Chapter 3 third chapter

At that time, there was not a single family with a different surname in the village, and the village was also a village of the family. The copulation of close relatives finally led to the decline of the family, and the continuous birth of children with webbed hands and feet sent a warning to the wise people in the family. signal of.In the generation of the fourth master’s grandfather, the family formulated a regulation that strictly prohibited intermarriage of the same surname. Just like any correct progressive measure has an extremely inhumane side, this regulation is for the excellent family that eats green grass and poops odorless stool. The reproduction and prosperity of the human body is undoubtedly of revolutionary significance, but when it comes to a pair of young men and women with webbed membranes on their hands and feet who are in love, it seems inhumane.

In terms of seniority, these two people should be my old grandfather and old aunt. It is inconvenient to call them, so I use letters to represent them. A, is a young man; B, is a big girl.Both he and she are healthy and beautiful, and everything is normal except for the extra webs on the hands and feet that hold the fingers together.At that time, the swamp was full of red water. Before grazing cattle and sheep, and after harvesting sorghum, they would often take off their clothes and swim in the water.Because of the webbed hands and feet, he and she swim very well.During the swim, they caress each other with their webbed hands and feet to a certain degree of intensity, and they mate in the water.After the mating, he and she live together openly and announce their marriage, which is already the beginning of the second winter after that regulation was enacted.Some people say it is late autumn.Anyway, it was the time when sorghum stalks were harvested and clumped into large piles.This pair of little ancestors who flouted the laws and regulations were burned to death by the ancestors who made the laws and regulations.

On the high ground to the west of the current swamp, dry sorghum stalks from hundreds of years ago were paved to form a fluffy altar. Both A and B were stripped naked, and their bodies were covered with a layer of sticky butter. B's belly was already obvious Convex, one or two webbed babies probably sensed the danger coming, B put his hands on his belly as if protecting them and comforting them. All the family members gathered in front of the altar, and no one dared to speak. In the evening, when a full moon rose from behind what was now the swamp's watery moat, the sorghum stalks were ignited.The moonlight was bright and clear, and the cold moonlight in late autumn illuminated Shui Naozi like a huge bronze mirror, and everyone's faces were shining with bronze luster.The sorghum stalks began to burn, beeping, beeping, beeping, and rising with the initial thick smoke.At first, the light of the fire was not as bright as the moonlight. A dozen clusters of small dark red flames anxiously licked the soft and flammable sorghum leaves. When the flames burned the sorghum leaves, they bent with the shape of the sorghum leaves, like brightly colored little snakes crawling fast. .The unburned sorghum leaves were hit by the fire air, making a trembling sound.But the rustling sound from the top of the altar was not the result of the impact of the sound waves.The grandfather of the Fourth Master, who was only eight years old at the time, clearly saw the naked A and B trembling on the firelight under the moonlight.They trembled from the moment the torch was lit on the altar. The moonlight and firelight reflected their bodies into different colors. Dancing with a golden glow.They trembled more and more, the light of the fire became brighter, and the light of the moon became dimmer. When more than a dozen flames suddenly joined together and the moon disappeared behind the silver-gray twilight like a phantom, A and B also suddenly stood up.Their slender and beautiful bodies are shining with golden light, stirring everyone's heart.For a brief moment, the lovers looked at each other, then at each other, arms folded, and they flung themselves together, writhing and writhing in the blazing firelight, their webbed hands and feet touching each other. Touch me, I touch you, you bite me, I bite you, in the gap between their bite and kiss, their mouths let out the joyous cry of a frog courting... This vigorous love tragedy, this family history Shocking scandals, touching feats, inhumane acts of brutality, great milestones, dirty pillars of shame, great progress, stupid regression... Hundreds of years have passed, but the fire has never been extinguished, it lurks in the The heart of every member of the family blazes at every opportunity.

