Chapter 19 Chapter Nineteen

Drilling through the wooden fence of the coal yard and climbing over a field overgrown with weeds, Mr. Zhang saw the embankment of the Damo River leading to Qiaotou Town.It was very dark and cold, and the northwest wind was blowing, like countless blunt knives cutting and tearing Zhang Sanye's naked flesh.When we climbed down the embankment, the northwest wind was a little bit weaker, and Mr. Zhang huddled his bruised body and rested in a dry pit.As soon as I rested, I was so cold that I couldn't help shivering, and all my bones were shaking. Zhang Sanye was afraid that he would be frozen to death, endured the severe pain, and with the support of his will to survive, he struggled to climb along the embankment in the direction of Qiaotou Town.Crawling, crawling, he smelled a brand-new stench behind him, and Mr. Zhang found himself pooping again, half-soaked poop dripping in the dung pocket behind his buttocks.After hanging the dung bag for six days, Mr. Zhang really became an animal. It's incredible that he got used to crawling and squatting.

However, the freed Zhang Sanye is no longer an animal, and there are not so many relatives to take care of him anymore. Zhang Sanye angrily tore off the dung pocket behind his buttocks, and like a human being, he squatted down and squatted down Semi-soaked shit.Weeping and crying, like a wolf howling. What a shame.The dignified third master Zhang hung his body naked like an animal for six days in a dung bag, and recognized countless relatives.In six days, he hadn't eaten a good meal or slept once, if it wasn't for the kind father Cao Ershun who was protecting him overtly and secretly, he might have been teased to death.Now that Mr. Zhang is alive again, those relatives will have to die—I’m afraid Cao Ershun will have to die too—it’s not that Mr. Zhang is too bad-hearted, but because he has to. To be human in this world.

Zhang Sanye thought that he had to climb to Qiaotou Town to find Miss Shiba before dawn, and ask Shibajie to send him to Mohe City to meet the magistrate Wang.Until now, except for the eighteenth sister, there is no one in this world who can be trusted.Uncle Wang and Fifth Master Li are nothing, and they sold him to Mr. Bai Er, and the people in the shopkeeper's room of the Bai family didn't dare to count on them. These people have already acted on Xiao Taiping's face. Climbing was extremely difficult, and the wounds all over his body were painful.For a while, Mr. Zhang felt that he was going to die. His eyes were always blurry, and his head was so heavy that he couldn't lift it up, as if his neck could no longer support the weight of his head.But the third master Zhang hated deeply, so he was surprisingly stubborn, bumping his head on the ground again and again, and knocking out bloody sobriety again and again...

That night, Zhang Sanye created a miracle of life in the history of Qiaotou Town. He crawled naked for three miles in the freezing winter, and climbed under the three-hole bridge in Qiaotou Town at four o'clock. The landing board of the building boat climbed onto the building boat... It wasn't Sister Shiba who first discovered Mr. Zhang, but Yu Gu'er. Yugu'er connected two guests that night, and drank a lot of Huadiao wine with the last guest, and slept very late. Just as she fell down on the bed in the front cabin at the bottom, she heard the sound of the bow, rustling Suddenly, I took a look at the lamp, and was startled: under the dim light, a black mass was moving towards her little by little.

Yu Gu'er took a sweeping broom from his side and hit the black thing, shouting: "Get out, you dead dog!" Mr. Zhang raised his head and said a broken sentence: "I...I'm not...not a dog!" Only then did Yu Guer realize that the black thing was a human being—it was Mr. Zhang! This was really unexpected, Yugu'er never imagined that Mr. Zhang would crawl onto the boat with a charcoal ashes and bare buttocks during the fourth watch, and he didn't know what to do for a while.I wanted to help Mr. Zhang into the cabin, but when I bent down, I smelled a pungent stench, so I instinctively stepped back, only looking at Mr. Zhang in a daze.

Zhang Sanye said again: "Call me...Call me ten...Eighteen sister..." Only then did Yu Gu'er realize that Zhang Sanye was Shibajie's old friend, and it was very natural to call Shibajie to cook, so she ran to the back cabin and called Shibajie who was sleeping. The eighteenth sister was even more surprised. She came out in her cloak and turned on the lamp to look at Mr. Zhang for a long time before admitting the reality in front of her. She asked tremblingly, "Master Zhang, you...what's wrong with you?" Zhang Sanye didn't answer, just said: "I...I'm cold..."

