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Chapter 4 Section 4

ancient furnace 贾平凹 5250Words 2018-03-19
At the head of the village in the east there is a large mill pan, on which neem eggs fall. There are more than ten mills and stone mills in Gulu Village. The oldest ones are also pure bluestone, including the stone mill at the west end of the village and the mill at the east end of the village.The branch secretary often tells people that the ancestors surnamed Zhu, when the management here was the most prosperous, people in the fifteen miles up and down the Zhouhe River envied them.A Fengshui master looked at the appearance of his ancestors and found that his appearance was not developed. He went to Gulu Village to look at the geography. The white tiger, but lacking the southern Suzaku and the northern Xuanwu, is still not that outstanding, so it is suspected that there is some wonderful acupoint on the Zhujiazu's grave.Mr. Feng Shui proposed to go to the grave to have a look. The ancestors said that we should wait a while before going. The Mr. Feng Shui said: Then why? The ancestors said: There is his family's radish field next to the grave, and some children secretly plucked the radishes to eat there. , we went there suddenly, it would scare the children.Mr. Feng Shui sighed: Oh, no need to go, I know why Gulu Village can flourish!

Now, the grinding fan of the stone mill in the west of the village has been ground to three fingers thick, and a large stone is pressed on the upper grinding fan, which is still in use.The stone rollers on the grinding plate at the east end of the village have long since disappeared, and the neem tree growing next to it dropped neem seeds. Boom, one dropped, boom, two dropped, and they all jumped on the grinding plate . One evening two years ago, a pack of wolves passed by on the slope north of the mill, and every family closed their yard gates. Lao Shun's house was just north of the mill, and Lao Shun was still fiddling with tobacco leaves on the mill.He smoked the dried tobacco leaves one by one, and his free-haired dog began to bite them.The wolves pass through Gulu Village once a year, in groups of three or five, either on the stone beach of the Zhou River in the south, or on the slopes and depressions in the north. village.But the white-haired dog was angry that these wolves walked slowly, and when they walked, they kept their mouths closed, as if they were smiling, and the dogs kept biting.

As soon as the wolves passed by, the state river swelled.No one knows what connection the wolves have with the rising waters, and two years ago, the water in the state river swelled a lot. When the water rose, everyone in the village went to collect firewood.Lao Shun took a big fishing bag and stood on the top of the stone pier at the top of the embankment, and picked up a lot of broken branches, bark, and pumpkin eggplant.But in order to catch more, he didn't transfer these branches, bark, pumpkin and eggplant to the embankment in time. When he went to fish again, the water rushed over and washed away the floating wood, melons and fruits that had been fished out.Everyone laughed at Lao Shun for being stupid, so Lao Shun went to the stone pier under Zhenhe Pagoda to fish again, only to find a rafter floating down obliquely.He was tied to the stone pier with a leather rope at one end, and the other end was wrapped around his waist in the water, but there were two hands on the rafters, dragging a woman.Lao Shun said, "Damn ghost! He poked the woman with a fishing bag, and was about to poke her down and then pull up the wooden rafter, but the dead ghost's hand was holding on to the wooden rafter, and he couldn't poke it off no matter what. He tried his nose with his hand, He was still angry, so he hugged him ashore.All the people who fished for floating firewood came to rescue them, crushing their chests, pinching people, and even pulling the cattle around on their backs, and the woman spit out a puddle of water and came to life.This woman just went back and forth, and did not leave after she came back to life, living in Gulu Village.The mother-in-law brought her a few bowls of rice, and she followed her to the house, calling: Grandma! The mother-in-law said: Who is your name? Back and forth: Aren’t you surnamed Ye? The mother-in-law said: The two surnames in the village are Zhu Ye, the surname Ye is not called Lord, but Hei.Said back and forth: Oh, black woman.Gou Uitai said: "I'm not called Heipo either. My family name is Zhu. My mother-in-law has my mother-in-law's name. The name is Silkworm. People in the village call it Canpo."Goupiamos doesn't like this back and forth, she has a mole on her lower lip, she eats the mole, and she hates coming here to eat at home.When he came back and forth again, he would sweep his feet with a broom, and the mother-in-law would scold the dog for not knowing the rules and go out of the house.

The mother-in-law wanted to teach Shuai paper-cutting flowers, but Shuai refused to learn. She just kept picking up waste paper or beautiful tree leaves for her to cut.The mother-in-law wanted to match the back and forth with keeping the lights, and said back and forth: The branch secretary asked Lao Shun to look for me.The mother-in-law immediately stopped talking and began to cut a piece of persimmon tree leaves. The persimmon tree leaves were thick and red, and a cow's head appeared on the leaves, saying: "Old Shun is good, Lao Shun is a poor peasant." Lao Shun is over 40 years old and has never married a wife. He only has a white-haired dog. The branch secretary encouraged Lao Shun to accompany him back and forth. Lao Shun said: Then I found a wife for me? The branch secretary said: I agree Yes, she is your woman!

