Chapter 9 rustic

I don't know much about Xida poles.It is impossible to know where this person came from, what kind of identity he is, why he moved here, and even his name-the word "Xi" does not seem like a surname.Someone mentioned that he has a slumped jaw, double eyelids, and looks different from others.The importance of these characteristics was not understood to me until much later. Based on the various legends I heard, he entered the village in the 1930s and lived here for more than ten years, or twenty years, or longer.He brought an old man to help him cook and look after some cages.His speech is "rural", that is, he has a foreign accent, which is not easy to understand.Such as "iodine tincture".For another example, "watch" can replace "see"; "play" can replace "play"; and "alkali", which refers to soap, has always been popular here, and later affected a wide range of surrounding places.

Judging from these words, he was a new student at that time and had at least some knowledge of chemistry.It is said that he likes to eat snakes, so it is not completely unreasonable to imagine him as a Cantonese who loves to eat snakes. The impression he left on Maqiao people was complicated.Some people said he was good, and said that when he first came, he would show some foreign medicines, cloth and firewood in exchange for grain and rice.He can also diagnose diseases and even deliver women.The local doctors once denounced him vigorously, saying that he is just a sorcerer to deceive people, and he can't even understand yin and yang and gossip.Even dare to eat something as poisonous as a chessboard snake, how can the heart and liver not be poisonous?However, these words were later self-defeating.A woman in Zhangjiafang had dystocia and rolled on the ground in pain. The cows yelled and the horses yelled, which made the doctor lose his mind. The villagers were also frightened. It turned out that her uncle came forward and brought a kitchen knife to sharpen it on the stone steps. It's a grind, and I want to break her stomach.

The kitchen knife was already resting on his stomach, but luckily Xi Dagan arrived, and with a loud shout, he was so startled that he stopped the knife.He took his time, drank tea, washed his hands, and drank all the idlers out of the house.After more than an hour, there was crying in the room, and he came out to drink tea in a leisurely manner.Everyone went in and saw that the baby had been delivered, and the mother was safe. Ask him how he did it, his words are too rustic, no one can understand. The cub grew up very well, and when he was able to talk and run around, he was forced by his parents to knock on the head for Xi Dazhi a few times.Xi Daganzi also seems to like cubs more, and often talks to him and other cubs who play together.Gradually, the cubs became more rustic in their speech, saying that snake meat was delicious, and clamoring for their parents to catch snakes for them.

People in Maqiao never eat snakes.In their view, snakes are the most poisonous insects in the world. Snake meat will definitely lose people's loyalty. They are even more terrified at the fact that they can drink snake blood and swallow snake gall raw. It is a bad omen for the village.They forbade the cubs to play at Xi's house one after another, mainly because they were afraid that Xi's big stick would teach them bad with snake meat.They threatened Wazai, have you seen the surname Xi?He is a baby seller, maybe one day he will put you in sacks and carry them to the street to sell - haven't you seen that there are many sacks in his room?

The cubs thought about it for a while, and they didn't have any impression of sacks, but seeing the serious faces of the adults, they didn't dare to go to Xi's house. At most, they invited them to form a group and take a look from a distance.Seeing Xi's enthusiastic waving, no one dared to go forward. Because the surname Xi was good at delivering babies, no one in the village set fire to his house and drove his family, young and old, out of the village.But they have never had a good impression of Xi's family.People look down on his laziness, and the thick layer of fine hair on his legs is the proof of his laziness.Nor can he tolerate his extravagance: he actually feeds eggs and sliced ​​meat to some birds in the cage.It is even more unacceptable for him to have a gloomy face: cold and arrogant, he has no respect for his elders, never knows how to give up his seat, let alone respect for cigarettes and tea.He always scolded the visitor, and if the other party couldn't understand him, he would just sneer and go about his own business.Judging from his ferocious expression, isn't he trying to cast a curse on someone?He thinks that people can get bad breath because they don't understand?He made the term "rural air" a definite embodiment - not just a matter of words, but indeed a breath, a cold and blunt air, a hostile air that disturbs life.He made the already harsh word "rural style" even more derogatory, and it often came out of some mouths that were gnashing their teeth.As for whether it will affect the later outsiders, or whether it will secretly affect the attitude of Maqiao people towards all outsiders, it is not without issue.

When the land reform and anti-hegemony working group entered the village, they asked whether there were landlords and bullies here.The common people were a little scared at the time, hesitated, and even closed the door as soon as they saw the people in the working group.In the end, the working group killed one of the biggest bullies in Longjiatan, carried his head on a tour of the countryside, and beat gongs everywhere for people to watch. When the people saw the blood, they opened all the doors, and everyone was gearing up.Many men found the working group, and they mentioned Xida Pole first.

"What crime is he guilty of?" "Exploitation, eating too much, being lazy, and never being sterile." "anything else?" "He wears a foreign lock, tick-tock-tick." "Is it a pocket watch? Pocket watches are floating money. What else?" "He eats poisonous snakes, don't you think it's boring?" "Eating snakes doesn't mean anything. The most important thing is to see if he has mountains and fields. We must abide by this policy limit." "He has fields, yes, why not!" "Where?" The men became vague, saying that you should check it out, and it will definitely be found out.

