Chapter 20 Chapter Twenty

(...Whether he is coming or not, I can't understand, a puff of smoke sprayed on Fugui's face, Fugui ran to the door and coughed for a long time.) At noon, another group of dark clouds appeared in the sky, round like a basket. My uncle stood in the yard and stared at the dark clouds for a long time.The rotten man was chatting with the old man's daughter-in-law again, as if the rotten man was boasting about the golden incense jade that his uncle wore around his neck. It is fragrant, and the fragrance disappears after marrying this family. If you want to die, can you bring that piece of Jinxiangyu to her.The bad guy said, are you going to kill me, but the woman said nothing.I looked ugly, stood at the window and shouted: "Shopkeeper, did you pull the spinach from the ground?" The woman immediately turned and went to the kitchen.Uncle was still watching the clouds in the baker, so I went to say, "Uncle can also watch the sky?"

"Look at that cloud," said the uncle. "I remembered that when the wolf was peeled that day, there was also such a black cloud in the sky, and the children of the nearby family fell into grass." "What kind of soul is this cloud supposed to be?" "I thought so too." Looking from the front door, a rooster circled a hen on the street. The hen lay down, and the rooster climbed up.Will Wu Yun's soul turn into a chicken and come to the world?I felt bored after thinking about it, so I said, "Uncle, you said there would be wolves coming here, why is there no movement? This place is weird, I'm afraid I can't stay here any longer."

"You mean rotten head..." I was taken aback, it turned out that my uncle also saw the way!But when my uncle said that, I couldn't say anything more, so I smiled and went back to my room to read a book. In the afternoon, there was still no news from the wolf, and my uncle was a little discouraged. He was about to leave Shenglong Town, but fell ill instead.He suffered from the problem of not being able to urinate. He said that he had felt it for two days. He only said that he got angry and didn't care about it.I suspected that the rotten head had a venereal disease, and it must have been infected by the woman, so my uncle went to the town and invited an old doctor. As soon as the old man entered the rotten head's room, he smelled something wrong and asked what was in the sack under the bed. .The old man opened the sack and looked, it was full of papaya, he said so many papaya under the bed, papaya gas rises, it stops urine, of course you can’t pee out, you don’t understand, the old shopkeeper should know how stupid, how can he put Where is the papaya under the bed?The rotten head scolded immediately: "This old guy forced me to leave, but I won't leave!" He moved the bedding to my room.

The thing is obvious, everything about the shopkeeper is a conspiracy, I finally said to the shame of the shabby head, and warned him to be honest, the old man has already given you a lot of face by doing this.The rotten head was also dejected, and scolded the old man for protecting his daughter-in-law so much that he wanted to pick up ashes. What the hell, and scolded that woman must not be a good thing, the old man is so guarded against her, she has committed a trick before?This time he also encouraged his uncle to leave Shenglong Town, but he wanted to leave but couldn't for a while, he had to rest for a day and take the pills prepared by the old doctor.The bad mood of the bad head is already very bad, screaming, the headache hurts, and I am a little annoyed, so I go out with the camera on my back to take pictures of the mountain scenery.

