Chapter 2 Chapter two

Sun Huaiqing's father dug a small kiln in a corner of the workshop, where he could hide people and things when encountering bandits.The exit of the underground kiln is outside the backyard door, and there are broken soy sauce jars and vinegar jars on it.Sun Huaiqing knew that even though he did everything carefully, it couldn't stop the thieves from thinking about him.Although only the people in the bank know about his cashing out of foreign currency every day, the wind will definitely leak out.Where there is evil heart and boldness, there must be evil eyes and ears. Somewhere in the dark shadows, a cat is holding a pair of ears, looking for this kind of wind.He always gave the grapes a piece of Tibetan silver when he had sent all the men away.It can't be hidden too deep, he will have to spend them to buy goods immediately.The price of the purchase is also the same for a while. If it is converted into silver dollars, he will lose less.With the price soaring, Sun Huaiqing, who has been in business and planted land for decades, also feels overwhelmed.

There seems to be no sign of an end to the chaos.Those who were wronged and revenged all took advantage of the chaos.There was a young widow in the village named Huai Huai, who also recognized an old eighth guerrilla at dusk in the summer of 1944 and sacrificed her own man to remain a widow.That night, her parents-in-law were crying and shouting in the yard, saying that someone had killed Huaihuai.Village neighbors lit up lanterns and ran to Huaihuai's house, and saw Huaihuai's delicate head and body two feet away, thrown at the door of her house.The door was locked, and the murderer had come out of a hole under her bed.Everyone looked at the hole under the bed one by one.The murderer was patient, and dug slowly from a long distance outside, all the way to the bottom of the bed in this house.Soon someone spread a rumor that her father-in-law ordered someone to do it.His father-in-law lost his son, and he hated this daughter-in-law to the bone. Recently, he saw this daughter-in-law running out every night, and the village secret boss wanted to tell her to another secret boss to be his wife.Her father-in-law found a desperado, and he was so poor that he sold his daughter.He told the desperado: I know you are filial; your mother is dying, and you can't afford a coffin, so you can do this for me, and I won't sleep in the coffin myself, let your mother sleep in it.The people in the village knew that the old man was not good enough, so they searched for a good coffin, and bought two big birthday cakes for themselves and the child's mother early, and slept in them when they had nothing to do.The desperadoes had no land to plant anyway, so they dug holes when it was dark, and they dug holes half a mile away.However, there are all kinds of evil stories in the village. They spread for a while, and then they started to spread other things when they didn't make any sense.The next thing is to pass on the story of Sun Huaiqing killing the bandits.I asked him if there was such a thing, and he laughed and said why not? He sold all the bandit meat to the Shuijianbaozi shop, and he asked people to watch when they eat Shuijianbaozi, so that they don't eat the bandit's claws and hair.Joking and joking, he still stands beside a game of chess and scolds one side for being stupid and another for being stupid, calling people to bow their pawns and telling people to vault.In a hurry, the chess player said: You can, you play! Sun Huaiqing said that the oil pan behind him was still on.

Only grapes know the truth.This day, Sun Huaiqing and Putao finished preparing the goods for the next day, and it was already the second watch.He was afraid that it would be unsafe on the way back to the village, so he and Putao took a nap in the store.Putao sleeps in the shop, he sleeps in the workshop.In the middle of the night, something happened.The man moved a few bricks by the door, and a hole gradually grew bigger.It was obviously not a day's work, maybe he had loosened these few bricks early on. The guillotine was set up, and the open edge of the knife was stuck on the edge of the hole.After a while, the hole can drill a dog.He squatted beside him, thinking that this must be a "dog" he hadn't fed well in the past, and now he went out to be a wolf in the wild.

After a while, an arm came in. Sun Huaiqing was about to press down on the handle of the guillotine knife, but immediately stopped moving.He almost fell for it.This guy has really learned how to be serious and knows how to use tricks. First, get a broom and put the rags wrapped in it to see if there is a knife waiting inside.Sun Huaiqing almost burst out laughing. The people outside saw that the broom hadn't been stabbed, so they put in a real arm.Sun Huaiqing was thinking, it was the right arm.His right arm was removed by him, and this item can no longer be stolen.But I can't shake the potter's wheel, and I can't hold the baby.Gradually, a brain melon top also came in.Sun Huaiqing thought, I'm sorry, it's better to cut off the neck than to break the right arm. Otherwise, how can a man support the old and the young with his left arm?

He suddenly found that this brain melon looked familiar.There are bald spots on the head, leaving a few barren areas, which are as bright as copper plates.This brain is Shi Wuhe's.Wuhelai's workshop apprentice was five years ago. He used to fry fried dough sticks and Mahua Sanzi in Luoyang City, and his hands are very skillful.He was thirty years old when he came, and he was accepted because of his dexterity.It is also an old rule that new apprentices eat pastries for three days as soon as they enter the workshop.The best and the greasy ones are all eaten. They are all freshly fished out of the oil pan, soaked in honey, sweet-scented osmanthus, and sugar juice, and sprinkled with fried sesame seeds. Bite down half of the honey and half of the oil, and pull the sticky shreds.Any of the apprentices said: "It's so delicious, you can't even slap your mouth!" After eating it in the afternoon, I feel dizzy.If you eat it the next day, you can eat half less, and if you eat it on the third day, your stomach will be blocked.From then on, whenever the apprentice smelled the pastry, his stomach would get stuffy, and the cheating was stopped once and for all.There are only five individual ones.He ate dim sum for three consecutive days, and his hunger got bigger and bigger. In the next year, he could sneak a piece of honey three knives or thousand-layer cake into his mouth with the effort of wiping his sweat and nose.Moreover, he has practiced his skills well, chewing a big bite of snacks, his face does not change at all, and his mouth does not move at all.If it wasn't for the misplacement of a few snacks for the drug mouse, Sun Huaiqing couldn't track it down and had to destroy all the snacks.Wuhe will not admit that he cheated.When he heard that the snacks for the medicine mouse were gone, he cried in fright.He confessed that he ate at least 20 yuan of snacks. I don't know if he ate the mouse's share.

When Wuhe got in with his upper body, Sun Huaiqing pressed the guillotine on his back.Wuheyi raised his head, Sun Huaiqing said: If you touch me, I will kill you!Wuhe said: "Don't be a ghost, don't be a ghost, the second one is me! You are the one who is the one. You know the way well. How many times have you come to steal it? This is the first time! Second one, please forgive me! Wuhe, if you don't tell the truth, the knife will Come down! Two times, two times! Did you steal something? I stole some snacks and sesame oil!. . .anything else?I didn't dare to steal more, the second one spared my life! Ouch! I didn't dare to go down! …

Putao came over from the front shop at this time, holding a kerosene lamp in one hand and tucking up her messy hair in the other hand, and saw Er Da riding a horse squatting on the crotch, holding the handle of the guillotine.He told the brains that came out of the hole to tell the truth, otherwise the knife would come down; once the knife came down, the five joints would no longer be five joints, and would become "eight disagreements". He raised his head and shouted: "Pao, move the stool, let your father and I sit and dig slowly." Wuhe quickly admitted: "Three times three times! The third time I didn't steal anything!"

