Chapter 19 Straw sandal cellar

Across a dozen trunks of willow and locust trees, a thick layer of corn stalks and a thick layer of loess, above our heads is the crow-like night on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month.When I walked here from home on the snow covered with a layer of ice, the sky was completely dark, and the snow on the ground illuminated the darkness about three to five feet high. As long as it is under a tree, there must be something. The knots of dead branches protrude from the snow like strange patterns.The "here" I mentioned is the place where the straw shoemaker works, and we call this place "straw shoe cellar".Our cellar was dug by me, my father, and Yuan's fifth and sixth uncles. The cellar is in the shape of a "convex", and the protruding part is the passageway to and from the cellar. There, a triangular shed is built with sorghum straw. , The shed covers the cellar mouth, and the cellar port is covered with a thick mat made of cattail grass.A skylight was left on the top of the cellar, and the skylight was covered with a layer of gray plastic paper.Our cellar is very large, and we recruited some idlers to keep warm.Among the idlers, there was a man named Yu Dashen, who once pulled a rickshaw in Qingdao and trained two scud legs to catch up with a galloping calf.There is also Zhang Qiu, a small stove maker who knows curium pots and pots, nicknamed "Roller" - here we call all small stove makers with curium pots and pots "Rollers", with a surname or something in front of it, Zhang Qiu is small, everyone calls him "Xiao Luluzi", I don't know if the word "Gulu" is correct, I was kicked out by the teacher when I was in the fourth grade.My teacher is a big hooligan, known as "big cock". I threw a handful of thistles under his bed sheet, and he kicked me out for such a trivial matter. Later, I read a little book and knew that I should go to the teacher. To urinate in the teapot, unfortunately there is no such opportunity.I walked from home to the cellar, and the snow crunched when I stepped on it.

Behind the basement, I urinated, and vaguely saw the scorched water falling on the snow, smashing the snow into big black holes and small holes.When I tied my belt, I looked up at the sky, the stars in the sky were as green as will-o'-the-wisps, I had never seen a will-o'-the-wisp, but Xiao Yuluzi said he had. A group of will-o'-the-wisps circled around him.Want to catch up with them?Little Zhuluzi said, people have to take off their shoes, run with their heels facing forward and point their toes against them, the will-o’-the-wisps will be fooled, and they float towards you, and you step on them one by one.what is it then?Rags, rotten cotton, dead bones.Xiaoguluzi traveled to the four villages for many years, and has seen a lot.He said that he had also seen "Huapizi", which was slightly smaller than a weasel, had a black mouth and a white tail, and could speak human language with a low voice, like a small trumpet.Later, I asked him to talk about the "Huapizi" in detail, but he said he hadn't seen it with his own eyes.But his father saw it with his own eyes. His father went to the market one year and met a bosom friend. There is a small "Huapizi" on the earthen wall that cannot be poured down, wearing a small padded jacket as red as wax, standing up on the top of the wall like a human being, walking back and forth, shouting as he walked: "Zhang Laosan" , Zhang Laosan, I will go, I will go!Xiaoguluzi's father's name is Zhang Laosan.Zhang Lao and the other three were intoxicated. He knew that this was a "Huapizi" registration (meaning it was authenticated by a person, and the person said: You will go. It will really go away), so he bent down and picked up a half brick. He slammed over and cursed: "I'm going to leave your mother's ×!"A brick knocked that wall down. "Huapizi" called his mother and ran away on all fours.Later, every evening, that "Hua Pizi" would lead a group of "Hua Pizi" to shout at the broken wall: "Oh, my god, Zhang Laosan came from the west; oh father, ouch mother, knock down a wall with one brick!" The wall..." Yuan's Fifth Uncle said that he seemed to have sung this song when he was a child.

I got out of the cellar, and the fifth and sixth uncles of the Yuan family came.Uncle Wu was digging the soles of his straw shoes, took off his cotton-padded jacket, and wore a jacket with a rope tied around his waist, with wooden sticks on his feet and straw braids.Uncle Liu is deaf and loves to speak loudly when talking to people. Sometimes when people tease him, he opens his lips a few times when they meet him, and he keeps saying, "Eat, eat!" He thought that when someone asked him if he had eaten Woolen cloth.Uncle Six is ​​thinning a bundle of cattail grass into fine cattail, preparing to weave shoes.

