Chapter 15 14 to the city

14 to the city On the eve of his departure, Jin Zhi sharpened the scissors on the edge of the water tank, and then used the scissors to tear the diaper of the dead child. The young widow was living with her mother. "Are you sure to leave tomorrow?" The mother sleeping next to her was awakened by the light, with infinite pity, as if seeking comfort in her determined fate. "I'm not leaving, I'll leave in two days." Jin Zhi answered her. Not long after, the old lady woke up, and she couldn't sleep anymore. When she saw her daughter was washing something in the center of the earth, she sat up and asked, "Are you leaving tomorrow? You can't stay for another three or two days." Bar!"

Jin Zhi packed her things at night, and her mother knew she was leaving.Jin Zhi said: "Mother, I'll be back after two days of walking, mother...don't worry!" The old lady seemed to be groping for something and stopped making a sound. The sun was very high, and Jin Zhi was still leaning against his sick mother, who said, "Do you want to go? Jin Zhi! Let's go!Go make some money!Mother does not hinder you. "Mother's voice is a little miserable," but you must learn well, you are not allowed to follow others, and you are not allowed to deal with men. "

Women no longer resent their husbands.She cried to her mother: "Aren't these all little Japanese people? Little Japanese people who have received thousands of knives! Don't you go and wait to die?" Jin Zhi heard from the old man that a woman should look old or ugly when she walks alone. Putting on a belt, she hung the oil pot by her side, and the small bucket of rice was also hung on the belt, and a small bundle wrapped with needlework and some rags was stuffed into the rice bucket, pretending to be a beggar wife, and dusting her face with dust. Painted very dirty and streaked.

Before leaving, my mother took off the silver ring from her ear, and said, "Take this with you! Put it in your bag, don't let anyone snatch it for you, mother doesn't have any money. If you are hungry, sell it and buy some dry food! "I heard my mother say when I went out the door: "When you meet a Japanese son, you should quickly fall under the wormwood." " Jin Zhi walked a long way, down the slope, but Mother's words still kept repeating in her ears: "Buy some dry food to eat." The chaotic fantasies in her mind, she didn't know how far she had walked, she seemed to be running away from home. , step quickly without looking back.The path is full of short grass, and even the short grass hinders Jin Zhi's walking.

Japanese soldiers ran across the avenue in a carriage, smoking in their mouths.Jin Zhi trembled a little!She remembered her mother's words, and soon lay down in the wormwood beside the path.When the Japanese soldiers passed by, she stood up with a beating heart, and she looked around in panic: where is mother?Her hometown was far away from her, and she came to a strange village ahead, which made her feel like she had walked through countless worlds. The red sun was about to set across the sky, and the figure was lying on the ground like a slender pole.Stepping over a small river bridge, there is not much more to go!

In the misty city of Harbin, there are factory chimneys piercing into the sky. Jin Zhi was drinking water by the river, she looked back at her hometown, which was far away and invisible.It's just a high mountain, and it's hard to tell whether it's smoke or trees at the bottom of the mountain, and my mother is in the shade of the smoke tree. She is so reluctant to let go of the mountains in her hometown, her heart is soaring in her chest!Jin Zhi felt that his heart had been taken away and he didn't know where to throw it!She didn't want to leave, so she forcibly walked across the river bridge and turned into the trail.The city of Harbin in the front is beckoning her, and Jiashan in the back is saying goodbye to her.

There is no wormwood growing on the trail, so when the Japanese soldiers come, let her hide in the cracks in the ground?She searched in all directions, but because of her unbalanced heart and excessive sweating on her face, she was finally found by the Japanese soldiers: "Your!...Stop." It was as if Jin Zhi had been shot by a bullet and rolled down a small ditch. The Japanese soldiers approached to see how dirty she was. They were like fat ducks, wagging their mouths and swaying, ignoring her and walking past!They walked for a long time, but she still didn't get up, and then she cried, the wooden barrel was overturned, and the small bundle rolled out of the wooden barrel.When she started to walk again, her figure became thinner and longer on the ground, like a thin thread.

