Chapter 48 first quarter

Winter in Chengdu Plain is the worst time, the sky is often covered by thick gray clouds, from morning to night, from today to tomorrow, it is always the same; There is no power to lift this bleak cloud curtain a little bit.In the field, the little spring has not yet grown, it is a winter paddy field, and it stores water. From a distance, except for the clean open space, it is a block of paddy fields, reflecting the sky, like a paddy field like a pond. .However, there are many evergreen trees. Every farm is covered by evergreen trees and various bamboos, and there is a large clump not far away.If you look down from the sky, it really looks like the orderly and chaotic things children put up when they play. If it is spring and summer, it is a small island of blue snails in the vast green waves, or the snails among the flower beds in foreign gardens. bonsai.

The weather is not very cold, and it is rare to see snow once in ten or twenty years. Even if there is snow, it is pitiful like a thick layer of frost.But the rich people in the city should be more afraid of the cold. For example, in the Hao mansion, in addition to the cotton trousers and tight cotton pants, the upper and lower people have already worn sheepskin jackets, fox fur robes, and lynx cats. Wolongdai, before getting out of bed, has already set the copper brazier on fire, but it is a little different from other places, that is, it only wants to let the fire warm, but the windows have to be opened, even if it is a north-facing room, it is the same.

After all, the people in the village are different. Although it is said that the wind is stronger in the village, they are not as afraid of the cold as the people in the city.Now that Uncle Deng, who is fighting against the north wind on the main road and walking back to the side courtyard of the ancestral hall, isn't it just a pair of woolen blue trousers tied up high?Isn't it the same as on a summer day, wearing a pair of straw sandals on bare feet?But the upper body needs to be worn more: on top of the cotton padded jacket, an old sheepskin mandarin jacket is added. According to the rules, the chest is open and not fastened.The braids are coiled on the head, and the braids are covered with an old blue swallow felt hat.It was a little rainy day, and he held a large yellow oiled paper umbrella in his hand.Even though his neck was bowed due to the years and hard work, his back was bent and his shoulders were shrugged, but his red-brown, wrinkled and healthy face seemed a bit shy.

Although there was no timid look on his face, just like the sky, there was a kind of gray sadness.This worry is not newly painted, it has been brought on since the day my son-in-law was arrested and my daughter was injured. He went to the city again today to visit his son-in-law in Kafang, Chengdu County.It was so melancholy when I went there, and it was still so melancholy when I returned.But recently it has been a little bit better. One is that her daughter's injuries have all healed up. It seems that she was beaten so hard, as if every bone was wounded. Fortunately, she recovered and recovered without any scar or disability; the other is the anxious days. After a long time, I have felt a kind of numbness emotionally, as if I have run out of personnel, so I have to wear it down and let God arrange it.

He entered the yard, and saw his daughter was sitting timidly on a low bamboo stool outside the door, with her hands tucked into the oven, and the golden children were sitting on the ground, holding a newly acquired one. Playthings are playing. She raised her head and stared at him blankly.Although her face was no longer as haggard and dismal as she had been when she was ill, and although she had put on some makeup and powder, compared with before, her expression was somehow duller and more desolate, her eyes were dull, and her tongue was too lazy to use. He stood in front of her and said, "It's windy outside, why don't you sit in the main room?"

She shook her head, and waited until her father entered the room to put down the umbrella, came out, and gave Jinwazi a piece of chicken bone candy he had brought back, sat on a high bench, took out the rawhide leaf cigarette case, and rolled it up. When she was smoking the tobacco leaves, she said coldly, "Is it still the same?" She seemed to be asking him, but her eyes were on her son. Mrs. Deng had just finished her work and walked out of the kitchen, putting down her sleeves while complaining that the beef was too old.Seeing that Uncle Deng had returned, he shouted loudly: "Do you know what kind of old beef you cut on the field? It's hard to stew with a few drops of water on this damn day!"