Regarding this burning, each family member has his own set of narrative methods.The Fourth Master has the narrative style of the Fourth Master, and the Ninth Master has the narrative style of the Ninth Master. I firmly believe that behind this big event, there should be more dramatic details and more "tricks". The burden of investigating, researching, analyzing, criticizing, researching, and resolving in that era undoubtedly fell on my shoulders. Of course, the actual fire was extinguished that very night.The moon, which reappeared its snow-white face, sprinkled its brilliance all over the earth, and the silver light shone in the naozi, and the fields were covered with frost. A and B disappeared into the pile of dark red ashes.As the autumn wind passed by, the ashes were slightly bright red, and clusters of tangy aroma stood on the lonely and empty fields in late autumn.

The fire light once so vividly illuminated the faces of the ancestors, and the impression of the fire shines on the souls of the family members today. On the night when the fourth master discovered that the locusts were unearthed, he finally captured the fourth mother's lover, Li Dayuan, a curium maker in Liushakouzi Village.This important harvest made the fourth master excited and angry-although it was a harvest that seemed to be a conspiracy, intentional or long-awaited by the fourth master, but the fourth master lit the lamp and saw him squatting on the corner of the kang, hugging his shoulders and trembling When seeing the shivering, naked fourth mother and the young and strong Li Dayuan, a fire of anger and jealousy still burned in his chest.Master Nine rushed into the house with a fresh locust tree branch. The tree branch has sharp black thorns and tender green leaves. There are more than a dozen branches branching out from the top, fluffy like a big broom—— This is a real weapon, named "Wolf Whip" in ancient times, and it is the nemesis of cavalry.

Everything was watched by the fourth master. When spring first started, the melodious singing of the curium pot maker to attract business rang frequently in the alley, and the fourth master knew it in his heart.From now on, the frequent breakage of the pots and pans at home and the reddish and coy appearance of the fourth mother when she heard the singing of the curium pottery made the fourth master more confident. up. The fourth master himself said that he didn't like the fourth mother from the first night of his marriage, because the fourth mother's mouth had a taste like copper rust.The fourth master once advised the fourth mother to learn to chew thatch like all the women married into this family, but the fourth mother flatly refused.My mother can vividly imitate the voice and shape of the fourth mother when she speaks.From my mother's performance, I know that the fourth mother is a strong, tall woman with a loud voice.She has fair skin and big breasts. According to modern standards, she should be considered a first-class woman, but the fourth master just doesn't like her.Mother said that whenever the fourth master persuaded her to eat thatch to cure the copper rust taste in her mouth, she scolded the fourth master: Donkey bastard, you want my mother to be a donkey?

The fourth master said that as soon as he smelled the smell of copper in the fourth mother's mouth, he would not be able to do things like men and women, so he never liked this woman.The widow of the fifth master in the family, the fifth mother, exposed the lie of the fourth master on the spot. The fifth mother said: Fourth brother, don't speak out of your conscience. Yes, tsk tsk, it's a hot day, and your body is sticky with sweat, you don't think it's too hot when you hug each other, and you don't think her mouth smells like copper!You hooked up with that little goblin in the red coat in Liushakouzi to dislike fourth sister-in-law. You brothers are all the same coquettish foxes. We didn't steal a man like fourth sister-in-law. We are so honest!

The fourth master often said to the fifth mother who exposed his secrets: Brother and sister, don't talk nonsense.The fifth mother retorted on the spot: Why is it nonsense?You stinky bastards, sticking your dick up, poke the girl in the East Village today, and the daughter-in-law in the West Village tomorrow, leave your own wife behind and work hard, mosquitoes, flies and maggots are still trying to match up, the fourth sister-in-law is alive and kicking Woman, fourth old man, you are not a good thing. On nights of drinking evening tea in autumn and winter, and nights enjoying the cool air in spring and summer, the fifth old mother’s incisive critiques of the fourth old man are wonderful repertoires. We juniors are amused by the laughter, and after laughing, we often think wildly.The era of locust plagues, the era of locust plagues and rioting soldiers at the same time, the era of locust plagues and soldiers rioting at the same time, is really colorful and fascinating.

