Chapter 8 chapter eight

We dragged our double ridges and embarked on the road to the commune. I was carrying a burden, which contained a cornmeal pancake, a green onion, and a piece of black sauce.This is because I am going out, the reward for me at home.If I don't go out, my staple food is moldy dried sweet potatoes.Uncle Du was carrying a yellow canvas schoolbag with red letters embroidered on it.I have dreamed of having such a school bag, but I can't get it.Uncle Du is very arrogant, carrying a schoolbag that only educated youths have, pulling the rein of the cow and walking ahead of the cow. The schoolbag makes him lively.I carried an old burden on my back and followed the cow with a broken fan.I kept blasting the flies on the double-ridge egg skin with a broken fan.I slapped the flies and they buzzed. When the flies flew up, I saw that the poor egg skin of the double ridge was like a ball of jelly, and the color of a ball of jelly.As soon as I stopped, the flies fell back, and when the flies fell back, I could only see the flies.We left the village, crossed the bridge, and took the gravel road leading to the commune.It is an exaggeration to say that our walking is not as fast as maggots crawling.It's not that we can't walk fast, it's that the two ridges can't walk fast.It is difficult for the double spine to even stand, but we ask it to go, and it will go.It has not caught it for three consecutive days, and I guess its mind is dizzy.If it was a human being, he would have been exhausted long ago, and if he was not exhausted, he would be exhausted.It's not easy to be a cow when you think about it.If I were double spines, I would simply get down and die.But Double Ridge is not me.Uncle Du and I were pulling it in front and urging it in the back, let it go, force it to go, it will go, one step, one step, one step is more difficult than one step.

We came to Sweetwater Well just as the sun was setting.The sweet water well is six miles away from our village.Uncle Du said: "Luohan, we men are not walking too slowly. According to this way of walking, we may arrive at the veterinary station at twelve o'clock in the middle of the night." I said, "How slow can I go? I go to the commune to watch a movie, and I can run there in 20 minutes." Uncle Du said: "It's fast enough, don't be dissatisfied. Take a break and eat something." We tied the double ridge to the big willow tree by the well.I untied the burden, and Uncle Du untied the schoolbag.Uncle Du took out a cornmeal pancake from his schoolbag, and I also took out a cornmeal pancake from my bag.I took out a green onion, and he also took out a green onion.I took out the black sauce and he also took out the black sauce.Our meals are exactly the same.After eating, Uncle Du took out a glass bottle from his schoolbag.A string was attached to the neck of the glass bottle.He shook off the rope, put the bottle into the well, swayed, swayed, let go suddenly, the bottle plunged into the water, made a gurgling sound, and stopped when it was filled with water.Uncle Du brought up the bottle filled with water.I said, "Uncle Du, you really have a plan."

Uncle Du said: "Let me be the production team leader, I must be much better than Mazi." I said: "When the production team leader gives up your talents, you should be the secretary of the commune!" Uncle Du said: "Don't dare to talk nonsense! The secretaries of the commune are all holding the stars in the sky, they are not mortals." I said: "Master, you said, I want a father to be the secretary of the commune, what will happen to me?" "You still want to have a father who is the secretary of the commune with your appearance?" Uncle Du handed me the bottle and said, "Okay, man, stop dreaming, drink some cold water, and you can go on your way after drinking cold water."

I drank a bottle of cold water and my stomach growled. Uncle Du took another bottle of water and put the mouth of the bottle into the cow's mouth.Water flowed out from the corner of the cow's mouth. "Anyway, we have to let it drink some water," said Uncle Du, "otherwise it will die of thirst if it doesn't get sick." Uncle Du brought another bottle of water from the well. He asked me to raise the head of the double ridge so that its mouth was facing the sky, and then he inserted the bottle into the cow's mouth.This time I heard the sound of water running from Double Ridge's throat to his stomach.Uncle Du said excitedly: "Great, we finally made it drink water, and it can't die after drinking water."

