Chapter 25 Guisheng

One winter day, Zhihuang's son, Xiongshi, with a snot in his nose, played with a few cowherd cubs on the north slope, digging a snake hole, trying to dig out a hibernating snake and burn it to eat.They dug out a heavy lump of rusty iron, and they didn't know what it was.The lion took a sickle and beat it vigorously, saying that he would knock out a few kitchen knives from the two tails behind the iron lump, and give him the money to sell on the street. He knocked out a loud bang, shaking the cubs who were looking for the snake hole in the distance several feet above the ground, their hands and feet were in the air and they couldn't catch them.They fell in pain, and when they looked back, it was strange that the lion had disappeared for some reason. There were only leaves and soil, and some cold raindrops falling from the sky.The cubs found that those raindrops were actually red. Why did they look like blood?

They could not understand what was going on, and thought the lion was hiding, and shouted for a while, but heard no answer.One of them picked up a bloody meat finger and was a little scared, so he went back and handed it to the adults. Later, people came from the commune and were busy for a while.People from the county also came, and after a while, they came to the conclusion that it was a bomb dropped by a Japanese plane in 1942, which delayed the explosion for thirty years.In other words, the Sino-Japanese War continued in Maqiao until this year, killing the lion. The couple of Zhihuang's family were in agony.Especially Zhihuang, he used to think that his wife had a hand in hand with Wanyu, and that Xiongshi was probably a bastard, so he couldn't get close to his son.After Wan Yu's death, he discovered that Wan Yu was not a man, and his doubts were gradually resolved, and his father's smile became more apparent to Xiongshi.When I came back from the rock field on the mountain, I often took out a handful of wild chestnuts for my son.He didn't expect that from this day on, there would be no pair of little hands to take these chestnuts.The lion is not at home, not in the field, not by the stream, not on the ridge, not somewhere beyond the ridge, not anywhere in the world.The son became a loud bang and then disappeared into eternal silence.

The head of the male lion is very big and round, and it grows a whole body of chubby flesh. His blinking eyes are as bright and beautiful as his mother's. One can see the charm of a woman at a glance, which reminds people of his mother Shuishui's appearance on the stage in the past. experience.People can't help but pinch his buttocks or face when they see it, and rub their charms.He hates this kind of interference, unless he is given something delicious, he is always a little disrespectful, and looks at outsiders hostilely.With a roll of his eyes, he can tell if you really have food in your pocket, if your smiling face is worthy of his trust, or if you need to wait and see for a while.He hates the verbal kindness of the elders the most, and when he gets annoyed, he scolds, kicks, spits, and the last resort is to bite unexpectedly.His lion's mouth starts from biting the teat, and he bites all over the world.None of his deskmates in elementary school, male or female, escaped his teeth.In the end, even teachers were not spared.

He cut the edge of the table with a knife and refused to criticize the principal. "I have to review every time, I'm so used to you!" The headmaster grabbed him by the ear and went to the teacher's room. He bit the headmaster back, jumped out with his arms around his trousers, and wrote in capitals. "You bastard, I will beat you to death!" the principal was furious. "You can beat me now. When you get old and walk in front of my house with a stick, I will push you down the ridge!" He foretells victory many years to come. The principal danced his shoulders and chased away.

Of course the headmaster couldn't catch up, and in a short while, the meat ball of the lion had rolled to the opposite ridge, where he stuck his waist and continued to scold: "Li Xiaotang, you dead pig, your fluffy bird came out..." He scolded the principal by name, and he didn't know when he figured out the name. Of course, he couldn't read anymore.Others said that Zhihuang never taught him, and raised such a scourge.Where is a student?A dog is much more obedient than him! Later, he often went to school to take a look, and watched his classmates read aloud, do exercises or throw balls from a distance.If the original classmates saw him, he would pretend to be riding a horse, "Chongke——————" and ran far away, as if he was having fun.Be indifferent to everything in school.

One day, he was playing sand with several other cubs on the ridge, because he occupied a rotten overshoe filled with sand, and was hated by other partners.The cubs were determined to take revenge, so they dumped a pile of shit in the village well, and then they all planted the blame, saying it was done by a lion, and yelled and reported to the place where the adults went to work.The adults were very angry when they heard it, and Shuishui's face couldn't hold back, with one spot red and one white, and yelled at the lion: "You have a fever after a few accidents a day, don't you?"

