Chapter 12 Chapter Twelve

(...The bandy-legged man suddenly turned pale with shock, saying that he swallowed the dates, and he swallowed them as soon as he gurgled them in his mouth.) After crossing Maoliang, and walking downhill for another 20 miles, I arrived at a small town called Liujiabazi, and it was already daybreak.The town street is a long alley, all with paneled facades, painted black, and the pillars that are half exposed outside the wall are all stained with white ash, giving people a thin and hard feeling.What is interesting is that all the houses on the north side slope to the east, the gable wall of the family in the east is supported by three rough wooden roofs, all the houses on the south side slope to the west, and there is a big medicine tree outside the wall of the house on the west side.There must have been an earthquake in the town before, and I wanted to laugh when I saw it. If those three thick logs were removed secretly, or the big medicinal tree was felled, the Liujiabazi would be razed to the ground.But the mountain people are living leisurely. In a blacksmith shop, the old and the young wearing aprons made of raincloth hammered and fell, sparks splashed all over their bodies. Looking at the child digging out bird eggs in the eaves trough across the street, he asked: Is there any?There were three children digging out the sparrow eggs, one was stepping on a shoulder-stacked arhat, and the one on top responded "Yes," and threw an egg with pockmarks over it. The young blacksmith ran out a step slower, and the egg fell to the ground. It was broken, and there was a little sparrow in the egg.When I dug it out again, it was an empty eggshell. When I dug it out again, I pulled out a snake. One screamed, and the three children fell down on the street.

We asked three households, and all three households were able to receive customers, but the bad guy had to see the hostess one by one.The rotten head's point of view is correct, the hostess is clean and tidy, the bed must be clean and the food is delicious.Finally, the one in the middle of the street was selected, but the hostess was a pockmark.After entering the store, I was so tired that I couldn't straighten my waist, and fell asleep hugging the pillow without eating, but Fugui and Cuihua were energetic, shouting and running in and out of the house.When the host’s child was having breakfast, several mice were fighting on the roof beam, and one fell and hit the rice soup bowl. The rice soup splashed and scalded the child’s face, and the bowl was broken, so the child poured kerosene on the mouse. The dirt field behind the street was ignited, and the mouse ran desperately in pain, and finally got into a wheat haystack beside the field, and the wheat haystack was on fire.People on the street rushed to put out the fire, Fugui and Cuihua also ran back and forth, rolling their bodies to put out the fire, Cuihua even scorched a beard.A young man next to him saw that Cuihua was charming and lovely, so he had evil intentions and lured Cuihua to his house with a small fish. Of course wealth is to protect Cuihua, and he followed to go there, but was kicked by the young man. go outside.Fugui came back to shake his uncle's bed. We were so exhausted. We didn't even know the loud noise of fighting the wheat stack fire. Fugui couldn't wake up from shaking the bed. He put a stinky shoe on his nose and uncle woke up. .When we went to the house, the young man was opening the door to let the green flowers out. The bad guy grabbed the young man and beat him, asking if he wanted to steal the green flowers or strangle them to eat meat?The young man explained for a long time that there is a voodoo technique here, that is, to sprinkle cat urine on a handkerchief, and then spread the handkerchief at the entrance of the snake hole to lure the snake out. Snakes are lustful. As long as the fine-spotted handkerchief is waved in front of a woman to let her smell it, the woman will be confused and can tell her to go away at will.Lantou slapped the young man and stumbled, cursing: "You are better than me!" The young man was so frightened that he ran away, and when we left the town, he didn't dare to go home again.

I felt that I couldn't sleep any more, the owner started to cook for us, and the bad guy advocated eating hot tofu with pots and helmets, and helped the owner with his work, but my uncle sat on a stool and looked out of the window in silence, I asked him what's the matter, he said nothing, I ran to the street to buy a bottle of white wine, he smiled, poured it into two glasses, pushed me a glass, his hands shook when he was about to drink the glass Shaking, some wine spilled on the table, the uncle lowered his head and slurped a few times on the table. "I haven't seen a wolf in the past few days." He said.

"It doesn't matter," I said, "if you see them wherever you go, there won't be only fifteen wolves!" "I'm always in a panic." He took out the piece of Jin Xiangyu from his neck.Jin Xiangyu had a story of saving the life of an old Taoist priest. I said, "Do you feel anything?" The uncle said: "During my census, I found Wolf No. 7 in the grass behind the street." I said, "Let's finish eating, let's go to the plateau to have a look." "No need, I'm not here now," said the uncle. "If there are wolves, I can feel them, and the wolf fur blankets will prick you. I can't explain it, but I feel uncomfortable when I come to this town. Smell it, does the scent of Jinxiangyu is strong?"