"Then you will go back empty-handed?" "...I heard people say that you have smoke and soil hidden here, I want to sell some to the boss who was stationed here at that time!... The second eldest dare not dig it!... I haven't found any smoke and soil for a long time. I just left...Second University, I'll be here when I'm done. There's no more truth, the truth is all told!" Sun Huaiqing then asked him, "Then what are you doing here today?" "See if you can steal something. There's really nothing else, just make do with some snacks."

"Is it okay to steal some dim sum? Grape and I are reluctant to eat it!" "That's the second one, you can't think about it..." "I can't think about it?!" "Oh, I offended the Second University, slap me!" At this moment Er Da shouted at Putao: "What's wrong with Putao? Why don't you call his mother!" Wuhe's upper body was crying: "Don't dare to call my mother!" "If you don't call your mother, you still want to find the second big ocean, don't you? I'll believe you if you talk about donkeys with me? What you stole is the big ocean, and you can't find it, right?" Big shouted again: "Pao, what did I say just now?"

Putao pulled on the shoe, pretending to be looking for a shoehorn, and said, "Let's go!" "Big Putao girl, don't dare to call me Mom! If you call her here, I might as well let the Second University kill me!" The second university said: "Gao, let's cut it?" Putao suppressed her laugh, and stood with her head tilted to watch.Wuhe yelled loudly: "That's meat!" The Second University said: "What is cut is meat!" Sun Huaiqing knew that the blade had been pressed tightly enough, so he shook his head at the grape.Putao opened the door and went out, hugged Wuhe's feet, and dragged him backwards.When the guillotine was lifted, it was dragged out like a five-and-a-half fan.

The next day Sun Huaiqing bought some guns and hired two security guards to guard the kiln at home, and the guys still guarded the shop.The gunshots sounded closer and closer, and at last they sounded on Stun Street.Putao sleeps in the shop, always waking up at night to find that there is a large group of people passing by on the street outside.Sometimes the team went east, sometimes west, she leaned on the crack of the door and looked out, and saw countless people's legs covered in mud and dust walking past and coming back.Sometimes a team played for a long time, and she felt that they had thinned the streets of Shitun.She saw that one of the longest formations was full of feet wearing straw sandals, and the leggings were dirty and old.But those legs are very strong, and they have to walk "cross-cross-cross" while singing something. Those legs and feet in straw sandals will be pasted with slanted red and green paper on the telephone poles and walls on Stun Street.Putao knows a few words, which Tong Nao taught her before she went out to school.She recognized "people", "soil" and "China" on the red paper and green paper. This day, she looked through the crack of the door again, and saw that there were legs she was familiar with outside the door.Those legs were illuminated by lanterns one by one, and they were singing something. They followed the legs in straw sandals and leggings from one end of the street to the other. The dust flew up along with those legs and feet. Soon I heard these powerful legs come back, no longer roaring and singing, but roaring to knock down so-and-so.Putao was engrossed in watching it, but only thought half-heartedly that he was going to fight again. Sun's department store has not been open for a long time.Sun Huaiqing sometimes gambled with the guys for small money and sang clappers. Most of the time he stayed by the radio brought to him by the banker and listened to the people inside. Sun Huaiqing had thought of everything.He let the guys go home first, and gave each of them five yuan as money.The accountant said that he had a few days to pay the bill, so he would not leave for the time being.Xie Zhizhi is a foreign surname in this area, and he has only been close to Sun Huaiqing.Sun Huaiqing looked at him and smiled, knowing that Xie Zhizhi knew what he was laughing at.He smiled and said, look, I'm not afraid.People dragged him outside the gate, Sun Huaiqing even smiled.A total of fifty acres of land, open a shop, what kind of hat can he give? He just laughed. He had told Putao that whoever would carry things and move furniture, let them do it, don't show their faces, and don't make people angry by talking bastards.After finishing the instructions, he was dragged out, a pointed paper hat was pressed on his head, and he was asked to hold a gong in his hand.He was walking well, and there were always hands reaching out behind him to push him, and he staggered every time he pushed.He didn't ask Putao to show his face because he was afraid that she would see him making a fool of himself.The next day the Harlequin was even uglier, and he had a thick rope put around his neck, and he was yanked up and down Stun Street. The grapes sit in the mill.People who come to move things will not come here to move the millstone.It's quiet here.Through the closed door, she could see a yard of legs.Those legs squeezed past and over, and squeezed into the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.She only held her own clothes and Sun Erda's two clothes, so why can't they wear their own flesh and blood? After a while, she saw that there were two mules and one cow's legs in the human legs.No one wanted the old donkey, so he yelled "ahhhhhhh" in the shed. Chair legs, table legs, and human