Chapter 27 chapter Five

The donkey cart passed through the fields with dense reeds on both sides, and the eyes suddenly opened up.He raised his face and looked at the rising full moon, the Milky Way receded, the stars were scattered, and the night sky was as clean and flawless as it had been washed by water.The donkey walked slowly, and the mosquito burrowed into the grass.Huang He also seemed to have fallen asleep, only hearing him snoring once or twice.The erratic night wind blew a erratic little beetle around his neck, and was taken away by the erratic night wind. The world suddenly became astonishingly silent.He suddenly felt a shock of loneliness and desertion.

People of the older generation often say: "A house full of children is not as good as a half-way couple." This is true.Although there are two men and one woman now, it's better to have Han Yumei.His wife had been with him for more than thirty years, and finally died too. Even if he didn't die, he was still like a stranger.Strangely, some couples can't understand each other even though they have lived together for half their lives. They only have habits and no feelings.However, when some men and women meet, they seem to have known each other for half their lives, like glue, and they can't get rid of it no matter what.He couldn't figure out the reason for this; he also didn't understand the "love" his second son yelled at him, he just felt a deep, heart-wrenching longing for Han Yumei.Even though this woman may have disappeared in the world, her body has been dissolved in his blood like sugar in water. When he looks back on the past, he can feel a little bit of sweetness on the tip of his tongue. My life is full and interesting.

Ah, Han Yumei, ah, Han Yumei!Where are you? ... In summer, the peas mature in the "Heitian", and he leads the stronger farmers to cut, thrash, harvest and divide them day and night.The flood control dam like the Great Wall blocked large areas of pea flowers, numerous pea pods, and hundreds of farmers who harvested secretly.Even Ho Lide, who was keenly aware of the details, went to his team to inspect, but he didn't find that there were grains beyond the procurement figures hidden in the east of the flood control dam. "The year of the ox and horse is good for farming." Although 1960 was the year of the rat, the peas in that year grew particularly well: the pods were plump and the grains were round.In the dark night, the peasants carried bags of peas home from the "black field" like mice.With the rice soup brought back from the public canteen, each family can eat the peas until next spring.The collective survived, and the playful laughter was heard on the Zhuangzi again, and the bare-bottomed doll ran to the road to dance and dance.Every day after work is over, every family uses cans, shovel heads, and clay pots—the pots have already been collected for steel—to cook, fry, and boil.Although what you chew is just peas, but in 1960, what else do you want to eat?Farmers in other places even pick and eat undigested barley grains in horse manure.

That evening, as usual, he carried a bucket to fetch water from the well, but just as the bucket was put down, someone grabbed his arm. When he turned his head, he saw Han Yumei's face half angry and half happy.Without saying a word, he followed her into the house with his head down. Han Yumei slammed the door against her back, hugged her elbows, and licked her lips, as if she was holding her breath, but her big eyes were still rippling. "Tiangui, didn't you say that... real life is better..." He knew what she was asking for.She used to call him "uncle", then called him "secretary", and now she called him "Tiangui", this is not obvious.However, his head hangs even lower.

"Tell me, how am I doing now?" Han Yumei puffed up her cheeks and questioned him. "Okay." He had to be fair. Indeed, since that night, Han Yumei really went down to the brothel. From opening "Heitian" to harvesting peas, she was a woman with a nursing baby and went to work every day. If she couldn't do heavy work, she would find light work.Luo Mazi from the Luoqu brigade came to her again in the dark one night, but she slapped her out with a shovel, got hit on the back, and fell down in the puddle beside the well.People near her house could hear Luo Mazi's resentful curses.The word spread the next day, and people in Zhuangzi cherished her even more.Originally, people in Zhuangzi didn't look down on her, but now, especially the men, they all say, "The bitch starves to death." Whoever marries her will be blessed for eight lifetimes.

"Then...why are you..." After listening to Han Yumei's satisfied answer, a smile appeared on her pretty face, and she slowly moved closer, her plump breasts pressed against his muscular chest, then raised her face again, and stretched her mouth out. On the front of his front, he bit off the thread of a button he had made himself, and asked softly: "Tell me, why don't you come..." Apparently, Han Yumei dressed up intentionally today, and even took a shower, her body exuded a soapy smell.Soap!It's a thing that farmers don't often use. In 1960, it was as expensive as Paris perfume!Her hair was combed bald, braided like ears of wheat and coiled on top of her head, exposing her white and delicate neck.After she participated in the field labor, her skin became more moist and smooth, covered with a shy girlish blush.However, he still kept sighing, and closed his eyes in distress.

Why didn't he miss Han Yumei?Sometimes when I feel uncomfortable with my wife, I get angry, and I even ran to the well to knock on Han Yumei's door, but I was always blocked by that shadow. Who is that shadow? It was the one-eyed Hao San! When he led the members to sow peas, the county held a county-wide public trial meeting.Of course, among the first batch of people to be judged was the famous one-eyed Hao San.He went to the meeting and heard that Hao San was not sentenced to only four years as he estimated, but life imprisonment.Not five sheep a year.The twenty sheep cost Hao San his entire life.

