Chapter 7 seven

In the general world, icing on the cake is easy to add to the cake. On the fifth day, a puppet troupe from villages came to Luonan County, Shaanxi Province, and performed in the big venue on the other side of the street.For three nights, "Yangui Sells Water" was performed.Looking at the door, my heart became hot, and I scanned the human nest with my eyes, but I didn't see Xiaoyue in the end.He quit and immediately went to Xiaoyue's house.Under the moonlight, Monk Wang was repairing the stone rollers on a grinding plate in front of the door and pulling the shackles. When he saw the door poking around in the courtyard, he asked him what he was doing. The door replied in a panic:

"Uncle, I'm here to borrow a bucket and sell water." He said that carrying water as "selling water" still had Yangui's business in mind.After speaking, he stuck out his tongue.Monk Wang was hard of hearing, so he didn't recognize the word, and said: "The bucket is behind the door, take it yourself." He went in, tiptoed to Xiaoyue's house, and saw that the door was locked. He groaned inwardly, thinking: Where is she? If she also saw the shadow puppets, he must ask "Who is Yangui in our village?" Menmenkong came out and said to Monk Wang:

"Uncle, are you alone at home?" "I'm not alone." "Didn't you go to see the shadow puppets?" "I repaired this flail, once the corn is harvested, I can use this mill to grind the tender grains to make cakes!" The door walked away sadly.Seeing that he didn't take the bucket, Monk Wang was puzzled for a long time: Why is this kid restless? Thanks to him this autumn, but he has indeed earned a lot of rent money. boss. Xiaoyue was actually also under the puppet stage that night, she came late, and there was no room in front, so she climbed up to a straw stack by the side of the stage to watch.It can be seen very clearly from the straw stack, but the wind blowing from east to west is particularly cool.On the stage, the puppet Yangui and the young lady were in the garden, one bowed to worship, the other squatted and bowed, Qingqing and I couldn't separate, and her mind lost her mind.One afternoon, she was going to take a stool early to occupy the space, when Cai Cai Niang came to her house and brought up the matter of the matchmaker. Although Xiao Yue hated Cai for not showing her face, she nodded in agreement and said, "Successful!" If it doesn’t work, why do you need to find a matchmaker? It’s not that my family wants a gift, but I can’t open my mouth, and I need someone to mediate it.” Although Xiaoyue’s attitude did not make Wang Monk and Cai Cainiang very satisfied, but a scene When the marriage was finally confirmed, a stone fell in my heart.Xiaoyue was eagerly looking forward to watching the play, and showed her attitude. Cai Cai Niang hadn't left yet, so she came running, looked at Yangui's garden selling water for a while, and thought to herself: The drama is all made up, this Yangui How can someone be so flirtatious when he has a lot of strength? After thinking about it this way, he looked for talents in the crowd.That's why it wasn't there.Why didn't she come because she resented Cai? He just wanted to read the play.The puppet show was still babbling, Xiaoyue felt her eyelids twitch, and then she fell asleep in a daze.

At this time, it was also the time to go to her house to borrow buckets. When I woke up, the puppet show had already disbanded, and the people walked away empty-handed. The moon hung obliquely on a walnut tree outside the venue, like a banana petal.Xiaoyue uttered "Ouch", and slipped down from the stack of straw, and saw a man under the stage looking for something on the ground with a lantern, and approached, it turned out to be Old Qin Uncle.Old Uncle Qin has a strange problem. Whenever he watches a play or a movie, he first touches mahjong at home, or drinks some wine, eats two pig’s trotters, and sleeps with his head covered. After the play and movie are over, he has to come to clean up the venue : Turn over this rock, kick that pile of dust, and look for anyone who has lost something.As a result, he found nothing that night, so he took the three square bricks back.

"Old Uncle Qin is going to get rich!" Xiaoyue said with a smile. "Oh, Xiaoyue, why are you still here? I heard from your father that the matter between you and Cai Cai has been settled, and you went to Cai Cai's house so late before you came back?" "The news from Uncle Qin is so fast!" She turned her head and left, but Old Qin Shu was still behind and said: "When will you give Uncle some wedding candies?" Old Uncle Qin never got any wedding candy, but after more than ten days, he ate a delicious meal of longevity noodles from Monk Wang.Monk Wang settled down a few anxious things and remained in good spirits.The 21st day of the seventh lunar month in the ancient calendar was his birthday, so he made a fuss in the village early on to make a fuss, so Cai Cainiang came to scour three buckets of wheat, dried them on a big mat at the bank of the village, and went to Jing The Ziguanzhang butcher ordered three pig heads, six sets of hearts and lungs, three livers and eight large and small intestines.

