Chapter 4 Four

The year is good, the month is good, the days are sad, this day just passed by.On the morning of the second day when the Xia family received guests, Xia Zhi was the first to wake up as usual.Probably since the year before last, he has less drowsiness. No matter how late he sleeps the first night, he will get up at five o'clock in the morning. On the street, shaking the door knockers of some people along the way, shouting: sleep!sleep!When I got home, I opened the doors and windows wide, boiled water to make tea, and smoked with a cupronickel hookah while looking at the calligraphy and paintings hanging in the middle hall, so that everyone on the calligraphy and painting could come down.Bai Xue woke up when she heard the sound of the courtyard door. As the new daughter-in-law of the Xia family, she got up to sweep the courtyard first, and then went to fetch water from the spring.On the way, I saw Shangshan coming from the inclined alley to sing "Zhang Lian Sells Cloth". First, I said: Why did you sell our big iron pot?I don't think it will burn the nails when it is boiled.Bai Xue put down the water load and listened with squinted smiles.As soon as Shangshan looked up and saw Bai Xue, he fell silent.Bai Xue said: "Brother Shangshan gets up early?" Shangshan said: "Can't sleep well!" Let others sleep!" Bai Xue still smiled.Shangshan said: "Fourth uncle pays attention to bigness, did you empty the urinal for his old couple early in the morning?" Bai Xue said: "Not yet." Shangshan said: "Okay, if you become his daughter-in-law, you will break those rules. !"

When Bai Xue came back with water, Xia Zhi had finished drinking a cup of tea, poured the tea roots on the flower bed, asked if Xia Feng had risen, and before Bai Xue could reply, she murmured what time it was and couldn't fall asleep, it was time to go to West Street And the township government to pick up guests.Bai Xue hurriedly went to the bedroom to wake Xia Feng up. The guests picked him up, and after eating, Liu Xinsheng entered the door. When Xia Zhi saw that he was empty-handed, he first asked where the goods for the actors were?Liu Xinsheng yelled that getting married and entertaining guests was such a big deal, why didn't he let him know?The fourth aunt hurriedly explained that she only stayed with her clansmen and relatives, and the people in West Street and Middle Street didn't tell.Liu Xinsheng said: "I thought I was left hanging!" The fourth aunt said: "If you leave others, can you hang yourself? Is it a message to you to let you do the goods, just say that you came here last night, did you come here?" See you coming!" Liu Xinsheng said, "I went to Xishan Bay to collect eggs yesterday afternoon!" While urging Xia Yu to send someone to the orchard to pick up the goods, he asked the musicians from the theater troupe for the drum score he wrote.

Liu Xinsheng is not good at growing crops, but he is talented in literature and art.I dare say that there are not many people like Xia Feng in Qingfeng Street, but they are not as strong as Xia Feng. Their whole life is like a golden bell buried in the soil, and they cannot make a sound until they rise into the air.For example, Shui Xing's dead father, who didn't know a few big characters, could memorize a play folded and folded, and he couldn't even write a word of the pure and ugly recitation.This Liu Xinsheng used to play the Kucha music troupe, and even acted as a dan role, but one year when firecrackers were set off during the Spring Festival, the explosives blew up the middle finger and index finger of his right hand. If there is a social fire during the New Year's festival, it will be all done by him.The musician from the theater troupe was smoking Xia Zhi's cupronickel hookah. Liu Xinsheng called out "Master" and took out a roll of paper from his arms, on which drum scores were densely written, begging the musician to correct him.The musician said: "You hum the tune to me with your mouth, and I will listen." Liu Xinsheng hummed "Dong Dong Dang, Dang Dong Dang".Humming and humming, her face turned green, she took off her coat, and slapped her belly with both hands.Everyone was so happy that everyone laughed, but they didn't dare to laugh out loud, so the musician said: "Ha, it's really hard to say in this world. Many people in the city, who are officials and professors, are actually farmers, and some farmers are actually artists. What!"

What the musician said was told to me by Zhao Hongsheng afterwards, and I agree with it.I said: "Xia Feng is a farmer, he is very greedy!" Zhao Hongsheng said: "You saw Xia Feng marrying Bai Xue, are you jealous?" Said: "Hey, you can still say this? Then you also find someone to be a flower protector." I said: "If you want to wear a leather jacket, you will be naked if you don't wear it!" Zhao Hongsheng said: "Then you Cut off children and grandchildren!" I said, "What do I want my sons and grandchildren to do? We live a hard life and let our sons and grandchildren suffer too? It's better to plant a tree than to have children and grandchildren. Trees can live freely!" Zhao Hongsheng said, "You're talking crazy when you're talking!"

