Chapter 56 Chapter 52

The drawer table at home was getting higher and higher, so high that Sima Lan couldn't lift the oil bottle off the table even if he raised his arm.The water tank is getting thicker and thicker. Put a board under the tank to scoop water, and you can swim when you fall into it.Time jingles and flies, the sun sometimes comes out from the east and sets towards the east, comes out from the west and sets towards the west again.If you don't remember that the sun always rises from the locust tree in front of the gate, Sima Lan can't tell the difference between east, west, north and south.

The elder brothers also grew shorter and shorter, as if they had grown from a dog to a rabbit, and from a rabbit to a mouse.Coupled with his father Sima Xiaoxiao's preference for him, the three Confucian brothers Sen, Lin and Mu grew up to be his younger brothers.Every day, he always asks them to wash his face, serve him meals, and accompany him to the toilet.As the years went back, Sima Lan went back to one of his birthdays. He said that I think many people would go to the ditch to play, and let them tell the children from house to house to go to the ditch in front of the village after dinner. Each family called the children from door to door. In the ditch, he divided the birthday fried flower noodle fruit into branches for each child. The children ate the food he shared, and his power was at its peak. Became the head of the village for the children.

He gathered the children in a wide area in the ditch and instructed them to pair up, so that this girl would be the wife of the boy, and the boy would be the husband of the girl.If you don't want to listen to him, he said that you will die if you don't live to be forty, and you will fall off the bed if you get a sore throat, and the boys and girls who are older than him will hesitate to obey, and they will have their own. love story too. In that story, he commanded everything, became their village chief, and married Lan Shishi and Du Zhucui into his long-lived wives. Another day, it was still winter, still in the ditch in front of the village, the eldest and second brothers were not there, so he assigned Lan Liushi to his third brother, Sima Mu.The blue fifty was allocated to his younger brother Sima Lu.The three girls surnamed Sima were assigned to Du Zhuang, Du Zhu, and Liu Gen. When Lan Shishi and Zhu Cui, who was just over three years old, were left in the end, Forty said, Brother Lan, who should I marry?Sima Lan took a look, and found that all the male children had families and mouths, and even the ugly ugly girl with the gall on the neck and the dwarf mute had husbands and wives, so he was in trouble. which one.At this time, the third brother Sima Mu suddenly said, "Fourth brother, you don't have a daughter-in-law yourself." Sima Lan burst out, and a pure smile fell out of his mouth. Remembering that he didn't have a wife yet, he said that you two should be my daughter-in-law. Daughter-in-law.Lan Shishi and Du Zhucui rushed over to hold their man's arm.

But Du Zhu didn't want to at that moment, Du Zhu said that you only have two wives if you are a man. Sima Lan said, I am the village chief. Du Zhu said, should the village head marry two wives? Sima Lan had nothing to say. The stalemate covered everyone like a cloud, and when they didn't know what to do, Liu Gen, the boy, spoke.Liu Gen said that the head of the village had many daughters-in-law, and when his wife died, he became a doctor, and any daughter-in-law who gave birth to a baby had to be touched by him casually, so he married a daughter-in-law from the same village. the same.

Du Zhu had nothing to say.What happened later was, who would be the principal house and who would be the side house, Shisi and Zhucui.Sima Lan took a look at Shishi's hands, and saw that her hands were as cold as two pieces of carrots, and two cloth buttons on her coat were missing. He said, I will let Shishi be my main house.Zhucui, who is young and weak, is not reconciled.Zhu Cui didn't want her to cry, so she started to cry and bumped her head against her cousin Sima Lan, who made Zhu Cui the main house and Forty the side house.The forty hands were pulled out of Sima Lan's hands, and they also acquiesced to the second daughter-in-law of the side room.She stood on Sima Lan's right and gave up the left position to Zhu Cui, and a grand love affair began.Sima Lan looked into the depths of the ditch, and found another wide open place where the broken soil flowed from the cliff, pointed to it and said, "Third brother, that's your home."Sima Mu pulled Lan Liushi to the designated position and sat down.Sima Lan pointed to another piece and said, Liu Gen, that's your home.Liu Gen dragged Lan Qishi to the house.Then he pointed to one piece and said, Du Bo, you two should live here.Du Bo and his wife walked side by side to a piece of empty soil not far away.Sima Lan started from a stone in the ditch and pointed straight to another stone at the mouth of the ditch. After placing each couple a few feet apart, he led Zhucui and Shishi to a place There is a layer of dry thatch in the open space. It is said that this place is big. I have two daughter-in-laws and I took it.Then he looked at a couple of couples who were sitting and watching him blankly, the same as when the village chief called everyone for a meeting, and asked everyone at the top of his voice.

