Chapter 8 Chapter 8 Tweety

The return of Guo Tietou ignited new hope in Banzi Village.Under the big locust tree at the entrance of the village, the old man stood and looked around every day, and the blind man also stood there.They firmly believed that Guo Tietou was not a miracle, and the two big carts pulled away, and if he couldn't, he ran back a fool.They stood against the wind and rain, stood without eating or drinking, stood in the dark, until the night was as dark as ink, and then went back to their respective homes with tired steps.The women also stood there for a while, but they were not as tenacious as the old people, and they had more serious business to take care of. They gradually disappeared, and only rarely came at noon or evening, calling them back to their homes.The old man of Xie Lao Si's family was the last to leave every day. As the days went by, Xie Lao Si's woman didn't bother to call anymore.Xie Lao Si's father sat by the old well which was still poisonous, watching the night cover the earth.It wasn't until midnight when his wife fed the baby and the pigs that he realized that the old man hadn't come home yet. He looked for him with a lantern, but saw the old man sitting there.The stars hung over his head, dimly illuminating his face and the ground beneath his feet.The big locust tree grows full leaves quietly, rustling in the wind.The old man's crutch was lying ten steps ahead, covered with tooth marks and covered with loess, no one knew what was going on.

Guo Tietou began to haunt the village head and village. That head was covered with the herbal medicine prepared by Mr. Yuan Bai.His legs are also getting better day by day. At first he was walking with his hands on the wall, but now he can walk with his hips on his hips.Everything is getting better and better, but the brain in the iron head is getting sicker and sicker. Although it can work in the fields and fetch water from the river, it laughs silly at everyone, calls daddy when it sees people, and barks when it sees a dog. When I saw a woman sitting at the door feeding the child, I squatted down and looked at it carefully, and reached into my crotch to feel it.His mother couldn't control her, she didn't listen to the scolding, and then she picked up the broom and lashed out all over the village with a blushing face.But the iron head didn't notice it at all, luckily he didn't go to a woman's kang in the middle of the night as his mother said.The old people are indifferent to this, and the women are skeptical until now. Mr. Yuan Bai rolled his eyelids a few times, pricked the back of his neck with a few small needles, and only said to take good care of it, maybe it will be fine after a while.The women who watched him get the needles asked how long this "a while" was, and Mr. Yuan Bai snorted annoyedly and said, "It's about one day soon, ten years later."

The women left angrily, and some people said that Yuan Bai and Guo Tietou probably had a fucking affair, and Guo Tietou was not crazy at all, but that idiot Guo was really crazy, he was born crazy.Guo Tietou was afraid of being arrested again, so he simply pretended to be crazy.When someone started, the Shanxi woman yelled, saying, have you noticed that Guo Tietou smells like soap?That's not the smell of soap in our village, and it doesn't work that way. Why does a lunatic use soap every day?His mother is sloppy at all, she doesn't wash her hair for two or three months, how can she wash this crazy son with soap every day?Some people say that's not right, his mother is a sloppy, and I haven't heard that Guo Tietou is a hardworking man. He used to be covered in lice and everyone hated him. Why did he become stinky when his head was broken? Most likely he peed every day. It's in the crotch, and his mother won't do it unless she washes it.

Everyone sounded reasonable, but Tweety didn't say a word.No matter whether you doubt it or believe it, Lao Dan will never come back.When delivering the ground cornmeal to Mr. Yuan Bai, Cui'er tentatively asked if Guo Tietou's words could be taken seriously.The old man seemed to have expected it a long time ago, and said with a smile that as long as it is a lie, don't take it seriously. "When do you think he will come back, sir?" Tweety would never let go of this pressing question. "It's hard to say... Tweety, the world is going to be in chaos here. Since ancient times, there is a saying that 'if you lose your horse, you will never know good fortune'. Guo Tietou came back, and it looks like a blessing. Who knows what will happen next? I heard that the devil has arrived. In the provincial capital, the national army is retreating. Although Banzi Village is located in a remote place, it cannot escape the scourge of poor soldiers. Besides, this place is located in a low-lying area, and it is on the old course of the Yellow River. The wars and disputes have come to this point, and life and death are only on one mind. The Yellow River cannot be guarded. , can’t let them pass, so what should we do? Sigh... I hope Lao Dan and the others have already passed by..." Mr. Yuan Bai looked at an old map, and on the white paper next to it were written words that Tweety did not know.The turtle monster sat obediently on the bench, guarding the iron pot that was about to boil.