I sniffed it, and it was creamy and chocolatey. "This is a bit strange," said the uncle. When I smelled Jin Xiangyu, Lan Tou was carrying a box of freshly cooked tofu and put it on the dining table in the main room. When I saw it and asked what it was, my uncle stuffed Jin Xiangyu into the clothes on his chest. He refused to let him see, so he said, "A piece of stone, what's so rare, it's not pearl agate! Secretary, I have a treasure!" Putting down the hot tofu, he took out a small bottle in his pocket , the bottle is a ball of red cotton sleeve.I said what kind of cotton wool?The rotten head pulled me outside the back door, and whispered: "To avoid evil, it is a cotton cover specially obtained from virgin menstrual blood."I just said you are so dirty!The rotten head said that the shit you pull out is not all eaten from your mouth?And asked me not to tell my uncle, because my uncle had never really seen a woman, and if he knew, he would be jealous of him.Uncle shouted from the window: "Bad boy, what are you sneaking around and talking about?!" Ruan head walked in and shouted loudly: "Eat, eat, shopkeeper, bring the chili vinegar quickly, our captain is going to starve to death! "

Guokui is a kind of hard cake similar to the size of a pot lid, and tofu is a large piece directly cut into the tofu box with a knife, cut into small pieces and poured with spicy vinegar water, it is really delicious.I ate two bowls, my uncle ate three bowls, ate three bowls with a loud noise, and went to fill the fourth bowl. "You see, he looks like a pig, not like a pig!" said the uncle with a smile. At this time, people walked by in a row on the street outside the door. The men were all in black clothes and black trousers, with dirty wide cloth wrapped around their heads or waists, but there were black and red spots on their faces and necks. Oily meat, but the women's clothes are very lively, almost bright red and green, with narrow waists and raised lapels, like characters in a cowhide shadow play.I took out my camera to take pictures, only to find out that there was a market in the town that day, so we decided to go to the market and hurry on our way.

I have never experienced a market in a mountainous area. People from all directions are rushing towards the town street. The buyers carry cages, baskets and bags, and the sellers carry logs and firewood. Daylilies, fungus, pigs, sheep, chickens and dogs, most of those who don’t buy or sell are women and children, for the meat or pancakes on the food stalls, and for the excitement in the human nest, shouting and showing off.The small street is a slow slope paved with bluestone strips. The highest point of the slow slope is a stone bridge. Half of the railing of the stone bridge is broken. After a slow slope, both sides of the street are filled with various small stalls, ranging from food, vegetables, Farm tools, cloth, small oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, needles, threads, everything.There are jelly noodle stalls, paste spicy soup stalls, noodle stalls, and fried tofu stalls in a row. There are people squatting or standing in front of them, shouting loudly: Lazi, Lazi, Lazi!Dishwashing water and pot water were poured on the spot, and a stream of sewage flowed down the bridge deck. Pedestrians on the slow slope at the bridge head stamped their feet and scolded: Flowing into the Yangtze River? !We wandered around the market, and Fugui picked up a bone from somewhere, grinning and chewing on it. I kept yelling: "Fugui, Fugui!"Fugui said: Wang!Just refused to come near.Uncle said: "Dogs are never lost, but cats are fed by whoever they are. Where is Cuihua?" Behind, a pair of eyeballs are gurgling around.He called me secretary loudly, causing passers-by to look at me, so I put on a very dignified posture and said, "Is there something wrong?" He ran closer and said in a low voice, "Call you secretary, are you serious I thought you were the secretary!!" I said, "If the secretary grows big, the secretary will grow up too!" He said, "I never thought that all the women in this mountainous area would be attractive." I said, "That's right.He also said: "I really shouldn't have slapped that guy. If you want a handkerchief, it will really confuse people if you try it." Uncle came over, and the rotten head stopped talking. Uncle asked me: Do you want to see the flat tail? pig?What is a flat-tailed pig, I don't know, but the rotten head wants me to buy him a pack of cigarettes, so he can tell me.I actually bought cigarettes and gave him and my uncle a pack each. He said that this question is as simple as one word. You know, wolves often come to the village to pick up pigs, but not all kinds of pigs are picked up. , All the pigs that were taken away were pigs with flat tails.When I asked why flat-tailed pigs were a dish for wolves, he couldn't answer. "The wolves didn't explain it to me," he said.After getting off the slow slope at the other end of the bridge, turn right to the river beach, where there are hundreds of pigs waiting for the market. My uncle didn’t ask whose pigs are flat-tailed, but just asked for the price of the pigs. The spine of a pig, the belly of a pig, and the tail of a pig, and said: The price is too expensive, man, this is a flat-tailed pig!The seller said: "To tell you the truth, it is a flat-tailed pig, but now there are no wolves!" I held up the pig's tail, and it was indeed flat. I looked at 13 pigs based on this, and five of them had a pointed tail and a flat tail. Flat and flat.