legs also left.Even the legs of the table looked beaming, and they walked across the courtyard in a dizzy manner.If the Second University hadn't instructed her, Putao would want to have fun with everyone right now.How beautiful it is to make a stick and sing with everyone, and make a social fire.No matter what it is, the people in Shitun are as lively as the fifty surrounding villages.Whenever there is excitement, even if it is the excitement of mourning for the dead, everyone enjoys it.Grape is also very lively, once it becomes lively, I forget what it is.She was holding two bundles, sitting cross-legged by the door, following the bustle through the crack of the door. When the sun was westward, the yard was full of legs, and only the legs in leggings were left.Those legs are beautiful, and the straw sandals they wear are decorated with red pompoms, which clatter when they walk.At this time, Putao heard someone talking.It's a woman. "This yard is so big, it's no problem to live in a company!" "Rehearsal is also fine. If you want to twist Yangko, you have to twist it from one end to the other, and it takes dozens of steps!" Putao thought, the second person who spoke must be a little girl, with a voice like that of a young girl.She stood up.The windows of the mill shed were covered with cobwebs and blackened flour of all kinds.She could only vaguely see a group of girls in military uniforms.One of them whipped up two big braids as soon as he moved. Putao felt that all of them were white like fairies and delicate like little girls.She took the key out of her pocket, and pushed the door of the mill open just enough for her hand to reach out.She reached out and locked herself in by herself.The sound of her pushing the door silenced the courtyard.She had trouble opening the lock through the crack of the door, and dropped the key on the floor.She had to squat down and stretch her arms to reach.A few pairs of feet in straw sandals moved over, and the red pompoms on the shoes clattered beautifully.A straw sandal stepped on the copper key and pinned Putao's two fingers together. "Who?!" the woman outside asked. "Grape." Grape replied. "Who locked you in?" "I locked it myself." The woman outside hurried up to unlock it.It was an old-fashioned brass lock, and it couldn't be opened without some tricks.Putao stretched out his hand and said, "If you can't open it, tell me to open it myself." The woman outside ignored her and insisted on poking here and there.In the end, in a hurry, she asked Putao to get out of the way, and she bumped into it with a "stab", knocking open the door bolt, but she also fell into the mill shed.A group of girls in the back laughed hahaha.Putao saw that the woman had short hair, a short gun, and patches of two colors on the military uniform, but it was clean and smooth.She let out a "huh" and said, "You look like the old eight." The short-haired woman was patting the dirt on her buttocks, and she didn't quite understand what Lao Ba was referring to.She said, "What old eight and old nine?" Putao said: "Lao Ba specializes in cutting wires and lifting rails. He sleeps during the day and comes out at night. If he has nothing to eat, he finds a rich man and divides his food." She thought, why do these girl soldiers look so pleasing to the eye?Why do you have such a pleasing daughter? The girl soldier still doesn't quite understand.They raised their voices and said that they were not bandits who slept during the day and came out at night. Putao said: "A bandit is a bandit, and the old man is the old man. The old man burned the devil's gun tower and stole the devil's guns and cannons. This is the old man!" She felt that she had made it very clear. Seeing that they were still staring . They finally understood: "Hey, Lao Ba is no longer called Lao Ba, but the People's Liberation Army! Before Lao Ba, he was called the Red Army." But Putao didn't think so in his heart: It doesn't matter what it's called, it's all the same thing anyway.But these girl soldiers are really monsters, Putao looked at this and then at that. The girl soldier quickly learned of her life experience from Putao.They said it was another "Xi'er", but they didn't realize it.Some people disagreed, saying that being sold to a landlord’s house as a child bride at the age of seven was much more painful than Xi’er! Xi’er had only been beaten and scolded for a few days? She had suffered for twelve years.Now widowed at such a young age, and locked in a mill shed to grind, the animals are no better.They said that they should ask Lao Wu to write about it, and they might produce a drama that is more educational than "The White-haired Girl". A female soldier said: "Look carefully, the grapes are so handsome, just like Xi'er." Putao saw that her two long braids were black, like freshly brushed black mule fur.She suddenly discovered something new. The clothes worn by this woman with long braids were different from others. They were also made of large cloth, which was self-dyed and not evenly dyed. Five, that's ten, one pair and one pair lined up in two rows, from under the shoulders to the belly.Putaopu snorted and laughed, she thought of the sow's two rows of teats. Seeing Putao laughing, the female soldiers squatted on the ground. It was strange that after so many years of suffering, they still laughed so viciously.Thinking about it again, she must have not laughed so presumptuously in many years, and now she is smiling like this after turning over. At dusk, the female soldiers left grapes for dinner.Then they began to paint, change