Chapter 8 Eight

When Monk Wang saw Xiaoyue and Caicai in the nunnery, he felt a little taboo in his heart. He was afraid that the two of them were too young to get a marriage certificate. The faces of eight generations.So at home, in front of Xiaoyue and Caicai, he pointed at Sanghuai and warned him several times.At the same time, he treats Caicai like his own son, training him when he wants to, scolding him whenever he wants, Caicai is just as obedient as a cat.In this way, when Xiaoyue saw Caicai, her face burned like a red cloth.Several times, as soon as she entered the room, she turned her head and left when she saw that Monk Wang was not there. Xiaoyue couldn't help shouting, and was so angry that when he came again, she would ignore him.With the back and forth revenge, the relationship between the two just got better, and they became separated again.Feeling wronged and angry, Xiaoyue wanted to tell her father, but couldn't, so she went to her mother's grave and cried alone.

After harvesting in autumn, the corn sticks were piled up a lot more than in previous years, some grains were peeled and dried, and four corn sticks were hung on the beams of the roof.Every time Monk Wang came in, he would look at the corn sticks and laugh.Caicai's family didn't raise cattle, and they didn't plan to buy cattle, so they gave all the grain stalks to Yue Zhang. On the persimmon trees in front of Monk Wang's gate, there were stacks of grain stalks, standing at the entrance of the small street. On the stone road, looking up, it looks like a few gun towers.And those uncoiled grain stalks, grain stalks, and cotton stalks were stuffed everywhere in the alleyway in front of the door.Menmen bought a new bicycle, and as soon as he rode to this place, it fell down, and he and the bicycle rolled in the firewood nest. When he got up, although it didn't hurt, he groaned loudly, and he was about to throw a corn core The son went to the sycamore tree in the corner, and the magpies in the nest were startled to chirp.Xiaoyue ran out, but he left as soon as he rode his bicycle.Xiaoyue yelled, but didn't answer, and spit out in anger.When he turned around and entered the door, he couldn't help but panic for a while, and lost some inexplicable temper at his father.

Monk Wang doesn't mind his daughter; the dog he raises knows how to bite and not to bite.When going out, I still have to say good things about Xiaoyue and Caicai.It was still the old cow that made him speechless in front of people.After the field was cleaned up, other people's family plowed the field in three days, and Monk Wang plowed it for one day, and the cows lay down tired.He also didn't want to borrow from someone who had cattle, so he dug with his shovel, and it was right that the pot couldn't be opened and the pot couldn't be lifted.Monk Wang dug the ground during the day, and at night, Xiaoyue and Cai Cai held the mill stick and pushed the stone mill.Walking around and around, the footprints in the mill road are layer by layer, and I don't know how many tens of miles have been turned.The three grinding roots are the hour hand, minute hand, and second hand of the clock, smashing the time overnight.

"Father, why are we bothering?" Xiaoyue pulled out her grinding stick, threw it on the ground, and said, "Day and night go hand in hand, and when the wheat is planted in the ground, people will die if they are afraid." Monk Wang stared at Xiaoyue, but after all, he was old and his back hurt so badly that he couldn't straighten up. After pushing the stone mill for a while, he was about to sit down and eat a bag of cigarettes, so he sat down and said: "Being a farmer is hard work, so what do you think?" "Sell the cattle and pay for them to farm on behalf of them. There are no cattle in the house, but the wheat has already been planted in the ground."

In this small street in Shanwozi, the operation of the door has affected many families. First, the old mother-in-law of the Qin family did small business, ranging from furniture pots and pans to thread and thimbles. Qin picks pigs and castrates dogs and stays in the house all day long, but the couple are small-nosed and small-eyed people who recognize money but not people.Menmen is a typical Henan character: money comes like a torrential rain, and goes like a strong wind; eat hard and enjoy great happiness.He is the most well-informed in front of people, and his clothes are more fashionable. Everyone often scolds him behind his back, but he has to ask him for some things.And just next door to Cai Cai's house, there is also a character named Er Huan named Mao. I bought three oxen, which are used for plowing and grinding on weekdays. Others use it for a while and pay for a while. Although I am not rich and rich, I don’t owe me anything, and I don’t owe anyone. I have earned the reputation of a decent farmer. .What Xiaoyue mentioned about farming on behalf of her was referring to this Hubei native surnamed Mao.

