Chapter 26 cheap

When old people meet each other, they always greet each other: "Are you cheap, old man?" It means that you are in good health.This word is also commonly used when asking about the situation of the elderly, for example: Yanzao's mother is very cheap, and she eats two bowls of rice for one meal. In Maqiao's language, old age is the remaining life, and the longer you live, the lower you will be.Even so, some people still hope to live longer, until they are blind, deaf, toothless, godless, unable to get out of bed, unable to recognize people, and they are still alive. Probably due to the wishes of some well-meaning people, this usage of "cheap" is rarely seen in writing.When recording dialects, "Jian" is mostly converted into the homophonic "Jian".Whether it is healthy or not, the writing is fluent, and it has become an ordinary question, which has faded away from the seriousness of life.

According to this statement, the cheapest person in Maqiao was a five-guarantee household, a lame man named Zisheng's father.How many years he has lived, he himself does not know.Anyway, he lived to death, his grandson died, his great-grandson died young, and he was still alive with a limp.He lived in a hurry and made up his mind to hang himself, but the rope broke; he made up his mind to throw himself into the pond, only to find that the water in the pond was not deep enough after jumping down.One night, he went to Zhihuang's house to borrow a bowl, and Shui Shui opened the door holding an oil lamp. First, he saw the old man's face. Looking closely, he also found two shiny balls behind the old man, like two lamps.She was a little strange, and raised the oil lamp higher, and then her whole body became weak: where are the two lamps! It turned out that a big hairy head was panting loudly behind Zi Sheng's father, and the raised back was faintly swimming in the darkness. move.

It's an old bug! ——The two lamps are the eyes of the old bug! Shui Shui didn't remember whether he yelled or not, but he only remembered pulling the old man through the door, then tightly blocked the door, plugged it with wooden bolts, and added two hoes to resist it. After she breathed out, when she peeked out from the window, the ground was already empty, only the faint moonlight was floating, and the two lamps had already left. In the days that followed, Lao Chong never appeared again, probably just crossing Maqiao occasionally.Zi Sheng's father was not at all rejoicing about this matter, but was full of sorrow.He said: "Do you think I live a cheap life? Even the old bug thinks I have no meat, and I don't bother to talk about it all the way. Tell me, what is this person still alive for?"