"How come there are no wolves?" Uncle and Lan Tou squatted there smoking pipes with the seller. "If there were no wolves, the government wouldn't need to promulgate a ban on hunting wolves. When wolves come to pick up pigs again, they can't be beaten. Will the wolves be paid for nothing?" "What kind of hunting is banned now? It's been two or three years in Liu's Bazi. I haven't heard of any flat-tailed pigs called wolves. Now that there are so many bad guys, how can there be wolves?" "Changed into a human? Tell me, which one was changed from a wolf?"

They laughed ho-ho-ho, and the seller pulled out the drenched pipe from his mouth and handed it to the uncle. The uncle stuffed the pipe into his mouth and took a few puffs, then pulled it out again for the rotten head.I didn't go to join in the fun, I just took a camera to take pictures of these pigs, but something went wrong with the camera, I fiddled with it for a long time, and I was able to take pictures. A man in the crowd hurried past with a man on his back, followed by a woman with a handkerchief in her hand , the woman looked up and saw me, she stopped and yelled.This is the bow-legged wife on the other side of the ridge.

"Are you coming to the market too?" I said. "I don't have such a blessing. You go, don't let him hum!" She yelled at the man who was carrying the man and walked forward, and continued: "The old man is greedy. He ate a date without spitting out the core. Just swallowed it. Have you ever seen a person who eats jujubes without spitting out the pits? Have you ever seen the jujube pits so big, with two pointed ends like awls? When he came out, Gou Zi’s eyes were bleeding, and he came to the town to see a doctor!” I was amazed and amused at the same time, thinking that the bandy legs were the jujubes eaten on the jujube tree that Wang Sheng gave birth to, and the jujube must have Wang Sheng's wronged soul, so I asked the doctor how he looked, but the woman said, "Where is that skinny guy from your group?" What?" She asked about Lantou, I didn't want to tell him that Lantou was not far away, and coaxed him to say that Lantou was eating in a noodle restaurant on the other side of the bridge, the woman responded with a ohh, swaying towards him. go forward.But at this time another woman came to ask me what I said.

"Brother," she said, "Is the guy over there surnamed Fu?" In fact, this woman has been standing in front of the tying post for a long time, looking towards us all the time, her yellow hair is wrapped in a calico, just now I glanced at it and thought: women in mountainous areas are also fashionable Hair dye too!Looking up, I could see that the yellow hair was not dyed, it was yellow from root to tip, and shiny.I said, "It's Fu, do you know him?" The woman said: "I didn't expect to meet him. He is my savior!" I immediately shouted to my uncle to come quickly. "Benefactor, benefactor!" The woman knelt down to her uncle, her forehead knocked clearly on the ground, and the uncle was puzzled and quickly helped her up. "You, you are..." "You don't remember me, my surname is Jin!" "Oh, Jin Changshui's daughter, remember, she has grown so big?!" The woman smiled awkwardly. "You really don't remember me," the woman said. "You saved my life." "I saved your life?" "In Yuezhao Mountain, haven't you remembered yet, look at my finger." The woman raised her right hand, half of the middle finger of her right hand was broken.But my uncle still looked puzzled.The woman shook her head regretfully when she saw that her uncle hadn't come to his senses, and told him that she would remember his life-saving grace for the rest of her life, and she kept praying for him, wishing that such a good person like him would live and prosper forever.Uncle felt a little uncomfortable and started to untie his belt. It was a little hot, but he fastened it again immediately.The woman was still staring at her uncle, she stretched out her hand, and pinched away a small bug stuck to his shoulder.At this moment, someone was coughing loudly, I looked up and saw a rotten head standing in the distance waving to me, and I walked over. The rotten head said: "You are so dumb, what are you doing standing there?" I immediately hit myself on the head with regret, but asked, "Who is this woman?" "I've never seen it before," said Rotten, "It's so beautiful!" I shifted my body, blocked his sight, and asked him where he went. I saw Wang Sheng's wife just now. She washed her face clean today, and I asked about you.But the rotten head said: Which Wang Sheng?I said yesterday that I planned to live in someone else's house and not leave, but I forgot about it today.Lantou said, I'm a monkey who breaks the corn, breaks one and puts the other down, remember that I'm exhausted?Tilting my head and looking at my uncle again, I immediately pouted my mouth to signal, I looked back, my uncle and the woman with yellow hair were still talking, the woman with yellow hair was picking something in her arms, but the button of the double skirt was an ancient cloth button, which couldn’t be undone for a while , I finally took it out, it was two peaches, the peaches were big and ruddy.The rotten head said: "That's not a peach, it's a milk bag." I scolded: "Anyone is a bitch!" But suddenly thought: In this April day, where will there be peaches?I was puzzled for a while.The woman wanted to give the peaches to her uncle, but the uncle didn't want them, so the two pushed them over to let them pass.The woman walked away, but my uncle was still standing there in a daze, and I went over with the bad guy and said, "Is it because we are here, and you deliberately refuse to recognize him?" The uncle cursed: Nonsense!