Chapter 6 eyeballs and more

The mountains are not as closed as outsiders imagine.Since the price of TV and satellite dishes dropped, aluminum pans appeared in front of and behind the houses of the mountain people, swallowing the invisible satellite signals over the Asia-Pacific region, so martial arts dramas, singer competitions, foreign presidents, miniskirts, men and women kissing, Premier League football games and Japanese cartoons, There are also advertisements for plumping creams and lubricating oils, and other familiar things in the city, all of which are conjured up out of nothing and airborne into the houses day and night, shocking the eyeballs of the mountain people.

However, they half-understand these things. If they want to watch it or not, they regard the TV as a New Year picture that can be changed in many ways, which only increases the excitement at home.There is a TV that has been shouting at the highest volume since early in the morning, broadcasting news from an Arab country—probably the language is as difficult to understand as Chinese Mandarin, or the owner has never intended to understand anything from it, and has never understood it What, just sweep the silence at full volume.He didn't feel the need to change the channel.The three cubs stood in front of the screen, biting their fingers and wiping their noses, watching with gusto.This is of course much more interesting than they used to watch a few ghosts in the snowflakes on the screen-the contribution of the aluminum pan is exciting.

I was worried that they would not understand, so I told them that this is not a Chinese program, which meant that they had to learn how to select channels.But the owner didn't care. Instead, he said that this channel is good, very good. Don't you watch it? I don't know why they have a soft spot for Arabia. The old people are old and weak, and they don't go out of the mountains very much, but they have the world in mind, and they often accompany the music and pictures of Arabia or India.When they talk about the world, they mostly start with the TV.Generally speaking, they are happy with the progress of science and have no fear of science like the medieval church.Isn't TV just "clairvoyance"?Isn't the mobile phone "shunfeng ear"?Isn't the plane a "magic method"?Isn't the train the same as Liu Bowen, the master of the Ming Dynasty, who "hid thousands of people in the belly of an iron cow"? ...In their view, all this was premeditated by the Chinese.They clicked tut and shook their heads, marveling at the foresight of the ancients and the omnipotence of modernization, and attributed all miracles to national leaders, such as Mao Zedong or Deng Xiaoping.

They are not very satisfied with the reality, especially hate the decline of the world, the people's hearts are not old, and the morals are always lost.Now there are people who steal eggplants, and there are people who steal fir trees.Even if you go to court, the straight ones can be called crooked, the dead ones can be called alive, and the wicked may even be able to use money to pay for lawsuits.If things go on like this, how can the world stay in chaos?How can we talk about governing the country and the country if the government doesn't act violently?Especially on TV, the man hugs the woman and chews, the woman hugs the man, and the wife or husband hugs other people, how is it decent?Dirty or not?As soon as they got to this time, they asked bitterly: Why didn't anyone come to pat their eyes?

"Slapping the eyeballs" is the previous lynching.A French historian once spoke of the mountains around the Mediterranean Sea, saying that taxes and laws could not reach the mountains, and that the mountain people always lived outside of history.However, the mountain people in China used to neglect the laws of the country, but they did not lack family laws.It was not until the last century, when the network of official power control reached the bottom, that the national law prospered and the family law fell, that the modern state system gradually took shape.But in the eyes of the old people, this has both advantages and disadvantages, and it is not very clear.Their great confusion is: who dared to steal before?Who dares to commit adultery?Who dares to be unfilial to their parents?If you steal a piece of bacon, you have to kill a pig, and invite everyone to drink "washing wine".If the crime is serious, as soon as the door of the ancestral hall is opened, the criminal has to be tied to a tree, and a small bamboo tube is used to cover his eyes, and then the end of the bamboo tube is slapped hard, and the criminal's eyeballs are squeezed out. , fell into the bamboo tube with blood and water—there are still a few one-eyed men among the older generation in Baxi Township, with remnants of torture left on their faces.

"Burning the oil fan" is also one of the lynchings.If a prostitute who steals a man is caught, at least she will be punished with a few tables of "washing wine".If her crime was serious, she would have to be cut naked, and let her sit in a chair frame without a board, with her lower body folded and her vulva exposed.Then an oiled paper fan was inserted into the pussy. Once it was lit, the pussy would be so hot that it would be dripping with oil, and the hair would be scorched and the flesh would smell bad. The old people said that a man is also considered a crime if he breaks the family law.There is a bricklayer on the other side of the mountain, a lecherous and flirtatious pig, that is, the breeding boar mentioned in the book.He's too thick-skinned, sleeping with someone else's daughter doesn't count, he sleeps with someone else's daughter-in-law, and finally he sleeps with his own aunt.The elders of the clan were overwhelmed by this, and it was fine to talk about their daughters, anyway, they were going to be married off, and incest and promiscuity were absolutely forbidden.

They just didn't expect that the pig was not only cocky, but also very good at water. He was tied up on the stairs by everyone and sank into the pond over and over again. When the water came out, he still blinked his eyes and raised his eyebrows, sneezing and shaking his head, which made everyone very angry. have no choice. Seeing the sunset, Langzhu felt that the folks were too tired and too shameless, so he took the initiative to find a step for everyone: "You really want me to die? Are you kidding? Why didn't you say it earlier? Hurry up, hurry up, Cut a plug and plug my asshole."

He meant that it would drown him. Everyone was dubious, and they went to cut a cork to block his anus as he said.In this way, when people were tied to the stairs to sink the pond again, a string of bubbles appeared in the water, and then there was no more movement. I don't know if this legend is a bit exaggerated.