"I don't" "You are still stubborn! So many people have seen it, you are not blind, and you are not blind!" "I don't." "There is no water to eat, you go pick it! You can pick the buckets from each household, go to the river to pick them!" "I don't!" "Are you not being honest?" Shuishui slapped loudly.The lion swayed, and several red finger prints suddenly appeared on his face. Seeing that Shuishui was going to fight, a few women around came out to persuade him, forget it, forget it, cubs are ignorant, it's always like this, if you need to hit him a few times, it's really too hard-.These persuasions instead aroused Shuishui's anger, and turned into a kind of pressure. If Shuishui didn't become more indignant or more vicious, he wouldn't be able to distinguish himself from everyone else.She had to roll up her sleeves to cope with the pressure.Slap, slap, two more slaps came out, not like the sound coming from a human face, but more like the sound coming from a broken wooden barrel.

The male lion bit his lip and stared at his mother.There were tears floating in his eyes, but finally they didn't flow out, stopped and faded gradually. On this day, he didn't go home at night, and the next day, the third day...Still not returning home, Zhihuang and Shui Shui searched everywhere on the mountain, and everyone in the village helped them find it. Until everyone was almost desperate, an old herb collector in Zhangjiafang found a lion in a cave on the mountain. .He slept in a thatched hut and was already like a savage, his face was covered with mud except for two blinking eyes, and the clothes on his body were torn into strips of rags.

For eleven days, he lived on wild fruits, grass leaves and bark. Later, when he was taken home, Shui Shui boiled two eggs for him. He looked strange, stopped eating, ran outside and sat under the tree, staring at everyone in a daze, grabbed the blade of grass next to him and stuffed it into his mouth.The people around were shocked, and instead of eating boiled eggs, they ate grass. Does this change the animal? Probably because of this experience, after the lion disappeared with a loud bang, Shui Shui was in a trance, and couldn't believe that his son was gone for a long time.She still ran up the mountain, shouting her son's name hoarsely on the ridge—thinking he was still hiding in some cave.It wasn't until people had no choice but to show her a finger, half a foot, and two bowls of bone and meat scraps that had never been shown to her, that her eyeballs popped out horribly and she fainted.

When the ground woke up, a woman said to her: "You have to think about the widest place. At this point, you can only think about the widest place. It's better for you, the lion, to leave earlier. Isn't it a precious life?" He has no worries about food and clothing, he plays every day, and he left just after he was done playing. He is free from illness and pain, which is his blessing. Do you still think he will suffer evil in the future? "Guisheng" refers to the life of a man before the age of eighteen, or the life of a woman before the age of sixteen.The concept related to this is "full life", which refers to the life before the age of thirty-six for men and thirty-two for women.After this period of life, it is enough to live, and after that, it is "remnant life", which is worthless.From this point of view, of course, it is better to die earlier, and it is more expensive to die earlier.

Lion parents have no reason to grieve. The women in the village gathered around Shuishui's bed, each more vocal than the other.Shui Shuihe, your male lion has never eaten food in its entire life, how wonderful it is, your male lion has never been cold in its entire life, how wonderful it is.You Xiongshi didn't see your father die, you didn't see your mother die, and you didn't walk behind your brothers and sisters.Not sad, not sad, how good it is.If the gods let him live again, he will take in his wife and live alone. One day he will fight with his brother for a pot, tomorrow he will fight for a bowl with his sister, and sometimes he will even quarrel with his parents. field, what do you mean?It’s not like you haven’t seen crop harvesting in the dog days. The top is scorched by the sun and the bottom is steamed by hot water. Both ends of the day are dark roads. When you go down to the fields in the morning, you have to touch the grass or grass.It's not like you haven't seen water conservancy projects in the twelfth lunar month. The shoulders are worn out, and the bare feet fall on the ice slag. What good is it if you pee in your crotch?When you are a lion, you don’t have any bitterness. Sugarcane bites a sweet one, and a bone bites a meaty one, and you go away with a cry. There is still so much pain in front of you, your mother’s pain, and so many uncles and uncles. It's really worth it to send off the excitement - you have to think broadly. They also talked about an old restaurant in Shangcun, where the five-guarantee households and their sons and daughters all left before, and now they live like a dog by themselves, with a limping leg, and they are not allowed to enter the house, and they have committed all kinds of crimes.Miss Shui, think about it, if you live a long life as a male lion and live a cheap life, wouldn’t you have harmed him? They agreed that everyone should die early, and they couldn't die now, there was really no other way, only the male lion died at a good time, and only he had this blessing. Shui Shui finally stopped crying.