Chapter 23 Nineteen Rooms.2

fuck it.Chunmai suddenly squatted down powerlessly, Chunmai hugged her head for a long time, and said in a hoarse voice, but this is Jinbao's product, how can I throw it away if he won't let me throw it away?He will kill me, he will not spare me. Do you think other people don't know what's in this cellar?Everyone in the village knows that your house hides the gun that the Golden Leopard robbed.You will bring disaster to the village.Shut your crow's mouth quickly.Chunmai yelled at Shuizhi violently, he grabbed the bark of the small poplar trunk, his voice was full of resentment.Chun Mai said, it was all for you to cheat, if you hadn't killed my brother, if I hadn't filled the stomachs of two families by myself, I wouldn't have gone up the mountain to have sex with the Golden Leopard, and I wouldn't have ended up in this situation. the point.Is it my fault?Shui Zhi sneered, and said, you blame your flirt who attracts bees and butterflies. In my opinion, you should really cut off her arms.If you talk nonsense again, I will kill you too.Chun Mai glared at Shui Zhi and said.Chun Mai's gloomy eyes and trembling lips startled Shui Zhi.Before Chunmai's words fell into the water, she slipped away with the child on her back.At night, Chunmai couldn't sleep, and heard the rustling of the window paper in the strong wind, and the rustling of the thatch on the roof.Chunmai felt cold, and bent over to Liu'e. He said, why is it getting cold before the winter solstice?Liu'e stretched out her one arm and touched Chunmai for a while, but Chunmai couldn't cheer up, so Liu'e scolded, are you pretending to be a saint?Useless goods.After speaking, Liu'e turned around and went to sleep, leaving Chunmai staring at the dark roof and the small blue skylight, still feeling cold.Chunmai couldn't sleep, and later he woke Liu'e who was fast asleep, and said in her ear, you are still sleeping, the sky is about to fall, you are still sleeping.

What's the matter?Liu'e said in a daze, if others want to sleep you don't sleep, if others don't want to sleep you pretend to be a saint, what's wrong with you? Sooner or later, those things in the cellar are going to cause trouble, and it makes me panic when I think about it.What do you want?How about we throw those things away when it's dark, and throw them away now?Throw?Chunmai gave a wry smile in the dark, dare I throw away the golden leopard's things?After much deliberation, I still have to go to the mountain. I have to ask Jinbao what to do.No, I won't let you go again. If you dare to go again, I dare to call the man to sleep on this bed.Just go for two or three days, can't you go back quickly?

I said, if you dare to take another step, I dare to sleep with a wild man. Don't think that if I lose an arm, no one will want me. Pretty unreasonable stuff.Chunmai slapped the woman across the face, Chunmai hit the grass bed with his fist, choked up and said, what should I do?Are you making me wait to have my head chopped off and go to jail?I've never seen such a cowardly person like you.Are you afraid that someone will report on my family in Ta Town?Nineteen rooms have been unlucky for one family since ancient times, and the whole village has suffered. Who in the village would dare to report it?Whoever dares to go, I first wrung his tongue and dug his ancestral grave.

Knowing people, knowing face but not heart, who knows.Chunmai thought for a while and said, I still have to go up the mountain to find the golden leopard.You shameless bastard, you can sleep with whoever you want, at worst, I will chop off your arm, and I will serve you for the rest of your life.The cock crowed three times, and it was morning again.When Chunmai carried the cloth purse and walked out of the room, he heard the throat of the woman on the bed crack, and he knew it was Liu'e's unique cry.What are you crying for?I'm not going to die.Muttering, Chunmai went to the stove and grabbed a few sweet potatoes and stuffed them into the cloth purse. He saw his son Shulai get up from the woodpile and looked at him sleepily.Chunmai walked over to Shulai, rubbed his head a few times, and said, Dad has to go up the mountain to do some errands, so you should work hard at home.Shu Lai nodded and was about to lie down on the woodpile again, Chunmai pulled him up again, Chunmai stared at his son and said, take good care of your mother, don't let her run around.Shulai still nodded in a daze, Chunmai was afraid that he didn't hear clearly, so he repeated it loudly, then Chunmai went to the door and opened it, a damp mist and the unique cold wind of late autumn poured in from the door.Chunmai stepped over the threshold with one foot, and hesitantly stayed in the door with the other foot. He suddenly remembered something, turned his head and called to the book, and looked carefully at the cellar, did you hear me?Take a good look at my cellar.When you leave the village, you will arrive at the sandy road. The dirt road is very narrow and can only allow one rider to pass through. It embraces the vast lake in the north and the gentle beach full of crops and weeds. One end of the road leads to Ta Town, and the other end leads to Donkey Mountain, Niutou Mountain and Yu Mountain extend past.Standing on the sandy road and looking back at the nineteen houses, all I can see are some tall branches that block out the sky, or the branches are evergreen, or the leaves are falling, but the small village suddenly disappeared.

