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Chapter 10 Section 8

Old student 贾平凹 5480Words 2018-03-18
The guerrillas retreated into the mountains again, this time as far as the most remote village of Huangbacha. There are only three families in Huangbaicha Village, each of which has a 2-foot-high earthen courtyard wall, painted with white lime circles to guard against animals.The white lime circle can scare wolves, jackals, wild boars, and cattle, but not leopards. Chickens and pigs in the village are often gone.On the night of the third day of this month, the moon was dark and the wind was strong, and the leopard came again. A cow and the leopard fought at the intersection in front of the village. Their strength was about the same, and neither of them defeated the other.People in Tianming Village went to plow the land, only to find that both the cow and the leopard stood up halfway up with their hind legs kicking. With a kick, he fell down.The cow belonged to Ran's family. Ran couldn't bear to kill the cow for meat, so he dug a pit and buried it. He was skinning the leopard in the yard, and a man with a white beard came.Ran kept the man for a meal, and gave him a pair of dragon-beard straw sandals. Before leaving, the man drew a talisman for Ran, and cut off his own white beard, saying that in this month, the village There may also be disasters. If the ashes of the talismans and beards are washed with water and then left the village, they can be avoided.The ninth day of the surnamed Ran was the third anniversary of his mother's funeral. He burned paper on the grave and cried for a while, and invited two other families to eat and drink. He was preparing to leave on the tenth day. Here we go.

Li Desheng's hand injury had already been covered with pumpkin flesh on the way to Huangbacha village.Pumpkin pulp can cure gunshot wounds. After applying it, the pain stopped and the swelling went down, but the stomach ached again.Li Desheng had an old stomach problem, kept vomiting acid water, drank too much alcohol in Huangfu Street, and constantly blamed himself for making mistakes in Huangfu Street, which caused heavy casualties to the guerrillas, and he had another stomach problem.Lao Hei divided dozens of people into three households, and asked each household to cook for them first. The surnamed Ran was very polite, so he set fire to boil water, but when the water boiled, he burned the talisman and beard to ashes and asked the old man to flush. I drank water, but my father refused to drink it, saying that his back hurts and he couldn’t walk. Ran drank it himself, and told Lao Hei that he went to the field to pick some green peppers and came back to cook vegetables. He jumped off the ground and ran away.The sentry shouted when they noticed it, and three or four guerrillas ran out of the room, overwhelmed the one surnamed Ran, and cursed: You want to report the news from the mountain? !Pull back to the yard.Old Hei asked about the situation and scolded: I hate the reporter the most, so pull it out and bury it!The one surnamed Ran collapsed on the ground in fright, feces flowed from his trouser legs, his father knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, saying that he couldn't send a white-haired man to a black-haired man!Old Hei said: For your father's sake, I won't bury you.But he himself took a scythe and picked out a tendon of Ran's hamstring.The other two households behaved well, and took out all the food and drink they could eat and drink, and said that they could live for a day or two, or ten days and a half months.Li Desheng lay on the kang and wrote them an IOU with his other hand, saying that the revolution had succeeded, and he took the IOU to the Soviet government to exchange the money, three times the amount!

These mountain people don't know what the Soviet is, and even Lao Hei doesn't know it. Those two families took the IOU, and Lao Hei said: Soviet government?Li Desheng said: That is our government.Old Hei said: Do we really have a government?Li Desheng said: This is the purpose of the revolution! The meal consisted of glutinous rice grits and hu soup, and a pot of potatoes and pumpkins. Everyone ate it like a toad.Not long after eating, Lao Hei went to the hut. The hut was in Pogen behind the house, and he had to pass the vegetable field. The vegetable field was covered with Artemisia chinensis. The landlord said: You have to stamp your feet when you go.Hei said: What do you mean?The landlord said: It is often haunted by ghosts, and ghosts like to eat shit, so they hide in the hut.Old Hei said: Ghosts are still afraid of me!In the hut, he found paper to wipe his butt. He was illiterate, but he recognized the paper as the IOU written by Li Desheng. When he came back, he scolded the landlord for using the IOU to wipe his butt.The landlord said: I still expect you to pay it back? !The old black eye stared and said: You don't believe we have a government?Don't believe our revolution is successful? !The landlord was so scared that he said: success, success!Li Desheng asked Li Desheng to rewrite the IOU, and stuffed the IOU on the roof beam.

