Chapter 4 Chapter two

In the early summer with gray lice, the weather was very hot. The frogs in the pond had just started laying eggs, and the gutters behind the house had already gathered mosquitoes.Ten days later, there was a hailstorm in Ying Town. The hailstorm around the town was as big as abacus beads. After an hour of gurgling underground, cold icicles piled up on the ground to a thickness of a stick.Almost all the roof tiles on the street were rotten, the branches of the trees were broken, and the two-foot-high corn seedlings in the field were smashed into the mud.People stood on the ground and cried, but they stopped crying when they heard that the hailstorm in the North and South Mountains was bigger than an egg, that three pigs and one cow were crushed to death in Getiao Village, and that an old lady died in Nianzigou Village. Go home and go to sleep, and sleep yourself as if you were dead.When the sun came out and the hail had digested, the ground was in a mess and filthy, not a single corn seedling was found, there were dead branches and leaves everywhere, and there were grasshoppers, toads, hares, mice and snakes with incomplete corpses. The air in the streets of the town is rotten and stinks.

There is no hope of harvesting the corn after autumn, so let’s plan again. People pick out the manure from the cowshed in the pigsty and sprinkle it on the ground again, set up the ox plow, grow cabbage, plant tobacco seedlings, and sow seeds. Various types of bean seeds.In fact, the land is the best place to hide dirt. Once it is plowed, it will look so flat, clean and fresh again. With the lamp is the Sakura Town that came at that time. When the lights came, the land after plowing had a thin layer of crust on the surface, and crop seedlings and various weeds and vegetables grew again.With the lights on, I saw the fluff on the leaves of the pig's ear grass turned white, the endive with yellow flowers, the Ren Han grass all over the body crimson, the alfalfa green and the clusters of budding flowers were bright blue, and I couldn't help feeling emotional : There seems to be a variety of colors in the dark land, are they expressed in the form of flowers and plants?

The original name of the one with the lamp was Yingying.She was assigned to the government of Ying Town, and the person who received her was Bai Renbao, the director of the office.As soon as Bai Renbao heard that her name was Yingying, he laughed: Oh, Firefly? !After laughing, I felt something was wrong again, and I became serious, saying: Why do you want to come to the town government?She said: Shouldn't you come?Bai Renbao said: Of course it should.She said: My husband is from Ying Town, and he also works in the town primary school. As soon as I graduated from the city agricultural school, I asked to be assigned here. The town government has high wages and power... Bai Renbao said: Power?Do you think you can improve? !She said: I am making progress. I joined the party in the second grade of school.Bai Renbao laughed again, but this time he didn't laugh out loud.He said: Look, you don't understand, progress means becoming an official in the official career.She said: I never thought about becoming an official.Bai Renbao said: You can't be an official either.She said: why?Bai Renbao said: You are too beautiful.If you are too beautiful, who dares to promote you, others will say that you rely on sex, and the person who promotes you will also say that the person who promoted you is lustful.Do you think which female leader is not a man's wife?She didn't like to listen to what Bai Renbao had to say, so she vowed not to be a man's wife from that day on.After settling down in the town government compound, he dressed up, put on high heels, and walked on the concrete floor of the courtyard.

From then on, every morning when the high-heeled shoes thumped, the curtains of all the rooms in the compound were opened by a corner, and some eyes looked into the yard.I saw a wire stretched on the two poplar trees, and the bright coats or trousers were hanging to dry. I saw the firefly carrying the washbasin to catch the water in front of the water pipe. The faucet was turned too far, and the water suddenly bloomed in the basin and opened. a large white peony flower.In the past, everyone brushed their teeth in the room, but now they stood on the doorstep and brushed. But she walked away with a basin full of water, and there were springs under her feet.They sighed: It seems that many legends are true!

Yingying's room is first arranged in the third one from the south of the east row of bungalows, and the toilet in the compound is at the southeast corner. All the male employees turn their heads to look in when they go to the toilet and pass her door, and they pass her door again when they come out of the toilet He turned his head and looked in again.Accountant Liu Xiuzhen abused these people: I went to the toilet four times in one morning, is the urinal broken? ! In the evening, there is always a liquor store in the bungalows on the west row. They drink without food, shouting and punching, and some people get drunk and insist that he is not drunk. From the yard, deputy mayor Ma can be seen holding a wine bottle in the window. He couldn't pour the wine out, so he slapped the bottom of the bottle and shouted: Is this what people want to drink?Is this what makes people drink? !There was also a shuffle in the bungalow in the south row, 哐啷, 哐啷 啷, and it was noisy, and something was thrown in the door.A dog was lying under the steps, and immediately jumped to catch it, but it was not a bone, but a card.