Jin Zhi sleeps on the gutter slab in a small street in the city of Harbin at night.That street is a street for small workers and rickshaw pullers.There are small restaurants, and there are the most inferior prostitutes, and the red trousers of the prostitutes appear in front of the door of the small earthen house from time to time.The idle people made special gestures, slowly chatted and laughed with the red trousers, then went into the small room, and came out again after a while.But no one paid attention to the broken golden branch, she was like a trash can, nestled there like a sick dog.

There is not even a policeman in this street, and the beggar wife quarrels with the waiter in the small restaurant. The sky is full of sparks, but that's all alienated!That is the object that is insulated from the golden stick.After midnight, a puppy came by Jin Zhi's side. Maybe the puppy was a suffering puppy?The stray dog ​​went to sleep in the barrel.When Jin Zhi woke up, the sun was still not out, and the sky was filled with many stars.Many street vagrants are still crowded in front of small restaurants, waiting for the last handout. Jin Zhi's leg was aching like a broken leg, and he dared not stand up.In the end, she also squeezed into the pile of beggars. After waiting for a long time, the waiter didn't come out with the food. She slept in the open air in April and shivered. in place.

On the street at night, what kind of world is this?Jin Zhi called to her mother in a low voice, her body slapping on the gutter slab.Desperate and crying, but she and the puppy sleeping in the wooden barrel are generally unnoticed, as if they do not exist in the world.At dawn, she didn't feel hungry, just empty, her mind was completely empty! Under the street tree, a sewing woman, she met the opposite and asked: "I'm new here, new from the country..." Seeing her embarrassment, the seamstress ignored her and walked away with a pale face in the cool morning. The curly-tailed puppy cuddled against the barrel as if cuddling with its mother. The puppy probably felt too cold in the morning.