The fifth and sixth uncles of the Yuan family are well-known straw shoemakers in the village, and of course they weave quickly and well.They can weave all kinds of shoes, and they can also weave the words "Jiangshan Qianguxiu" on the upper.They made some money by weaving straw sandals. They married a woman a few years ago. At first it seemed that it was for the sixth uncle, but later they heard that the fifth uncle also slept on the woman's kang and gave birth to a girl. Chase and call daddy.I have called this woman Aunt Duan Sixth and Aunt Duan Fifth.Little Guluzi said five, six, thirty.People in the village are bad-mouthed. Because the woman's surname is Nian, they call her Nian Thirty.I call her Aunt Thirty. Aunt Thirty is tall and big, with a big flat face and two big buttocks. The young people in the village say she has a good heart.Every night, the upper and lower kangs of her house were filled with young people. Aunt Thirty was like a stove among them, and the young people warmed up around her.The fifth uncle and the sixth uncle are also used to it. After dinner, they will go to the cellar to weave straw sandals. Here, the two brothers hardly spoke a word.

My father was not good at weaving straw sandals, so he asked me to learn from my fifth and sixth uncles.My position is opposite to the fifth and sixth uncles. When I look up, I can see their kind faces, and when I look down, I can see their dense fingers flying.I couldn't read at school, but I learned how to weave straw sandals. In just one winter, I surpassed my father, both in speed and quality.The father is going to switch to dipping candied haws or kneading mud for children and mud tigers. He seems unwilling to be defeated by his son.I was just eleven years old. A ray of cold light shines through the plastic film on the top of the cellar, and drops of crystal clear water hang on the corn stalks covered with white mold, never falling.During the day, my father went to the market to explore the market, and found that it was easier to make money by dipping candied haws and kneading mud children than weaving straw sandals.He decided that my father and I would change careers together and stop weaving straw sandals.I was reluctant to leave the warm cellar, and I couldn't get along with the excitement in the cellar.But my father has made a decision, and I have no right to speak.When my father went to Jishang, he caught a cold and had a fever and a headache.Grandma made a pot of pimple soup with white noodles, ginger and scallions, which made him sweat.There are green onion leaves and oil flowers the size of copper coins floating on the soup.I hope that my father has a bad appetite and won't drink up the soup.Father had a great appetite and drank so much that he snorted loudly.Father finished the soup and licked the basin with the tip of his tongue.His face was flushed, and he asked me to go down to the cellar to finish packing up the pair of pointed shoes, and to set up a few horse shop fairs, and asked me to carry the thirty pairs of straw sandals I already had to sell at the fair.I left the house without saying a word.

I sat in the position I was used to, leaning against the damp earth wall, watching the plumes of black smoke rushing up from the lamp, and the skinny faces of my five uncles and six uncles were all smeared yellow.I picked up the half-woven straw sandal, feeling very clumsy with my hands.This is the last night weaving straw sandals in the cellar.After tomorrow, I will carry bright red candied haws or colorful clay toys and follow my father through the streets to sell them loudly.I think this new profession is base and despicable. It earns its living by its mind, not by its craft like a shoemaker.My father changed his career because of his incompetence. I had hoped to become the best straw sandal weaver, but my father's absolute authority ruined me.

The grass curtain at the cellar door rattled, and I knew it must be the little wheel.After a while, the curtain rang again, and I knew it was Yu Dashen. Xiao Zhuluzi is a bachelor. Some people say he is almost forty years old, but he himself says he is twenty-eight years old.Someone said that half of the money he earned was spent on a widow in the West Village, and he didn't refute it.Someone advised him to marry the widow, and he said: The stolen fruit is delicious.In the winter alone, he would not go far, carrying his belongings around the surrounding villages during the day, and squatting in the cellar at night.He can't live without the cellar, and it's sad without him in the cellar.I'm really afraid of the daytime, when there are only serious fathers, shy fifth uncles, deaf sixth uncles, and sometimes a few idlers in the cellar, they are not as exciting as Xiaoluluzi and Yu Dashen.I look forward to dark.