Chunmai walked along the sandy dirt road towards Lv'er Mountain.Golden Leopard's camp is on the back of Lv'er Mountain, and Chun Mai is of course heading towards Lv'er Mountain.Before leaving the village, Chunmai didn't meet anyone, but when he passed the single-plank bridge, he suddenly saw someone picking up dog dung in the ditch. It was the village chief Jin Guan who was picking up dog dung.Chun Mai didn't want Jin Guan to see her, so she shrank her head and ran a few steps, but Jin Guan shouted in the ditch, Chun Mai, where are you going?Chunmai had no choice but to stop, cursing inwardly, why does this meddler have worse eyes than a vulture?Go to Tower Town, go to Tower Town to do something.Chun Mai said.

If you go to Ta Town, bring me two packs of tobacco leaves and a bottle of shochu, and you will save the money for me first.Jin Guan said. I don't have any money, if you want me to pick up something, go home and get the money, I'll wait here.Hey, it sounds like that.Standing in the ditch, Jin Guan tapped the dog dung basket with his iron claws. He smiled and said, as soon as I turned around, you ran away. I know you are not going to Ta Town, you are going to the mountain, to the Golden Leopard. Say what you want, anyway, I can go wherever I like, and you can't control it.Chunmai answered in a low voice and walked forward. He heard Jinguan coughing loudly in the ditch. Jinguan said loudly, "Chunmai, you have to be careful, be careful of the Japanese, be careful of the Kuomintang, and be careful of the golden leopard cutting you down."Chunmai froze for a moment, then turned around and said not to be outdone, I can do whatever I like, and you have no control over it.Chunmai spat on the ground and walked straight ahead, Jinguan's gong sounded insistently in the ditch again, "Chunlai, what are you?"Did you break into the chaotic world?Sooner or later your dog's life will be lost.Chunmai thought I was really unlucky, every time I went on the road, I always ran into this annoying thief.Chun Mai thought Jin Guan would mess with me again, so I pulled a gun from the cellar and killed him.Spring Wheat walked up the hill, the sun shone on the frosty and dewy sandy road, and the road surface had a strange golden luster.Not only this trail around the lake, but also the peaks and rocks of Luer Mountain in the distance are dazzling like flowing gold.The sun rises from the lake, and the sun finally sets in the peaks and valleys of Donkey Mountain and Fish Mountain. The days go by like this. Chunmai has always thought this way since he was a child. Not only Chunmai, but also every farmer or farmer living along the lake. Almost all boat people think so.When Chunmai walked to Shibuqiao Wharf, he saw two Japanese motorboats moored by the lake. A group of Japanese soldiers with live ammunition were inspecting the fishing boats and cargo ships on the wharf. An expression of trepidation.Chunmai didn't know what was going on here, so she casually asked the boat girls sitting on the shore mending their nets.The boat girl said that the Japanese were looking for guns. The Japanese lost a lot of guns, and they searched here every day.Chun Mai was startled, her face immediately turned pale, and she wanted to run subconsciously, but the image of her brother Da Zhuang lying on the firewood cart flashed again in her mind.Chunmai didn't dare to run, so she walked slowly with her hands down.It's going to be trouble, it's really going to be trouble.Thinking of this, Chunmai's footsteps became weak like cotton, and he always wanted to look back at the Japanese soldiers on the pier, but he didn't dare to look back.The road ahead is boundless now. Chunmai supported a poplar tree by the roadside, looked at the Donkey Mountain in the distance, and muttered in his mouth, "Golden Leopard, a gangster who is hacked into pieces, Gou Ri Goods, bad things, you have made me miserable.A shopkeeper came to the entrance of the village. The young shopkeeper put his wheelbarrow on the tree trunk, played the drum, and immediately attracted women and children from nineteen rooms.Few shopkeepers came to the nineteenth room, so the oil, salt and needlework on the wheelbarrow were quickly snatched up by the women, and the rest were those red and green sugar figurines stuck on straw poles. The children around said, go home and find scrap copper and iron, and exchange them for candy for you to eat.A group of children ran home like crazy.The children in nineteen rooms all wanted to eat those red and green candy figures.