The small restaurant gradually has people coming and going.A pile of white-hot steamed buns piled out from the window. "Old aunt, I just came from the countryside... I'll go with you and earn some money!" The second time, Jinzhi succeeded, and the woman led her away. They walked through some disturbing streets and streets that emitted foul smells.Jin Zhi seems to have just realized that this is no longer the countryside, this place is just unfamiliar, alienated, and emotionless.Except for the chicken, fish, and fragrance in front of the restaurant, she didn't seem to see or hear anything along the way. "That's how you sew the socks together." In front of the door of an "opium monopoly" with a gold medal, Jin Zhi opened the small bag, cut a corner of cloth with scissors, and mended the torn socks of a man he didn't know.The old woman was teaching her again: "You have to sew quickly, no matter whether it is good or bad, just sew it up and forget it." Jin Zhi had no strength at all, as if he wanted to die quickly, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't open his eyes.A car passed by her, followed by the police, and directed her, "Go over there! Is this also where you are working poorly?" Jin Zhi hurriedly raised his head and said, "Boss, I just came from the countryside, and I don't know the rules yet." In the countryside, she was used to being called the boss, so she called the policeman the boss, because she looked at the policeman with a dignified look, and she also wore a gun at her waist.Everyone laughed at her, and the policeman laughed too.The old seamstress taught her again: "Don't pay attention to him, and don't need to talk, he talks about you, you take a step back and it's over." She, Jin Zhi, immediately felt ashamed, and when she saw that her clothes were not the same as others, she immediately hated the broken pot brought from the country, and kicked the pot. After the socks are mended, the feeling of empty stomach will not stop. If she gets the way, she will go anywhere to steal something to eat.For a long time she stopped the needle and looked closely at the child standing on the street eating a biscuit, until the child put the last piece of biscuit into his mouth, she was still watching. "You sew, and lunch after you sew... But have you had breakfast?" Jin Zhi felt too affectionate, as if she was about to cry, she wanted to say: "I haven't eaten anything since last night, and I haven't even drank any water." When noon came, they walked with the ghost-like people who came out of the "opium den". The women's shop had a particularly stagnant atmosphere, which made Jin Zhi think that this was not a village, but she didn't notice those dull eyes and yellow faces until after dinner, when everyone washed their faces in a basin, the whole house was more than five feet long, There was no partition, and the walls were covered with bedbug blood, and there were black and purple blood spots all over the wall. Some filthy and fermented baggage piled up around the wall.These various women, as if they were all sick, put their heads on the burden and talked: "The wife of my family treats me well, and they eat the same food, even if I eat steamed buns, I also eat steamed stuffed buns. .” Others followed her voice to envy her.After a while, someone said that she was twisted by the footman in the mansion.She said she was sick with anger, and then continued to talk nonsense.Jin Zhi still can't understand these troublesome words, she is thinking about what is a mansion?What is a wife?She used up her thoughts and then asked a woman with a haircut who was smoking next to her: "Isn't 'Mrs.' an old lady?" The woman didn't answer her, dropped her cigarette pouch and vomited.She said she ate flies with her meal. But the whole house is a common brick kang, and those urban women laugh so hard that Jin Zhi is sick of it, they are laughing backwards and forwards.They slapped each other's shoulders excitedly to laugh at the country woman, and laughed too much. actually shed tears.Jin Zhi sat quietly on the side.When she was sleeping at night, she said to the old lady she met for the first time: "I think Harbin is not as good as the countryside. The sisters in the countryside are very kind. Look at them laughing at me and clapping my hands at noon!" As she said that, she rolled up her bundle a little tighter, because inside the bundle was hidden the two cents paper notes she earned, Jin Zhi put her pillow on the bundle, and began to sleep among the bedbugs in the city. Jin Zhi made a lot of money!A small pocket was sewn on the waistband of the trousers, and the two-yuan bills were put in it, and then the mouth of the pocket was sewn shut.When the female workshop charged her, she said to the person: "Can I pay it a few days later? I haven't made any money yet." She said helplessly, "Give it to me at night! I just came from the countryside." Finally that person didn't leave, and she placed her hand in front of Jin Zhi's eyes.The women gathered more and more and surrounded the golden branches.She seemed to be playing tricks to attract so many spectators. Among them was a fat man in his thirties who had completely lost his hair, and his pink shiny scalp stood out from others. Turning around and trembling casually, she said to Jin Zhi, "Give it to someone quickly! Why don't you have any money? I know