At this time, there were sticks of different sizes on the grain stalks, and the grains were still as tender as blisters, but the harmful badgers came down from the mountain in groups.These wild animals often burrow into the ground at night, ruining a large area.Later, the grains became a little harder, and some people with bad hands and feet also secretly did some disgraceful things.The corn in Monk Wang's house grew the best, but fifteen sticks were lost in one night.Every family began to set up a shed in the field. As soon as the chickens were on the shelf, someone would sit there and watch them. On this side of the ditch, on the other side of the ditch, on this side of the river, and on the other side of the river, every night there was a sound of gongs, shouting: "Come here!" Here! Come here!” A few badgers were killed by muskets, and although the thief did not catch it, the broken rubber shoe that was thrown in the ground was hung high on a tree at the intersection for people to check.

He was the first to set up a nunnery on the two lands, and ran around every night to keep watch.Father-in-law's birthday was getting closer, and he couldn't think of what birthday gift to give, so he went to ask old uncle Qin, who took the opportunity to sell two catties of liquor, two packs of snacks, and a locomotive velvet hat from his stall , a pair of felt wool cotton shoes, and finally came up with a wonderful birthday gift: pack a movie for the whole village to watch. month's wedding.It only cost forty yuan to go to Jingziguan to hire a screening team from a commune in Henan.

When the news spread, everyone felt novelty and praised it.It's not easy to watch a movie in Shanwozi, starting from the afternoon on July 21st.People on the other side of the Danjiang River caught wind of the news and rushed over to watch the movie. Xiaoyue's ferry lasted one trip after another, and she was so happy that she did a beautiful thing. On this day, she was dressed very well: on her upper body was a blouse with a round neck of hidden flowers, which only made her neck look very long and white and tender; on her lower body was a pair of moon white tussah silk trousers, with ribs and lines, and on her feet The shoes were also changed, a pair of unprecedented white plastic sandals. "Men should be pretty and be dressed in soap, and women should be pretty and be filial." As soon as she stood on the boat and came over leisurely, the people on the shore stared straight at her.

"Is this the talented one? This girl also eats the five grains and drinks the water of the Danjiang River. How can she raise such a good talent!" "It's just that skinny black guy who doesn't have much money and is so clumsy that he can't reply, how can he have such a big fortune?" "I heard it was a good labor of her father." "Oh, can he hold it?" "Is it okay if you can't keep it? Things in the world are like this: one who cries, one who laughs, one who is ugly, and one who is pretty, and there are perfect couples everywhere?"

Xiaoyue vaguely heard it, and scolded these people in her heart, pretending she didn't hear it.After the ferry, I was about to take the boat back, but I saw the door lazily walking over, neither whistled nor jumped. Seeing a stone on the road, I kicked it with my foot. The stone did not move, and my foot But it hurt from kicking, and I hugged my feet and couldn't cry or laugh. "Door!" she called out. But Menmen didn't come over quickly as usual, and said coldly, "Is there something wrong?" "You have become a Buddha in Mount Emei these days, why don't you see your face? It's getting dark, where are you going to drink?"

