Chapter 32 Chapter Four

Our father told us how he followed his two cousins ​​and slaughtered his great-grandfather and great-grandmother the night and the next morning after Beihong appeared, and then he took the hoe and went to the ground.It was clear to us that it would be impossible for our father to recount coherently what had happened over time.When my father narrated just now, he used a very unified first person. This is a rare phenomenon, and it is difficult to repeat such a rare phenomenon. According to our experience, those who survived the catastrophe are always a little confused.The outstanding performance is the confusing person.The confusion of the person means that he stands now on the ground of the present and now on the ground of the past.Suddenly he was immersed in the memory of history talking to himself, and suddenly he became an elder who told the history to the younger generation.We sat in the well-ventilated and spacious gatehouse, watching our iron-strong father walk barefoot and shirtless into the field under the strong sun, feeling our own souls pale as papyrus soaked in rain.The glorious history of the vigorous herbivorous family has become the past, and everything in the past is so rich and intricate.It was us, not our fathers, who were really confused about what had happened.How can a person who can change his perspective freely and constantly change his perspective to tell history be confused?How can a man who tells a thing ten times and still entertains his listeners get confused?Father's mind is as clear as a mirror.

He didn't explain to us the ins and outs of the middle-aged woman who finally appeared on the bridge and accurately cut up the flesh of our grandma.She appeared and disappeared suddenly, like a rainbow in the sky.We once thought that she might be related to the second aunt, and we also thought that she was the incarnation of the weird and beautiful Beihong.In that era, there were pink webbed membranes growing between human fingers, foxes could temper saliva into shining elixir, weasels could command women to sing and dance, so what was a woman who came and went without a trace?