Chapter 13 Diao Tianxia Ten

Diao Tianxia Ten (1) When the world was created, Heaven and earth make a pair, Since then, The sky is full of stars, The ground is covered with grass. Mountains and valleys make a pair, Since then, Green trees cover the mountains, The clear water flows all over the valley. The pot and the stove make a pair, Since then, Every house is burning with fire, Everyone ate hot rice and hot soup. ——Ancient Song of Yunnan A year later, Gao Shimei suddenly raised her head like a fish sinking in the deep realm of sculpture, exhaled a few breaths, and stretched her body.Li Bang saw that the master was trying to change the feeling of his body, so he knew that the master might have discovered something, or what he wanted to tell him that had been accumulated in his heart for a long time?Li Bang felt that a crack had finally appeared in his suppressed life for more than a year, allowing him to see a glimmer of light.Gao Shimei said: "I think of a woman who is more lonely than us." Li Bang said: "I know who this person is. She is the master's mother-in-law, Zhao Jinhua's mother, and Boss Zhao's wife Ma Shi?"

"Yes, I'm talking about her," Gao Shimei said in a low voice, "I haven't visited her since her daughter ran away with the little monk. This woman is so pitiful. You send some food to her She, but don't let my father-in-law know about it, or we won't have a good life." Li Bang walked through two courtyards and walked into a small room, and when he looked out, he saw an old woman sitting inside.At first glance, it does look a bit like Zhao Jinhua.But if you look carefully, this old woman has a large forehead, but it is covered with wrinkles, her eye sockets are a bit deep, her lips are loose, her nose seems to be soaked in water for a long time, it is swollen and purple, and she looks very old.This is Gao Shimei's old mother-in-law?Boss Zhao's first wife?Zhao Jinhua's mother?Li Bang really couldn't believe it, but he had to believe it.

Gao Shimei and Li Bang kept in touch with Ma in secret.Finally, one day, Mrs. Ma was moved. She said to Li Bang: "Before my daughter Zhao Jinhua left, she gave me two boxes of silver for me to use. I don't need these silver. Now, you are more difficult than me. Just take these two boxes of silver and give them to Gao Shimei, and let him carve the lattice door properly." With the money, Gao Shimei said to Li Bang, you go to assist Master Yang to build the nave as soon as possible.You don't have to worry about the grid carving. A few days later, Ma's did not know where to bring a 12-year-old girl, her feet were wrapped into "three-inch golden lotus", her hair was a bit messy, her lips were pale, and she looked very good-looking.Ma said to Gao Shimei: "The little girl's parents died last year. She was bought and sold by relatives. Now I bought her to be your son and daughter. I know you will treat her well." Shi said to the little girl again: "Call your father quickly." The little girl called Gao Shimei shyly but sweetly.Gao Shimei happily agreed, and asked her: "What's your name?" The little girl replied: "My name is Lizhi." Gao Shimei immediately said: "From now on, shall we call you Gao Lizhi?" nod.

Mrs. Ma guarded Gao Lizhi, just like guarding a little lamb, she was not allowed to go out, she was not allowed to speak loudly, and she was not allowed to associate with other friends.Because the government has just stipulated that from now on, women are not allowed to bind their feet.For this reason, the townspeople are checking everywhere. Gao Lizhi is an obedient child. Since entering Gao's house, he has never stepped out of the house.But when it came to the Torch Festival that year, Mrs. Ma took her to see the big torches in front of the Huoshen Temple in the dark.They saw that some little girls with bound feet in the village also got permission from their parents and came to play near the big torch one after another.Unexpectedly, there were four or five townsmen ambushing around the fire torch to track down the foot-bound people.

The torches had just been lit, and the little girls were enjoying a freedom and joy they had never had before, and their eyes shone with a strange joy.This look expresses their quietest and most sensitive excitement. At this time, a sentence suddenly broke out in the crowd: "Xiang Ding is here."Mrs. Ma and the little girls were in a mess, some got into the crowd, some tried to get out, and some were knocked to the ground. Ma calmed down after a while, ordered Gao Lizhi to hide in the toilet, and pulled down his pants, pretending to shit. Unfortunately, this "action" was discovered by a villager in his thirties. Like a madman, he broke into the toilet, grabbed Gao Lizhi, and carried him out by the waist.

Gao Lizhi knew that disaster was imminent, like a lamb caught in the mouth of a wolf, struggling feebly, calling for help, and crying.In front of everyone, Xiang Ding ordered Ma Shi to open Gao Lizhi's big shoes, and after revealing the truth about the small feet, he asked Ma Shi why he still bound the little girl's feet?Ma said: "It's been entangled a long time ago, and I can't let it go." Xiang Ding refused.Gao Shimei came, paid the fine, and accompanied many smiling faces. Before leaving, she gave those townspeople a few "cigarette money".This is the end of the matter.