Firefly is already familiar with this rogue dog, as soon as she beckons the dog comes over, she wants to give the dog a bath.While bathing the dog, many people watched and asked: Yingying, what are you doing?Said: Shampoo.Q: Can miscellaneous hair be washed white?She stopped answering and took the dog to the room to wash.Officer Wu in the office said: Are all beauties surnamed Leng?Director Zhai of the Agriculture and Forestry Office made a bet: If you treat me to a beef stew pie, I can make her laugh.He went and stood at her door, but the dog barked and refused to let in. Director Zhai said: You dog, what do I call your mother? You still bite?Yingying leaned against the door and said: What do you call its mother?Officer Zhai said: Is it called a bitch?Firefly just smiled.

The dog's miscellaneous hair turned white day by day, and later it was completely white-haired dog.Everyone likes the white-haired dog. The town government has collective kitchens, and Yingying ate all meals for three days, boiled potatoes in glutinous rice grits soup.Aunt Liu, who was cooking, took care of the newcomers. When she handed the chopsticks to the secretary and the mayor, she rubbed the chopsticks between her elbows a few times, and also wiped them for Ying Ying.The potatoes in the mush soup were not cut, they were all whole, and everyone's eyes were wide open when they ate them.Yingying didn't know how to eat on the edge of the steps, she stood upright, and Director Zhai also came over and stood up.Accountant Liu Xiuzhen and Xing Lanlan from the Family Planning Office carried bowls and walked towards each other. Xing Lanlan took a sip on the ground, and Liu Xiuzhen also took a sip on the ground.Director Zhai said in a low voice: Those who sell noodles cannot sell lime.Firefly couldn't understand.Director Zhai said again: You are here, what are they arguing about!Yingying didn't want to listen to right and wrong, so she said something else: Do we eat potatoes all year round?Director Zhai said: At least one meal a day.Ying said: Why are your eyes so small when everyone has big eyes?The secretary and the mayor set up a small table to eat in the yard. They ate the same meal as everyone else. The special thing was that they sat on the small table. A plate of garlic cloves, the secretary likes to drink a few sips, and a jug of wine, but he never lets people.The secretary immediately said: With Director Ying, Director Zhai will have big eyes.Director Zhai said, "Maybe it will be smaller. They are too glorious to look at!"Just as they were talking and laughing, there was scolding in the kitchen. It was Bai Renbao and Liu Xiuzhen who were arguing about something, and they blushed and scolded, so angry that Liu Xiuzhen threw a bowl of rice out.The secretary got angry and reprimanded loudly, saying: Can't you keep your mouth shut when you eat? !Pick up the bowl of slices for me, pick it up!Liu Xiuzhen picked up the bowl of tablets, and the courtyard became quiet.

Yingying was not assigned a specific job for a month, and the secretary said that you are more familiar with the familiar environment, and I will take you to the countryside.But before Ying Ying went to the countryside, Deputy Mayor Ma committed suicide, and attempted suicide again. Ying stayed with Deputy Mayor Ma in the hospital for seven days. It was a Sunday afternoon, and there was no one in the town government compound. Yingying was rubbing clothes in the aluminum basin. First, she heard poplar leaves rustling in the wind, clapping, clapping like ghosts, and then groaning. I feel damp in my heart.The groaning seemed to be getting louder and louder, and it came from Deputy Mayor Ma's room. When he approached and looked in through the window, Deputy Mayor Ma fell from the bed to the ground, writhing in pain.Ying hurriedly called for someone, only the old man Xu from the concierge and Aunt Liu from the cook opened the door and went in. There was an empty bottle of sleeping pills on the table, only then did they know that Deputy Mayor Ma was committing suicide, and immediately carried it to the town health center.