After becoming a member of Gulu Village, the villagers stopped treating her as a guest and slowly chewed on the root of her tongue.Because she yelled almost all night, she yelled: Woo, woo.First, the cow bell passed by the door of Laoshun’s house in the middle of the night. Hearing the cry, he ran away, thinking that he was crying a wolf. I took the mill stick and shovel and came out, but there were no wolves, and what I heard was yelling back and forth, and the villagers were inferior. The villagers were ashamed of going back and forth, and going back and forth was nothing. Tian Ya laughed at her because she couldn't roll noodles, she snored while sleeping, and she could eat.In winter, some members of the production team carried urine to retting manure, and some members picked cotton on the threshing floor.Cotton is plucked from the stalks and piled on the threshing ground after autumn. When the stalks were plucked, there were still some unripe bolls on them. After a month of piling, the unripe bolls dried up, and some cotton still came out of them. Of course the color is not pure, but it is also white, like the remaining snow on the woodpile.These people were picking cotton, and they wanted to talk about right and wrong, and when they talked back and forth, Shui Pi Niang curled her lips and said, "You are so loud, who doesn't have a man?" Ban Xiang said in a low voice: You There is no man! Shui Pi Niang is a widow, but she heard it, pretended not to hear it, and kept saying: Who doesn’t have a man? Who doesn’t have a man? Yes or no?

Ma Zihei said: People are poor, their legs are lame, and their condyles are few! Everyone laughed loudly, saying that you have too many scorpions, but you have too many scorpions, but they are painted on the wall. The dog urine moss did not see her mother-in-law when she returned home, but the rice was warm in the pot. After he ate it, he thought that her mother-in-law had gone to the roadside at the entrance of the village to sweep the scum from the kang. Pick cotton.Peeking at my mother-in-law's face from a distance, afraid that my mother-in-law would scold him again, Wang Xing pulled him away and said: "Goose pee moss, have you hit the oil bottle? Which pot is not open and which pot is lifted?" Gou pee moss said: Fuck you! Turn around and leave.Kanxing said: What are you going? The dog urine moss said: Let my mother-in-law see and scold you? Kanxing grabbed a handful of castor beans from his arms and stuffed them into the dog urine moss, saying: Uncle give some castor beans, no It’s oily, let’s eat a few castor beans, and your mother-in-law still scolds you?! Gou Niati bowed to Kan Xing and said: Ah, if you have to run away, call me.But he heard Ma Zihei humiliating Lao Shun.

Ma Zihei is also a bachelor, and he looks black. You think he always wears black clothes because his body dyes his clothes black.Others may not know, but Goupimo knows, Ma Zihei actually goes to Lao Shun's house every night to listen to the movement, the moon is bright, and there is a noise outside the window after hearing back and forth, Lao Shun said: It must be a mouse.He heard that it was not a mouse, so he said, "Oh, did you let the mouse in?"Calling more and more tremblingly.Ma Zihei was so angry that he tore off the tiles on the courtyard wall and threw them into the paddy field by the side of the hill, and the sound of frogs continued till dawn.

The mother-in-law picked out half of the basket of cotton. The cotton had no tendons, and it would fall apart when pulled.She said to Ma Zihei: They are all surnamed Zhu, are they from the same family? Don't talk about Lao Shun. The mother-in-law was kind enough to persuade Mazihei, but Mazihei said fiercely: Why, the Zhu family has no class enemies?! The mother-in-law shut up immediately. The dog pee moss walked past watching the stars. The daughter-in-law of the nursing home was sitting there with her legs stretched out. Stepping over, she said, "Where are your eyes?!" The dog pee moss had already walked in front of Ma Zihei, and said, "What's wrong with you, my mother-in-law?!"