Diao Tianxia Ten (2) That night, Gao Lizhi was in great pain.Because, for her, father gave the townsfolk more than 20 Wen for nothing.A few days later, Daddy brought her another message from outside, saying that the girl from the Wang family went to make soy sauce and saw the little girl from the Luo family standing in front of the counter to buy something.At this time, Xiang Ding went in from behind, yelling: There is one here, grab her.When the Wang family girl heard this, she turned around and ran away, throwing away the soy sauce bottle.Xiang Ding yelled again: "That's also a little foot, run away, chase after."The girl from the Wang family ran very fast, coupled with the twists and turns of the alleyway, she finally got rid of Xiang Ding's pursuit.When she ran home, took off the foot-binding cloth, and put on big shoes, Xiang Ding came to the door.The girl from the Wang family said: My mother has already let my feet go for me.The villagers looked at it, had nothing to say, and left.However, that girl from the Luo family, usually as timid as a mouse, was captured from behind by another vicious villager, she was frightened and died of illness within a few days.

Gao Lizhi was even more frightened. When she heard "Xiang Ding is coming", she was so frightened that she hid in the dark room and got under the bed, not daring to come out for a long time.Later, Gao Shimei thought of a way to carve a pair of big feet for her daughter out of wood, like actors stepping on stilts, disguising the little feet as big feet.From then on, Gao Lizhi was safe and sound. Ma took Gao Lizhi to weave cloth at home, and then bought it at the market.All the money obtained was given to Gao Shimei, so that he could carve the lattice door with peace of mind.While weaving, Mrs. Ma told stories that happened outside the village.But these things almost all happened two miles away, because Gao Lizhi had never been two miles away.On this day, Ma told Gao Lizhi a story two miles away.The place where the story takes place is in the mulberry garden.Sangyuan was the farthest place Gao Lizhi imagined at that time.In fact, this place is just behind Xinlin Village, and it takes only a bag of cigarettes to get there.

Mrs. Ma told her that the mulberry garden was originally a paradise, with flowers and green grass every day.The people there celebrate the New Year every day.They wear silk and satin, and eat chicken, duck, fish and shrimp.The man planted mulberry trees outside. Although the mulberry trees he planted were only as tall as a man, the mulberry leaves were big, fat, fragrant and sweet, which Caner loved to eat.All of these men had children, and all of them grew up strong.They do not eat the mulberries that grow on the trees.When the mulberries just emerged, they knocked them off in order to protect the mulberry trees from sucking the sap from the mulberry leaves and sucking them dry.They never beat and scold women, they love girls with little feet the most.Therefore, when a girl with little feet marries to them, she can raise silkworms, feed chickens, spin thread, weave cloth, and have children at home every day without worrying about anything.

But then, from the other side of the mountain came a large party, all of them robbers.They occupied the mulberry field.The men and women in the mulberry garden thus became the slaves of the robbers. The robbers killed as they wished, beat as they wished, and let them go as they wished.Within a few months, the can'er in the mulberry garden also died, and the mulberry tree withered.Later, the houses in the mulberry garden were all deformed and weird. The ground was covered with poisonous flowers and plants, the air was filled with a sour and smelly smell, and many poisonous snakes and beasts broke into the village.Day and night, owls hooted mournfully there.