Yu Dashen is a seller of shrimp paste, and he always has a fishy smell on his body.He has a shoulder pole, long and wide, dark red in color, so smooth that it can reflect the shadow of a person.Yu Dashen's sales of shrimp paste all depended on his good legs and this good shoulder pole trained by pulling a rickshaw.He is of medium height, and he is not too strong, but it is said that he can walk 150 miles a night with 200 catties of shrimp paste.A hero can't catch up with a bearer.Yu Dashen's shoulder pole trembled well, like wings, and the shoulder pole carried people walking fast but also fast.Yu Da's body is not as frequent as Xiao Ruluzi's. After he sold a load of shrimp paste, he had to go to Beihai to pick it up at night.He never sells his shrimp paste to local people. If someone wants to buy it, he says, "Don't eat these dirty things. There's shit and urine." Some people say that he can sell 100 catties of shrimp paste for 200 catties. One is to add water, and the other is to add salt.Local people can't eat his shrimp paste, probably because he doesn't want to deceive the villagers?In fact, it's the same, he doesn't sell it in his hometown, and the locals buy the shrimp paste from other local shrimp paste vendors, who still add water and salt to eat.

Yu Dashen is in his fifties. When he was young, he hung out on the Qingdao pier, passing through all kinds of fancy things.He sometimes talked in the cellar about visiting brothels in Qingdao, and the talk was interesting, and Xiao Luluzi was fascinated by it, and his saliva flowed out.I listened with my head down, for fear of missing a word, for fear that others would know that I was also listening, and that I could understand it well.My father would sometimes join in the discussion of such flirtatious things, uttering obscene words; I felt ashamed and sick in my heart, as if I was sick and about to die.I dare not admit some harsh truths.Sometimes it is wonderful to imagine women from other families, but when you suddenly think of your own women, when you think that all people are conceived according to the same steps, you feel that the sanctity and dignity are all fake.

When I think of becoming a god, my father will sternly shout at my side: "Where is the heart? Make it up!" Yu Dashen also told an interesting story. He said that one year he went to Xiazhuang Town to sell shrimp paste. From the Songjia Alley at the south end of Muhuo City, a tall, half-footed woman with hanging eyes came out. Putting on rouge and powder, the clothes are not stained with dust, and you can tell at a glance that it is not a good thing. The woman wanted to buy shrimp paste, so he picked the pick.The woman uncovered the bucket, scooped up some shrimp paste, smelled it, and said, "Shrimp paste seller, did you pee in the bucket? Why are you so ashamed?" Several people nearby laughed.Yu Dashen didn't know how bad it was, and cursed: "Stinky bitch, I pissed in your mouth." The woman's purple face swelled out of her white powder, with blue eyes on her purple face, and she cursed loudly.Crowds of spectators poured out of the alley, and no one dared to go up to persuade the woman.Yu Dashen knew that he had encountered a difficult role, and wanted to soften up but was afraid of losing face, so he scolded the woman one sentence at a time.The more spectators, the more energetic the woman is.Energized by the heat, Yu Dashen said, it's amazing!I saw the woman put her hands down her waist, pulled out the belt of her trousers in a snap, put it on her shoulders, and pulled down her trousers. No one in the world dared to open their eyes.The woman cocked her butt and urinated halfway in each of the two shrimp paste buckets.The woman left, Yu Dashen was dumbfounded.Later, a person came over, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "Young man, you have caused a big disaster! Do you know who she is? She is the famous 'Big White Goose'. All the famous and respectable people in this town go to her Kang, if she wants to destroy you, she can just twist her mouth." Yu Dashen was shocked, and the man said: "Dude, don't panic, I have a plan here, as long as you show your face, I will keep you safe and sound. Good luck." The man put his mouth on Yu Dashen's ear and said so.

