Chapter 2 middle

Mother (talking to herself): They haven't changed their clothes for a long time, and he can't do anything, even if his pants are torn.Bei Bei told my mother to cry to death, my poor Bei Bei... [The girl squats down, and everyone slowly gathers around. ] Wearing glasses (quietly): What's wrong with you? Master: Are you hungry?I also have a pancake in my bag. Grandpa: Stomach ache? Director Ma (loudly to the audience): Where is the doctor?Show me the one who knows medicine! Mother (restrains herself, walks over and bends down beside the girl): What's wrong?tell me. (touches her head)

[The girl buries her head in her mother's arms and bursts into tears. ] Mothers: It's about the girl's house, you all go away. [The crowd disperses. ] Mother: Girl, tell me, what's the matter with you? Girl: Sister... I feel bad... Mother (stroking her): Lean on me. (Sit on the ground, let the girl lean on her body, lean into her ear and ask her) Uncle (obviously getting old): Well, this game of chess can be regarded as blowing... Director Ma: You went to the city just to play chess? Uncle: For this game of chess, I waited and waited for a whole lifetime. Girl: No!no!He won't wait for me anymore...

Mother: Silly girl, I will wait. Girl: No, no, you don't know. Mothers: How long have you known each other? Girl: It was just the first appointment, at a quarter past seven, at the gate of the park, across the road, under the third lamp post... Mother: You haven't met before? Girl: It was a classmate of mine who went to work in the city, and she introduced it to me. Mother: Don't be sad, just look for it again, there are plenty of young men in the world. Girl: Never again, no one will wait for me again! Director Ma (to the audience, talking to himself): I have to go, don't I just go to Tongqinglou to eat and drink?The people invited are also related households.I can't afford to wait a year to go to town for a drink.It’s not that I don’t have wine at home, let’s just say that the world-renowned Moutai, which is in a white porcelain bottle and tied with a red ribbon, is not bragging.I can't make it. (Loudly) No offense!

Uncle (excited): I have to play this game of chess! Director Ma (to the audience): I'm really a chess fan. There are all kinds of weird people in the world who wait at the station for a year to make a move. (To the uncle, kindly pity him) I have played chess too, but I am not as obsessed as you are.You are addicted to chess, come to my house, come to play two or two, I will accompany you to have fun, drink and kill, kill and drink, old man, you see you are so old, why bother to work on this station Consumed?follow me. Uncle (contemptuously): With you? Director Ma: Father, there are hundreds of people in my supply and marketing cooperative, and there are no less than a dozen section leaders and group leaders, and none of them are my opponents. If you don’t believe me, you can ask them!

Wearing glasses (read): Pig, book, desk, dog...k...g...k Uncle (shaking with excitement): Do you... do you read the evening paper? Director Ma: Not a single day!I will subscribe to the evening paper.The evening newspaper in the city was delivered to the post office in the town at noon the next day, and it was distributed to our supply and marketing cooperative in the afternoon. I always save it to read after dinner. There is nothing I don’t know about the news in the city after a night. . Uncle: Do you know that Li Mosheng? Director Ma: Hey, the newly sung Danjiao is absolutely perfect!

Uncle: Thanks to you, you still play chess.I'm talking about today's national chess players! Director Ma: Oh, what are you talking about, the chess champion Li?She has the same surname as her maiden name in my family. Uncle: What about the champion?His chess is still short of breath! Director Ma: Old man, so you can also win the championship? Uncle: It's not like we haven't studied the score of his winning the championship that was published in the evening paper!Isn't it because he lives in the city?We're going to be in town too... Director Ma (laughs): Then the championship is yours.

Uncle: We dare not say that, anyway, we wrote him a letter and made an appointment with him at the Cultural Palace in the city, just tonight, hi!It was a year ago tonight.If you don't regret a piece of chess, you can't be without faith! Director Ma: That's true. Wearing glasses (scratches back, painfully): bik, pook, Desgdokpikboog - so awkward! Stupid boy: Are you still farting foreign farts? Wearing glasses (impatient): I am different from you, you can wander around and do nothing, and I have to go to college!I only have this last chance, if I don't come to the car, I will miss the age to apply for the exam!Wait, wait, how painful it is to waste youth, you don't understand!you go away.

