Chapter 105 monster

In Maqiao's language.People with high abilities also inherited a symbol: "monster". "Ciyuan" (Commercial Press, 1988) has three interpretations of "weird": one refers to strange, peculiar; For example, "blame me" means to criticize me.From this point of view, the strange things in Chinese are always inextricably linked with blame and denunciation, and are not as safe as mediocrity. The most "weird" person in Maqiao was Yan Wu.At the beginning, when the educated youth recruited workers, those who were cleared and retired from illness left only the last eight, including me.Those who could sing revolutionary Peking opera all left, and the literary and art propaganda team could hardly play the gongs when they were ordered to perform, so someone recommended Yanwu.He was still a middle school student at school, and he was called to come here, and he really sang very well. Although he didn't have time to rehearse the play, and he was too short to go on stage, but hiding in the dark behind the stage, he could sing a play from beginning to end. , All the libretto of the upright villain and Danjiao can be written and opened, and the people on the stage can cooperate with the mouth shape.He also sang smoothly on several extremely difficult high notes.I was taken aback by the roundness and fullness of the sound stream whirling through the night sky in the countryside.His head slid around people's waists, and people couldn't see his face clearly until they bent down.In order not to miss class, he ran away after singing and disappeared into the night. I didn't have time to take a serious look at him.

He is very famous for singing model Peking operas, and some people come to ask him to help in any performances in Pingjiang County. I could really see his face.It was after he graduated and returned home.A round baby face, it seems that the nipples have not receded, and it doesn't quite match his brother Yanzao's sharp-mouthed monkey cheeks.He watched me play Go, and after watching a few games, he boldly played.I took him lightly and wanted to guide him wholeheartedly, but I didn't expect that after a few steps, he wrestled me into a panic.In addition, in the game, he also robbed everywhere, exuding the vigor of a master and a fierce enemy, impeccable, chasing and attacking fiercely, cutting grass and roots, and would rather kill three thousand by mistake than let one go.

I was secretly amazed, but also very unconvinced. He humbly said: "I'm sorry, I made a fool of myself, I made a fool of myself." But there was a trace of complacency in his brows that couldn't be concealed. Afterwards, I secretly studied some chess records angrily, and asked him to play again. He excused himself to grab medicine or go out to work, and hid far away, not giving me a chance to avenge my shame.I can imagine how happy he was when he turned his back when he saw how impatient and helpless I was. He didn't do much work in the village, and he seldom spent time at home. He didn't even come back when his mother was seriously ill.The water conservancy tasks assigned to everyone in the team were completed by Yanzao on his behalf.On his family's vegetable patch, there is always only Yanzao's shadow.He first learned to be a painter, carrying a tool basket, covered in paint, and passed me once on the road.After a while, I met him and learned that he had changed to study Chinese medicine again, and he gave others a needle to feel the pulse.He later also learned portraits and lettering—it is said that he sold calligraphy and paintings on Changle Street and the county, including engraving Chairman Mao’s poems in Huai Su style on customers’ fountain pens.In short, there is nothing he can't learn, and nothing can stop him from expressing his super monsters.His strange weapons are well-known in the four villages, known to all ages.Even though he was a "traitor" (see the entry "traitor"), the people of Maqiao never looked down on him, and they were always tolerant of his long-term wandering around for no apparent reason.

On the contrary, he was the pride of Maqiao, the common pride of the many villages around Maqiaogong.It is said that a college student came out of a certain place, and Maqiao people would say unconvinced: What?It's a pity that Yan Wu is a traitor, or else he has graduated from three or four colleges.It was said that a person from a certain place was recruited to the county to be a water conservancy technician and ate the national food. The people in Maqiao were not convinced: "He can still be a technician?"It's a pity that Yanwu has a lot of influence, so why not get him again?