The excitement aroused by the unearthed locusts cast a layer of mystery on the streets and alleys of the village. When the fourth master rode a dusty little donkey into his alley, he heard the curly potter sing Sing: Curium Pot, Curium Pot——This clean and thick singing is like a scorching fire stick piercing into the fourth master's thoughts, which are swarming like locusts crawling, making him return from the confused world of ghosts and gods to the world of human beings. world, he felt searing pain.Curium Tinker is hovering in front of his house.The sun was shining brightly, and summer came suddenly. The willow tree at the door was downcast. The dark red willow debris was the feces of beetle larvae stuck to the trunk in clusters, very much like unearthed locusts.Curium Potmaker carried pots, pans and pans on a wide and long dark red pole and wandered around the willow tree. The big blue drape on his shoulders looked like the wings of a crow, and his dark red chest was exposed.Seeing the Fourth Master come back riding a donkey, Curium Potsmith was taken aback for a moment, then walked forward calmly.He continued to sing that monotonous and oily song.From his singing, the fourth master couldn't hear the slightest bit of guilt in him, and the fourth master felt the anger of being insulted.

The fourth master tied the exhausted donkey under the willow tree. The donkey opened its mouth to gnaw the bark. It turned its lips and bared its snow-white long teeth and gnawed the tattered bark irritably, like gnawing on a tree. Skinning is a task that must be completed assigned by the fourth master. The fourth mother came out with a black bowl that had been broken in two, and bumped into the fourth master who was about to enter the door. Hmph, the fourth master let out a burst of cold air from between his teeth, curled his mouth, and looked at the fourth mother viciously. The fourth mother blushed.The fourth mother's face turned white.The fourth mother's clothes are neat and tidy, and her hair is smooth and smooth with shavings just applied.She looked a little nervous holding a petal bowl in one hand.