their clothes, and comb their hair.Putao thinks that their clothes are bad enough, and they need to change into worse ones. What's the point of this show? But Putao is a theater fan, as long as she is allowed to watch the show, she will do anything.She immediately found a job for herself in the theatrical troupe: sitting by the phonograph, helping to shake the handle of the small scull, and the short-haired female soldier in charge of acting said: "Go! She will shake it."Shake out a song called "Heaven in the Liberated Area".As soon as it was shaken, all the female soldiers formed a circle on the field and played waist drums.When the villagers heard the songs swayed by the waist drum and the grapes, they slowly walked towards the yard with their children on the bench.The female soldiers played their waist drums beautifully. Putao looked at them and forgot the handle of the small oar in his hand. become slow and heavy.The short-haired female soldier beat her waist drum and shouted: "Grape! Shake!" The arena was full and pitch black.Suddenly a male voice shouted through the loudspeaker: "Down with the feudal landlords!" The dark crowd below followed suit.What Putao saw this time was not legs, but arms.People from forty villages came, and there was no room to sit in the courtyard, so they went to the fields.Countless fists sprouted from the field, hitting the starry night.Putao opened her mouth halfway, looking at the fists all over the slope, hitting the air one after another, she thought to herself: What is this punching? "Down with the landlord and false security chief Sun Huaiqing!" Putao turned around suddenly, and saw Er Da being led onto the stage by a ox rope.He gave Grape a hard look.Putao understood what he meant: Who told you to come and watch your father's play?! Every fifty villages had feudal landlords, traitors, and reactionary Daoists.When I took it to the stage, it was completely dark.Both on and off the stage were people in winter clothes, the same big cloth, stained black with acorn shells and black mud from Pochi.There is only one person who is brightly dressed, and that is Grape. Then there was a struggle meeting.No one spoke.The male soldier who took the lead in shouting slogans began to lose his composure, pointed at Shi Xiuyang and said, "You can write and speak at the same time, why don't you dare to beat the gong and drum in front of your face?" Shi Xiuyang stood up scratching his ears and cheeks.For many years, it has been a long robe stuffed with wadding in winter and wadding in summer. At this time, it is wearing a mandarin jacket with tufted flowers, which looks like someone's shroud.Shi Xiuyang helped to write many slogans in the town and village, and he got a chance to show off his good calligraphy.When writing the slogan, he told the Land Reform Task Force of the People's Liberation Army how Sun Huaiqing was pressing for debts like a tiger, and how he did not show affection. Shi Xiuyang walked in front of Sun Huaiqing and whispered, "Second University, you offended me." The corner of Sun Huaiqing's mouth twitched.Shi Xiuyang immediately understood that it was he who said: You grandson, you are welcome! Shi Xiuyang suddenly felt a burst of swelling in his lower abdomen.He thought to himself, he didn't drink much sweet soup at night.But the feeling of swelling made him short of breath, so he could only say: "Wait, I will fight again after I release my hands." Someone below laughed.Shi Xiuyang's opaque body became a flagpole in the tunic jacket, and he ran out from the front of the crowd. The slogan in the megaphone seemed to be very angry, shouting "Destroy feudal exploitation! Down with landlords and rich peasants!" Shouting and shouting, the people who followed him also got angry.They didn't understand what was wrong with them, but a surge of anger was getting higher and higher in their hearts.They were shocked by the righteousness of the people around them, and they became more and more confident.Exploitation, oppression, and feudalism are no longer new words from other places, they have begun to make sense.Dozens of slogans have been chanted, and they are already full of anger and awe-inspiring.It turned out that this was blood feud.It turns out that they have vengeance to avenge and grievances to avenge.Their ancestors have been too miserable for generations, and they have to shout out louder and hoarse slogans.Shouting and shouting, their enmity has been concretely implemented, and it is Sun Huaiqing who is standing in front of them. Putao couldn't close her mouth from ear to ear all the time, she was simply fascinated by all these arms and fists. The speaker mentioned that Sun Huaiqing released grain during the severe drought in the 1940s, and went door-to-door to collect debts when he harvested the autumn crops in the second year.Some people also mentioned that Sun Huaiqing helped the Kuomintang to recruit men, and those who drew the lottery of a strong man had to pay two hundred yuan to ask him to find a strong man for you.Who knows how much the strong man's substitute is asking for? Maybe it's only 50 yuan! The 150 yuan all fell into Sun Huaiqing's pocket.What is he trying to do as a security guard? Of course, he wants to get rich! A few old gentlemen thought to themselves, isn’t it right? Sun Huaiqing once took out the money and said that he would give the money to whoever was willing to be the security chief.He said that the smallest official in the world is the chief security officer, and the most difficult and tiring official is also the chief