Chapter 54 second act

Under the green light, the whole stage looks like a dark underwater world.In the depths of the stage, there is a cave surrounded by fine grass.from the cave.From time to time, the cry of frogs and the cry of babies can be heard.There were a dozen babies, hanging from above the stage.Their limbs twitched and their cries joined together. At the front of the stage, there were two chopping boards for making clay dolls. Hao Dashou and Qin He sat cross-legged behind the desk, concentrating on making mud. Auntie crawled out of the hole.She was wearing a baggy black robe and her hair was disheveled.

Aunt: (Like an endorsement) My name is Wan Xin, I am seventy-three this year, and I have been a gynecologist for fifty years.Even after retiring, he is busy day and night.The total number of children picked up by me is nine thousand eight hundred and eighty-three... (Looking up, looking at the children hanging in the air) Children, you cry really well! Hearing your cries, My aunt's heart is at ease; if I don't hear your cries, my aunt's heart will be empty.Your cry is the most beautiful sound in the world; your cry is my aunt's requiem.It's a pity that I didn't have a tape recorder in my early years, so I couldn't record your cries when you were born.When my aunt was alive, I played your cries every day; after my aunt died, I also played your cries at the funeral.Nine thousand eight hundred and eighty-three children cry together, what beautiful music it must be... (infinitely fascinated) Let your cries move the heavens and the earth.Let your cries send Auntie to heaven...

Qin He: (gloomily) Beware of their cries dragging you into hell! Auntie: (Among those hanging children, she walks back and forth with light steps, like a fish swimming briskly in the water. As she walks, she slaps the babies' buttocks with her palms) Cry, babies, cry Ah! If you don’t cry, it means you have something wrong; if you cry, it means you are healthy... Hao Dashou: Crazy! Qin He: Who are you talking about? Hao Dashou: Talking about me! Qin He: Of course you can, but I can't. (Conceitedly) Because I am the most famous clay sculpture artist in Northeast Gaomi Township.Although some people disagree, that's their business.In the business of playing with mud, Lao Tzu is number one in the world.People must learn to elevate themselves. If you don’t regard yourself as a thing, then who will treat you as a thing? The children I created are real works of art, and each one is worth a hundred dollars.

Hao Dashou: Did you hear that? What does it mean to be shameless? When I was messing with the mud, you were still crawling on the ground looking for chicken shit to eat.Lao Tzu is a master of folk arts and crafts appointed by the county magistrate! What are you? Qin He: Comrades, friends, have you heard? Hao Dashou, you are not shameless, you are brazen, you are crazy, you are obsessive-compulsive, You have been making clay children all your life, and you haven't made a finished product yet. You always make one and destroy the other, always thinking that the next one will be better than the previous one.You're that stupid bear breaking sticks in the cornfield.Comrades, friends, look at those two hands of his, what are the "Hao Da hands", they are not hands at all, they are the claws of frogs, or the feet of ducks, with webbed membranes growing between the fingers...

Hao Dashou: (throws the mud in his hands at Qin He angrily) You shit! You crazy, get out of here immediately! Qin He: Why do you let me go? Hao Dashou: Because this is my home. Qin He: Who can prove that this is your home? (pointing to aunt and those hanging children) Can she prove it? Can they prove it? Hao Dashou: (pointing to aunt) Of course she can prove it. Qin He: How can she prove it? Hao Dashou: She is my wife! Qin He: Why do you say she is your wife? Hao Dashou: Because I was married to her. Qin He: Who can prove that you married her? Hao Dashou: Because I slept with her! Qin He: (painful, holding his head) No——! You are a liar! You lied to me, I wasted my youth for you, you promised me, you said you would never marry anyone, and you would never marry for the rest of your life !

Aunt: (Angrily scolding Hao Dashou) Why did you provoke him? I have an appointment with you. Hao Dashou: I forgot. Aunt: Did you forget? Let me remind you, I told you at the time that you can marry me, but you must accept him, treat him as my younger brother, let him be crazy, stupid, and talk nonsense; Take care of his food, his housing, and his clothes. Hao Dashou: I still want him to sleep with you, right? Aunt: Crazy, you are all crazy! Qin He: (fingers with big hands) He is the one who is insane, my nerves are normal! Hao Dashou: It's useless to shout, and it's useless to become angry.Even if you raise your fist higher than the tree, even if bright red cherries pop out of your eyes, even if horns grow out of your head, even if little birds fly out of your mouth, even if you grow all over your body with pig hair, it still cannot change who you are Crazy! This fact, with a steel chisel, is etched in stone!