Dropped another bowl?The fourth master said coldly. The cat broke!The fourth mother replied angrily. The fourth master walked into the house and saw the pregnant female cat curled up on the pot and snoring and sleeping with its bulky body.Curium Tinker was walking on the embankment behind the house, and his singing came provocatively through the crack in the back door. The fourth master touched the back of the cat. The cat opened its eyes and let out a lazily cry. Eat, eat, said the fourth master. There are locusts in the field.The fourth master said while eating. Tonight I fell asleep in the pharmacy, and a mouse gnawed a big hole in the medicine cabinet.The fourth master finished his meal, chewed a bunch of thatch roots, and said hummingly. The fourth mother sneered and said nothing. The whole afternoon, the fourth master sat behind the counter of the pharmacy in a daze.Sitting behind the counter, he can clearly see all the people on the street.The news that the fields were infested with small, ant-like locusts seemed to have spread quickly through the village, groups of people hurried to the fields, and groups of people hurried back from the fields.In the evening, on the street, in the scorching red sun, there was dark red dust, and there were some brown people walking in the light and the soil. A group of people flocked to the pharmacy, and they stared at the Fourth Master sternly like a judge, and the Fourth Master also stared at them.Because of the complex emotions aroused by Curium Potmaker's beautiful oil cavity, everything the fourth master saw looked like locusts that were about to move. Fourth Master, what should we do? Please come up with an idea, fourth master. The fourth master temporarily put aside the night's action plan and looked at the people in the clan and the village at the same time. Have you all seen the worm? We've all seen the grasshopper. It's not a grasshopper, it's a god bug! God bug?God worm, god worm! At night, I had a dream... The fourth master stuffed a bunch of thatch roots into his mouth and chewed slowly, looking at the dust flying in the golden light of the street with his eyes, as if he was trying to recall his dream. The fourth master said that in his dream, he rode a donkey and walked slowly on the bluestone road in front of the county government office, and the donkey's hooves knocked on the stone slabs, making a crisp, rattling sound.A bright red pony came head-on. The pony didn't have a saddle, and immediately sat an old man with a red beard and big eyes.The horse's hooves knocked on the bluestone road, and there was also a rattling sound.When the horse and the donkey met, they automatically stopped their hooves. The fourth master stared at the old man on the red pony, and the old man on the red pony stared at the fourth master on the donkey.The fourth master said that the old man asked him if he was from Northeast Gaomi Township, and the fourth master said yes.The old man said, I have hundreds of millions of people who are going to be born on that land, and I plan to eat it until there is no grass left.The leader of the grazing family met the leader of the even more grazing family, and the fourth master was a little frightened.The fourth master said that you have eaten so much grass, how can I live?The fourth master said that the old man said you go back and lead the construction of a temple!The fourth master asked what kind of temple to build, the old man said to build a wax temple, and the fourth master asked what kind of gods were built in the temple, the old man jumped off his horse deftly and landed on the bluestone road.Where is the old man?The fourth master said that he saw a big fiery red grasshopper as big as a lamb lying on the bluestone road.The grasshopper's two eyes are like two papayas, and two big green teeth stick out of its big horse-like mouth.There are four rows of dog-tooth-like hard thorns growing on the two propped up hind legs.It is covered with golden armor.The fourth master said that he rolled off the donkey's back, knelt down and worshiped, the grasshopper king jumped up, his wings clipped, and a red light rushed into the sky, flying towards our Northeast Township.The horse raised its mane and ran east along the bluestone road, leaving behind a series of resounding hoofbeats... After hearing the fourth master's dream, all the people present held their breaths. The fiery red grasshopper seems to be parked on a certain alley in the village or in the courtyard of a certain household, monitoring the actions of the villagers. If you don't build a temple... the fourth master said hesitantly and meaningfully. If the temple is not built, the Grasshopper King will lead his hundreds of millions of soldiers to gnaw down the Northeast Gaomi Township until there are no grass sprouts left. At that time, the green fields will disappear, and the black land covered with salt scabs will be exposed everywhere. There are no reeds and water plants left in the red swamp, and red mud is everywhere in the red swamp. At that time, cattle and sheep will starve to death, and red foxes and yellow hares hiding in the reeds in the swamp will run out of the swamp , in the middle of the night, in the streets and alleys, outside the walls of other people's courtyards, wandering around, screaming mournfully... Fourth Master, everything is up to you. The fourth master pondered for a moment and said, the big guy trusts me, what else can I say?Let's pool money to build temples, according to the head, one ocean per head. In the process of raising funds to build the wax temple, did the fourth master embezzle a sum of money as people privately said?I have always wanted to find the right time to conduct a heart-to-heart and heart-to-heart battle with the fourth master. I have a premonition that this time is approaching. The 40-year-old fourth master is already 90 years old. Even though he chews grass every day, his jaw has begun to loosen. The fourth master sent everyone away, picked up a sharp ax from the shelf in the counter, carried a high stool, and stood under the locust tree. The stars in the sky were shining brightly, and the stars were noisy, like a swarm of locusts.After he stood on the bench, he saw the stars approaching him, and the starlight