Chapter 26 Carve the world twenty-two

Carving the world twenty-two (1) Dead man, although your eyes are closed, they will become the sun and the moon; although your hair falls, it will become grass; although your muscles are broken, they will become mountain beams; Disappeared, but will become four directions of east, west, north, south... Dead people, your soul has already run away, along the mountain wind, along the colorful clouds, towards the place full of flowers... ——An ancient song in Yunnan, Yisa Town is on the top of a big mountain, with rivers on the left and right, and empty valleys on all sides.The town is built on a steep hillside, like an independent small castle, overlooking the surrounding mountains and rivers, deep valleys and deep beaches.French architecture, British architecture, and German architecture can be seen everywhere.There are smokehouses and casinos everywhere in the city. There are all kinds of people playing mahjong, playing nine cards, and betting on big treasures. Trading Center.It is a paradise for "adventurers" in southern Yunnan.

Gao Shimei sat in a corner of Yisa Town, with a sallow face, unshaven beard, and ragged clothes.People don't pay much attention to him, such an old man who looks like a beggar, his hands are so perfect, delicate, slender, and very compact.Although the joint of his thumb is slightly deformed, his real finger is curved and pointed, there are obvious scars on the flesh in his palm, and there is a thick layer of calluses on his wrist, but when his fingers move, they are full of life and look so serene.On the back of the shiny dark brown hand, light blue blood vessels were exposed.The joints of the slender fingers are as smooth and delicate as satin, they are like a group of cheerful little animals playing with something like a pimple.It was a "wooden lump", but it became a Rubik's cube-like toy in Gao Shimei's hands.He sometimes unraveled it and turned it into a pile of extremely irregular small wooden blocks, and sometimes combined them to restore it to a lump.His performance can also attract a small audience, especially some young people.At that time, he never tires of asking people: "Is there a Xizong person named Gao Lizhi here? Her husband is Cai Jiajun, and he is a horse pot head of the Tobacco Gang." After hearing this, people said, Either say you don't know, or shake your head and walk away.

One night, when Gao Shimei felt that everyone in Yisa Town had fallen into a deep sleep, he looked for his place of refuge like a lost soul and adventurous nocturnal god.He could not see the stars, but he could hear the whistling of the wind, which seemed to come from the forest.He lay on the spot by the corner of the back door of a family, huddled up, closed his eyes, and sucked his thumb.In the middle of the night, the master got up to pee, and sprinkled a stream of hot urine on Gao Shimei's body.The owner is a middle-aged man. He was very sensitive to find a dark shadow under his urine, which made a very slight noise, accompanied by what kind of breath?The master hurriedly took out a box of matches and struck one.Under the yellow flames, a black and icy body lay at his feet.The master felt very uncomfortable, and helped Gao Shimei up from the ground. It seemed that something like water and ice had solidified on the tattered clothes.The master was really sorry, so he invited Gao Shimei into his home.Gao Shimei suddenly said to her master: "Please give me something to eat. I haven't eaten for a few days. I am not a beggar. I came here to look for my daughter. I have no face to beg for food during the day. Now I am very hungry. uncomfortable."

The master's face immediately showed a look of surprise and sadness, and then his hands panicked, not knowing what to do, and after hesitating for a long time, he went to the kitchen and found a small bowl of dried pickled vegetables.The owner said: "Old man, I'm really sorry for you. I'm also a person who can't open the pot." Gao Shimei greeted him instinctively, took the dried pickles with both hands, sniffed them with his greedy nose, grabbed a handful and put them in his mouth.The dried pickles were quickly eaten, and Gao Shimei got up and was about to leave.The owner's throat was dry, and he couldn't help it anymore, coughing again and again.While wiping his nose and mouth with his hands, he persuaded Gao Shimei to stay in the house overnight and leave after dawn.The master also asked him: "Old man, you came to Yisa Town to look for your daughter? Who is your daughter?"