Benyi's baby was ill for a long time and planned to send him to the county.The people of Maqiao decided that he would die without a doubt: Yanwu's prescription could not be cured, so why send it to the county?Isn't it free money?Half a month later, Benyi's baby was cured in the county.The people in Maqiao didn't find it strange at all, and had something to say.They said that it wasn't that Yanwu's prescription was bad, but that they could only blame the poor availability of medicines in the countryside, otherwise, Benyi's son wouldn't have to go to the county, pay the fee, suffer a loss, and even get a knife, which hurt his heart and lungs. They were all dug up and used as sauerkraut, at least ten years of life was lost.

Benyi himself agrees with this view. Ben Yi is the secretary of the party branch, and he has a grudge against Yan Wu's father, and he keeps saying that Yan Wu is even weirder than his father, and that he will definitely be a counter-revolutionary material in the future, and a material for being a prisoner.But this doesn't prevent him from admiring Yan Wu's strange weapon and looking at Yan Wu differently, even if his family members are sick, he also asks Yan Wu to feel his pulse.Without this step, he would feel uneasy. Yanwu never charged money for seeing a doctor in the village, so of course he was more respectful to the cadres.Once, he asked me for a cigarette.After receiving the cigarette, he ran away and disappeared in the blink of an eye.I went to Xiacun to do some errands, and found that Minister He of the commune was sitting in the sun valley flat, smoking my "Yuelu Mountain", while Yan Wu was rubbing his hands beside him, with a simple and shy smile on his face , Listen to the teaching of the minister.I found out later that he doesn't smoke, not because he doesn't want to smoke, but because he doesn't want to.He worked outside as a painter, practiced medicine, and carved letters. All the cigarettes he received were carefully preserved, carefully accumulated, and dedicated to the cadres, especially Benyi.The original meaning of cigarettes is always a mess of brands, this is the reason.

For a period of time, he had a very close relationship with Minister He. As long as Minister He had something to do, he would come and laugh when he was called. wit.One day he didn't sleep much for two days in a row because he was doing paint outside, and when he got back to Maqiao, it was already deep, and he was so sleepy that he scrambled around.I heard from a neighbor that Minister He sent a letter saying that an alarm clock was broken and asked him to have it repaired.He didn't dare to stay, and went to a watchmaker in Changle Street overnight to borrow tools, and then rushed to the commune.When crossing Tianziling, I was not small and fell down a high slope.The next morning, someone passed by there and found him—the face, hands, and especially the two protruding feet were covered with dense ants, as if the whole body was covered with bright red overnight. roots.Passers-by helped him beat the leeches with all their hands and feet, and their hands were covered with blood.When he woke up, he saw the blood on his body and cried in horror.

If someone hadn't happened to pass by, in a few hours, Yanwu's blood would probably be sucked up by the mountain leeches. His performance didn't help him much in the end, and didn't make his strange words come in handy.There were two times when the university recruited workers, peasants and soldiers. Minister He did the original work well and recommended him as a "children who can be educated well", but he still called back when he got there.Not only that, but on the eve of important festivals, it is the routine of the militiamen to search his house and give a lecture to his brothers.

After I was transferred to work in the county, I also heard that the County Public Security Bureau suspected that he had written reactionary slogans, and he was arrested and imprisoned.The reactionary slogan was discovered during the National Day Art Performance, and it is said that it was written on the horizontal wooden pole of the temporary stage.What was the content, I never knew.I only know that the reason why the police arrested him was that he was playing the huqin in the background and helping out, he was very close to the scene of the accident, and he had a reactionary family background, cultured, capable, and the strangest weapon, not the most likely cover in the dark Did you make a reactionary act under it?

I find it strange that the admirers of Yanwu, the men, women and children in Maqiao don't care much about their idol being taken away, and even regard the reaction as a matter of dignity.They reacted calmly, as if things had come to a natural conclusion.Talking about another suspect in the neighboring village, they sneered disapprovingly: still want to fight against?His handwriting can be written by Yan Wu with his feet, and it is almost the same for him to steal a cow or a grain. In their tone, reaction is not a petty theft, something very human can do, Yan Wu is the most qualified to be a reactionary, the most level reactionary, he sat in a police car with a pale face, and went to the city to go to university with Glory, it was simply one thing.