security officer.Once re-elected, Sun Huaiqing finally pushed the official hat to someone else. That person was stupid, he couldn't get the rations sent by the national army, and he couldn't get the rations sent by the militia.In the end, he was killed in a hut in the town for no apparent reason.Bao Changcai fell back on Sun Huaiqing's head again. At this time, all the people who gave Sun Huaiqing money to buy a strong man's substitute all yelled: "Tell him how much money he has embezzled from us!" Sun Huaiqing said: "Ask me to talk? I don't want to give you a fart if I say anything now." The loudspeaker shouted: "Be honest! Sun Huaiqing!" Sun Huaiqing smiled, which means: Did you see it? I haven't said anything yet. Sitting on the straw in the distance, a person wanted to speak at this time.His name is Liu Shugen, and he made his home in Hupo, eight miles away from Shitun, four years ago.Before that, he had been a soldier for a few years, and then worked as a bandit for a few months after taking a desertion. Later, he found that he made more money as a substitute for a strong man, so he often used other people's names to go to the army.He has a group of friends who are all engaged in this business. They used to be soldiers, but desertion became elite.Every time Sun Huaiqing finds a substitute for a strong man, he always looks for it among his friends.Every time someone deserted and failed and was shot, they raised the fee for the replacement of the strong man.From the initial one hundred and fifty oceans, it rose to two hundred.Liu Shugen was injured in the neck by a chasing bullet when he was on a desertion. Since then, he shook his head and couldn't aim, so he couldn't do the job of a strong man's stand-in.He bought 20 mu of land in Hupo, bought a woman from a kiln in the city, and lived a beautiful life.If he proves for Sun Huaiqing, and Sun Huaiqing gets rid of it, he will be arrested.With this thought, he sank his butt into the straw again.Who knows if the Communist Party will be wiped out on his head, I heard that even the kilns in the city will be wiped out.For thousands of years, it is the first time that kilns have been eliminated. He saw Sun Huaiqing being pointed at and scolded, and thought to himself, Sun Erda is just too capable.It's fine if you can, but you still have to show off your ability, and you still have to think that others can't.If he didn't show his abilities, I'm afraid he wouldn't be where he is today.Every time the food was distributed, he couldn't send him to fill it in by himself, because he was afraid that people would say that he was incompetent.When someone digs a kiln and builds a gatehouse, he goes to point fingers, which is wrong, and when someone buys a livestock and a car, he also looks at the teeth and pats the wood.Even when husbands and wives fight, he will make decisions for this one and that one.The strong man didn't have enough money, so he lost his old capital to help others, because Haikou boasted in the front, and his chest was slapped loudly, and he couldn't do it if he couldn't do it. Shi Xiuyang spoke again, saying that Sun Huaiqing had put usury on Lao Batou.The old man and Feng Ximo fought guerrilla warfare and asked him to help him. He also recorded his account and planned to ask the Communist Party for the profit of the donkey roll.If it hadn't been for the leader of the land reform team to ransack the house this time, he would still have Lao Ba's IOU locked in his cabinet. At this time, people talked about his eldest son who was a lieutenant colonel in the national army.Liu Shugen further proved his wisdom, the father and son suffered a lot from showing off their power and prestige.Everyone shouted like crazy: Let Sun Huaiqing hand over his son! Sun Duanwen is so bloody and debt-ridden, how many of us have been killed! Look at the beauty of his father and son, two jeeps and two wives on the street! The struggle meeting was held for two hours.After the landlords were taken off the stage, they began to act.The play is called "The White-haired Girl". Putao sits on a side cloth, sometimes in the stands, and sometimes under the stands.The female soldier with long braids played the leading role. She cried so well that thousands of people in the audience cried with her.Putao also made her cry so hard, but she was a little distracted, thinking that the Second University also asked her to go out to collect the bill, whether she was this Xi'er or that Huang Shiren.Xi'er fled to the mountains, and the female soldier with long braids fled behind the scenes. She painted white powder all over her body, head and face, turning her fine hair into white. The white-haired girl fighting Huang Shiren is exactly the same as fighting Sun Erda tonight.Huang Shiren was pulled down and shot, and the people below also shouted: "Shoot Sun Huaiqing! Avenge Xi'er! All the faces were covered with snot and tears. Several young heroes and widows huddled together, almost paralyzed from crying."Putao looked at her, half opened her mouth and widened her eyes, her husband didn't come back, how much they have suffered from her in-laws. The female soldier playing Xi'er pulled Putao's sleeve and said, "Pao, it's time for you to stand up!" Putao thought to herself, what did she say? Why don't I stand still? The white-haired girl who had powdered her hair suddenly came to the stage and said to the audience: "Now, let's ask someone who is more bitter and hateful than Xi'er to speak." Putao looked to the left and to the right to see who she was talking about. "Comrade Wang