So, Gao Shimei told her experience. When Gao Shimei talked about marrying Gao Lizhi to Cai Jiajun in desperation, the master interrupted Gao Shimei, saying that he had walked through the smoke gang with Cai Jiajun before, and had been to many places. A cruel man.He is very fierce to everyone, but Gao Lizhi is the best, it can be said that he is obedient and obedient.It is a pity that Cai Jiajun was a short-lived ghost and died in Laos at the age of 29.Gao Lizhi has been a widow since she was 19 years old, and she seems to be still at home looking forward to Cai Jiajun's return. Carving the world twenty-two (2)

Gao Shimei was overjoyed and begged the middle-aged man to take him to see his daughter Gao Lizhi immediately.The middle-aged man was unwilling to go, saying how could he knock on a widow's door in the middle of the night?Gao Shimei begged hard, and finally moved the master's heart, and he helped Gao Shimei to the Cai family compound.They knocked on the door repeatedly, with no response.The middle-aged man lost his patience and left.Gao Shimei stayed outside the door, knocking and knocking, and shouted in a weak voice: "Lichi, I am your father. I am coming to see you. Get up and open the door. Lizhi, I am sorry for you, I know You hate Dad very much, Dad had no choice at that time..."

It seems that far, far away, there is a dog that has been barking.After an unknown amount of time, a rooster crowed nearby, which undoubtedly brought infinite comfort and hope to Gao Shimei.Gao Shimei yelled until dawn, and Gao Lizhi slowly got up to open the door. It took her a long time to recognize Gao Shimei. Gao Shimei couldn't get excited either, he felt exhausted.Gao Lizhi went back to the house and sat on the bed, like a wooden man, with gray hair and lips that kept moving.She began to tell Gao Shimei the stories she had repeated countless times. She said: "My family Cai Jiajun is a good man. He asked me to be a big one, and he listened to me in everything... My family Cai Jiajun, he has a young one in Laos, She is an English woman. My family Cai Jiajun showed me the picture of that little wife, but I didn’t see it... My family Cai Jiajun is very rich and opened a big business in Laos Sang Nu. I told my family Cai Jiajun that I am going to Laos Sang Angry, my family Cai Jiajun won’t let me go, my family Cai Jiajun said that walking the tobacco gang is not like driving a caravan. They don’t dare to walk on the ready-made roads. They want to drill grass, puncture canopies, cross Jinggou, take dangerous roads, and walk on barren beaches. , take a mountain road that no one dares to walk, and you have to fight with the government, bandits, and thieves... My family Cai Jiajun said that it takes 50 days to travel from Yisa Town to Laos Sangnu, with 30 major stations and 30 small stations. There are 53 stations, including Menglong, Harpu, Shangliu Village, Xialiu Village, Zhemi River, Qimaba, Banpo Village, Malizhai, Xianxili, Wagang Liangzi, Chen Laopi, Xiaoheijiang . Xiang and Mengyou Sara can reach Bangang Sangnu. My family Cai Jiajun said..."

Gao Shimei tried to keep the most beautiful part of her daughter in his memory, trying to recall Gao Lizhi's appearance and body.At this moment, as if someone was desperately fighting for his daughter, the image of Gao Lizhi was jumping around in his brain, and was dragged away by a huge force after a while.He had to tense up to catch his daughter's voice.I heard it, I heard it!Gao Lizhi's voice was like singing, floating towards him one after another, leaving towards him one after another, slowly falling behind him, turning into drops of rain, grains of sand... What Gao Lizhi was talking about ?What else was there for her to tell her father?

Gao Shimei rested her head on a very hard object, and her breathing became a little easier.He remained motionless, and his body gradually slipped into a world full of people and things from the past.After a long time, he fell asleep on the ground like a tired child, waiting for his parents to carry him to a warm bed.He didn't know how long he had slept, he had never slept like this in his life.There was a sense of falling into an abyss, and that abyss was dark and cold and full of humming sounds.After a long, long time, he woke up, opened his eyes and looked at his daughter.His eyes were dry and painful, and he kept taking in all the things in the house that multiplied and deformed like insects.The house was silent, like a cemetery in the middle of the night wilderness.Gao Shimei's head ached unbearably, he said: "Li-zhi, my daughter, I-want-to blow foreign smoke."