"Thank you for being able to say it!" Monk Wang didn't listen to it, but it hit his own heart disease.For the Mao family, he is the most envious: the same farmer, they can raise three cows, and we raise one head so that it will collapse when the wind blows, and we have been ridiculed by others.Why do you beg people with red lips and white teeth now? Satsuki said: "If you can't, then you can't. What are you doing to save face?" Monk Wang said: "Why not? Who doesn't treat the cow as a family? What are you doing and worrying about? No one wants to sell this cow. I don't believe that it is not a good cow!"

"Okay, okay, I also hope that you will make a fortune with this cow!" There is no way, in this family, father decides the policy, what can Xiaoyue do to him? After pushing the mill, and finally digging the ground with father, as soon as he arrives on the boat during the day, he just dozes off with the penny in his arms, competing with each other. I had such a thought: "When will I get married? After I get married, my father will not be able to control me!" She pinned all her hopes on Cai Cai. The talent has not been dug yet.His mother had suffered from asthma in the early years, and she would attack it when it was cold. In the hot weather, she slept in a sandwich bag every night, so of course it couldn't help him much.He was very careful, he must dig the ground more than one foot deep, pick out the stones one by one, and not a single sedge was leaked, and he ran around to replace the new species when others had planted them in the ground.It has been many days, and Xiaoyue hasn't seen him yet.

The door is still riding a bicycle past Xiaoyue's house every day, ringing the bell to ring the surprise magpie, and ignoring Xiaoyue for many days in succession.The more Xiaoyue hated him, the more his shadow occupied her heart. Later, it was not he who went outside her door, but Xiaoyue wandered outside his window.At this time, he would often lie on the back window sill, scatter the rice grains there, and wait for the sparrows coming down the hillside to peck them, looking extremely decadent.Xiaoyue's eyes were red and moist, and she felt that he was too lonely and pitiful. On this day, Xiaoyue was sitting under the mulberry tree behind the street, watching from a distance the door was playing with Mickey, and she called him by name:

"Menmen, you can't torture you! Why don't you come to our house to play? Have we really offended you?" "How can it be?" Menmen smiled, "I'm sick, no one is too lazy to go." Xiaoyue was startled, and approached the window sill, and the birds on the window sill flew away coaxingly.Menmen's face was indeed gray and yellow.She shook the mulberry tree vigorously, and a layer of purple-black mulberry fell off, and she wrapped it in a handkerchief and handed it over. "What disease?" "His feet and hands are hot, and he sweats a lot at night."

"Why don't you go and see the doctor?" "Miss Xiaoyue, this disease is all caused by you!" After he finished speaking, he closed his eyes and said nothing more in silence. Xiaoyue stared blankly at the sky, the sky was dim, and there was a huge blank space. Those greedy birds were chirping and peeping on the wires under the eaves. Broken rice on the windowsill. From then on, the door to door was the same as before, and they would go to the boat to chat with Xiaoyue every two or three days.Xiaoyue didn't refuse him either, and Jingman asked Menmen to catch crabs under the stones by the river and steam them in a pot with interest, and taught him how to eat the meat in the crab claws and the yellowish crab roe.Since Menmen paid for the old Mao's family to plow the land on their behalf, after spreading a bag of chemical fertilizers and two liters of wheat seeds on the ground, they stopped doing business. They went to the mountains in the upper reaches of the Danjiang River twice to collect and transport 80 sacks Tongzi earned a stack of bills, so he drank in big bowls at home, ate meat in large pieces, and listened to Henan Zhuizi with the volume of the radio turned up to the limit.On the twenty-seventh day of the month, I said to Xiaoyue on the ferry:

"Miss Xiaoyue, can you and I meet Teacher Lu?" Teacher Lu worked as a Chinese teacher for Xiaoyue and Menmen in Jingziguan School. "I haven't been to school after graduation. What can you do with him?" "I heard that Mr. Lu is going on a business trip to Danjiangkou City. I want to go with him, make a platoon by the way, transport some tung seeds, take him with him, stay for ten and a half months, and then take a car to detour back from Henan." "Is it worth it? How much can a row of tung seeds sell for? Not enough for your ticket to go to Danjiangkou City!" "Where did you lose the money? I don't need money. Let's just go and open our eyes. Can we earn all the money? You can go too, I'll cover all the food and travel expenses!" Xiaoyue pursed her mouth and said with a smile: "Are you looking for a fight with Cai Cai?" "If you don't tell him, maybe you will come back after shopping in three to five days." "Okay, Menmen, you want me to elope with you?!" Both of them laughed.Seeing that Xiaoyue likes her at every door, she becomes frivolous: "Is that right for you?" "It's nothing good." Xiaoyue said, "it's nothing wrong either." "Then...do you want me to buy something?" "There's nothing to buy." Menmen went to Jingziguan in Xiaoyue's boat. After seeing off the door, Xiaoyue was sailing across the boat, took out a love novel and had just read three pages, the youngest son of the old Qin family came rushing to report: Caicai had a fight with the Mao family next door, and both sides had headaches The blood was broken, father told her to go back immediately. Xiaoyue yelled "ah", her face turned pale with fright.Cai Cai is a very honest person. He has grown up so big and has never blushed with anyone before. How could he fight with the Mao family to such an extent? Watch the fun.The fighting was over, each family was dragged into their own kangs by the neighbors to bandage up, but Father and Cai Cai Niang were screaming alternately towards the gatehouse next door with high and low voices.Caicai's head was covered with blood, and the wound was covered with burnt cotton ashes. When he saw her, he cried "wow" as if he was wronged. Asking about the clues, it turned out that the wheat seeds had been changed at noon and came back to sow, and found that the Mao family in Lianpan had already planted wheat in the furrow boundary in the field, so they found a rope to pull it, and re-planted the furrow boundary. Dig up.The two sides quarreled and fought.The talents and abilities are superior to others, and the Mao family has many sons and daughters. As a result of the fighting, both tigers were injured, no one suffered a loss, and no one took advantage. "What am I supposed to do, just fight like this for a furrow circle?" Xiaoyue complained before coming here. Only then said: "This furrow belongs to two families, he can't plant my land too!" Monk Wang and Cai Cainiang came in, clapping their hands loudly, shouting that they can't swallow this bad breath, if you loosen the crack of the door, he will come in with one leg, and he will come in with another leg. "Xiaoyue, we can't be bullied like this? Ask the captain to comment. The captain just wiped the wall with mud and asked him to build a stone on the boundary, but this is the end of the matter!" "Then we can fight another battle!" Xiaoyue said. "Let's go to the brigade and the commune to file a lawsuit, Xiaoyue, you are well-educated, you can write a lawsuit for us!" Satsuki said: "Forget it, forget it, anyway, there are stones built on the boundary of the land, and when it comes to the sky falling to the ground, it's such a big deal..." Only then said: "How can this be a trivial matter? As a farmer, we rely on the land to survive. Is it a trivial matter if the land is taken over by others?" Satsuki said: "If you want to sue, you go to write a complaint. I don't have that kind of thought. There are so many people watching the fun on the street, so I'm not afraid of being laughed at!" Monk Wang cursed: "Fart your mother, what jokes are you afraid of? On weekdays, you ignore everything, but After this step, you still have to eat inside and out!" The spectators flocked to the door, leaned on the windows, and chattered.Xiaoyue couldn't bear this kind of uselessness, and ran out with tears in her eyes.She got back on board and let out a loud cry.She really hates Caicai, but today she would get so angry with her, a furrow a palm wide was not straightened, as if he had cut out his heart, and hurt her in front of the two old people and the whole village. face! "Is my Wang Xiaoyue worth less than a furrow?" She raised her tearful eyes and saw that Menmen and Teacher Lu were gesticulating and talking at Jingziguan Street on the other side of the river. She yelled loudly, "Menmen." But Menmen didn't hear her, so she wanted to call again, saying She also wanted to go to Danjiangkou City, but her neck went limp, but she couldn't cry out anymore, and she choked up even more while lying on the boat.