There was indeed a wine bottle in the pocket of the red guard at the door, and he flashed a smile and said: "Go to Jingziguan. I heard that the supply and marketing agency over there buys tung seeds. I'll go and ask. If I buy them, I will go to the mountains along the river tomorrow. The tung seeds in the mountains are 40 cents a catty, and the supply and marketing agency is 50 cents a catty. .” Xiaoyue scowled and said: "Go to another day, there is a movie tonight." "It doesn't matter whether you look at it or not." "What does it matter? Money is so precious j" "Money is nothing! Money serves people. If money dominates people, what's the point of living? Going to transport tung seeds is all about relaxing." "Then watching movies is a crime?" Looking at Xiaoyue from door to door, her bulging cheeks suddenly shrunk. "That's the movie you packed..." "It was performed at my Kangtou? Everyone in the village went to see it. Don't you think I didn't send you an invitation?" "Miss Xiaoyue, do you still think you can invite me?" "Please, please!" "Did you invite me, or someone else invited me?" "I'll treat!" Menmen followed Xiaoyue back.Xiaoyue noticed that Menmen's face had been gloomy all the time, and she asked and answered each question, so she said: "Menmen, what's wrong with you?" "No." "Then why are you giving me a dark face? Do I owe you money?" Menmen stopped in his tracks and suddenly said: "Do you really want to follow?" "Ok." "Is it what you want?" "Ok." "……congratulations." "what do you mean?" "It's not interesting, what else can I have?" But Xiaoyue burst out laughing. "I, Xiaoyue, can see how many twisted intestines you have in your stomach. Tell me, are you jealous?!" "Me? It's not that I hate him, it's that he's going to hate me." "He dares?!" Xiaoyue said, with a serious face, "If you are good, you should happily watch tonight's movie. If you don't watch it, don't call me Miss Xiaoyue in the future, and I will I don't know who you are!" "Miss Xiaoyue, do you really treat me well?" "Are you going at night? I'll be waiting for you in the arena." "I go." However, after eating Changshou noodles, Menmen approached Xiaoyue with a stool and was waiting to watch a movie in the arena, so she came to look for Xiaoyue.Cai Cai was still wearing the same old clothes, but Menmen was wearing a new soap-coloured dress, looking coquettish and aggressive, leaning in the den, standing side by side with Cai Cai and talking loudly.People looked at them with their eyes and judged them, and then they felt ashamed of themselves. For a while, they had nowhere to put their hands and feet, and their eyes had nowhere to look, and they shrank even more.But the door was even more generous, laughing loudly, and distributed the smoked girl with tinfoil to the people around like flowers, saying: "Suck it, suck it, we have no wife, no children, no entanglements, we have food and food. Wearing cigarettes!" Xiaoyue also kept looking at him and smiling, with bright eyes, envious of his demeanor.But when I looked at it, I could see that the smell was wrong: they were showing off their talents, and were they deliberately comparing themselves with their talents to show her? To the villagers? Then they got angry and said: "Menmen, give me a cigarette!" "You smoke too? Ouch, it's over." "Why don't you smoke? Didn't you show off your pomp today? Why did you only bring one pack of cigarettes?!" The door froze on the spot.But Xiaoyue turned her head away and talked to Caicai by herself, holding a cattail fan for Caicai, "You want something from me?" Uncle said that there will be a movie tonight, and there will be a lot of people, so let's go to the field to watch corn. "Oh, let's go." The two stood up and walked out together without looking back at the door. When I arrived at Baogudi, I started to check around the place. While looking around, I beat the small copper gong, making strange noises of "Hello!" and "Hello!".Xiaoyue sat in the shed on the ground.The nunnery was built with sticks, covered with grass curtains, three feet above the ground, and the area of ​​the shed was less than three meters square, so you could see every corner of the ground with your eyes.There is no moon this night.There are no stars, and the sky is very cloudy.Xiaoyue ate a little full from dinner, and just now she felt a little stuffy, her stomach felt uncomfortable, and she started hiccupping non-stop. Every time she hiccupped, she jumped up, so she had to cover her mouth and take a deep breath through her nose.Just after checking around and came back, he hurriedly asked Xiaoyue to eat something, but Hiccup suppressed it.Xiaoyue said: "What are you eating in the field? I ate you?" Then she stood on the ground in a panic, and suddenly went to pull out a few sweet corn stalks that didn't grow sticks for Xiaoyue to gnaw on. up.Xiaoyue asked Caicai to sit on the shelf as well, but Caicai couldn't get up. "I offended the door tonight." She suddenly thought of the door again. "What offends him?" "I asked someone to watch a movie, and as soon as I sat down with him, I left him and left." "Accompany him?" "He's not feeling well." "Who stole from him?" "You stole his soul away. Do you know that he has been in love with me for the past two years, and now seeing that we are engaged, he is full of grievances and can't tell..." "rogue!" "Why do you talk like that? People's love is their business, and it's not their fault." Xiaoyue became unhappy, so she stopped talking.One of the two people was sitting on the top and the other was standing on the bottom, silently fell into silence.In the village, the movie had already started, and there was a lively episode. "Come up and sit down." "I am not sleepy." "Come up when I tell you to come up!" He just climbed up and sat beside Xiaoyue in the dark. He was afraid that he would accidentally touch Xiaoyue, and he would not move when he sat down. How