Chapter 49 Forty eight

Maria goes on a trip (2) "Ula is an exception, that's why I said she is pitiful. She has no time to think about it. She opened this hotel to receive tourists from outside. My name is Qing, I haven't told you yet, have I?" After Qing inspected the beetles, he stood at the door smoking a pipe.Now Maria could see his face clearly.His expression is hard to describe, because the left and right cheeks are like two completely different people.Maria was sitting opposite him, so she saw both the left and the right cheek at the same time.The left side of his face is very vivid, and now there is a sad expression, but just now he was still full of life, and even looked a little wicked.As for the right face, it looks a little scary, like a zombie, half of the mouth is closed tightly, and the eyes are like glass balls.Maybe he knew that his right cheek was scary, so he liked to turn his left cheek towards the speaker, and now he turned his face to the side. Maria saw his left eye blinking, and the left cheek The muscles are twitching.

Maria got up and walked to the door, looked into his line of sight, and found that Ulla had already appeared in his line of sight.Maria thought in amazement that Wula would have such a great influence on this Qing!He even twitched on the left side of his body, looking extremely painful.When Ulla approached with a frown, Maria was even more surprised, because her appearance had completely changed. She no longer looked like a 40-year-old wild woman, but a vicissitudes old woman.Her long face like old bark made Maria wonder: Is this the woman from just now? When Ulla entered the house, she greeted Maria and asked her if she had rested well.Then she straightened her face, turned her back to Qing, and asked him in a low chest voice: "Any questions?"

"No more." Qing replied weakly, leaning his body against the earthen wall, as if he was about to faint. Maria thought, how did this towering man become rotten cotton? Ula took Maria's hand into the bedroom, and whispered in Maria's ear, "Don't pay attention to him, he is here to cause damage. I was visiting patients in the east of the village just now, and someone told me that he was here. I hurried back, he didn’t say anything bad to you, did he?” Maria said: “No.” Ula said: “Humph, this hollow man.” She closed the bedroom door forcefully and stuck it on the door again. Look out of the seam to see if it's gone.After tossing and tossing for a while, she sighed because she was too old to leave.Maria felt that she was old and impetuous at the moment, as if she had a deep unspeakable secret.

"Is Qing a local?" Maria asked. "I can't tell." Ula waved his hand in annoyance, "He himself said yes, but I don't think so. How can a local have his face? But if he is not a local, it can't be justified. Many people have seen it. He grew up here. I don't know why he despises our lives so much!" Ula blushed with anger, gritted her teeth and added another sentence: "He has cut off our retreat." Ula helped Maria make the bed, and said to her: "You should rest first, I have to take care of the golden tortoise." But after Maria lay down, she didn't leave immediately.Sitting in a chair by the bed, she told Maria the story of the village.

"You can see it all. This place has become a wasteland. It has been like this for decades. It wasn't like this before. We used to be a foggy area. At that time, it was hazy everywhere, People's temper is rare. It is suitable for growing rice here, and you can see the rice fields when you go out. The whole village is a cooperative enterprise. There are special people to buy our products. Our life is very peaceful. Think about it, every other day In the fog, who can see the location of his own grave?" After she said this, she suddenly fell silent, and her eyes became blurred.Maria was lying there, and she heard the familiar commotion again. These commotions came from inside the wall, but instead of human voices, it seemed like there were many rats scratching inside.Although she was very sleepy, she still couldn't help asking Ula, "What happened next?"

"Later? Later, a hidden danger broke out in the village. This hidden danger is Qing. Qing's family is a special family. They always want to make things clear. Although they are also born and bred, they are very different from us all. Now, it is not an exaggeration to say that they are foreigners. For example, we never care about the purchase of grain, but his grandfather insisted on arguing with those people and bargaining. As a result, fewer and fewer people came to buy, and some of the grain It rotted in the field. But we are a land of fish and rice here, and life was passable at that time. The situation of Qing’s parents’ generation began to deteriorate. The strange thing is that people here all regard Qing’s family members as leaders, what? I listen to this family, probably because of too much inertia. Qing's parents are shrewd and strict

The begging people, according to everyone, their eyes are far-sighted.The rice fields have been deserted since the couple took charge of the village.Because they insisted that there is no need to work so hard, as long as the purchase price of grain is raised.This strategy seemed to work a little in the first few years, then turned into a disaster.Because the number of grain dealers who came to purchase has been reduced by more than half.The villagers suddenly became poor people who lived frugally.But their family seemed to be very happy. Qing often sang loudly with his brothers on the threshing floor, and sang until late at night without entering the house.Qing's parents died on the same day. It is said that they ate a poisonous mushroom, and both of them were bleeding from seven orifices.Qing and his brother passed out in grief.After burying his parents, Qing officially became the leader of our village.He particularly disliked everyone growing grain. He used tricks to scare away all the grain dealers, and then introduced these golden turtles from somewhere.Although no one saw it, I knew that he himself had brought in the animal, since it didn't exist here.Of course you noticed that face on him, it's scary, isn't it?I'm used to it.A person with such a face has the ability to change everything!So now, there is no fog in the village, and when the sun comes out, everything becomes clear.In such an environment, people start to become ashamed, and then they break down. "

"Broken?" Maria asked sleepily. She felt that she had fallen asleep, but she wanted to finish hearing the story.