Chapter 2 Chapter Two Six Fingers

In the second year when Xiaoding went to the countryside, he was found to be suffering from schistosomiasis and was sent to the town's schistosomiasis station for hospitalization.One day, at dawn, Xiao Ding, who was tortured to death by antimony potassium tartrate, finally fell asleep and was woken up again. In the darkness, two educated youths in his team were huddled side by side in the narrow aisle between the two hospital beds, laughing softly while bending over to put something into his bedside cabinet.The thing was poured out from a bag, and it made a dull "chug" sound in the cabinet.

"What the hell are you doing?" Xiao Ding bowed his body with difficulty. "Shhh—" they raised their bodies, and after listening to the heavy breathing on the bed next to Xiaoding, they said furtively, "I'm here to make pears with you." "Where did you get it?" "From the town forest farm." "Why, today isn't the Six Fingers Vigil?" "Exactly. "Then how do you..." "It's wonderful here." ... Stealing pears during Liuzhizhi's vigil is equivalent to stealing ganoderma grass from the Queen Mother's back garden.

Liuzhi first took care of the orchard at the town forest farm (an orchard of several acres of land).He was called "Sixfingers" for two reasons: one because he actually had six fingers on one hand, and the other because of his character. "Six fingers" is an etymologically indecent metaphor in the local dialect (the original text is "squeeze a dick to fill six fingers"). A hero (sometimes said to be a hot pepper), a showman.However, the samadhi here is all up to you depending on the specific situation.For example, Liuzhitou from the town forest farm is not a showy person.It is said that he is "filling six fingers", mainly because he has a sense of responsibility that is beyond ordinary people - as long as people give him some responsibility, even if it is only a small amount of responsibility, he will immediately feel that the rise and fall of the world depends on him.

The forest farm is a town-run enterprise, and they get paid on a monthly basis and eat fixed-sale grain.Liuzhitou is not an official employee of the forest farm.He used to grow vegetables in the production team.After there was an educated youth in the brigade, he was temporarily recruited to carry water and fire for the newly opened cafeteria. Most of the people who can enter the town to run enterprises are somewhat related to cadres, big or small.And he was born in a rich peasant, which belongs to "children who can be educated well".Before "education is good", they are similar to rich people in the land.Therefore, when he left the production team, many people felt aggrieved and felt that there was something wrong with the class line of the brigade.Everyone knows that Liuzhitou's tailor girl, Sang Ye, is the concubine of brigade secretary Yin Daoyan.It was this light that Liufinger touched.Needless to say, Liufingers must feel ashamed in his heart.

Perhaps it was this kind of guilt that became the basis for Liufinger's sense of responsibility. He was well dressed all day long, his clothes buttoned all the way to the collar.No matter how hot it is, never open your neckline, roll up your sleeves and trouser legs.What he does is indeed impeccable: the water tank in the cafeteria is always full; it is difficult to see the pools of water in front of the water tank; the chopping boards are washed so that the wood grains can be counted; There are accumulated ashes; the stacks of the hardwood he chopped out are as neat as the matches in the matchbox; the bamboo fences he weaves in the vegetable garden seem to be woven out of knitting.

He occupies a corner in the storeroom of the cafeteria.This corner was tidied up like a bridal chamber: the table next to the bedside was a pesticide packing box, but it was papered white with white paper.The small oil lamp on it (there is no electric light installed in the warehouse) and the lampshade are spotlessly wiped (this small oil lamp was bought by the public); his bed is covered with thick straw, and he uses two pieces of old sacks that have been washed white (used as a mattress) ) carefully wrapped so that not a single blade of grass can be exposed; a quilt, though covered with patches, is always folded squarely; and it is the pillows that best reveal his strict style.Probably influenced by the civilization brought by the educated youths, when he got his wages at the forest farm for the first time, he quietly went to the town to buy a knitted jacquard pillow cover - obviously a rare luxury in his life.This caused great trouble in his life.In order not to hurt this noble towel, he covered the pillow towel with a large piece of cloth cut to the same size as the pillow towel, and felt uneasy, so he covered the large cloth with an aged plastic film.As he slept, the hard membrane sang under his head.