When Yu Dashen said this that day, he seemed to wake up suddenly and said, "Oh, I've forgotten the time, I have to go to Beihai to pick shrimp paste tonight!" Everyone pulled him and refused to let him go. Little Guluzi said: "Old Yutou, don't be foolish, just talk quickly." Uncle Wu said unhurriedly: "Old Yu, let's finish, what's the plan?" Yu Dashen broke away from Xiao Ruluzi's hand that was pulling his clothes, and begged for mercy: "Little Ruluzi, please let me go, this matter is too troublesome, I can't finish talking in the middle of the night, go late I won’t be able to keep up with the time. You don’t know the rules over there in Beihai. There are many people selling shrimp paste. If I can’t get in when the sun is red, I have to stay in Beihai for three days. There, no one can A place to stay." Uncle Six stopped what he was doing, and asked in a piercing voice, "What are you guys arguing for? Tell me." Everyone was startled, thinking he was angry, but when they saw the expression on his face, they immediately understood, so they all smiled lazily.Unwilling to be reconciled, Sixth Deaf Uncle put his ear to my mouth and asked loudly, "What are you fighting for?" I shouted, "Use the urine into the shrimp paste!" I took my mouth off his ears, and he nodded repeatedly, smiling all over his face, his khaki eyeballs shining softly like gold under the lamplight.He said: "Older than this guy, full of bad water, this guy..." Little Guluzi said, "Old Yu, let you go, and I will continue talking next time I come back." Old Yu said, "Definitely." Old Yu bent over and walked towards the entrance of the cellar. After a few steps, he turned back and said, "Little Luluzi, tell Lao Wu and the others about the scene of you playing with the little widow in the West Village. It's a long winter night." Little Guluzi said, "Old Shame Stick, go to Beihai to find your lover." Dad coughed and said, "Ziluzi, that little widow has a lot of property, so hurry up and don't let others take her away." Little Ruluzi let out a long sigh, and said, "Father, your nephew, I am a sharp-mouthed monkey cheek, and I am not a lucky ghost. He is about to remarry." "Marry whom?" asked Pa. "It's not that bastard, Old Chai!" "Old Chai is in his fifties, can he marry a twenty-five-year-old widow?" Father was a little puzzled. "It's not unusual. She is also afraid of being bullied by her uncles and uncles. If she marries Lao Chai, no one will dare to touch her anymore. Lao Chai's son has been promoted to the county magistrate." Xiao Luluzi said. Father said: "She also has her own ideas. When her son is promoted to the county magistrate, Lao Chai is the county magistrate's father. When she marries Lao Chai, she is the county magistrate's mother. Whether she kisses him or not, it's for that." Uncle Wu said: "That's right. A woman is a dog. She will follow whoever feeds her well." Dad said: "Roo, in my old life, I said 'to persuade gambling and not whoring', but I still want to remind you. You have friendship with that woman, and you have been rolled in bed together, and you will not die when you leave. If she married a commoner, you can go and steal some food. If she married the county magistrate's father, she is a person of status. If you steal her, you are stealing the county magistrate's mother. The county magistrate knows...you Be careful, boy!" Little Guluzi lowered his head. Uncle Wu comforted him: "You are only twenty-eight, there is always a suitable woman, you can't be anxious about this kind of thing, this kind of thing is not about weaving a pair of straw sandals, if you are weaving straw sandals, work harder and stay up late It's finished." Little Guluzi said: "It's fine if you don't have a woman, you don't care, you don't care, if one person is full, the whole family won't be hungry." Dad said: "If everyone is like you, the world will end!" Little Guluzi said: "Isn't it good to finish? I hope that the heaven and the earth will grind together and grind everything into pieces." Uncle Wu said, "Then we survived in the cellar." Little Ruluzi said: "Live? Good idea! There is a piece of sky protruding from the cellar, and it just fits in the cellar. I want you to live!" Uncle Wu said, "That's right. I really want you to die. You won't be able to escape wherever you go." Dad laughed.Seeing everyone laughing, Uncle Six also laughed. Later, Xiaoguluzi got emotional and told us about ghosts and ghosts. He said that Gaomi Nanxiang had a wife in her forties who took her two seventeen-year-old daughters to enjoy the shade on the river embankment during the dog days of last year.The pair of girls are twins, they look exactly alike, with double eyelids and big eyes, and small mouths that can't fit a scallion.The