"Where?" Some of the men pointed to the east and others to the south. The working group went to investigate and found that Xi actually had no fields and no mountains. Except for a few boxes of birds, the house was empty and there was no pocket watch. It is said that he gave Longjiaping a friend.Such people cannot be classified as landlords and bullies, and should not be treated as enemies.The conclusion of the working group made the local men anxious and refused to follow anything.They held back for a long time with red eyes, saying that Peng Shien (a big bully in Longjiawan) could kill him, why couldn't he kill him?He has kidnapped more than Peng Shien, where did he go!How can Peng Shien be as crooked as he is?Treat your own father as your grandson!

When it comes to what Lao Tzu does to his grandson, the working group still doesn't understand.After several days of investigation, I finally figured out the general outline of the matter: for a while, an astonishing news was secretly circulated in Maqiao, saying that the person surnamed Xi had actually lived to be more than a hundred years old, and had taken the western elixir of longevity. So far, he is strong and full of red light.The old man who followed him was not his father at all, but his grandson, who refused to obey his family education, was stubborn by nature, and refused to take Western treasure pills, so he became the old loofah he is now.When some people heard about this, they were surprised and looked at Xi with admiration, and timidly came to ask about it.The old man Xi's voice was even more rustic, and none of his words could be heard clearly.Xi Dagan didn't want to talk too much, and when he met someone who was persistent in questioning, he had enough compliments and entanglement, so he reluctantly vaguely said that he couldn't remember how long he had lived, anyway, the Emperor of Chaozhong After changing a few, he is not surprised at all.As he said that, he told the old man to go to sleep, but the others could hear him clearly, he didn't call the old man daddy, but called "paparazzi", which was completely in the tone of dispatching the younger generation.

It is impossible for people in Maqiao not to be tempted by the elixir of longevity.Someone brought money, wine and meat, and went to the surname Xi to ask for treasure.Sometimes they have to send their wives, because the surname Xi said that people's constitutions are different, so the elixir can't be the same. Some men have too weak Yuan Yang, so they have to take women's "three peaks"—that is, saliva, milk and Only when yin essence enters the elixir can it gather yin and nourish yang to obtain medicinal effects.Of course, doing this kind of thing is very complicated and very particular, and he is the last thing he wants to do.Sometimes it is because the medicine seeker can't do it after repeated attempts, and the three peaks he sent are useless at all, but he is only reluctant to do so because of others' begging. The creaking of the bed board was very disturbing.It takes a lot of energy for him to do such a thing, and generally charges more money.

After this kind of thing happened more and more, the parties involved communicated with each other thoroughly. First, the women involved blushed and gradually became suspicious, and then the men also turned pale, but it was not easy to attack.Not long before the working group entered the mountain, a cub was sent by his mother to Xi to find out the secret.Baby came back to report.As long as outsiders are not present, the surname Xi will call the old man Daddy! That is to say, the one surnamed Xi has been letting his father pretend to be a grandson in front of everyone. He has never lived to be more than a hundred years old, and he has no longevity medicine at all! "Liar." The working group leader understood and nodded. Another cadre said, "How much money, how much grain, and how many women he lied to you, you are welcome to expose it, and we will settle accounts with him." The men were furious, but hesitated and hesitated, unwilling to explain the matter in too much detail.The working group understood their difficulties, thought it over and over again, and finally came up with a way, let a scholar bite the pen, and concluded that Xi Dazhi's moral character was corrupt, colluded with landlords and bullies, funded bandit armed forces, opposed land reform, illegal business, etc. A crime came, and he was finally classified as a reactionary gangster, and he was tied up with a rope. "Tell me, do you have any elixir?" "No, no." Xi Dagan trembled in front of the working group, his arrogance was swept away, and his nose was so startled that his snot flowed out. "What are you selling them?" "Ah... aspirin." "Why are you so dishonest?" "I... I... I stand on a reactionary stand, my moral character is corrupt, and I colluded with landlords and bullies..." He recited the crimes imposed by the working group one by one, and not a single word was correct. "Do you understand?" "I have a photographic memory when I read books, and I have a lot of tricks and tricks." "Nonsense! This is your own crime, and you must honestly admit it." "I admit it, I admit it." The working group escorted him to the county.A militiaman was in charge of escorting him. On the way, he ate something. He vomited yellow water first, then green water and black water. His eyes turned white and he fell unconscious.Xi Dagan knelt on the ground to give him artificial respiration, and found a bucket of clean water to irrigate his stomach. After he stabilized, he carried him to the county seat and handed him over to the government with his gun.Of course, I also handed myself in.It is said that someone asked him afterwards, why didn't he seize this opportunity to escape?He said that if you can't run, you can't run, I want to reborn, jump out of the cesspit, and serve the people. His law-abiding performance on the way to escort was noticed. When the government sentenced him, he was sentenced to two years less, and then sent to a certain farm for labor reform.Some people also said that the above statement was wrong, that he did not serve his sentence at all, and that he was favored by a county chief who bailed him out of prison and allowed him to use his skills to practice medicine in a certain mine.Someone once saw him drinking tea in a teahouse in the county town.He has gone long hair, cut a crew cut, and he doesn't speak in a rustic manner at all.When he was talking about everything, he couldn't help bragging to others in private. In order to strive for progress, he poisoned a militiaman on the way to escort, and then rescued him. In one fell swoop, he commuted his sentence by two years.and so on. Don't know if this statement is true. His father died soon after.Their nostalgia in Maqiao also disappeared, leaving only a few isolated words like "tincture of iodine" and "alkali", which surprised me many years later.Of course, he left at least three sons in Maqiao, and the three with his unique chin will become the characters in some of my future entries, and will bear Maqiao's future stories.