In mountainous areas, whether it is cadres going to the countryside or literary and artistic workers who want to collect folk songs, the mountain people generally keep a respectful distance, but there are two situations where you will be welcomed immediately and you can mingle with them.One is that you know acupuncture and serve them for free.The people in the mountains are so strong that they can knock down cattle with bare hands. They eat raw food, drink cold water, and their ability to bear heavy loads for a long time will surprise you. In their home, they can often hear the whining sound from time to time in the middle of the night. It is a long breath, and it seems that such a long moan can expel the fatigue and discomfort accumulated in the bones.They generally don’t watch technetium students, unless they can’t eat, work, or spend time with their wives at night. The simple self-help is to cut the eyebrows with porcelain tiles, or cupping, or draw amulets and chant spells. , If you come to acupuncture for free, they will give you a sincere smile, call you Mr., make poached eggs with brown sugar for you to eat.The second is that you have a camera and are willing to take pictures for them. They will immediately go into the room and put on the best clothes, smooth their hair with pomade or water, and then sit down with their hands and feet together and serious expressions for you to take pictures. .Especially girls and plump and beautiful young women, you can go to their small bedrooms after taking pictures, and answer their questions about the city. The Venerable Master laughed so hard that ten or eight feet kicked around under the quilt.Naturally, I received the enthusiastic cooperation of the people in the town. Within a long time, a roll of film was shot, but I still had to take pictures for them, so I had to press blank shots.Seeing them earnestly leaving my name and address, and begging to send them the photos, I felt ashamed of Kong's behavior of pressing the camera, so I left them with an excuse and went to the river alone.At this time, it was dusk, the moon came out just as the sun was setting, and the embankment by the river was full of willow trees. These willow trees may have been around for nearly fifty years, and the stumps were never cut down, while the branches were cut down every year. For chicken sheds, cattle pens or cooking, the stumps get thicker and older, and almost all of them have holes, and there are nests and snakes in them.I didn't like the riverside in the dark time very much, so I ran back to the town street and bought film before shooting. A one-eyed old man stood silently watching me from a distance. He had been watching for a long time, so I turned around and gave him a smile. He also laughed, his face was very tense due to his blindness, and his nose moved, looking a little scary.

"Can a camera take a picture of a person's soul?" said the old man. "Then how could it be, this is not a magic mirror!" I said. The old man immediately turned around and shouted: "Everyone come out, all come out, this comrade said that taking pictures will not take away the soul." There was a sound in the reeds behind the embankment, and two adults and two children came out, driving a pig.The four of them were all dressed in rags, and they were all skinny. The adult looked shy and didn't dare to look directly at me, but the child jumped up excitedly. The adult patted him and pulled him behind him. He tilted his head behind him, curiously Look at me.But the pig was fat and very obedient. There was no rope tied around its neck or front legs to be led, but an adult lifted its tail, and it walked away without saying a word.

"Are you going to the buying station to hand over pigs?" I said, "Such fat pigs!" "It was newly bought in the town." The old man said, "The children are all complaining that they are short of words." "Is it a good day!" "You think it's good? I'm so annoyed that I want to hang myself!" The old man said, he knows that I am from the city, and I have been in the town for many days. If I can respect them, invite me to his house.The two grown-ups hurriedly said yes, yes, and extended an invitation together, "I'll kill a pig for you, kill a pig and eat meat!"

I declined, but I was moved by their sincerity. After taking pictures of them, I watched them cross the river to the ditch on the other side of the river.This is a small river that flows into the big river from north to south. When they passed the single-plank bridge on the river, they encountered difficulties. The two children were terrified on the bridge, always unable to move, and then they lay on the bridge board and groaned cry.With the camera around my neck, I took the initiative to carry one child across the bridge, and then carried the second one. The child hadn't bathed for a long time, and his body smelled bad.The old man invited me to his house again, and I declined again. The two adults drove the pig across the bridge. The pig was too stupid to stand on the bridge. With big ears, a person behind him was pulling the pig's tail, yelling heavily, and the pig moved its feet slowly, looking pitiful and funny.When they walked to the middle of the bridge, I pressed the shutter, and the light flashed, and the old man fell off the bridge with a bang. He was still nimble, and caught him with his right leg the moment he fell into the water. The bridge pillars were hanging on the water, and I was so nervous that my hands wanted to grab the bridge pillars, but I couldn't.I hurriedly shouted: "Hook on, hook on, I'll save you!"

It was entirely my fault that the old man almost fell into the water, but when I stepped on the bridge, he finally hugged the bridge pillar and climbed onto the bridge deck, but accidentally knocked over a section of the bridge, and the section of the bridge drifted away, blocking me connect with them.The old man beckoned to me regretfully, and I responded, seeing five people, young and old, drive the pigs away from the river beach. When we got back to the town street, the lights were already on, and there were a few stalls selling baked tofu with oil lamps hanging on them, where my uncle and Lan Tou were sitting and drinking.Each of them held a grass-green snake in their hands. The snake's head had just been chopped off, and they sucked the snake's blood with their mouths. The headless snake was still moving, twisting around their arms, and then slowly relaxed. Dropped to the ground like a slack rope.I was terrified.

