Chapter 14 Chapter Fourteen

(...The rotten head also said: "You have no luck, you tell the captain that I will save some for him.") At the gate of the prison, my uncle squatted there with his head in his arms smoking. He didn’t go in yet, because after we left, a leader of the Zhoucheng Prison came to inspect the work, so he stopped visiting the prisoners.We stayed for a while, and a group of people came out of the gate. Uncle was called to visit, so he asked me to accompany him.A few minutes later, we met Cheng Yi in a bungalow, through an iron fence. Chengyi is a fat man, so fat that it is unbelievable that he used to be a hunter. He is bald and has a big red scar on his left cheek. He looked at his uncle with dark eyes and said, "I knew you would come of."

"I'll come and see you." "I'm afraid you came to see me for you." "...I go to your house once a month. Your wife and children are fine... How are you?" "..." "Don't worry about things outside." "..." "I went to Deshun's place a few days ago. Everyone was talking about you, and I hope you can come out soon." "..." "Chengyi, Chengyi, why don't you speak, do you still hate me?" Cheng Yi suddenly roared: "I hate wolves, why don't I just let the wolves eat me, let the wolves bite the bones to pieces and pour shit on them!"

"The wolf digs your face, keep your voice down!" The guard standing next to him reprimanded. "You call him a wolf digging face?" Uncle stood up angrily, "That's his nickname, only the members of the original wolf hunting team called him. He broke the law, but he is still a human being. You should call him Chengyi, Wu Chengyi !" "He told us to call him that," said the guard. "He said he didn't like the name Chengyi, so he called him a wolf digging his face." We all looked at Chengyi, but he didn't respond, instead looking sideways at his uncle.Uncle pushed the cigarette through the gap in the iron fence, but Cheng Yi remained motionless.

"Chengyi!" "I told the wolf to dig his face!" "Brother wolf digger," the uncle said, swallowing a mouthful of saliva, "now that the government has promulgated regulations, our wolf hunting team has disbanded." "Really," Cheng Yi snorted, "Did you make any contribution to enacting the regulations? You even did a census of wolves, and you saw the wolf that dug my face?" "Who told you that?" "Wang Wei has been here. The wolf hunting team has been disbanded. They are all unemployed. You are the only hunter left!"

"I'm not a hunter, what kind of hunter am I if I can't hunt wolves?" "Aren't you still wearing this outfit?" Cheng Yi said, "You have been hunting wolves all your life, and you have protected wolves again. Of course you are no longer a hunter. What kind of hunter do you deserve? Why do you come to see me? I am not The Cheng Yi who was betrayed, I am a prisoner who has been dug up by a wolf who has been protected by a wolf!" "..." "Don't come to see me again, and I won't see you again!" "..." "You don't want to go to my house either!"

The cigarette was stuffed out through the gap in the iron fence, and Cheng Yi stood up to leave, but his uncle's tears flowed down his face. I couldn't stand it anymore, so I reprimanded Chengyi for treating my uncle like this. I said that you violated the national law by killing and selling golden monkeys. My uncle told you what was wrong. The government issued regulations to protect wolves to protect the ecological environment. It is a matter of course for uncle to do the census work, which is meritorious!He came to visit you today as a friend, and you hurt him so much, the wolf dug your face, so are you just digging his heart like this?Chengyi ignored me, he turned around and stared at his uncle: "Then I want to thank you?! If you want me to tell you something, then I will tell you a story. This is what the murderer in prison told me Yes. There was a hero who thought he was a hero, but he was indeed a hero. When he came to a village, the people in the village complained that there was a white tiger on the mountain who often came to hurt them. The hero went up the mountain to kill the tiger before he finished listening. After fighting the tiger for a day and a night, he was caught by the white tiger and covered in blood, but he killed the white tiger. He returned to the village, and the villagers hosted a banquet for him. He asked the villagers: "Is there anything else I can do for you?" Said, the white tiger on the mountain is gone, and there is a blue dragon in the pond that often makes troubles. When it is drought, it sucks up the water from the pond and cannot let them irrigate the fields. Help them get rid of Qinglong? The hero went to the pool and fought with Qinglongge for three days and three nights. He was almost eaten by Qinglong, and finally returned to the village with the dragon's head. The villagers cheered him and held a banquet to celebrate. He drank After drinking a pot of wine, he proudly said: "Heroes are going to eliminate harm for the people. Is there anything else you can do for me?" The villagers said: "There is no more white tiger and green dragon, but there is still one harm. If this harm is eliminated, the world will be true." The hero asked: Who is it? The villagers said: It’s you. The hero was surprised: It’s me, how could it be me? But he lowered his head, stopped talking, stood up and wanted to leave, but just stood up He fell to the ground and died. Because the villagers had already put down the poison in the wine he drank."

