Chapter 5 Fives

As expected, the sky was dry. Just when the buds were sprouting, there was not a single drop of rain for a month.Since the land was divided, several crops have been harvested and the harvest has been great. The people in the mountain nest are almost happy like a new year every day.Monk Wang thought in his heart: things in the world must be divided for a long time, and things in the world must be united for a long time. When bitterness ends, sweetness comes, and extreme joy breeds sorrow. When it rains during flowering, I often look at the bulgogi as dense as a forest, sweating in my heart, and I am really afraid of what to do! For a few days, he got up when the sky was not clear, and stood in the yard to watch the sky: the sky is still four-legged hanging high.Every afternoon, a layer of black clouds accumulates in the sky, and we just stare at them, but a hot wind blows up, and the black clouds disperse.Sitting on the ground, seeing the leaves of the corn drooping and curling up, he was so sad that he wanted to cry.In the past, when I went to the edge of the field, I saw that my own corn was a head taller than those of others around me, I was secretly proud of myself, and felt that my face had a radiance the size of a basin.Now when there is a drought, my corn is the first to lose its shape, and there are blisters on my lips. I lose my temper every day at home, scolding the sky, scolding the land, and scolding when I just plowed.

Caicai also got angry with anxiety, his eyes were red, and he was rotten like a peach.At three o'clock a day, I came to Xiaoyue's house, and Monk Wang sighed and complained that after the land was divided, some wicked people destroyed the aqueduct, and moved the stone beams of the aqueduct to build a house, which caused the aqueduct to collapse last winter.Now, when things come to an end, it’s too late, too late for every family to unite to build canals and aqueducts! Had to carry water to irrigate the ground. The two companies cooperate, one pole and two buckets are scooped up from the river one by one, and poured under the roots of the corn one by one.After three days and three nights, all the sweat was gone before watering an acre for Xiaoyue's family and an acre for Caicai's family.On the watered land, the grain gradually turns green at night, and the next day, when the sun shines red, there is a seam the size of a baby's mouth on the land again.Xiaoyue had never experienced such hardship before, the sun had peeled off a layer of skin on her face, and prickly heat developed in her hair on her neck, and when eating, it felt as uncomfortable as if she had sprinkled a handful of wheatgrass on her body.Cai Cai Niang suffered even more pitifully. When she came back from carrying water, she was busy boiling water for cooking again, her eyes were covered with black circles.As soon as everyone came back, she soaked the bamboo leaf tea picked from the mountain in a basin and let it cool down, but Xiaoyue fell asleep on her side after drinking two sips.This afternoon, Xiaoyue followed her father to carry water again, and when she went uphill, she staggered, the bucket hit the ground, the bottom of the bucket fell off, and rolled down like a wheel. She threw the pole down when she got angry.Dad couldn't see it, so he said a few words, and quarreled with his counterpart again, so he used the excuse that someone was ferrying on the river, ran to the boat and never went back.

In drought-resistant days, there were not many people on the ferry, so she sat on the boat and sulked, staring straight at the flock of pigeons flying in front of the big cliff.They are a group of free creatures, flying swiftly, facing the wind for a while, revealing their slanted, narrow sides; On the tree, it seemed to be sucked away by a huge magnet, without a trace. A feather landed in the cabin, floated on her feet, rose for a while, fell for a while, and finally flashed out of the side of the boat, floating leisurely from the water to the sky. Xiaoyue was sleepy from reading and thinking, so she closed her eyes and slept on the boat.

She was in a deep sleep.No matter how the water waves shake the boat, I just don't wake up.In the dream, she felt that she was lying on a lawn, and all kinds of flowers were blooming on the lawn. She was so happy that she ran wildly on the lawn. Suddenly, a caterpillar landed on her ear and went straight inside Drilling, trying to catch it with my hand...but bumped into a thick and big hand.She opened her eyes suddenly, and sat on the bow of the boat, gently scratching her ears with a mullah. The door saw her wake up, sitting upright, with a serious face, watching a small bird fly by on the water, its tail touching the water dozens of times.

"What are you doing?" she said angrily. "Look, the birds are tailing, and the whole river is radiating circles." "Is it is it?" Xiaoyue got up suddenly, but suddenly grabbed the door's protruding ears, and cursed: "What a thief, the girl is sleeping at home, what are you doing here?" The door kept calling. "Do you still bully me when I call you?" "Sister Xiaoyue, why did I bully you?" "When you came to my house that day, why did you speak to me?!" "I said some funny things, and I did it for your own good!"

"For good? Is that a good way?" Xiaoyue pulled her ears hard again. "I was wrong, I was wrong." "What's wrong?" "Do you want me to rehabilitate? Just say: Caicai wants to be a son-in-law. He is daydreaming. Xiaoyue doesn't want to at all. Xiaoyue's father makes Caicai a voluntary laborer!" Xiaoyue slammed the door angrily. The door broke free one by one, jumped off the boat, stood in the shallow water behind the stern, recovered his face distorted by pain, and said: "Sister Xiaoyue, seriously, do you really want to marry Caicai?"