two daughters were tired all day, lying on the river embankment with a mat, the breeze was blowing comfortably, the mother drove the mosquitoes with a fan, and the two daughters fell asleep soundly.The wife's hand fanning is also getting slower and slower, and she seems to be sleeping so-so.At this time, I heard two men talking in mid-air.One said: "There are two beautiful flowers!" One said: "Pluck them." The other said: "Go to work first, and then pick them when you come back." The wife heard two gusts of wind going due north from the sky.Terrified, she hurriedly shook the two daughters awake and led them home.The wife was a ghost, she found two brooms and put them on the mat, and a quilt was covered on the brooms.My wife hid in the distance and watched secretly. After an hour, I heard two sounds of "嗞嗞嗞啦" in the air, and then nothing happened.In the morning of the next day, the wife went to the embankment to have a look, my dear Lord!On the quilt, there were two small spiders as big as rice grains.If it weren't for that wife's cleverness, these two daughters would have been ruined... Xiao Luluzi and Yu Dashen stepped into the cellar, and I immediately regained my energy. Uncle Wu also stopped, and took out paper and cigarette pouches to roll cigarettes.After rolling one, he poked Sixth Uncle. Sixth Uncle raised his head in a daze, nodded gratefully to his brother, took the cigarette, held it in his mouth, and leaned over the lamp to smoke.Uncle Six nodded to Dashen and Xiaoluzi in turn.Uncle Wu rolled a cigarette himself and lit it.Xiao Luluzi and Yu Dashen also rolled their own cigarettes.I asked Uncle Wu for a cigarette.Uncle Wu said: "Once you leave your father's eyes, you won't learn well." I said: "Smoking means you don't learn well? Then aren't you all bad?" Uncle Wu said: "Children will not grow up if they smoke. It's gone." Xiao Luluzi said: "Listen to his nonsense, the more he chokes, the longer he chokes, let's smoke!" Uncle Wu handed me the paper and cigarette purse.I don't know how to roll, and the cigarette dust is scattered all over the floor.Uncle Wu said, "How many cigarettes are enough for you to smoke?" He grabbed the cigarettes and paper and rolled one for me.I took a sip from the lamp, and extinguished the lamp with a cough.Uncle Wu turned on the lamp.Uncle Liu said loudly: "Swallow it hard and you won't cough." I inhaled the cigarette vigorously, and sure enough I stopped coughing, but I immediately became dizzy.A lamp swayed in the smoke, and people's faces were enlarged. When my father was away, I felt like I was untied, and shouted loudly: "Master, you haven't talked about your trick yet!" Dashen said: "This child, you dare to make loud noises when your father is not around. When your father is here, you are as honest as a lazy cat. Where is your father?" Uncle Wu said, "His father is going to make a fortune!" Dashen said, "Oh, what a fortune?" I said: "My father is going to dip the candied haws balls, and he won't weave straw sandals." I feel quite ashamed, I don't think Dad is a good person. Dashen said: "That's fine, a person can't die in one job for the rest of his life, he has to change it frequently. Trees move to death, people move to live." I said, "Talk about your clever plan. What happened to that woman after she urinated in your bucket? She urinated in the shrimp paste, isn't she afraid of splashing the shrimp paste on her butt?" Dashen said: "Little bastard, I dare not put you on the kang to sleep." Little Ruluzi said: "He asked the same thing. A woman's urine is thick. If it really splashes into that thing, it will be fresh." "Fresh x!" Dashen scolded. "That's where it's fresh!" Xiao Guluzi said with bulging eyes. Uncle Wu said: "Don't be too mean in front of the children. You can continue to talk about that day!" Dashen said: "The other day I talked about a person teaching me a clever trick, but it was actually quite simple. The person said: "Young man, find a place to put the shrimp sauce picks first, and go to the store to buy two catties of snacks and carry them with you. In her house, when you kneel down, you kowtow and call her godmother.She is willing to accept the young man as her boss!When I thought about it, a piece of meat is indispensable for being called a godmother, so I went to the store and bought two catties of dim sum, carrying them, and inquired about the home of 'Big White Goose'.As soon as I entered the door and put the snacks on the table, I plopped down on my knees and called a godmother crisply.She was smoking a hookah there, and when she saw me kneeling down to call her godmother, she giggled for a while, threw the hookah away, helped me up with both hands, touched my chin, and said, "Darling, get up, wait a minute Er Ganniang makes dumplings for you to eat. ’ After eating the dumplings, she asked me to pick up the two buckets of shrimp paste, and she said, ‘Son, don’t worry, the godmother will help you sell the shrimp paste. ' She led me around the town's prestigious houses, and when she got to one, she called out, "Hurry up and find something, I've brought fresh shrimp paste from Beihai, and I'll give you some to try." 