After Chengyi finished telling the story, he turned around and left the meeting room. Only my uncle and I were left in the meeting room, and my uncle sat motionless for five minutes. After coming out of prison, my uncle didn't want to stay in Danfeng County anymore, and even bitterly said that he would never come to this county again.Uncle has his uncle's sad things, but he is too bossy, completely ignoring me and the bad guy.After leaving the county seat, he didn't want to go back the same way, so he led us around the high courtyard wall of the prison to the river outside the city. Occasionally, people came by and hurried past with their heads down.Except for a few women scrubbing and washing clothes on the stones in the distance, there were no idlers coming and going on the river bank. The mallet for beating clothes fell down and rose again in mid-air, making a loud bang.The cicadas were singing on the willows, and the frogs were singing one after another in the paddy fields on the bank. Cuihua would stand on the ridge of the paddy fields and look into the water from time to time. .Uncle seemed very irritable, and threw stones to the willow tree and also to the paddy field. Once the stone was thrown, the cicadas and frogs became silent. After a while, the chirping sounded again. He threw three stones in a row, and then kicked the emerald flowers.Lantou was also angry and said: "Captain, are you annoying Cuihua or me?!" Uncle said: "What's wrong with you?!" Lantou said: "If you are the emperor, you are the Qin emperor among emperors." Yingzheng, if you are a monk, you are Xuanzang among monks. When you come to Danfeng County, the secretary and I will follow you to Danfeng County. If you say you want to leave Danfeng County, the secretary and I will follow you Leaving Danfeng County, but do you know that I have a headache, and I took three tablets of Fenbid after you went to the prison. But you can’t recite the magic spell for me?” When they quarreled, I hurriedly smoothed things over and said : "Hey, you called you the Monkey King?!" I didn't think about it, but said: "I can't be a Monkey King, but I can be regarded as a pig. It's your nephew, and he's a cadre from the provincial capital, and his big intestines are exhausted!" The uncle said, "Are you going back to your Gaolaozhuang? I paid attention to you and invited you? You Go back, get out!" He spat out and said again: "Get out!"

The rotten head really turned around and left.There is a stone road to the west of the river bank. Not far from the road are houses built along the ridge. In front of the house is the small street at the southernmost end of the city. There are stone steps between the houses. They are all small buildings on stilts, and the long wooden pillars stand under the sill one by one. Of course, the toilet is also upstairs, but the cesspool is under the sill, and some people are defecating, and the filth falls out.I called out to Lantou: "Where are you going, to eat shit?!" Lantou had already arrived at the downstairs of a house, the upstairs window was open, and a woman with heavy makeup waved to him: "Brother Chuan, Brother Chuan Come up and drink tea, is it fun!" Lantou actually walked up the stone steps.

"Bad head, bad head!" I called him hastily. "Don't call him, let him go!" A boat babbled on the river, and the boatman wanted to go ashore to buy wine in the city. My uncle and the boatman muttered a few words, and sat on the boat angrily.I hurried to stop the boatman and asked where we were going to take the boat. The boatman said, "Go down to Shangnan County." From the stone steps to the street, I bought a bottle of wine and a roast chicken. I was looking for a rotten head, but I didn't know which teahouse it was.After yelling harshly, Rotten replied, and stood at the door of the nearby hair salon while buttoning up his clothes.I pulled him down the stone steps, and the woman behind me said: "Brother Chuan, Brother Chuan!" The rotten head said, "The money is on the bedside!" I said, "Going to bed so soon?" "I asked her to pinch it for me," Lantou said, "Damn it, you can't get out of Sichuan girls anywhere!" I saw a small circle of red on his collar and said, "Hurry up and wipe that lipstick off." Well, I won’t let the captain scold you again! He’s the captain, and he’s older than you. He just saw Chengyi and felt uncomfortable, so you won’t give in. Besides, they’re all from a wolf hunting team. You’re a fart Can’t you? Where are you going, just leave?!” Rotten said: “Did he let me go!” He grabbed the soil from the ground and wiped it on the collar, and asked me if I could see it or not. I couldn't help laughing, and said, "Where can I go to scare him!"

I and the boatman got on the boat, and my uncle was still sitting in the cabin, breathing hard. I said, "Captain!" He said with a sullen face, "Call your uncle!" The head is really a headache, and when the headache hurts, he loses his words." The uncle said: "Let him go, there is one less client on the stilted building!" The boat started, the river was wide, and the boatman let the boat go drifting. Sitting there holding the oars, my uncle called the boatman to have a drink.Rotten said with a playful smile: "As long as you let me go, I'll go into the river, see if you feel sorry for you!" Uncle didn't look at him, and he said to Fugui: "The captain can't let me go, no Who will stand guard for him, who will pull his horse and pedal, who will be his punching bag for bad water?!" The uncle said, "Ziming, take this wine and occupy that * mouth, bullshit! People are fumigated to death!" I smiled and handed the wine to Lantou, who refused to drink, and immediately fell on the pile of firewood in the bow of the boat and called Cuihua to comb his hair, and he had another headache.