honest and pitiful! I couldn't help laughing "poof". "What are you laughing at?" "It's been a tough night sitting around." "You're not used to it." "It's so dark, I'm afraid it will rain in the second half of the night." "One more rain will be enough, the grains will be full, and the wheat will have moisture." "What's ringing?" "Jointing the grains. The grains we plant are sure to yield a high yield. Uncle still thinks that I plant them densely. Now I can see the benefits of dense planting." "When you talk about crops, you can speak very well. Have you nothing else to say?" "I can't make up stories." "You are not as good as the door." Xiaoyue muttered.Thinking that I have to spend my whole life in harmony, I can't help but sigh.She also thought about whether Menmen was still watching movies in the stadium, or maybe she had left long ago, drinking alone at home.He can hold a catty of alcohol, but he has never been drunk. Whenever he feels that there is too much, he puts his finger on his throat and spits it all out.After thinking about it, she felt sleepy and even yawned a few times. "You poke your nose carelessly and sneeze a few times, and you'll be fine." "Pick a blade of grass for me." Just then he picked a blade of grass on the ground, climbed up and handed it to Xiaoyue, because of the distance, Xiaoyue couldn't catch it, so he had to move his body over and feel her warm body.Suddenly there was a dog biting in the distance, and then he called out "someone is coming!" He jumped off the scaffolding of the nunnery, ran to the side a few steps, and then slowed down to check for movement. The sound of the dog biting quickly spread from the ground, and then slowly went away, only then did I realize that it was another shameless wandering dog doing the trick.After turning around the four corners and coming back, Xiaoyue fell asleep leaning against the head of the bed in the shed, with a slight snoring sound of "si'er si'er".It was the first time he heard the snoring of the girl's house so clearly, and his heart suddenly became hot, so he boldly approached her, but he couldn't see her moving eyebrows clearly, and he could only smell a faint fragrance of powder and a scent of powder. The mixed scent of flesh and sweat that can only be found on a girl's house. "She is too tired." Only then did he feel distressed, he didn't dare to wake her up, and he was afraid that he would catch a cold when he fell asleep in the windy night; he didn't want to be too far away from her, and he was afraid that she would suddenly wake up and see himself standing so close and get up again disgusted.After being in conflict for a long time, I squatted down along the pillars of the shed, smoking cigarettes on and off.When the dew came up, the sound of movies had long since disappeared in the village. He looked at the sky, and it was getting darker, and someone's chickens in the distance were crowing softly for a while.He just stood up, and suddenly remembered that there was a grape tree at the base of the wall in the backyard of Lao Qin's house, which was in full bloom this year. This fairy can relieve drowsiness, so he ran back to the small street with light steps. When I was a thief for the first time, I panicked so much that I always felt that there was someone behind me. "Just pick a bunch, I won't eat, I won't eat a single one." Relieving himself, he climbed up the backyard wall of Lao Qin's house, picked off a bunch with a rustle, and bit the handle with his teeth. ,jump down.Just when he fell to the ground, a stone was just under his leg, and he touched it with his hand, his knee was wet and greasy, and he limped back.At this time, the sky began to rain and stars, and there was a chaotic sound of "shuashua" in Baogudi, and Xiaoyue had already woken up. "Where have you been?" Satsuki asked. "It's hard before dawn, I picked a bunch of grapes for you. You eat it, and your mind will be cleared." "Pick it for me?" Xiaoyue ate one, sticking out her tongue so sorely, after eating a few in a row, the drowsiness really disappeared. "It's raining?" "It's raining." The rain became heavier and heavier, and the wind blew up again. The nunnery was shaken and made creaking noises.Xiaoyue hurriedly hid in the nunnery, and called Caicai to come in quickly, but Caicai held on to the straw curtain tightly and refused to go in, Xiaoyue dragged him past.The two were close to each other, and the wind and rain made them only have a place to stand next to each other. At the same time, the two felt each other's whole body trembling. "Are you cold?" "It's cold." But their heads were all hot, and the hotter they felt, the more their bodies trembled, but Xiaoyue's face was scorching hot, a kind of girlish shyness of fear and great surprise made her tremble when she spoke. "Are you caught in the rain?" "No, no, no, no shower." For some reason, Xiaoyue's body became weak, and she could hardly support her. She needed a kind of strength, a kind of support, so she got closer to her body.At this time, she felt that only a strong man was the best to rely on.The rain outside the nunnery was "squeaking" and falling.Neither of them said a word, Xiaoyue hoped that a bomb would suddenly smash her into the air, but the bomb did not detonate in the end, ten minutes, twenty minutes, thirty minutes... the heat on the top of her head slowed down. Slowly cooling down and opening his eyes, Cai Cai stood there with his hands dumb as if they were tied by ropes, already numb. After watching the movie, Monk Wang went back and drank half a bottle of Baigan, and slept the most pleasant sleep in more than ten years. He was startled by the sound of rain in the fifth watch, and hurriedly brought up the lantern to give Xiaoyue and Caicai a coir raincoat and coir raincoat. Yu Mao, as soon as he reached the entrance of the shed, saw Xiaoyue and Caicai in the shed, and blew out the lantern with one gulp.