Putao, please come on stage." Putao was still confused, and was dragged by the white-haired girl and the short-haired female soldier by one arm to the center of the stage.Putao feels that he can't sing, which is embarrassing. The short-haired female soldier said: "Villagers, we asked Comrade Wang Putao to pour out the bitter water. She is full of bitter water. She was sold to the landlord's house since she was seven years old. It only cost two bags of foreign noodles to buy her. Folks Now, we welcome Comrade Wang Putao to talk about her life experience of suffering!..." Putao felt that the two gas lamps on top of his head were scorching, and a lion roared and roared from below: "Down with the feudal landlords and liberate Xi'er in the world!" Someone stood up, and he sat in the second row, not far from the grapes.But the overhead light shrouded the grapes in and kept him out, so she couldn't see his face clearly. "Shoot Sun Huaiqing! Kill Sun Huaiqing, the feudal leader!" Everyone shouted.But the rhymes of these two sentences are not good, and Putao thinks their yelling is too annoying.Only from the man's shout, she recognized his name.He is Sun Kexian, the one who tried to buy her but failed twelve years ago.Putao has always annoyed him, and every time he meets her somewhere, his smile is always dirty. "Pull out the big bully Lao Cai and kill him! Avenge Wang Putao!" Sun Kexian led the call again.Putao thought to herself, the more she yelled, the more troublesome she became. The short-haired female soldier told everyone to stop making trouble, but no one listened to her.The loudspeaker also told them to keep quiet. It was time for Comrade Wang Putao to complain, but no one paid any attention to him.People have become a fire poured with oil, and they only need to burn vigorously.A young widow jumped onto the stage, pointed to the grape and said, "What Xier is she? She is the daughter-in-law of a spy!" When she shouted, people stopped making trouble. Grape look at this widow.She was the one who took the lead in sacrificing her man, her name was Tao Mier.Her natal family is in Taoji, dozens of miles away.She also cut her hair short like a female soldier's, and she flicked it when she spoke.She tossed her hair short to the ears, and talked about that evening in the summer of 1944.All the People's Liberation Army land reform teams listened, their faces darkened.Wang Putao's white satin jacket with a powder background is really eye-catching, why didn't I notice it just now? Putao almost forgot that Tao Mier was the one who scolded her loudly.After the devils surrendered, all eight widows received awards and received tribute from Shitun people every year. Everywhere they went, people said: "Look at the heroes and widows."Three of the heroic widows left Stun, and their parents-in-law only said that they had returned to their natal families.But everyone in the village knew that they voted for Lao Ba.Putao came back to his senses and heard the people below arguing.Some people say that Tie Nao is a spy, and he was the one who tipped off the devils, otherwise how could the devils come so accurately? Some people say what! That is because Sun Erda offended his subordinates, and someone killed Tie Nao with the help of the old man! No, no, that's red eyes. Seeing that Putao rescued their own man, these people thought, how can the Sun family be so cheap? Because the big brother Tie Nao was in the national army, Tie Nao was exempted from being a young man. What's wrong this time? He couldn't save his life, so he beat him up in the dark. The People's Liberation Army Land Renovation Team has gathered together and muttered together, watching the heroic widow Tao Mier fight Wang Putao.They have never encountered such a complicated situation, Shitun Shitun, right and wrong are all a mess.Wang Putao suddenly opened his arms and slapped Tao Mier across the face. People were stunned at first, and then all laughed. The white-haired girl and the short-haired female soldier ran up to grab Putao and said, "Wang Putao, do you dare to hit someone?" The heroes and widows were all annoyed, jumping up and tearing Putao's cotton jacket and hair.The female soldiers couldn't pull them away, and the male soldiers didn't know how to do it if they wanted to.At this time, a male soldier took out a box cannon and fired a few shots at the sky, which stopped the woman who was at a loss. It seems that Wang Putao is very good at fighting, and she scratched the faces of several beautiful widows. Putao took a few breaths, spit a few mouthfuls of blood, grabbed the iron horn of the male soldier and said, "Tie Nao is my man, if I don't save him, who will I save?!" The People's Liberation Army saw that the struggle meeting had ended like this, so they announced the adjournment of the meeting. When Putao returned home, she found that her home had become a PLA barracks.Each cave dwelling is covered with wheat straw and sorghum straw, and quilts are neatly placed on top of it.She swept the mill shed and spread a layer of mung bean stalks. It was a little tight, but it was still warm.She knew that the Second University would not be able to return, and she, along with dozens of other landlords, agreed that the puppet chiefs were locked in the primary school.She thought, she had to quickly make a suit of clothes and a pair of shoes, which would be easy to wear after Er Da died.It seems that this has happened in the past few days. If they say they will be shot, they will be shot.Second University is always tired and busy all his life, don't be short