──Those who want to live past forty raise their hands up, The children raised their backs in the air, both front and back. ──Those who want to live past fifty raise their hands, All hands are raised in the air again. ──Those who want to live past eighty raise their hands, Boys and girls raised their hands higher, as if their bodies were hanging in mid-air. ──Those who want to live to be a hundred years old raise their hands, A child suddenly stood up from the ground and raised both arms at the same time.Immediately afterwards, the boys and girls rushed to stand up with bang bang bang bang bang, all their arms were raised in the air like trees, and the sleeves of each child's jacket were slipping up and down.The sun was warm and bright, and it was moist. The ditch seemed to be filled with warm water, and each child's exposed arms were like red and white radishes boiled in the water.A wind blows gently and slowly from the mouth of the ditch, and while the sparrow is flying in the wind, some feathers come off shiningly and float in.Sima Lan became a little excited. He felt a little bit of responsibility for everyone wanting to live to be a hundred years old. He has lived up to everyone's expectations.He picked up the feathers that fell on his face, held them in his hands, and said, I will be the head of this village when I grow up, and there is a way for everyone to live to be a hundred years old.At this time, Lan Yanggen, whose arms were sore, stared at Sima Lan discouragedly, saying that I will get a throat problem before you become the village chief?

Sima Lan fell silent. Many arms collapsed from the air. Sima Lan looked at the collapsed little arm, and suddenly her heart moved. Leng Ding'er said that they are all married and have a family, so let's all kiss. All the gazes were viciously and icy white, and every groove became the sound of slamming gazes. He said, you don't want to kiss, the purpose of getting married is to kiss. The children kept silent and stared at him seriously, but their cold eyes were melted by the warmth of his kiss. Sima Lan said, kiss everyone, a man can live one year longer with a kiss, and a woman can live ten years longer after giving birth to a baby. The adults in every family say this, or why do men kiss women on the mouth every night, It is painful for a woman to give birth to a baby, but after giving birth to one, she still wants to have another.