Mazihei just thought it was amused, he got up together, with his legs spread apart, and jumped over the head of Goupiamosai.Ma Zihei often teased Gou Niai, but Gou Uitai ignored him, did not offend him, and just walked. The pee moss jumped over his head.This time he jumped over, Gou Niati still looked at him and said, "What did my mother do to you?!" The top of the egg hurts. Ma Zihei said: What are you? Dog urine moss said: I am the grandson of my mother-in-law! Ma Zihei said: Your mother-in-law's grandson? Where did the grandson come from? Hey?! The mother-in-law immediately rushed over like an eagle and covered the dog urine moss in her arms.Some people are saying: Ma Zihei, why are you arguing with the children, go to your business.Ma Zihei scolded: Didn't you see your background, and you still bite eggs?! Gather the picked cotton in the back cage and carry it away.The threshing floor continued to talk, and the daughter-in-law of the gourd pinned a cotton on her mother-in-law's head to make everyone look beautiful. The mother-in-law twisted the daughter-in-law's ear and said, "You ghost, you are trampling on me!" The daughter-in-law said: Wearing a flower is really beautiful! I wrapped my kerchief around my mother-in-law's head again, revealing the cotton flower.The mother-in-law didn't move, and asked her daughter-in-law to pack it, saying: You are a spoiled girl who dresses up you! Everyone laughed, and the daughter-in-law and mother-in-law of Hulu also laughed.The mother-in-law said: Don't dare to laugh, you will get hungry when you laugh.The daughter-in-law said: "When it's dark, let's make dumplings to eat!" Dai Hua said: "You can't make a fart with an awl on the gourd, but the married daughter-in-law will laugh and laugh to make her mother-in-law happy!" Can you eat a meal of dumplings? You can coax people with your mouth! Dai Hua said: Filial piety doesn’t mean being filial if you give them food and drink. It’s called filial piety to make the elderly happy.The mother-in-law said: This is true, this is true.Let the dog pee moss carry the cotton stalks that have been picked to the sidelines.Goupimos said: I don't earn work points.The mother-in-law said: If you don’t earn work points, you won’t be hugged, so what’s the trouble for you?

Goupiamo hugged the cotton stalk, still feeling pockmarked black in his heart.Next to the threshing floor is Liusheng’s house, and there are three locust trees growing next to Liusheng’s house and the pigsty. The pigs dig into the soil in the pen, and when they dig out a radish head, they bite it, but it’s not a radish head, it’s a white plastic pipe. It made the crows on the tree laugh.The pig asked: What are you laughing at? The crow said: I laughed at you for being black! The pig said: You climbed out of the chimney, so you are black! The crow said: Who knows who is black! The dog peeed and kicked the tree, and the crow flew away .He thought Ma Zihei was also a crow.