Of course I didn’t dare to drink, so I went into the cabin and unbuttoned my trousers to change toilet paper. The hemorrhoids had been rubbed and bled, the crotch was stained, and I put on a new one.The rotten head said: "The secretary is on her period!" I scolded him to close his eyes and sleep for a while when the headache is not severe, and then get into the boat and sit alone.The conflict between my uncle and the rotten head has been resolved, but I am also worried that if my uncle continues like this, I don’t know how long it will take to finish taking pictures of the fifteen wolves, so I took the poker from my backpack and put the cards on my own.Uncle and the boatman were still sitting on the bow of the boat drinking, the boat swayed, and the wine drank to and fro.I was lying there almost falling asleep, the sky outside the cabin window became dark, the mountain peak seemed to be very high, the moon appeared and disappeared behind the peak, and the river surface was white. I don't know when, I heard a sound, it was the rotten head saying: "Secretary, secretary, go in a little bit, let the captain lie down."I sat up, and my uncle was drunk like a pool of mud. I laid him flat on the bamboo mat, and the boatman took a brick and put it under his neck, and said, "It's not lucky, I just drank so much wine, I just fell down." Already!" The rotten head said, "He has a lot of alcohol, and he can shoot down a sparrow flying in the sky after drinking half a catty, why can't he do it today?" The boatman said, "Such a good marksmanship, is he a hunter?" Lantou said: "Of course it's a hunter, do you know Fu Shan?" The boatman said: "Which Fu Shan? Captain Fu of the wolf hunting team? You said he is Captain Fu? How could he be Captain Fu? Captain Fu fucked me The boat?!" I lay down next to my uncle and fell asleep again.At dawn the next day, I opened my eyes and saw that my uncle was sitting on the bow of the boat having a drink with the boatman again.I was a little annoyed: I was drunk last night, and I woke up and drank again. If I got drunk again, today's wolf hunt would have to go to waste!But my uncle called me sharply: "Ziming, Ziming!" I didn't answer. "Bad head, is Ziming still asleep? Listen, there are wolves howling!" I ran out of the cabin at once and asked: Where is the wolf? "I heard two calls," said the uncle. "There are wolves here," said the boatman. "When we sail at night, there are often wolves sitting on the shore under the tree roots, motionless. You think it's a rock, and when the pole of the boat is pushed there, it gets up and goes away. There have also been times when wolves swam across the river with a log in their arms and jumped on a willow tree branch on the bank. One wolf jumped up and hung its head on the branch and hanged itself. Wood swam across the river again, as if looking for suicide." "The wolf also committed suicide?" I asked in amazement. "Anything a person can do, so can an animal." He said, "On the river in front of our hometown, hundreds of fish committed suicide last autumn, and they all jumped out of the water to the beach, and the beach was covered with white flowers. Can you hear what those two birds are saying?" Sure enough, there were two birds calling each other long and short on the tree by the bank, I don’t know why they were happy, the rotten head said, the birds said to each other: Look, the man without the beard is a rotten hook what! I was so angry that I ignored him and listened again, but I still didn't hear the wolf howling. I asked the boatman if he had seen a wolf commit suicide recently?The boatman said, it has been a full year, and I have never seen a wolf committing suicide, not even the shadow of a wolf. I didn't expect that when the captain came, the wolf would come too! The rotten head said: "What, what is this, the captain has attracted the wolf?!" I didn't hear the cry of the wolf, let alone the figure of the wolf. Looking around, there was no wind or waves on the cool river. Like smoke, it was filling the air against the water skin.But, I believe my uncle’s words are true, the wolves should appear, they didn’t crouch on the shore like a rock and sit bored tonight, nor did they swim over with a log and jump on the branches to hang their heads on it to commit suicide , but it must be somewhere on both sides of the strait. We can't see them, but they can see us. Our every move is in their eyes.I took out the camera and said, "I'm afraid that even the wolf wants to be the captain!" It was originally a joke, but my uncle got angry, his eyes were red, "What are you talking about, what do you mean, I shouldn't be a hunter?" He tore off the animal skin vest and threw it into the In the river, he also tore off his leg wraps and belt, and even beat the gun hard on the side of the boat.Rotten hurriedly hugged him and said, "Captain, you've had too much to drink!" He took the gun and bent down on the water to pick up the vest and the leg-wrap belt. Walk.Uncle got into the cabin in a fit of anger, and said in a rough voice: "I also recognized Chengyi when he spit on my face, why do you say me?" The imbalance and unwillingness caused by the lack of pursuit in ten years of life, what else does he have to fight against?Could it be that he doesn't know that wolves can't be hunted and killed, and he just accompanied me to take pictures of wolves? Could it be that I can become my uncle's wolf? !Lantou said: "This time you have to apologize." I went back to the cabin, and I said, "Don't misunderstand me, Uncle, I mean, the wolves must know that there are regulations to protect them. The wolves grew up in the hunt of you and your wolf pack." The big ones, once they stop hunting, they go to the branches of the trees to commit suicide, and howl loudly when you come..." Uncle didn't speak, but he seemed to forgive me, and murmured: "The wolf has no opponent. The wolf has no opponent?" Yes, the wolf has no opponent, and the uncle has no opponent.But, uncle, you can't regard the villagers as your new opponents, your old teammates as your new opponents, you can't regard me as your opponents, and you can't regard yourself as your opponents!But I didn't dare to say that.