Chapter 6 Tengu. Huang Maijian

"Wuxing, Wuxing!?" As soon as Tiangou entered the gate of the castle, he saw Wuxing walking on the street in front of him. He walked lazily and barked. The child saw that it was Tiangou, but he didn't answer, turned around and burrowed into the alley and never came out again.Tengu thought it was strange, but it was a good ghost, and chased into the alley, Wuxing stood facing the wall, scratching the wall with his nails. "Wu Xing, what kind of illness do you have? I don't care if I call you!" Tengu grabbed Wu Xing's head with his hand, but Wu Xing pushed the Ten Gou's hand away and said, "Uncle Tiangou, don't call me. Call me and I'll do it." I'm going to cry!" Tengu laughed: "You worthless man, are you still angry because your father didn't buy you swimming trunks? Look, what did you get?" Tengu held a bright red dress swimming trunks.

Wuxing didn't seem agitated, and walked away, but Tiangou grabbed him, knowing that something must have happened, and kept asking.Wu Xing said: "These pants are no longer needed, my father asked me to dig a well." After Tiangou heard this, he blamed Wuxing, complaining that he hadn't had time to fulfill his master's entrustment, and that this well-handling style was arbitrarily arbitrary. "Wuxing, I'll tell the master, he and I can get busy drilling wells, and there's no need to call you back!". Wu Xing said, "My father won't see you."

Tengu said: "Don't worry about it, is Master at home?" Wu Xing said, "Father won't let me tell you." Although Wuxing is small, he has his mother's virtues. When he looked at Tiangou, his tears flowed down. Is it?" Tengu nodded, making fun of this little thing and talking too much, but Wuxing ran out of the alley and never looked back. Tengu looked puzzled, and came to the door of the master's house. The Bodhisattva woman's face was a little swollen, and she came out to greet him, and she was really panicked at the moment.Speaking of Wuxing, the woman heaved a sigh of relief and looked bitter.

"Master, why does he really not let Wu Xing study?" "He was digging a well at Laishun's house and left early in the morning." , "Didn't the master say that he would wait for Lai Shun's family to invite him?" "..." "Why didn't you say anything to me?" The woman looked at Tengu and said, "Tengu, don't you know anything?" "What happened?" "He is not your master now. He said that he finally learned the skill of digging wells, and he doesn't want outsiders to share rice with him in the same bowl. He wants to earn all the money." Let Wuxing do it for you

"This is real?" The woman said: "...From yesterday morning to today, I have been looking forward to your coming, and I am afraid that you will come. The dog stood there without saying a word. His eyes avoided the woman's face, he took out a cigarette from his pocket to light it, and found Under the sunlight, the plumes of smoke falling on the ground were as red as earthworm blood. In the neighboring yard on the other side of the low wall, the daughter-in-law was drawing water from the well, and the handle of the pulley groaned. "Return those trousers, Tengu, and don't come to see him again, you are a tall man with ambition, and it's not like you won't have food and drink without him..."

Looking at the woman's pain, Tiangou didn't feel that he had suffered any heavy blows. He understood the woman's kindness more and more, so he smiled at the woman quietly and said, "Master, it's nothing. The master did it like this. I can think about it, I don’t hate him. After all, he still took me for a year. Now I’m leaving him, but I’m just worried that it’s not right for Wuxing to quit school to dig a well. Wuxing is still young, and he always loves this Leave the pants to him, I still have to come here often." The woman sent the Tengu out gratefully, and when she crossed the threshold, she shed a few tears.A pigeon on the locust tree was calling, and the woman said: "Tengu, this bird is so unlucky, you drive it away." The last time Tiangou listened to his wife's order, he shot the pigeon away with a stone.When the dove flew over his head, it dropped a grain of dung and landed on his shoulder.While taking pictures for him, the woman said: "You look for something else to do. A man must be ambitious and work hard to make money. When he has money and finds a woman, come and tell me, I will give you money." Cook for you."