When Liu Xinsheng was beating his belly like a drum at Xia Zhi's house that morning, I was walking on the street.The people who went to the orchard to pick up goods moved the eggs and apples to Dongjiekou, but they broke the news: Liu Xinsheng, one-half of the orchard, has not been contracted!Qingfeng Street is such a big place, if any chickens drop an egg, they will make a lot of noise.Liu Xinsheng withdrew half of the orchard, and people became angry.The orchard was fruit-bearing a few years ago, and he made a fortune. Last year it was frosty, and this year it was drought, so he withdrew half of it. The orchard is a collective orchard, so he can do whatever he wants?People are afraid of fanning the flames, so they accuse Liu Xinsheng with one mouthful, and scold Liu Xinsheng with ten or eight mouthfuls. When someone comes up and grabs an apple to eat, you can eat it and I will eat it. Don't eat, just go and eat.

Liu Xinsheng patted his belly red, patted it and farted, and saw a little child coming in with an apple to eat, Liu Xinsheng said, "Where are the apples?" The little child said, "Every street corner eats apples. "Liu Xinsheng ran to have a look, and it was really the apples he had prepared, and the two boxes were already empty.Li Sanwa's mother was picking up four or five of them, and Liu Xin was so angry that she snatched them. The old woman ran up and down and threw one to her grandson, and Liu Xinsheng knocked her down.The person next to him said, "Did you beat someone?" Liu Xinsheng said, "This is something that the two committees asked me to raise for the actor. Who will get her red lips and white teeth?" The man said, "The orchard belongs to Qingfeng Street. , you can eat it, why can't others eat it?" Liu Xinsheng said: "I contracted it and it's mine!" The man said: "You paid the contract fee?" Liu Xinsheng said: "Pay it!" The man said: "How much did you pay?" Liu Xinsheng said, "Half." The man said, "What about the other half?" Liu Xinsheng said, "I don't contract the other half anymore!" Said: "Hey, Xinsheng, everyone knows that you have contracted, why is it only half done?" Liu Xinsheng said: "What? What do you want?" He pointed at me, missing two fingers, and I moved his hand I opened it and said: "You contract when the harvest is good, and you don't contract when the harvest is not good? You are the master of Qingfeng Street?!" Liu Xinsheng said, "I don't tell the madman!" He looked down on me, so I started from Apple. He took two apples from the box, ate one and threw one.Sanhe, who had been eating cigarettes by the side, came over and said, "You said your contract has been revised, take it out and have a look." Liu Xinsheng foamed at his mouth, and said, "Take it!" He asked Xia Yu to put the eggs and Taking the remaining apples back to Xia's house, he went to the orchard angrily.

There are not many apples left, and Xia Zhi’s face is discolored. He counted the eggs in a small carton and counted them, but there were not enough boxes. The musician said: “This is it, I went back last night. I don’t give any more, and the two boxes left are just right!” Xia Zhi said: “It’s impossible, everyone has worked hard!” Then he went to the bedroom to discuss with the fourth aunt about the quilt mask for the gift. Give each of these people who are left one by one.The fourth aunt said: "I take care of everything in the village? How much is this quilt?!" Xia Zhi said: "It is said that it is a private show in the village. Didn't you come to perform for our family? You want so many quilts to do it?" Huh?! Living people live more generously, don't pick and pinch their heads!" The fourth aunt said: "You can do whatever you want." The face hangs so long.Xia Zhi took six or seven quilts and was about to leave the bedroom door. He said, "If it's powder, put it on your face, if you like it better!" He came out and gave the quilts to the actors.The actor declined for a long time, but finally accepted. The atmosphere in the yard was lively for a while, and then he took the walking tractor driven by Ding Ba and set off on the road.

