Chapter 5 Fives

Since Aunt Yuqing called back Uncle Man, people in our family had to treat her differently.Some said that she would not be a grandma now, but wanted to be an old woman; some blamed her for having eyes on her forehead, which was too heartless. "I don't believe it!" The fat aunt commented very disapprovingly: "There is such a tricky woman? Such a beautiful, such a beautiful person, just like this, can keep it for a lifetime?" "I think she is very temperamental." My mother said: "The people who come out are different after all. It's ridiculous that our Uncle Man, who can't control himself, why doesn't he get his nose dirty?"

From then on, Lao Yuan and Xiao Wang's group showed a little respect for Yuqing's sister-in-law. Although everyone was so itchy that they wanted to stretch their hands out of their throats, they didn't dare to act rashly and just watched from a distance. Anyway, I think Yuqing's sister-in-law is very close.It seems that she is gentle and gentle all the way, and she doesn't say much.When she has something to do, she keeps her voice low and keeps her head down; when she is free at night, she goes upstairs to accompany me to do my homework, I write my calligraphy, and she knits her wool. I have never seen her looking for someone to talk to It's Lafei, and I haven't seen her go to the yard to listen to the lotus falling with Lao Zeng and the others.She just likes to sit next to me, picking up her little finger, knitting stitch after stitch.

She was weaving so fast that the only sound of bamboo needles could be heard in the rustling.Sometimes I can't help but look up at her. In the dancing candlelight, her profile is really pretty.Snow-white cheeks, a nose like a spring onion, fluffy locks of black hair just slipped on the base of the ear, making the earring glisten like white jade; but somehow, under the candlelight, The wrinkles on her forehead, like the water ripples, are reflected one by one, one, two, three--I can even count a few, I don't like her wrinkles, I wish I could Grind her forehead with her hands to smooth out those few wrinkles.Especially when she is frowning and dazed—she always puts down her wool and is in a daze—I can even see the fish tail in the corner of her eye clearly.

"What the hell are you thinking about?" Sometimes I couldn't help pushing her arm and asked her. She picked up the wool in a hurry, and replied again and again that she didn't think about anything. I knew she was lying, but I didn't bother to question her anymore. Anyway, Mrs. Yuqing is a silent mosquito called by us Guilin people. She doesn't like to make noises. There are many. I like Yuqing's sister-in-law for another reason: she favors me, and usually can't stand my twists and turns, and she agrees to almost everything.My mother didn't like me going out very much, and she didn't allow me to eat stalls or go to small restaurants, for fear that I would catch infectious diseases.In hot weather, I still have a camphor sac hanging on my lapel. I want to take it out and smell it. It is said to be able to disinfect. I am afraid of the smell.After Yuqing's sister-in-law came, I kept urging her to take me out to eat. She said she was afraid of my mother's speech.

"What are you afraid of?" I said to her, "Only the two of us know, who will tell mom that if you don't want to go, won't I ask Lao Zeng to take me there?" She has nothing to do with me.We often slipped to Shizijie to eat Ha Shengqiang’s horse meat rice noodles. Ha Shengqiang is facing the Gaosheng Theater, which specializes in theater business. Especially at night, many people come here for supper after watching the theater.Ha Shengqiang's horse meat rice noodles are the most famous. I can eat five or six dishes in one go. After eating it, I wipe my mouth. There is only one thing I really can't figure out, let me say good or bad, Yuqing's sister-in-law will never agree to me.It turned out that Yuqing's sister-in-law was going to tell me that she was going back to her husband's house soon, and I wanted her to take me with her, but she always refused, and she just coaxed me with words:

"It's so far away! It's not easy to walk over the Huaqiao. You have to cross the pontoon bridge at the east gate to get out of the water. No one will fall into the water! Don't go, have fun in the house for a while, and I will bring you a few more later." The sweet and tender big lotus pod is back!" It took her a long time to go, and sometimes I got impatient and couldn't help but ask the fat lady: "Why does sister-in-law Yuqing always go back to her husband's house?" "Don't trust her, she coaxed you, Brother Rong," said the fat aunt, pursing her mouth, "She's going back to some ghost's house—I guess, she must have gone out to find wild men!"

