Chapter 6 Chapter 4.2

At that time, my uncle had just turned eighteen, and he cursed softly: "Your grandma, you refused to accept the money sent to your farm."Then I stood on the field, waiting for my father to come.My father who followed behind looked at Li Sanren, stood at the head of the field for a while, and walked towards the center of Li's field.Stepping on the soft ground, Dad was like stepping on cotton on the ground, with every step, there was a hot sweetness of the sand rising up.When we got in front of Li Sanren, my father didn't call him "Hi", but he called "Old Village Chief", and Li Sanren's raised head froze in mid-air, staring at his father's face bewilderedly.

It had been nearly two years since anyone called him the village chief. My father called: "Old village head—" Li Sanren didn't speak.Put down the raised hoe. "Old village head, a few days ago I went to the county to hold a blood selling experience exchange meeting," my father said, "The county head and the bureau chief criticized our Dingzhuang for not selling enough blood and criticizing that there are no cadres to lead the village. , the county head and the bureau chief both want me to be the village head." Speaking of this, my father stopped talking and looked at Li Sanren's face.

Li Sanren also looked at his father's face. "Of course I can't be," my father said, "I told the county magistrate and the director of the education bureau who is in charge of our village's poverty alleviation, that no one in Dingzhuang can be the village head except the old village head." Li Sanren stared at his father's face. "Don't look at our Ding family and your Li family's different surnames," my father said, "but I, Ding Hui, understand best that you are the only one who has devoted all my life to serving Ding Zhuang."

"In this life," my father said, "if you don't become the village chief, no one will dare to be the village chief." "In this life," my father asked, "if you don't become the village chief, who else would dare to be?" After saying these words, father came out from the Li family's field.In the newly dug sandy soil, there were grasshoppers and dry babies jumping in the field, and they landed on Dad's feet, and a cool shade spread from his feet all over his body.Dad lifted his foot, kicked the dry frog away, and walked in the field step by step.When he came out, he heard Li Sanren calling behind him.

"Ding Hui—come on, get rid of it, uncle sells blood again this time." My father said: "Uncle, your face is a little yellow, why don't you sell it in a few days?" He said, "I've been through it for decades, and I'm still afraid of shedding this little blood." He said, "Damn it, as long as it's good for our country, I'm still afraid of shedding a little blood." On the Li family's field, Li Sanren was lying under a locust tree with his head resting on the handle of his hoe. My father hung the blood plasma bag on the branch of the locust tree.My uncle gave him a needle, and his blood flowed from the chopstick-thick plastic tube into the blood bag.

The blood bag, on the surface, is a bag of 500 cc per catty, but in fact, it is filled with 600 cc per catty.If you pat the bag while pumping, it can hold 700cc and weigh four ounces a catty. When the blood was drawn, my father patted the bag and said that the blood would freeze if he didn't pat it.I just chatted with Li Sanren sentence by sentence while taking pictures. My father said: "Except for you, there is really no one in the village who can be the head of this village." He just said, "It's boring. I've been doing it all my life." My dad said: "You are not yet fifty years old, which is a good age."

He said: "I want to make a comeback, Ding Hui, you must come out and be my helper." My father said: "I have expressed my opinion to the county magistrate and the bureau chief. If you don't come out of the mountain, you will be handsome. If you beat me to death, you will not be a village cadre." He asked, "How much did you smoke?" My uncle said: "Don't worry, it will be full in a while." Just fill up the blood bag. It was bulging and full, like a hot water bag filled with water, shaking and shaking.On the gray field, there is a sweet and thick smell of blood, like the smell of jujubes that have just fallen from the tree boiled in water.The needle was pulled from Li Sanren's arm, and the blood bag was put away. My father gave him a hundred yuan blood plasma money, and Li Sanren took the money and said, "Are you still looking for it?"

My father said: "Now the price of blood plasma has been reduced, and a bag costs 80 yuan." He said, "Then I'll give you another twenty yuan." My father hurriedly took his hand again, "Old village chief, Uncle Sanren, you just slap me in the face when you change money, let alone ten or twenty yuan, even fifty yuan, I can't let you change it." He said Embarrassed to take the money.When my father and uncle were about to leave, they saw that his face had turned pale, and the sweat rolled on his face one by one, hanging like a rain curtain on his waxed face. He wanted to stand up and go back to his field, but But he walked a few steps, shook his body, and hurriedly squatted down while supporting his head.

He called out, "Ding Hui——I'm very dizzy, and the sky and the earth are spinning around in front of my eyes." My father said: "You are not allowed to sell, but you want to sell. Should I hold your leg and bleed?" He said, "Let's fall down." He was lying on the field, and my father and uncle each lifted one of his legs, with his feet on top and his head down, so that his blood flowed from his legs and body to his head.In order to make his head full of blood, my father and my uncle slowly lifted his legs and shook them, like lifting the legs of washed trousers, shaking to let the water flow up from the trouser legs to the trouser waist.