Stupid boy: I'm not in your way? Wearing glasses (begging) please go away and let me be quiet, please?Where do you not hang around? Stupid boy: Not in the city! (Goes away, bored in every possible way, bursts out suddenly) Only city people are allowed to walk on the roads in the city?Are we not human?Can't go into town for a walk?I want to go! Master (worried): What is the name of the ghost?You can't just sit down and take a break! (Squat down. Tear an old newspaper from the kit, take out a tobacco leaf, grind it up, and roll the cigarette) [Still.The light dimmed.There seemed to be the sound of a car in the distance, and then there was only perceptible music, and the music of the silent man was faintly reappearing.Everyone listened carefully, like the wind, and then disappeared again. ]

Director Ma (to the audience): Everyone is bewitched. (to everyone) Hey, are you still not giving up?Do you want to go? Stupid kid: Where are you going? Director Ma: Go back. Stupid boy: I still think you are going to the city. Director Ma, am I having a convulsion?This is so far away, but still scheduled to go to the city to drink that bad wine?Not that big of an addiction. Stupid kid (sadly): I just want to go to the city to eat yogurt. Director Ma: I'm talking to people, what's wrong with you kid? (To the uncle) If you don't leave, I will leave. [Everyone looks at each other, feeling tempted. ]

Uncle: Oh. (Looks at Director Ma. I'm stunned, I have no idea) Mother (looking at the uncle): You... Girl (looking at the mother): Big sister... Wearing glasses (looking at the girl sadly): You... Master (watching the behavior of wearing glasses): Hello! [Director Ma walks up to the master, shakes his head to him, and motions for him to follow.The master was still looking at the man wearing glasses.Director Ma looked down at the master's tool bag and kicked it with his feet.The circulation of everyone's attention was then stopped. ] Stupid boy: Hey, what about the master?Sneaking away?