Shulai ran home, searching for things like broken iron pots and foot stoves, but found nothing. In a hurry, he went to remove the copper padlock on the wooden cabinet, but he couldn't remove it, which alarmed Liu'e. The outhouse rushed in and cursed, "Damn it, what are you doing with the lock?"Shu didn't answer, but ran outside the house in a hurry, touched the hoe and rake under the wall, and touched the hatchet stuck in the crack of the woodpile. For chopping firewood, everything in the house is indispensable.Shulai raised his head to look at the sundries hanging under the eaves, and finally found an iron hoop that was removed from the barrel. Shulai ecstatically climbed to the window sill and took off the iron hoop.Shulai ran to the entrance of the village with an iron hoop on his shoulder, and saw that there were only a few candy figurines left on the peddler's wheelbarrow.Shulai threw the iron hoop onto the car, and stretched out his hand to pick the candy figurines on the straw, but Shulai's hand was caught by the shopkeeper. The young shopkeeper smiled and said to Shu, your things It's worthless, a rotten iron hoop can't be exchanged for a candy figurine, so I'll look for it when I get home.The book came and said anxiously, I have looked for everything, but there is nothing in my house.The salesman still smiled and said, don’t eat sugar people if you don’t have one.Shulai stood aside in frustration, watching the other children run to the village with the candy figure in their mouths, feeling extremely tormented.After reading the book and looking at the peddler, he suddenly had a quick idea, so he ran over and grabbed the peddler by the corner of his clothes and said, "I have something valuable in my house, and I'll trade it for candy, so don't let the villagers see it, okay?"The salesman bent down and said, what is it valuable?You bring it, I just keep it from being seen.As far as books are concerned, you will know when you bring them, they must be valuable things, you have to leave me a candy figurine.The shopkeeper stood at the entrance of the village and waited for a long time, but there was no one coming from the book. He thought that the child must have taken the gold and silver jewelry from the family and stopped him by the adults.The shopkeeper pushed his wheelbarrow and wanted to continue on his way, but was stopped by Shulai as soon as he got on the single-plank bridge.Shulai's face was covered in dust, and he ran over panting, with one hand tucked in his bosom, he quickly stuffed it into the shopkeeper's hand, Shulai said, give you a gun, give me A sugar man.The shopkeeper was stunned. He recognized that it was a real shell gun.The shopkeeper wanted to say something, but he didn’t say anything. He also quickly pulled out the remaining three candy figures from the straw and stuffed them all in the arms of Shulai. The village under the quirky woods.The entrance to the village, which had been bustling for a long time, fell silent again, leaving Shu Lai standing alone by the single-plank bridge.Shulai bit off the sugar man's head, chewed it cluckingly, and then bit off the sugar man's hands and legs. There was a thick sweet taste in his mouth.Shulai heard the sound of a flock of birds flapping their wings above the woods. He raised his head and saw a flock of white birds flying away from the village. Shulai only knew that it was getting dark and the day was almost over. Shulai didn't know what would happen the day after tomorrow matter.

Chunmai returned to the nineteenth room in the middle of the night.Chunmai stumbled into the house, slumped on the ground and couldn't get up.Liu'e came out holding the oil lamp and shone the oil lamp on his face. The frightened and desperate look on Chunmai's face made Liu'e jump.I took a life.Chun Mai said. What are you talking about, stupid thing? This time I didn't go up the mountain with the golden leopard, and I lost my life. What the hell is going on? The brothers on the mountain were all dead, and the stockade on Luer Mountain was taken over by the Japanese.The village is full of wild dogs now, and more than a dozen wild dogs are eating human flesh to death there.Is the golden leopard dead too?They said that Jin Bao was not dead, Jin Bao escaped alone by climbing the vines, and that treacherous and slippery guy let him escape alone.

