Chapter 3 third chapter

Ugh.Our China is now liberated, and it is a country of working people, and working people are suffering people, poor people.How many sufferers are there? Out of a hundred people, ninety-three are sufferers.The sufferer is always suffering, suffering for several lifetimes, is it fair or not? Isn’t it fair? Putao nodded: Then my father is always suffering, working for fourteen hours a day! . .Don't interrupt, Putao, you will be the daughter-in-law of the support army doctor in the future.The volunteers are soldiers of workers and peasants, sons and brothers of the poor. They specialize in fighting injustice and doing justice for the poor.To destroy an unjust world is revolution.I am a revolutionary soldier, and you are a family member of a revolutionary soldier, so you have to stand with the revolution, do you understand now?

Putao's mouth slowly opened, but she still nodded.Shaoyong means that if you hit me, I will hit you. You say you are a revolution, and I say I am a revolution.Shaoyong kissed Putao's face: "Good Putao, you understand the truth. After all, read some books and write a few words. Sun Huaiqing can't save anyone, he won't survive." "What did you say?!" "He is a counter-revolutionary!" "You say he is counter-revolutionary, so is he counter-revolutionary?" "Everyone says..." "Even if he was a counter-revolutionary, whose child did he throw into the well? Whose wife did he sleep with? Whose pot did he poison?"

"Counter-revolution is greater than those crimes!" The grapes are silent.She is always willing to stand with Shaoyong, she is willing to listen to Shaoyong say that she understands the truth.But she couldn't understand this truth in her heart.Is there something wrong with the Second University, that he has his head on the ground? It would be great if she could figure it out.Otherwise, it's not exciting to think about each other with Shaoyong. "Shoot our father, will the world be fair?" "It would be even more unfair not to shoot." After Shaoyong went back to the hospital, Putao fell asleep in a daze, and when the birds twittered outside, she suddenly opened her eyes, feeling very sad: The Second University is going, this time it really is going.

In the middle of the night, someone saw several large trucks full of people driving out of the city.The next day a notice was posted in the city, saying that a group of bandit tyrants, counter-revolutionaries, and tyrant landlords would be suppressed.With gongs and drums everywhere, the volunteers won the battle. Shitun people did not catch up to see the execution scene.Because many of the condemned prisoners were acquaintances, the old people did not allow the younger generation to go to the river beach to look at the dead bodies. It was a group of dwarfs who saw the execution.The dwarves came from other places to worship one of their ancestral temples, which was as high as a man's head, fifteen miles up the river.There are few people there, and wild animals are infested. Occasionally, some people go there to find herbs. I only know that there is a strange temple in the upper reaches of the river, but I don't know what kind of god it is worshiping.No one has ever crouched or crawled into the temple to see what the dwarf Bodhisattva looks like.

Putao heard the dog roaring and moaning strangely that night, so she couldn't sleep.She walked into the yard, and saw faint blue flames floating in the cemetery not far away, the ghosts were lively tonight.After the Sun family compound was converted into a peasant association, she was allocated a small kiln yard with three north rooms, a kitchen, a sweet potato kiln and a mill shed.Tao Mier used to live in this cave, and it was left idle after she got married. The walls and vaults of the cave are covered with New Year pictures and colored pencil drawings of primary school students, which are gifts given to heroes and widows every year during Chinese New Year.The inside and outside of the cave dwelling are tidied up beautifully, and Tao Mier still manages to live a good life.Putao sat under the tung tree in the middle of the yard, listening to the dogs cry.There are more than 400 families and 300 families have dogs, but no one has been woken up.

Just as the dogs were howling, a large truck out of the city was heading towards Shitun.Without turning on the headlights or honking the horn all the way, I arrived on the river beach without anyone noticing.The sky was clear and the roosters were all crowing.This is the last bit of solid sleep for people, and they will soon wake up. Follow the eighteen windmills to the upper reaches of the river, and walk five or six miles to reach the river beach.The river water squeezed through a few stones and became narrow and fast. The river bank is a dry riverbed, covered with stones, with miscellaneous trees growing in the crevices of the stones, and dense reed grass.The grapes and the big trucks arrived almost at the same time.She lay down among the reeds and crawled forward little by little.After climbing five or sixty steps, I saw a large group of legs approaching.Some couldn't walk anymore, fell down, and were dragged to the water's edge by kneeling.

It was a little brighter again, and the red color of the morning glow appeared in the river.The roosters sing better and brighter one by one, as if they have never fought or killed anyone for thousands of years.Roosters can sing away ghosts too. Thousands of roosters from fifty villages sang together, and the river became more and more beautiful, like melted gold.The rooster suddenly stopped singing, and some choked with an "uh" without stopping-the gunshot rang out. Putao lay there, and saw the legs dwindling through the gaps in the reeds, and then it became a large footboard.The gunshots continued, "bang, bang, bang, bang", every time her heart, liver, and gallbladder pounded.Looking at the river again, the red dyeing workshop was opened, which made the morning glow darker.

As the sun rises, Sturn sounds the gong.Gongs sounded in fifty surrounding villages.Fifty villages had tin trumpets shouting: "Everyone is going to the peasant association, read the notice! Whose family member has been shot, go to the river beach to claim the body! No one recognizes them, and they will all be buried collectively tomorrow morning!  …" Grape heard the sound of the gong and ran up the river.She was the only one who came to collect the body.Sun Huaiqing fell face down, but with his spine, Putao recognized him at a glance among hundreds of corpses.He was still wearing the old light gray robe, with the cotton wool removed.The shot was fired from behind, and strangely enough, there was hardly any blood on his body.Each corpse will have a sign tied on the back, with a name and surname written on it.These signs were made for the public trial meeting. It was temporarily decided not to hold the public trial meeting, and the shooting was executed a day and a half earlier. .

Putao heard someone humming somewhere.She looked over, and humming disappeared again.She picked up one of Sun Erda's shoes and put it on for him.Suddenly, the foot moved.She quickly put her hand under Sun Erda's nose, she was still angry! "Daddy! Daddy!" Sun Huaiqing's throat was rumbling, but no words could come out.He actually saw Putao, but his eyes were so wide open that Putao thought his eyes were still closed. Putao immediately tore his robe, biting it with his mouth, and a strand of cloth was torn off.She saw that the gunshot wound was just below his left nipple. It was a miracle that he was not killed.Blood gushed out from the opened flesh like a boiling pot. She first pressed the floor cloth on it, and after pressing it for a while, she tore off the bib inside her fine cloth shirt. Let her tear it apart.At any rate, she covered Er Da's wound.