"How can such a big and rushing river not hold?" Tweety asked. "Japan and China are still separated by the sea, haven't they defended it? At one time and another, the Easterners reformed in the early years, learned from the West, and acquired extraordinary skills and extraordinary military power. How many years has it been since the Republic of China? Ten years always have three years of disasters, Tweety, you don't know, there are still many villages in the valley with braids..." "It's over there at my house. I kept my braids before I went out, and they were cut off by bad boys on the way." Turtle Monster fled here from Shaanxi, where they were plagued by locusts, and his family members died within a year. Turtle Monster Don't listen to the suona and follow the refugees all the way eastward, blowing all the way, and blowing it all the way, and he will blow it when someone dies, and there is no end to the journey.He was not very proficient at first, but the dwarf had already blown flowers out of the trumpet when he played it in the land of Henan, but no matter what tune he played, even if it was a happy event, he could still blow people's tears down.As soon as the calamity year passed, he had no business, no food, no drink, no women, he was so hungry that only his skin was left, and he looked like a seven or eight-year-old child from a distance.He blew tears on the hillside in the middle of the night, and blew miserably in the heavy rain.Mr. Yuan Bai passed by on a donkey in the rain, and he was cold when he heard it, so he called him down and asked him if he wanted to blow the world to death?Seeing the extraordinary appearance of the old gentleman, Turtle knelt down and cried loudly, so Mr. Yuan Bai accepted the book boy and came all the way here.

"Sir, if that devil really comes, what should we do?" Tweety asked. Mr. Yuan Bai sighed, stood up and walked a few steps, then grabbed the fire hook in the turtle monster's hand to dig out the fire, saw the earthen pot boiled, watched the lid of the pot was turned up by the heat, Said lightly: "No way, suffer..." The time limit is up, and the person who went to the county town to exchange money with the white slip came back.A county is fleeing, not to mention exchanging money, not even a grain of food.The gate of the county government was open, wild dogs were infested, people left long ago, even the iron sign on the wall was taken off, leaving only the dust under the sign.The door was full of people who came to collect money, some yelled loudly, some wept softly, and some silently threw white slips and left silently.People from Banzi Village asked relatives who were about to run away in the county. They said that the Japanese had already arrived in the provincial capital. It flew away quietly like a swallow.

The people in Banzi Village seemed to have expected this outcome a long time ago, and most of them just scolded the mother of the Nationalist Government a few words in disdain, and then went back to their respective homes.A few more days passed, and even the women stopped cursing and cursing about it. They had to prepare for the worst in the days ahead. Before the Shanxi woman knocked on the door, Tweety knew it was her.As long as she comes to visit, she must first listen for a while outside the door. This may be the habit of many women, but Shanxi women listen exaggeratedly, and can stand there quietly listening to a bag of cigarettes, standing on tiptoe. If she can't hear anything or hears something, she will knock on the door contentedly, with a voice as if calling you at the entrance of the village.Many people know her problem. Sometimes when they see her listening, they deliberately scare her, and Shanxi women will happily knock on the door, saying that they are afraid that it will be inconvenient for her to ask whether they should go in.

The Shanxi woman was standing outside the door again, and Tweety was teasing the kitten with Yougen in her arms.Shanxi women have a strange smell. They say vinegar is not vinegar, spicy is not spicy, and coquettish is a bit too much, but Banzi Village doesn't have this smell, until Xie Laoshuan and his father spent a mule to bring this nameless " Shanxizi", the village has more of this taste.It was okay at the beginning, but after giving birth to the baby, the Shanxi woman got worse, and the smell of milk has increased again, and it has never been lost since then, and now she can smell it halfway down the street when she goes out.

"Tweety? Have you eaten yet?" The Shanxi woman patted on the table a few times, then opened the door and entered by herself.The kitten saw her climb up the tree, and the donkey stopped pulling immediately when he saw her. Only Tweety looked at her and laughed. "Yo? Shanxizi, why are you free? Is your baby fed?" Cui'er put Yougen down and said. "My water baby can eat and sleep, and the little pig is the same. After feeding the kang, he is kicking on the kang, sitting and bored, and come to chat with you." The woman from Shanxi came into the yard, looked around, as if guarding the corner There is a dog staring at her.

"I don't worry about it. I don't like fried noodles, and stick porridge is the same thing. Without well water, the hens at home can't lay eggs, and one root loses a lot of weight in a month... Sigh, you still With the help of your mother-in-law, I wish I could go to a hut here and carry him on my back, I don’t know when it will be the first time..." Tweety patted her thigh and sighed, pouted at the donkey, the donkey snorted, and started Go around slowly.The kitten meowed, lay down on the branch and began to sleep.The Shanxi woman didn't feel that something was wrong, she also sighed while sitting opposite Tweety.