This dog has a lot of life.Liu'e sighed ambiguously, and she reached out to pull Chunmai, but Chunmai's slumped body was as heavy as a rock, and she couldn't pull it.Chunmai's lips were still trembling, but she just repeated a sentence, my fate is fate, if I didn't go up the mountain with the golden leopard that day, my fate is fate.It was my arm that saved your dog's life?Liu'e sneered, touched the empty sleeve and said, if that were the case, my arm would not be lost in vain.Chunmai then fell into a drowsy sleep, but her arms were still tightly around Liu'e's waist.Liu'e heard Chunmai sobbing like a woman in her dream, intermittently.Liu'e hated this kind of sound. Every time Chunmai sobbed, she would pinch his nose, but Chunmai didn't feel it. Liu'e saw a teardrop dripping from the corner of the man's eye. Liu'e couldn't bear it anymore, so she wiped it away with the back of her hand. He wiped that teardrop and cursed at the same time, what a worthless, worthless thing.

Early in the morning, Chunmai was awakened by the noise from the outhouse. It was the village head, Jin Guan, who came, and Liu'e blocked the door to prevent Jin Guan from entering.Jin Guan said, what are you doing blocking me?Let me go in and have a few words with Chunmai, it's important.Liu'e said, why do you have to disturb people's senses by saying something important?You should tell me your important things secretly, how can you tell Chunmai?Jin Guan said, you let me in, you really have to talk to Chun Mai about something important.Liu'e said, can your dog spit out ivory?No entry means no entry, let him sleep peacefully.He came home in the middle of the night, startled and tired, don't try to scare him again.The outer room was silent for a while, and suddenly Jin Guan's sour laughter sounded, Jin Guan said, such a guy, do you still love him?Liu'e scolded sharply, shameless bastard, I don't love him, but you?Go home and let your yellow-faced woman hurt you.Shameless goods, get cheap and behave well.

Chunmai couldn't sleep in it anymore, so he jumped out of bed and stood behind the door. He wanted to go out but was afraid of seeing Jin Guan's shady face, so he just stood behind the door and eavesdropped.But there was no movement in the outer room again, and suddenly there was a slap outside, as if someone had slapped someone on the face.Then I heard Liu'e say, shameless bastard, where else can I touch her?Chun Mai was about to pull the door out, but the door was knocked open by Jin Guan. Jin Guan touched his face and took a step back, looked at Chun Mai, then at Liu'e, good, good, well done, Jin Guan pointed Liu'e said, I don't know what is good and what is bad. Let me tell you the truth, disaster is imminent for your family, so don't blame me for not helping you when the time comes. Chunmai didn't know why the village chief, Jin Guan, was always staring at him like a ghost, but he knew what disaster Jin Guan was talking about.As soon as Jin Guan left, Chunmai slipped to the cellar.Chunmai saw the widowed sister-in-law Shui Zhi standing in the cellar with the child on her back, and Shui Zhi stared at him with wide eyes, as if frightened. Why are you standing here again?Chunmai drove the water branch with a vicious voice, he said, there are so many children in the family and so many jobs, why do you always look around in front of other people's houses? The cellar has been touched, and the mud on the top of the cellar is freshly pasted.Shuizhi still had her brown eyes wide open, she said in a terrified voice, disaster is imminent, no wonder I keep dreaming about that dead ghost Da Zhuang, dreaming that he dragged our whole family into the underworld.Don't talk nonsense.Chunmai bent down to identify the mud on the roof of the cellar, her face turned pale, and Chunmai was half kneeling and half sitting on the ground, speechless for a long time.He felt a dazzling white light suddenly flashed in front of his eyes. The white light came from nowhere, probably it was just a sign of impending disaster.After a while Chunmai regained his strength, he asked Shuizhi, who entered the cellar?You went in? How dare I drill into your cellar?Could it be a big and strong ghost?Shui Zhi frowned and thought about something, then suddenly patted his thigh and said, yes, it's Shu, I saw Shu come to work here with a pick the day before yesterday. Chunmai's withered lips trembled, and he wanted to say something but in the end he didn't say anything.Chunmai's bloodshot eyes now shone like two pieces of residual ice, and in the dark tree-covered space, those two spots of light shone like two wolf eyes.Shut your crow's mouth and don't tell the people in the village.After Chunmai instructed Shuizhi like this, he ran towards the house like crazy. Shulai was hoisted to the beam by Chunmai, and Shulai's body