Deputy Mayor Ma was saved, but he was diagnosed with depression and had to take a lot of medicine all day long.After the illness gradually recovered, Deputy Mayor Ma began to tell people what kind of pain he was at that time. He felt that death was the relief, so he planned one set of death plans in detail: he must die after his birthday, so that he can live a long life. It is complete, all relatives and friends are here, or it can be the last time to see relatives and friends, so that relatives and friends can focus on themselves for the last time.Hang yourself, you can’t use grass ropes, you must use cloth straps, which are soft, and you can only hang them in the room, not on trees in the wild, where birds will eat your eyes.But if you stick your tongue out, it is very ugly to die. I heard that the tongue will not come out if the rope is hung in the correct direction, but how do I know which direction is correct?This matter cannot be consulted.Climb to the roof and jump down?The tallest building of the town government has only two floors, can you die if you jump off it?If you don't die, but just paralyze, it's too shameful, and there's nothing you can do if you want to die again.Jumping from the stone bridge in Zhenxijie Village, death is certain, but the bridge is full of stones, the head falls first, the brains may splash, or the head may be stuck in the cavity. Will it be a log when it is coffined?Cotton head?What a bad impression it will leave on relatives and friends.Then take sleeping pills, sleep in a daze, and die in sleep.So he decided to take sleeping pills, took half a bottle of sleeping pills, put on new socks, new pants, and a new pair of shoes, went to bed covered with a quilt, and fell asleep.He was still asleep first, thinking about who owed him two hundred yuan, whose copper brazier he borrowed but still hasn't returned, and the five hundred yuan he hid in the kiln on the north wall of his home hasn't been accounted to his wife yet, and he has to let The wife must pay attention to the details and have a good relationship with her daughter-in-law.He thought so, and wanted to get up and write a suicide note, but he didn't know anything before he got up.When he woke up, he thought he was dead, and he was still saying: Why don't you see Guo Youcai and Li Beijian? !At this time, I feel uncomfortable in my stomach. I want to drink water, but I have no strength, and I fall off the bed.

Ying asked the concierge old man Xu: Who is Guo Youcai, and who is Li Beijian?The old man Xu said: Guo Youcai, the former director of the office, hanged himself on the ginkgo tree in the yard in the middle of the third night when he was censored due to financial problems. coffin.Li Beijian was a former deputy mayor. After the elder Hai led people to prevent the digging of the tunnel, both the secretary and the mayor were transferred away. He became the mayor, but died of liver cancer just three months after taking office.People say that Li Beijian's fate is poor, he can only be a sub-level, and he can't afford to give him a full-level degree.