After staying for three days, Li Desheng's stomach ached and he began to vomit blood, making it impossible for anyone to get off the kang.I have to go down the mountain to hire a doctor and buy some medicine. Even if I can't invite a doctor or buy medicine, I still have to get some opium paste or poppy shells.Lao Hei was worried about other people going, so he repeatedly told Lei Bu that he must pay attention to safety in Huangbaicha, so he asked the landlord to fry a liter of corn beans, dressed as a mountain villager going to the market, and carried a log down the mountain. Lei Bu was very careful in Huangbacha Village. In addition to taking care of Li Desheng and strengthening his guard, he also encouraged everyone.No accident happened, but what happened to another family still bothered him.There are two brothers in that family, the eldest is a fool, unmarried, and sleeps in the firewood pile in the kitchen all the year round, while the second and his wife sleep in the upper room.There are five rooms in the upper room, with small rooms separated from east to west, and a hall in the middle. After the four team members are assigned to live in his house, the second couple will sleep in the east room at night, and the four team members will sleep in the west room.In the past, the second couple slept, and the urinal was placed beside the kang, but now the urinal is placed in the hall, and the second daughter-in-law would go to urinate in the urinal two or three times in the middle of the night, and the sound was like spring water. I heard it, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep.During the day, I told the other team members about this, and at night everyone was scrambling to go to that house to sleep, and even quarreled.Lei Bu understands the situation and will definitely be punished as usual, but now he bears it, and just scolds these people for being unskilled, and their mouths are too rough, so that even seeing a sow will be regarded as Diao Chan?After being scolded, all the team members were asked to go to that house to sleep in groups of four in turn. They could listen and asked to tie their arms with ropes and go to pee together to avoid accidents when they went alone.On the second day, he wrote slogans on all the walls with lime water, including: join the guerrillas, eliminate the reactionaries, establish the Qinling Soviet, and another one: get out of the Qinling Mountains and enter the provincial capital, one person will lead a female student!


The mountains in the Qinling Mountains are high and the roads are far away. In the past, it usually took ten and a half months to send a letter. If it was urgent, a chicken feather would be glued to the corner of the letter.Old Hei tied up his legs and carried the wood down the mountain. Instead of going to Huangfu Street, he detoured to Qingfengyi. When he was hungry, he ate corn beans, and when he was thirsty, he drank spring water. He never stopped day and night, and finally arrived at Qingfengyi at noon on the fifth day. Go up to Huhu Temple in Beiliang, and wait until it gets dark to enter Post Street.

Huhu Temple is one of the eight scenic spots in Qingfengyi, but it is actually a cave.Legend has it that an eminent monk once retreated here for a year, and a tiger lay outside the cave every night to guard it.There are no monks in the Huhu Temple now, and half of the house at the entrance of the cave has collapsed. Lao Hei went in and it was dark. After a while, he saw that there was still a Buddha statue inside. The altar table was a stone platform, and the incense burner was missing. He's all over the place.Old Hei had a fever in the soles of his feet. He took off his shoes and put his feet on the cave wall when he heard something in his stomach. , just rubbed his stomach, but the humming of Qu'er came from outside the cave, he hurriedly took up his shoes and hid behind the Buddha statue, and it was Kuang San who came in from the cave.Old Hei almost screamed, but he covered his mouth, thinking that after the guerrillas were dispersed, Kuang San could be here, did he send Sifeng back to Qingfeng Station?I just wanted to play tricks on Kuang San.Kuang San put down a cage and went out again. Lao Hei jumped over and turned over. Inside the cage were some pancakes, sweet potato slices, a few pieces of black bean dregs cakes, a radish, and a bunch of oak leaves. It is a boiled pig's snout.Old Hei took the pig's nose away.After a while, Kuang San came in with an armful of dry thatch, spread the dry thatch on the ground and fell asleep, then turned over in the cage again, jumped up suddenly, and shouted: There are thieves!Ah thief, come out!If you dare to eat my pig nose, I will eat you!Old Hei jumped down from behind the Buddha statue and said: Who are you eating? !Seeing that it was Lao Hei, Kuang San burst into tears.

Kuang San told Lao Hei that he stayed in the kang cave until midnight before running out. There was no guerrilla on Huangfu Street, so he started begging again.During the begging, I heard that Sanhai was caught and cut off his head, and then cut off the root of the dust. He didn't use a bayonet when cutting. Knowing that Sanhai used to pick pigs and dogs, he found a small castration knife. Cut it off bit by bit, and said in the notice that this encirclement and suppression has eunuched the roots of the guerrillas.He also heard some news about Sifeng. After being searched from the cellar, he was escorted to the county town together with Sanhai's head, and his whereabouts are still unknown.Kuang San told him everything he knew, and said: I only survived because of this half pig's face, and the only thing left is a nose, you can eat it.Lao Hei threw his pig's nose on Kuang San's face, and scolded: You bastard, let you protect my daughter-in-law, you were alive and she was taken away? !Kuang San said: I only said that the cellar is safe, who knows that the enemy will find it?He let Lao Hei beat him to death, but he wouldn't cry out.Lao Hei didn't hit him, and just lay there for a long time without making a sound, his teeth rattling.Kuang San was frightened, and lay down on the ground, watching Lao Hei crush his two molars, he said: You spit it out, spit it out.Lao Hei choked his neck and swallowed.Kuang San swore that he would make meritorious deeds to atone for his sins, and asked Lao Hei to stay in the temple first, while he went to the pharmacy on Yi Street to buy medicine.He walked out of the cave, came back again, and told Lao Hei that if he didn't come back in the middle of the night or by dawn, he was caught and beheaded by the enemy, and he begged Lao Hei to repair him behind this temple. Tomb, put more steamed buns, black buns and white buns, don't let him become a starving ghost.