Aunt: (sarcastically) Did you learn these crooked words from Tadpole’s script? Hao Dashou: (pointing at Qin He) Every two months, you have to stay in Feng Ershan Mental Hospital for three months .There, you wear tights, take sedatives, and if you can't do it, you have to sit in the electric chair.You are skinny and boned by them, with straight eyeballs, like an orphan in Africa.Your little face is covered with fly droppings, like an old wall. It has been two months since you escaped from there? Tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, should you go there again? (Realistic imitation of ambulance The siren of the car makes Qin He tremble all over, kneeling on the ground) You go in this time, don’t come out.A manic mental illness like you, if released, will add discordant factors to this harmonious society!

Aunt: Enough! Hao Dashou: If I were a doctor, I would lock you there forever. I would beat you with an electric baton, make you foam at the mouth, convulse all over your body, and put you in complete shock. You will never wake up.Even if you wake up, you will completely lose your memory. (Qin He hugs his head and rolls on the ground, letting out a heart-pounding scream.) Hao Dashou: You are called a donkey rolling, you are a little trick.roll.Keep rolling; look, your face has become longer; touch yourself, your ears have become bigger; you will soon become a donkey; the donkey pulls the mill and turns in circles in the mill. (Qin He is on all fours, with his buttocks up high, imitating a donkey pulling the mill) Yes, that's it, what a good donkey! After grinding the two liters of black beans, grind another bucket of sorghum.A good donkey does not need to wear blindfolds, and a good donkey will not steal flour from the millstone.Work hard, the master will not treat you badly, I have mixed the fodder, waiting for you to enjoy.

The aunt stepped forward to pull Qin He up, but Qin He bit her hand. Aunt: You don't know what to do. Hao Dashou: As I said, it’s none of your business here, so just take good care of those children, don’t let them freeze or starve.But neither should they be overfed nor overdressed.As you have repeatedly said: if a baby wants to be safe, three parts are hungry and three parts are cold. (Turning to Qin He) Why didn't you pull it? You lazy donkey.Do you have to whip you to work? Auntie: Stop torturing him! He is a sick man! Hao Dashou: Is he a patient? I think you are the patient! Qin He foamed at the mouth and passed out on the stage.

Du Dashou: Get up, don't pretend to be dead! You have played this trick more than once! I have seen this trick many times.A dung beetle on a dung heap can do such tricks.You're trying to frighten me by pretending to be dead, bah! I'm not afraid at all! You'd better be dead! You'll die right away, don't delay for a minute! Aunt hurried forward to treat Qin He.Hao Dashou stood up and stopped her. Hao Dashou: (Painfully) My patience has reached its limit.I will never allow you to treat him in that way... When my aunt moved to the left, Hao Da's hand moved to the left; when my aunt moved to the right, Hao's hand moved to the right.

Aunt: He is a patient! In the eyes of our doctors, there are only two kinds of people in the world: one is healthy and the other is sick.Even if he beat my parents yesterday, and today he has a sudden illness, I will forget my hatred and treat him; even if his brother had a seizure when he raped me, I will push him down for treatment! Hao Dashou: (The body suddenly becomes stiff, whispering in pain) After all you admit it, you still have an inexplicable ambiguous relationship with the two brothers. Aunt: This is history, and this is the history of civilization for thousands of years. Anyone who recognizes history is a historical materialist, and anyone who denies history is a historical idealist! Aunt: (sitting beside Qin He, pulling him into her arms, shaking like a baby in her arms, singing an indistinct song in a low voice) Thinking of you makes my heart ache...I want to cry when I think of you No tears...I want to write but can't find your address, want to sing but can't remember your lyrics...I want to kiss but can't find your mouth, want to hug but can't find your body... A child wearing a small green doulu (with a frog embroidered on it) with a scalp as smooth as a piece of watermelon rind leads a group of frogs in wheelchairs, on crutches and with bandages on their forelimbs (played by children) , Get out of that dark hole.The green boy shouted loudly: "Debt collection! Debt collection!" The "frogs" were croaking. With a scream, Gugu threw Qin He down, dodging the green kid and the group of frogs on the stage. Hao Dashou and the sober Qin He resisted the attacks of the green children and the frogs, protecting the aunt from the end.The green boy and the frogs chased him down. - the curtain falls