After shaking, put his legs down: "Is it better?" Li Sanren stood up slowly from the ground, walked two steps, turned around and said with a smile, "It's much better. After half my life, I'm still afraid of bleeding." My father and uncle pedaled three rounds and left. Li Sanren went back to work in the field with his head on his head.He staggered as he walked, my father and my uncle thought he would suddenly fall down in the field, but he didn't fall down, and when he got to the middle of the field, he turned around and called: "Ding Hui, one day I will make a comeback to be the village chief, and you must come out and become the deputy village chief."

My father and uncle turned their heads to look at him, and returned to Dingzhuang with a smile.At Zhuangtou, on the sunny side of Zhuang Street, at the intersection of the Zhuangli sheltered from the wind and facing the sun, you can see those who have sold blood and always feel dizzy, lying on the slope of the Zhuangli with their heads down, Put your feet up and let the blood flow backwards.Or take off the door panel and build a bed in your own yard, with a high stool at one end and a low stool at the other end, let the door panel tilt upside down, and people will lie upside down.There are also young people who are okay and lean against the wall "upside down", with "head blood" on their heads and feet.Father and uncle knew that they had gone to Waizhuang and other villages to collect blood, but someone came to Dingzhuang to collect blood, and the two of them were stunned on the street.My father didn't say anything, but my uncle cursed a few words: "Grandma Rita!" "Grandma Rita!" I don't know who he is scolding. At that time, Li Sanren also started selling blood when he was less than fifty years old.Once sold, it sold out of control.There is no beginning but no end. At this time, he was not yet sixty and had a fever.When the fever comes, it is heavier than others.He was so heavy that he didn't even have the strength to speak.It's also an ending.In the end, he wanted to be the village head after waiting for many years, but there were no cadres in the village for many years, and no one in the village appointed anyone to be the village head. Li Sanren is already old. Less than sixty is like seventy. In a few months, maybe he will die. He was already very sick, and it seemed like two big stones were tied to his feet when he walked.The daughter-in-law said: "Li Sanren, if he is sick, he goes to school to enjoy the blessings. You are still at home and let me take care of you every day." He came to school to live with the fever patients.We lived together, but he didn't speak every day, and walked slowly in school alone every day, watching slowly.Slowly climbed to sleep on his bed in the corner, as if waiting for the next world every day.But on this day, the sun was dazzling.Dingzhuang is full of flowers everywhere, and the overwhelming flowers are full of fragrance.People were planing and digging in the sea of ​​flowers, picking or carrying them, all of them were so busy that they just gasped and didn't speak, with sweat on their faces, smiling, coming and going in a hurry.My grandfather was standing on the entrance of the village, and saw that Li Sanren had a fever and carried two bamboo baskets. The bamboo baskets were covered with sheets, and the things inside were so heavy that the bamboo baskets fell to the ground.Every time Li Sanren took a step forward, the basket and Biandan creaked.He was already seriously ill with a fever, and he couldn't live long, but at this moment, he came over carrying the heavy burden, his face was shining, and when he arrived in front of my grandfather, my grandfather hurriedly went up to him and asked, Sanren, What did you pick? He just laughed and didn't talk like everyone else.Changed the burden in front of my grandfather, and passed by my grandfather.Went to his house.At this time, the five or six-year-old grandson of Li Sanren's family ran out of the field after him, holding a bag of something wrapped in clothes in his arms, and yelled at grandpa while running.Just when his grandson ran in front of my grandfather, a winter jasmine tree that climbed to the middle of the road tripped his grandson.The bag of things held in his grandson's arms was thrown out with a clatter, and there was a series of jingling sounds.My grandfather looked at the noise and was startled.Surprised.Unexpectedly, the things thrown out of the bag turned out to be all golden bars and nuggets, as well as plump and huge golden beans like peanuts.It turns out that the ground of this plain is full of flowers, but the ground is full of gold.Li Sanren's grandson was crying while watching the golden beans rolled out of his hands. My grandfather wanted to help him up, but as soon as he stretched out his hand, he woke up. It was Li Sanren who woke him up. Li Sanren woke up my grandfather. Grandpa seemed to be asleep, but he didn't seem to be asleep at all. He saw Li Sanren approaching lightly in the