Uncle Deng raised his head and said: "People say it's good yellow beef. I bought it after asking clearly. It's still worth the price, thirty-two yuan a catty!" The two old men blamed each other and argued with each other, and they almost quarreled.Their Yao girl Fang frowned, and said to the two of them together: "That is bothering you? You can't cook beef, and you can't buy beef. You don't eat this kind of food, but you want to listen to other people's chaos." Said: Beef makes up people, beef makes people up! Why bother to spend money and trouble yourself! Let me tell you first, and you will spend money again, and I still won’t eat it.”

Aunt Deng quickly said: "Why don't you eat it? You are still so vain!" "Don't eat! Don't eat!" She pouted and said no more, the two old men glanced at each other, the man smoked a cigarette and shook his head; the woman sighed and hugged the golden baby into her arms. After a while of silence, Mrs. Deng suddenly asked her husband, "Is Brother Cai's acne healed?" Uncle Deng sighed and said, "Well, it's over. I heard that there will be more beatings. If you don't confess, you will have to be pinned, kneel and carry the box, and sit in a hanging cage!"

Sister-in-law Cai suddenly shivered, her eyes were moistened, and she said to her father: "You didn't ask brother, how can you think of a way to ease this case?" Her father raised his head and said, "Is there any way? The government is very serious about the foreigner's case, unless the foreigner doesn't ask questions and then let go." She said bitterly: "I don't know that evil thing has poisoned us!" Her mother said: "It's also a strange thing! I heard all the dead letters from Uncle Zhu, and I can't find out the whereabouts of Mr. Luo. It would be great if I knew a little bit!"

Aunt Cai looked at her and said, "What do you mean? Are you going to ask a fool to confess old Cousin Luo?" "Why not? If you confess, you will not be released from prison for a while, and you will not be subject to those punishments! Aunt Yao, you didn't see it! I went to see him the other day, and he was beaten so hard with the board alone. Come on, taste bowl-sized rotten meat, like rotten persimmons! You still talk about carrying boxes and sticks?... Alas! I don’t know what kind of luck you two have! It’s so wrong that the family is ruined, you are defeated Hit him, and he will be punished by the official!..."

Sister Cai also let out a long sigh, and kept her head down. Her mother said again: "Speaking of which, why don't you blame your old cousin Luo? You are going to do those disasters to hurt people! He ran away clean and hurt people like this!  … " "Mom, you said that again. I know it clearly. He didn't do that. On the day of Sandaoyan's accident, he was ill. He slept on my bed all day and didn't even come out of the room." "Aunt Yao, you still have to lean towards him! I also know your flirting. If you say that he really loves you, he shouldn't run away! Whether he is true or not, if he falls on his head, he will cut off his head You should bear it too! Don’t the people who ran across the beach not know that they would be a burden to others? They just ran away. People like them don’t have ears? You were beaten severely, and Brother Cai was arrested and tortured by the officials He will not know at all? He really loves you, and after so long, he should come out and surrender himself! If he doesn’t surrender himself, he should secretly visit you! Such a heartless person! You still want to favor him !..." When Mrs. Cai first heard it, she looked a little angry, but after hearing it, she fell silent and lowered her head. "...It's the people next to me. It doesn't matter. He still has a heart. You see, Master Gu Sangong is neither your relative nor your friend, and he has never been in contact with you on weekdays. Speaking of it, it's just your cousin Luo who went to the casino. A faint friend. He is so caring. In the past half a month alone, he has visited you a few times. He even sent things to you, and even said he would help you to solve the case..." Uncle Deng interjected: "Speaking of Master Gu Sangong, I remembered. Your elder brother knows him. Speaking of today, he asked me if my name is Gu Tiancheng. When he comes the next day, ask him. Aunt Cai raised her head, stared at her father and said, "Brother, do you know him? His name is Gu Tiancheng." "Then, it must be him. Your eldest brother knows one of his brothers, named Gu Tianxiang. Speaking of which, he is very famous now, and he is also a big grain farmer and has been taught." His wife stood up and said, "Why didn't you tell the eldest child earlier? If you knew he was a teacher, you should entrust him earlier!" "What's the benefit of entrusting him? He's not a foreigner." "You are so stupid! The person who is being taught can be regarded as a half-foreigner. As long as he is willing to ask foreigners, why can't he make any sense? No wonder he said he would help and loosen the case?..."