"Why are you asking this?" "Everyone in the village says that, is it true?" Xiaoyue lay on the board of the boat and did not move. "Is it really your father and his mother who set it up for you since childhood?" Satsuki didn't answer. "Isn't that arranged?!" Xiaoyue lowered her head even lower. "That's right, I have a good job and an honest heart. Last year, we went to Xixiang Township, Henan Province to exchange wheat seeds. Along the way, he bought cigarettes and a pack of 'Big Wild Goose Pagoda' for me, and he bought it for himself. A package of 'sheep' costs nine cents, I eat a bowl of meat noodles, he only eats a bowl of plain noodles. In the future, you will definitely be able to take his master and be the shopkeeper of your family."

When Xiaoyue said it, her voice was stern: "Menmen, don't spit shit like that! I tell you, you are not allowed to talk about talent in the future. I, Wang Xiaoyue, am not a talent. I let you knead the soft dough! Who do I want to marry? I see." You can marry whoever you want, can you control it?" "Zhong!" Menmen shouted loudly. Xiaoyue's face was even more terribly serious. Every door is there, and I can't understand the content of Xiaoyuelian's book. "Do you have business? It's okay, go and water your field. Look at the crops in your field, they are almost twisted into ropes."

The door was going down the steps, and after hearing Xiaoyue's words, the flesh on her face became vivid again. "Sister Xiaoyue, I'm going to Jingziguan by boat. I heard from Uncle Qin that there is a pump for rent in Liujiaping behind Jingziguan. I want to get it back to water the field." "pump?" "Lend ten yuan a day, and when you get it back, you can rent it to the villagers. The machines are constantly running day and night. If you charge one yuan and fifty cents an hour, you will get more than thirty yuan a day. If you deduct ten yuan, you will lose twenty yuan. Our land The crops are preserved, and the extra income is much better."

Xiaoyue immediately thought of the pitiful appearance of her father and Cai Cai carrying water to the ground.This hell, why did you think of this step? "Is this true?" she said. "I've coaxed you, let me drown here and feed the turtles at the mouth of the Danjiang River!" "Menmen, you must water my house too." "Then what's the problem? Sister Xiaoyue, are you willing to cooperate with me? The two of us will go rent together, and the income will be divided into two and five. As long as you want, you can ignore everything, and the net share will be gone."