dimness, stayed by his bed for a while, and called out "Brother Shuiyang" carefully. Woke up with a cry.When I woke up, my grandfather saw him go to pull the grandson of Li Sanren’s family. His hand was still stretched outside the bed, and he saw the overwhelming sea of ​​flowers on the plain, on the entrance of Dingzhuang and Dingzhuang, in the fields, and on the ancient road of the Yellow River. The color is shining, with gold bricks, gold tiles, gold bars, gold nuggets and gold beads, gold grains.My grandfather didn't open his eyes immediately, he saw the scene of flowers blooming on the ground and gold under the ground once again.He gently turned over on the bed, trying to grasp the situation, when he heard Li Sanren call softly "Brother Shuiyang".The master just smiled at him and wanted to say Brother Sanren, I dreamed of you just now.But when the words came to his lips, he saw Li Sanren's face was pale, as if he had something urgent to say to his master. The master hurriedly turned around and sat down: "Sanren, what's the matter?" Li Sanren said in a hoarse voice, annoyed: "Mother, lawless, this lawless thief dares to steal everything." Hastily asked: "What's missing?" He said angrily, "The thief didn't deliver anything last night, and today he stole my things again." My grandpa asked, "What did you lose?" Still annoyed: "The thief took away the thing he shouldn't have stolen." My grandfather was in a hurry: "What did you lose?" He got out of bed and put on his clothes and said, "Sanren, when you were the village chief, you were a person who could speak and do things quickly, but now you can't speak coherently." Li Sanren looked at his master's face, hesitated for a while, and said, "Brother Shuiyang, let me tell you the truth, the official seal of the village committee of Dingzhuang Village has always been on me. In the past ten years, there has been no branch secretary or village head in the village." , The official seal has always been on me, and I have some money on me, but the seal and money were still pressed under my pillow when I slept yesterday, and the official seal and money are gone when I wake up today." He said: "It doesn't matter if you lose the money, but you can't lose the official seal." He said: "I have to get the official seal back. I haven't let the official seal leave my body in the past ten years, but when I woke up this morning, it was gone." The sky was transparent, and the light coming from the windows and the doorway illuminated the room clearly.Uncle has not come back from the outside.My grandfather swept his eyes from his bed, his face was covered with mist. When he saw Li Sanren's thin and small body and helpless expression, my grandfather asked him: "How much money did you lose in total?" ?" But he said: "It doesn't matter if you lose the money, you have to get the official seal back." My grandfather asked, "How much money did you lose?" He still said: "It doesn't matter if you lose the money, but you have to get the official seal back." Master just stared at Li Sanren, as if he was looking at someone he met for the first time.To see a man he had never seen before, at all People I've never met.At the end, my grandfather asked again: "Sanren, how can you find me?" "Search." Li Sanren said coldly and forcefully: "Brother Shuiyang, you have been a teacher all your life, and you have always taught students not to steal; but now, you are the one who recruited the fever patients together, so you can steal it." under your nose." Grandpa came out of his house. There is already a large area of ​​golden water on the eastern horizon, like covering the sky and covering the sky, one field after another, and one field after another blooming flowers.Crowded together, piled into mountains of flowers.When the light and color of the flower fall into the school, the school dissolves into the flower.In the classrooms on the two floors, the febrile patients were still asleep.In the winter, there is no ball to warm up under the quilt.In the schoolyard, on the branches of the paulownia tree, there are already magpies calling.When the magpie crows, it means that there is a happy event.It's a festive event on this campus.It is a festive event for fever patients. My grandfather went under the tree, took out the bell stick from the branch, "Dangdangdang! Dangdangdang!" and rang the assembly bell.The bells of eager assembly. The clock and the bell stick have not been used for a long time, and they are red with rust, and the red rust will fall from the bell and the stick when it is struck.There are no more students in the school, and the clock has become a decoration.There is also an iron pipe erected on a concrete platform to the east in the center of the campus, which has been painted to become a flagpole.In the past, according to the rules, the flag was raised once every day in class.But right now, the flagpole standing there is also a decoration. It was erected as a display. But right now, the bell is ringing again, it is "Dang Dang