We left Liuyin and returned to the gravel road.The noon sun in early summer is actually very violent, and the sandy road radiates a reddish-brown glare.I suggest taking a break and waiting for the sun to set before leaving.Uncle Du said that resting too much is not enough.And he also said that the sun sterilized and sterilized, and he also said that the double spine was actually freezing to death. Didn't you see that it was shivering all over?I believe that Uncle Du's life experience is much richer than mine, so I won't argue with him.I hope that I can arrive at the commune veterinary station earlier so that the double spine disease can be treated in time. I am actually a kind child.

I plucked a handful of weeds from the side of the road, wove them into a grass circle and put them on my head.I saw that there was a layer of sweat on Uncle Du's bald head, so I took off the grass ring from his head and threw it to him.Uncle Du took the straw ring and put it on his head, and said, "You are getting more and more sensible, young people should be like this." Uncle Du's kind words warmed my heart.I said: "Master, you look like an old Eighth Road!" Uncle Du sighed: "Man, it's a pity that you don't have front and back eyes. You have to have front and back eyes. Whatever you say, I want to be Eighth Road." I asked: "Why don't you go What about the Eight Roads?" He said: "To put it bluntly, at that time, no one could see that the Eight Roads could become famous. The Eight Roads were not well dressed, the food was not good, and the weapons were even worse. Big guns, the bolts are rusted, and there are few bullets. There are only two bullets per person, and all the fighting depends on grenades. The grenades are also made of earth. Five out of ten grenades are definitely smelly. The national army is different. Yishi’s green serge military uniform, American Tom gun, red head and green buttocks, the bullets are fired, and the gun hits the bursts, and it screams crisply, which makes you listen to it. The grenade Yishi is in the shape of a small melon, petals, The explosion was earth-shattering, and those grenade cannons that could be dragged by ten-wheeled trucks could shoot fifty miles in one shot, and when they hit the ground, they exploded into a bay. The water in the bay was blue and you couldn't see the bottom at a glance. Man, it was not like now, man. Now everyone is rushing to be a soldier. At that time, no one wanted to be a soldier. A good man should not be a soldier, and a good iron should not be nailed. Even if he is a soldier, man, I will not be a soldier. If I want to be a soldier, I will When the national army is airy, the national army eats well, dresses well, and can even get silver taels. Eight roads, not a good head, man, it seems to be lying when you say it, until 1947 in our area The local government didn't know who the head of the Eight Roads was. Later, they heard that the head of the Eight Roads was Zhu Mao. Later, they said that Zhu Mao was two people, or a couple. Zhu was a man and Mao was a woman. But everyone knew at that time Chiang Kai-shek, Generalissimo Chiang..."

I said, "Then tell me why the national army was defeated by the Eight Route Army?" Uncle Du said: "In my opinion, people from the Eighth Route Army can endure hardships, but people from the National Army can't. People from the Eighth Route Army have no airs, and even high-ranking and small officials have no airs. It’s not big, but a small official has a big air, and the smaller the official, the bigger the air. A second lieutenant of the national army lived in the east wing of my house. Even the footwashing water had to be brought to the kang by orderlies, but the head of the Eighth Road gave it back to my house. Sweeping the yard. Also, the eight-way men are not clingy to women. I think they don’t want to, or they don’t dare. People in the national army are different. When they see beautiful women, the officials will take the lead. That’s all. A few, the national army must be defeated."

I said, "Since you see that the national army will be defeated, why don't you join the Eighth Route Army?" "Who would have known it at that time? If I had to see it at that time, I would definitely have become the Eighth Route." He said: "If I had become the Eighth Router, the worst thing I would do now would be the secretary of the commune. Sitting under the buttocks and smoking. But it is very likely that he was shot to death long ago. Man's fate is determined by God. God has already arranged for me which bowl of rice to eat in this life. It is useless to think wildly .Man can't fight against the sky. I am very contented. I am not enough compared to the above, and I have more than the bottom!"