"You just use this piece of plastic film to cover the pillow, why buy a pillow cover?" Someone laughed at him.He smiled, noncommittal.Probably, he decided in his heart that pillow covers are a must, because almost everyone in the forest farm has them—he wanted to make himself like a regular worker in the forest farm as much as possible. He tried to consolidate his current position from the impression of others and from his own psychology.But he didn't humiliate anyone, say flattering words, or make any flattering actions, but just tried to do his duty.Not lazy, not even the smallest bit cheap.

One day when he was having dinner, he suddenly found that his rice bowl, which was bought by the public and distributed uniformly and numbered, was missing. Originally, this kind of thing is the most common.Many of the more important properties in the forest farm are also being taken for private use day after day, so losing a bowl is nothing.Just tell the person concerned and get another one.But he felt very distressed because he couldn't even keep a job. "Isn't it because the dead can't keep the coffin?" He said sadly, determined to get it back immediately.But it is inconvenient to make public inquiries, because it is likely to offend people.

So he walked among the people who were eating in the open space outside the cafeteria, dawdled around around them, bent down as if he was about to pick something up from the ground, and then looked sideways. At the bottom of the bowl in someone else's hand - the numbers are all written on it.All the men's hands have been seen, and the last remaining bowl is in the hands of a female educated youth.This beauty in a short skirt is sitting on a small bench less than a foot high with her legs spread apart.The hand she was serving was placed right on her bent knee, and the distance from the ground was so low that Liufinger's investigation was extremely difficult.However, despite some embarrassment, he persevered.After hesitating for a while, he clenched his teeth and bent down.

The result is conceivable, the female educated youth immediately jumped up from the small bench, crying and shouting as if she really lost her virginity at that moment. Mostly because of all these reasons, the leader of the forest farm let Liufinger serve as the night watchman of the orchard.This decision is extremely wise.The thieves who hope to make their pockets richer in the golden autumn season can be regarded as meeting their nemesis. Every year when the orchard is full of fruits, it is also the time when the leaders of the forest farm have a headache.The greatest threat to orchards actually comes from within the tree farm.Before Liuzhitou was appointed as the only night watchman, the regular workers of the forest farm took turns to watch the night in the orchard.This provided many of them with the opportunity to pervert - the night watch was more effective in clearing the fruit inexplicably from the branches.