However, Kuang San did not go to Post Street, he came to look for me. After I sang a yin song in Wangwuping, I was invited to Jianzizhai. Jianzizhai is on the official road from Qingfengyi to Huangfu Street. There is a medicine shop there, and the owner's surname is Xu.This pharmacy is a branch of Guangrentang pharmacy in Qingfengyi, and it is actually a purchasing point of Guangrentang's medicinal materials.Boss Xu is the nephew of the shopkeeper Wang of Guangrentang, and he has been with his uncle for more than ten years.Shopkeeper Wang buried the silver dollars under the tree in the yard. Xu knew about the burial, but when he dug up the silver dollars after a few years, he couldn't find them. Wang asked Xu what was going on?Xu said that silver dollars would run underground, and Xu was telling the truth, that silver dollars would indeed run underground, but Wang actually doubted Xu after hearing this, although later Wang dug silver dollars under a pear tree outside the courtyard wall and believed Xu , and Xu refused to work in Guangrentang anymore, so he went to Jianzizhai to become a small boss of the purchase shop.Xu only had one son. In order to gain power in the future, he sent his son to the county security regiment as a soldier. Unexpectedly, his son was killed in the battle on Huangfu Street, so he asked someone to invite me to the store.After I went there, I found out that Xu’s son was only 23 years old and had never been married. Xu had already contacted the family of a woman who died of illness in a neighboring village. The woman was also unmarried.I said: I am singing yin songs, this marriage belongs to yang, so I have to make yang songs.Boss Xu said: There are no Yang songs in our area, besides, marrying a child is also a yin marriage.I just stayed in Jianzizhai.The residents of Jianzizhai were scattered, and the pharmacy was built on the highest slope of the village. On the day of the yin wedding, the white couplets on the door were replaced with red couplets, and the white gauze was removed from the mourning hall and the red tent was hung up. The son's coffin The coffin and the woman's coffin were placed side by side amid the beating of gongs and drums. Of course, I also changed my tune, and sang: I beat the flat drum and sang. files.The housekeeper said, "Singer Singer, those are not a pair of white chickens, but a pair of phoenixes."The phoenix and the phoenix flashed on both sides, and let my singer enter the Huatang early.When I came to the wedding house and went to the door, a pair of black dogs were lying on the door.The housekeeper said, "Singer Singer, those are not a pair of black dogs, but a pair of unicorns."The two sides of the unicorn are separated, let me go in and make a wedding.When I got to the upper room, I sang "Eighteen Tears" around the two coffins. "Eighteen Pulls" is about pulling the quilt from east to west, pulling the blanket from east to west, the sun, moon and stars in the sky, the ghosts and snakes on the ground, the emperors and generals between the sky and the earth, talented scholars and beautiful women, pigs, dogs, cattle and sheep, firewood, rice, oil and salt. As long as you have a good memory and can arrange it smoothly, There is nothing unsung.I was singing: Brother Asthma, listen up, in your previous life you used to mutter, but in this life you have a bellows in your throat.Brother Mazi, listen up, you fought with pigs for chaff in your previous life, and in this life your face is not bright.Lame brother, listen up, in the previous life you stole pears from others, but in this life you can’t walk with straight legs.There was a lame man who was watching the excitement nearby. He hit me on the head with a long cigarette pot and said: In the previous life, there were maggots in my mouth. In this life, you will be a singer!Everyone laughed, and I laughed too. Just as I was laughing, the security chief came, and someone shouted at the gate of the courtyard: The security chief has saluted!But the security chief didn't come to salute. He picked up a gong, banged it three times, and announced: The security team escorted the guerrilla bandits captured alive on Huangfu Street to the county town today. The villagers along the way have to watch it!As soon as Boss Xu heard about the security team, he started to cry again, rolling his eyes so much that everyone rushed to pour a bowl of syrup into their mouths, rubbing their hearts for a while before recovering.The security chief didn't let Boss Xu go, so I said, "I'm not from Jianzizhai, so let me accompany Boss Xu."The security chief said: You are on my territory and you have to obey me, go!After driving away, everyone stood on the side of the official road.