We chattered nonsense sentence after sentence, moving forward step by step and staggeringly.When we are tired, we are silent.In silence we drowsy.Looking back now, it was a very sentimental picture: a round of bright sun was shining on the head, and the gravel road turned golden yellow under the sun. An old man wearing a straw ring and carrying a schoolbag on his back squinted his eyes against the sun. One big and one small with two eyes, with the reins of the ox on his shoulders, staring at his black neck, he walked forward step by step, like the boatman I saw later pulling the rope on the river.Behind him is the bull's face pulled up by the reins.There are tears and flies on the cow's face.Behind it is the bowed back of the ox and the pinched tail of the ox.The cow egg skin is too ugly, so don't paint it.The focus should paint me.I am ugly, I am ugly but I lack self-knowledge, I like to make funny faces, and even my sister once questioned my mother: Mother, why do you think he is so ugly?It is a painter who is so angry that it is difficult to describe and paint.Of course, my mother was not happy about my sister's questioning.My mother said that the dogs raised by dogs kissed the cats raised by cats. You don’t kiss him, so you think he is ugly.Of course my mother also called me ugly when she was angry.I lay down on the edge of the well platform to see my appearance, and there was indeed something wrong.For example, I have a canine tooth in my mouth, and my sister said that I have jagged fangs.In my rage, I found an iron file, and forced the tooth to be flattened bit by bit.The entire gum was sore when I set my teeth down, it seemed like my brain was shaken, but for the sake of beauty, I had such a long canine tooth flattened.When I told the story to the villagers, they didn't believe me, thinking I was talking nonsense again.I have the kind of doll head with only a tuft of hair on the top of my head, and my face is covered with patches of white ringworm the size of copper coins. At that time, boys loved to have this kind of white ringworm on their faces. It is said that it can be wiped off with sour apricot, so we went Stealing sour apricots came to visit, but I didn't see anyone rubbing it well.I was carrying a blue cloth bag across my shoulders, wearing a pair of big trousers, dragging a pair of big shoes on my feet, and shaking a broken plantain fan in my hand, fanning the egg skin of the cow every now and then.We are not good-looking, people are not good people, and cattle are not good cattle.But we are unique.If you want, you can actually draw the trees on both sides of the road.Most of the trees on both sides of the road are poplars, and there are some pagoda trees in the poplars.Insects called "hanged ghosts" lived on the poplar trees, and they swayed in the wind with a gossamer.The wheat on both sides of the road is blooming, and it seems to have a sweet aroma.The picture is fine, but my flesh is in pain.I have a headache, my eyes are dark, my mouth is dry and bitter, and my feet hurt.But my pain is definitely nothing compared to the cattle.The punishment the ox suffers is higher than the sky and thicker than the earth.It's impossible not to have a headache.We still slept a little bit, but it couldn't sleep at all.Now that I think about it, there is no reason to not let the passing cows get down.Even for a cow that has not broken through eggs, it is torture to keep it from being caught for four days and four nights, not to mention that it was tortured, and after losing a lot of blood, the wound became inflamed.Its legs are swollen, and the blood in its veins is broken, and there must be a pocket of pus and blood in its pitcher-like egg skin.Compared with the cow, this little crime I suffered is indeed as light as a feather.Is Uncle Du feeling better?He is not feeling well either.He is 68 years old. At that time, a 68-year-old person was old. That is to say, most of Uncle Du's body has been buried by loess.Almost all his teeth were gone in his mouth, save for two oversized incisors, which gave a youthful look to his face, for they made him look like a hare, no matter what the hare was. No matter how old you are, you are always lively and active, and when you are active and active, you look young.Then an important thing happened, I picked up a knife on the way.

