Chapter 5 chapter Five

Uncle Ma didn't lean in at all, and of course he didn't hold on to it.After seeing off old Comrade Dong who rode his bike like a blind deer, he urinated against the wall.Uncle Du said: "Captain, I have to feed the cows during the day and clean the stables. You can't let me walk the cows all night!" Uncle Ma turned around, and said slantingly: "Who are you going for a walk if you don't? Do you want me to go for a walk in person? Don't think that you have a few sons-in-law messing around in the commune and forget your name and name. The butcher , cooking, before the liberation, they were all scumbags, but now there are five people and six people!"

Uncle Du said coldly: "You mean it's not as good as it was before liberation!?" Uncle Ma said: "Who says it is not as good as it was before liberation? I have three generations of poor peasants who have suffered a lot and hated each other. Before liberation, they were soaked in bitter water and after liberation. I would say that now is not as good as before liberation? Only you can say that." Only the old middle peasants would say, don’t forget that you are the object of unity, and Lao Tzu is the basic force of the revolution! Chairman Mao said, ‘Without the poor peasants, there will be no revolution’, do you understand?”

Uncle Du lost his temper, and said in a low voice: "I also think about the collective. These three bulls are important, and so are the thirteen cows..." Uncle Ma said: "What is important or not, you have confused me, if there is a problem, we will solve it tomorrow!" Uncle Ma entered the courtyard and closed the gate with a sound. Uncle Du spat at the gate, and cursed in a low voice: "Mazi, you have lost your children and grandchildren!" I said, "Okay, how dare you call me Uncle Ma!" Uncle Du said: "I scolded him, so I scolded him, Ma Zi, you will have no children and grandchildren, and you will die! What's the matter, tell him to go!"

Uncle Du walked forward with difficulty, leading the two spines.The double spines were limp and unsteady, like two old men dying.Thinking of its vigor and vitality when it was riding a cow in the northeast depression, I felt very uncomfortable. I pulled the big and small Luxi to follow the double-ridged tail, and my head and face were very close to the double-ridged tail.My nose is on a horizontal line with the spine of the double ridge, and my eyes can see Uncle Du's back through his arched back. We moved silently to the edge of the river bank, and the fragrance of Sophora japonica permeated like fog in the dark night, making me sneeze repeatedly, and Shuangji sneezed a few times.My sneezing was painless, and even slightly refreshing, but a double-ridged sneeze was excruciatingly painful.Because when it sneezes, the muscles of the whole body will inevitably contract, which will inevitably involve the pain of the wound.I saw it arch its back every time it sneezed, like a dromedary.

Uncle Du ignored me, it was all because of the bowl of cow eggs, I can fully understand his mood.He pulled Double Ridge to a locust tree, and tied the rein high to the trunk.In order to prevent the two spines from falling down, he kept the reins very short.The double ridges raised their necks, as if they were hung from a tree.I couldn't help admiring his cleverness. Why couldn't I think of such a simple solution?I followed his example and tied the big and small Luxi to another locust tree.I too was free.I said: "Uncle Du, your brain is really easy to use." Uncle Du squatted on the gentle slope of the river embankment, and said coldly: "No matter how easy my brain is, it can't compare to your old man's brain!"

I said, "Uncle Du, I'm only 14 years old this year, you can't call me an old man!" Uncle Du said, "You are not an old man, who is an old man? Am I an old man? I am an old man, and I didn't even get a piece of cow's egg to eat. You are not an old man, you ate a fucking bowl of cow's egg! What kind of world is this? It's so unfair!" In order to calm his emotions, I said: "Uncle Du, do you really think I ate a bowl of beef eggs? I'm making up a lie to lie to you!" "You didn't eat a bowl of Niudanzi?" Uncle Du asked in surprise.