The grapes stood there for a while, and the sun came out from the top of the slope.She saw Erda's chest heaving slightly.She moved her mouth closer and shouted: "Dad, dad, it's grapes!..." This time she saw his eyes, the light inside was so weak that the grapes didn't know how long it would last.No matter what, she picked him up and carried him to the deepest part of the reeds, and then pulled some dry reeds for him to tighten.After a while, the body collectors came, even if some people were paying attention, they thought that the body of the Second University had already been collected first.She came out of the reed and heard humming again.She walked back and looked at them one by one, just in case there were still some who were still alive.She found the humming man, a man in his thirties, tall and big, with a longevity lock on his body.Seeing Putao, he made a tighter silence.Putao wanted to pull him, but he didn't have a piece of good meat, she didn't know where to start.She counted, even the ones that were shot first and the ones that were shot later, he took seven bullets by himself, and he still couldn't catch his breath.The man belonged to Wei Po. When the devil came, he went to the countryside to buy grain. He sold two hundred catties of wheat to the devil. When he found that the price offered by the devil was a little higher than the market price, he urged the villagers to sell the grain to the devil. .Later, he himself was able to get some kickbacks from the middle and bought a few acres of land.

He uttered another word, and she saw his eyes fall on his feet.There is a big pebble at the foot, what does he mean? Tell her to use the stone to stop him from being so sick? She lifts the stone, and his eyes bulge out, revealing the entire white of his eyes.She understood that he didn't want this life to fail, he wanted her to save him too.She thought about it, it was too embarrassing.She still doesn't know if she can save her father-in-law. Putao walked away a few steps, but he still hummed.The kite hawk flew lower and lower, casting black shadows, drifting back and forth.If they wanted to come down and peck him like a piece of dead meat, that would be enough for him to suffer.She couldn't control that much, so she hardened her heart and left. Putao ran back to the village and saw Cai Amber, the director of the Women's Association, standing at the door of her kiln.Cai Amber is also a heroic widow. She has been a secret boss for several years, and now she has returned to the village to work as a cadre.Cai Amber said: "Pao, why don't you go to the meeting?" "Meeting again?" Putao said. "Why do you call another meeting?" "It's not another meeting." "Today is a big event. Putao, you must speak positively. Did you hear the gong and trumpet just now?" "No." "You don't know whoa?" "Know what?" "Oh! The shooting was executed on the river beach execution ground early this morning! Your father-in-law, Sun Huaiqing, ordered the people's government to execute him!" "Kill it." "Isn't that a happy event for you, a turned female slave? It's a good thing to send a few words to everyone." "Send it." Putao said as she got into the hut, her head sticking out on the wall, she took off her trouser belt and put it around her neck, telling Cai Amber to go first, and she followed after she untied her hands. The tin trumpet outside is still telling people to collect the corpses, and the sound of the gong is exactly the same as in the past when they were urged to urge food and taxes.Hearing that Cai Amber greeted another person again, she quickly tied up her trouser belt, stood on the latrine, and came out only after hearing their voices fade away.She grabbed two handfuls of white noodles and scalded them sweetly, scattered some frangipani flowers in them, and poured the soup into the military marching pot Shaoyong gave her.She went out to look around, and everyone had gone to a meeting.She ran back to the river beach, walked around in the reeds for a mile or two, and found Sun Huaiqing. She fed the soup and said to Sun Erda: Dad, you lie here, don't make a sound, don't move your dust, and I'll pick you up when it gets dark. The second big eyelid lowered, which meant nodding.She helped the nearby Weizi, so that it was impossible to see that anyone had entered. She came out and suddenly stopped still: hundreds of dwarves stood on the slopes on both sides of the river, looking at the corpses on the river beach.She and they looked at each other from a distance for a while, and then walked up to the tall and burly young man who had been shot seven times.He has died.His eyes are bulging, and his eyes are bright, and the shadows of several hawks flying around cast on his eyeballs.She wiped his eyelids with the palm of her hand to see that his face was not so scary before she stood up.As she walked, she saw old ugly eyes, so she closed them for them. The dwarves stood on a high place, silent and motionless, watching Putao stop and go, stand and squat, and close their eyes. A dwarf called out, "Hey girl, what's your name?" Putao stood down and asked, "What?" The dwarf man was speechless. Putao asked: "What are you doing?" A dwarf daughter-in-law said: "Come to worship the temple." Only then did Putao realize that the Zongzi Temple belonged to them. "Are you from a foreign land?" "Every town has them. Every town is killing people." A dwarf boy said. "Do you often come to the temple?" "Once a year." They watched her walk down the beach.Putao closed the eyes