"I don't want to be called greedy for money. Just wait, I will call Caicai to cooperate with you when I get home. Let's go to Liujiaping together." "What is he called?" "I want to call!" "Ok." When Xiaoyue rushed home excitedly, father and Caicai just came back from fetching water from the field, and as soon as they entered the courtyard, Caicai was so tired that he lay on the steps as if paralyzed.Cai Cai Niang was feeding the pigs at home, and before she came to cook, Dad took a ladle of cold water from the water tank and drank it like a cow.When Xiaoyue talked about the water pump, Dad threw the water scoop into the tank with a "slap", and objected first: "Engage in a water pump? He can make a water pump every day! That kid can't grow crops well, so he has a good idea!" "He's really good. Uncle Qin provided the clue. He's going to Liujiaping as soon as he's ready, and he's still waiting in the river." "Don't listen to him." Monk Wang said, "If you can get it back, it's an electric tiger. He can handle it? Let the cat pull the cart, and it will be pulled under the bed!" Xiaoyue thinks that her father is watching people through the cracks of the door, so she doesn't talk to him anymore, so she encourages Caicai.Caicai just couldn't make up his mind, saying that the doormen are capable, but they are too clever to fight against each other.Xiaoyue scolded: "It's not that others can't pay, it's because you are too useless!" Then she went to Monk Wang and said: "Uncle, maybe this is a good thing, let's try." "Try it, if you try it, the crops will die!" "Then you can't say it?" "No." Xiaoyue waved her hand and said: "If you like to work hard, you can go bucket by bucket. Give me some money, and I will go." Dad turned dark: "Money is picked up from the ground, let you waste it?!" Xiaoyue ran back to the boat with a sad face, and cried "Wow" as soon as she asked the door.The door had to go away by boat alone.Xiaoyue kept watch until dark, waiting for the gate and a few people to come back carrying the water pump and small electric motor, and then went back to the village together. The next day, Menmen installed the water pump on his own land, stretched the leather pipe all the way to the river under the slope, poured it hastily, and then rented it to a family on the side street.The water pump really didn't stop day and night.He knows some machinery, and when every house is rented, he is invited to take care of it. He treats each other with good cigarettes and wine. For a while, Menmen became a popular person in the village. As soon as he walked through the stone-paved street, young and old greeted him: "Menmen, let's have some food!" The chopsticks whistled on the rim of the bowl, and he There are three or four cigarettes stuck in the two protruding ears.When it happened, I carried the water across the street, and only smoked a cigarette if I had to give it to me, and I didn’t want it. I walked away with a blushing face, and the water was sprinkled on the cobblestone road. Monk Wang's three mu of land was adjacent to the gate. When the gate was pouring the land, he was taken aback and hurriedly walked across the grove of corn.When he walked to a place where he couldn't see the door, he scolded: "Is this kid really successful?" Then I felt jealous.There was no furrow in the field when the door was planted, water was poured in, the high place became an isolated island, and the low place was soaked in thin soup, and the water overflowed into his field, and he pretended not to see it.He also pretended not to see the door, and slept on his back under the tree on the ground with a big character.When others came to rent the water pump, they said loudly on purpose so that Monk Wang who was hiding in the Baogu field could listen. "Can you trust me? The ugly words are up front, one yuan and fifty cents an hour, are you willing to waste money?" "Who said this? Two yuan is not expensive!" the visitor said. "That's right! Look at our crops. I don't care if they don't grow well. This water has everything. If you want it to eat gold, it will eat gold. If you want it to urinate silver, it will urinate silver!" Monk Wang pushed down his straw hat and walked away. Caicai finally couldn't bear it anymore, and persuaded Monk Wang to rent the water pump of Menmen, but Monk Wang said nothing.I just went to see each other a few times, but it was too embarrassing to say anything.Monk Wang asked Xiaoyue to speak to the door, and the door agreed without hesitation, and even came over to install the water pump in person.This made Monk Wang admire the boy's ability, and handed the bamboo pipe pipe to the door to smoke.The door didn't open, but his heart was satisfied, and he whispered to Xiaoyue: "Sister Xiaoyue, your father gave me this bag of cigarettes, I have enough for everything!" "You are also a bitch!" Xiaoyue said. "We are also learning from talents." That night, Monk Wang and Cai Cai Niang were managing the furrows on the field, and Cai Cai ran back and forth to look at the weirs of the canal. Xiao Yue also learned mechanics, so she guarded the water pump.The moon was so bright, she took off her shoes, soaked her feet in the water, and listened to the roar of the motor. When the water entered the ground, there was a buzzing sound, like thousands of crickets chirping. Baogu Yezi soon regained his energy. Monk Wang patted the ground and said: "Are you dry? Why isn't your tortoise dry?!" Ha ha ha laugh. Clothes were wrapped around the door, a cigarette was dangling from his mouth, he watched the motor turn a few times, and then talked to Xiaoyue for a while.Hearing Monk Wang's laughter, the two of them pursed their lips and laughed too. "Will your father still hate me?" "have no idea. The door blinked and left.Xiaoyue sat there tenderly, thinking about the door In other words, I really hope that my father will change from now on.for a while.My heart became pure, and I lay down on the ground, looking at the night sky without any miscellaneous clouds.Three or four crickets jumped over from the ground, calling "Yaoyao" in front of her and behind her.Are these creatures, also drinking enough water, singing a song of life? "Cai Cai, Cai Cai!" She sat up and cried. For several days, I picked water and watered the ground day and night, and Caicai became thinner and more unattractive, and her eyes became more rotten. I used two wax gourd leaves to pat them thin and stick them on my temples.He approached from the field and asked Xiaoyue what's the matter? "It's enough to fix the canal, do we need to keep running?" She threw the towel to him and asked him to wipe his face in the water. She soaked the shirt her father left on the ground and her own shirt in the water, and said while washing: "Look, it's like growing crops. You're as tired as the Black Dragon King. You walk around every door with cigarettes in your mouth." "How can I compare with him?" Cai Cai said. "Why can't we compare? Others' crops are watered earlier than ours, so the yield may not be lower than ours." Cai was speechless. "Don't follow my father's example. He is from the previous generation. He thinks everything is outdated. If you learn from him, you will always suffer." "Uncle, after all, has been doing crops all his life." "Isn't he begging for help?" Xiaoyue is the most dissatisfied and is always so reluctant to let go, and she is always unhappy in her heart. "Cai Cai, do you think I've been telling you these things all the time, too much?" "..." "Do you know why I have to tell you so much?" "..." "You do this when I talk to you! Did you hear that?l" "I'm listening." "You say I'm right?" Cai just looked at Xiaoyue, smiled, and didn't speak, but grabbed the clothes and helped wash them.Xiaoyue's heart burst into flames: "Who cares about you like this? You think that if you do everything for others, others will like it? You go! You go!" It's just that I'm bored, I can't go, I can't go.Poor and embarrassed for a long time, Cu came over and said: "Xiaoyue, my uncle and my mother were talking in the field just now..." "What did you say?" "I said that..." "What about that, can't you even say a word back and forth?" "that is……" Alas, Xiaoyue was so angry that she wanted to drown Cai Cai in the water! She also understood what Cai Cai was talking about, and said: "About our marriage?" Only then was he taken aback, and nodded. "What did you say?" "My mother told you to go to the field, she has something to tell you." "I will not go." "She said that we need a matchmaker to make the matter official." "Is this your mother's idea?" "Ok." "Then I won't go!" "Not going?" "No!!" "then you?" "What about you? Are you stupid, deaf, dumb, dead?!" In Baogudi, Cai Cainiang called Xiaoyue, but Xiaoyue remained silent, pretending not to hear.