of it when he leaves, and let the ancestors of the Sun family make jokes when he gets there. Grape is moving the brains of the cloth.There is a lot of Zhigong stored in the store on the street. I wonder if I can ask the People's Liberation Army to give her some.Shouldn't she share something? Her grapes are not the kind of bastard who eats her losses as fried buns.What others share, she also shares.Thinking of this in her heart, she felt relieved.She didn't know that the People's Liberation Army was holding a meeting with her at this time to discuss whether to classify Wang Putao as a people or an enemy.The female soldier with long braids that Putao loved was flushed, her hair had just been washed, and she tied a handkerchief behind her head.She said: "Comrades, think about it. Wang Putao entered the Sun's family at the age of seven, and has been persecuted by the Sun family to the point of numbness. Besides, the landlord class is not deceptive. Huang Shiren's mother still recites Buddha! Wang Putao was deceived." .” A southern female soldier said: "Wang Putao is a matter of consciousness. There are also farmers with low consciousness in the south of the Yangtze River. When the New Fourth Army entered the village, they ran against them. They hid all the food and did not let the New Fourth Army eat it. Let them fight the landlords, and they will not fight. It is said that my wife has to borrow the mule from the landlord’s house when she leaves her mother’s house. If we fight against the landlord, whose land should we rent? Low awareness is a common problem, can’t we all classify them as enemies?” The male soldiers believed that Wang Putao had historical problems and did not protect the Eighth Route Army guerrillas. The female soldier with long braids said: "Don't wear hats on people." The short-haired female soldier was silent for a long time, and then she opened her mouth, saying that the quality of Wang Putao is indeed the lowest, lower than that of ordinary tenants. "Being a child bride at the age of seven, comrades, think about it, isn't that a female slave?!" The male soldiers fell silent.The southern female soldier said: "The captain is right. We can't classify people with the lowest status as enemies. That would be a big mistake." In the end, everyone agreed with the opinion of the short-haired female captain that Wang Putao should be awakened to turn this backward proletariat into a revolutionary vanguard force. The land reform team let the women's association absorb Putao and took her to attend literacy classes, singing classes, and Yangko classes every night.This is very temperamental to Putao, singing and talking with dozens of daughters-in-law, and comparing shoes and fabrics.As soon as the literacy class was started, there was a sound of hula hula pulling threads in the classroom, and every woman was making shoes in her hands.Putao was praised because she knew a few words herself. A week later, the PLA felt that Putao's awareness had improved, and asked her what exploitation meant, and she replied: Exploitation is oppression.When asked what oppression means, she said it straight away: oppression is bullying.So is your father-in-law oppressing people? She turned her eyes wide to think, and then turned back to stare at the person who asked her.Your father-in-law oppressed you and exploited you.Do you understand? Reminisce well, how their Sun family treated you.Is it forcing you to do this or that? Putao made a gesture to tell her not to trouble her, she was thinking about it.She wanted to annoy the Sun family, especially Tie Nao Niang.Tie Nao Niang hit the grapes.In the summer when Putao first arrived at Sun's house, she picked up a few apricots from Mrs. Shi Liujin, who scolded her all day long.Shi Liujin scolded the street and wanted to move a bench, hold a teapot, drink and scold, and scold for a lifetime.Tie Nao Ma later found a few apricot pits at home, and thought that the eight generations of the Sun family would be scolded by Shi Liujin for being greedy for grapes, so she beat Putao's buttocks black and purple with a mallet.But Putao has also been beaten by her own mother.Which daughter-in-law in the village doesn’t annoy her mother-in-law? She sits in the shade of a tree and moves her mother-in-law even if she sits on a shoe sole, saying that she will feed her with arsenic, and that she will let her sleep on mung bean sticks when she is old. Stab her to death.Putao also said this to them.She gritted her teeth, trying to remember how every time Tie Nao Ma made things difficult for her, let her pass one test after another, and tested her moral character. If it wasn't for the help of Erda, she would have fallen into her trap.No matter how hard Putao gritted his teeth, he couldn't get annoyed by Tie Nao's mother.再去想想她的挖苦话，见葡萄穿的衫子短了，就说：哎哟葡萄，你这肚脐是双眼皮儿的不是，非想露出来给人看?不然就说：吃饭给心眼子喂点，别光长个儿不长心眼子!要不就说：搁把剪子都不会，剪子嘴张那么大，咒家里人吵嘴不和是吧?有一次见铁脑的鞋穿烂了，脚指头顶了出来，她对葡萄说：葡萄懒得手生蛆，鞋也不给铁脑做，叫铁脑到学校两脚卖大蒜瓣儿……葡萄却越想越好玩，光想笑出声来。那时她小，听了这些话还没觉着这么逗人。 这回的斗争会要开在小学校的操场上。葡萄一夜没睡，就着油灯赶缝二大的老衣。她怕斗争会开得带劲，大家趁着劲头就把二大给打死了。女兵们叫她一定要好好记住孙家的仇恨，到时上台扇孙怀清两个嘴巴子。踢他几脚也行，给他几拳也行，那样你葡萄什么也不用说觉悟就显出来了。葡萄想，觉悟究竟是个啥呢? 这个斗争会不同上次。主要是史屯人给关押的人做个成份评定。是恶霸，那得大伙都评定了才是。小学校操场上竖起一块黑板。史修阳拿着一支粉笔站在旁边。写上某人名字，大家认为这人是恶霸的就举手，史修阳便把举手人数写成“正”字。 葡萄坐在第一排，盘着的两腿上搁着一个包袱。见孙二大给押上来，站在她对面，她赶紧说：爹，做成了。 孙二大抬起一脸胡子的头，看她腿上搁的包袱，点点头，挤一只眼笑笑。他明白她把老衣赶做出来了。 她心想，二大还是二大，啥时都和人逗。不过二大瘦了，人也老脏，比许多坐在台子下的人都脏。二大倒是想和熟人们招呼，但人人都把脸把眼藏起来。葡萄身边坐的是作坊伙计们，紧挨她左边的是账房谢哲学。 这时女队长站到黑板前，穆桂英挂帅了。她说：大会开始啦!现在，这黑板上的几个名字，老乡们认为谁是恶霸，举起你的右手。懂了没懂? 老乡们七嘴巴舌大声说：懂着哩! 女队长问他们，咱从第一个名字开始。第一个是谁呀? 老乡们说：二大!孙二大! 女队长一皱眉：老乡们，从现在起，不能再叫他二大，叫他孙怀清。