It was a triangular-shaped knife with a long handle.Because I used to work in the nursery of the production team, I knew at a glance that it was a knife used for grafting fruit trees.This kind of knife is very sharp, similar in shape to the steer knife used by Comrade Dong.After I picked up this knife, I forgot about my headache and foot pain, and I wanted to cut off the swollen egg skin on my double spine like a ghost.I could clearly see that it was full of pus and blood.I heard Shuangji begging me: brother, good brother, give me a good time!I know that Uncle Du can't know about this, and if he knows, my plan will definitely not come true.Taking advantage of a small uphill, I held the knife tightly, without letting my heart down, without shaking my hand, I took a good aim, closed my eyes, and poked fiercely at the thing.I drew the knife quickly, but still spattered my hand.

Uncle Du was very pleasantly surprised, and said: "Luohan, you are a fucking genius! With your knife, the cow is relieved, and so is I. If you come earlier to perform such a knife, the double ridge may be healed sooner, and there is no need to go to the commune ...Great...Great...I met Old Comrade Dong and I will definitely ask him to keep you as an apprentice. My vision is not wrong, and the person I have identified is not wrong..." Uncle Du broke off a branch, turned it behind the cow, poked the branch into the cow's egg skin and stirred it.The cow seemed to be in pain and wanted to lift its hind legs to kick people.But it only has the idea of ​​pushing people, and it has no strength to push people.Its hind legs lifted and then lowered.It can only express its pain by trembling all over its body.Uncle Du said sincerely: "Niuuuuuuu, please hold on, this is for your own good..." The dirt in the egg sac flowed out, first white, yellow, and finally red.Uncle Du threw away the branch and said, "Okay, I'll make sure this time!" We took it and continued on our way.It did go a little faster.Uncle Du tore off a branch from the locust tree, with some young leaves on it, and handed it to its mouth. It actually touched it with its lips, as if it wanted to eat it.Even though it didn't eat, it still got us excited.Uncle Du said: "Okay, just recognize the grass. When you arrive at the commune, you get an injection, and within three days, you will be a lively cow again." When the sun was red, we had already seen the tall poplar tree in the commune compound.I said excitedly: "It's almost here." Uncle Du said: "Watching the mountain and running a dead horse, looking at the tree and running a dead cow, there is at least five miles to go. However, this is much faster than I originally thought. What should I say, thanks to your boy's knife, but , without my branch." The further we go, the redder the sun becomes.The workers in the cotton processing factory on the side of the road had already left work, and pairs of young men and women in brightly colored clothes were walking on the road.They smelt wonderfully of soap.In addition to the smell of soap, those beautiful women also had some sweet and fragrant smell. Uncle Du blinked at me, and said in a low voice, "Luohan, do you smell like a big girl?" I said, "I can smell it." He said: "Young man, let's go ahead and get such a woman as a wife in the future." I said, "I don't want a wife in my life." Uncle Du said: "You are a beggar gritted his teeth and complained of poverty! Don't want a wife? Unless you are castrated!" While we were talking, a man and a woman stopped by the side of the road.The young man with acne and curly hair asked, "Old man, what are you doing here?" Uncle Du said, "Go to the veterinary station." The young man asked, "What's wrong with this cow?" Uncle Du said, "I cut the egg." The young man said: "Cut the egg, why do you want to cut its egg?" Uncle Du said: "It thinks of good things." The young man asked: "Thinking of something good? What good thing do you think of?" Uncle Du said: "It will think of any good thing you think of!" The young man became anxious and said, "Old man, why do you compare me to a cow?" Uncle Du said: "Why can't you be compared to a cow? Everything is born in the world, and humans and animals are the same!" The young woman blushed and said, "Mao, let's go!" The young woman has slender eyebrows and one eye. She has a big head and a big face. Her face is very white and her teeth are also very white.I couldn't help but want to see her.The young man ran behind the cow, bent down, and looked at the double ridges. "My God," the young man said in surprise, "you are really cruel, Xiaoguo Xiaoguo, look at how cruel they are!" The young man greeted the young woman.The young woman flicked her braid angrily and walked forward.The young man hurriedly chased after the young woman.My neck