No one else could try to take advantage of his privilege. They even raised their fists for it.There was a man from Longjiatan who came to chase pigs. During the chat, there were also people who were very reactionary when it came to Longjiatan. He was a relative of so-and-so in Xinjiang. Out of phase.The young men in Maqiao were very unconvinced when they heard this. What about the regiment commander? I heard that he was just in charge of the warehouse and had no military power.If Yan Wu had come out of his mother's womb twenty years earlier, not to mention the commander of the regiment, the commander of the army would not be loved.Maybe it's an important minister under Chiang Kai-shek, who now rides in a tortoise car every day in Taiwan. People in Longjiatan said: "The Yanwu monster is a strange weapon, but not too weird. It draws a portrait of Chairman Mao, with a big head and a thin body, like the old man Wang of the supply and marketing cooperative." The people from Maqiao said, "You don't think Yanwu's painting looks like that? He's a reactionary, so of course he painted like that." "He's sweating all over his head, why should he move?" "You didn't see him draw a dragon, he drew a dragon in the blink of an eye." "Drawing a dragon is not a miracle, even a painter can draw it." "He can still teach." "Doesn't Li Xiaotang also teach?" "How can Mr. Li teach better than him?" Maqiao's younger generation gave an example, saying that when Yanwu explained the word "neck", it took a full ten minutes to explain it.What is a neck?It is a fleshy object in the shape of a cylinder between the human head and shoulders that contains many pipes, which can be stretched and rotated. Look, what level is this?Can Li Xiaotang explain so much knowledge?A neck is a neck, and Li Laozhi can only pat the base of his neck twice to finish the job.Does that count as teaching? A person from Longjiatan said: "I think it would be better to take two shots." They debated for a long time about whether Yan Wu was to blame or not, whether he didn't look like Chairman Mao or whether he deliberately didn't have a portrait, and whether he was a reactionary or not.The people in Longjiatan accidentally stepped on a person's foot, and the other person was taken aback.He poured tea on his face casually.If it weren't for the persuasion of others, the matter would have become a big mess. As I said before, strangeness is always blamed. The word "monster" always gives me a faint uneasiness, and it will not lead to any good results.The Public Security Bureau and Maqiao people finally confirmed this.Facing the reactionary slogans, they did not suspect Yanwu's brother Yanzao, nor did they doubt the other four types of elements in the neighboring villages.They take it for granted and unthinkingly to regard intelligence as the enemy, and intelligence as sinister—despite a secret admiration for both.Rather than saying that they are chasing down reactionary slogans, it is better to say that they have already seen that the abnormal word "monster" will be thrown into prison sooner or later.Yanwu was smart all his life, but unfortunately he didn't have the meaning of the word "shenshi", and didn't pay attention to the dangerous meaning of the word in Maqiao language. Over the years, he was proud of his strange weapon and kept trying to please Yubu and the villagers. He manages his own destiny organically and is too busy to be optimistic. I don't know if he came to his senses in the prison.All I know is that he is a bit unique in prison, and he doesn't miss any chance to blame him.In the place where even his belt was taken away, he actually succeeded in committing suicide once.For several nights, he covered his stomach and rolled around on the ground, humming and screaming, which attracted the doctor to give him an injection.He secretly hid the medicine bottle and finally broke the medicine bottle and swallowed it. His face was full of tears, his mouth was full of blood, and he passed out.The correctional staff sent him to the hospital for emergency treatment.The doctor heard that he had swallowed shards of glass, and said X-rays could not find out the location.There is no way to do surgery, and there is no possibility of treatment at all.The two young prisoners who were ordered to carry him to the hospital burst into tears when they heard this.The cries attracted the attention of an old kitchen man in the hospital. Fortunately, the old man had experience and suggested feeding him leeks. Live, and finally pull it out mixed in the toilet.The doctors did it dubiously. Afterwards, they found lumps of leeks in the feces. They were surprised that there were glass pieces in them.