I saw the walk-behind tractor drive out of the alley, passed the street, and turned onto National Highway 312.When I saw it, I was in a bad mood, because once the actors were gone, I would have no reason to go to Xia Zhi's house again.Momentarily depressed, he was too lazy to talk to Sanlu and the others, and turned to leave.Sanji said, "The freshman hasn't come yet, why are you leaving?" I said, "I don't care if he takes the contract or not!" Sanji said, "During the war, you were a deserter!" I said, "" The war years? Then I raised my gun and went from house to house looking for my bride!" I just finished speaking when I saw a man coming out of the alley leading a sheep, followed by Xia Li chasing after him, calling out the goat-bearer Living.Xia Li said: "Brother, the account is not right!" The sheep-bearer said: "Three hundred yuan is not a cent?" Xia Li said: "The sheep is three hundred yuan, and the reins are rubbed with hemp. I just spent five yuan for the collar! How about this, you can give me another eight yuan.” The goat-bearer said: “This, this can’t work.” Xia Li said: “If it doesn’t work, then there’s nothing I can do.” He began to untie it. The bridle around the sheep's neck.The shepherd said: "I'm convinced of you, okay, I'll give you another five yuan, but I don't have any money with me now. I'll come to Qingfeng Street to go to the market in a few days, and I'll give you the money." Looking at us like this, we all laughed at him, and he waved to me.When I approached, he said: "This is the birth guide, do you know it?" The shepherd said: "Of course I know that the lunatic leads the birth." He recognized me, but I didn't recognize him.Xia Li said: "Invite students to make a certificate, and you will have to make up the money in three days!" The man took the sheep away.Xia Li asked me: "What are you doing with so many people?" I told the story of Xinsheng Orchard, and he turned away without thinking.I said: "Uncle San, why are you leaving?" He said: "I don't have that much time!" I said: "Where is Uncle San going?" With that black plastic pocket.I said, "What's the price of silver dollars now?" He turned his head, looked at me, covered my mouth with a slap, and said in a low voice, "What nonsense are you talking about?" I wasn't talking nonsense.Xia Li has been secretly selling silver dollars for a long time. Others don't know about it, but I know it. I saw him kicking against a wall with a person at the market in Chafang Village, biting a silver dollar with his teeth.Xia Li still covered my mouth and said: "Who did you say that to?" When Xia Li said that, I became obedient, and I said, "I...what did I say?" Xia Li said: " What did you say?" I said: "I said, Brother Lei Qing respected you and bought you a sheep for you to drink milk, why did you sell the sheep?" Xia Li laughed and said: "I How extravagant, people scold you?!" Seeing an apple in the ditch by the side of the road, he picked it up, wiped it, and put it in his pocket.

Xia Li left, and I was still standing there, I felt like I was a ball, I was pricked by a needle, and I let out my breath.The two idiots from the Liu family on Zhongjie Street came down from the archway, arguing about the sun in the sky. One said it was the sun and the other said it was the moon. clear.I didn't even smile, and headed to Funiuliang with a stuffy head.Funiuliang is the county's "returning farmland to forest" demonstration site. The saplings there are neat, the trunks are all painted with lime, and there are white flowers. My father's grave is in the woods.When I am in a bad mood, I love to go to my father's grave and talk to my father.I told my father: "Father, the woman I love is married to the Xia family! Why did she marry the Xia family? I can't make sense of it. Even if he, Bai Xue, refuses to marry me, he should marry far away. I can't see someone who is far away from my marriage, but I just married the Xia family on Qingfeng Street!" My father didn't talk to me in the grave, but a bee was buzzing on the thorns above the grave.I said, father, father, your child is pitiful!But the bee stung me on the forehead, I blew my nose, put the snot on the sting, and went to the ridge behind the grave to defecate.As soon as he pulled up his pants and stood up, the dog came over.Gousheng is a bitter person, so diligent that he picks up dung from the sky, but his life is not ahead of others. It is said that he can't even eat salt for a long time.I was going to sympathize with him, but he actually said: "Yinsheng, the grass in your paddy field is growing crazy, why don't you go and pull it?" I got angry and said, "You go when you are free." Pull it!" He said, "Do you think you are a village cadre?!" I said, "Do you want dung? I soaked it." He took the shovel, and I picked up a stone and soaked it. Shit flew.

Xia Zhi fell asleep after seeing off the actors, and slept until after lunch.After the fourth aunt finished the meal, she packed up the presents and went to her in-laws in West Street, and asked Bai Xue how many houses she should go to. Home.The fourth aunt only prepared five, and there was still sugar and wine, but there was not enough dried noodles, so she divided the five dried noodles into six, and wrapped them in red paper again.Xia Zhi woke up and sat on the edge of the kang to watch his fourth aunt make noodles, and asked Xia Feng: "Is there still a commotion at Dongjiekou?" After signing the contract, which was signed by Qin An, Jun Ting lost his temper. When Jun Ting lost his temper, Qin An hesitated to speak, got red bumps all over his body, and fell ill again." Xia Zhi said: "Here I'll order the paper media!" Xia Feng ordered the paper media, and Xia Zhi snorted for a while on the hookah.Xia Feng said: "My brother Junting is like a tiger, with such a temper? I think he doesn't pay attention to Qin An. Since Qin An stamped it, he has to defend Qin An. In front of the three gangs In front of people, Qin An can't step down." Xia Zhi snorted for a while, and said, "You are in the city, you don't know, things in the countryside are very complicated..." But he stopped talking , turning his ears sideways, asked, "What's the noise? Is it thunder?"

It was thunder.The sky was ringing brightly, and a cloud began to cover Hutou Cliff in Nangou.