followed the young woman.I saw the young man put his arm on the young woman's shoulder, and it was strange that the young woman asked him to put his arm on the shoulder. Uncle Du said: "Turn around, it's useless to look." I looked back, feeling a little embarrassed. Uncle Du said: "Just now I said that I don't want a wife in this life, but seeing a big girl's eyes are like hooks!" I said, "I see that man!" "Don't argue, sir, I also survived when I was young." Uncle Du said, "This big girl is like a white steamed bun just out of the pan, noisy, good stuff, really good stuff!" We finally made it to the veterinary station as the commune's tweeters played the Internationale.At that time, the tweeter in the commune started broadcasting at 7 o'clock in the evening. When the broadcast started, Dongfanghong was broadcast first. After the broadcast of Dongfanghong, the program was announced. After the announcement, the program was a news broadcast. After the national news was broadcast, the local news was broadcast. After the model play, the weather forecast will be broadcast, and the Internationale will be played after the weather forecast is over. After the Internationale is over, they will say: "Comrades, poor and lower-middle peasants, all of today's programs are over, goodbye." At this time, it is half past nine in the evening Not even a minute.As soon as we stood up in front of the veterinary station, the announcer said goodbye to us.Uncle Du said, "It's half past nine." I yawned and said, "I fell asleep after the Internationale was played at home." Uncle Du said: "I can't sleep today, we have to find Comrade Dong to get an injection in the double ridge as soon as possible, and I will feel at ease after the injection." The iron gate of the veterinary station was closed. Looking in through the crack of the gate, one could see a tall wooden frame erected in the yard, and there seemed to be a well. There were some fluffy plants growing in the open space beside the well.A dog was barking at us, the room was dark and we couldn't see anything. I asked, "Master, where can we find Comrade Dong?" Uncle Du said: "Old Comrade Dong must be in the house." I said, "There is no light in the house." Uncle Du said: "If you don't turn on the lights, you're going to sleep." I said, "What should we do when he's asleep?" Uncle Du said: "Our cow is an emergency patient, just knock on the door." I said, "What if someone knocks the house on fire?" Uncle Du said: "I can't take care of that much anymore. Besides, Comrade Dong ate eggs with double ridges, so he should give double ridges an injection." We knocked on the iron gate.At first we didn't dare to knock hard, the iron door made too much noise, clanging like a cannon.We knocked once, and the dog rushed to the door, across the iron gate, and jumped on us, barking wildly as it jumped.But nothing happened in the house.We became more courageous and knocked hard, making a louder noise. The dog jumped on the iron door like crazy, scratching the door with its paws, but there was still no movement in the room.Uncle Du said: "Forget it, even if you are deaf, you should wake up." I said, "That means that Comrade Dong is not here." Uncle Du said: "These wage-earners are different from our farmers. They have an eight-hour work system, and they are off work after work." I said, "This is so unfair. We work so hard to grow food for them to eat, but they treat us like this? Isn't it meant to serve the people?" "Are you the people? Am I the people? You and I are both grass and trees. People of grass and trees are not even counted as people. How can we be counted as people?" Uncle Du sighed, "We can talk about it, but it’s hard for both of us. Ridge! Double ridge, double ridge, you were comfortable last year, but you will suffer this year, like Lu Xi, who was not comfortable last year, but this year you will suffer much less. God is the most fair, and no one can just take advantage and not suffer. " I looked at Double Ridge in the darkness, but I couldn't see its expression, only heard its rough panting. Uncle Du lit a lighter, walked around the double ridge, and bent down to look between its legs very seriously.The lighter burned his hand, so he hissed and shook the lighter out.Immediately it became dark in front of me.The stars in the sky became extraordinarily bright.Uncle Du said: "I see that the swelling there has subsided a bit. If it really wants to lie down, let it lie down." I said: "That's great, uncle, it's okay not to get down or get down, didn't Luxi and Luxi spend the night too? Isn't it all right?" Uncle Du said: "What you said makes sense. If it gets down on the ground, both of us will have a good sleep." Uncle Du didn't say a word, and his spine collapsed to the ground like a rotten wall.