In the end, the robbers also disappeared inexplicably, were they eaten by tigers?Or was it poisoned to death by poisonous weeds?Or did they escape on their own?unknown. But from then on, no one in Xinlin Village dared to go to the mulberry garden, no matter how brave the young man was.The caravans in the village have to avoid it when they set off and return.It is said that there are too many ghosts there. For Gao Lizhi, what happened two miles away is undoubtedly an "Arabian Nights" that she cannot touch. That evening, An Ye took an American boy to shoot crows with a carbine in the woods south of Xinlin Village.After the crow landed, they picked it up, pulled out a few black feathers, and stuck them on their woolen caps.Then, "hungry, hungry" to scream.At that time, Ma Shi and Gao Lizhi were washing clothes and shoes in the small river outside the village.Gao Lizhi dried the washed embroidered shoes on the thorn bushes by the river.Then, I went to the creek to wash the clothes.Ma said: "The man with the gun is named An Ye, and he is your father's friend. The one without the gun is an American, and is An Ye's friend." Gao Lizhi dared not speak, this was the first time she When I see foreigners, I am very scared.She wanted to go home as soon as possible, she was afraid that the American would come towards her. Gao Lizhi stuffed the washed clothes into the bamboo basket and was about to pack up the embroidered shoes when he found the American boy staring at the embroidered shoes on the thornbush in a daze.After a while, the American young man carefully picked up two small embroidered shoes and hung them on his ears like earrings. He seemed to open his arms happily, dancing and singing, singing and dancing.Later, the American boy seemed to be aware of Gao Lizhi's existence, and immediately stopped dancing, looked at the timid her, smiled mischievously, and extended two thumbs to her.After that, the American boy took off the little shoes from the heels, held them in both hands, and handed them back to her. Diao Tianxia Ten (3) The moment Gao Lizhi took the shoes, she felt a kind of enthusiasm and sincerity.That kind of wonderful thing, from the American boy's fingers, eyes and whole tall body, was transmitted to the feeling after she ran away in panic. Gao Lizhi grabbed Mrs. Ma and hurried back home. She didn't tell Mrs. Ma what happened just now.At that time, Ma was doing laundry with his head down, so he didn't notice any change in Gao Lizhi's behavior.A few days later, Mrs. Ma asked Gao Lizhi to sell eggs in Nilang Town.That day, near noon, Gao Lizhi was a little sleepy, and she dozed off looking at the basket of eggs that hadn't sold a single one. Suddenly, she heard a cheerful and noisy voice. A group of little boys asked: Lao Mei, I will be your father, okay? The answering voice: very good, very good. Those little boys asked again: Lao Mei, I will be your grandfather, okay? The answering voice is still: very good, very good. Then she heard "Hello", "Hello" again. Gao Lizhi opened his strange eyes, looking for what kind of monsters those people who answered "very good, very good" are.Unexpectedly, a young man with a high nose and blue eyes had already come in front of her, squatting in front of her little feet, staring obsessively at the embroidered shoes on her feet. Gao Lizhi retracted her little feet uneasily and covered them with her hands.At the same time, she turned her head to one side, as if she didn't want to see him, or as if she didn't want him to see herself. The young man with a high nose still didn't want to leave, he pointed at Gao Lizhi's eggs, wow wow wow what does it mean.Seeing that Gao Lizhi didn't understand anything, he pointed at the egg and held it in his arms.Then, he took out a stack of banknotes and handed it to her.After that, he pointed to the embroidered shoes on her little feet and his own ears.Gao Lizhi finally understood that the young man with a high nose wanted to buy her eggs and her embroidered shoes, and if she was willing to sell him the embroidered shoes, he would hang them on his ears. Gao Lizhi suddenly had a strange emotional reflux, and this emotional reflux floated her heart back to that evening, the evening that both frightened her and excited her, the evening that made her want to escape and return to the small river. In the evening—ah, the tall-nosed young man in front of her was the same American boy she saw when she washed shoes by the river that evening.He had brought her warmth, sincerity and fond memories.She couldn't tell, but she had wanted to see him since that evening. Now, Gao Lizhi settled her mood, and she touched the sculptural face of the American boy with calm eyes.To her delight, the American boy not only did not reject her gaze, but greeted her with real and clear enthusiasm.So she found something that fascinated her: his big hands, blue eyes, big ears and his whole body. The American boy also found what he longed for: her shyness, timidity, beauty and cuteness, as well as her wonderful little feet and exquisite and charming embroidered shoes. Gao Lizhi really wanted to take off the embroidered shoes and give them to him immediately.But how can a little girl take off her shoes in front of a man?Besides, after taking it off, how can you go home with bare feet?She felt so embarrassed that her face flushed red.She turned her head away again, pretending to ignore him. The American boy said: "Very good, very good." After finishing speaking, he was about to leave her.Gao Lizhi was very anxious, and immediately pointed to her little feet, and then pointed to her home - Xinlin Village not far away. The American boy understood what she meant and followed her.When the American boy and Gao Lizhi walked into the house, Ma screamed in fright, ran to the workshop, and said to Gao Shimei: "Go and see, your daughter Gao Lizhi is immoral at a young age, and dares to take the American boy with you." Enter the house. At this moment, the style of the Zhao family and the Gao family has been completely ruined by her." Just as he was talking, Gao Lizhi and the American boy had arrived outside the workshop.The American boy was stunned when he saw the lattice door.He couldn't express in words the new feeling or the huge impact of the lattice door.He suddenly knelt down on his knees, made a gesture of stroking with his hands, and screamed in his mouth.His hands never touched the lattice door, but he felt as if he had become one with the lattice door, and the lattice door gave him endless passion and joy. Before Gao Shimei could react, the American boy stood up, pointed to the lattice door, then pointed to Gao Shimei, and then couldn’t help but uttered a Chinese sentence, "You———Gao—Mr. Shimei The one that An Ye said—Gao Shimei? Very good, very good!" Then, he bent down again and looked at the lattice door carefully.There was a series of words that Gao Shimei couldn't understand. Diao Tianxia Ten (4) Gao Shimei has already been moved, and he has no intention of questioning Gao Lizhi anymore.Gao Lizhi saw that her father became more pleasant, and said: "Father, grandma said that he is an American, a friend of An Ye, named Jack. Why don't you know him?" Gao Shimei said: "I remembered, One day, An Ye brought this American boy to see me. Unfortunately, Li Bang and I went to drink at the blacksmith's house that day. We came back after dark and didn't see this man. Now, you brought him again. Fate, we are really destined! Hurry up and cook, I want to invite him to drink." it's dark.The American young man is walking drunkenly on the country road, with a pair of the most exquisite embroidered shoes hanging on his ears, swinging and shaking from side to side.He was very proud, singing and whistling all the way.When he returned to his residence, he introduced Gao Shimei's wooden lattice door and Gao Lizhi's embroidered shoes to An Ye eloquently with an unreasonable force.His tone was one of praise for two of the greatest works of art.He put the little shoe in his hand and told An Ye to look left and right, up and down, until An Ye was out of breath, and shouted: "I'm going to die, I'm going to die!"