Chapter 19 Section five

Magpie and Hua Erniang glanced at each other, and they both laughed. "If you kill it, kill it." Magpie said, carefully protecting the flame of the oil lamp with her hand, so that it would not be blown out by the wind. "Why are you meddling in this nosy business?" Erniang Hua sighed and said, "It seems that Da Jinya won't survive tonight. His death is due to his mouth." It turned out that the person they were going to kill was Da Jinya. It seemed that his father and Magpie knew about it a long time ago, and he was the only one who was still in the dark. It is said that when Changzhou's mother-in-law came to Puji with her two children, Da Jinya was boiling medicine for his mother in the attic of their home.He is a famous dutiful son.After hearing the news, Tan Shuijin, the coxswain at the ferry, ran over in a hurry and informed them: "Three people have come from Changzhou, and they seem to come to find you desperately." Da Jinya didn't care, he patted He said to Shui Jin with his chest up, "Don't be afraid, they are old and young, I will kick them one by one, and kick them all out the door."

After all, his blind old lady is an elderly person and still has some knowledge. As soon as she heard about it, she asked his son: "Don't say anything else, did you do this?" Da Jinya said: "I did it." The old lady asked him to go to the attic to hide. "You hide in the attic, don't make a sound, wait for me to send them away first, and then I will argue with you." Da Jinya followed his mother's advice and hid in the attic without saying a word.After a while, the grandparent and grandson came to his door weeping.Although the blind man couldn't see them, he judged from the old woman's words that she was an honest and timid person, so he even coaxed and deceived them and sent them away.After they had gone, the blind man closed the door and put his ears on the door to listen. Knowing that they had gone far, he called his son down from the attic.

"Son," said the blind man, "I don't want to use any of the money you usually give me for slaughtering pigs and selling meat. I put it in the camphor wood box next to the bed and kept it for you to marry a wife." It’s useful. You take it all out, and take two changes of clothes, and go, as far as you want. After a year or so, you will come back.” Da Jinya smiled and said: "Mother, what's the matter with you, am I still afraid that they won't succeed and don't need to hide, if they dare to come again, I will kill them all." The blind man said: "Your old mother has no experience, but her parents died at the age of six, and she came to Puji to be a child bride-in-law. She married your father at the age of fourteen and became a widow at the age of twenty-six. Although she is blind, the events that have passed are clear. Chu, son, just listen to what I say, and don’t talk about anything else, because I had a dream last night, a group of white cranes fell on your father’s grave, this is an ominous sign, I’m afraid It will happen to you."

Da Jinya said: "Where did you go, mother? The situation today is very different from before. The world will also change, the world will be in chaos, and there has been a revolution in Puji." "I've been listening to you talking about revolution all day long, and keeping your mouth shut about revolution, messing around with a yellow-haired girl from the east of the village, and you don't even do well in your family's ancestral pig-killing business..." said the blind man. "The revolution is killing people, and the skills of killing pigs are not much different. It's all done by the white knife and the red knife. In a few days, after we capture Meicheng and kill the master of the state capital, we will pick you up." The old man goes to live in the yamen."

Seeing that Da Jinya refused to agree, the blind man thought about it for a while, and then changed his words: "I heard what the Changzhou woman said just now, she doesn't seem like a person who can be rough, her daughter-in-law died because of you, But she didn't go to report to the official, and she found her home, probably just fighting for some money, since you didn't listen to my advice, and refused to go out to hide, that's fine. You just divide half of the money in the box, trust me A reliable guy, make peace with the woman in Changzhou, as the old saying goes, spend money to eliminate disasters, and if you don’t agree with anything else, it’s fine, but you must obey my words.”

When Da Jinya saw what his old lady said about this matter, he had no choice but to pretend to agree, waited for the blind old lady to drink the medicine, and then went out to find someone to play for money. After that day, for a few days, nothing happened, and the blind man gradually stopped urging him to send money to Changzhou.That afternoon, Da Jinya came home from outside smelling of alcohol, and said to the blind old lady as soon as he entered the door: "Brother Wang Qidan invited me to drink at noon today. I always feel that this is a bit strange." The blind man said: "He kindly invites you to drink, what do you think is wrong?"

