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Chapter 37 get up

Maqiao Dictionary 韩少功 1067Words 2018-03-19
"Modern Chinese Dialect Dictionary" (Jiangsu Education Press, 1993) has included this word, and the explanation is as follows: (1) Petty theft; during the desertion period, many people in the city ran away, so he took the opportunity to enter the city to fight. (2) Take advantage: He is very powerful, you don't want to beat him (you don't want to take advantage of him).Also: The autumn wind is bright, but the hair is dark. Maqiao people also use this word, with a taste of relish and joy. This term specifically refers to the year when Ma Scarzi's team drove off Peng Mingluzi of the H-unit of the Kuomintang army and entered Pingjiang County. Tens of thousands of peasants from more than a dozen villages in Luodi followed in, and they fought hard. I got rich once.Some snatched salt, some snatched rice, some were bulging and put on ten layers of women's skirts, sweating profusely from the heat, and some were unlucky and didn't catch anything, just carried a bucket Or carry a door panel and go home.The most unbelievable thing was that Benyi's father, Ma Xiangyuan, carried hundreds of tiles out of the city, panting heavily from exhaustion, and fell behind as he walked.The people in the same village laughed at him and woke up: why don't you take a load of mud back?Have you never seen mud at home?He said with satisfaction that there was no shortage of salt, rice or clothes in his house, but tens of watts were missing when building the pigsty house.He took a fancy to these good tiles from Changmaozhou, which were just right; he didn't feel that he had suffered any disadvantages at all.

He also doesn't understand what electric light is or is not electric light.At that time, a few younger generations cut off the light bulb in the city with a machete, and planned to take it home and hang it on the beam of their own house, saying that the light bulb would be bright at night, and it would not be dark even when the wind blows.Ma Xiangyuan felt that it was a complete lie, there could not be such a treasure in the world. Playing hair later became one of Ma Wenjie's "crimes".He didn't expect so many people to follow him into the city. In order to control the chaos, he once ordered his men to suppress the robbers. Among them, Benyi's father was injured. At the end, he was overtaken by soldiers.

Before he had time to look back, he felt a gust of cool wind whizzing by, and half of his head, including one eye and one ear, had gone with the sharp blade and flew into the air.The other half rests on the shoulders.Following his shoulders, he rushed for more than ten steps.The whole body was shaking hands and feet, and the burden was jumping and jumping, and it took a while before it slumped to the ground.The killer behind him was so shocked that he couldn't speak for a long time. The old people in Maqiao said that when they were counting the dead bodies, it was fortunate that someone found that Benyi's father's feet could still move. After touching them, his hands were still warm, and there was still a trace of life in his mouth.Ma Wenjie passed by here, and recognized that he was an acquaintance in this village. He hurriedly called a doctor to treat him, stirred a pot of hemostatic medicinal paste to cover the wound, and sealed the mouth of a jar tightly.The doctor poured some rice soup into his mouth, waited a while, saw that the rice soup had been swallowed, and said, "You don't deserve to die."

Benyi's father lived on for more than five years after being sent back to Maqiao. Although there was only half of his head left, he couldn't work in the fields or speak, but he could make straw sandals and pick up some pig food. Half-headed people never go to crowded places, so as not to frighten everyone, especially the cubs.He hid in the house all day long, a little impatient, so he had to do things.In this way, he has done more things than ordinary people. I find this kind of statement unbelievable, and I can't even imagine the scene of a person with only half a head busy in and out, but the old people say this, insisting that they all wear the straw sandals woven by Benyi's half-headed father .I had to let them talk.

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