Chapter 42 Algae Row.4

The sound of Eina's scull and voice gradually approached from the wind.Among the dry reeds not far ahead, a felt hat head flashed past.Then a small boat emerged with difficulty, and another. "Aha, are you here too?" Caixi cried happily, and after a hard pause, he threw a clip full of sage grass into the belly of the boat; so, with a cunning smile, he raised the bamboo clip and pointed it at the boat. Pierce down the thick part of the weed weed that we have seen for a long time, open the bamboo clip as far as possible, and stir it as much as possible. "Hey, strange! Where did you come from? Why didn't you meet on the road?"

The newcomers also shouted loudly.The boat also inserted into the weed array. "Are we? We are..." Xiusheng said pantingly as he took a rest from the stalk clip. However, Caixi's vigorous voice immediately interrupted Xiusheng: "We flew from the sky! Haha!" While talking, the second and third clips were aimed at the thick part of the weed grass again. "Don't blow it! Who doesn't know that you are a habit of drilling mud!" The newcomer on the boat said with a smile, and twitched the weed grass clips of the rough bamboo. Caixi didn't answer, and hurriedly punched the picked weed in many places, then looked at the belly of his boat with the clip horizontally, and then looked at the fork port that seemed to be covered with messy cloth.His experienced eyes knew that what was left was only a surface layer, and most of it was flakes and tiny sedges.

He put down the bamboo clips, picked up the end of his belt to wipe the sweat off his face, and walked swiftly to the stern of the boat. The mud dripping on the stern board seemed to have frozen, and Caixi's ragged padded jacket was also glued to the board; Caixi pulled it up, put it on his back, squatted down, and said, "Don't fight." That’s it. I’ll let you guys fill up the port.” "Hey! Pulled out Xian'er, and said good things!" The people on the new boat replied as they started to work. The calm port suddenly became lively. Xiusheng lifted the plank of the boat and took out the coarse flour dumpling that he had brought in advance.It was also as hard as a rock.Xiusheng gnawed bravely.Caixi was also eating the rice balls, but he looked up at the sky, thinking; he was estimating whether there were any places where there were many weeds in the nearby port.

The sky was overcast with clouds, but the northwest wind was a little weaker.A whistling siren was heard from afar, it was a liner carrying passengers passing by the Outer Harbor. "Oh, why is it already noon? Isn't that the ship's call!" The people who cut the weeds were talking loudly, looking up at the sky. "Xiusheng! We should go back." Caixi stood up and said, holding the scull. This time it was Xiusheng who made the pole.After the boat left Nacha Harbor, Caixi laughed wildly and said, "Go north, go north! There must be some in the Duantou Beach over there."

"And then to Duantoubang?" Xiusheng said in surprise, "Then we have to spend the night on the boat." "Need to say! Don't you see that the sky is about to change, you don't have to be afraid if you fill up a boat today!" Caixi replied resolutely, pushed the oars hard, and sailed the boat into a horizontal port. Xiusheng walked to the stern of the boat silently, and also helped to row the oar.But he had really used up his physical strength, so it was not so much that he was shaking the oar, it might as well be that the oar turned into a living dragon in Caixi's hands and was shaking him.

The sound of water splashed loudly, and some unknown waterfowl flew up from the withered reeds from time to time, crying like they were crying. Caixi's two iron arms are moving regularly like levers; his face is greasy and sweaty, and his eyes are full of joy.He began to sing a song that was often sung by the people of their village: My sister is eighteen or nineteen years old: Grandma, shake and shake, Big ass, twist and twist; Pick vegetables in the morning and go to the city, Dear husband, hang on the shoulder pole. Fifty miles and turn back. In a hurry, I met a wild husband,——

Sheep Shed: A hug and a somersault. Xiusheng felt that the lines of the song were aimed at him.His slightly swollen face was even paler, and his legs were trembling a little.Suddenly his waist softened, and his hands were separated from the living dragon-like oar, and he fell back and squatted on the board of the boat. "What? Xiusheng!" Caixi stopped singing and asked in surprise, his hand movements did not stop. Xiusheng lowered his head and did not answer. "Useless young man," Cai Xi said pitifully, "you just take a break." Then, as if thinking of something, Cai Xi looked at the distance between the water and the sky; after a while, the singing came out of his throat again up.

"Cai - joy!" Suddenly Xiusheng stood up, "I can't do anything if I don't sing! - I am a useless person, I am sick, I can't do it, but I still have a breath, I would rather starve to death than open my eyes." turtle!" Such positive negotiations and resolute expressions have never been seen before.Caixi lost his mind for a while.Looking at Xiusheng's face that was blue with anger, guilt and regret filled his heart; no, although that song has been passed down for a long time, it really resembled the special relationship between the three of them, so he couldn't blame Xiusheng. It was harsh.Caixi felt that he shouldn't sing so happily in front of Xiusheng, as if he was deliberately mocking him and protesting him.But didn't Xiusheng say again, "I would rather starve to death"?As a matter of fact, Cai Xi has done a lot to live in Xiusheng's house, but now Xiusheng's words seem to show his status as "house owner" and ask him to leave.Thinking of this, Caixi also became angry.

"Okay, okay, I'll go!" Caixi said coldly, and the movement of the oar could not help but slow down. Xiusheng didn't seem to expect such a response, but he couldn't answer, and squatted down again dejectedly. "But," Caixi said again coldly but seriously, "you are not allowed to beat your wife anymore! You are not satisfied with such a woman? She has a child in her belly, this is the root of our family... " "Don't worry about it!" Xiusheng jumped up like crazy, his voice became hoarse, "It's my wife, if you beat her to death, I will take her life!"

