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Chapter 67 god

Maqiao Dictionary 韩少功 2712Words 2018-03-19
Maqiao people think that a kind of smell, a kind of fragrance of a beautiful woman is a harmful smell.Benyi's mother-in-law Tiexiang married to Maqiao from Changle Street, so she brought this smell with her.Just over two months after we came here, all the yellow flowers in Maqiao died. Looking at the golden yellow flowers, they hadn't even made it home in the basket.It turned into a bubble of black water, and I couldn't pick it up.The old people said that people in Maqiao didn't grow yellow flowers any more, they could only grow some ugly fruits, such as eggplants, bitter gourds, pumpkins, and spades.

The smell of iron incense also made the six animals restless.One of Fucha's dogs became a mad dog after seeing Tiexiang, so he had to be shot to death.Zhongqi used to have a one-legged pig, that is, a breeding pig. Since Tie Xiang came, it has not been put on the shelves, so she had to castrate it. Afterwards, it will be slaughtered, and some people have chicken and duck plague. The owner blames Tie Xiang did not do good.In the end, Lian Zhihuang's cow named Sanmao also shot at Tiexiang, causing her to scream.If it wasn't for Huang Bao's sharp eyesight to quickly pull the animal's nose rope, she might be pushed down the slope.

The women have always been somewhat disapproving of Tie Xiang, but it's just because of Benyi's face as a secretary, it's not easy to get angry.Some of them were unwilling to give up, seeing Tie Xiang approaching, they intentionally or unintentionally found some words to stab her.They talked about their ostentation and attention to detail when they came to Maqiao's husband's house to pay homage to the pot.It's nothing more than the eldest brother-in-law carrying the dowry, the second brother-in-law blowing the trumpet, the third brother-in-law letting go of the pistol, the fourth brother-in-law holding the red umbrella, and so on.There are many silk embroideries in Hangzhou, many Japanese gowns, how big the bracelets on the wrists are, and how bright the rings on the ears are, they talked tirelessly.

When Tie Xiang heard this, her face turned pale. Once, a woman pretended to be surprised and said: "Oh, you are all so lucky and decent, so I can only die. When I was put in this ghost place, I only had an umbrella. A gown is a lump of meat!" Everyone laughed. This woman is obviously based on Tie Xiang's poverty at the beginning.Tie Xiang couldn't bear it, and hurried home to beat the pillow and quilt and cried. Tie Xiang actually grew up in a rich family. There used to be nannies and servants in the family. Soy sauce, fennel and sesame oil are indispensable for cooking. He can also distinguish what is cake and what is cake. Call it "sugar".It's just that when she arrived in Maqiao, her father had died in prison, and her family was in decline.Indeed, she only carried an umbrella and hurried across the threshold of Benyoshi's house.

She was sixteen years old at the time, wearing a little rouge, with a big belly, and sweating profusely, she broke into Maqiao alone and asked who was the party here.People looked at her strangely, and she only said two names after she asked repeatedly.She asked who among the parties was still single.People spoke out the original meaning.She asked about Benyi's residence, walked all the way to the thatched hut, and took a rough look at the house and people: "You are Ma Benyi?" "Ah." "Are you a Communist Party?" "Ah." "Are you going to accept a kiss?"

"What's the matter?" Benyi was chopping pig food and couldn't hear clearly. "I'm asking, do you want a wife?" "Mother-in-law?" She let out a long breath and put down the umbrella she brought with her, "I'm not ugly, am I? I can also have babies, you've seen that. If you're still satisfied, I'll..." "Ah?" "That's it for me." "What are you talking about?" Benyi still didn't understand. Tie Xiang stamped her foot, "I'll give it to you." "what's for me?"

Tie Xiang turned her head and looked at the door, "Sleep with you!" Benyi was taken aback, his tongue was so stiff that he couldn't utter a word, "Where did you come from? Mother, mother, where is my basket?" He fled into the back room.Tie Xiang chased after her and asked, "What are you dissatisfied with? Look at my face, my hands, my feet, everything is intact. To tell you the truth, I still have some private money. Don't worry, This stomach is the kind of a scholar, if you want it, you want it. If you don’t want it, just do it. I just want you to see that I have a baby and I am in good health..."

