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Chapter 51 Dog skin.7

Red Sorghum Family 莫言 4295Words 2018-03-19
When they sneaked into Madian Town, it was already midnight, the sky was full of cold stars, and severe frost was everywhere.Team Jiaogao, who was wearing dog fur, had a cold chest and a warm back.When they entered the village, several dogs barked friendlyly at them.A naughty young team member learned how to bark a few times, and all the team members suddenly felt their throats burning, and had a strong desire to learn how to bark like a dog, but an order from the team leader came from the front of the team: don't bark like a dog!Do not bark like a dog!No barking!don't bark! According to the situation that had been scouted long ago, and according to the steps planned long ago, the team ambushed a hundred meters away from the gate, where the bricks and stones raised by the false company commander for the construction of the gun tower after the spring began were piled up.

Jiang Xiaojiao said to Cheng Mazi who was following him, "Mazi, let's do it!" Cheng Mazi called out in a low voice, "Sixth son, Chunsheng, let's go." For the convenience of movement, Cheng Mazi took off the bag of grenades hanging on his chest, took out one and tucked it in his waist.He handed the grenade bag to a tall team member, and said: "After I get it at the door, you quickly send it up." The team member nodded. The faint starlight shines on the earth, there are more than a dozen horse lanterns hanging in the barracks of the Japanese puppet, and the yard is as dim as the evening.Two ghostly puppet soldiers were swimming at the gate, their shadows casting long shadows on the ground.From behind the pile of bricks and stones, an old black dog jumped out, and he ran joltingly; following him, another white dog, a flowered dog, came out.They bit, rolled, and approached the shadows, approaching the gate.Beside a pile of logs—it was only a dozen paces from the gate—in the shadow of the logs, three dogs huddled together.Looking at it from a distance, it seems that three dogs are vying for some delicious food.

Behind the pile of bricks and rocks, the brigade Changjiang Xiaojiao listened to Cheng Mazi's wonderful performance with satisfaction, and couldn't help but think of Cheng Mazi's dull and cowardly appearance when he first joined the army. At that time, he often shed tears and wiped his nose like an old lady. Cheng Mazi and the others were biting patiently in the shadow of the wood pile, and the two swimming sentries stood together, listening in a daze.A puppet soldier bent down to find a brick, threw it hard, and cursed: "These plague dogs!" Cheng Mazi imitated the barking of a dog being shot.It is indeed lifelike.Captain Jiang couldn't help but want to laugh.

After formulating the plan to attack the horse shop, the Jiaogao brigade started the movement of barking like a dog.Cheng Mazi had sung Beijing opera and played the suona, with full confidence, loud voice and flexible tongue, he became the champion of dog barking in the team, and Liu Zi and Chun Sheng also learned well.So they got the task of booby-trapping the enemy sentries. The puppet army couldn't bear it anymore, and walked carefully to the wood pile with a rifle with a bayonet attached.The dog bit more happily.When the puppet army walked three or five steps away from the wood pile, the dog stopped barking loudly and just whined, as if afraid, but reluctant to leave.

The two puppet troops took another step forward tremblingly. Cheng Mazi and the others flew up from the ground, and the dim yellow light from the lanterns in the barracks shone on their fur, like three bolts of lightning flying towards the two puppet soldiers.Cheng Mazi hit the puppet soldier's forehead with a grenade, and Liu Zi and Chunsheng's bayonet pierced another puppet soldier's chest.Both puppet troops fell down like sacks filled with sand. Because everyone was wearing dog furs, the Jiaogao brigade really rushed towards the enemy camp like a flock of excited dogs.Cheng Mazi caught his bag of grenades at the gate, and rushed towards the tile house like crazy.

Gunshots, grenade explosions, shouts, and the screams of devils and puppet soldiers broke the quiet winter night in Madian Town, and the dogs in the town barked into a ball. Cheng Mazi pointed at a window and threw twenty grenades one after another. The explosion in the room and the screams of the injured devil reminded him of the scene of Japanese devils throwing bombs into the straw sandal cellar a few years ago.Such a similar scene did not make him feel the pleasure of revenge, but instead, there was a sharp pain, like a sharp knife, drawing a deep crack in his heart. This battle was the biggest battle since the establishment of the Jiaogao Battalion, and it was an absolutely brilliant victory for the entire coastal area since the War of Resistance.The Binhai Special Committee of the Communist Party issued an order to reward the Jiaogao Brigade.In those days, the dog-skinned Jiaogao brigade was ecstatic, but soon, two extremely disappointing things happened: (1) A large number of weapons and ammunition seized by the brigade in the Madian battle were taken away by the Binhai Independence Regiment .As a member of the Communist Party, Captain Jiang knew that the special committee's decision was correct, but the ordinary team members were full of complaints and cursed.The soldiers of the independent regiment who came to carry the weapons seemed ashamed when they saw the yellow and emaciated members of the Jiaogao Brigade wearing dog skins. (2) Cheng Mazi, who made great contributions in the Battle of Madian, was hanged on a willow tree at the head of the village.All signs point to his suicide.He didn't take off the dog's skin when he hanged himself, so from behind, it looks like a dog is hanging from the tree; from the front, it looks like a person is hanging from the tree.