"Oh, I'm such a miserable person. I don't want to be seen in children's homes. They are all girls, and my mother is useless. One girl is one leg, and another girl is another leg. Seven girls are out, and it's okay I don’t see a man with a handle. It’s a barren year and a year of soldiers. Seven women have seven mouths. How can I raise them? If I can raise them, how can I afford a dowry? Oh, I don’t even remember what my sisters look like , all of them have become child brides... My life is bad, no one wants..." "Then why did you come here? Your father-in-law brought you back, can you come empty-handed?" Tweety asked knowingly. "Hey, didn't you flee? A lot of people fled halfway, and their parents were about to starve to death. I saw a lot of women sitting there with straw sticks to sell, so I squatted over. Coincidentally Xie Lao Shuan'er and his father came over, and they just asked for...a piece of cake, and a mule, and the man came back. My parents took the mule and sold it, and I don't know what happened afterwards..." Shanxi woman Reaching into his bosom, he took out a rough cloth and wiped his eyes that hadn't yet shed tears. Tweety was startled, the experience of the Shanxi woman offset her dislike for her, like being jealous and being stuffed with a handful of salt.The Shanxi woman finally wiped away her tears. Seeing Tweety's expression on her face, she breathed a sigh of relief and said, "After all, I've been married for five years. It's hard to raise a son. She's a woman without a leg. What about my son, what a wonderful day, why was his father taken away?" Tweety saw that her eyes, which were still dry just now, suddenly burst into tears, and the light rain suddenly turned into a heavy rain, so she patted her wrist to comfort her.The Shanxi woman ignored it, and suddenly cried out with lightning and thunder. The crying came from the dantian, and burst out through a throat thicker than Lao Dan, shaking the windows and shaking the tiles.The kitten on the sweet-scented osmanthus tree let out a howl, ran up the room desperately, and disappeared with a flick of its tail.Tweety's tears that she wanted to accompany were forced back by this violent drinker. In such a short period of time, she was overwhelmed by the woman's excessive emotions, and her chest was suffocated by her. She froze for a moment with her tongue shaking, and finally made In a cold sweat. "Shanxi Zi'er, don't worry about it, we're not far behind... You're too stubborn, you can't cry like this, we still have to think about it." Cui'er gritted her teeth, rubbed her chest and said.After hearing this, the Shanxi woman stopped.The coarse cloth wiped away the tears, turned his face and spat at the donkey's feet, exhaled and said: "Who said it wasn't? My old Shuan'er left, and my mother-in-law blamed me, saying that Shuanzi was going to the county seat early in the morning, but I followed the day all night, and Shuanzi lost his strength every day. I couldn't get up, and I was arrested. Don't you think this is not wronged? He Shuanzi raped me and I couldn't let him die. Why was it my fault? She urges us to have a day every day. She can't do it all day long, and she can't take a break in the middle of the night. She wants to have a grandson. I can't get pregnant, so she pulls me every day and asks you what day it was? Did you pout or stand up in the last few strokes? Did you hold your legs up in the sky after the day was over? Tweety, Richeng's ball So, can you lift your legs? Can you lift your legs up to the sky when a man is crushed like a dead pig at the end of the day? Are you heartless?" The Shanxi woman talked and gestured, her teeth bit her lips, her eyelids squeezed her eyebrows, her words squeezed the air in the courtyard, and her face suddenly became ferocious.As soon as she mentioned the day, she waved her arms up and down, but that movement didn't look like a day at all, but like shaking a dustpan.Her eyes were red from crying, and her body smelled like a chopping board. As soon as she did this, her Shanxi accent became more serious, which reminded Tweety of the hot sliced ​​noodles she had eaten at her house, and of her future. Holding a ball of noodles in the palm of her hand, the appearance of cutting into the pot with a kitchen knife was so sharp that it made her heart skip a beat.The scene depicted by the Shanxi woman made Tweety blush again, and she remembered the days of Lao Dan and her, and the scene of Lao Dan panting heavily and sweating profusely, holding her legs up in the sky, like Hang a freshly laundered sheet on the line.Thinking of these Tweets, she softened, her ears softened and her eyes softened, and soon she felt her body softened, her bones melted like water, and a strange warmth gushed out of the rough words of the Shanxi woman, which made her With a sour heart, tears followed. "Oh, don't talk about it, it made you cry, Tweety. I won't say it, I won't say it, what are you talking about? I'm so ashamed, Tweety, let me tell you something serious, we two The land of the family is next to each other. When the man left, there are crops in the land, but how can we clean up seven or eight acres of land? I am better. No matter how bad my mother-in-law is, she can always take care of her grandson. What can you do? Going to the field? How can you swing a hoe with roots on your back? Then I have an idea, Tweety, let’s hear if this is the way to go. Let’s hire a short-term worker to look after the field every day, go through the water, dig the ridges and pick up the dung Yes, let him do it all. When the harvest is about to be harvested, we