Before he finished speaking, he heard the sound of someone slipping out the back door. "You found someone like me, it's considered that you have accumulated evil virtues in your previous life—" Tie Xiang had to stomp, and soon burst into tears. Later, Benyi asked his brother in the same pot, Bunren, to send the goddess on a walk.When Bunren came to the door, he found that the woman was already cutting pigweed. He wiped his hands and got up to let him sit down, looking for a hanging pot to make tea, which was pleasing to the eye.Seeing that the woman's round buttocks and thick thighs are indeed capable of giving birth, her mouth is vague, and she never said the words to see off the guests.He later said to Ben Yi: "God is a god, and the body is fine. If you don't want it, I will."

On this day, Tiexiang stayed at Benyi's house and did not go back. The matter was as simple as that, Benyi didn't hire a matchmaker and didn't pay a dowry, so he picked up a bargain.Tie Xiang also made her wish. In her later words, she couldn't stand the government's control and the crying and crying of her four mothers all day long, and couldn't stand the daily threats and entanglements of a small dyer next door. He went out with an umbrella and vowed to find a Communist Party as his backer.She actually won in one fell swoop, and a few days later she really brought home a demobilized revolutionary soldier and Party branch secretary, which made the neighbors look at her with admiration.

They both registered with the government.The government said she was too young.Come back in two years.Her almond eyes widened and she said to the secretary in charge of the official seal: "If you don't register, I won't leave, and I will give birth to the baby here, saying it is your seed. I am afraid that you will not raise me! The secretary was taken aback, sweating profusely and fidgeting with his hands.Seeing her and the groom's backs are far away, she was still in shock and said, "Good God's mother-in-law, won't you come back twice?" The person next to him also shook his head. After all, he is the daughter of Lord Nine Pockets, who has eaten hundreds of meals, and his skin is thicker than the soles of his shoes.How to get it after this?

Later, Benyi gradually realized that this marriage was hardly a good thing for him.Tie Xiang was more than ten years younger than him, so she had the right to lose her temper at home. place?She cursed that the road at Maqiao was not flat, that the mountains at Maqiao were too thin, that the eyes here would drown people, that there was a lot of sand in the rice here, that the firewood here was so wet that the smoke was particularly choking, and that she would buy a needle for the people here. A soy sauce has to travel seven or eight miles.Cursing and cursing, it is inevitable to curse to the original meaning.It was fine for her to curse once, and once she actually cut off a bloody eel's head with a single curse.Is there still a king in the world?After all, he is also her old house, and he is a secretary, how can he get mixed up with the eel's head? When Benyi's old mother was still around, there was nothing she could do to her daughter-in-law.Once she got angry, even the old man would not let her go: "You old man, I'm not afraid that you are dozens of years old and tens of pounds. There is no cover in the river, and there is no cover in the pond. Go to hell! You Why not die?" Generally speaking, Benyi pretends to be deaf to these words, which is indeed a bit tricky.Even if sometimes he couldn't help shouting "I'll kill you", as long as the mother-in-law shut up for a while, he wouldn't really do it.His most imposing time was when he slapped Tie Xiang so that he rolled into a flock of ducks flying in a fright.In his words, that time, the positive air prevailed over the evil, and the east wind overwhelmed the west wind.Tie Xiang got up and went to the pond, but was stopped by the villagers, so she had to run back to her mother's house, and there was no news for three months.In the end, Bunren prepared two catties of potato flour and two catties of Baba, and went to make peace with Tie Xiang on behalf of the same pot brother, and pushed her back with a dirt cart. In the above narration, readers may have noticed that the word "God" has appeared several times in my writing.It can be seen that Maqiao people's "god" is used to describe all behaviors that violate the rules and common sense.Here, the most important thing for people is to confirm the mediocre nature, and to confirm that people can only live in routine.Any behavior that violates the rules is not human behavior in essence, and can only come from unpredictable things in the dark, from the secrets and destiny beyond human power.Either neurotic (the first meaning of God), or godly (the second meaning of God).Maqiao people use the word "God" to summarize these two meanings, probably thinking that the difference between the two is not important.All myths begin with neurotic thinking. There is nervous nonsense dancing before all altars.Perhaps neuroticism is the earthly form and lower variety of God.And all "supernatural speed", "bravery", "magical effect", "magic", "miracle", and "supernatural power", as a temporary overreach of the limits of ordinary people's abilities, are often accompanied by people's obsession and wildness in a state of almost neuroticism. The result of benign use of unconsciousness or non-consciousness is also the closeness of man to God. Tie Xiangshen has reached such a point, people say she is possessed by gods and demons
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