Since then, Yingying has been reading in her room when she has nothing to do.When others asked her to drink, she refused to go; when others asked her to stretch her legs when they were playing cards, she did not go either.Everyone said that she hadn't taken off her student skin, and later they said that she was a petty bourgeois and shouldn't work in the town government.Maybe she came to work in the township government for a temporary, transitional purpose, and she was about to be transferred to the county seat after stepping on the springboard.But she didn't transfer away, and stayed in the town government all the time.After staying in the town government for a year and a year passed, Yingying read a lot of books.I read a classic poem, and there are words describing fireflies in the poem: fireflies grow rotting grass.I feel uncomfortable. Another book says that a person's name is important. When others call you by your name, it is like reciting a mantra. Writing your own name is like drawing a talisman. Why call it a firefly, a bug, or something? Born in rotten grass?She had the idea of ​​changing her name.But what to change the name to, and I couldn't think of it for a while. After Deputy Mayor Ma recovered from his illness, Ying asked Ying to work as an officer in the family planning office he was in charge of.There is a woman in Hongbaozi Village who has given birth to two girls and has not undergone sterilization, and has been absconding.One morning, the village head reported that the woman had returned to the village. Deputy mayor Ma took her, three other people, and a doctor from the hospital to arrest her.When we arrived at Hongbaozi Village, it was dusk, but the door of that family was locked, and there was no sound when we knocked again.The village head said: Did the whole family run away again?Deputy Mayor Ma had experience. When he saw a hoe in the field next to the house and a handful of green onions on the fence in front of the house, he said loudly: "Is there no one here?"People are gone, take the pig away!He picked up a stick and beat the pig so that it squeaked in the pen. Sure enough, the window opened and the old man rushed out.Deputy Mayor Ma said: Are you still playing tricks on me? !Let people go in through the window.The woman's husband was not in the room, only her and her mother-in-law.The mother-in-law kowtowed, making a loud knock.The people who went in ignored this, and pressed the woman on the kang to perform the operation.The daughter-in-law yelled like killing a pig in the house, and the father-in-law beat the pig in the pigsty, and only came out when he thought the pig was screaming.He slapped himself again, saying that he shouldn't come out to control the pig, just pull the pig, can a pig stand up to his grandson?The daughter-in-law was still screaming in the room, and the father-in-law went crazy and hit the deputy mayor Ma with his head. The deputy mayor Ma dodged, his head hit the wall, bleeding from his forehead, and shouted: I have two granddaughters and I don’t have one. Grandson, you want me to become a ghost in the future? !Just passed out.Ying quickly said: Mayor Ma, he is dead!Deputy Mayor Ma also panicked and said, "Try his nostrils."Firefly tried her nostrils, but air still came out of her nostrils.Deputy Mayor Ma said: People are so easy to die? !He shouted into the room again: Is it over?The people in the house said: It's over!When the people in the house came out, the doctor wiped the blood from his hands with the corn leaves. Deputy Mayor Ma said: Burn some cotton covers and apply them to the hole on his head, so as not to let the blood bleed.Ying searched for a ragged padded jacket in the basket under the eaves, took out a pair of cotton wool, and handed it to the doctor, saying that she needed to go to the bathroom, and went to the back of the house. Hotaru didn't go into the toilet, but sat down under the straw stack behind the house.She had seen and helped women in the village go to the township health center for a sterilization operation, but she had never been to someone else's house for a sterilization operation, so she felt very panicked and sat with her heart covered for a long time.Deputy Mayor Ma shouted from the field in front of the gate: Where is Yingying, where is Yingying working?Ying stood up and wanted to go to the door, but saw a firefly flying over the grass beside the straw stack.For some reason, Firefly hates fireflies, and also resents why fly at this time!But the fireflies are still flying, up and down, and the bluish-white light flickers on and off in the grass and branches.Yingying suddenly thought: Ah, does it come with a small lamp for Night Walk?So, the next day, she announced that Yingying would be renamed Daideng. People in the town government thought that the name Dai Deng was a mouthful, not like a person's name.But it feels good to have lights.From then on, others still called her Ying, Xiao Ying, but she refused and had to call Dai Deng. People in the town government are not used to carrying lights, and people in the town government are not used to carrying lights.And the work of the town government is like driving a horse-drawn cart. It is already worn out, but the trunk is big, and everything is loaded in it. It wobbles and creaks. It seems that it can't move, but it is still moving forward. , and the lights are also wrapped on the side of the car.Living with the lamp was very tiring and anxious, and she started to suffer from constipation and yellow spots on her face. She bought a lot of creams and applied them on her face, and met Chen Liezi from Qingrentang, and made soup with Chinese medicine. The husband said: Bring the lights.Bring the lamp and say: Yes.The husband said: If you go on like this, you will also suffer from depression?He got annoyed when he turned on the light and turned his head.She wears long hair with a lamp, her hair is good, it flickers when she walks, like clouds are moving.The husband said: Don't grow your hair long, cut it short, your image will change and your mood