and said, "Jinjin, have you felt any pain in the place where you pee in the past two days?" "No." Mom said to herself: "He may be too young to understand these things..." "What do you not understand?" "You do not understand." In the middle of the night, she felt her mother cracking her ass.She remembers that when she was a child, her mother used to use a flashlight to look at her buttocks in the middle of the night, because she had pinworms at that time, and pinworms like to crawl to the buttocks to lay eggs in the middle of the night. The doctor asked her mother to check it in the middle of the night. If you see it, you can kill the adult worms and cure pinworms. But then mom was watching Baba, and this time mom was watching peeing.She realized without a teacher that this had something to do with the conversation before going to bed, so she didn't dare to move at all, pretending to be asleep. Mom looked at it with the flashlight for a while, and said to herself: "He shouldn't have done anything." The next day, my mother told her: "Jijin, don't worry, the girl's belly won't grow up if the boy just sees the girl's butt. But it's not good for the boy to see your butt, they will think about it Be thoughtful, don't play with Weiguo in the future. He is so much older than you, his thoughts are very bad, and he is afraid of playing with problems." She begged, "Mom, don't tell his father, or his father will beat him to death." "I won't tell, and don't tell others, or others will talk nonsense. A girl can't hold her head up if she is talked nonsense by others." "I checked with him. He won't tell others, and I won't tell others. He told me to ask you, so I asked." "He asked you to ask me?" "Well, he said that my stomach won't be big. If you don't believe me, you can ask your mother." The mother fell into deep thought again: "It seems that this child still knows a lot of things. You really can't play with him anymore. He is too mature and dangerous."