for the dead, which made them think she was strange.She is different from other normal-sized people.The dwarves don't care about normal people's affairs, and sometimes they can't help but feel a kind of dark pleasure or dark pity when they see them kill so badly.Today they saw Putao's actions, and they wondered why she was like a carefree outsider, with pity and disgust for the mess left by the sand poking.In the eyes of the dwarves, Grape is tall and perfect, with two braided backs gradually going downhill and away.At first there was only the upper body left, and then only the top of the head remained.For a while, all they could see was the big windmill, spinning empty. After the meeting in the kiln yard of the Sun family, people walked up the steps singing "Arrogance and Pride" in a yellow accent, and a group of children took broken copper basins and jars from various houses and beat and ran: "Everyone is going to collect the corpses." No! Tonight all the dead bodies will stand up and come to your house to eat garlic noodles! Cai Amber grabbed a boy and said, "See if I don't tell your father to beat you up! Don't dare to shout!" The other children said like sycophants: "Director, Wang Putao buried Mr. Sun and is burning paper!" Cai Amber thought, no wonder Putao didn't come to the meeting. The cemetery is not far from Putao's house, just up the slope.Still a mile away, Cai Amber heard Putao's mourning.This Wang Putao fell behind again, and she really dared to cry and howl even if the landlord, bandit and overlord father-in-law who was shot was quietly buried and pulled down.When I arrived at the cemetery, there were already several wives and children around the grapes, wiping tears with them.Wearing a white shirt and wearing hemp on his head, Putao knelt in front of a new grave.A wooden sign was erected in front of the grave, and a photo of Sun Erda's long round face was pasted on it.Beside them are all burnt-out paper figurines and paper horses, folded from colored paper.Those colored papers look like slogans pulled from somewhere. The wives wiped their red eyes with their aprons, and said, "Sun Huaiqing is not bad." Cai Amber said to the wives: "The whole village meeting will be held soon, let's all go back, huh?" The wives ignored her and shed tears with Putao. "Wang Putao, look at your awareness! Just cry and cry, you're not done yet!" Director Cai came up to pull Putao, and put his hands under her armpits. I was sweating profusely from crying, as if I had just been fished out of the well. Director Cai asked, "Tao, why didn't I see you moving the corpse?" Putao replied: Then I didn't see you either. "You moved alone?" "And his son." Cai Amber looked around: "Sun Shaoyong is back?" "Let's go again. I'm going back for surgery." Putao blew her nose and wiped her finger on the sole of her shoe. "You see, Sun Shaoyong is highly enlightened, so he won't cry about his tyrannical old man here." Putao didn't wait for Director Cai to finish speaking, she moved her knees, kneeling comfortably, and screamed again with a "wow". Cai Amber stomped her feet angrily, and wanted to pull again when she came up.Putao's hand was caught by her from behind, and she pulled it back, but it was not vigorous.The little shirt stuck to her body, and she stretched her upper and lower body, and her stomach was exposed from under the shirt. "What the hell, I haven't finished crying!" "Go to the meeting!" Director Cai didn't let go, "Why are you crying when you die an enemy?! Wang Putao, I think you have become half a counter-revolutionary!" The militiamen from the village came, all carrying red cherry guns with large blades.When the wives see it, don't mess with them.They bounced their little feet for a while and then disappeared.When the militiamen saw Director Cai dragging Wang Putao backwards, Wang Putao refused to keep up with his feet, and the shirt and trousers became more and more separated.In the blink of an eye, Putao's pair of milks were exposed, white and bright, and the two teats were bright red, like two beautifully steamed jujube buns.Wang Putao's mouth was full of spittle, loess, and swear words, and he lay on the ground and punched him indiscriminately. Director Cai shouted to the militiamen: "Why are you so stupefied? Don't hold her back!" The militiamen came up with eight hands and finally controlled the grapes.After a while, they accidentally had Wang Putao's two white jujube buns in their minds, and they were delicious if they didn't eat them all. That night, Putao carried Gonggong Sun Huaiqing back to her kiln.Sun Huaiqing was unconscious, and his body was not very warm.She knew that he had shed too much blood, and whether he could be saved or not would depend on his life.She fed the goat's milk bought during the day to Er Da, and more than half of it flowed out from the corner of his mouth.In the middle of the night, she rode an old donkey to Hezhen, knocked on the door of Lan Gui's house, and asked her for Yunnan Baiyao.Lan Gui's man is half-acquainted with traditional Chinese medicine, and has all kinds of emergency medicines to stop bleeding at home.She casually said that she had a metrorrhagia and always relied on Baiyao to stop the bleeding. She washed Er Da's wound, applied Baiyao, wrapped the bandage, and the rooster crowed.She thought that the Second University would not want to hide here.People in the village are happy these days, celebrating this and that, and social fires follow one after another.When people are happy, they