Since the second grandma's body was scrubbed with hot water by her grandma, she never yelled again.There was a gentle smile on her scarred face all day long.Blood flowed down below, day and night.Grandpa invited doctors from the village over and over again, and took a few baskets of soup and medicine, but the symptoms became worse day by day.In those days, grandma's room was filled with a strong smell of blood. The second grandma's blood probably flowed out, and even her ears became as transparent as jelly. The last doctor was moved by Uncle Luohan from Pingdu City.The doctor is an old man in his eighties, with a silver beard, a bald forehead with thick skin, long nails on his hands, a horn comb and a silver ear pick hanging from the button of his cotton robe, A bone toothpick.Father saw the old Chinese doctor put his fingers on Second Grandma's wrist.After pressing the left hand, press the right hand.After pressing his right hand, the old Chinese doctor said, "Get ready for the funeral!"

Sending off the old Chinese doctor, grandparents are very sad.Grandma sewed old clothes for Second Grandma overnight; Grandpa sent Uncle Luohan to the carpenter's shop to choose a coffin. The next day, with the help of several female neighbors, grandma changed the second grandma into new clothes.Second Mistress showed no signs of grievance, she was lying on the kang wearing a red silk gown, blue satin trousers, green silk skirt, and red satin embroidered shoes.There is a pleasant smile on his face, and there is still a trace of breath in his chest, which seems to be broken. At noon, my father saw an ink-like black cat wandering on the ridge of the roof, making a chilling cry.The father picked up a brick and hit the black cat vigorously. The black cat jumped, stepped on the corrugated tiles, and walked away slowly.

When it was time to light the lamps, the distillery pot workers brought the coffin and parked it in the yard.Grandma lit a soybean oil lamp in the house. Because it was an extraordinary moment, three lamp grasses were placed in the lamp. In the rising lamp smoke, there was an aroma of stir-fried mutton.Everyone was anxiously looking forward to Second Mistress taking her last breath.Father hid behind the door, looking at Second Grandma's two ears that were amber-colored and transparent like amber under the light, and there was a colorful sense of mystery in his heart.At this time, he felt the black cat trampling on the roof of the room again, and felt the black cat's phosphorescent eyes and black cat's lewd cry in the dark night.As soon as my father's scalp exploded, his hair seemed to stand up like the steel hairs of a hedgehog.Second Mistress suddenly opened her eyes wide, her eyeballs did not move, but her eyelids blinked like dense raindrops.The muscles on her cheeks also twitched nervously, and her two thick lips twisted and twisted again and again. After three twists, a sound worse than a cat's meowing spring rushed out of her mouth.My father found that the golden flame in the soybean oil lamp instantly turned green like green onion leaves, and the second grandmother's face under the green light had lost any human expression.

At first, grandma was happy for the second grandma's resurrection, but soon, this joy was crowded out by terror. Grandma said: "Sister, sister, what's the matter with you?" Second Mistress scolded: "Son of a bitch! I can't spare you, I can't kill my body, I can't kill my heart, I want to peel your skin and cram your tendons!" Father could tell that the voice was not Second Grandma's original voice at all, but more like an old man over half a century old. Grandma was scolded by the second grandma. Second Grandma's eyelids were still blinking like lightning, she screamed wildly, cursed angrily, her voice shook the roof tiles, and the room was full of air-conditioning.Father clearly saw that Second Grandma's neck was as stiff as a wooden stick, and the power of this frantic shout came from nowhere.