Da Jinya said: "It was nothing at first, but while drinking, that Wang Qidan took out a piece of hemp rope from his pocket and said, 'What can we brothers do to elder brother, don't blame elder brother' .There is no reason to say that well." "What happened next?" asked the blind man. "Then they both got drunk and fell asleep on the table." Da Jinya said. The blind old lady rolled her eyes in fright.She slapped her thigh and burst into tears: "Fool, fool, why did I give birth to you as a fool? People put a knife on your neck, and you are still kept in the dark?"

"Who wants to kill me?" Da Jinya touched his neck involuntarily, and was also taken aback. "Son, those blacksmith bastards and bastards are not buying you a drink, they are clearly trying to catch you." The blind man said. "Since they wanted to catch me, why did they buy me a drink?" Da Jinya asked. "Idiot, with your brute strength, if they add two together, they won't be able to get on you, and if they don't get you drunk, how can they catch you? Fortunately, they are drunk themselves, otherwise, your My life has long been in the hands of these two people." The blind man said.

"I have no grievances with them, why do they want to arrest me?" "It's not that they want to catch you, but someone else wants them to catch you." "So, it's the principal." Da Jinya seemed to be in a panic all of a sudden, and he was more than half sober, "Why did she want to catch me? Why did she want to catch me..." "For the matter of Changzhou, she wants to take you to justice." When Da Jinya heard this, his face turned pale.The chair he was holding on to was also creaked by him. The blind man was surprised and said: "Damn it, you are usually in the village, you are not afraid of the sky, you are not afraid of the earth, you are the reincarnation of the king of Hades, why do you get so frightened when you mention that yellow-haired girl?"

"Mother, what can I do?" Da Jinya said. "Brother Wang Qidan didn't cover you for a while, and someone else will come to arrest you soon. You hurry up and pack up, and you'll be on your way as soon as it gets dark. Give me a hand, and I'll burn some for you Bread, you take it on the road to eat." At dusk, a man who shaved his head came to the house.With the razor box in his arms, he limped to the door.Da Jinya recognized him as Xu Guaizi from Xiazhuang.Because I remembered that my hair had not been shaved for more than a month, I might as well shave my head before running away.After negotiating the price with Xu Guaizi, he sat down on the chair and asked him to shave his head.