visit frequently. Every day, daughters and daughters-in-law come to find Putao to have meetings and watch social fire together.Not only the people were happy, but the dog also walked around writhing its buttocks and tail. As soon as the dog moved, the children followed. At dawn, Putao put a bed in the sweet potato kiln.Tao Mier's sweet potato kiln was dug beautifully, and it was not too crowded to put a bed.But she couldn't carry Er Da to the kiln no matter what.The entrance of the kiln was deep and narrow, and only one person could get in. Putao thought, there was only one way, and he would go down by himself after Er Da's injury healed.How many days will it take for his injury to heal? Putao feels that she will be very worried this time.When she was twenty-one years old, she knew sorrow for the first time. She came up from the sweet potato kiln and went back to the house, and saw Er Da's eyes were open, and his unmoving eyes slowly came to Putao's face. "Is dad better?" She quickly brought the goat milk to his mouth again.His dead white mouth moved, wanting to smile, but he couldn't gather enough energy, so he drooped his gray eyelids.This time he was bowing to her. Seeing that he drank all the goat's milk this time without missing anything, Putao was so happy that he wiped Er Da's mouth with his palm.After thinking about it, I should fetch some water and wipe his face.Telling him to sleep, he took the copper basin and walked out of the cave. Before he went out, he heard someone shouting, "Grape! The grape is me!" Putao grabbed the lock on the window sill and pulled the door. The doorman shouted again: "Pao, am I coming in?" Only then did Putao realize that it was Sun Shaoyong.She touched her chest, which seemed to be full of drums.She said: "It's the second brother! Wait for me to open the door for you." When she looked up, she saw that Shaoyong had come down the steps.He turned over from the low door.Fortunately, it was him who turned over, someone else, and the second university had to die again. Sun Shaoyong walked into the house, Putao closed the doorbolt with a click, put the lock in, pushed it, and the brass lock was locked.Her hands have always made big decisions, and she often gets things done, but her brain doesn't quite understand that her hands have already made up their minds.She locked the door, still thinking: Hey, you can't even trust Shaoyong? It turns out that she is the first one who can't trust Shaoyong. "Where are you going?" Shaoyong looked at her in filial piety. "Go and see our father's grave." "You go, I'll wait for you at home. Shaoyong has a gloomy face, two big dark circles, and he is ten years old. "What kind of enemy is he if he's dead? If you're dead, you still have sins? Can't you go and see?" Putao said, grabbing his arm. Shaoyong suddenly said: "Pao, he is dead, and I have been involved in this life." Putao didn't move, she turned her face slightly to look at his eyes buried under his preoccupation.He saw an unfinished pile of firewood in the middle of the yard, walked over, sank down, and landed on the firewood bundle. "I believe in revolution and progress all my life, and I hated the feudal backwardness and exploitative system. I still don't call us revolution and progress." Shaoyong lit a cigarette and smoked it. "Who doesn't call you a revolution?" Putao asked. "Who dares! The more you don't call me a revolution, the more I am a revolution, let him see! I asked the government to shoot Huaiqing on my own initiative! I am still in contact with my elder brother through my relationship to let him abandon his secrets and come back from abroad to strive for meritorious service and atonement. "You told them to shoot our father?" Putao looked at this man who was gradually not looking like Shaoyong.In her eyes, this man with a fair face and two big dark circles lost the look of the Sun family man she was familiar with little by little. "Of course my statement is the key! Have you heard about the surveillance whistle? It was a counter-revolutionary demonstration! After trial one by one, no prisoner could explain clearly. Only Sun Huaiqing confessed from the beginning to the end. He was not the leader. Who else could be making trouble?" "You told them to shoot our father?" Putao still wanted to understand this man who was slowly becoming a man. "I am an anti-Japanese cadre who joined the party in four or four years. Three people in my family have been implicated into this—I was notified last night that I will not be asked to go to North Korea, but to go to the local government!" Putao understood a little bit. He asked people to divide up his father's house and land, and then took Guangyang out and asked people to divide up. Finally, he asked someone to kill his father.It turns out that dividing the ocean is not called dividing the ocean, it is called progress, and killing the father is not called killing the father, it is called progress.Look at him, he's become someone she doesn't recognize. "Sun Shaoyong, let's go." Sun Shaoyong didn't notice how cold Putao's voice was.He only saw how beautiful Putao was in the white linen filial piety.I've never looked so good before, just showing him is a blessing. He said, "What's wrong?" "Let's go, don't forget about this door." He stood up slowly, blinking his eyes, wondering where he had messed with her. He said: "I am doing this for our own good. The army kicked me out for demanding progress. If I did not draw a clear line with Sun Huaiqing, I don't know