Among the escorted people, I saw Sifeng. She was wearing a new dress, but it was covered with blood. She was carrying a burden. A stone was placed in the front cage of the burden, and her third brother was placed in the back cage. The head of the sea, with its mouth open, is stuffed with a dust root.Sifeng didn't look at the crowd, but kept talking to her brother, saying that father and mother were arrested and taken to the town hall after you became a guerrilla, and they hanged themselves to death because they couldn't bear the torture and humiliation. They were tied to the window lattice with a rope. One hanged in the window and the other outside the window.It is said that Miss Liu at the East Street of Qingfengyi has always been interested in you, but she married Zhang Xiaosi, who sells dried noodles in Jiehou Village, only after you became a guerrilla.Why do you just hide in the water jar? Why do you move after hiding?She said that she had a dream on the night before January. She dreamed that a group of dogs and pigs were talking in her yard. They were all castrated and picked by you.Then she cries, laughs, or stops and says she needs to pee.The members of the security team whipped him with sticks and said, "Use, piss in the crotch!"Bloody urine dripped from the trousers.Just behind Sifeng was a donkey carrying five seriously wounded guerrillas, who were piled up one by one.The security guards who were escorting stopped and sat under the elm tree to rest. The donkey stood up first, then knelt down on all fours, and couldn't pull it up again. What are you doing, just dig a hole and bury it!Then a leader beat the five wounded with a stick, one didn't move, another didn't move, and three more, one of them groaned, and the other two didn't move.He was ordered to be buried.If you want to bury them, you have to dig a pit. The head of the security guard asked the villagers to dig the pit, but no one carried the dead into the pit, so they pulled the leg or arm of the corpse and threw it into the pit.I said: Let it go!The villagers said: "Then you go to peace!"I went down to the pit and laid out the four corpses in a row with their heads facing west and their feet facing east.One of them dropped a shoe while pulling it. I said, "Is the shoe on the donkey?"Sure enough, the shoe was left on the donkey, kicked into the pit, and thrown into the last corpse.But when I was moving this corpse, the corpse said: You put me face down.Only then did I know that he was not dead, so I told the leader: This person is still alive.The leader said, "You are the only one who is busy?" !Come up, fill in the soil!The man opened his mouth and continued to speak, but I couldn't hear clearly, so I bent down, and he was saying: fill the earth face down and don't hit your face.I said: oh.Turn him over.He also said: Someone will come later, you said Wang Lang is buried here.As soon as I put him face down, the hole began to be filled with soil, and I quickly climbed out, and the hole was filled in a while.

For the next four or five days, whenever I was alone in the pharmacy, the wind was blowing loudly, and I always felt that Wang Lang was talking in my ears.One night, I was already asleep, and suddenly I heard the door knocking, and I still complained in my heart: Who would come to buy medicinal materials so late?Putting on clothes and getting out of the kang, I looked out through the crack of the door, and it turned out to be a wolf!The wolf had gray fur and green eyes. It scratched the door with its front paws for a while, then lay down and whined softly. It seems to let the door open.I know there are many wolves around Jianzizhai, so of course I didn't open the door, and added a horizontal bar behind the door.Seeing that the wolf couldn't open the door, he put something in his mouth on the step, then sat under the step and whined again, barked three times, turned around and left.I didn't dare to go out to pee that night, until the sun was red the next day, and boss Xu came to open the door, and there was a silver collar at the door.This is obviously a wolf who ate or robbed someone's child and gave me the silver collar worn by the child, but why did the wolf give me the silver collar?I wondered until noon, and suddenly realized that I buried the guerrilla named Wang Lang face down and did not let earth and rocks hit his face when he buried him, but maybe I heard it wrong, he was not called Wang Lang, he was called Wang Lang. This wolf, came to thank me? !So I was making lunch, took a bowl to bury the dead ghosts in the pit, and ran into Kuang San.

Kuang San wore a very bad dress, half of his buttocks were exposed, he wore a straw hat on his head, and he walked with a limp.He is not Kuang San from before at all, but I immediately recognized him as Kuang San.I pulled him behind the big tree and said: How dare you go from here?Kuang San said: I can't go on this official path? !I said: Didn't you go with Lao Hei, Lao Hei is a guerrilla, and there are notices everywhere to arrest Lao Hei.Kuang San said: Who said I left with Lao Hei?I will not follow him when I walk out of Qingfeng Station with him!Kuang San picked up a bowl of rice that was offered there and ate it, and asked me why I was here. I said that I lived in Boss Xu’s pharmacy, and he was going to follow me to the pharmacy. I didn’t let him go, and lied about my I had to go to a certain house in the village to do some errands, so I left in a hurry, and he said behind: You don’t need a big bowl for the sacrifice? !
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