shone on the oval-shaped melons and spindle-shaped loofahs hanging from a branch that protruded horizontally.They were immature, and the intertwined melon vines were mixed with clusters of white melon flowers and light yellow loofah flowers the size of copper coins. Of course, the fourth master could smell their faint medicinal fragrance.The fourth master raised his ax and chopped on the branch of the tree, the branches, leaves, flowers and fruits shook together. What weapon to hold to find an adulterer? It was the fourth master who had considered for an entire afternoon. The choice of this locust tree branch with many branches fully demonstrated the fourth master's extraordinary intelligence and terrifying ability to imagine. Li Dayuan, the curium maker who snatched the door and escaped, suffered a lot. The fourth master holds a weapon in his hand, and carries a box of expensive white-headed matches that he is reluctant to use on weekdays.He slipped out of the pharmacy briskly and walked through a dark alley. The chirping calls of dozens of grasshoppers lying on the lentil vine leaves on the wall wove a sparse net, covering the secret activities of the fourth master.The mechanism on the gate is very simple: a thick iron wire folded into the shape of a fishhook goes in through the hole of the gate, hooks the latch, and it is enough to flick it lightly.Only the old cat could hear this small sound.In order to prevent the noise when opening the door, the fourth master had already poured lubricating oil into the shaft socket of the door, and the door was opened silently.The fourth master held the tree branch with rich front end in both hands, kicked open the door of the main room, rushed into the main room, and the door was also kicked open.The shrieks of the fourth mother being woken up from a sweet dream came from inside the room, but the fourth master was holding his breath, holding the branch of the locust tree tightly with both hands and aiming at the open door.His eyes glowed green due to anger, like a cat's eyes, and the fourth master could see everything in the dark that night. Before entering the gate, the fourth master conducted a careful reconnaissance to avoid alarming the enemy.He first saw the curium potter's belongings and pole beside the latrine pit in the toilet, and his anger made him tremble all over.He gritted his teeth to stop trembling and sneaked out of the window, carefully discerning the movement in the room.The two snored equally heavily (the fourth master said that the fourth mother's snoring made him sleepless and one of the reasons why he hated her), and when it reached his ears he almost coughed, and then he kicked Two doors were opened, and the fourth master, holding a locust tree branch, stood outside the door, like a cunning and vicious hunter. Even though Li Dayuan, the curium cooker, was fierce-minded, he couldn't keep his composure at this particular moment.He dragged a piece of clothing, jumped off the kang in a daze, and rushed into the main room.The fourth master looked at him kindly, and stabbed the tree branch towards his face.One stabbed, one bumped, one was the evil fire attacking the heart, and the other was the dog jumping over the wall in a hurry. The two worked together to make the locust tree branch used as a weapon exert its greatest power. The fourth master felt that the sharp branches of the locust tree had pierced into Li Dayuan's face.Li Dayuan let out an inhuman scream, staggered back, and sat back on the edge of the Kang. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the fourth master took out a match, stroked it, and lit the kerosene lamp on the door frame. The fourth master let out a sneer, and once again raised the branch of the locust tree.The light was shining, and Curium Potsmith's face was full of dirty blood, and one eye was sunken, and white water and black water mixed and flowed out of the eye socket. The fourth master was greasy in his heart, his arms were sore and weak, but he still insisted on poking the fork of the locust tree into Curium Potsmith's chest indiscriminately. Curium Tinker did not resist, but covered his face with his two big hands as if shy, the blood crawled out from between his fingers, onto the back of his hand, and then onto his forearm, where it stayed for a while, Dripping to the ground.When the fourth master's tree branch stabbed his chest, only the muscles at the poked site trembled, and his limbs, head and neck did not respond.The fourth master was defeated by Curium Tinker's resignation and sacrifice, and his arms holding the tree branch limply drooped. The fourth mother burst into tears, tears streaming down. The fourth old master was aroused by the fourth mother's crying, and he poked the fourth old mother's chest with a locust tree branch, and the fourth old mother also covered her face with her hands, and she was also not afraid of the pain.When the fourth master saw that the slanted locust tree branch with a green and white stubble with a young leaf pressed against the fourth mother's snow-white and soft breast, as if it would immediately pierce the breast, his arm seemed to be violently attacked. It hung down like a blow, and the branch fell to the ground in front of the kang after a delay on the kang.The fourth master felt exhausted, trembling in his heart, and a heavy sense of guilt welled up in his heart. He suddenly thought that if a female dog in heat and a strong male dog were put together, the two dogs would mate. It's what's bound to happen.Looking at the broken face of the curium pottery, the fourth master felt guilty, he couldn't help it, he took a step back, and sat on a heavy catalpa. you go!The fourth master said. Curium Potsmith maintained his fixed posture stiffly, as if he didn't hear the Fourth Master's words. The fourth master picked up the two big shoes of the tinkerer from the ground, and said to the fourth mother: Bitch, stop howling, bandage him up and let him go! The fourth master walked out of the house, out of the courtyard, and walked down the dark alley with heavy steps.The pea flowers on the top of the wall are clusters of indistinct white shadows, the chirping of grasshoppers is a floating silk thread, and the stars in the sky are blinking their eyes in fear.