'Who dare not buy it?Two large barrels of shrimp paste will be separated in a while.After selling the shrimp paste, she said, 'Son, if you need anything, just come to my mother. 'I made a small fortune that day. " "It's over?" Little Guluzi asked. "No, later, when she met those who bought shrimp paste, she asked: 'How does the shrimp paste taste?' The people who were asked said it was good, and they all said it was delicious, so she smiled and said: 'I drank my old lady's urine La!'" Everyone smiled strangely. Little Guluzi said: "After eating the dumplings, we went to sell shrimp paste? No, no, there must be a Western view in between. Tell me, Lao Yu, did your godmother drag you to the kang?" Yu Dashen said, "Isn't this obvious!" Uncle Wu said, "Old Yu, did you encounter any unusual things on this trip to Beihai?" Old Yu said: "Yes, there was a big boat capsized in the Bohai Sea, and countless people died. There was a big whale that ran aground on the beach. It was a little girl who was picking up small seas and saw it first. She went home and called it. People, people snatched the big fish with knives, axes, and saws, leaving a big skeleton, as high and as long as five houses." Uncle Wu stuck out his tongue in amazement and said, "It's really not small." Little Guluzi said, "You didn't come back with a fishbone?" Old Yu said: "I wanted to break it, but when I went, a sentry had been posted next to the bone frame. Four soldiers stood at the corners, and their guns were all fired." "What do the soldiers want the fish bones for?" Fifth Uncle asked. "It's very useful!" Yu Dashen said, "There is a part on the plane that must be made of whale bones. It won't be changed even if it's gold. The whole world is robbing it!" "Oh, no wonder!" Uncle Wu suddenly realized. "Come on, stop bragging!" Xiao Zhuluzi stood up and said. Uncle Wu asked, "I haven't had much time yet, so I'm leaving now?" Little Guluzi said, "Don't go, go pee." When Xiao Luluzi came out of the cellar, a gust of cold wind came in from the cellar opening, pushing the lights forward and back.I have finished half a straw sandal.Behind my father's seat, there are more than 30 pairs of straw sandals, large and small, which are the fruits of our grandfather's labor for half a month.My father asked me to go to the horse store market tomorrow. I don't know if Uncle Wu will go or not. I don't want to go with Uncle Wu. If I go alone, I can "corrupt" a few cents for selling shoes.For the Chinese New Year this year, I must buy some big "explosion cannons". This kind of cannon will make noise when dropped, squeezed, pressed, and smashed. I put it in a ripe sweet potato and throw it to the dog. It blew up.Li Dong, the son of Teacher Li's family, has money in his family, and his pockets are full of bombs.Last winter, when I was still in school, it was cold after class. Dozens of us boys were stuck to the wall and lined up to "squeeze the big ones". Squeeze, squeeze, squeeze out the big one to beg for food," Squeeze covered in sweat.The people in the middle were squeezed out, and they hurried to both ends and squeezed in again.The torn padded jacket rattled against the brick wall.Adults are most opposed to children "squeezing the big ones".Squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, there was only a sound in the middle, and Mr. Li's son Li Dong's pocket first smoked and then burst into flames, and Li Dong was blown to the ground.After squeezing the older children, we went to class again. The classroom was as cold as ice, and our padded jackets were almost covered with frost. Another gust of cold wind came in, and the lights were still in turmoil.Little Guluzi came in with his belt tied up, and said with a chorus of chomps, "It's cold, it's really cold." The straw curtain covering the cellar door rang again, and cold air poured into the cellar again, Lao Yu shouted: "Who is it? Quickly close the curtain, it's just such a little warm air, it's all gone." A man walked in bent over, with two small eyes like black beans, and a dozen yellow beards growing sparsely on his chin. "Old Xue, come to scratch us again?" Fifth Uncle said. It was Xue Bushan, who sold peanuts and cigarettes. He was carrying a bamboo basket containing half a basket of fried peanuts and three or five boxes of crumpled