Tiangou smiled wryly and walked away, but he didn't go back, but walked down the street very quickly; he was afraid that people on the street would notice his strangeness, so he wandered out of the bunker, went up to the back mountain, and fell asleep in the densely packed In the grass of yellow wheat sage.Tengu didn't move for a long time, thinking about it. There are grass mowers on the mountain ridge, singing flower drums in a drawn out voice: Go out and lock it, hello. Enter the door and fire it up, I'm a bachelor; Touch it on the bed, Find out a mouse's nest, I'm a bachelor.

Poke in the pot hole, Poke out a big worm, I have no one to feel bad for a bachelor. Tiangou thinks, this single man is really anxious. I, Tiangou, have left my master, and I have no mistress who cares about me; How are you doing? The wind blew up on the hillside, and the wind swirled in the grass, and the tengu was buried by the yellow wheat stalk.The grassland is not chaotic, but the roots are vertical and horizontal, but their origin is clear, like a woven net, the net is facing downwards, and the net is caught. Tengu didn't come to the master's house for ten days.He slept on the kang of his own family, bored, and sang a love song that has been passed down for generations in the castle:

There is a ton of pepper tree on the gate of the courtyard, It's too complicated to bend over, I'm going to pick peppers. Long sticks and short sticks can't hit you, Take off the straw sandals and shake on the tree, The thorn pierced the foot. Calling my sister to pick the thorn, Cruelly took an awl to plan, It really hurts. This song can't be said to be sung for my wife, but it can't be said that it wasn't sung for my wife, anyway, Tengu has made up his mind to earn a living in a serious way.He went to ask a carpenter as a teacher, but the carpenter refused; he went to ask a mason, but the mason didn't accept him either.The artisans have their own sons and sons-in-law.

In today's rural areas, they want to preserve and consolidate their own handicrafts that have made them prosperous for a long time. So Tiangou simply took all his savings to the provincial capital. In Baozi, Tengu is a capable person, able to speak, talk and play; in Chengxing, Tengu is not good. The street is wide, but the Tengu walks close to the wall. No one on the street recognizes him, and he dares to look at others with shy eyes.The teacher always said that he has a fair face, but here, the tengu's face is not fair.In the eyes of the people in the city, Tengu is a complete "farmer".