will call two more Mikes. Let’s talk about the wages with him. You and I are half of each other. Thinking about the price?" The Shanxi woman changed her face again in an instant, with tears still hanging on her face, she began to wring her fingers and talk about her "business".And Cui'er had just been brought into a sad ditch by her, and she was going to toss and cry in it, and she simply fell down.She couldn't understand how this woman who was crying with her could talk about business again in an instant?She had already figured out what happened after Qiuhou, so she just had to use an abacus to figure it out.Cui'er bit her tongue and swallowed back the more tears, and saw a root walking out of the house, squatting down and being soaked in shit, she walked over and picked it up, and there were two crackles on her buttocks. "Bastard, you will be dry for a while, you really know how to pull!" Tweety sighed and pulled the basin to wash.There was a root that was itchy and laughed, and kicked his fucking head with his calf. Tweety, who didn't know where the fire came from, threw him into the water basin, splashing Lao Gao's water.Amidst Tweety's scolding, Yougen sat in the water and cried. "What are you doing? Didn't the child just poop? Are you heartless? You are lying on the ground, calling a dog to eat Doriso, and my water baby will be on the kang at every turn, rolling me all over in the middle of the night oh, that pickle..." The Shanxi woman didn't feel Tweety's dislike at all, so she picked up a root, quickly grabbed a piece of cloth from the rope, wiped her face first, and then came over to wipe the shit, While wiping, he muttered, "What's the matter? What's the matter, what's the matter? What's the matter, what's the matter..." Seeing her like this, Tweety felt embarrassed.The thick skin of Shanxi women is invincible, and Tweety feels ashamed.She even began to suspect that this woman must have other ulterior motives if she wanted to find a part-time job with her to tidy up the land of the two families.Although this method moved Tweety's heart, Mr. Yuan Bai's worries put her in a dilemma.Seeing that it is about to enter summer, the crops are waiting for no one.Fertilizing is a lot of work. If you don't take good care of it, you can quickly repair the ditch and cultivate the soil. The wheat seedlings will grow slowly. "Shanxi son, let me think about it first, it's not a big deal, it's what we're going to do in the end... But... we have to pick a guy we can all trust, right? It's a chaotic time, people walking around can't tell, Don't be reckless and find a... a slut who ran away in a hurry, not to mention delaying the crops, and even harming our business." Cui'er took You Gen, wiped him dry with the lapel, and glanced at the door.Xie Laosi's woman walked by the door, peeped in, as if about to come in, but turned around and walked away. "You're right. The Japanese soldiers are coming to the county town. I'm afraid we won't stop here. Hey, Cui'er, I heard that the devils kill people very fiercely. They killed all of them in Nanjing, and all the women died. Even the eighty-year-old The old lady will not let it go." The Shanxi woman's eyes lit up again when she said this. "Where is Nanjing? Where is it in Henan?" Cui'er was confused for a moment, and immediately felt that this Nanjing was not important, but something else that the Shanxi woman said, so she said, "Why are the devils so fierce? The purpose of calling here is to do something." this?" "Ah, Cui'er, why don't you have any knowledge at all? Are you short-sighted? Nanjing is the capital of the Republic of China. It's on the other side of the mountain..." The Shanxi woman pointed to the eastern mound, rather To say with certainty, "I heard that devils are hateful. They think they are short, and if they catch a Chinese woman, they will be knocked down. Tang Seng went to the West to learn Buddhist scriptures, but now the devils come to the East to get seeds. They are for a change of seeds." Mile..." "Which one did you hear?" Tweety asked in surprise, and tightened her clothes with her legs crossed. "Oh, that's what I heard, everyone said so." The Shanxi woman spread her arms and turned her mouth to one side, indicating that the statement was true. "That's frightening to death...then Lao Dan and the others are going to protect us? We should fight the devils to catch the strong men or not." "These are two different things... You can hide from this matter if you can, why are you fighting? You don't want to die? Tweety, you are really... heartless?" "Then what do you think?" "What can you think? My home is here, my land is here, as long as I don't want our lives, I will accept it. I came from Shanxi, and I can't stay here without devils? How can those generals treat us as human beings? If we hadn't left, wouldn't we have been killed by them at the end of the day? Tweety, you are really short-sighted." After talking to this point, Tweety no longer bothers this Shanxi woman.Hard worms crawled out of her heart, gnawing at the belief she had just built these days.She glanced blankly at the half-open courtyard door, and saw the winding paths in the village, the spring grass tenaciously growing out of the walls, and a series of chaotic footprints without beginning or end.Tweety looked flustered, so she turned her head to look at Yougen who was playing again.Yougen didn't care what the two of them were doing, he went straight under the resting donkey and touched its long penis with his small hand.Tweety looked at the shiny side of the donkey, and thought of Lao Dan in the dark.