cigarettes.There is a small scale in the basket.He said: "I'll bring you some snacks. What's the point of living if you only earn money? The fifth brother and the sixth brother, Luluzi Laoyu, each weigh half a catty. They are delicious. One day later, it will be Chinese New Year. It's time to eat something." It's gone." He spoke in a high-pitched voice, like a woman. Xue Bushan picked up the peanuts with his hands, and let the peanuts slowly fall into the basket, the peanuts crackled when they were beaten. "How much is a catty?" Fifth Uncle asked. "Old price, fifty cents." Xue Bushan said, "I bought a lot in the cellars of Liu's house and Erma's house tonight, even the iron rooster of Wang Dazhuo bought half a catty of peanuts and a pack of cigarettes. If you believed in the sale, it would have been sold out long ago. I left this half-basket of peanuts and a few packs of cigarettes for you. No cellar in the whole village can compare to this cellar. The fifth and sixth brothers are quick hands , one is worth one and a half, the old is better than the money, let alone the little one." Yu Dashen said: "Don't be glib, keep the price low, I'll buy from you." Xue Bushan talked for a long time, and finally agreed to fourty-five cents a catty of peanuts.Old Yu took out fifty cents, Xue Bushan weighed out a catty of peanuts, and poured them into Old Yu's hat.Xue Bushan said that there was no change, so he gave five cigarettes, one for each person.It was the first time I received this kind of treatment, and I felt excited, smoking a cigarette, and suppressing a cough.With his hat on his head, Lao Yu divided the peanuts, and everyone ate them cherishingly, not knowing what to say. Lao Yu said: "Xue Bushan, has your wife's blindness not been cured yet?" Old Xue said, "Forty-year-old, what should I treat?" Little Guluzi asked: "Old Xue, can the bird be blind and can't see clearly at night?" Old Xue said: "You can see people's shadows clearly, but you just can't tell them apart." Uncle Wu said, "Then you won't be able to do needlework at night?" Old Xue said, "Is there any needlework to do?" Old Yu said: "Xue Bushan, don't worry if you come out at night? If someone gets in, imitating your woman's voice, won't you mess with your wife?" Old Xue said, "Did you do it? My wife can smell me every ten miles." Uncle Wu said: "Go and buy two sets of mutton livers for her to eat, the mutton livers are good for the eyes." Old Xue said, "Is that what the farmers eat?" Uncle Wu said: "Don't believe me, folk remedies can cure serious illnesses. I heard from my father that a sore developed on the instep of the owner of the Guo family's official village that year, and all medicines were ineffective. Later, a doctor came to the street, and the doctor said, You go and catch ten grasshoppers, mash them into paste, paste them on the sores, and treat you well. Master Guo believed it or not, went to the grass to catch ten grasshoppers, smashed them with two stone flakes, and paste them on the sores. On the sore, the swelling subsided on the second day, and the mouth closed on the third day. On the fourth day, the doctor came again. Master Guo invited the doctor to drink at home. After drinking the wine, the doctor said, this is a herbaceous sore , Grasshoppers eat all kinds of grass, and one thing falls one thing, so it is spiritual." I once heard Uncle Wu tell a similar story about a man who had a sore on his neck, which was extremely itchy and unbearable, and all medicines were ineffective. Later, a doctor came and grabbed a puddle of hot cow dung and paste it on the man's neck. On the ground, hundreds of small "dung beetles" immediately drilled out of the sore, it was a "dung beetle sore".Uncle Wu didn't tell stories easily, unless he was very happy. Xue Bushan said sharply: "You are busy, busy, I will go to another cellar." We haven't finished eating the peanuts yet, so everyone is eager to eat.After eating in a while, everyone held the peanut skin with their hands and looked at the peanut skin with their eyes, unwilling to leave for a long time.The lingering fragrance is full of mouth.The light was straight and straight, shining particularly brightly on the wet cave wall.The water drops on the sorghum stalks hang like tears and never fall.From above came the sound of the quiet winter wind, loud and soft, and the ice in the river cracked and rattled. Little Ruluzi said, "When I went up to pee just now, I met a white raccoon..." There are so many people in our village who have encountered the white raccoon dog. It is probably an animal in the shape of a little sheep or a little white rabbit. Its whereabouts are mysterious and its magic power is very strong. It is often dazzling white in the dark