what to do with the organization! Counter-revolutionaries are being purged everywhere in the country. More than a dozen people in a single institution were labeled as counter-revolutionaries, and they were all sentenced! "Why don't you leave?" Putao picked up the ax conveniently. Shaoyong was afraid that she didn't know how serious she was, so he quickly dodged a few steps and walked around to the side of the firewood.She followed him with a hatchet in hand, and he continued to circle around.Around, he continued to reason with her.He said: "At any rate, I have a scalpel, which is popular everywhere. The army doesn't make us progress, but the local government dares to make us progress? I greeted the provincial hospital, and they promised me to be the chief surgeon there!... Grape , dare not!..." The broad ax had already flown out of Grape's hand, Shaoyong had the skills of a soldier after all, he jumped with both feet and let it scrape the ground under his head.He turned and grabbed it and threw it on the roof of the mill shed. "Why is your skin thicker than a yellow ox? You came to my widow's house, what are you looking for in the early morning?" Putao said, picking up another piece of firewood. The two chatted around again. "The chief surgeon of the provincial hospital is more famous than the army hospital, and he promised to give me two rooms!" Putao only wants to throw him out with a stick. "If you don't leave, I'll call the militia!" "When the house is settled, I'll take you into the city...don't dare, grape! don't dare to cut off your head!..." Firewood flew over his head.Putao bent down, trying to pick up a piece of heavier firewood, Shaoyong jumped over the firewood, hugged her, and pinned her to the ground.He put his legs on her legs, panted and said: "Eat whatever you eat, you will gain strength!" Putao groaned and knocked him over. Shaoyong refuses to accept, how can he let the woman be on top and he is on the bottom? He made a real move and used all his strength to bring the situation back.He pressed her under him, and with one hand came out, he tore the buttons of her shirt.She bit his shoulder.There was still a pungent smell of cleanliness and hygiene on his body, and the slippery and tight flesh was all cooked by her. "Don't dare to bite, it's meat!" If you don't look at him, if you don't look at him, you will still be the second brother who she loves with her heart and hurts with her flesh.She suddenly understood herself. When she was a child, she learned to be good for her second brother. The second brother was her love brother, and Tie Nao was only her sibling.Once, 17-year-old Shaoyong came back from school and just entered the village when he saw a sorceress holding Chunxi, who was two or three years old, walking towards the river beach. Dongxi's mother carried a hatchet and walked beside her, stopping constantly, turning her head and yelling at a group of children, Don't let them come near.Shaoyong asked Putao among the children if Chunxi was seriously ill. Putao said that Chunxi had been burned for three weeks and could not even feed water.He asked Putao again, but he didn't listen to the sorceress saying that he was going to cut Chunxi off.Grape replied yes.Shaoyong chased after him, and when he got to the side of the sorceress, he heard Xiao Chunxi talking, and asked his mother where he was taking her.His mother coaxed him to take him to the meeting.He said: "Mom, let's not go to the river beach." Dongxi's mother said to go to the river beach to wash his face first, and then went to the meeting.Xiao Chunxi said again, "Mom, don't go to the river beach." The witch asked him why he didn't go, and he said that people always carried sick children to the river beach, hacked them with a hatchet, and smashed them with stones.Seeing that they couldn't coax him, the two of them didn't dare to talk to each other.Shaoyong had already grabbed the witch's clothes at this time, and said to wait, wait until tomorrow morning to chop.The sorceress put Chunxi wrapped in rotten cotton wool on the ground, and took the hatchet from Chunxi's mother, saying that it will be over?If he dies at night, the blood won't splash on his mother, and he will be a life-stealing ghost next time.Shaoyong put his head on the sorceress' stomach, knocking her over on her back.He picked up Chunxi and ran away, neither Dongxi's mother nor the sorceress could catch up with him.He ran to the elementary school down the street, ran into a classroom, and bolted the door from the inside.Dongxi's mother and witch were outside, and Shaoyong was inside, talking through a door.The people outside said that it was not Chunxi that they wanted to kill, but the life-stealing ghost. It was not called chopping. He went to the king of Hades and was dishonest.Cut him down and let the blood splatter, and he will not dare to come back to steal his life after he is gone.Shaoyong said at the door, tell him to guard Xiaochunxi, and if he misses at night, he will go and wake them up, and it will not be too late to chop.He really guarded Chunxi all night.The next morning, Chunxi was able to drink soup.Shaoyong left Shitun that winter, saying that he was going to study medicine.How big were grapes then?ten years old?eleven?Secretly let Shaoyong be the love brother in her heart.And this man on top of her ruined the secret love brother in her heart. After Shaoyong finished his good deed, she said coldly, "You and I, this is the time." Shaoyong thought she was just talking out of