"Don't talk nonsense! You just went to find a wild man, our sister-in-law Yuqing is not that kind of person." I blushed and refuted the fat lady. "Stupid boy! She came out after arguing with her mother-in-law, and now she ran back fawning? She is the only one who can coax you kids down. How can she escape the eyes of my mother? Look, when did she Didn’t you pretend to be a goblin when you went back to your in-law’s house? Here, I’ll teach you a clever trick: next time she goes, you quietly follow her behind and catch her once, and you’ll know if I’m lying.” What the fat lady said made me dubious. I suddenly remembered that when Yuqing's sister-in-law went out, she really had a lot of hair tonic on her head, which was fragrant and smooth, and some duck egg powder was applied on her face.

To go to Huaqiao, you have to go out of the Shuidong Gate, and go to the Shuidong Gate. The gate in the back garden of our house is the closest—this is what Yuqing’s sister-in-law said. Every time she goes back to her husband’s house, she always uses the back door.She was going again on Sunday, and this time I didn't make a sound. I lay on the bed and watched her secretly, watching her tilt her head, put on the earrings, and pinch her eyebrows in the mirror. "I'm going, oh," before she left, she ran over and twisted my cheek, and asked me what I wanted to eat so she could bring it back.

"The big lotus pod from last time is fine." I turned around and said indifferently, she promised to pick the biggest one for me, and after she finished speaking, she left in a hurry. I smelled a faint fragrance, which must have come from Mrs. Yuqing's body. When she got off the stairs, I jumped up and followed her into the back garden.We have a large field of corn in our backyard, which grows taller than me.I hid inside, but she didn't see her after turning her head several times.I saw that when she came out of the back door, she didn't go to the main road leading to the East Gate on the right, but to the left. I knew that the small street on the left was a bunch of alleys with twists and turns, full of small alleys. Families, row after row of wooden houses lived in soymilk sellers, cart carts, blind women who sang lotus flowers, and those who cut their feet and picked their nails, all crowded there. The alleys are mixed.My mother usually wouldn't allow me to set foot in that kind of place. Only when Lao Yuan went to call for the lotus to fall, I secretly followed him a few times. It's so dirty, it stinks!What the hell is Yuqing's sister-in-law going to do?She is so clean and personal, not afraid of getting dirty?I quickly tiptoed and followed, Yuqing's sister-in-law turned a few turns and walked towards a dead street. When I caught up, I couldn't even see anyone. There were only six families living there, and the houses were all squat, with the windows only reaching my chin height, and I could see inside with my feet up.I saw that these people were so poor that they couldn't even install glass windows, they were all made of tissue paper, and they were burnt and yellowed by the smoke of the fire.I walked back and forth in the alley a few times, thinking all the time, I don't know which of the six gates Madam Yuqing is in. When I walked to the door of the third house on the right, I suddenly heard Madam Yuqing's voice. He walked over and put his ear against the crack of the door, only to hear that she was talking to a man.

"Qingsheng, don't blame me for saying a careless word. I have put enough effort into you. You have enough food and shelter. What point did I not think of for you? When it is colder, I will hang on to your clothes , the master rewarded me with some good things. I got it to my mouth, but I just couldn’t swallow it. I always wanted to find a way to leave it to you. In order to find this house, I was so anxious that I couldn’t sleep for several nights. I finally changed some. Gold wares can only be bought by scraping together, although they are thinner, it took me a lot of effort. It’s just that I don’t know what to do—” Sister-in-law Yuqing was speaking, and suddenly I heard her crying .