Dang! Dang Dang Dang!", as eagerly as muskets are fired on the campus. Someone was wearing a jacket, climbed on the window on the second floor and called, "What are you doing?" Li Sanren, just like he was a cadre back then, shouted upstairs: "Assemble! Come down and assemble!" Then asked: "Did you catch the thief?" He shouted at the top of his voice, "When everyone gathers, we will know who the thief is." The people and patients in Dingzhuang all came out of the house, some rubbing their eyes, some wearing clothes buttoned up, one after another, they came out of the house, and stood in a large area between the tung tree and the field. .In the middle, my uncle and Lingling were still standing.No one saw where they came from.They were standing in the crowd, their clothes neatly dressed, and their faces glowing brightly, as if they were not sick at all.They stood in the crowd, apart, like they had never been together at all.The sun has risen from the eastern horizon.Boom up, a new day is here.Started searching for thieves. My grandfather said: "Everyone is sick to this point, and I don't know if there will be tomorrow after I live today, but at this time, you still want to steal. You still want to steal—you stole Li Sanren's money last night." Li Sanren interrupted loudly at the side: "It doesn't matter if you lose money, but he stole the seal of the Dingzhuang Village Committee. The official seal has not left my body for ten years, and it was stolen by this thief last night." "It won't work if you don't search." My grandfather asked loudly: "Who would like to come out with Sanren and me, and search house by house?" Sweeping over, my uncle squeezed out excitedly, and said loudly, "I'll search. If I offend someone, I offend him. Who told him to steal the silk jacket of my brother-in-law Lingling?" Lingling's face turned red like the sunrise. My uncle walked out from the crowd.The hero generally stood up. After two more people stood up immediately, they began to search upstairs and downstairs from room to room.Also found two thieves. One thief was Zhao Xiuqin.It's Zhao Xiuqin who cooks for everyone. It was time for Zhao Xiuqin's fever, and the pimples on her face were swollen like overripe peas.On the hands exposed outside the clothes, the backs of the hands and the necks of the hands, the pimples are different from those on the face, they are newly formed after falling off, and they are all still red, just like the sunrise on the plain, one by one, Squeezing one by one, because of the itching and constant scratching, it rotted and thickened, white water still hung on the arms, and there was a salty and sour smell that she didn't want people to smell. As usual, she had had a fever for half a year, and the sores on her body were all over the place. She should have died long ago, but she was still alive. Ordinary people should die if they go up and down three times, but she is still alive when she goes down and down. Speaking of which, Wang Baoshan, who was ten years older than her, sold her blood to marry her. She used his money to marry her to marry her younger brother, and then followed Wang Baoshan to sell blood and married her for the man. money, but ten years later, Wang Baoshan did not contract the fever, but she did.Half a year ago, during the few days when she had a fever, she sat on the ground in her yard every day, kicking the soil with her heels, crying and calling out: "I'm so wronged—" "I'm so wronged—" Wang Baoshan went to pull her, but she scratched the blood on Wang Baoshan's face with her hands, and cursed: "You killed me—you bastard!" "You killed me—you bastard!" She cried and screamed on the ground, kicking the dirt on the ground flying.But after a few days, she stopped crying.Stop making trouble.Still cook the rice, feed the chickens, and bring the rice to Wang Baoshan as before.Up to now, he stopped serving meals to her man, and started to cook meals for the patients in the whole village. After cooking for the patients in the whole village, she started stealing from the patients in the whole village. Zhao Xiuqin slept in the first-grade classroom on the first floor.On the inner corner of the classroom.My grandfather and Li Sanren led people to search one classroom after another downstairs, turning over the bed and removing the quilt, and opening everyone's bags and cardboard boxes for packing and storing clothes.When they arrived at Zhao Xiuqin's bed, she was not there, and went to cook before dawn.She cooks, washes pots, and washes dishes. She does her work hard, and she does it greedily from morning to night.I have never said a word of disapproval, and I can still fry a few delicious dishes.But she was not there when the search was made. She was cooking breakfast for people in the stove. My grandfather lifted her quilt, and Li Sanren moved her pillow, and felt the weight of the pillow.Filled with lead-like weight.As soon as the stitches of the pillow were removed, the white rice filled in the pillow could be seen. The white