was dangling in the air like a bamboo basket.Chun Mai stood on the bench, and first used a hemp rope to pull Shulai's back and buttocks. Shulai cried loudly, but Shulai refused to admit that he had entered the cellar.Chunmai dropped the hemp rope and looked for a door latch. Chunmai swung the latch towards the book. Shulai screamed and passed out. His body was still dangling in front of Chunmai like a bamboo basket. dangling. There were many villagers around the door, they wanted to enter the house to dissuade Chunmai, but Liu'e blocked the door to prevent them from coming in.Liu'e was already crying like a tearful person, cursing people non-stop, Shuizhi for a while, Shu for a while, and Chunmai for a while.Liu'e said, a wolf-hearted bastard, would he do this kind of cruelty to his own flesh and blood?If you want to be bloody, why don't you go to the Golden Leopard?A bully who is afraid of the hard will vent his anger on his wife and children. It is not enough for you to chop off my arm. Do you still want the life of the book?Liu'e sat on the threshold, cursing and crying for a while, and no one outside the door dared to persuade her, and Liu'e scolded anyone who persuaded her.Liu'e cried for a while, then suddenly stood up and rushed towards the firewood pile. The people outside the door all grabbed Liu'e, and Liu'e stomped and said, don't pull me, let me get the hatchet, let me Go and chop up that pig who is not as good as a dog, and life will be hard anyway.Several cousins ​​of Chunmai took advantage of the situation and rushed into the house. They forcibly put the book down from the beam.Someone peeled off the book and found the blood-stained shirt on his body, and found that the pocket was bulging. He took it out and saw that it was a half-eaten candy figurine. Soft mottled puddles of sugar mud.After a while, the people in the house finally dispersed, leaving a family of three standing or lying on the ground looking at each other.Liu'e sobbed softly, and wiped the wounds from the book with a cloth dipped in hot water. Chunmai stood aside with her head bowed, and when the water in the wooden basin turned black, she poured it out, and brought another basin of hot water. When Chunmai was doing these things, his expression was like sleepwalking, and his footsteps were erratic.The whole morning of spring wheat is really like sleepwalking.The disaster has been caused, and now it is time to think of a way to avoid the disaster, and you must quickly throw out the things in the cellar.Liu'e said. Where to throw it?Toss in the lake?But if one day Jin Bao came to me and asked for goods, what would I give him?Chun Mai said with a sad face. Good-for-nothing, when is it? Are you still so afraid of the golden leopard?Are you not afraid of the Japanese? I'm afraid, I'm afraid, I know I'm worthless.As Chunmai spoke, he let out a shrill sob. Chunmai knocked him on the head and said, I can't offend anyone, and I can hide if I can't. It seems that if I want to survive, I have to run, and this is the only way to go.Let the whole family flee to another country.Where are you going?Liu'e was taken aback. Go across the lake to my aunt's house in Qingshui Town, and ask my uncle to point out a way out. He is doing well outside, and I think he will save our lives. I can't hide even if I'm afraid.Liu'e was silent for a while and said, as the saying goes, if you run away from a monk, you can't run away from the temple.Once we leave, the whole village will bear the charges for us. Do you think Jin Guan and the others can let us go? I can't control that much by sneaking away in the dark of night. Heartless and immoral goods.Liu'e cursed, and then began to cry again. Liu'e cried and said, it seems that there is no other way, just listen to you, anyway, life or death depends on God's will.I sneaked away while it was dark, because I was afraid that the night would be long and dreamy, so I had to leave tonight.Chunmai stood up while talking, "I'm going to rent a boat from the boat boss in Wangcun now, and I have to go now."Chunmai said, the boat boss doesn't go into the lake at night, if I give him money, he will agree to sail.Chunmai walked out of the village and saw the village head, Jinguan, riding a donkey ahead. Jinguan was dressed in new tufts, wearing a woolen felt hat and a long green cloth jacket.Jin Guan was obviously going to Ta Town.Every time Jin Guan went back to Ta Town, he would always be dressed like this.What is Jin Guan doing back in Ta Town?To the town hall or to the Japanese?Will you go to inform?Chunmai gasped at the thought.Chunmai trotted all the way to Wangcun by the lake, Chunmai had only one thought left in his mind, to sneak away in the dark, tonight. The rain fell at dusk, and fell on the shade of the trees above the nineteen houses, and then dripped