where you put your money." Jin Zhi got angry and tore open her pocket in front of the public. Three quarters of her notes were lost!Was taken away!She only has fifty cents left.She thought: "How can I give my mother five cents? How many days will it take to earn two yuan?" She went to work in the street very late.At night, some bedbugs were crushed to death, and they gave off an unbearable stench. Jin Zhi sat up and scratched his whole body until it bleeds. Upstairs she heard two women scolding, and later she heard the woman crying, and the child crying too. Is mother well?Does mother collect firewood herself?Does the house leak when it rains?Gradually, the thoughts worsened: If she died, wouldn't it mean that she died on the kang and no one would know? Jin Zhi was walking, when the bicycle rang its bell and passed her, her heart swelled immediately, as if the car was about to run over her body, and she stopped all fantasies. Jin Zhi knows how to make money. She has been to bachelor's houses several times. She sews quilts for people. Men ask her: "How old is your husband?" "Dead!" "How old are you?" "Twenty-seven." A man was dragging his slippers, his trousers were loose, and he glanced at Jin Zhi with his strange eyes, and his strange lips danced: "Young little widow!" She didn't care about this, so she finished sewing, took the money and left.Once when she was walking out the door, someone called her: "You come back,...you come back." The urgent call that gave people a strange feeling, Jin Zhi also knew that he should leave quickly and not look back.When she fell asleep at night, she said to Aunt Zhou beside her, "Why did they call me when I finished sewing and took the money?" Aunt Zhou said, "How much money do you take?" "Sew a quilt and give me fifty cents." "No wonder they called you! Otherwise, why did they give you so much money? An ordinary quilt costs two cents." In her exhaustion, Aunt Zhou only told her one sentence: "No one can escape their hands." The bald, shiny-skinned woman screamed shrilly on the long kang opposite, as she walked to the top of the golden branch, it seemed as if she was going to pluck the golden branch's hair.Playing with her fat fingers: "Oh! I said, little widow, your good luck has come! It's money and happiness." Others woke up and began to scold the bald man: "Damn you, you are a capable beast, you are not afraid of a hundred men, and you are not enough for a hundred men." The women were swearing at each other and talking, and someone was laughing, and someone on the side repeated it several times: "I'm afraid! A hundred men are not enough!" It seemed that the noisy bee swarm had quieted down, and the buzzing of the women had ceased at all, and they all fell into a dream. "I'm still afraid! A hundred men are not enough!" Her voice was not accepted by anyone, and she walked around the house emptyly for a week, and finally her voice disappeared on Bai Yue's window paper. Jin Zhi stands outside the screened window of a Russian pastry shop.There are all kinds of oily yellow snacks, intestines, pork legs, and chickens on the grid inside. These things are shiny there.At last she found a whole fat piglet, its ears pricked up in a long dish.There are some small cabbages and red peppers around the piglet.She wants to go up immediately and even hug the plate, take it home and show it to her mother quickly.She can't do that, and she hates the little Japanese. If the little Japanese didn't disturb the village, wouldn't her sows give birth to piglets early? The "cloth bag" gradually fell off between her elbows, and she unconsciously stood unsteadily in front of the shop door. There were more people on the sidewalk, and she bumped into pedestrians.A beautiful Russian woman came out of the pastry shop, and Jin Zhi quickly noticed her red-stained toenails under her perforated shoes; the woman walked so fast, faster than the man, that she could no longer look. On the sidewalk: —— Loud noise, people from the brigade passed by, Jin Zhi knew the Japanese soldiers as soon as she saw the copper hat, and the Japanese soldiers told her to leave the snack shop and run away quickly.She met Mrs. Zhou and said to her: "I don't have any work. I wear this blouse and I have nothing to replace. I can't even save money to buy a few feet of cloth. If you pay the fee every ten days, it is one yuan and fifty cents. I am old, my eyesight is blurred, and I am slow to sew. No one has ever taken me home to sew. I still owe a month’s meal money, and I have lived here for many years! She walked down a sidewalk and said, "A new woman named Zhang, she was driven away even if she was sick." Passing by the butcher shop, Jin Zhi is also very nostalgic for the butcher shop, and she is satisfied if she wants to buy a catty of meat to go home.My mother hasn't tasted meat for more than half a year. Songhua River, the river flows continuously, there are no tourists in the morning, and the boatmen are swearing and laughing at each other boredly along the river. Aunt Zhou was sitting by the river.Feeling sad for a moment, then wiped her eyes, tears were shedding for her doomsday fate.The river water gently patted the bank of the river. Jin Zhi was not moved, because she just came to the city, and she didn't know the city yet.For money and life, Jin Zhi followed a bachelor carefully to his house.As soon as she