rushing rice was seen by the patients in Dingzhuang. Everyone's faces froze with astonishment.Unexpectedly, she was the one who stole the food while she was cooking for everyone.So they sent someone to the kitchen to call her out.At this time, my uncle dragged another thief out of the bed on the second floor.He didn't expect that this other thief would be Zhao Dequan who had never spoken loudly to others in his life.It will be Zhao Dequan who is over fifty years old.When everyone went out to gather, Zhao Dequan didn't go to gather. He said that he had been extremely weak these days, and he was afraid that he would not survive for a few days. He didn't even have the strength to walk, so he slept on the bed and didn't get up.At that time, several rooms upstairs were searched, only Zhao Dequan's bed was not searched.Zhao Dequan was lying on the bed, the sunlight from the window shone on his face, turning his face dry red, like the face of a mummy exposed to the sun.Everyone knows that Zhao Dequan doesn't need to search.He has been honestly planting the land all his life, and he can't recognize scales when doing business, and he can't count the money you ask me, and I will ask you again. Even eight or ten years ago, Ding Zhuang was crazy about buying and selling blood. How much did he sell? They never asked how much they should get.It has always been that you can give him as much as you want, and you can draw as much blood as you want. "How much?" my dad asked. He said, "You don't need to smoke anymore when you see my yellow face." My father found the biggest plasma bag for him, and when the bag was full, his face turned yellow and sweat hung on his forehead again, so my father removed the needle.Always seemed to give him two bucks more when I gave him money.He took the money, looked at my father and said, "Ding Hui, of all the blood collectors, you are the only one who treats me well." I always find my father to sell blood. How could my uncle have imagined that he stole Lingling's new silk jacket.Who would have imagined that he would have stolen the jacket of his new daughter-in-law.Daylight came in from the window, and his face was basking in the sun like a mummy.There was a layer of white in the dead fish-like eyes.White as a dead fish.When the thief hunters passed in front of him, he looked at the villagers who were as sick as him but came and went, and his face had a layer of envy.It is the light that envies others who are still alive.Tears flowed out of his envious eyes, and there was a long sigh that lasted ten miles or twenty miles. People still persuaded him to open up, and joked about "early death and early life" to cheer him up, but how could he think of it? He is a thief, he will steal the silk wedding jacket of the new daughter-in-law. They have all passed by his bed.They are all ready to continue searching in the next room.When we all reached the door, for some reason my uncle turned his head and looked at him again.For some reason my uncle became suspicious of him.For some reason, my uncle turned around suddenly, walked quickly back to Zhao Dequan's bed, lifted the quilt from Zhao Dequan's feet, took out a cloth bundle from the quilt, opened it, and found that What was wrapped in the burden was Lingling's red silk jacket. The silk jacket was as red as a newborn sun.Just like the newborn sun. They called Zhao Xiuqin out of the stove. They brought Zhao Dequan down from upstairs. All surnamed Zhao.He lost all the faces of people with the Zhao surname in the world. At that time, the campus already had the smell of warm sun.The sun shines in, like the light of fire.On the field, the freshness of the field is also spreading in the courtyard.Birds chirping, raining overhead in the yard.Dozens of people in Dingzhuang, sick people, seemed to have thought that Zhao Xueqin was a thief, and no one felt sorry for her when they called her out of the kitchen.It's just that she feels sorry for Dingzhuang people.Scattered ones stood under the tung tree with the clock hanging, and someone went to call Zhao Xiuqin out.I thought she would come out of the kitchen with her head down.I thought she would walk in front of people with a face full of shame, but she didn't even have any shame on her face. Looking at the village people in front of her, as if people shouldn't call her out, there is no trace of surprise or shame on her face, as if she is not panicked when facing a big enemy. My grandfather stood in front of the tung tree, looked at the rice in the pillow, and looked at Zhao Xiuqin standing in front of him. My grandfather said: "Xiuqin, you took the rice from the stove?" But she said: "No, what's the matter?" Grandpa said: "I heard that you used to like to steal crops and vegetables, but now that people are dying, you still steal rice and noodles from dying people." Saying that, my grandfather glanced at the rice thrown in the pillow on the ground.Zhao Xiuqin also saw the white rice on the pillow, was startled for a moment, then suddenly rushed over, hugged