Grandpa was at a loss, so he asked his father to go to the east courtyard to call for Uncle Luohan.The scary sound made by the second grandmother can also be clearly heard in the east courtyard.Seven or eight shochu guys were discussing in Uncle Arhat's room, and when they saw their father coming in, they all stopped talking, and his father said, "Master, my godfather told you to come over." Uncle Luohan entered the room, glanced at Second Mistress, then pulled Grandpa's sleeve to the outer room, and his father followed him out.Uncle Luohan said quietly: "Shopkeeper, he died a long time ago, I don't know what kind of demon possessed him." Before Uncle Luohan could say a word, he heard Second Mistress yelling and cursing loudly in the room: "Luohan, you son of a bitch! You're going to die badly, cram your tendons, peel your skin, and cut off your dick son……" Grandpa and Uncle Arhat looked at each other in horror, murmuring and unable to speak. Uncle Luohan thought for a moment and said, "Use the bay water to irrigate it. The bay water will ward off evil spirits." Second Mistress kept cursing in the back room. Uncle Luohan was carrying a crock pot of dirty bay water, and he was leading four burly liquor buddies. He had just walked into the yard when he heard Second Mistress giggling in the room, saying, "Luohan, Luohan, You pour it, pour it, your aunt is thirsty!" My father saw a clerk forcefully insert an iron funnel for selling wine into the mouth of Second Grandma, and another clerk picked up the can of bay water and poured it into the funnel, and the water in the funnel swirled and flowed down so fast. , making it impossible to believe that the water flowed into the second grandmother's stomach. A can of water was poured in, and Second Mistress was quiet.Her stomach was flat, and her chest was bulging, as if she was panting. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Uncle Luohan said: "Okay, old man!" Father once again felt the sound of pattering footsteps on the corrugated board, as if the black cat was walking. Second Mistress's dead face broke into a charming smile again.Her neck was stretched vigorously like a crowing hen, her skin was translucent, and with a few screams, a stream of cloudy water spewed out of her mouth.The water column went straight up and down, and when it reached a height of more than two feet, it suddenly dispersed, and the water droplets fell on her brand new old clothes like chrysanthemum petals. The second grandma's water spray game scared the four guys and ran away; the second grandma yelled loudly: "Run, run, run, I can't run, I can't run away from the temple if I run away." When Second Mistress shouted like this, the four fellows lost their souls, only regretting that they lost two legs. Uncle Luohan looked at Grandpa asking for help, and Grandpa was looking at Uncle Luohan asking for help.The four eyes collided, and they merged into two helpless sighs of horror. Second Mistress scolded more lively, not only scolded, but her arms and legs began to tremble.She scolded: "Japanese dogs, Chinese dogs, they will walk everywhere in thirty years. Yu Zhan'ao, you won't be able to run away. Toads will eat spot weeds. Your suffering will still be behind!" Second Mistress's body was bent like a bow, as if she was about to sit up. Uncle Luohan yelled: "No, I have to pick up the corpse! Get the steel fire sickle quickly." Grandma threw in the steel fire scythe. Grandpa took courage and pushed Second Mistress down.Uncle Luohan pressed the steel fire sickle into her heart.But where can it hold? Uncle Luohan pulled away to leave, but the grandfather said, "Uncle, you can't leave!" Uncle Luohan shouted: "The female shopkeeper, quickly find a steel shovel!" Second Grandma's chest was pressed against a steel shovel used for plowing, and her body became quiet. Both Grandpa and Uncle Luohan exited the house, followed by my father. Second Mistress was tossing around the house alone.Grandma, grandpa, uncle Luohan, and father all retreated to the yard. The second grandmother yelled in the room: "Yu Zhan'ao, I want to eat a yellow-legged rooster!" Grandpa said: "Shoot it with a gun!" Uncle Luohan said: "No, no, she is already dead!" Grandma said: "Uncle, think of a way!" Uncle Luohan said: "Zhan'ao, go to Bailan to collect the mountain movers!" In the early hours of the morning, Second Mistress's yelling and cursing nearly shattered the window paper.She cursed: "Arhat, Arhat, I have a vengeance with you!" Uncle Luohan walked into the courtyard with the mountain man, and Second Mistress's scolding turned into long sighs. The mountain man was about seventy years old, and he wore a black Taoist robe with some strange patterns painted on the front and back of the robe.He carried a mahogany sword on his back and a bundle in his hand. Grandpa greeted him and recognized him as Li Shanren who suppressed weasel spirits for Second Mistress a few years ago, but he was even thinner than before. The mountain man pierced the window paper with a mahogany sword, looked into the room, backed up with a pale face, cupped his hands to his grandfather, and said: "Shopkeeper, this evil, the little mountain man has superficial magic power, I'm afraid he can't suppress it." Grandpa was very anxious, and said: "Shanren, you can't go, you have to get rid of it anyway, and I will thank you very much." The Shanren blinked his demonic eyes, and said, "Okay, Shanren has a drink of bold soup, and throws his head at the golden bell!" To this day, it is still widely circulated in our village that Li Shan people exorcised my second grandmother from evil spirits. The legendary Li Shanren, with disheveled hair, was walking and fighting in the yard of our house, muttering words, and doing tricks with a sword. The second grandmother rolled around on the kang, crying continuously. Finally, Shanren asked grandma to find a wooden basin, which was half filled with clean water.Shanren took out a few packs of medicine from the burden, poured them into a basin, and then stirred them quickly with a mahogany sword, chanting spells while stirring, and the water in the basin gradually turned red, and finally became as red as blood.He was sexually promiscuous in sweat and oil, jumped on the ground a few times, fell on his back, foamed at the mouth, and passed out. When Shanren woke up, Second Mistress took her last breath, and the stench of the corpse and the bloody smell of spoilage rushed out from the window. ,
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