"Secretary, Secretary!" They had already seen me, and Rotten grabbed a live snake from the iron cage next to it, and the snake was separated with the knife. "It's better to come back sooner than later. Just in time for a snake seller, let's drink snake blood to detoxify first! Look at your rotten mouth, snake blood is much better than vitamins!" I dare not go to the front. "You don't want to drink?" Rotten pinched the snake head that fell on the ground and threw it to Cuihua to eat. The snake head suddenly opened its mouth and bit Rotou's hand, and he cursed, "Bite me again?!" Going closer, I turned my head and walked towards the landlord's house, my heart was still beating.Uncle and Rotten also came back, laughing at my timidity.

"It's too cruel, how can anyone drink snake blood like this?" "That's how this place drinks." "This place is strange. Just now I saw a pig crossing the bridge. It was just a wooden bridge. The fat pig passed by moving on four legs." I told what I had heard by the river. Uncle's ears moved suddenly, and his ears could really move. "Three adults, two children?" he said, "Is there anyone in the ditch on the other side of the river? It's so late, are they human traffickers?" Women and children are often abducted and trafficked in Shangzhou. I have heard of this in the provincial capital, and there are reports in the provincial newspapers that the police have traveled thousands of miles to rescue the trafficked people. The ex-wife who came to Shangzhou even said: Be careful not to let you be abducted and sold to become a son-in-law!I said that's fine, I will bring a concubine back and call you my sister!Made my wife scold me.Now that my uncle said this, I was really a little suspicious: such a young child can't even speak coherently, why doesn't he see the child's mother when he goes out?And those grown-ups, who described them as ugly and ugly, looked flustered! Uncle stood up and fastened his belt, took the gun and went to have a look.My uncle was so sensitive and agitated that I also became nervous, but I guess that my uncle must have been feeling guilty for the injury of the child who crashed into the car, and if there were people who trafficked the child, he would be more or less psychologically balanced if he could rescue the child.We rushed to the river by night and got on the bridge, but there was a piece of wood missing on the bridge. When I told the old man's behavior, my uncle even suspected that the old man knocked over a piece of wood on purpose to prevent me from crossing. .As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly opened his mouth and vomited, saying why did he feel uncomfortable in his stomach?I criticized that I shouldn't suck the snake's blood directly, but my uncle waved his hand and said, "I'm afraid something has happened!" He jumped into the water and walked over.It suddenly occurred to me that my uncle said that the old Taoist vomited when he picked up Jinxiangyu, but the old Taoist vomited to avoid a disaster, but my uncle went across the river, urging his dead head to cross the river as soon as he died. But the head was blaming me: "If it is really a human trafficker, your crime will be serious. You carried the child over by yourself?!" I said, "I am not a god, so how do I know I am a human trafficker?" The two bickered, There was a bang on the river beach on the opposite bank. "What's the matter, what's the matter?" the rotten head yelled. Under the moonlight, a wolf was running. Suddenly, its front hooves slipped, it turned suddenly in the air, and fell to the beach and stopped.Wolf, where is the wolf?Lantou and I jumped off the bridge, and Lantou quickly crossed the river, but I was overwhelmed by the river, stumbled over a stone in the river, fell into the water, flustered for a while, and drifted along the water for three Zhang Yuan, drank a few sips of water, barely got up, and climbed onto the shore dripping wet. "Don't shoot!" I stopped loudly, "Uncle, don't shoot!" There was another shot and the howling of a wolf. "The child is under the willow tree, go and save the child!" the uncle said hurriedly. Rotten and I ran under a willow tree in the distance, and Rotten reprimanded me while running: "Wolf is eating children, can you not shoot?!"