anger, and wanted to give her a few days to get over her anger, and then come back to have a serious talk with her.It was broad daylight when he left, and Putao was still sitting naked on the dirt.He said: "Hurry up and put it on, people are coming!" He made a playful tone.She didn't hear it at all, and it looked like it was really messed up. When Sun Shaoyong took the night train to Shitun, the execution ground on the river beach was full of lights.Of course Sun Shaoyong couldn't have seen it, the train he took didn't pass there.The people in Shitun didn't see it either.In the fifty surrounding villages, no one saw this bustling night scene.Even the dwarfs missed the lit funeral.During the day, the gong rang for a whole day, and the tin trumpet also yelled for a whole day, but no one was called out to claim the body on the river beach.The family members of death row prisoners in the surrounding villages and cities do not want to have anything to do with the death row prisoners during the day, and no one wants to be relatives of the enemy.After twelve o'clock at night, they came one after another with lanterns.In some families, two generations have come, and in some families, four generations have come together. If a person had walked up the slope at this time and stood where the dwarves had stood in the morning, he would have seen countless lanterns moving down the road on the slope of the river, winding and continuous, moving to the bottom of the valley.Slowly, the lights filled the valley and spread upward.No one cried; the old, the young, and the middle-aged and middle-aged all used lanterns to shine on every face without saying a word.It's only been one day, these familiar faces seem to be separated by a hundred years, looking so far away, so unkind and indifferent.A young man recognized his father and was stopped when he was about to cry. If the person standing on the slope has very good ears, he can hear two occasional whispers in the depths of the lamp. "...the pen is still inserted, and it was not confiscated!" "" "See if there is a letter left?" Can you find it?" "Can you find it? Haven't broken it?" "No, we have to find it.Even the counter-revolutionaries can’t just pull their heads halfway!” "..." If the man could endure the bites of the pancake-forming mosquitoes on the river, he could see the lights burning until they blew, and the morning star in the sky down the river dimmed.People dug hundreds of pits on the river beach, and hurriedly buried their relatives who had humiliated them and would affect their lives. Before daybreak, this brightly lit funeral was over. If there was such a person who went up to Potou just that night and saw this scene, then this big funeral with lights would not be completely missed out of history. It will be many years before anyone dares to come to this place.At that time, the Japanese admired the peony in this area every year, so some people developed the river beach and planted it into a peony garden.At that time, if the bystander who watched the great funeral with lights that night is still alive, he will see the tractor driving on the dry river, plowing hundreds of barren graves. That day, Sun Shaoyong, the chief surgeon of the city hospital, just went to work, went to the window to open the window for ventilation, and saw grapes sitting at the gate.Sun Shaoyong always came in through the side door for work, so he and Putao missed it.He thought that the life of this raw body was long enough, and it took only three months.At this time, it was cool in autumn.He was about to call her when she looked up.She knew it was his window.He gestured for her to come up.She shook her head.He watched her stand up and take two steps towards him.She didn't walk as vigorously as she used to, and she was a little stupid.He smiled and said, "Are you drinking the cold wind there? Come up?" "Come down!" said the grape. "I'm about to go into the operating room." Without saying anything, she walked back and sat on the steps outside the reception room.She looked even stupider from behind. "I'll be out in two hours. Are you waiting?" She nodded vigorously. But when he finished the operation in one hour and forty-five minutes and ran downstairs, there were no grapes anywhere.He asked the mailman in the reception room, but they all said he didn't pay attention.He looked at his watch, there was still a minor operation below, so he had to go back.Putao is not allowed to play in the street.The second time he went downstairs, he still didn't see Putao, and he was a little annoyed at her: having a bad child is having a bad child, and you can't argue with her about everything. Three days later, it was Sunday, and Sun Shaoyong suddenly remembered Putao's stupid gait.Luckily you're still in medical school: don't you see that's pregnancy? When Sun Shaoyong arrived in Shitun, it was just dark, and the inside and outside were soaked by a heavy rain.He had found an acquaintance's jeep from the Army Hospital to bring him here, and the driver had to rush back to the city when he reached Stun Street.Before he had taken two steps, it started to rain heavily. He wanted to borrow an umbrella from someone on the street, but he didn't want anyone to see him come back, so he stood up to let the rain drench.The door of Putao's house was unlocked, so he went in yelling all the way.He ran into the cave dwelling where Putao was the main house, but she was nowhere to be seen, but the lamp was on.He took off the old military uniform