That Xu Guaizi put the cloth around his chest and arranged it, and took out a shining razor from the wooden box.Xu Guaizi pressed the razor on his neck, and said in a low voice: "Brother, don't move. You are a pig butcher, and you know where I cut the knife. You don't move, I don't move." Hearing what Xu Guaizi said, Da Jinya was already paralyzed from fright, sitting on the chair and not daring to move.At this moment, several people rushed in from the door and tied him tightly with ropes.Wang Qidan came over, patted him on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "I was going to take you at noon, but we almost missed it because our brothers were too greedy." After finishing speaking, he ignored the crying and cursing of the blind old lady, and escorted him to the direction of the school. According to the old man in the village, if the big gold tooth could control his mouth, he would not have died. That evening, as soon as Da Jinya was captured, his old mother climbed up to Ding Shuze's house, leaning on the wall, and knelt down for him as soon as she entered the door. Ding Shu said: "Your son committed such a shameful thing, it is intolerable by nature, and people and gods are all angry. Even if the government arrests him, it will be a death penalty." The blind man said: "How can you listen to the one-sided words of that Changzhou woman? How do you know that her daughter committed suicide because my son raped her? How do you know that she didn't die of tuberculosis herself, so she came to Puji to blackmail me?" Ding Shu said: "Your son said it himself, and now there are all witnesses. He was greedy and raped first, and he was quicker than the latter. There is nothing wrong with it, so don't talk too much." .” The blind man said: "Even if there are a thousand gold teeth in our family that are not good, there is still one good one. He is filial to the elders. I don't need to talk about it here, that is, sir. He usually kills pigs and sheep, and the large intestine, stomach and lung , You didn't eat less." Ding Shu said: "Since you said so, we will settle all the accounts of the past few years later, and pay you back as much as we owe you." The blind man sneered twice, and said sternly: "Bah, to put it lightly! Of course you can pay back the money, but there is one thing, can you get rid of it? How did my mother treat you when she was not blind? Pity my husband." Dead, the first seven days are not over, you touch the door of the old lady. At that time, the old lady was full of filial piety, how could she get along with you? You said, you want to be pretty, and you are filial, you have no shame! What kind of great saint are you pretending to be? You made the old lady die, if it wasn't for saving this little blood for the ancestors, the old lady would have committed suicide by hanging herself. You don't want to be unrecognizable when you pull out your dick." Ding Shu was so angry, ashamed and hated by what she said, he was speechless for a long time. Mrs. Ding was washing dishes under the stove, and she really heard what the blind man said.Hearing the last verse, he couldn't stay still anymore, so he ran out from under the kitchen, forced a smile on his face and said to the blind man, "You are all old people, and you still talk about things when you were young, and you are not afraid of neighbors. They joked that the eldest nephew's matter is my matter, he was arrested for no reason, how can we stand by and just go back. We have a reason here." She went over to help the blind man up, tried to persuade her, coaxed her to leave. Na Dingshu seemed to have not recovered for a while, standing in the courtyard and shaking his head, "Sweeping the floor gently, sweeping the floor gracefully." "Sweep your mother's fart!" Master Ding cursed, and slapped Ding Shuze with a "slap", which immediately swollen half of Ding Shuze's face. Ding Shu drafted a bond overnight, contacted several powerful gentry in the village to sign the bond, and came to the school early the next morning to redeem him.When Xiumi was away, Xu Fu, a kiln worker, was in charge temporarily. Then Xu Fu said: "The principal ordered her to be arrested. If you want to release him, you have to wait for her to come back." Ding Shu pretended, "That Xiumi is an old student, she will accept everything I say. Just let him go." Xu Fu said: "Since Mr. said so, let people beat him dozens of boards, so that he can improve his memory." As soon as that big gold tooth saw that he was going to let him go, his tone hardened immediately: "Fight, who dares to hit me, you bastard, hurry up and untie me, it's a step too late, I want you to look good." The bastard looked at Xu Fu.Xu Fu was also upset about the toothache, so he waved his hand, "Just give him a favor, don't beat him up, next time we kill a pig, and give us a pig's head to drink with." When the big gold tooth heard what Xu Fu said, he became even more excited. He stabbed his neck and said loudly: "If you have a big shit, I will be caught and tossed about. To tell you the truth, the girl Sun in our village was also my father. I did it, raped first and then killed, so happy. What can you do with me." Ding Shu couldn't believe his ears, and Xu Fu was so frightened that his face turned pale.After a long while, Xu Fu got up and cupped his hands: "Mr. Ding, since he said that, it means that he still has a serious murder case in his hands. I can't decide whether to live or die. I can't let him go." Ding Shu could only smile wryly.Sighing for a long time, shook his head, and left without saying a word. When killing Da Jinya, it was originally for the son of a bitch and son of a bitch to do it.That Wang Qidan was a little hesitant, and said with a mournful face, this guy with big golden teeth is familiar, and he can't get off.Temporarily replaced an executioner from a foreign country, who used to be a plowman and had never killed anyone. He took the big gold tooth out of the stable, took it to a place where there was no one, and whispered to him in the dark: " Brother, I think there is a blind old mother in your family. When I kill you later, I cut your rope three times and twice, and you run away. I