stepped into the door, Jin Zhi was afraid when she saw the bed. Instead of sitting by the bed, she sat on a chair and sewed the quilt first.The man started talking to her slowly, every word making her heart beat.But nothing, Jin Zhi felt that the man sympathized with her.Then he sewed the cuffs of a jacket, and the jacket was taken off the man immediately. When the cuffs were finished, the man took out a dollar from a small pocket in his belt and gave her the money. Twirling at Jin Zhi with his bearded mouth, he said, "Who is a widow to pity you?" Jin Zhi is a country woman, and she still can't see that the man is pretending to sympathize. She was slightly moved by the word "poor", and her heart fluttered. She stopped at the door and wanted to say a word of thanks, but she didn't know what to say. Finally gone!She heard the flute of the big kettle beside the road, the bread-picking cart in front of the bakery parked on the side of the road, and the old Russian lady with a red scarf drove past her. "Hey! Come back...you come, there are still clothes to sew." The man's neck was flushed and he chased after him.When he came to the room, there was nothing to do, the man bared his hairy chest like an ape, and went to lock the door with his thick palm!Then he started to untie his pants, and finally he called Jin Zhi: "Come on... baby." He looked at Jin Zhi and was frightened, but didn't move, "I told you to sew pants, what are you afraid of?" After sewing, the man gave her a one-yuan note, but instead of putting the note in her hand, he threw the note under the bed and asked her to bend down to get it, and when she got the note, he grabbed it and asked her to take it again. Jin Zhi was completely placed in the man's arms, and she screamed in a positive tone: "I'm sorry, mother!...I'm sorry, mother..." She screamed helplessly, her round eyes looked at the locked door which couldn't be opened by itself, she couldn't escape, something was bound to happen. After dinner in the girl shop, Jin Zhi seemed to be walking on tears, her head was too dazed, her heart fell into a sewage ditch, her legs were weak and slack, she climbed onto the kang to get her old shoes, and a handkerchief, she was going back to her hometown, and immediately lay down on her mother's body and cried. A sick woman at the end of the kang was driven away by the shopkeeper when she was dying. They stopped talking about it, and Jin Zhi gathered their interest. "What's the matter? You're in such a hurry?" Mrs. Zhou asked her first. "She must be rich!" said the second, the bald fat man. Aunt Zhou must also know that Jin Zhi has made money, because every newcomer is too ashamed to "make money" for the first time.Feeling ashamed and hated to destroy her, it was as if she was suddenly suffering from an infectious disease. "It's fine if you get used to it! Don't worry about it! It's true that you get money. I even earned gold earrings." The bald fat man persuaded her kindly, and was pulling his ears.Others scolded her: "Shameless, one day you are shameless!" The women nearby saw that Jin Zhi's pain was their own pain, and the people slowly dispersed and went to sleep, showing no novelty or attention to this matter. Jin Zhi bravely walked into the city, but shame and hatred drove her back to the village, and found a human head on a big tree branch at the head of the village.A feeling passed through the bone marrow to numb the skin of her whole body, what a terrible, blood-soaked head! The mother held a gold-branched one-yuan note, her teeth could not be buried in her mouth, and they were completely exposed. As she looked closely at the pattern on the note, she said happily, "Come and stay overnight, then leave tomorrow!" Jin Zhi beat her sore leg bones on the edge of the kang; the mother didn't pay attention to why her daughter was unhappy, she only asked for one ticket and wanted another, and she thought, can't you get many tickets?She has to encourage her daughter. "You should wash your clothes and tidy up. You will have to walk tomorrow morning. There is no day to show your face in the village." For the sake of eagerness, she seemed to be blaming her daughter, and she had no enthusiasm for her daughter. A window opened immediately, and a dark-faced man with a gun jumped in and stepped on Jin Zhi's left leg.The black man looked at the roof of the shed, and he climbed to the roof of the shed familiarly, and Wang Po followed. She didn't see the golden branch for many days and didn't say a word, as if she couldn't see anything.Go all the way up to the roof.Jin Zhi and his mother didn't know anything, they just climbed up.The bad news did not come until dusk, and they climbed down from the roof like reptiles.Wang Po said: "Harbin must be better than the countryside. If you go there again, stay there and don't come back. The Japanese in the village are getting worse and worse. They catch women with big bellies, break their bellies open and go to the Red Gun Club ①. The belly flowed out. For this, Li Qingshan cut off the heads of the two Japanese children and hung them on the tree ①Red Gun Club: A type of volunteer army. superior. " Jin Zhi snorted, "I used to hate men, but now I hate Japanese people." Finally she turned to the path of sadness, "I hate Chinese people! I hate nothing but Chinese people." Wang Po's knowledge is not as good as Jin Zhi's!