the rice in the pillow, and squatted down as if she was afraid that her baby would be snatched away. In front of my grandfather, he kicked the sand and soil on the ground with his feet in turn, crying dryly and saying: "You searched for me—you searched for me—you wolf-hearted people, you searched for me without saying a word." She cried and said: "You sick people, you have fever and AIDS and you are so heartless, you go to my bed and search without saying a word." He said: "Why should I serve you people? It is better to go home and serve my man Wang Baoshan, take care of the adults and children in my family. I get up early every morning to cook for you. After you are full, you put down the rice bowl and leave. Why do I have to wash the pots and dishes? I have to go to the well to feed so many of you Carrying water for cooking and drinking. And you don’t take care of the water I bring, you use half a basin of water to wash a bowl.” Call: “You are sick and I am also sick. If you are dying, I won’t survive this year. Lah. They are all dying people, why should I serve you every day? Why do I get such a little food every month to serve you? I want to give me a few hundred dollars. But here, do I ask you for any money? I ask you for a penny?" She called out and said, "You all said that the food I cook is delicious. The stir-fried dishes are delicious, why do you think I cook such delicious meals for you? Why do I serve you? Am I just looking for this bag of grain? " Talking and calling, calling and talking , Said it was crying but there was no tear, not crying, but the tone was full of grievances.After finishing speaking, she wiped her tearless eyes and face with her hand, and looked at the people in Dingzhuang as if the tears had dried up. My grandfather said, "Does your family owe this food?" Zhao Xueqin stared at her grandfather: "My family not only owes food, but also a handful of firewood and a stalk of grass." My grandfather yelled: "I owe you." She said, "Why do I want yours? I don't want what I should earn. Why do I want yours?" On the contrary, my grandfather was speechless.I have nothing to say.The Dingzhuang people present were also speechless.The situation seems to be that the people of Dingzhuang are sorry for Zhao Xueqin, not that Zhao Xueqin is sorry for the people of Dingzhuang.At this moment, my uncle and several men brought Zhao Dequan down from upstairs. Zhao Dequan did not have the courage and power of Zhao Xiuqin.It's because men don't have the courage and power of women.His face was pale yellow, and he walked down the stairs, as if he was going to the execution ground, with a lot of sweat on his forehead.It was a cold day, and I was sweating a lot.Take small steps, walk slowly, and walk forward as if you are going backward.When he went downstairs, he looked up at the villagers in the middle of the courtyard, said something to my uncle behind him, and my uncle also said something to him, and when he looked back, his face turned white and yellow. up.Speaking of which, he was really seriously ill, and at the end of his lifespan, he was as thin as charred firewood, and the padded jacket and trousers that used to fit him were now so big that they became buckets, dangling on his body. Back and forth and banging.The bones become firewood and the skin becomes leaves, and even walking is fluttering lightly.It was not a person who seemed to be floating, but a ghost.He just came in front of Dingzhuang people.He hooked his head deeply in front of people, like a student who was caught copying someone's papers on the spot.On a cold day, thin sweat hung on his forehead.His face turned yellow and then white.At this time, all eyes shifted from Zhao Xueqin to Zhao Dequan, no one could believe that he stole Lingling's coat. Lingling couldn't believe that he stole her jacket, she looked at Zhao Dequan and then at my second uncle. The second uncle handed the silk jacket to Lingling.The second uncle said: "I found it at the foot of his bed." So I returned the coat to Lingling in front of Zhao Dequan. Zhao Dequan squatted down slowly, hooking his head on the ground, as if what was passed in front of him was not a jacket, but a layer of skin from his face.Then, his face turned yellow.It's sallow.His dead fish-like eyes stared motionlessly at his own toes, and he curled up like a frightened dog crouching there. My grandfather said, "Dequan, is that jacket really yours?" Zhao Dequan shrank and did not speak. My grandfather said, "Did you take it?" Zhao Dequan still shrank without speaking. My grandfather said: "If you didn't take it, you have to talk." Zhao Dequan raised his head and glanced at his master's face, still dead on the ground without speaking, as silent as a dry well. My uncle said: "Zhao Dequan, I searched the jacket out of your bed. Do you think I wronged you or not?" Zhao Dequan lowered his head even more, and still remained silent.My grandfather gave my uncle a cold look: "Second boy, why do you have so many words on your lips." My