may improve.Bring a lamp and say: I won't cut it!Lie on the rear window.Outside the rear window is the long alley leading from the town government compound to the town street, and a tall Chinese toon tree grows beside the wall of a house on the other side of the alley.They were sawing, and the sound of sawing was noisy.The husband said, "It's like pulling a saw. The sound is annoying. You can't let others pull it. If you can't stand it, learn to appreciate it."These may be the most valuable words my husband has ever said in his life. Looking back with the light on, I heard the saw seem to be saying: Annoy—die—I—la!Annoying-death-I-la!Now the saw is saying: This-like-also-good!fair enough!The tree was sawed off, and its branches fell against the back eaves of the room, smashing four tiles, and tore a piece of clothing she was hanging on the roof to dry.People in the town government thought it was wrong to bring the lamp to find that family, but they did not say anything when they brought the lamp to repair the back eaves tiles. Bringing lights is more and more demanding to go to the countryside, go out at dawn, and come back at night.She likes to run on the mountain, and she likes to sleep on the hillside when she is tired from running.She has seen the tobacco in Yingchuan flying all over the sky in the wind, she has seen countless small roads leading the mountains, and the chaotic clouds have turned the valleys red with the setting sun.In Jinbuyu Village in Beishan, there are plum trees as big as several houses, with pale moss and clusters of flowers.In Luojiaba Village in Nangou, five-colored clouds once fell from the sky on the grass and trees. The clouds can be picked up by hand, and the walls are blown by the mouth, which is impressive.I found that the water flowing through the stone trough is really rolling snow, and I can realize that the pool under the embankment is still water and deep flow.And the tree and the grass under the tree, if you look at them, they bloom there, if you don’t look at them, they are still blooming there, the wind embraces them, and the colors sway. There are a lot of idlers on the streets of the town, their clothes are draped diagonally, and they walk with their shoulders crossed. They often see people who have returned from working in the big mining area, and they go out to eat, drink and play cards every day.When I met a young woman, she had to sit on the steps on both sides of the street and whistle, shouting: Special!Over there shouted: Shouhuo!Dai Deng is the most beautiful woman they have ever seen, but they dare not be hooligans to the cadres of the town government.They still wore high heels with lights on, walked past with their chests straight, and their long hair fluttered like clouds, so they laughed with lights on.Bring a lamp and say: Whose shop is disturbing again?They said: no.Bring a lamp and say: Is that alcoholism?They said: No, absolutely not.Bring a light and say: No?There is no tea in the meal, and you can't find your faults? !Bringing lights always finds their faults, but they are also willing to reprimand them with lights, and regret for leading lights when they are reprimanded: Why are you still working in the town government?Bring a lamp and say: Why don't I work in the town government?They said: A flower was stuck in the cow dung pile!Bring a lamp and say: Dare to say that the town government is a cow dung pile? !Shocking them to run away, they ran away, she said: Are the flowers on the cow dung pile bright!Laugh to yourself. It is the lice that keep the lights on all the time. In the villages of the North and South Ershan Mountains, including the people on the streets of the town, it is understandable that there are lice on their bodies, but the cadres of the town government, and even the secretary and mayor also have lice on their bodies, which makes it difficult for Dai Deng to figure out.Several wires were tied to the trees in the courtyard, and everyone was drying their quilts. Bai Renbao put his quilt next to the lighted quilt, and took away his own quilt with the light on.Bai Renbao said: If others don't mess with you, you will be born too.Bring a lamp and say: I will not give birth!Bai Renbao said: God wanted us to eat sheep, so it gave us a smell of mutton; the world gave us lice, and everyone has itchy spots. I brought a lamp to report to the secretary and the mayor of the town. After the report was over, I discussed a suggestion: Can we organize a lice eradication activity in the whole town.The secretary said: Are you itchy too?Bring a lamp and say: I don't have lice.The secretary said: In fact, there are too many lice and it doesn't itch.Bring a lamp and say: In what age, the people of Ying Town are still being bitten by lice?The secretary said: Can lice kill people? !Both the secretary and the mayor laughed. After laughing, the secretary said: Only Comrade Dai Deng made this suggestion!Should we kill the lice? Of course we should. I went to the county for a meeting, and I was also worried that others would find out that we had lice.But is Ying Town a special environment in Ying Town? Hunger will never choose food, and poverty will never choose a wife.Yingzhen is now full of holes in the airbag, ten fingers can't hold it down, where is the energy and money to kill the lice?Of course, Dai Deng has already thought of her measures. It does not require much energy and financial resources. All the villagers in the villages are required to pay attention to environmental hygiene and personal hygiene. Buy some medicinal powder and sulfur soap and distribute them regularly to every household.It may not be realistic to build bathing halls in remote villages, but is it possible in the three villages of Zhenjie?The results of the discussions between the leaders of the two towns were, first, to support and protect Dai Deng’s spirit of actively making suggestions, and to agree and approve her plans and measures; Urge towns, streets and villages to build bathing halls. I was very active with the lights, drafted the