"Sister Yu, let me stop talking, okay—" the man named Qingsheng stopped her and said, his voice was low and tender. "No, no, let me finish. These are the words that are deep in my heart—you know, what hope do I have in this life? I come out to work and help others to be an old mother, and for which one? I I don't dare to hope that you can treat me well, as long as you understand my intentions, no matter what face you show me, I will bite my teeth and swallow it, like that day, I don't want you to go out to do things, you just I blush with me, yes! My tears are hanging from the corners of my eyes and I can swallow them. Why don’t I like you to go out? I’m afraid you’re weak and can’t be tired. Brother Qing, listen, as long as you don’t change, I am willing to die from exhaustion, after one or two years I have saved money, we will go to the countryside, you go to recuperate well, and I will watch over you and serve you for the rest of your life - if you change your mind - " Yuqing's sister-in-law began to sob and cry, but Qingsheng murmured a lot of words to Yuqing's sister-in-law. After a while, Yuqing's wife sighed and said: "I don't expect you to repay me anything—as long as you have me in your heart, I will close my eyes when I die—here, look, this bag is the dregs left over from the Korean ginseng that our wife eats every day, I save a little every day, and I saved up a bag like this. I think you are weak, and it is getting colder. It is time to make up for it. How can people like us afford real ginseng and bird’s nest? It’s not bad. Every night, you grab a Wugeng chicken pot and boil it for a while. Drinking such a bowl before going to bed can replenish your blood. I think you’ve been a little vain recently, and you’re still sweating at night. out?" "It's been better for a while, it's just a little bit at dawn." "Come here, let me take a closer look at your face—" I don't know what kind of person this birthday is?I thought to myself, Yuqing's sister-in-law was so kind to him, I should take a look.I patted the front of the door a few times, and Yuqing's sister-in-law was shocked when she saw me when she came out to open the door, she let me in and asked anxiously: "My little grandfather, why did you come to this kind of place, does the family know?" I clapped my hands and laughed: "Don't worry, I also sneaked out after your ass. I saw you turned a few corners and disappeared suddenly, which made me miserable. So you are hiding here, and you coax me back to my in-law's house." Now—who is this you?" I pointed to the younger man standing next to Sister Yuqing and asked her, and Sister Yuqing hurriedly replied: "He is my godbrother, here, Qingsheng, this is what I serve Master Rong Rong, come and see you soon." Qingsheng hurriedly made a bow to me with a smile, Yuqing's sister-in-law asked him to wash the cup she usually used and pour a cup of tea, and she went to fill a plate of dried longan for me to eat, I looked hard After celebrating his birthday a few times, I thought it's no wonder Mrs. Yuqing was so kind to him, such a decent young man, only in his twenties at most, with a slender figure, handsome features, thick ink-like hair, forehead The hair on the top is a bit curly, and it is also a straight onion nose, which really looks like Yuqing's sister-in-law's younger brother!It's just that I think his face is a little blue, his back is rickety, and he is too thin.When he brought the teacup and invited me to drink tea with a smile, I saw that he had a mouthful of neat white teeth, which looked good. I dare say he must not have shaved his beard, and there was a light blue bruise on his lips The beards and hairs look so delicate and soft, one by one, they all fall obediently to the sides, very cute and tender.It doesn't look like my old Yuan's beard at all. It's a mess of thatch. I ride on his shoulders, and my thigh hurts to death.He told me that he shaves every day to get this look. "Okay!" I pointed at Qingsheng with a longan core in my mouth and said shamefully to Yuqing's sister-in-law: "So you didn't ask me to meet such a decent godbrother." His face was flushed with blood, and I noticed that he was very shy. Not long after I came in, he blushed several times. He blushed when he smiled, and he blushed when he spoke. , so interesting!When I stared at him vigorously, he was so cramped that he seemed to be sitting or standing, with both hands smoothing his hair for a while, and grabbing at the hem of his clothes for a while, as if he had no place to put it.Yuqing's sister-in-law hurriedly explained: "Master, it's not that I won't bring you here, how can you come to such a dirty place?" "Nonsense!" I spat out the longan core and said, "The alley outside is sloppy. Your fucking brother's room is so clean. Look, there's no dust on the table." I scratched the table with my finger. she looks.Although Qingsheng's room is small, with only one bed and a table, it is clean and tidy. The mosquito nets and sheets are all white, just like Qingsheng's clothes. Although they are made of coarse cloth, they look refreshing. very. I really like Sister-in-Law Yuqing's godbrother, I think he's quite cute, and he's so funny when he blushes.I played with him for a whole afternoon. I took him to play chess, and he kept letting me eat his pieces, which made me so happy.Yuqing's sister-in-law wanted to urge me to go back, "What's the hurry?" I threw her hand away and said, "It's still early." I didn't want to leave until it was almost dinner time. Before I left, I called Qingsheng Waiting for tomorrow, I will come to play with him after school. On the way, Mrs. Yuqing said to me: "Master, I have one thing I don't know if you can agree to it. If you can, I'll let you go to celebrate your birthday in the future. If you can't, then don't even think about it." I told her that as long as I play with Qingsheng, she will agree to anything. She stopped and said to me with a stern face: "When you get home, you are not allowed to mention birthday celebrations to anyone, can you do that?" Mouth sore!But I told her that the fat lady guessed wrong this time, and I said: "She said that you came out to find a wild man. Don't you think it's funny? If you allow me to say it, I can't wait to tell her as soon as I go back. You have a very respectable godbrother—what a wild man!"