Of course, all the panic and shame that came from him mainly came from him himself.He also realized that when he came to this place, the most important thing was to overcome himself.Tengu is not a philosopher, but this kind of thinking has a philosophical meaning. "Women in the city are all immortals." Tengu sleeps in the hotel at night, his mind is full of what he has seen and heard during the day, "Master is a woman." Once this ghost idea occupies his mind, Tengu has the logic of Tengu. "Immortals are in the sky, they are worshiped by people, women are on the ground, they are water, air, and grains." What Tiangu needs is a woman like Shi Niang. That bodhisattva face is the moon in his heart, wherever he goes, the moon always shines on him.On the third day, he saw many people rushing to buy a certain kind of shirt in a store. The shirts were extremely cheap, so he thought that if he bought a batch and added two yuan a piece, the people in the bunker would be all sold out.Relying on the strength of the mountain people, Tengu squeezed to the front of the counter, but when he took out the money, he found that the money had been stolen. Tengu was crazy, sitting at the station and weeping alone.I have no money to earn a living, no money to buy a return ticket, and my stomach is so hungry that my front is sticking to my back.Hungry and hungry, Tengu was reduced to eating leftovers in nearby cafeterias.The cafeteria waiter hurled insults at each other, and he told the whole story, and a waitress sympathized with him. "Then how do you go back?" "I have no idea." "Would you like to help wash the dishes here? I will pay you two yuan a day." Tengu's fate was good, and he met a Bodhisattva woman again, so he worked as a temporary worker. Tengu is not lazy at work.But scrubbing with a rag, not even a brush. Asked about the waitress, she replied that there is everything in the city, but this thing is missing.Tiangou just smiled, thinking that there are still places in the city that are not as good as the mountains——the mountains behind the bunker are full of yellow wheat and straw, and the roots of the grass are tied into bunches, and they have used it to wash pots and bowls for generations.But Tengu didn't say it out loud, for fear of being laughed at.At night, when the cafeteria is closed and other people are off work, Tengu sleeps on a chair in the waiting room of the station. Before the cafeteria closed that day, Tengu bought wine with the money he earned, got drunk, and turned to mud on the table.Everyone in the store blamed the mountain people.The waitress persuaded him one by one, and the last one waited for him to wake up by the store door, because it was not allowed by the store's regulations to let a temporary worker sleep in the store. When Tengu woke up, it was already midnight, and he was already lying on a bed made of three benches, with a petite woman sitting beside the bed. "Master!" Tengu barked. "Aren't you awake yet, talking drunk again!" Tengu woke up all at once, sat up from the bed, filled with remorse, and dared not look at the waitress. "Are you awake now?" "I'm really sorry for you..." "Just wake up, you go to the waiting room, I should go back too." The waitress locked the door.Tengu is very grateful for her tenderness, tolerance, and sympathy, but at the same time, he also feels his incompetence, filth, and shame as a man. "I should go back tomorrow." Tengu said. "Is there enough car money?" "enough." . , "It's fine to go back. You can find something to do in the future. What kind of wine are you drinking? Let's go." But the Tengu didn't leave, he wanted to say something dumbly, but couldn't say it, the Tengu suddenly clumsy.The waitress had gone far away, so he called anxiously: "I still want to come!" The waitress turned around and said, "Come again?" He said, "Didn't you say that there is a shortage of pots and brushes in the city? It's yellow wheat stalks, shake the roots to make a brush, I'll go back and make a load to sell, okay?" The waitress's eyes lit up: "This is the way, the restaurants in Guangcheng need a lot, the dog is looking for it. It's time to make money." When Tiangou returned to Baozi, he really dug yellow wheat stalks on the back mountain.The leather nest on the mountain is the heart of the tengu.He can roll and sing naked, and there are grasshoppers and grasshoppers flying in front of and behind him. Sure enough, a load of brushes sold for a good price in the city. People in the city didn't know what material it was made of, so they asked the Tengu, but the Tengu wouldn't tell.When I returned to Baozi again, I was digging grass roots on the back hill. Many children came to catch grasshoppers on the mountain, and Wuxing also came. He became a little craftsman and said, "Uncle Tiangou, you haven't been to my house for a long time." "I'm going to the city." Money, are you rich?" "I'm also a craftsman." "What kind of craft?" "Weaving brushes. Each sells for twenty cents." "Uncle Tiangou is rich, so he won't come to my house." When Tiangou heard this, he felt a dull pain in his heart, and asked, "Wu Xing, how is your mother?" Wu Xing didn't hear it, and ran to a grave and yelled and found a red grasshopper. Tengu suddenly missed Wuxing's mother very much. It was the Bodhisattva's words that prompted him to go to the city to find a way out.When he returned from the city again, he went to the master's house. Jing Bashi is not embarrassed, because Tengu is now a craftsman and has earned money, so