documents, and sent them to the villages in person.But after the document was sent out, it was thrown into the sea, and there was no news.She went to the villages in the North and South Mountains to check. Several village chiefs took paper from the hat shell, tore it into strips and rolled cigarettes to eat. The paper was the document she handed out.Bring a lamp and say: This matter is very important!They said: The government sends out so many documents every year, and there is no one that does not say that it is important.I asked the town government whether to allocate funds. If they didn't allocate funds to burn farts in the villages, where would they have money to buy medicine powder and sulfur soap? !There is no right to allocate funds for carrying lamps, so I went to Zhenjie Sancun to urge the construction of bathing halls. Zhenjie Sancun is relatively rich, and people should be civilized.Yuan Heiyan of Zhenxijie Village was still the newly appointed village head at that time, and said: The town government has nothing to do, so come up with such a false idea? !Bring a lamp and say: This is not doing good things for the masses!Yuan Heiyan said: Flies still think it is unhygienic?Bring a lamp and say: Then you are also a fly? ! Yuan Heiyan walked in the village with a lamp, and passed by a house, the courtyard wall was half collapsed, and a woman was sitting in the courtyard washing her feet.Yuan Heiyan said: Your man is coming back later?The woman said: I'm coming back.The woman's husband works in a large mining area.Yuan Heiyan said: The money is back, I will leave you a pig's head?The woman said: How much money can he earn, and eat pig's head?Walking through the courtyard wall, he brought a lamp and said, "You see, isn't this woman going to wash her feet?"Yuan Heiyan said: "What are you doing with the feet that you washed? The man wants to have a day when he comes back, and it's not a day's feet!" The matter of exterminating lice was finally over. Bringing the lamp did not achieve the first thing she wanted to do. The experience she gained was: since you cannot change the unacceptable, you should accept the unchangeable.She didn't make any suggestions, and she would do whatever the town government assigned her to do, and try her best to do it well.The first-level salary of some cadres has been rewarded, and everyone is vying for it, like a chicken fighting.And every year there is an advanced evaluation, if you don’t have money, you can get a certificate, and if you can go to the county town for a meeting, everyone will be polite and say: let the lamp be the one!There are three advances with lights. In the past, the main work of the town government was to urge food collection and curettage abortion.Later, the state said that in order to reduce the burden on farmers, the agricultural tax was abolished.The state said that family planning should be humanized, and families without boys can have a boy, and the rule of one-vote veto in family planning work will no longer be enforced.I thought that the work of the town government would be easier from now on, and it was even rumored that the employees would be laid off, but for some reason, there were more and more problems in Ying Town.Everyone seems to have been wronged, and they come to the government at every turn. People wearing straw hats and carrying bun bags often appear in the compound. When they ask, they say they want to appeal.The petitioners either sat in the office of the secretary and the mayor for a long time without leaving, or banged their heads against the wall in the yard, slashed their faces with razor blades, made themselves bloody sheep, and shouted loudly that they wanted to hang a meat curtain.The old man Xu, the porter, has a heavy responsibility. As soon as he hears the white-haired dog biting, he will look into the alley outside the door, and when he sees someone coming, he will close the door quickly. Someone beat a dog and once limped one of the dog's legs.With the lamp, we picked grate bud grass, smashed it, put it on the dog, and fixed it with splints.A month later, the dog's legs were able to run, and she took the dog with her when she went to the countryside. In Jieguanting Village, the village chief complained to her, and she said: How many people in your village went to the town government to complain about you, and you still have resentment?The village head said: How can I not complain? !She said: You are the head of the village to urge you to pay the grain and tax. Now that the grain is not paid and the agricultural tax has been cancelled, why do you have any complaints?The village head said: The agricultural tax is not much money. With this tax, we have a contractual relationship with the town government. So I had to bring up the ceremony to find the people in the power management office.The people in the electricity management station are very dark, they take what they give, and they take what they don't give!Dai Deng didn't talk to the village chief, so he didn't eat in Jieguanting Village that day.Not only did the village chief not intend to leave a lamp to eat, but he also said: This dog is quite fat.Bring the light and quickly pull the dog away. On the ginkgo tree in the town government compound, gourd leopard bees built their nests in the first lunar month.Someone wanted to poke it off with a bamboo pole, but Bai Renbao refused to do so, saying: "It's the one we raised in our yard, and it can town the house."But the nest got bigger and bigger, and it was like a mud gourd hanging on the tree branch. The bees gathered together in such a large group. One day, for some reason, the bee cluster exploded, and the swarms of bees flew in the yard, scaring the workers all to hide. The room is closed.The mayor got angry and asked Officer Zhai and Officer Wu to get the hive down.Officer Zhai and Officer Wu covered their heads with clothes, built a ladder, and set fire to it with a torch.The fire killed all the bees and did not sting anyone, but Director Zhai fell from the ladder and cracked his tailbone.