Gao Shimei's voice was so small that it didn't seem to exist, but Gao Lizhi could hear it clearly.She said slowly: "Yes, there is everything in this house. There is also big smoke. My Cai Jiajun left it when he left the tobacco gang. It is old smoke. I will blow it for you. Dad!" Gao Lizhi opened his eyes, like a lonely ghost, dragging his weak legs, he touched the other side of the bed.As if there was a deep attraction to her hands, she broke through the obstruction of the darkness, climbed onto a large box, knelt on it, and then went to a higher place, pulled out a small box, opened the door, and quickly grabbed A mass of black, almost mysterious things emerged.Immediately afterwards, like a ghost that could not be dispelled, she slipped down from the big box in a little panic, and approached Gao Shimei.At this time, Gao Shimei stretched out her curious, greedy and slightly swollen left hands like a thief, and took the opium.At the same time, with his right hand, he took out a bong from his body, quickly put foreign cigarettes on it, and immediately started to smoke.He didn't know whether it was the desire for hunger or the desire to survive that made him so greedy at this time?A fragrance mixed with the breath of death hit his aching chest.He swallowed the smoke in his mouth hard, and there were a few flickering smiles on his face.At this moment, Gao Shimei heard the clear and wide beeping sound of the big wall clock.

Carving the world twenty-two (3) Gao Lizhi had returned to her bed, sat down, closed her eyes, and continued: "There is no woman in the world who enjoys happiness like me. She has everything, such as emerald bracelets, gold-green cat eyes, star sapphires, black pearl necklaces...there are too many to wear. I eat and sleep when I want. However, my family Cai Jiajun didn’t have my blessings. He came back in the middle of the night and had to go out before dawn. Years of insecurity, that feeling was hard! That year, my Cai Jiajun offended a committee member of Huangcaoba, and that committee member brought a battalion The soldiers came and surrounded my Cai Jiajun’s cigarette gang. My Cai Jiajun was still sleeping. He heard the gunshot and hurriedly stood up to resist. However, he couldn’t touch his clothes or the gun. He was arrested by the government and fined 200,000 yuan. The government also said that he was a cigarette bandit... My family Cai Jiajun told me when he came back, it doesn't matter if you lose your money, you can still find it if you lose it, and if you lose your life, you can never get it back..." Gao Shimei's lips fluctuated or shook a few times, "Li-zhi, my daughter, dad may have to leave. Dad's road-is coming to-end. Dad has experienced a lot-turmoil, a lot- Inexplicable things, every time I experience it, my heart beats—a little weaker. Every time I take a step, my bones—a little bit of wear and tear. At that time—father didn’t know, but now—father just—understands—understands It's..." Gao Shimei's voice became smaller and smaller, like a gust of wind, drifting away in front of him. Gao Lizhi continued to talk: "That year, a toad spirit came out of Luojiaoba, and the gas exhaled by the toad spirit turned into colorful clouds and mist, floating in the woods and ravines. My family, Cai Jiajun, just passed by there, and encountered this colorful air. , fever, fever, trembling, unable to speak, and unable to eat. His friend sent him to Sangnu Hospital, took medicine and injections, and he recovered quickly. My Cai Jiajun wanted to eat chicken. His My friend hurried to the street to buy a chicken, killed him and made soup for him to drink. My Cai Jiajun drank the chicken soup, died of fever, and never came back..." Gao Shimei's bong fell to the ground suddenly, and his head slowly leaned on the back of the chair.When his hazy eyes felt that the sunlight outside the window must have turned blue again, he couldn't help but snorted "oh", and then closed his eyes tightly... A picture of "Begging" came from his package Roll out.Gao Lizhi saw it, and walked slowly over to pick up "Picture of Begging" from the ground, then spread it out on the ground, looked at it carefully, then rolled it up, brought it to his father, and handed it back to his father hands.At this moment, Li Bang hurried in.