there is no guilt or guilt in his heart as a master.Women like it, they show a little frivolity, treat the dog like a guest, and don't wash the pot after eating, sitting on the edge of the kang and talking to the dog: "Tengu, what the hell is in the city, rotten grass roots can be sold for money!" "Master, tomorrow you also go to plan the roots of yellow wheat." "My lord, you found a money slot with great difficulty, so I'll squeeze one leg to go?" "There is plenty of grass on the mountain, and there is more demand in the city. I am afraid that you will take my job?" Pa Shi felt uncomfortable, and called Wu Xing to fetch well water to wipe his body. Wu Xing was lying on the kang reading a book, and pretended to ignore it.Tengu said: "Wu Xing is a wise child, I still use my old saying, let him study well." Handi said: "I've been out of school for a while, what are you still studying? Look, you've become a craftsman now, earning so much money, my father and son are afraid that I can't stand you, and dare to leave me alone." people?" Seeing that the tengu couldn't understand men, the woman asked the children in the city what they were doing, and finally said, "Wuxing is smart, but I'm a little flustered. The child may be able to do great things in the future, but now I have to dig holes in the field." It is unacceptable to practice well-drilling skills, let alone in front of a newly rich outsider and his former apprentice, he would scold a woman: "What's wrong with drilling a hole? This hole can be drilled for a lifetime. It is an iron hammer for Wuxing." I have the same job!" Cursed and said to Tengu disdainfully, "Tengu, do you think so? I have a long-term craft, or is your business reliable?" Tengu said: "Of course, the master has a long life. I'm just grabbing cheap cash. But I have no choice. If I, Tengu, are educated, I will definitely go to grow mushrooms. Have you ever heard of the Wangjiayu Fresh Mushroom in Dongzhaizi?" , saved 30,000 yuan. He is a high school student, and his younger brother graduated from medical school, providing technology and doing scientific research.” The well handle stopped squeaking, smoked for a while, and wandered to the thumping stone in the courtyard to think about his thoughts. The woman winked at the dog very quickly, and the dog understood what the woman was saying, so he went to the courtyard, called Wu Xing out, and said, "Wu Xing, do you want to go to school or not?" Wu Xing said: " Think." But the well handle said coldly: "I know. You go, the water in our well is shallow, go down and wash it, and I will hang it on the well if the sand comes out, and the water will not reach your legs. Don't you Come up." The woman's face changed color, and she said: "You are crazy, can he dig the well by himself?" Jing gave Shishi a look, but said to Wu Xing, "Go down!" Wu Xing dared not stop. This family is located in a high place, and the well did not see water until it was 22 meters deep.Wuxing took off his clothes, leaving only his underpants, separated his hands and feet, and nestled along the wet wall of the well, as if being swallowed by a giant beast. The three adults stood on the well platform, looking at the bright pool of water in the crypt, and seeing the child like a black spider standing in the water, everything was in a faint mystery.The sound of water, the sound of groaning, came from there. The pulley hangs down the well rope and pulls it straight. It hardens while trembling. The well handle lifts up a basket of sand and stones, and the well rope hangs down again.One basket, two baskets...ten baskets, twenty baskets.The person down the well shouted: "Father, there is a big rock." The person on the well said, "Find it out!" "The stone is too big for me to fit in the basket." It’s broken.” “Keep your hands away from you.” The man on the well said, “Shoot well, and shut up!” I shut it up. "Shut up and talk?!" The mother couldn't bear it anymore, she pulled the pulley and said, "Are you going to lose your life?" The man pushed her away. A large pile of sand and stones had been hoisted by the well platform, and my legs were sore from standing, and my arms were tired from shaking the windlass, so I sat down to smoke.Wu Xing was still working in the well, when a piece of sand fell from the well wall and hit his leg, Wu Xing finally couldn't take it anymore, and began to cry from below.Tengu said: "Master, let me go down to search?" He said nothing, covered his face in black, and let Wuxing come up, and Wuxing who came up became a freak, sitting there like a mound of mud. The well said: "Wuxing, you know, digging a well is not easy. If you want to study, you just pour the ink into it. If you can't read well, you will eat this bowl of rice for the rest of your life!" The woman turned her back and wiped the tears from her eyes, and then got into the pot in the building to wash the dishes.As soon as she stepped through the threshold, she heard her call out to Tiangou to scoop a bag of grain wine in the cellar of the building.The Tengu ran in and saw the woman's face glowing brightly, so he said, "We're going to have some congratulatory wine. Are you thanking Master or me?" The woman said: "What do you think?" The Tengu lifted the lid of the cellar and was about to go down. The woman lit the lamp and handed it to him, saying: "Look, you master, if you say it is bad, he will be bad, if you say good, he will be good." Good." Tengu said: "Master is a bad guy." He shrank back and went into the cellar.