he was wearing as a coat, and it weighed three catties after soaking through the rain.He sat down on the stool in front of the loom and watched the grapes weaving a piece of cloth with blue stripes on a white background.It is a woven mattress.After not sitting for a minute, he stood up and walked towards the kiln next door.While walking, he yelled: "Gao! See you play hide and seek with me!..." He was so happy when he heard his own voice. The cave where Putao slept was also empty. There are no grapes in the kitchen or mill.The old donkey looked at him, as if he was tired from standing, changed his hooves, and continued to chew grass. When he returned to the main room, he found Putao sitting in front of the loom changing the shuttle. He said, "Hey, where have you been?" She looked at him, her face was cold, and her eyes looked like she had just bought into Sun's house.She said: Where can I go.She stood up and flicked the veil off her body. "out?" "Ok." He looked at her, there was no mud or water, it didn't look like she had just come back from the outside.But he obviously searched everywhere, but he didn't see her.He went up to hug her, but she stepped aside. "Is that the one you conceived?" He was still happy: "You still ignore me, ignore me, your son has no father." He went up to hug her again. "What are you talking about?" Putao's body slipped out of his arms again: "What are you pregnant for?" Her eyes became more rigid. "You tease me, I know how to tease." He smiled, not as knowledgeable as Xiaowa. "You said, why did you come to me on Thursday morning? Did you come to tell me: I'm going to be a father?" "Yes, what's the matter?" "It's you who will come back with me tomorrow." She didn't speak, just stared at him, as if he hadn't said what she wanted to hear, and she was waiting. "We have two rooms, and it is enough to live in when we give birth to a child. I calculated, from then to now, this child is about a hundred days old. I was thinking along the way, it is a girl, so I call it Jin, and it is a son. , it’s called Ting. Now make a list of names.” She still had nothing to say, and waited for him to say the sentence she wanted to hear. He was covered in wet clothes, and it was only now that he felt cold.He said, "Get me a hand towel and see I'm wet." Grape then spoke.She said: "Sun Shaoyong, you are dreaming, I am not pregnant with anything, even if I am pregnant, it is not yours. Shaoyong was suddenly dumbfounded. "Let's go." "Pao, how did the second brother offend you? Are you vomiting so loudly?" "Are you sure I'm pregnant?" "I am a doctor." "Then you can be sure that what I'm pregnant is yours? You can be happy with me but others can't? I've been a widow for eight years, and I'm still idle when I'm idle." Sun Shaoyong became angry.It poured a heavy rain, and when it came to her, it made her pour out even more ugly words.Angrily, he picked up his cold and heavy wet clothes, put them on, and was about to leave.Putao threw an oilcloth umbrella with fine seams at his feet. "Gao, your heart is really hard." "Catch up with you hard?" As soon as she heard it, she still didn't go around him because of Sun Huaiqing's affairs.He walked back to Stuttgart Street, where the rain shut down the doors and turned off the lights.He walked to the small inn on the street, which was a dry place after all.But he didn't sleep well all night, and the bedbugs and fleas made his hands too busy to scratch.Still full of worries, he kept biting him.In the middle of the night, he didn't sleep at all, knocked on the shopkeeper's door, bought two packs of cigarettes and a bottle of shochu from him, smoked and drank, and waited for the rain to come. His love for grapes was a sudden thing.It was the second day after she and Tao Mier fought over the soap.The grapes dug out the black mud by the side of the slope pool to make pit cloth.She is on Pochi's side, and he is here.He saw her rub the hair hanging on her face with her shoulder, but when she moved, it hung down again.He couldn't think of anything to say to her, not even such nonsense as "Oh Putao, is that you?"The more anxious he became, the dumber he became, he just wanted to say hello and left without saying hello.Grape found him when he was about to escape.She couldn't speak for a moment.Both of them were so dumb.That night, he scolded himself as he lay in the midst of the noisy shouts of the male soldiers of the land reform work group, not letting himself think about grapes.In the end, he got angry with himself and said in his heart, okay, okay, I told you to think about it! Think about it! Don’t think about anything else, just think about grapes, grapes! He really let go and thought about it happily. After thinking about it for over an hour, I finally fell asleep and slept soundly. 再往后就是磨棚的黄昏，那之后他不再想东想西，全想定了。葡萄得是他的。葡萄和他说了那个琴师，也没让他受不了，因为他想不论怎样，葡萄就得是他孙少勇的。 这不都安排好了吗?先是没了弟弟铁脑，后是没了父亲孙怀清，葡萄给彻底解放出来，是他的。似乎也是一种高尚的美好的新时代恋爱，孙少勇心里都要涌出诗了。 红薯窑往深里挖了一丈，又往宽里出不少。现在孙情清躺乏了，能站起来，扶着地窑的墙挪几步。葡萄把他藏在屋里藏了一个多月，到他腿吃得住劲能踩稳红薯窑的脚踏子了，才把他转移下去。让他下窑那天，她用根绳系在他腰上，绳子一头抓在她手里，万一他踩失脚，她能帮着使上劲。一个多月，他在屋里度生死关，葡萄得点闲就去地窑打洞。她总是夜深人静赶着老驴把挖出的土驮走，驮到河滩去倒。 这时的红薯窑里能搁张铺，还能搁张小桌，一把小凳。墙壁挖出棱棱，放上小油灯，军用水壶，一个盛着干粮的大碗。 孙怀清和葡萄平时话很少。最多是她问他伤口疼得好点不. 他的回答总是一个“嗯”。 把他挪到下头的第二个礼拜，葡萄送下一碗扁食，一碟蒜和醋。她用篮子把吃的搁在里头，万一碰上人，就说她去窑里拿红薯。不过她仔细得很，一般都是等各家都睡了才送饭。 孙情清尝了两个扁食，韭菜鸡蛋馅。葡萄坐在他旁边的小凳上，呼啦呼啦扯着纳鞋底的线。 "淡不淡?" 她问 "中。"他答。 "养的几只鸡下蛋了。" He didn't say anything.什么“知道你有多不容易”之类的话他是说不出口的。什么“孩子你何苦哩?为我这么受症”之类的话，说了也没用，他把葡萄从七岁养大，她有多死心眼别人不知，孙情清还能不知?那天他两个直打虚的脚踩在窑子壁上掏出的脚蹬上觉得一阵万念俱灰，他抬起头，见葡萄脸通红，两手紧抓住系在他腰上的绳子，绷紧嘴唇说："爹，脚可踩实!" 