down from the withered branches, and there was a solemn sound of rain on the roofs of the nineteen thatched huts.Late autumn is a dry season in this area, but this heavy rain somehow fell on the nineteenth room. It was getting dark early in the rain, and Chunmai's family closed the doors and windows and packed their last luggage.Chunmai looked outside from time to time through the window, and all she saw was the faint darkness and a smoky rain and fog, and no one was watching them.Liu'e said, why is it raining on such a fine day?I am afraid that God is cursing us.Chunmai said, it’s raining, it’s dark, no one will see us leave the village.Liu'e said that if she did something outrageous, she was afraid that she would be struck by lightning after the first day of the lunar new year.Chun Mai was stunned for a while, and said, if I was really struck by lightning, then I would accept my fate.But don't you understand that in today's world, bad people live long and good people live short?Taking advantage of the dark and heavy rain, Chunmai's family walked out of the nineteen rooms. The dogs under the eaves seemed to be listening to the rain quietly. The people in the house turned off the lights early and went to bed. In the sound of water and rain and fog.Before boarding the single-plank bridge, Chunmai turned her head and stared at the village in the night rain for a moment. Chunmai said softly to Liu'e that the villages of the ancestors have left as soon as they say, and I am afraid they will never come back after leaving.A family of three braved the rain and came to Wangcun Ferry, everyone was dripping wet.The ferry crossing looked deserted and desolate, the heavy rain fell on the lake and splashed loudly, and the lake was filled with light blue, gray and white water in different shades.A boat was hitched to bollards and rocked to and fro by the waves.The boss of the boat was not on board, and the boss of the boat did not wait at the ferry as agreed in advance. Can four people cross the lake in such a small boat?Liu'e stared at the boat and asked suspiciously.Chunmai didn't seem to hear, Chunmai looked anxiously in the direction of Wangcun village, why didn't he come?He said, well said, the boss of the boat will not go back on his word.Finally, I saw a person walking out of the village, carrying a lamp and two oars. It was the boss of the boat.Chunmai breathed a sigh of relief, he shouted a book and said, throw things on the boat, help your mother get on the boat first.The boat boss walked up to Chunmai, stuffed two oars into Chunmai's arms, and turned around to leave. Chunmai was dumbfounded, and rushed forward to grab him. How did he leave?Didn't you agree that you would send us across the lake? Let's go by ourselves, and lean the boat to the Qingshuizhai ferry.The boss of the boat threw off Chunmai, and if he wanted to survive, he had to leave.Such a heavy rain, such a dark day, I will not give it away.But I don't know how to sail a boat, so please accumulate some kindness and send us across the lake, our family will repay the favor by doing a good job.I think you are pitiful, you sent a boat for nothing, do you want me to take my life?The boat boss pushed Chunmai in annoyance, and then went to get the oars on the ground. He said, are you going or not?If you don't go, I won't even give you a paddle.Chunmai stared blankly at the boat boss rushing away to the village through the rain curtain. The night rain by the lake suddenly fell sharply. The bean-sized raindrops hit Chunmai's bare head, and Chunmai's heart was icy cold.They're all hurting me, they're all forcing me, they're all pushing me to my death. Thinking of this, Chunmai staggered towards the boat. He said to the mother and child on the boat, go, the only way to survive is to go by yourself. Yes, as long as there is a boat, we will go to Qingshui Town even if we drift. Chunmai jumped into the boat, and the willow-leaf boat shook abruptly. The book said, Dad, you didn't have an oar.Chunmai ran back to get the oars, then got on the oars, rowed hard, rowed hard, the willow-leaf boat circled in place, but couldn't get out.The book said again, Dad, you didn't untie the cable, Chunmai cursed, and while he went to untie the cable, he looked at the dark blue humid sky on the lake, God can't help me, he said, Liu'e you say By the way, it seems that even God really has trouble with us. At midnight, the willow-leaf boat was still spinning in the middle of the lake, and the continuous heavy rain formed a net to cover the boat, covering the heads of the three people on the boat.Chunmai paddled mechanically.Chunmai felt that his strength was exhausted.Occasionally, he looked at the mother and son at the bow of the ship. It was difficult to distinguish their faces in the dark sky. He could only see a few faint