The kids seemed to be convinced by him. Lan Liugen asked, is it real? Sima Lan said, it's really dear. Lan Liugen said, kiss first. Sima Lan kissed Zhu Cui on the face, and Zhu Cui giggled.He kissed Forty's face again, and Forty's face blushed and smiled.And so the love of the children fell from the sky, and the kissing began in this ditch.The girls lie on their backs like their mothers, and the boys climb on their bodies like their fathers.The sun is already high on the top of the ditch in the county, and the heat is steaming in the ditch.The wind stopped, and there was a smell of red earth awakened by their kicks in the air, which sank and floated heavily on the ground.The village was extremely quiet, and the women's voices came over in a leafy manner.One said, this time they went to sell skins to grow up their children, and the other said it was six days and they should be back.That said, maybe the business is not good, and it just so happens that there is no repair of burns.The sound of footsteps passed over the children's heads.The children counted while kissing.A girl said, you hurt my mouth from kissing, and a boy said that I can live one year longer with just one kiss, and the counting sounds of thirty-five and thirty-six followed.There are crows hovering on the cliff, and black crows and cackles fall down like tiles.The sand that was landed by the crows flowed from the cliff into the hair and neck of the girl lying on the ground like a spring. She said that the soil flowed into my neck, and the boy gently wiped the soil particles from her neck. Sand to find out.The girl said, your hands are so cold, let me warm you up.The boy stuffed his hand under her armpit or into her jacket.A piece of girl couldn't help laughing, that laughter was like a piece of beans scattered in the sun.The boys' ba ji—forty, ba chi—forty-one's kisses and the sound of counting were like dry grass sticks being ignited, dyeing a ditch red.Stars spit in the air like rain, kisses splash on the ground, and the children in the air are warm and sweet, like the fragrance of autumn ripening in the mountains, half red and half gold covering the sky and covering the ground.Sima Lan was crawling in the grass. On their left was Zhucui, and on their right was Forty. They all leaned up and narrowed their eyes.The sunlight illuminated their faces brightly, as if a thin, rosy paper had been pasted on their faces.He kissed a few times on the left side and a few times on the right side, and then suddenly stopped kissing.He found that his cousin Zhu Cui was neatly dressed, but she was as thin as dry thatch in this season, her face was flat and long, but her mouth was soft and soft, and his lips bounced back after a kiss.Although the forty face on the right is round and pouty, like a newly born apple, her lips are a bit thin, and when she kissed her lips, it was like kissing on a cold wet cloth.He turned his head to stare at Zhu Cui for a while, and then turned his head to stare at Forty for a while.Zhucui said, you don't kiss me anymore?Sima Lan said, let me rest for a while, Zhu Cui said, cousin, will you really marry me when you grow up?Sima Lan said, if you marry, marry.Zhucui said, then you have to give me an engagement gift.Sima Lan thought for a while, then stretched out his hand, the black and red sparrow feather that was caught just now was drenched in the sweat of his hand, and he straightened the sparrow feather , Inserted in the cousin's hair.Zhucui just lay on her back in the sunlight and laughed silently, tossing and pulling that sparrow feather and plugging it back in, plugging it in and pulling it out again, she was endlessly happy.And forty here looked at the scene, a thin layer of darkness passed over his face, and tears flowed out.

Sima Lan said, you are crying, Lan Shisi sat up and said that you still treat your cousin well. Zhu Cui also sat up and said that I am the main wife. Sima Lan said to Forty, I am also good to you.When I grow up, I want to be the head of the village, and I want to marry two daughters-in-law. I will marry Zhucui one day and you the next day.As he spoke, Sima Lan took out a piece of new red cloth from his breast pocket, and opened it to reveal a piece of new blue cloth. The blue cloth was wrapped with a piece of faded door couplet paper. It has to be as new as it was written.In the dark, there was a white beard that was inch long and slightly curved. In the sunlight, the beard was silver and silver, the ink was black and shiny, and there was a dazzling white light swaying from Forty's face.When Sima Lan moved her hand, the white light flashed and then disappeared, leaving a thin layer of white heat on her face.My God, Forty looked at Sima Lan's hand and said in surprise, you still hide the beard that the old man fell off in summer.He said I dreamed that whoever had this beard could live forty miles.She said, then you can give it to me, Brother Lan, give it to me when I get married, I won't want your dowry.Sima Lan wrapped the beard layer by layer, and stuffed it inside her jacket with her own hands.She said there was no pocket in my coat, and his hand stopped on her chest.But she suddenly said, it's in the pocket, and he smiled happily, saying that your Mimi Douer is so small, and she said that when I grow up, I will grow up.They looked at each other and smiled.

The sun has moved to the top of the main ditch, and the children's kisses are still warm and resonant. The sound in the ditch is like the husks of the midsummer wheat field, and the fragrance and sweetness spread in the explosion.In the village on the cliff behind him, the sound of footsteps came slowly, from far to near.In the field at the mouth of the ditch in front of me, after the surface seedlings were heated by the sun, the wheat leaves straightened up, and the thin green, from near to far, floated towards the other side of the ditch like catkins and poplar flowers.There was a girl under the boy, yelling that my back hurts, my back hurts, but the boy ignored it and kept kissing and counting.He counted to more than one hundred and ten.At this time, the footsteps above the head were getting closer and closer, as if they were stepping on a child's hair, and then fell from the head, and the sound of a man calling was heard.