I really don’t know where the dog pee moss came from? Or many years ago, the sows of Shuipi’s family gave birth, one, another, and seven at once, and they all watched there .Later he and Niu Ling quarreled over some mulberries.The children in Gulu Village became angry and wanted to call each other's parents' names loudly, as if this was the worst form of scolding.Niu Ling's first name is Wu Fu, and Gou Ui Mo shouted: Fu, Fu, bat's bat! Niu Ling didn't know the names of Gou Ui Mo's parents, and he didn't even know who the parents were, so he said: Are you going to give birth to the dog? Yes, it’s going to be planted! The dog urine moss didn’t know what it meant to be planted, so I asked my mother-in-law, and she said: Who said this? He said that the cow bell said it.The mother-in-law said: I twisted the mouth of the cow bell! But he asked the mother-in-law where he came from? The mother-in-law said: I got it.He said: Pigs come out of the belly of sows, why did I fish them out of the river? It was not until two years later that he learned from the villagers that he was going to come. As for how he came, No one spoke directly, and he didn't ask any more questions, but since then, his life experience has become a scar, and he doesn't want anyone to expose it.When others taunted him, he also taunted him, but Ma Zihei always bullied him, and when he talked about his life experience in front of so many people, Goupiamos suddenly thought of going back and forth.That year the Zhou River swelled, and dog pee moss was also on the embankment. Looking at Lao Shun fishing for people, I also wondered if I also crawled out of the river like this. He picked up a pair of old shoes Xing Kai opened and followed, waiting for her to wear them when they got off the back of the cow.After fishing back and forth, there were no shoes and bare feet. Gouiamos walked away from the threshing field, and it was a sparrow that brought him under the toon tree in front of Laoshun's house.The sparrow was like a gray stone, first it jumped on the ground in front of the dog's urine moss, when the dog's urine moss approached it flew up again, flew up and landed on the ground in front of it and jumped.The sparrow, who usually has a broken mouth, didn't say anything today, but Feifeiluoluo teased the dog pee moss and walked to the toon tree in front of Laoshun's house.Looking at Lao Shun's house from under the Chinese toon tree, the door is open, the door is dark, the dog pee moss heard a dull sound somewhere, like someone is digging a cellar, but there is no one, the white-haired dog is lying down under the roof.The dog said: Don't, don't come here! He said: I'm looking for someone.He said so casually, and then said: Where is the person? Back and forth came out of the door, back and forth there was a mouth that looked like a flame, with extremely long teeth, and it was gnawing on a carrot.The sound of clicking, clicking, made the dog pee smell delicious, and water came out from the base of the tongue. Back and forth: Do you want to eat? Gou Uitao said: Eat, eat, don't eat, the radish is spicy. In fact, I didn't stretch out the radish back and forth, I kept nibbling on my own, and at the same time I heard a cry of hello. Goupiati heard the groaning sound and the barking sound, and recognized that it was Lao Shun's accent. Lao Shun had lost a front tooth, and his speech was leaking.He put the radish on the window sill back and forth, touched the door frame with his hand, and took out the copper bar key, and then went to the toilet by the gable.Goupimos immediately understood that Lao Shun was shitting over there, and asked Shuai to dig out the shit for him. People say that 1965 is the Year of the Snake in the lunar calendar, and the weather is good when the Dragon and Snake are on duty. Although the wheat and autumn harvests are good, everyone still has to eat fried noodles with rice husks to make ends meet.Rice bran fried noodles are noodles made by mixing fried rice bran and rice bran with soft persimmons in winter, drying and grinding them.The fried noodles are still sweet enough to eat, but often you can’t poop after eating, and you have to use a key or a stick to dig it out.The dog urine moss quickly grabbed the radish from the window sill, took a delicious bite, chewed and swallowed.The dog was barking, barking and cursing him, and he couldn't adjust his tongue for a while, so he turned his back and chewed.But, I came out of the toilet back and forth, and said: I told you to suck slowly, you used so much force, you didn’t know you had hemorrhoids! The radish was crushed, and the pimples hadn’t swallowed the throat yet, and the dog pee moss pretended Tie your shoelaces and kick your body down. Nipping the radish back and forth again, she didn't realize that the radish had already been bitten, she said: "Dog pee moss!" The dog was choking on pee moss, his chest hurt, and he didn't make a sound. Back and forth: Who gave you such an ugly name? Does the village distribute relief food? Somehow, what the dog urine moss said was: You fished it from the river... They said back and forth: What's the matter with the fish in the river, can't the relief food be eaten in the river? The dog pee moss immediately said: I didn't mean that, I, I... Did you say that I also fished it from the river? Goupiati explained in this way, thinking that he would not misunderstand what he meant, but said back and forth: I am different from you. I fished it out from Lao Shun, the daughter-in-law of the poor farmer Lao Shun. You...she didn’t say Suddenly, his complexion changed drastically, and there was a groan in his throat, and the smell of carrots came out.But she said again: I have long heard that someone is plotting against Lao Shun and distributing relief food, so I suspect that I doubt my natal family's identity! Go investigate and see if I am a cadre who has stepped down from Siqing, investigate, He Shui The one who washed me away, am I a turtle monster crawling out of the river? Goupimos said: I am angry, you are more angry than me? Back and forth: I asked, most people in Gulu Village came out of their mother's belly, what kind of village is this?! Goupiamos said: Don't scold Gulu Village, Gulu Village took you in. They said back and forth: It’s fine if you don’t fish me, maybe I’ve been reborn in a good place after I die! Goupiamo regretted that he came to see him back and forth, and resented why he came to see him back and forth? He turned and left.There is a downhill road in the alley, and the porcelain tiles planted on the road are shining brightly. Whoever poured water on the road and formed a layer of ice, it is also shining, a piece of light.He looked at a half-brick in the middle of the road, and kicked it with his foot, but the half-brick was frozen, and he couldn't kick it away, causing his foot to hurt.A pig came running along the ramp, and behind the pig was the sister-in-law of the family who kept the lamp.Her pig ran out of the pigsty, and the more she chased the pig, the faster it ran, yelling: "Dog pee moss, stop the pig! Dog pee moss, stop the pig." The sister-in-law of the family who kept the lamp said: "Dog pee moss, are you and Huihui swearing?" Goupimos said: I didn't scold. The sister-in-law of my family who kept the lamp said: It's okay to scold back and forth, but if you scold, you will cause trouble for your mother-in-law. Dog urine moss said: I know this.Why did the pig run out of the pen? The woman beat the pig vigorously, and said, "You are as honest as a turtle. Why did you raise this pig? You are so old! Do you think you were born in the house of a village cadre? The pig lay on the ground without saying a word. The dog urine moss said: It is also a hungry bandit, probably, what about my elder brother, he will not raise the wall? The woman said: Your brother went to the mountains to exchange corn.Gulu Village produces rice, which is well-known on both sides of the Zhou River, but the people of Gulu Village grind down the rice, and keep the rotten rice with the husk and corners to make gruel for themselves, and take the good rice to the depths of Nanshan. At the other people’s house, one catty of rice can be exchanged for one catty of eight taels of corn, and when you are lucky, one catty can be exchanged for two catties, so I just want to eat more.Gou Niati was a little angry, and said: He said that he would call me when he changed the corn, and his mouth was full of hooks! The woman said: Can you drill mountains? Gou Niati said: Why can’t I? He stretched his body vigorously , Even the feet are raised.The woman said, "Okay, okay, the dog's moss has grown taller, and it's time to catch the cowbell!" But he pushed the dog's head down, and the dog's moss returned to its original shape, and his head only hit his wife. milk.
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