"You dare? You dare!" Cai Xi also turned around abruptly, clenched his fists, and his gaze was on Xiusheng's face. Xiusheng seemed to be trembling all over his body: "If I dare, I'm tired of living. Throughout the year, those who urge food, collect donations, and collect debts, force me to suffer! If I eat today, there will be no tomorrow. I will be a summer clothes and redeem my life." Without winter clothes, I am sick again... I am tired of living! Living is suffering!" Caixi's head lowered slowly, and his fists relaxed, his heart was sour and hot, like a fire.The boat turned sideways because there was no one to steer the oar: Caixi subconsciously held the oar and pushed it, but did not take his eyes off his poor nephew.

"Oh, Xiusheng! It's useless to resent your fate. Besides, your wife didn't hurt you for those hardships; she suffers all kinds of hardships and helps you deal with them. If you scold her, she never speaks back. If you beat her, She never fought back. This summer you were sick, she served you, and she didn't sleep for several nights." Xiusheng listened in bewilderment, his eyes gradually filled with tears, he crouched on the deck of the boat as if he had melted, his head bowed; after a while, he said to himself sadly: "It's clean to die, anyway, I don't have a relative! I'm dead to make you all happy." "Xiusheng! Are you not afraid of sin when you say this? Don't worry, no one wants you to die. If you want to live, everyone will live; if you want to die, everyone will die!" "Hmph! Does no one want me to die? I don't say it, but I think so in my heart." "Who are you talking about?" Caixi turned around and stopped shaking the oar. "If it's not in front of you, it's at home." "Ah! Don't wrong a good person! She treats you with a conscience." "Conscience? A woman wearing a green turban for her husband is also a conscience!" Xiusheng's voice raised again, but instead of being angry, it turned from grief and lack of self-confidence to coldness. "Hey!" Cai Xi only uttered this, and then stopped.He sometimes regrets his relationship with Xiusheng's wife, but he does not agree with Xiusheng's views.In his opinion, the wife of a man who is equivalent to a sick man has an affair, and whether the woman has a conscience are completely two different things.No, except that Xiusheng's wife slept with another man, nothing changed. She was still Xiusheng's wife. She tried her best to do everything she was supposed to do and she did it very well. However, although Caixi had such a meaning, he was unable to express it in words; and seeing Xiusheng so distressed and misunderstood that "good woman" so much, Caixi felt that it was necessary to explain clearly. Under such a pincer attack, Caixi became irritable, and he shook the oar vigorously as if venting his anger--he kept shaking so hard that he even forgot the direction. "Ah! Damn it, it's snowing!" Cai Xi instinctively shouted, raising his troubled face. "Heh!" Xiusheng raised his head in response. At this time, the wind also picked up, blowing snowflakes far and near, making people's eyes dizzy.The small temples, gazebos, cemeteries, stone bridges, and even the old trees that are used as direction indicators in the thousands of hectares of flat areas intertwined with harbors and bays are all blurred by the whirl of snowflakes in the sky. "Xiusheng! Hurry back!" Caixi yelled, jumping onto the bow of the boat, grabbed a penny, stabbed it left and right, and immediately steered the boat into a small horizontal port.Another bend is a wider river.Caixi saw that there seemed to be two boats in the snow shadow in front of him, and they must be the boats from the same village. Caixi jumped to the stern of the boat again, when Xiusheng had already been pulling the big oar by himself with a blue face and gritted teeth.Caixi snatched it up and told Xiusheng to "stretch". -------- ① "Stretching" is to push and pull the thick rope that hangs the scull, and it is the least strenuous work on a rocking boat. ——Author's original note. "Oh—ha!" Caixi let out a long roar with all the vitality in his chest, and the oar in his hand was like a raging dragon, splashing waves on the bow of the boat. However, even if it was "stretching", Xiusheng couldn't hold on anymore. "You go and rest, I'm enough alone!" Cai Xi said. Like the fast and regular gait of a steed, Cai Xi's two iron arms powerfully and evenly moved the oar.The wind is smaller, but the snowflakes are getting bigger. Caixi held the oar with one hand, and took off the ragged padded jacket on his body with the other. Looking back, he shrunk into a group of Xiusheng who were squatting there already covered in snow, so he covered Xiusheng with the ragged padded jacket. "How pitiful, sick, poor, and upset!" Caixi thought.He felt that he was very sorry for this nephew.Although he came to stay at Xiusheng's house a year ago and did his best to help with the work, it was entirely out of good intentions, but by some strange coincidence, he had such an affair with Xiusheng's wife, it seemed that his efforts were all out of good intentions. Don't worry about it.Besides, Xiusheng's annoyance and Xiusheng's wife being scolded and beaten were all because of this. When Caixi thought of this, it was like a stream of ice water flowed down his back. "Should I go away?" he asked himself.But as soon as I changed my mind, I answered myself: No!Once he left, would Xiusheng be able to do the work in the fields by himself?Although Xiusheng's wife is strong, she can't stand it!And she has a baby again. "A child is a flower! Xiusheng, Mrs. Xiusheng, should live a good life too! What the hell am I doing?" Caixi cried out in his heart, twisting his protruding chin hard, his eyes shining brightly. As if a fire was burning in his heart, he shook the scull fiercely; for a while he overtook the two boats in front, and for a while he left them far behind.