The eighteenth sister didn't want to bring the dirty and smelly Mr. Zhang into the cabin to warm up, so she was startled for a moment, and said to Yu Gu'er: "Sister, you... you go find an unwanted quilt and cover it for Mr. Zhang first. Wait... when Mr. Zhang recovers, we... we will wash it and carry it into the cabin." Yu Gu'er responded, and went to find a broken quilt in her own cabin. Third Master Zhang was heartbroken when he saw that Eighteenth Sister refused to lean against him and refused to let him into the warm cabin. He cried, "You...you really don't...have no heart..."

The eighteenth sister was upset: "What do you mean heartless? Look at you, can you enter my room?" Third Master Zhang struggled to raise a dirty hand, pointed at Miss Shiba and said, "You...you forgot all the benefits I gave...to you..." The eighteenth sister said angrily: "Don't say that - it's good that you have done me good, but you have also ruined me! On the night of the eighth year of Tongzhi, it wasn't because you had a quarrel with Mr. Xiao. Boiling against the sky, my mother, I will not let the thieves steal it all." Zhang Sanye really wanted to die by himself, and he yelled: "What...what shit...Uncle Xiao Xiao? He...he is the rebel of the Nian Luan! It is... the second group of the Nian bandits on the West Road...the head of the group Well, the kilns on the kiln are all... all bandits and traitors! If I sue the officials tomorrow, this...these people will all go to prison and lose their heads!"

The eighteenth sister said: "Uncle Xiao and the gangsters are not my mother's business! My mother only wants to do business to make money." At this time, Yugu'er found a piece of cotton wool that looked like a broken fishnet, and covered Mr. Zhang's body. Third Master Zhang struggled to sit up wrapped in torn cotton wool, and said to the eighteenth sister: "...the coal mines in Qiaotou Town are thieves' mines, and the king of the government must... must be banned. The thieves' mines... Get a ban from the government, you... What business are you still doing? You... You should just... go with me... to Mohe City tonight, it will help me, and you will also... be innocent ..."

These words made Eighteenth Sister wake up.The eighteenth sister noticed that Mr. Zhang's face had been distorted by hatred, and he didn't know whether it was the coal mines in Qiaotou Town or her that he hated. Zhang Sanye continued: "...you remember, from now on, there will be... no more coal mines in Qiaotou Town, Wang's Kiln and Li's Kiln are all gangsters - not the damned Uncle Wang, old man ...I will not be in the situation I am today. I am finished, and they are all finished, they all have to die..." The Eighteenth Sister generally understood, and thought, it must be Zhang Sanye who had something to do with Xiao Taiping and the kiln. Xiao Taiping took him to the kiln and locked him up when he wanted to report to the government.