uncle also fell silent, as silent as a dry well, as deep as a black hole.The sun had risen above the horizon, and the sticky golden water and gold soup jumped as high as a pole as soon as it broke out, illuminating the school transparently.The people of Dingzhuang standing under the sun did not speak, they were all looking at the master and Zhao Dequan, waiting for the end of the matter.My grandfather said: "You Zhao Dequan, your child is about to get married, and you steal the jacket of the new wife." Then, just as he said this, the sweat on Zhao Dequan's forehead fell to the ground. In winter, the sweat fell to the ground. silent.Everyone in Dingzhuang was silent, and Zhao Xiuqin suddenly sat up from the ground in that silence, and walked towards the stove with the rice in her pillow. My grandfather said, "Where are you going?" She turned her head back: "The pot is still sitting on the fire. How can I eat the rice if it burns?" Li Sanren chased after him and asked, "Xiuqin, do you have the official seal of Dingzhuang Village?" Zhao Xiuqin said angrily, "You take it as gold." Li Sanren was startled, thought for a while, then squatted down beside Zhao Dequan, and asked softly, "Brother Dequan, we are all over fifty, if you take me and put it on your pillow Return the official seal you have issued." Zhao Dequan shook his head seriously at him. He went on to ask: "Really didn't take it?" Zhao Dequan nodded again. Li Sanren stood up in great disappointment, just like Zhao Dequan's panicked sweat stained him, and there was also a layer of sweat on his forehead. He looked at the village people begging for help, and said loudly: " I don’t want the lost money. Whoever returns the official seal of the village committee to me. The official seal has not left my body for decades. I lock it in a box at home and carry it in my arms when I go out. The chapter and the money were all under my pillow yesterday, but the chapter and the money were gone when I woke up this morning." Li Sanren called out loudly: "I don't want the money, but you have to return the official seal to me." Things are over. Passed by quietly. After three or five days, three or five days, people were calm and peaceful in the school.Lingling went to the school toilet.The men's toilet is on the east side of the building, and the women's toilet is on the west side of the building.Lingling headed west, put on her red silk jacket, and swung westward like a ball of fire.The sun was flat in the south, and it was very warm, and people were all downstairs to bask in the warmth.Sideways to bask in the warmth.Suffer the days, endure the life span, endure the fever and your own life.At this time, Zhao Dequan saw Lingling wearing a red jacket swinging towards the west, he looked at the people dozing off in the warmth, and then he himself walked towards the west. He was waiting for Lingling not far from the toilet door. Lingling came out of the toilet. They looked at each other.Lingling looked at Zhao Dequan with disdain, but when she was about to leave, Zhao Dequan stepped forward to greet her, and tried to say softly, "Lingling, can you sell me your silk jacket?" Lingling looked at him even more disdainfully. He put a smile on his face, a dry smile, a thin smile, and a stiff smile. "I'm not afraid of your jokes," said with a smile, "I know I won't survive this winter." I stopped laughing and said, "I'm not afraid of your jokes. When I married your aunt, I promised to make her a red silk jacket, but Now, my son is getting married, and I am dying, and she still remembers that I owe her a red silk jacket." He said, "I am dying, and I want to give her back a red silk jacket before I die. jacket." Lingling stood for a while, and walked away from Zhao Dequan without saying a word. He chased after him and said, "Can I give you fifty yuan?" Lingling walked away from him. "Is eighty dollars okay?" She just passed in front of him. "Is it okay to do a hundred?" Lingling walked a long way and turned around: "You wouldn't go to Wei County to buy it." Things passed peacefully.It passed smoothly. Even if you lose some food, some money, an official seal or a jacket, all the thieves you need to find are found.Zhao Dequan wanted to give back a red silk jacket to his wife before he died, and he agreed to it when he married her, but now, his son is going to have a family and a career, so the promise has not been fulfilled.He was dying of a fever, and he still owed someone a silk wedding jacket.In a moment of thought, he embarked on the path of thieves.Zhao Xiuqin said that she was at a disadvantage if she was asked to serve others out of thin air, and she deserved to steal the food.This led to a new rule, asking Zhao Dequan to return the coat to Yang Lingling, and asking Zhao Xiuqin to cook with her, and the other two women who cooked with her still cooked their meals, but others had to come here from home every month to exchange rice and noodles. They don't need to mix grains, they just cook and eat for free.Then, for