pretend to chase you for a while. After you get away, Three years and two years, don't come back to Puji." Da Jinya was surprised and said: "Hey, that's weird! You played a part in playing with that little bitch in Changzhou that day. Why was it that I was the only one who was arrested, but you are fine? Hurry up, hurry up, stop talking nonsense, you will do it for me first." After cutting the rope, my shoulders are numb." Hearing this, the man's eyebrows trembled in fright, he jumped up immediately, and stabbed him in the stomach.Da Jinya screamed wildly and shouted: "Brother, stop, I have something to say." "What else do you want to say?" the man said. "You can't kill me." Blood was already foaming from Da Jinya's mouth. "Why can't I kill you?" "You kill me, me, I don't know anything." The man stopped talking, touched the door of his heart, and with all his strength, even the handle of the knife was pushed in.When the knife went in, Da Jinya's neck was straight and his eyes were wide open. When the knife was pulled out, his neck drooped and his eyes closed. This is the first time the tiger has come to the Garan Hall where the principal lives.This palace is tall and large, but the furnishings in the room are extremely simple.A small wooden bed is supported on the north wall, and beside the bed is a long table with a lamp like a bean.that is it.In broad daylight, why did the headmaster light the lamp in the room? The room is airtight.Originally, there was a window on the east and west sides of the hall, and a gate on the north, leading to the Tianwang Hall in the back, but now, the windows and doors are all blocked with adobe.A skylight on the roof was also covered with a thick black curtain.When the tiger first entered, he smelled the smell of mud that had not been swept for a long time, and the room was even more chilly and gloomy. The room was nothing like what he had seen in his dreams.There are no large black lacquer and gold screens, no smooth rosewood tables and chairs, no gold-rimmed mirrors, and no chicken blood red vases.He noticed that the bed the headmaster slept on was also shabby. The mosquito net was patched, hemp rope was tied at the foot of the bed, and the bedding was messy. There was a simple board in front of the bed, and a pair of black cotton shoes . The headmaster was wearing an old red-flowered jacket with the cotton wool turned inside out.Only one thing is similar to the dream, and that is the sadness on her face.Even when she hiccups unexpectedly, people can smell the sadness.When he noticed an open toilet beside the bed, he suddenly felt that the principal was really pitiful.But since the moment he stepped into the room, he has been afraid to look into her eyes. "Come here," said the principal, her voice low and hoarse. She made him sit on the bed, then turned slightly sideways and said to him, "Do you know why I asked you to come?" The tiger was stunned, lowered his head, and said in a low voice: "No, no, I don't know." The principal suddenly stopped talking, and the tiger knew that she was looking at him. "How old are you?" "what?" "I asked how old are you this year?" "fourteen." The headmaster smiled and said, "You don't have to be afraid, I'm here to talk to you." When she spoke, she seemed to have something in her mouth. Tiger raised his head and saw that it was a silver hairpin. The principal was re-coiling the fluffy hair.He could even smell the scent coming out of her mouth, which was not fragrant at all, but slightly sour.That's the smell of sweet potatoes. "What are you talking about?" "Just talking casually," said the headmaster. Sure enough, she started talking to him.She said, tiger listen.Even, she didn't care if he listened or not.She said she couldn't sleep, and never could.Only at night, when she wandered by the river alone and smelled the steam under the river bed, would she fall asleep, but she couldn't sleep again when she returned to her room.She said she was afraid of the light.She said that only when a person becomes a ghost after death, will he be afraid of seeing the light.At this time, the headmaster suddenly sneered, patted him on the shoulder, and said: "Look at me, do I look like a ghost?" The tiger was slapped by him and trembled in fright. "Don't be afraid, I'm not a ghost." She smiled. She said she didn't know if what she was doing was a mistake, or rather, a joke.She mentioned a place called Huajiashe.Speaking of that, there is a grave, and there is a tablet in front of the grave, and there are some words written on the tablet. It is an inscription written by a person who is as sad as her.Sometimes, she felt they were the same person. She told of how one night in Yokohama, Japan, she passed a man on an empty street and collapsed on the ground.Incredible, incredible. "Guess who I saw?" "No, no, no, I don't know." Tiger shook his head desperately, as if he felt that as long as he shook his head a few more times, the principal would let him go. She talked about the strange dreams she had had.She believes that everything in the dream is real.Sometimes you wake up from a dream, but sometimes you wake up in a dream and find that everything in the world is really a dream.Her words gradually made him unable to understand.Did she send someone to call him here just to say a lot of nonsense? "I don't understand what you said." Tiger interrupted the principal for the first time, "Why are you telling me this?" "Because no one is willing to listen to my words," said the headmaster. "My head hurts every day and every moment, just like frying people in a frying pan. Sometimes, I really want to bang my head against the wall .” "Are you really going to attack Meicheng?" "right." "But, but, why are you going to fight Meicheng?" "Only by doing one thing can we forget other things." The principal said. "What do you want to forget?" "Everything." "Then, what is 'revolution'?" After a while, the tiger asked her. "Well, revolution..." The headmaster seemed to be hurting again. She rubbed her temples and said lazily, "Revolution means that no one knows what he is doing. He knows he is revolutionizing, yes, but he Still don't know what he's doing. It's like..."