Grandpa: Who left? Stupid boy: You are so old-fashioned and confused, the one who is ahead of you has dumped his buddies and slipped away without saying a word! Everyone (except the girl, excited): Who is it?who?who?who left? Uncle (patting his legs, suddenly realizing): By the way, we greeted him at the beginning, and left without saying a word. Mother: Who, who do you think is gone? The one with glasses (remembering): He is carrying a bag and is at the front of the queue, always reading there... Mother: Oh, you are fighting, he is fighting! Master: By the way, why didn't I see when he left? Wearing glasses: Could it be getting in the car? Director Ma: Did you open the front door for him? Girl (at a loss): The car didn't stop at all, he went to the city by himself. Director Ma: To this end or that end? (pointing in two opposite directions) Girl: Follow the highway and go to the city. Director Ma: Did you see that? Girl (sad): He still glanced at me, then walked on without looking back. Wearing glasses: I'm afraid I've already arrived in the city. Stupid kid: No way! Uncle (to girl): Why didn't you say it earlier? Girl (anxious): Everyone is waiting for the bus... Uncle: What a scheming... Girl: When he looks at people, he doesn't even blink his eyes, as if he wants to see through people... Director Ma (a little nervous): He is not a cadre who came down from the city to investigate, right?He didn't pay attention to our speech, when I was doing ideological work with this old man? Girl: Not at that time, he walked up and down, as if thinking about something... Director Ma: He didn't collect...for example, the supply and marketing of cigarettes here?What about opening the back door and selling the "big front door"? Girl: I never heard him say a word. Director Ma: Why didn't you report the car company's problems to him?The masses have a lot of opinions on them! Uncle: It's really hard to travel when you're away from home now. (Touching the iron railing with his hand, turning inside the railing, pondering) Where is this traffic?Don't wait for the wrong station, right? Master (uneasy): Old man, what are you talking about?This can't stand in the city? Uncle: Maybe you got on the bus on the other side of the road? Wearing glasses (looking opposite): That's the station going back. Master (reassuringly): Oh, old man, you gave me a fright. (squatting down) Grandpa (to the audience tremblingly): Everyone is waiting for the bus too? (talking to himself) Can't hear you. (Louder) Are you waiting for the bus to go back to the countryside? (talking to himself) Can't hear you yet. (To the young man wearing glasses), I am deaf, ask them if they are going back to the countryside?I want to go back.Let's not suffer for entering this city. Director Ma (shaking his head, sighing): The city is not a paradise either!Let's go back.It's time for my son to have a wedding. (To Master Bo) This master is a carpenter? Master: Yes. Director Ma: Buy a set of furniture for my son.Doesn't it waste time to work?It's not your fault. Master: No. Director Ma: In addition to wages, we also take care of meals, plus two boxes of "Daqianmen" wrapped in tinfoil a day. (Talking to himself) Don't keep saying "Daqianmen", it's not good to ask the Management Section of the Commercial Bureau to hear about it!Cough, cough!Don't know how your craft is? Shibo: I do joinery and hardwood work. Can you afford the mahogany carved mahogany chair and the ebony screen in the flower hall?My ancestral craft! Director Ma: Really candy!Let me tell you, people in the city like to sit on the sofa, who wants your ass-hard armchair? Master: The work I do is for people to watch, not for people to sit on. Director Ma: Hey, I catch up with all the new things.Do you dare to make decorations? Master: At present, I can’t find my skills in playing gongs.The foreign trade company in the city wants to hire me to lead apprentices! Director Ma: Just wait, wait.I'm going back.Did anyone leave with me? [Silence, the light gets darker.There is the sound of cars in the distance, and the music of silent people is reproduced, slightly but clearly, and the rhythm of exploration is becoming clearer and clearer. ] Wearing glasses: Listen, listen!Did you hear that?That…… [The music fades away. ] Wearing glasses: Why didn't you hear me?The man is already in town!We can't wait any longer!The useless pain of useless waiting... Grandpa, mother and girl (simultaneously speaking): That’s right, we’ve been waiting all our lives... If we had known how difficult it would be to get on the road, we shouldn’t have... I’m very tired, and I’m probably very haggard too... Just wait like this , Wait, wait... Bring such a big bag, red dates and sesame seeds, throw... away, I don't think about anything, just sleep like this... I'm old... It's a pity to be old. ...feel good... Stupid boy: Stop nagging!With such teeth-grinding kung fu, I could even climb to the city! Master: Why don't you climb up? Stupid boy: If you climb, we will climb with you! Master: What I do with my hands is craftsmanship, people are not maggots in a dung vat! Person wearing glasses (facing the audience): Hey, hey, are you still waiting for the bus?no sound. (Loudly) Is there anyone waiting on the other side? Girl: It's so dark, I can't see anything.It's night, no more cars. Master: I'll wait until dawn!The bus station sign is erected here, how can it be bluffing? Director Ma: What if the car doesn’t come?Are you foolishly waiting for it all your life? Master: I have skills, and the city wants my skills!What do people want from you? Director Ma (damaged self-esteem): He invited me to dinner, but I still don't want to eat it! Master: Then why don't you go back? Director Ma: I have long been thinking about going back. (distressed) In this wild field, there is no village in front, no shop in the back, and another dog sprang out from the dark—hey, which one of you is willing to accompany me back? Uncle: We want to go back, but the dark road going back is even more difficult, dark... Stupid boy (gets up, pats his butt): Can you go? Director Ma: OK, let's be a companion. Stupid boy: Who is going with you?I went up town to drink yoghurt. Master: Sour milk, what does