all the patients, it is stipulated that whoever has a quick foot and a long hand will go back to your home and die in your bed. They are all people who can live today without knowing tomorrow, and there is nothing to worry about.But Li Sanren, he was always unwilling to find the village committee's chapter.On the one hand, he said: "I won't look for it, I won't look for it, anyway, Dingzhuang has no village committee." On the other hand, I always rummage around this person's bedside, and look in that person's clothes bag, They also searched all the mouse nests in the room on the second floor, trying to peel off the rat feces in the mouse nest one by one to see. In the end, I still couldn't find it. If you don't find it, you will always suffer in your heart, and you will sit there and suddenly sigh.Take a long breath, as if you have a vast regret in your heart.But one day, for a whole day, he neither sat downstairs in the sun, nor upstairs in the sunlight coming in from the window, but got into his bed.He was under the covers at night, in the morning, under the covers in the morning, and still under the covers until lunch time.My grandfather asked my uncle to call him to eat, so my uncle knocked on his own enamel bowl and went to the door of the classroom where Li Sanren lived to call: "Uncle Sanren, let's eat—" Seeing no response, he continued: "Old village chief—you don't eat?" There was still no response, so my uncle went to his bed and pushed him with his hands, like pushing a stone pillar that cannot be pushed.Hastily lifted his quilt to look, and saw that his face had already turned blue. Vegetable color of dark blue. At this time, he has passed away. Already passed away.Maybe he died in the first half of the night yesterday, maybe he died in the second half of the night yesterday.On his pillow, there was a puddle of blood he had vomited.Dirty black blood, like a piece of dirty black mud.It has been frozen into black mud ice.Zhao Dequan was sicker than him and was still alive, but he was sicker than Zhao Dequan but passed away.Although he vomited blood, his face didn't look too distorted, indicating that he didn't suffer too much before he died, maybe he just had a cough, and he passed away after coughing up blood.On the contrary, there was some regret on his face before he died.His eyes were still open, and his mouth was still open, as if he wanted to say something to someone, but before he could say it, he died. My uncle stood blankly in front of his bed, with a half-green and half-white face, not because he was afraid, but because his heart was a little cold.Thinking of the cold that I will be reborn one day soon.The porcelain bowl was frozen in my uncle's hands, and the chopsticks were also frozen in my uncle's hands. After staying for a while, my uncle tried it carefully and carefully in front of Li Sanren's nose, and felt a cold wind blowing over his nose. My uncle straightened up, went to the window, opened the window, stuck his head out, and called out to the people downstairs who were about to eat: "Hey——Li Sanren passed away!" The person below raised his head: "What did you say?" 我叔说:"李三仁下世啦，身子都冷了。" 就都怔一怔，你看看我，我看看你，不着急去西边灶堂里，先回身来到二楼教室里。五六个人，都看看李三仁，都拿手去他鼻前试了试，脸上都有了青白色。 我爷也来了，脸上也有了青白色。 我爷拿手去他鼻前试了试，脸上挂着青白色，扭回头来说: "谁去给他家里说一下，让他家里把棺材、寿衣准备着。" 就有人望着我爷说:"吃过饭再去通知他家吧，不然饭都要冷了。" 我爷想了想，就拉过被子把李三仁的脸给盖上了，领着人们到了楼下去吃饭。吃着时，谁也没说李三仁死在被窝的事。知道的，和以前吃的差不多，不知道的，还和以前吃的一样多。没有风，日光从灶堂偏西一点晒过来。校园里，有了暖和静，大家都席地坐着或站着，吃着馍，吃着赵秀芹炒的大锅菜，喝着她放了碱的玉蜀黍生儿汤，有的坐在从教室搬来的凳子上，有的坐在自己的鞋子上，就都呼呼地吃着或喝着，说着许多村庄里的事，说着说过了的笑话和不可笑的话。 有一搭儿也没一搭儿。 就和什么事情也没发生样。 玲玲和我二叔蹲在一块儿吃。玲玲问:"老村长是不是下世了?" 二叔看看她:"下啥儿世，他说他不舒服不想来吃饭。" 玲玲说:"谁拿他的公章给他就算了，别让他心里老有一块病。" 二叔说:"你找到你的棉袄就行了，还管那么多的事。" 就都低头吃着饭，抬头说着话。吃完了，我爷才对赵秀芹也对大家说:"李三仁不想在学校再住了，以后就别给他烧饭啦。" 大家便怔着，像听明白了我爷的话，又像没有明白爷的话，你看我，我看你，不明白谁也不去问，一时里，饭场上静得只有了人的呼吸声。连人的呼吸也没了。风把房上的羽毛吹下来，连那羽毛飞着都有了清晰晰的响。就在这时候，坐在灶堂门口的丁嘴嘴，清了一下嗓，说我给你们说个笑话吧。 他就说，从前有个在县衙当差的聪明人，什么事在他面前都易如反掌办成了。有一天，县太爷想要考考他，就从县衙出来到了城郊上，忽然看到有个姑娘从菜园那边走过来，县太爷说，你去和那姑娘说上几句话，如果她让你亲了她的嘴，我这县太爷的大印让你掌三天。如果她不让你亲她的嘴，我打你五十大板行不行?说聪明人想了想，就迎着那姑娘到了菜园边，和那姑娘说了几句话，那姑娘就主动把嘴伸过来，让聪明人过去亲了亲。 聪明人就回来当了三县天太爷。 "你们猜聪明人到那姑娘面前说了啥?"丁嘴嘴说着又问丁庄的人，看大家都不再吃饭都在听他说笑话，他就瞟瞟大伙们，卖着关子喝了几口汤，让大家等了他一会，才又说聪明人到菜园边上拦住姑娘说，喂，你走你的路，你怎么拐到菜园偷我们家的韭菜呀。姑娘说我径直地走着路，谁偷你你们家的韭菜了?聪明人说我明明看见你偷了韭菜吃到嘴里了，你咋还说没有偷?那姑娘就在聪明人面前张开嘴，说我吃了?你过来看看我的嘴?聪明人说你咽到肚里了，我哪能看见呀?姑娘说，难道因为这还能把我肚子剥开给你看?聪明人说，那倒用不着，韭菜味儿重，你让我闻闻我就知道了。 姑娘就张着嘴凑过去，让聪明人闻了她的嘴。 县太爷只好把大印交给聪明人让他做了三天县太爷。丁嘴嘴说聪明人在这三天里，把他家的亲戚和朋友，都从乡下、山里弄到了城里的县衙各部门，当官或经商，全都过上了好日子。 丁嘴嘴是几天前搬进学校来住的。有了热病后，他对他一家人说他要去过天堂的日子了，就说着笑着让家人把他送进了学校里，从此学校就笑声不断了，有听不完的笑话了。我爷说李三仁不愿再在学校里住，他想回他的家里去，所有的人就都怔着了。听了丁嘴嘴的笑话后，所有的人都从惊怔中愣过神儿来，咯咯哈哈地笑着了。 眠着嘴儿笑。脸仰在天上笑。还有人一笑就从他坐的凳上掉下来，手里的碗便落在地上了，饭汤泼了他一身。 李三仁下世两天后，入殓那一天，他媳妇没有哭，去问我爷李三仁那鬼为啥死了还拢不上嘴，合不了眼，到底他有啥儿放不下的事。我爷就去看了李三仁，果然见他躺在灵棚里，大张着嘴，张大着嘴，眼也睁得比活着还要大，眼白和孝布样挂在眼睛上。没说啥，我爷想一会，便独自离开丁庄村，不知去了哪。半晌后，我爷走回来，手里拿了一枚新刻的丁庄村委会的章。圆的章。新的章。还有一个盖章用的印泥盒。为了补那李三仁生前的憾，我爷回来亲自的把章和印泥放在了李三仁的棺材里。把章塞到他的右手里，把印泥盒放在他的左手里。然后我爷说:"三仁呀，我在学校把章给你找到了，没人偷，就掉在你床头的床缝里。"然后我爷把手放在李三仁的眼睛上，轻轻抚一下，李三仁的眼就合上了，张着的嘴也就闭上了。 眼就合上了。嘴就拢上了。 闭了眼，拢上了嘴，李三仁的死相也变了。虽然人是有些枯干着，可他脸上有了一片的安祥来。有了无缺无憾的安祥来。 李三仁就意足安祥了。