他不忍心说什么了。下到窑底，他喘一阵说： "让我利索走了不挺美?" 他听她在地窑上边楞住了。他从那楞怔中听出她的伤心来, 爹这么不领情。 他不和她说孙少勇的事。他什么都明白，她明白他是明白的，话就没法说了。说那个忘恩负义的王八孽种大义灭亲不得好报?说这种叫他们自己老不高兴的话弄啥?说好歹他混成了个拿手术刀的，葡萄你嫁他以后不会太亏。这种事葡萄不说穿，他是不能说穿的。就是自己亲闺女，男女的事也不能由爹来说穿。传统还是要的，尽管没了门面了。他每次只问她自己吃了没有，别尽省给他了。葡萄总说够着哩，一亩半地种种，收收，纺花织布去卖卖，够咱吃了。她说分到的几棵槐树可以砍下，做点家俱去卖，攒钱买头牛，能过得美着哩。 吃也不是最愁人的。孙情清吃着温热的饺子，听葡萄呼啦呼啦地扯麻线。他给醋呛了一下，咳起来，伤口震得要裂似的。葡萄搁下鞋底，赶紧给他插背，一手解下头上的手巾就给他掩嘴。他们说话都是悄声悄气，有喷嚏都得忍回去。万一有人从窑院墙外过，听见他咳嗽他又得挨一回枪毙。 平定下来，他也没胃口吃了。葡萄拿起鞋底，眼睛看着他，想劝他再吃几个饺子。他突然笑笑，说：“这会中?” 葡萄知道他的意思。他是说：这样躲会中?这能躲多久?躲得了今天，躲得了明天?能保准不闹个头疼脑热，风寒咳嗽? 葡萄说： "有空再给这窖子挖挖。" 孙怀清也明白她的意思。葡萄是说：真正愁人的事是没有的。把红薯窖再挖大，反正这里没别的好，就是土好，任你挖多大多深也塌不了。这就能躲舒服、躲长久了。躲一步是一步，这里什么事都发生过：兵荒、粮荒、虫荒、人荒，躲一躲，就躲过去了。 葡萄又说： "再买些石灰，给抹抹。" 孙情清想，那样就不潮湿了，点盏小灯，也亮些。 她见二大手摸腰带，便从自己口袋里掏出火柴。 "人外头都不使火镰了。" 她说。 地窖里氧气不足，火柴擦着又灭。她抬起头，看看挖得坑洼不平的窖顶。 "打个气眼？“ 过了十多天，红薯窑添了个碗口大的气口，白天用木板盖住，上面盖上土和草。葡萄和泥托坯，想把窑院的栏马墙加高几尺。垒墙的时候，她请了冬喜和春喜兄弟俩。她一个年轻寡妇独住，墙砌高些村里人都觉得合情合理。春喜十五岁，说话脸红得象初打鸣的小公鸡。成立互助组，是春喜跑来告诉葡萄的。他说俺哥叫我告诉你，咱两家互助了。第二天冬喜来拉葡萄的老驴去史屯街上卖芝麻，葡萄才明白互助是什么意思。有时葡萄自己把自家地里的活做完，春喜跑来，急扯白脸问她咋就单干把活做完，不让他和她互助互助。葡萄心想，自从把五十亩地分出去，自己都快闲坏了。种一亩半地也叫种地?葡萄老烦没活干的日子，那可把人闷死了。 葡萄发懒是收谷子的时候。她觉着自己身子老沉，坐下就不想站起，站着就不愿走动。这时她夜里常给肚里的动静弄醒，醒了便要跑茅房。谢天谢地，总算能穿厚衣裳了。她用根大布带子把肚子紧紧缠裹上，裹得人也硬了，腰也弯不下。这时春喜来，就发现葡萄的活全留在地里等他。有时等着春喜的还有几张菜馍，一碗蒜面，几块烤红薯。春喜也不那么拘束了，吃了东西嘴一抹就说：“嫂子，让我好好给你互助互助!” 谁也没发现葡萄的身孕。冬至史屯办村火，妇女会组织闺女媳妇唱曲子戏，宣传婚姻自由，有人提出好几年没赛秋千了。人们便想起魏老婆儿和王葡萄赛秋千的事。几个闺女、媳妇约上葡萄去史屯看赛秋千。 秋千上挂着绣球和彩绸，五十个村的妇女会都选了代表参加比赛。赛秋千的闺女、媳妇全穿上社火的绸罗裙、缎子衫。裙子又脏又破，不过秋千上飞舞起来也好看得很。 春喜和冬喜都在边上耸勇葡萄上去，葡萄只说等等。 一个魏坡的媳妇有三十五六了，上了秋千便喊王葡萄，叫阵说王葡萄在哪儿？站出来!她秋千打得最高，下面人一喝采，她就再鼓劲，再打挺，秋千悠得下面人都吞冷气。她又叫一声：王葡萄，敢比不放?她两腿下蹲，屁股往下猛沉，把自己悠上半天高。她突然“哎哟”一声，人们一看，她的棉裤落到了脚跟上，接着一根红裤带飘扬落下。破烂的罗裙开花了，魏坡媳妇手也算快，没等人看清什么就把棉裤提在手里。她又喊王葡萄，说要比都得比，比比单手。……下面男人都怪声吆喝起来。 春喜突然叫起来：“王葡萄在这儿呢!” 葡萄咬咬牙，说：“比!” 魏坡媳妇着陆了，说：“单手?” “单手!” 葡萄踏上秋千板，居然身轻如燕。人们都说：漂亮!这才有看头!不比魏老婆年轻时差! 魏坡媳妇一手提着裤腰，一手指着快要入云的葡萄说：“单手!单手!……” 所有脸都高兴得红亮红亮。谁也没看出葡萄现在一个腰身有过去两个粗。新社会幸福生活把人吃胖了，正常得很。这一带的人都拿“胖”夸人。人群里有一张脸白成了纸。大家都在兴头上，疯得谁也不认识谁，所以孙少勇煞白一张脸站在人堆里，也没人留神到。他一下长途车就看见飞天的葡萄，一口气跑过来，两手攒拳，脚趾紧抓鞋底，上下牙关死死咬合。他怕自己一失声叫起来，让葡萄分心，从半空中摔下来。魏老婆摔死后这么多年才又有人赛秋千。 葡萄的身孕已有五个月了，这生坏子还敢和人赛秋千。不仅赛，还赛单手秋千。少勇肩上背了个部队的帆布包，里面盛着两斤炼好装在锅饭盒里的猪板油和两斤砂糖。他看葡萄两脚着陆，手松开了秋千绳，他上去拉着她就走：“还要命不要?!” 葡萄想挣开他的手，但一看他脸色，没太犟。他拽着她胳膊一直从人群里出来，才说：“你死死去!” 葡萄明白他真心要说的是：你死就罢了，别把我孩子也摔死。 她甩开他的手就走。大家都去看下一个上秋千的闺女，没注意葡萄和她二哥在扯什么皮。人们粗喉大嗓的吆喝也把葡萄的声音掩住了。葡萄说：“你是谁?我不认识你，你拉我干啥?!” 一看她还是两眼发横眉发直，少勇泪都上来了。他又怕她看见他的泪，自己调头就往长途汽车站走。果然，葡萄心酥软下来，跟上他。 一前一后走了半里路，少勇进了一家陕西人开的羊肉馆子，给他们一人买了一碗羊肉汤，上面撒了一把青翠的香菜。汤从烫到凉，两人都没动。 少勇说：“你说你想咋着?”他说话的声音很轻，又很重，眼睛苦苦的。话不用说全，她全都明白。 葡萄把油腻腻的筷子在桌上划。桌上一尽黑油泥给划出圈圈、杠杠。她当然知道他那个“咋着”是问的什么。他问她：还不结婚肚子再大你咋办?他还问了一件事：上回你说孩子不是我的，可是真话? 葡萄把羊肉汤一口气喝下去。少勇看她仰脖子，气也不喘，喝得“咕咚咕咚”的。他放心了，眼睛也不那么苦了。她把碗一放，手背在嘴上横着一抹，说：“孙少勇，娃子真不是你的。” 她眼睛直扎到他心里。 “是谁的?” “史冬喜的。” 少勇挨了一棍似的，坐在那里，等着头晕眼花慢慢过去。过了半袋烟工夫，他手伸到自己的军用帆布包里，拿出两个铝饭盒，一个盛猪油，另一个盛砂糖。他把东西往葡萄面前一推，站起身来。他往门外走的时候，葡萄想，这冤家心可是碎了。 少勇从此不再来史屯了。 葡萄在三月份生下了一个男孩。她在自己的窑洞里疼了两天一夜，一块手巾都咬烂了。她知道这事五成死、五成活，只能硬闯一回运气。疼得更猛的时候她想是活不成了。她摸着扶着爬了起来，身上裹块褥单就往院子里蹭。她想去给二大说一声，万一不见她送饭，就自己逃生去。天下大着呢，她葡萄不信他非得再挨一回枪毙。她走到窑洞门口，肚子坠胀得她蹲下来，又蹲不下去，象一只母狗似的大叉着腿半蹲半站。只觉得这个姿式老带劲，她双手抱着门框，往下蹲，再撑起一点，再往下蹲。“唿嗵”一下，下面黄水决堤了，连水带土带泥沙石头树木庄稼血肉性命，滚开一样烫人地决口子了。她轻轻吭一声，放开牙关，顺势往泥地上一躺。两手在腿间一摸，一个圆圆的小脑袋出来了。她托起那小脑袋，翘起两腿，使劲一努，“哇”的一声猫叫，全出来了。 她把滑溜溜血腥扑鼻的小东西抱在两只手掌里，一时不时该干什么。小东西又是打挺又是蹬腿，差点就叫他滑出去了。她这才想起两天前预备好的剪子。她血淋淋的往漆黑的窑洞里挪，摸到床边的剪子，把小东西和她身体的牵绊给断开。这是最后一点的牵肠挂肚，剪刀上去，她觉得剪得她冷了一下，疼了一下。 她叫他“挺”。少勇愿意他叫这个时兴的单字名儿。她不知现在是更疼少勇海是更疼这小东西，心里又是甜又是恨又是委屈。她把挺搁在床上，床上漫着她的汗和血，还有稠乎的浆浆。啥也看不见，外头快该亮了吧，鸡叫了半晌了。她算了算，挺在她肚里待了八个月多一点。她想他憋屈死了，叫她那根宽布带子韧得老不带劲，早早就出来了。这一想她把挺贴在胸口上，觉着虐待了他，过意不去。挺不哭了，头歪来歪去，找到了奶头。 葡萄不知道奶这么快就下来了。够三个挺吃的。挺不吃了可咋办?她一想吓住了。这是啥意思?要把挺捂死?她可不会捂死她的孩子。那是她想把他给人?葡萄奇怪；她从来没有好好打算过挺生出来咋办。连狸子、黄鼠狠那种整天叫人撵得安不了身的生灵都能生养，她也能养。是条命她就能养。她相信人不养天一定养。天让你生，天就能养。怀那么一场孕，一个冬天就给她瞒过去了。最难的该过去了。 葡萄就再不让人进她的窑院。她心里盼着麦子高，麦子黄，收麦的时候，她就有盼头了。 村里人清明上坟的时候，听见一个小娃的哭声。好象就在坟院深处。再听听，有人说，是闹春的猫吧? 离坟院半里路，就是王葡萄的窑院。王葡萄回掉了十多个说媒的，都是妇女会的干部媒婆。上坟的人远远看见葡萄在院子门口拣谷种。大家便说做啥媒呀?瞎操心。葡萄会把自己闲着?就是她闲着男人们也舍不得叫她闲着。孙少勇搁着恁肥的窝边草不吃? 收下麦子后，葡萄在一天清晨出门了。天麻灰色，麻雀刚出林。她挎个篮子，篮子上盖块布。篮子里躺的是挺，他还没睡醒，让母亲一颠一晃睡得更深了。 葡萄走过一座座水磨，往越来越窄的河谷走。顺着河谷往上游去，二十里山路，就到了那个矮庙。 她在离矮庙外头的林子里坐下来，揭开盖篮子的布。挺睡得真好，闭上眼睛就是个小少勇。就是少勇想事的样子。他眼睛是葡萄的，眼皮子宽宽裕裕，双眼皮整整齐齐。篮子一头还搁着两斤砂糖和一盒猪油，饭盒下压着两块银元，是分财产时分的。 太阳快要升起了。葡萄解开衣服，把挺抱起来。他吃奶吃得可有劲。这个春天短粮，家家都搭着吃点野菜、柿糖馍。也有几家扛不住的，去城里讨饭了。葡萄什么也不告诉二大，把自己的一口粮省给他吃，自个吃糠面掺锅盔菜。就吃这也发奶，她一身血肉，一腔五脏都能化了化成奶似的，整天冒个不停，五月了她还得穿厚夹袄。 才两个多月的挺长得象个小须眉汉子。她从来没见过两个月的孩子长得这样全乎，一头好头发，两根黑眉毛，指甲一个一个又亮又硬朗。再有三个月，牙齿该出来了。 突然葡萄看见一颗水珠落在挺的脸上。又是一颗。挺皱皱鼻子，不老乐意。她想自己咋哭了呢? 这一哭就麻缠了，成了肉骨生死别离了。她狠狠抹一把眼睛。不中，这样哭下去就走不成了。她恼自己，一直想着娃哭了该咋办，娃子没哭，吃得象个小畜牲似的高兴，她自己倒哭得收拾不住。孩子吃饱，又睡着了。 她擤把鼻涕，把孩子放回篮子里，盖好。她拎着篮子走到矮庙门口，把篮子搁在门槛前。她退回林子里，眼泪干了。 侏儒们是太阳两竿子高的时候到的。葡萄看看一张张脸，好象有几张是去年没见过的。他们说着，笑着，不紧不慌地爬上坡来。说山西话的，说陕西话的，说河南河北话的都有。 头一个看见篮子的是一个侏儒少年。他把布揭开，人往后一蹦。然后两只短小的腿就欢蹦乱跳了。他们马上就把孩子闹醒了。葡萄听见挺哭得变了声，变成了一条她不认识的嗓音。她直想把耳朵堵起来，不然他哭得她泪珠子直落，气也接不上了。 几个侏儒媳妇上来，扁扁的侏儒脸上都是疼都是爱。葡萄楞住了。她早知道侏儒喜欢正常孩子，没想到她们会这么疼爱孩子。挺很快就不哭了。不一会，侏儒们说：看，笑了，笑了! 一两百个侏儒忘了上这儿来是祭庙，只把娃子在他们短小的胳膊上抱来传去。侏儒们的笑声和人不一样，听上去老可怕，不过葡萄听一会儿就听惯了。她想自己该不该出去和侏儒们交待一声。这时一个侏儒说：“叫'挺'，这孩子名字叫挺!” “你看，一叫你你还知道答应呢!马上就瞪眼呢!你知道自个儿名字叫挺，是你爸起的名儿，还是你妈起的?……” 侏儒们七嘴八舌地和挺说话。 “瞧你笑得!还蹦呢!……” 一个侏儒媳妇对丈夫说：“咱带的糕呢?拿水泡泡，喂咱娃子，看他吃不吃。” “我这儿带的有小米，生上火，煮点米汤。” “人家妈还给留了糖呢。” 侏儒们不久就把灶搭起来，水也汲来了，柴也砍来了。 葡萄想，啥也不用给他们说了。挺是有福的，上百个人拿他当宝贝哩。虽然是些半截子人，心都是整个的。 还回到冬天。孙怀清看出了葡萄的身孕。她脚踩住窑壁的脚蹬往下下，他一眼就看出她怀上了。少说有四、五个月了。她把一盆浆面条搁在小桌上，揭下头上的围巾，打了打上面的雪。她的动作还是又快又莽撞，楞得很，孙情清看出她是存心的，想不叫人看出她的笨来。 从那以后，他天天等她开口，把真情告诉他，也把打算告诉他。孩子是孙少勇的，没有错了。可葡萄不开口，他没法子开口。他不开口还有一层顾虑：万一孩子不是少勇的，把话问出去，两人全没了余地，全没了面子。有几次，他吃着饭，听葡萄扯麻线扯得气息长了，深了，马上要睡着了，他想说：孩子，你就和我闺女一样，啥事不能让爹给你分担分担呢?不然你啥也不懂，活着老难呀!你连怀身孕闹瞌睡也不懂哩。 三月这天夜里，他醒了，听见猫叫似的小娃啼哭。他想，难怪葡萄给他备下三天干粮。他披着衣服，摸黑爬上了地窖，走在院子里，听那哭声给掩进母亲怀里，要不就是掩进被窝里了。他走到葡萄的屋门口，想叫她给他看看他的孙子。脚就是抬不动，嗓子也只出气不出声。他耳朵贴在紧锁住的门缝上，听娃子的哭声变成了吭唧，慢慢地，就安宁下来。母亲的奶头让他安宁了。他在