I said, "Don't even think about it, old man. Uncle Ma is like a hungry wolf, and Comrade Dong is like a fierce tiger. Let alone six cow eggs, even sixty cow eggs are not enough for them to eat." Uncle Du said: "There is clearly half of the plate left!" I said, "Can't you see? They left it for Aunt Ma." Uncle Du said: "I've always been dubious about what you say, little bastard." But I knew he had already believed that I hadn't eaten a cow's egg, and I knew from his gasp that his heart had been balanced.He took out the smoke pot from his arms, filled it with cigarettes, and lit it with the lighter that exuded a strong gasoline smell.The pungent smell of smoke is like a sharp knife, piercing the aroma of Sophora japonica.It was getting late at night, and the lights in the village were all extinguished.There is no moon in the sky, but there are many stars.The Milky Way is a bit brighter, and there are meteors gliding across the Milky Way.The sound of the river running over the embankment entered our ears, bright as glass.Sophora japonica is clustered in clusters, like a tree of living things.The south wind is gentle, caressing my face.The night in April is really comfortable, but I think of the fertile and beautiful Du Wuhua, and I feel that the night in April is really annoying.The big and small Luxi breathed calmly, but the two ridges breathed heavily.Their stomachs were rumbling, and mine was rumbling too.Because I have worked so much with cattle, I have also learned to ruminate.The cow eggs that I just swallowed came up, I should have chewed them slowly and savored them carefully, but I was afraid that Mr. Du, who was smarter than a monkey, would smell them, so I forced them back.I was very proud in my heart, it felt like I was still hiding a bowl of meat when everyone was fasting.Now I can't ruminate.I leaned against Uncle Du and said, "Uncle, can I have a bag of cigarettes?"

He said: "You are a child, what kind of cigarettes do you smoke?" I said, "Just now you called me an old man, why did you suddenly call me a child?" "It was just now, now is now, people, you can only say when!" He knocked the cigarette pot on the sole of his shoe, and said angrily: "Go back 20 years, don't talk about it I won’t be greedy even if the smelly beef eggs and the plate of fat pork are placed in front of me!” I said, "Uncle Du, you're bragging again!" "Do I need to brag in front of you bastard?" Uncle Du said, "Let me tell you, at that time, every time Ma Sang gathered, my father had to cut at least five catties of meat. If you don’t cut the meat, you must buy fish, herring, croaker, yellow croaker, hairy fish, cuttlefish... At that time, the fish market in Masang Town was three miles long. During the market season, both sides of the street are so white that people dare not open their eyes. Two pairs of large prawns are inserted with bamboo sticks. One pair is half a catty, and two pairs are one catty. A pair of prawns only sells for two copper coins. At that time, you could eat whatever you wanted, as long as you had money. Now, you have money but no place to buy such big prawns, such thick saury, hey, where did all the good things go? Who eats it? My eldest son-in-law said that all the good things are exported. Why do you think the Chinese are so stupid? If you don’t keep good things for yourself, why do you export them? Export for money, but where do you get the money back? In fact, they are fooling us ordinary people. But our ordinary people are not so easy to fool. People don’t say it, but their hearts are like a mirror. Now, such a big commune, more than forty brigades , hundreds of teams, 70,000 to 80,000 people, and only one pig is slaughtered in one set, and that amount of pork is not enough for the commune cadres to eat. But in the past, in our meat market in Masang Town, there were thirty cases of slaughtering pigs for meat alone. There are many sets, and those who kill cows, donkeys, and dogs, tell me what you want to eat. The cows at that time, the big beef cattle, were made smooth with sweet potatoes and bean cakes, and they wobbled when they walked. It's like a mountain of meat. One cow can produce more than a thousand catties of meat. The beef is so fat that the meat is three fingers thick. Spend five coppers, buy a catty of cooked beef, drink four taels of sorghum wine, sit on the stool, drink and eat, listen to the sound, look at the scenery, think about it, what is it like..."

I swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said, "Uncle Du, are you making up nonsense to lie to me? Is the old society really that good?" Uncle Du said: "You child, who told you that the old society is better? I just told you that it tastes good to eat fatty beef and drink hot soju." I asked, "Are you living in the old society when you eat fatty beef and drink hot soju?" He said: "That... that... seems to be the old society..." I said, "Well, if you say that eating fatty beef and drinking hot soju is good, it means that the old society is good!"

He jumped up angrily: "You brat, didn't you draw a circle for me to jump in!" I said, "It's not that I drew a circle for you to jump in, it's because of your class position!" He asked cautiously: "Little man, you give me a lecture, what is class position?" I said, "You don't even understand the class position?" "I don't understand," he said. I said, "This is a class standpoint...Anyway, the old society has nothing good, and the new society has all good things; the poor and lower-middle peasants have nothing bad, it's not that the poor and lower-middle peasants have no good things. Do you understand?"

He said: "I understand, I understand, but... At that time, there were indeed more meat and fish than now..." I said: "The poorer and lower-middle peasants are even more poor than they are now, and they can't get food. They are all eaten by the landlords and rich peasants." "Little man, you are talking nonsense. Some landlords and rich peasants are really reluctant to eat, and some old poor peasants are still willing to eat. For example, Fang Laoqi's family, his wife and children don't even have a pair of pants, but they are delicious. Hurry up, buy fish and meat in exchange for money, waste all the food, and go down to Nanshan to beg." I said, "You are spreading rumors and slandering the old poor peasants!" He said: "Yes, yes, I spread rumors, I spread rumors." We sat side by side without speaking.The night air was thick and there was fog.A toad's cry came from the river. He said to himself: "Wow, toad, I will eat new wheat noodles in 30 days... The new wheat noodles are so chewy, delicious dumplings, delicious rolled noodles, delicious pancakes, and steamed buns Eat...the new steamed buns are free and sweet, and when you break them open, there is a fragrance, which can make people drunk..." I said, "Uncle Du, please don't talk about food! The more you talk, the hungrier I will be!" "Don't talk, don't talk," he lit a pot of cigarettes and smoked dully, the pot lit up and dimmed, illuminating his old face. I let out a long yawn. He also let out a long yawn. "Lohan, we can't be so stupid," he said, "we just don't let the cow lie down anyway, don't you think?" I said: "Yes!" He said, "Then why don't we two sleep in shifts?" "What if they get down?" I said worriedly. He stood up and checked the reins of the cattle, and said, "It's all right, I'm sure it's all right. They won't get down if the reins don't break." I said, "Then I'll go home and go to sleep." He said: "You young man is too low-minded. I am 68 this year, one year older than your grandfather. Would you mind going back to sleep first?" I said, "You old man is not very enlightened, you are already 68, why do you still sleep?" He said: "Okay then, I will give you a calculation problem. If you can figure it out, you can go home and sleep. If you can't figure it out, I will go home and sleep." Before I agreed, he said: "There are many pine trees in Laoshan Mountain in the southeast, with a total of 36,000 trees. There are nine trees on each tree, nine nests in each nest, nine eggs in one nest, and nine eggs in one egg." Nine sparrows, how many sparrows are there in total?" When I was in school, I got a headache when I heard arithmetic.I can still count the numbers within ten with my fingers, but if it exceeds ten, I get confused.Old man Du said tens of thousands, how can I calculate it?Besides, if I can calculate such a large number clearly, do I still need to walk the cattle in the middle of the night? I said: "Old man Du, don't come here, I can't figure it out, I can't figure it out, why should I waste so much brain?" Uncle Du sighed: "Why are children like this now? They don't suffer at all." I said: "The old man is not at a disadvantage now!" Uncle Du said: "I met you, a little bastard, and I met an opponent. Well, we don't sleep, and we will stay here." Uncle Du sat down on the ground, smoking a cigarette. I sat down with my back against a locust tree, and counted the stars in the sky with my face up.