it taste like?And the beer in the city is like horse urine!It's not that everything in the city is good, it's worthless! Stupid boy: I want to drink it, so I go to the yogurt and drink five bottles of it in one go! (To the one wearing glasses) Don't waste time with them, let's go! Wearing glasses: What if you come right after leaving the car? (To the audience, talking to himself) The car is coming, but it doesn't stop?Intellectually, I think I should go, but maybe, what if?Don't be afraid of ten thousand, just in case.A decision must be made! deskdog, pig, book, go, or wait?Wait, or go?This is really the problem of life!Maybe it is destined to wait here for a lifetime, until old age, until death.Why don't people create their own future, why bother to be dominated by fate?Then again, what is fate? (Ask the girl) Do you believe in fate? Girl (softly): Believe me. Wearing Glasses: Destiny is like a coin, (takes a coin from pocket) Do you believe this? (Throws up and grabs again) Is it a flower or a word! Pig, book, desk, dog, it's decided! Are Youteachers? No． Are Youpig?No, nothing, Iamt, I am I!But you don't believe in yourself, but in this? (Laughs at himself, tosses the coin in his hand, catches it) Girl: What do you say?I didn't even have the energy to make up my mind. Wearing glasses: Then let's play fate for a while.The word is to wait, the flower is to go, it's all at once! (throws up the coin, it hits the ground, and covers it with the palm of his hand) Go, or wait?Wait, or go?Depends on our fate! Girl (quickly pressing the back of his hand with her palm): I'm afraid! (Feeling touching his hand, he quickly withdraws his hand) Man with glasses: Are you afraid of your own fate? Girl: I don't know, I don't know anything. Stupid boy: Hey, these two are interesting enough.Hey, are you going or not? Master: Is it over yet?Let's go!The stop sign is erected here, and everyone is waiting, why don't you come to the car?If you don't collect fare money from the car, how can you pay the driver? [Still.The sound of the car and the music of the silent people came at the same time.It is becoming clearer and more rhythmic. ] Director Ma (waving his hand as if to drive away this disturbing disturbance): Hey, is anyone leaving? [Speaker disappears.The old man who dozed off by the stop sign let out a snort. ] Grandpa (without opening his eyes): Is the car coming? [Everyone does not answer. ] Stupid boy: I'm all in love with this wooden brand, it's so boring! (Takes a big cauldron and suddenly sits down on the ground) [Everyone squats or sits on the ground.car sound.Nobody moves, just listens.The sound of the car is getting louder.The light then brightened. ] Stupid kid (still lying on the ground): Here we come, hey. Mother: At last.Old man, don't sleep, it's dawn, the car is coming! Grandpa: Are you here? (Stands up hastily) Here we come! Girl: Don’t stop at this station, right? Wearing glasses: stop it if it doesn't stop! Girl: It won't stop. Uncle: It's their dereliction of duty all the time! Mother: What if it doesn't stop? Stupid boy (jumping up suddenly): Master, do you have any big nails in your bag? Master: What are you doing? Stupid boy: If you don't stop, tell it to fire, and everyone will stop going to the city! Girl: Don't mind, it's against the law to disrupt traffic. Wearing glasses: Let's stop the cars, all on the road, lined up in a row! Master: Medium! Stupid boy (picking up a stick): Hurry up, here comes the car! [The sound of a car approaching, everyone stands up. ] Girl (shouting): Stop—the car! Mother: We've been waiting a year! Grandpa: Hey, hey, stop! Director Ma: Hello—— [Everyone rushes to the front of the stage, blocking the road.Car horns sound. ] Wearing glasses (commanding everyone): One, two! Everyone: Stop!parking!parking! Wearing glasses: We waited for a year in vain! Everyone (waving and shouting): We can't wait any longer!parking!parking!parking!stop!parking-- [The car honks continuously. ] Uncle: Get out of the way!Get out of the way! [The crowd quickly dodges, and then chases the car and shouts. ] Stupid boy (waving his stick and rushing forward): I smashed you! Man with glasses (holds him): I'll run you over! Girl (closing her eyes in fright): Ah—— Master (rushing forward, grabbing the stunned boy): You don't want to die! Stupid boy (breaks free, catches up, and throws the stick in his hand): I tell you to jump into the river to feed the bastard! [The sound of the car fades away.static field. ] Master (at a loss): They are all foreigners, Mothers: Tour buses for foreigners. Wearing glasses: Prestige what?Don't you just drive for foreigners? Uncle (mumbling): The seats are not full. Master (sad): I can't do it standing still!It's not that I don't vote. Director Ma: Do you have foreign exchange?Only accept foreign money. Uncle (stamping his feet): This is not a foreign country! Girl: I said I can't stop, so I won't stop. [At this time, one car after another drove past the crowd.There are coming and going, all kinds of vehicles, all kinds of sounds. ] Director Ma: This is too...too irritating, treating passengers like monkeys!If you don't stop, don't stand here!The car company is not in order, and the traffic can't go up!You write a letter from the masses, and I personally send it to their superior leader, the Transportation Bureau, (pointing to the one wearing glasses) You write it! Wearing glasses: how to write? Director Ma: How to write it?Just write it like this-hey, you are such an intellectual, you can't even write a letter from the masses? Man with glasses: What's the use of writing this letter?Are people still waiting? Director Ma: If you want to wait, just wait. Why am I in a hurry?I don't want to eat that meal in the city for a long time, I'm worrying about it for you guys!Wait, you deserve it, wait. [Still.The silent man's vocals pick up softly, but change into a brisk triple time, with a hint of irony. ] Wearing glasses (looks at watch, startled): Oops! [The girl leans over to look at his watch.The beat of the music jumped along with the numbers read below. ] Wearing glasses (press the button on the watch repeatedly): May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December, Thirteen—— Girl: January, February, March, April— Wearing glasses: May, June, July, August— The girl has a total of one year and eight months. The person with glasses: Just one year has passed. Girl: Then two years and eight months— The one with glasses: two years and eight months...no!No, it has been three years and eight months.No!No, five years and six... No, seven months, eight months, nine months, ten months... [Everyone is stunned and looks at each other. ] Stupid boy: It's fucking crazy. Wearing glasses: My nerves are normal! Stupid boy: I didn't say you, I said this machine is crazy! Wearing glasses: Machines have no nerves.A watch is a device for measuring time.Time does not depend on whether people's nerves are normal or not! Girl: Just stop talking, okay?please! Man with glasses: Don't get in my way, no, it's not my problem.You can't stop the passage of time!Look, you all look at your watch! [Everyone gathers to look at his watch. ] Wearing glasses: six years—seven years—eight years—nine years, that’s ten years! Master: Right? (grab the wrist with glasses, shake, listen, look) Stupid boy (also stepped forward and pressed the button on the watch): Aha, isn't there no number?Hey, big whiteboard! (grabs the hand wearing the glasses, and raises it high) Just press it, and you won't leave! (satisfied) This thing is really bluffing. Wearing Glasses (seriously): What do you know?If it is not displayed, it does not mean that time will not pass.Time is an objective existence!There are formulas that can be derived and calculated. "Tai" (T) is equal to the square of the root sign "Alpha" plus "Beta" multiplied by "Sigma"... Einstein's book on relativity! Girl (hysterical): I can't stand it, I can't stand it! Uncle: How unreasonable! (Coughing) Calling... Telling passengers to wait at the station for nothing until they grow old... (immediately becomes old) It's absurd... It's absurd... Master (extremely sad): The car company deliberately plots against us, right?I didn't offend it? Mother (becoming exhausted): Beibei, my poor Beibei and the father of the child, not to mention the unwashed clothes, are already worn out... He doesn't even know how to get a needle people…… [The dumb boy goes to the side and kicks stones, left and right, and then sits slumped on the ground.Spread his legs apart in a daze. ] Girl (muran): I really want to cry. Mother: Cry, cry, there's nothing to be ashamed of. Girl: Sister, I can't cry... Mothers: who called us women?We are doomed to wait, to wait endlessly.First we wait for the young man to come to us, we finally get married, we have to wait for the child to be born, and then we wait for the child to grow up, and we will be old... Girl: I am already old, I am already waiting to be old... (on the shoulders of a mother) Mothers: Cry when you want to cry, and it's easy to shed tears.I really want to fall into his arms and cry... No reason... I can't explain why... Director Ma (sentimentally, to the old man): Old man, can you afford it?What's wrong with staying at home for the elderly and enjoying a little happiness?Piano, chess, calligraphy and painting are meant to pass the time and are for fun by yourself, but you want to compete with the people in the city and send your old life on the road for those few wooden bumps, is it worth it? Uncle: What do you know?What you say is also for business, people play chess with such energy and spirit!To live in this world, one has to be spiritual! [The stupid boy is bored in every possible way, walks behind wearing glasses, and slaps him hard on the shoulder, interrupting his contemplation. ] Wearing glasses (angry): You don't understand pain, so you are insensitive!We've been dumped by life, the world has forgotten us, and life just passed you by, do you understand?You do not understand!You can go on like this, I can't... Master (sad): I can't go back, I do joinery and hardwood work!I went to the city not only to earn a couple of dollars to spend, but I had a lot of crafts, and I had food to eat in the country. I fiddled with it, built a canopy bed, a dining table, and a cupboard. The whole family would not die of hunger.How can my ancestral craftsmanship do this?Although you are a director, you don't understand this. Wearing glasses (pushing away the dumb boy): You go away and leave me alone for a while! (bursts out) I need quiet!do you understand?Quiet!Quiet! [The stupid boy walks away obediently, wants to whistle hard, but just puts his finger in his mouth and pulls it out again. ] Girl (to the audience, talking to herself): I used to have many dreams, and some of them were quite beautiful... Mother (to the audience, talking to herself): Sometimes, I really want to have a dream... [The words of the following two people are all intertwined and connected, each speaking to the audience, and they do not communicate with each other. Girl: I dreamed that the moon would laugh out loud... Mother: But fell asleep on the bed, always very tired, very sleepy, never sleep enough... Girl: I dreamed that he was holding my hand and whispering in my ear, I really want to be next to him... Mother: When I opened my eyes, my double sock was torn, revealing a toe... Girl: I don't have any dreams now... Mother: His dad's sweater cuffs are unthreaded again... Girl: There are no black bears jumping at me... Mother: Beibei wants an electric car... Girl: No one is chasing me viciously... Mothers: Two cents a catty of tomatoes... Girl: Never dream again... Motherhood: This is the heart of motherhood. (turning to the girl) I wasn't like that when I was your age. [The following is a conversation between the two. Girl: You don’t know, I’ve changed too. I’m very narrow-minded. I don’t like seeing other girls wearing beautiful clothes. They stepped on me, and even came to me to anger me.Sister, I also know this is not good... Mother: I understand, it's not your fault... Girl: You don't know, I'm jealous, I'm so jealous... Mother: Don't be silly, it's no wonder you... Girl: I always want to wear a skirt with flowers and a little zipper on the waist.But I dare not make a dress like this, it would be nice to be in the city, people walk all over the street wearing it, but can I wear it here?Sister, tell me!