懂了没懂? 老乡们说：懂着哩! 同意给孙怀清戴恶霸帽子的老乡都举手! 手都举起来了。有快有慢，有粘粘糊糊举上去，又放下来，看看周围，再粘粘糊糊举上去。 一个男兵开始点数。史修阳忙不叠地在黑板上写出一个个“正”字，边写边得意，就是简简单单五下笔划，也写得抑扬顿挫。 那个男兵从后排往前数，数到那些变卦的，手举落不定的，他就停下来说：“那几个抽烟卷的老乡，不要做墙头草，两面倒。” 这时一个很老的老乡把举的手落下去，说：“谁知你们解放军在俺们这儿住多久? 男兵说：“您老啥意思?” 叫史三爷的老老乡说：“没啥旁的意思。我死了也罢了，我有四个儿哩，万一国军打回来，收拾我儿子……” 几个男兵女兵气愤坏了，大声质问他从哪里听来的反革命谣言。 史三爷不紧不慢地说：“我活这把岁数，见得多了。不都是你来我走，我走了你再来，谁在俺们史屯也没生根。孙怀清有个儿在国军里当大官，回来还了得了?” 他这一说，所有的手全放下去了。 孙怀清这时倒嘿嘿一笑，说：“史三爷，您老该咋着我咋着我。银脑不是国军大官了，他投了诚，现在也是解放军了。乡亲父老们，银脑回来，也跟工作队一事儿。” 大家全都楞住了。葡萄回过头，看看场子怎么这么静，看见的是一片半张开的嘴，吃了烫红薯噎在那儿了。 “咱们往下进行!”女队长说：“孙怀清，你不准插嘴!” 静了之后，下面嗡嗡嗡的嘀咕起来。 史修阳只得把一大串上好的“正”字擦净，再从头来。这回是从后往前数。数到谢哲学了，谢哲学的手难受地举在耳朵附近，但他见自己马上要给数进去，忙说：“等一小会儿。先数别人，让我想想。” 孙怀清说：“举吧举吧。少你一票能咋着?多你一票少你一票我都得是恶霸。” 谢哲学明白人一个，听懂二大说的是民心大势。不随大势，他自个他家人就要吃眼前亏。他这些年也不少挣，家里也雇人种地，成份不算低，就更得见风使舵，识时务随大流。得罪孙怀清事小，大众可得罪不起。 那几个伙计却把头埋得深深的，怎么也不举手。葡萄想，二大还有点人缘。 一阵马蹄声从街上近来，所有解放军土改工作队都侧过脸去看。十几个解放军骑马进了学校的大门。搅起浑黄一片尘烟，一时看不清他们的面容。跟在旁边的一群孩子们吼唱：“解放区的天是明朗的天……”到跟前了人们看清领头的紫红马上坐的是银脑。银脑穿着毛呢解放军军服，还是一左一右两把手枪。他黑着脸对旁边的兵说：“去，给我爹松绑!” 女队长说嗓音亮堂，叫老乡们全不许动，再大的首长也不敢破坏土改。然后她问银脑一彪人马是哪个部队的。银脑对身后喊，叫他们上台把孙怀清好好搀下来。女队长派头不比银脑差，也是一副要耍粗的样子，手枪也出来了，说谁上打谁。银脑说他不和女人家斗，撒野的女人他更不稀罕搭理。他只对着老乡们说话：八一三和鬼子血战的时候，这些人哪儿转筋呢?!女队长喝斥，叫他把嘴闭上。银脑的兵们不愿意了，大声叫女队长闭嘴，怎么跟孙团长说话呢?! 银脑自己跳下马，身后所有的兵一刷齐跳下马。他大着步子往人群里面走。人群动作快当，已为他开好一条平展展的路。女队长一阵心寒，老乡们真是薄情啊，马上就和土改工作队认起生来，让你明白什么阶级，成分都靠不住，再同甘共苦你也是外人。 银脑走到孙怀清面前，说：“爹，早该给我带个口信儿。”他虽是背对台下，人们知道他流泪了。 “你打你的仗去，回来弄啥?!”孙怀清说。 “我在前头冲锋陷阵，后头有人要杀我老子!”他朝身旁扫一眼，一个兵下了刺刀走上来。 女队长一看刺刀要去割捆绑孙怀清的绳子，便端平了手枪。 再看看银脑的十几个部下，长短枪出得好快，全对着女队长。女队长是说给台下人听的， 她说她知道孙少隽的老底。她说话把头一点一点的，人就朝银脑逼过来。银脑的兵枪口毒毒地瞪着女队长，手指头把扳机弹璜压得吱吱响。女队长却象毫不察觉身处火主网。台下的史屯村邻们身子在往下塌，脖子也短了，他们想万一子弹飞起来伸头的先倒楣。女队长见得世面也不小，嘴皮子也硬，她告诉孙少隽他起义有功，不过破坏土改，照样有罪。银脑不理她，只对哪个手拿刺刀的兵说话。 他吼叫说他手脚粘了麦芽糖，动得那么黏糊。说着自己夺过刺刀就要动手。女队长宣布再动她要开枪了。银脑翻她一白眼，一刀断了孙怀清背后的绳子。 女队长一枪射出去。与此同时，她的手枪飞起来，她一把握住右手腕，血从她指缝里流出来。孙少隽扭头看一眼女队长打在黑板上的弹洞。 工作队的男兵们没有充分准备，枪已经都让银脑的兵缴下来。 学校院子大乱了一阵，不久就只剩下板凳和跑丢的鞋了。葡萄没跑，团起身子蹲在那里，，看着一大片板凳和鞋，心想咋就又打上了呢。 银脑叫他的兵把土改工作队的全关起来。 所有工作队员连同女队长被关在了学校的一个窑洞里。那窑洞是两个先生的宿舍。 银脑找了架马车，把他爹安顿在车上，从史屯街上走过，大声训话， 说他不信共产党就这么六亲不认；他革命了，他爹就是革命军人的爹。革命也得讲人伦五常，忠孝节义。 家家都不敢开门，挤在门缝上窗边上看银脑耀武扬威，喊得紫红一张脸，脖子涨成老树桩子。 他还说他今天就把他爹带到军队上，乡亲都听好，孙二大从今天起，就是革命的老太爷，看谁敢在革命老太爷头上动土! 他训导完了，又骑着马，拎着两把枪进了史屯，挨着各家的窑串悠，把同样的训导又来一遍。 史屯人跑出来时，银脑和他的兵以及孙二大乘的马车早跑得只剩一溜黄烟了。 银脑刚回到军营就听说要他马上把枪交出去。师里派了一个排的人来带他去师部。银脑交待给他的手下：天黑还不见孙旅长回来，马上袭击师部。 一个小时之后，孙旅长被关进审讯室，他罪过不小，组织地主恶霸暴动，企图杀害土改工作队领导。 两个小时之后，师部被再次倒戈的孙少隽部队包围了。 五小时之后，孙少隽旅长的部队大半被打散，一小部分人劫持了旅长往西逃去。孙怀清却留在了儿子的住处，和两个儿媳妇等着发落。 葡萄听说二大给城里的监狱收押了，定的罪是地主暴动首领。村里街上传的谣言可多，说银脑去了四川，在那里的山上拉起队伍，说打回来就回来。也有说银脑在上海坐上美国人的飞机跑美国去了。银脑从小就胆大神通大，豪饮豪赌，学书成学剑也成，打架不要命，杀人不眨眼，把他说成魔说成神，史屯的人都信。 土改工作队的解放军接着领导史屯农民闹土改。他们天天去附近几十个村串联，启发农民的觉悟。女兵们还忙着宣传婚姻自由，叫订了婚的闺女们自己当自己家，和相好们搞自由恋爱。她们常常和葡萄谈话，告诉她自由有多么好，看上谁就去和谁相好。她们发现葡萄虽然年轻，却受封建毒害太深，觉悟今天提高了，明天又低下去。她们想，这女子有些奇，读书认字也不笨，一到阶级呀、觉悟呀这些问题，她就成了浆糊脑子。 有一回她还跟女队长吵起来了。她说：“得叫我看看我爹去。”她正帮女队长缠手上的绷带。 女队长奇怪了，说：“葡萄你哪来的爹？爹妈不是死在黄水里了?” 葡萄说：“孙二大也是我爹呀。”她眼瞪着女队长，心想孙二大才坐几天监，你们就忘了这人啦? “葡萄糊涂，他怎么是你爹?!他是你仇人!” 葡萄不吭气，心里不老带劲，觉得她无亲无故，就这一个爹了，女队长还不叫她有。 “王葡萄同志，这么多天启发你，教育你，一到阶级立场问题，你还是一盆稀泥，啥也不明白。”女队长说。 “你才一盆稀泥!” 女队长一楞怔，手从葡萄手里抽回来。 葡萄瞪起黑眼仁特大的眼睛，看着女队长。 “你再说一遍，”女队长说。 葡萄不说了。她想俺好话不说二遍。 女队长当她服软了，口气很亲地说：“葡萄，咱们都是苦出身，咱们是姐妹。你想，我是你姐，我能管孙怀清那样的反动派叫爹吗?” 葡萄说：“那我管你爹叫爹，会中不会? 你爹养过我？” “不是这意思，葡萄，我的意思是谁是亲的谁是热的要拿阶级来划分。” “再咋阶级，我总得有个爹。爹是好是赖，那爹就是爹。没这爹，我啥也没了。” 女队长耐住性子，自己先把绷带系好，压压火。等她觉得呼吸均净下来，又能语重心长了，她才长辈那样叹口气：“葡萄啊，葡萄，不然你该是多好一块料……” “你才是块料!” 葡萄站起身走了。把穿小缎袄的腰身扭给女队长看。 女队长想，真没想到有这么麻木的年轻人。要把她觉悟提高，还不累死谁?但她又确实苦大仇深，村里人都说她从七岁就没闲过，让孙怀清家剥削惨了。 年前工作组决定揭下孙家百货店的封条，按盘点下来的存货分给最穷的人家。腊月二十三一大早，大家热热闹闹地挤在店堂前，等着分布匹、烟卷、酱油，还有冰糖、小磨香油。孙怀清老东西收账恶着哩，这回让他再来收账看看!大家张大嘴笑，从来没这么舒坦过。啥叫翻身?这就叫翻身!咱翻身，孙怀清也王八翻身背朝地肚朝天，只等挨宰啦! 葡萄也挤在分东西的人群里。她知道她要的东西都搁在哪里。她要一块毛料，一张羊皮。她早就想给两年前留下银戒指的琴师朱梅缝件皮袍，痨壳子冷不得。工作组跟她说恋爱自由她就想，把你们给能的，你能犟过缘份? 缘份摆那儿，你自由到哪儿去哩?她和琴师遇上，又好上，就是缘份给定的。缘份是顶不自由的东西，它就叫你身不由己，叫你快活，由不得你，叫去死你也也由不得你。 人挤得发出臭气来，葡萄一会给推远，一会儿又给挟近，一双绣花棉鞋给踩成了两只泥蹄。她是个不省事的人，谁踩她她就追着去跺那脚，连分东西都忘了。当她看见有人抱着那块老羊皮挤出来，她一把揪住那人的烂袄袖：“那是我要的!” 那人连看都不看她一眼，只顾往臭哄哄的人群外头挤。葡萄揪住他不放，不一会就倒在了地上，手上只剩一截烂袄袖。人群在她身上跨过来，趟过去。她看着穿着烂鞋打赤脚的腿，有一眨眼的功夫她觉着自己再也别想爬起来，马上就要被这些腿踢成个泥蛋子，再踩成个泥饼子。从来不知道怕的葡萄，这会怕起来。她发出杀猪般的嘶叫：“我操奶奶!” 所有的腿停了一下，等它们又动起来的时候，葡萄浑身黄土地被甩了出来。她也不管什么羊皮毛呢了，这时再不抢就啥也捞不上了。连蚊烟都给分光了，再不蛮横，她葡萄只能扫地上掉的盐巴、碱面了。她见英雄寡妇陶米儿分到半打香肥皂，上去抓了就走。 “咋成土匪了哩?”陶米儿说着伸手来抢夺。 葡萄抱着香肥皂，给了她一脚。陶米儿也年轻力壮，一把扯住葡萄的发髻。 两个女人不久打到街对面去了。香肥皂掉下几块，一群拖绿鼻涕的孩子哄上去抢，又打得一团黄土一堆脏话。葡萄打着打着，全忘了是为香皂而打，只是觉得越打越带劲，跟灌了二两烧酒似的周身舒适，气血大通。这时陶米儿手伸到葡萄抓住的最后一块香皂上。葡萄闷声闷声地“噢”了一声，牙齿合拢在陶米儿的手上。那手冻得宣宣的，牙咬上去可美着哩! 陶米儿剩下的一只手两只脚就在葡萄身上腿上胡抡一气。葡萄埋着头，一心一意啃那只冻得宣宣的手， 一股咸腥的汁水从那手上流进葡萄嘴里。她看见周围拉架的人从穿烂鞋打赤脚的变成了打绑腿的。工作组的女同志们清脆如银铃地叫喊：“松手!陶米儿!你别跟王葡萄一般见识!……” 一只手从后面伸来拽住葡萄披了满脊梁的头发。葡萄没觉得太疼，就是牙齿不好使劲了。她破口大骂：“我操你妈你扯我头发!……”这一骂她嘴巴腾出来了。她转身就要去扑那个拽她头发的人。那人也穿一身解放军军装，背着太阳光，只看见他牙老白。 “葡萄咋学恁野蛮?老不文明!” 这个嗓音葡萄太熟了。不就是铁脑的嗓音吗?只不过铁脑才不用这文谄谄的词。再看看这个解放军的个头，站着的模样，都是铁脑的。难不成铁脑死了又还阳，变成解放军了?铁脑那打碎的脑瓜是她一手兑上，装殓入土的。她往后退了退，眼睛这时看清解放军的脸了，不是铁脑又是谁? “铜脑，葡萄这打得不算啥，你还没见她那天在斗争会上，一人打七、八个呢!”旁边的孙冬喜说。 葡萄赶紧把嘴上的血在肩头上一蹭，手把乱发拢一下。原来铜脑回来了。那个曾经教她识过字的二哥铜脑，摇身一变成解放军了。葡萄咧开嘴，笑出个满口血腥的笑来。好几年不见，葡萄的脸一阵烘热，叫道：“二哥!”她想她不再是无亲无故的葡萄，她有个二哥了。 二哥铜脑学名叫孙少勇。葡萄爱听工作队的解放军叫他这名字：少勇。她几次也想叫他少勇，嘴一张又变成了“二哥”。孙少勇是军队的医生，工作队员们说他是老革命，在西安念书就参加了地下党。已经有七、八年党龄了。 很快葡萄发现这个二哥和土改工作队的解放军亲得很，和她却淡淡的。完全不象她小时候，念错字他刮她鼻头。二哥也不喜欢村里的朋友们叫他铜脑，叫他他不理，有时眉一皱说，严肃点啊，解放军不兴叫乳名儿。史冬喜们就叫他啊“严肃”。 孙少勇只是在一个人也没有时才和葡萄说说话。他有回说：“葡萄成大姑娘了。” 葡萄说：“只兴你大呀?” 孙少勇笑笑。他对葡萄个头身段的变化没有预料，那么多年的劳累，背柴背粪，没压矮她，反而让她长得这么直溜溜的，展展的。只有她一对眼睛没长成熟，还和七岁时一样，谁说话它们就朝谁瞪着，生坏子样儿。过去史屯的村邻就说过王葡萄不懂礼貌。他们的意思是，凡是懂礼貌的人说话眼睛总要避开对家儿。比如小媳妇说话，耷拉下眼皮才好看。大闺女更得懂得不往人眼里瞅。少勇倒是觉得葡萄在这点上象个女学生；象大地方的洋派女学生。 “葡萄，问你个事吧。” "ask." “你跟孙怀清接近。他有没有告诉你，他把那些现洋藏哪儿了?” “孙情清是谁?”葡萄一副真懵懂的样子。 “二哥问你正事。” “孙怀清是谁?你告诉我。” “不就是我爹嘛。” “我当二哥忘了。要不咋一口一个孙怀清地叫。村里人问我还问：二大可好?在牢里没受症吧? 俺爹现洋可是多，不过他不叫我告诉别人。” “二哥也不能知道?” “那我得问了爹再说。” “看你这觉悟。” “觉悟能吃能喝能当现洋花?爹攒那点现洋多费气呀，一年三百六十五天，他三百六十六天在干活儿。 “就不告诉二哥?” “二哥自个去找吧。屁股蛋子大的地方，能藏哪儿去?”葡萄说着咯咯直乐。 第二天葡萄去史屯街上卖她自己绣的几对鞋面，见孙家店铺后面又是热闹哄哄的。她跑过去，马上