──Hey, where are the children?Why was there no shadow for a while. The sound of kisses in the ditch became dark and dark. From the west of the village came a woman's answer ──No, I'm also looking for a group of girls from my family. The ones who answered this question were Du Sang, the village chief, and Du Meimei, Lan Shishi's mother.After their questions and answers, the footsteps also drifted away from near to far, as silent as white flowers. It seems that Chun Nuan, who just arrived in winter and early spring, was suddenly hit by a wind, and the wind stopped, but Chun Nuan was never seen again.The children no longer hug and kiss each other.They all sat up from the ground, stupefied in a half-dream and half-awake state, as if they hadn't understood what happened just now, and hadn't pulled back from their love, they looked at each other, stared at each other, and all set their eyes on Sima Lan. on the body. Sima Lan stood up from between Zhucui and Forty, rubbed her eyes in the sunlight, glanced at the children, half turned around, stared at Du Zhu beside her and said, how many times have you kissed? Du Zhu was startled, sixty-two. Sima Lan said, then you will live to be sixty-two years old. Du Zhuang smiled brightly. Sima Lan asked Du Caocao, who is paired with Du Zhuang, how many children have you had? Hastily, as if in a dream, said that none of them were born. Sima Lan said, then you won't live past forty. Hastily woke up with a crackling sound and said that I had given birth to seven or eight boys and girls. Sima Lan said, then you will live to be seventy or eighty years old. The smile on the hasty face dyed half of the Shigou red. Sima Lan turned to look at Liu Gen again and asked, ──How many kisses did you have? ──Eighty-one. ──Then live to eighty-one. ──I kissed eighty-two, ──Then you will live to eighty-two. ──I kissed eighty-three, ──Then you will live to eighty-three. ──I don't know how many kisses I have, I don't know how many miles. ──Then you won't live past forty ──There was crying and rain. ──Hey, Brother Lan, he kissed me a hundred times. ──Then he will live to be a hundred years old. ──The crying stopped. ──Brother Sima Lang, how many times have you kissed us? ──You two don't talk, you both say that you have given birth to ten children. ──Then we had ten babies. ──Then you also live to be a hundred years old. ──But I kissed one hundred and thirty-seven mouths.Cao Zhi, did I kiss you a hundred and thirty-seven times? ──Never mind you, anyway, I gave birth to a bunch of babies. ──How many? ──Like a hen holding eggs. ──How many? ──Thirty like brooding eggs. ──A woman can have up to ten babies in her lifetime. ──It is said that there are twelve births in the village. ──Half of them were stillbirths. ──A stillborn baby is still a baby. ──That is the twelve births. ──Then I gave birth to six boys and six girls. ──Then you will live to be one hundred and twenty years old. ──Brother Mu, how many mouths have you kissed sixty girls? ──Two hundred mouths. ──Then you will live to be two hundred years old.Brother Lu, are you? ──Two hundred mouths, also two hundred mouths. ──Then you also live to be two hundred years old. At this moment, Du Zhuang wanted to say a huge number, he opened his mouth, and when he was about to say it, he saw a group of people standing on the top of the ditch, and the faint black image fell on them like the trunk of a tree.The children turned their heads and saw the real village chief leading the villagers back from work and standing on the ditch.Sima Xiaoxiao held a hoe in his hand, Lan Baisui, Father Liu Gen, Father Yang Gen, and Lan Changshou carried the shovel, and Du Gen carried a pair of baskets.They lined up under a tung tree, and the women stood in a group on the north edge of the ditch.The adults in a village looked at the children one by one, as if they were watching a play, and the joy on their faces fell from the top of the ditch to the faces of the children at the bottom of the ditch. Their love came to an abrupt end.The bloody life overwhelmed them like clouds and snow.