blue frightening lights in the eyes of the mother and son.The floating corpse on the lake drifted here at this time, and the floating corpse rushed towards them like another boat, hitting the willow-leaf boat one after another.Shulai saw the floating corpse first, and he screamed, it was a dead man.Then Liu'e began to cry, and Liu'e stomped on the board and yelled at Chunmai frantically, get him away, get him away quickly. Chunmai pushed the floating corpse with the paddle, pushed the floating corpse a little farther, but soon floated towards the boat again.For God's sake, even the dead come to have trouble with us.Chunmai's voice was close to crying, he said, it seems that God is not willing to let me live.Chunmai lost his last bit of strength in the fight with the floating corpse. Chunmai's hands finally couldn't grasp the sculls, and his body slowly fell to the stern like a collapsed mud wall.I will row, I will row.Shulai crawled to the stern of the boat and grabbed the oars, Shulai rowed vigorously, the boat began to shake again, and the corpse finally got away from the willow-leaf boat.It was still raining non-stop. From the center of the lake, looking at the villages on the south bank and the mountains on the east side, it was desolate and dark, and the nineteen rooms were nowhere to be found. The lake bank was still hiding in the darkness and refused to go. It appeared that the family of three on the boat were all looking for it, but no one could see the shore of the lake.The boat suddenly pitched violently.Liu'e said, why did the boat shake?Liu'e looked down into the cabin, and found that three inches of water had accumulated in the cabin. At first, Liu'e thought it was rainwater, so she felt along the bottom of the cabin with her single arm, and finally cried out loudly, the boat is leaking, here comes the book, You row hard, you row hard. Mother, I can't move anymore, Shulai panted and said, I have no strength, my arm is about to break.Chunmai turned over in the cabin, Chunmai tried to get up, but soon fell down again.The sound of spring wheat still sounds like a cry.He said that it would be fine to get off alone, and it would be fine to get off the boat alone. What?Liu'e said in astonishment.Who do you want to go down? Me, of course I'm going down.Anyway, God will not let me live.are you crazy?You stupid bastard, you can never swim.I'm going down, I want to go down, anyway, I have no face to live.You are crazy.Liu'e cried loudly, Liu'e touched Chunmai's face with her only hand, and what she touched was only a piece of cold rain, Liu'e slapped Chunmai hard, you are crazy, she said, you want to kill our mother and child Leave them on the lake?I won't let you go down, our family has to be together whether we live or die.You are a fool, God won’t let me live, we are a family, if one can live, one is alive, if I die, you two live, I am worth it if I die like this.Liu'e was suddenly speechless, and she saw Chunmai standing up from the cabin suddenly, and Chunmai's face was emitting a magical white light in the rainy night.Chunmai stood upright on the bumpy willow-leaf boat for about three or four seconds. Liu'e wanted to stretch out her single arm to pull him, but she couldn't reach him. Chunmai's stiff body suddenly became very far away, unable to be touched. Liu'e vaguely heard Chunmai say two sentences, both of which were for his son Shu.Chunmai said, come to the book, don't be like your father when you grow up. Chunmai also said, come here, take good care of your mother. Liu'e remembered the splash of spring wheat thrown into the lake, and an indescribably dull loud noise, everything was exactly like a nightmare she had once had.A few days later, Liu'e and Shulai heard a shocking news in Qingshui Town. The Japanese ransacked nineteen houses on the other side of the lake, killing nine villagers and injuring one.It was also said that the Japanese set fire to nineteen rooms, because the nineteen rooms were full of century-old trees, and the fire burned for two days and two nights before it gradually extinguished. This, of course, was a thing of the past fifty years ago.Shulai, Chunmai's son, became a well-known carpenter in the village. For several years, Shulai pushed a wheelbarrow to travel around the villages and villages in search of work. His routes often circled the great lake. Shulai's one-armed mother Liu'e sat on a unicycle.Liu'e's eyes were already blind, and one sleeve was still empty.The mother and son often have to pass through the desolate village ruins of nineteen rooms, where the century-old forests that block the sky and the sun have disappeared.Every time she passed the former nineteen rooms, Liu'e would ask her son, did they grow any trees?When the son came to the book, he said that a tree has grown, and another tree has grown.