However, the eighteenth sister still looked indifferent: "Third Master, don't call us, it's your business whether you sue the officials, we don't care." After finishing speaking, she squeezed Yu Gu'er Eye, "Yuguer, let's go, get some water for Mr. Zhang, let him wash." Yu Gu'er really thought that Eighteenth Sister was going to wash off Mr. Zhang's filth, so she hurried to find a basin in the cabin. The eighteenth sister grabbed Yu Gu'er and asked, "Sister, did you hear what Zhang Sanye said?" Yuguer nodded. The eighteenth sister said: "We can't let Zhang Sanye go to the city to sue the officials!" Yugu'er said: "That's right, Uncle Xiao has treated us well in the past two years." The eighteenth sister said: "It's a trivial matter to treat us wrongly, but it's a big thing to ruin our business! This chapter, the third master really sued the officials in the city, arrested Uncle Xiao and those crooks, and then shut down the three coal mines in the town. It's all sealed, who else does our sister do business with? Wouldn't it kill us?" Yu Gu'er asked: "Then what should we do?" The eighteenth sister said: "I will guard here, and you, go to the Xiao family's mansion immediately, and ask Uncle Xiao to bring someone here, and get rid of this pile of stinky meat overnight! We can't keep such harmful things. .” Yu Gu'er said: "Once Uncle Xiao comes, Third Master Zhang will probably die." The eighteenth sister said: "I can't control this..." Although Yu Gu'er agrees with Shibajie's proposition, she still feels cold in her heart, thinking that Shibajie is too vicious, and even ignores her old friends for many years for the sake of business.Then he said: "Sister, you have to think about it." The eighteenth sister said: "I've made up my mind, you go quickly." Only then did Yu Gu'er climb out of the window and walk ashore on the other side of the boat. The eighteenth sister came out with a basin of dirty water covered with thin ice after Yugu'er left, and said to Mr. Zhang: "There is no hot water yet, Mr. San, do you think this cold water is enough for washing?" At this time, Mr. Zhang was so cold that his whole body was shaking, he couldn't sit still, and shook his head in the cold water. Unexpectedly, the eighteenth sister poured down the cold and dirty water with icy slag on her head, causing Zhang Sanye's wounds all over his body to burst and hurt, and he almost died. At this time, Zhang Sanye had already discovered the malice of Shibajie, and wanted to scold Shibajie, but because his whole body was cold and painful, he couldn't scold him, so he could only pant heavily, and stared at Shibajie bitterly. Look. The eighteenth sister didn't hide her thoughts anymore, and said clearly: "...Third Master, our fate will be settled tonight-don't blame me for being heartless. I am both affectionate and righteous, but I can't save you. You, I can only watch you die. Why? Just because you are too stupid, have a bad heart, and don’t want others to live well. Don’t you think about it, how beautiful is Qiaotou Town today? The charcoal that can’t be dug, the old lady will have endless money. You keep doing bad things to the kiln, isn’t it bad for the old lady’s business? I don’t care if Mr. Xiao and those gangsters are bandits! As long as they can make money every day My mother's flower boat, and my mother's girl in the future, are all my mother's masters!" Only then did Mr. Zhang realize that his miserable efforts for most of the night were in vain. He climbed out of one death trap and fell into another death trap.Back then he used money to lure Eighteenth Sister's flower boat, and today he had to die on the flower boat that was thirsting for money.He was so remorseful in his heart that he suppressed the hatred in his heart and said a few words with all his strength: "I...I won't...don't sue, please forgive me..." The eighteenth sister said: "I don't believe it. I know your character. If you escape today, you still have to sue—I'm afraid you will sue my mother too. Mr. Bai Er is so good to you, but you still play tricks. Let alone me, my old lady. You will never think of the crimes my old lady has suffered for creating this family business, you are just unconvinced. It’s not because of this, and you wouldn’t have come this far.” Mr. Zhang was already dying, his body was numb, he no longer felt cold and pain, but his mind was very clear, and he could still hear the words of the eighteenth sister. He really regretted it in his heart, and thought very kindly, if there was an accident tonight If he survived, he won't fight with anyone anymore, he just wants to live a safe life. Until his death, Zhang Sanye finally understood the tragedy of his short life—he was fighting against the money world in Qiaotou Town, where two kilns stand side by side.In a sense, he participated in the creation of this money world, and he could have spent his life in ease and abundance.But his mind is too wild, and he doesn't want others to get what he can't get. He wants to destroy everyone's dream of getting rich, which makes everyone regard him as an opponent.Uncle Wang of the Wang family kiln, Mr. Li Wu of the Li family kiln, and the eighteenth sister of the old friend are by no means the accomplices of Xiao Taiping and Mr. Bai Er, but they came together for the money that they both like, and his tragic extinction was doomed because of this. . The eighteenth sister is still talking, her voice becoming more and more ethereal: "...Third Master, let me tell you, the coal mines in Qiaotou Town will not collapse, and the business on my mother's flower boat will not collapse either. The coal mines were prosperous in the past, they are prosperous today, and in the future It will continue to prosper! My mother’s business must continue to prosper. Why? Just because everyone is a sensible person, and no one will eat and be dragged into the pot..." Accompanied by Miss Eighteen's erratic voice, Third Master Zhang passed out... At five o'clock on December 25th in the tenth year of Tongzhi, Zhang Sanye froze to death on the bow of the building boat.Later, when kiln builders mentioned Mr. Zhang, they could no longer remember the historical deeds of him discovering outcropping coal and encouraging the Bai family to open the first small kiln. They only remembered an animal with a dung bag hanging on its rear and calling everyone for its father.In private, the sisters in the kiln scrambled to tell a sad story about a man in distress and a flower boat. In that sad story, the Eighteenth Sister became a cannibal Yaksha.