night.If you want to chase it, just chase it. If you run fast, it will run fast, and if you run slow, it will also run slow. You will never catch up. Xiaoguluzi started, and Uncle Wu also told a story for the first time. I guessed that Uncle Wu told this story to Yu Dashen, who gave money to buy peanuts.Uncle Wu said that the family of the old bachelor Men Shengwu who just died in our village lived in a "ghost house". Waiting for him, he could still hear the woman's panting, Men Shengwu wanted to rush forward to hug her, but if he threw himself, he would hit the door.The woman creaked and laughed right behind him.After Men Shengwu fell asleep, he could still see a little black boy walking around the house driving a little donkey.Uncle Wu said that there were a lot of ghosts and ghosts here in the past few years. There was a ghost with big tits on the back river bank, who often sneered and sneered in the middle of the night. Yu Dashen said: "I have personally experienced a thing. One year I split wood and broke my middle thumb, so I smeared the blood on a broom pimple and threw it away. After a few months, once I went out to urinate at night, it was a month tomorrow, the ground was like frost, and I saw a little thing jumping on the base of the wall. I thought it was a yellow mouse. I jumped on it with a few steps and stepped on it. Guess what it is? That broom pimple that I wiped blood from my middle finger! I lit a fire to burn it, and it squeaked and foamed blood. Remember, the blood on the middle finger must not be rubbed indiscriminately, it has the essence of the sun and the moon After seventy-seven forty-nine days, you will become refined." Yu Dashen talked about several things he personally experienced. After he finished speaking, he saw that the little wheel had disappeared.I said, "Has the wheel been taken away by Xiexie?" Yu Dashen said, "This brat, when did he slip away?" Uncle Wu: "It's his fault. He could have married the widow, but Old Chai got in the way again." Yu Dashen said: "Let's go. Go to the horse shop market tomorrow? Old five!" Uncle Wu said: "Let's go there, the market will be released tomorrow, it's such a cold day." "Still leaving?" Yu Dashen asked. Uncle Wu glanced at Uncle Six, packed up the things around him, patted the dirt on his body, and stood up.Uncle Six buried his head in his work without saying a word.I know Sixth Uncle is going to sleep in the cellar tonight. I said, "Uncle Wu, I'll sleep with Uncle Six here, call me when you go to the market tomorrow morning, and my father will let me sell shoes." Uncle Wu agreed to leave with Yu Dashen. The world in the cellar suddenly became larger, and I sat opposite Uncle Liu, the light shone into Uncle Liu's eyes, and Uncle Liu's eyeballs were as yellow as gold again. Uncle Six said loudly, "Sleep! I'm going to call him grandma!" After finishing speaking, Uncle Six stood up and sang loudly: "Call Liu Biao, you have such a big head, your father is fifteen and your mother is sixteen, you boiled half lamp oil all night, and made you a poor bone..." I held back a lot of urine, and my stomach was swollen and painful, but I just didn't dare to go out to pee.After the sixth uncle sang, he got into the blanket.I was brave enough to walk towards the exit with my head buzzing.Gritting his teeth, he lifted the curtain and got out of the cellar, just like jumping into icy water with bare buttocks, his scalp was so thick, his eyes didn't dare to look around, but he heard the hooves of the little donkey, a woman with big tits The sneer of the broom, the sound of broom bumps, the voice of "Huapizi"... I took it out to pee, and the cold wind blew straight from the back of my neck.I tried my best to urinate, and when I looked up, I saw a big black shadow rolling over, and there was a sound of kicking on the snow.I screamed, turned around and ran, fell into the cellar somehow, and struggled to keep the oil lamp on because I slapped it.I called Uncle Six loudly, as if Uncle Six was dead, I shouted desperately, "Uncle Six, the ghost is coming!" The ghost really came.From the dark exit, that big thing rushed in. His head and face were covered with blood, and he fell down as soon as he entered the cellar. My scream finally woke up Uncle Liu.Uncle Six got up and held the lamp to shine on something that fell down in the cellar. Although his face was covered with blood, he still recognized it as Xiaoluzi. It was only later that I heard that Xiaoguluzi pretended to be Xue Bushan and got into the bed of the blind woman. After making a few movements, the woman suddenly stopped.She reached out and picked up the scissors from under the kang mat, without a nose or an eye, she poked it right on the forehead of Xiao Rulu.