Sixfingers accepted the task with dignity, overwhelmed with gratitude for the great confidence placed in him.In order to live up to his mission, he specially brought home a big gray dog ​​that was as vicious as a wolf, which also brought a terrifying atmosphere to the night in the forest farm orchard.If anyone enters the orchard without permission, within five steps at most, it will emerge from the ground like a ghost, silently but fiercely, and bite your heel fiercely until its master appears.As for Liuzhitou himself, he is even more inflexible. He simply does not allow you to take further actions such as explaining, persuading, or even buying, so he drives you away.After repeating this situation several times, all the adventurers despaired. Just at this time, Xiaoding was hospitalized for schistosomiasis. Pay attention to nutrition, the doctor said. The instructions for use of "antimony potassium tartrate" stated that the mortality rate was two per thousand.But "nutrition" comes at a price.At that time, Xiao Ding could not afford much: apart from smoking and drinking, the rest of his income was just enough to buy food tickets for the cafeteria for 28 days. So several educated youths in the forest farm came up with the idea of ​​an orchard. "How about it, let's discuss it, brother." While talking about Xiaoding's plight miserably, several people handed mouthed cigarettes to Liuzhitou one by one, "Please hold your hands high at night. .” Sixfingers said nothing.He poked all the cigarettes together and put them back on the man's palm. "In order to become a full-time employee, why don't you do something good?" Because of Liufinger's outstanding performance, the manager promised several times that he would apply for a full-time employment. "It is not the same thing to do good deeds, and to be a thief to be a thief." "Why are you bothering?" The faces of the educated youths became gloomy. "You keep watch all night, and you still burn fires, carry water, and prepare vegetable gardens during the day. If you work like this, will they give you an extra work point? Besides, you can keep watch at night. , Can you keep the daylight? Can you control us, can you control those cadres? They take away the fruit in large and small baskets with a blank note, can you ask?" "That's none of my business. I just don't allow a second person to enter the garden at night." Even if the educated youths could bring the dead back to life, he would remain indifferent. This time, the opportunity they got was very unexpected. While having breakfast, the director suddenly told Liuzhitou that someone would replace him in a day or two, and he could pack up and go home. Liuzhitou seemed to have been slapped on the top of his head from the back suddenly, and stood there in a daze, poking at the rice grains in the bowl with chopsticks, but finally didn't eat a bite. As if it had been arranged in advance, in the afternoon, the crippled woman who had come to the forest farm to wash Liufinger's clothes and bedding several times came.Liuzhitou once said that it was his sister, but after visiting a few times, he had to admit that it was his daughter-in-law who hadn't married yet.She came here specifically to confirm whether Liufinger really wanted to leave the forest farm.At first, they murmured for a while in the warehouse towards Liuzhizhi, and then there were crying sounds from inside.When she left, her eyes were as red and swollen as peaches.Liufinger didn't see her off, but leaned against the door frame silently watching her twitching back from crying.Because of the convulsions, her legs became more limping. Their relationship was broken.The woman said that as soon as she got home, she asked her family to return the gift money to Liuzhitou.Her engagement with Liufinger should have been annulled long ago.The two families originally exchanged marriages: Liuzhitou's younger sister, Sang Ye, married her brother, and she married Liuzhitou.Later, Sang Ye wanted to make a complete break with the rich peasant family, and refused to recognize the family that the family had set for her in the early years.Ordinarily, this woman could have returned the marriage of Six Fingers long ago, so the reason why she hesitated until today is because he works in a company in the town.Now, since he has to go back to farming again, his extra fingers and rich peasant status cannot be accommodated. The dismissal of Liuzhizhi was due to an accident.The first day, a cadre from the town government passed by the forest farm and casually mentioned to the director that he had a distant relative who had told him many times that he wanted one of his nephews to come to the forest farm and do whatever he wanted.The head of the field asked Yin Daoyan, secretary of the brigade.Yin Daoyan said: "You must be, ask me what to do." The field manager smiled shyly and said: "I am afraid that Sang Ye will be unhappy." Yin Daoyan pushed him: "What is Sang Ye unhappy? She has already made it clear with her family. Boundary." In this way, everything that Liuzhizhi has devoted himself to and pursued has become a dream. However, Liuzhitou is Liuzhitou after all.On the night before his successor arrived, he still took his big gray dog ​​to the orchard to spend the night. Before midnight, Xiaoding's friends walked into the garden boldly, but the vicious dog did not appear.In the silence, they first heard a roar of "lulu" from the dog's mouth, and then heard a low voice scolding it, and then, the surroundings became silent again as if dead.Far away near the foot of the tree, there was a small fire flickering on and off.Apparently Sixfingers was squatting there smoking a cigarette. A kind of pity and compassion suddenly arose in the hearts of the educated youths.After they filled the pockets they took with them, they actually thought of saying goodbye to Liufingers, as if they were taking revenge for Liufingers' injustice against the forest farm. Liuzhitou did not raise his head, and continued to smoke non-stop.He had the only cooperation with the thieves. ... Its daybreak.The curtains are starting to whitish. The half-open door of the ward was suddenly slowly squeezed open.With the light coming in through the widening gap in the door, there appeared the shaggy head and back of a large gray dog.The dog walked all the way to Xiaoding's hospital bed, sat upright on its front feet, and blinked thoughtfully.Then sixfingers appeared at the door.He patted the dust off his body outside the door before walking in. It was clearly a friendly visit.The educated youths hurriedly made room for him in the narrow aisle of the hospital bed, and Xiao Ding quickly supported himself. He walked up to Xiao Ding all the way: "Let's give the money." "What money?" "Pears. That bag of pears weighs at least ten catties." "Has anyone else found out?" "No." "Are they planning to not fire you? Promise to make you a regular?" "I picked up the luggage all the way, and it's just outside the door." Liuzhizhi lowered his eyes and sighed imperceptibly.It seems that he was expelled. "Then why do you meddle in their business?" The educated youths opened their eyes one by one. "There is no way. If I do something like this once, I will never feel at ease for the rest of my life." He avoided everyone's eyes and looked down at his own toes. "If you have no money, return the pear to me and I will send it back to you." Go to the forest farm." "What's the matter? Look at this person on the bed, can you bear it!" the educated youths roared in low voices. Liuzhitou raised his head, glanced at the faces of the educated youths in turn, then fixed his eyes on Xiao Ding, who was leaning on the hospital bed half dead, and sighed: "Then you can eat. Money, wait for my woman to refund the gift money. I'll put it on for you." Then, he gently aroused his dog and walked out.