The long-distance bus from Yan'an to Xi'an left the iron gate of the station at dawn.The fourth sister's forehead was stuck to the window glass covered with a layer of loess dust, and she took a last look at Da Da and her mother who sent her on a long journey. Mom ran after the car, crying and shouting, Da Ye ran clumsily After a few steps, she wiped her tears with her sleeves—but the scene of her mother taking out shit appeared in her mind. Ma used a stone mill to grind the bran that had been crushed over millet until it became yellowish bran flour, exactly the same color as the loess on which the millet grew.Mom mixed the bran noodles with water, patted and kneaded them, and made them into round pancakes. When they were cooked in the pot, the fourth sister could smell a tempting fragrance when she climbed on the pot.When she bit the bran flour bread into her mouth, the scent disappeared completely, like chewing a mouthful of fine sand, the more she chewed, the more she chewed, the more she chewed, the more she couldn't swallow it down.Mom patiently taught her the essentials of eating bran pancakes: bite smaller, chew slowly, wait for the saliva in the mouth to soften the bran noodles, and then swallow them suddenly.She tried it, and she swallowed it smoothly, although she still had to stretch her neck unavoidably.Bran pancakes are unpalatable and unpalatable, but the worst thing is that you can’t pull them out after eating them. Your eyes will be straight, your face will be red and your veins will pop, but you still can’t pull them out.Shit has become an insurmountable difficulty, an inescapable burden, and an inextricable pain.Helpless, she had no choice but to stick up her buttocks and let her mother use a wire ring with a handle to pull out one by one, like small dung pulled by a lamb.

While digging for her, her mother told her that bran pancakes should not be eaten too much at one time, otherwise they would be clogged, and must be eaten with sauerkraut, as the nature of sauerkraut is cold.She doesn't believe it.Since Mom can teach her how to eat chaff reasonably, why does Mom have to dig shit for her?Once, in the hut next to the cave dwelling, she saw her mother sticking out her white buttocks, with her hands on the ground, a cigarette pipe in her big mouth, holding the wire ring with a handle, and saying He said some strange words, which made my mother dumbfounded, and cursed Da ruthlessly.When the freshman saw her, his face suddenly darkened, and he scolded her to roll away immediately.Another time, she saw the scene where Mom was digging shit out for Da. Da’s posture was stupid, with his hands on the ground, his bare head against the stone on the low wall of the hut, sticking out his black buttocks, and moaning loudly .She already knew that she shouldn't watch adults do this kind of action, and before her mother found out, she quietly avoided it.

When she was a child, it was all right to let her mother dig out shit for her, and she even felt an unusually warm feeling when her mother's palms were stroking her buttocks. When she began to understand shame and ugliness, she couldn't take off her pants in front of her mother.She found the neighbor's sister E'e, and the two hid in the corner of the mountain, asking Sister E'e to help her, and Sister E'e sometimes needed her help. The bus sped down the valley.The fourth sister can tell at a glance that the passengers on the bus can be roughly divided into two categories, one is clean-dressed public servants, the other is local peasants. The rural lads in the city can tell at a glance that they are also chaff-eating characters. Those cadres or workers, in short, are the passengers of the public family, and they seem to have better digestion than the passengers of the peasants. People began to chew, some chewed dim sum, cakes, bread, some gnawed apples and pears, and muttered dissatisfaction while chewing. The dim sum in Yan'an has no oil, it is dry noodles and sesame cakes!The cakes in Yan'an are so gross that they are harder than rocks!Those farmer passengers like Fourth Sister seemed to overeat and satiate themselves. They didn't chew or complain, but just held the pipes in their hands and exhaled choking smoke.

Si Meizi naturally belongs to the category of neither chewing nor complaining.It was unseemly to watch people eat, it was a pain to hear people chewing cakes (albeit as hard as rocks) and apples, and it was so exasperating to hear the muttering of complaints that she averted her eyes. To the window glass.Bald mountains and barren beams dodge, tree canopy dodges, and black sheep and white sheep sticking to the ground also dodge. The first thing she can remember was holding the doll for her mother. She could never finish holding the doll. Just now, her younger brother would run away, and her mother put a younger sister into her hands; she had just taught her younger sister to move. There was another monkey baby on the floor crying, waiting for her to hold it again.The boss who grew up in a farmer's family, especially girls, who can avoid the hard work of hugging and guiding younger siblings for their mothers!When the younger sister was able to hold the younger brother, she put a small back basket on her shoulders and carried the ashes up the mountain.I went down the mountain with grain ears, and lay on the kang at night, my shoulders hurt so much that I couldn't sleep.Mom said that it will be fine after a long time.After carrying it for two years, her shoulder still hurts.Da said that after ten or twenty years of reciting, the pain will not be gone, and he showed his shoulders.The fourth sister saw that on both sides of the big shoulders, there were two black bumps the size of a raised fist. When she touched it with her hands, it was harder than a stone.Da said that only by letting the loops of the back basket pull out these two lumps of dead meat can he carry more than two hundred catties of dung up the mountain.Fourth Sister was very frightened, it would be so ugly to have two black and ugly dead fleshy bumps growing on her shoulders.

Her close seatmate is a middle-aged woman who is a chewer and is very talkative. She keeps asking which county, which commune and which village the fourth sister is from, and what she is doing in Xi'an, and The fourth sister was frightened, could it be a policeman in plain clothes at the police station?She only talked about looking for relatives in Xi'an, and then said nothing. When she was carrying her younger sister to the fifth grade in elementary school, a strange lame man came to the house and spoke a ridiculous foreign dialect. The next day, he led the second aunt away, and her mother told her to call the lame uncle uncle.She looked down on the lame man, and led away the dear and lovely second aunt with his bearish appearance.She also looked down on the second aunt, and she couldn't marry anyone, so she was going to marry that bastard with one leg tall and one leg low?Before the Spring Festival this year, the lame uncle came and brought three bags full of white noodles. For the first time in his life, the fourth sister filled his stomach with thin and tough noodles, and led the lame uncle to go sightseeing all over the mountains and valleys. I don't call him lame anymore, but just affectionately call him uncle.My uncle told her that there is a lot of Pingchuan in their place, and you can ride a bicycle for two or three days without reaching the end; Pingchuan produces a lot of wheat, and the wheat stalks grow as high as your neck. Guokui, two-foot-long wide noodles, is a common meal.The women and aunts from the neighbors who had ridiculed the second aunt for marrying a cripple came to the kiln one after another, begging the mother to send a message to the second aunt, so that the second aunt would find their daughter in the Guanzhong Plain where the wheat is eaten all year round. A husband's family can be a cripple, a landlord or a rich peasant.Even if it is a poor peasant with two long legs, what can he do?It's not like stretching your neck to swallow chaff, sticking your butt to make people dig shit!The fourth sister is eighteen or nineteen years old, and now she takes a bus to Xi'an. The second aunt and the lame uncle pick her up at the bus station in Xi'an, and then transfer to a car to go to the village called Yangjiaxie where the second aunt lives. Find her a husband's family in some village there... For such a humble purpose, how could Fourth Sister have the nerve to tell the irrelevant middle-aged female cadre in the same seat?

The female cadres in the same seat not only like to chew food, but also like to chew their tongues, and their accent is a native of Yan'an.She said that she had been away from Yan'an for more than 20 years, she missed Yan'an, dreamed of Yan'an, and never had a chance to come back and take a look.When I came back this time, I really revisited the revolutionary tradition, and I will never forget it in my life.The fourth sister was confused, and she didn't know why this female cadre had such a strange mood.The fourth sister knows that among the hundred and ten households in Liujiamao alone, there are more than 30 people who are now county magistrates or above. When they returned to Liujiamao, they also said that they were similar to this female cadre. if.The fourth sister thought, if they are allowed to eat chaffy pancakes now, sticking their buttocks and letting other people take shit, they will...

After the car passed Tongchuan, Simeizi suddenly exclaimed——Oh!In front of her eyes, a vast and endless wilderness suddenly unfolded, the wheat seedlings turned green, the peach blossoms were red, and the willows were green.Is this the Guanzhong Plain that the lame uncle boasted about eating wheat all year round?Ah - how thick the wheat seedlings are!Ah - how big the village is!Ah - what a tall tile-roofed house!Well!Those one-hole earthen kilns lined up along the cliff in my hometown can't even find a shadow in this plain area.