Court officials read a long list of verdicts.Although Hao San was handcuffed and his head was forced down by the police, he still stubbornly raised his head from time to time, blinking his one eye and scanning the venue.He knew the one eye was looking for him.He regretted and hated in his heart, and he was so guilty that he couldn't breathe, as if a big stone was pressed against his chest.But what can be done?Can he jump out at the venue and shout "wronged"?Can he go to the front of the court cadres and say, "It wasn't him who did it, I did it"?That way, the two of them must be caught together.He gritted his two rows of solid teeth, the cold sweat was dripping from his head, and his whole body was shaking.Luo Mazi, who was sitting behind him, thought he had a sudden illness and kindly advised him to go back and rest.But when he used his arm, he slammed back hard: "Fuck you!" Almost made Luo Mazi get a nosebleed, which made Luo Mazi roll his eyes at him.

After the meeting was over, he squeezed to the door of the office where the prisoners were temporarily held at the back of the venue. "What are you doing?" the policeman with a May-1 pistol yelled at him. "I'm the secretary of the Weijiaqiao Brigade!" He patted his chest, "I'm looking for Hao San from our team!" The cadres of the Public Security Bureau of the nearby county knew him, and said to the police, "You can ask their secretary to take a look and explain the policy. It is also good for the prisoner's reform." He jumped in front of Hao San all at once.

Hao San raised his head slowly, with tears in his one eye, like a muddy puddle beside the Yellow River. "Third Brother!" He called out tremblingly. One-eyed Hao San's tears flowed out, ticking on the handcuffs on his chest.After being silent for a while, Hao San looked at the prisoners and the policemen on both sides, and said loudly, "Okay, my secretary! Go back, I will suffer for the crime I made myself!" After finishing speaking, he lowered his head again and let him ask questions without panting. That day, he happened to have no money with him, so he found several familiar commune and brigade cadres to scrape together twelve yuan and bought two catties of "Iraqi candied dates"—the only high-end food that could be bought in food stores at that time. The cadres of the Public Security Bureau handed it over to One-eyed Hao San.

In this way, when he was about to knock on the door of Han Yumei's house, Hao San always seemed to be at the door of Han Yumei's house, staring at the one-eyed one, and shouted at him resentfully: "I will have to spend my whole life in labor camp, but you are lying on the kang with your daughter-in-law in your arms." Go happy, are you human?" He wandered around the well platform twice, and in the end, he returned to his home unhappy.In the end, he gave up even the thought of thinking about it. The pink and white pea flowers have fallen off, and the bean trees in the "Black Field" have produced green bean pods, and the attractive fragrance of fresh peas is rippling on the river beach.At this moment, police officers from the labor reform team came to him on a motorcycle with a bucket. "This is Hao San's belongings from your team." Two police officers entered the door and put a pile of old clothes wrapped in rotten furskins on his desk.A grinning rain boot emerged from the fur skin like a mouth that was about to eat. "What...what are you doing?" His face turned pale in an instant. "Hao San is dead. Judging from the file, he has no relatives. This matter has to be handed over to your team." "Why... die...?" His mind went "boom", and he had never stuttered in such a panic. "Hey, this guy seems to be a fool. When the fuse was lit while shooting rocks on the mountain, people waved a small flag and told him to avoid it. Well, he ran towards the hole of the blast, and the cannonball collapsed to death. Now, do you think this person is stupid?" He didn't know how the police officers got there, and the rumble of starting the motorcycle didn't wake him up.He froze like a fossil on the dilapidated Taishi chair in Wang Hai's house. If one-eyed Hao San is stupid, he is indeed a bit stupid.Having suffered such a miserable experience since childhood, and being disabled, how can his temperament be as normal as that of ordinary people?When they are happy, they will laugh up to the sky and dance with their hands; when they are sad, they will cry and howl, calling their parents and mothers; they talk to horses when they herd horses, chat with cows when they herd cattle, and talk to sheep when they herd sheep. He grew up together, and he knew very well that the one-eyed Hao San was not only quick in his work, but also had a wink, and he would never even know where the hole was shot. Come on, give him a few good words, and he can pour out all his blood.In One-eyed Hao San's mouth, he has never heard bad things about others, but he always talks about other people's misfortunes.On the morning of the slaughter of the sheep, Hao San was still worrying about the "yellow-haired ghost", saying that a place thousands of miles away with no people inhabited was not as good as ours.People in this area have a saying: "After three years of sheep herding, even a county magistrate is not worthy" - the shepherds in the community have some privileges. In addition to being able to eat mutton and haggis every year, they are also given some wool, Sheepskin, hiking shoes.The ration standard is also higher than that of ordinary commune members, and there are also animal husbandry subsidies.However, Hao San gave all of them to the impoverished households of the La family. In the end, there was only this relic of the rotten baggage. He didn't believe that Hao San was killed because he was "stupid".He remembered what Hao San said before leaving: "I can't bear to be a baby and I can't beat a wolf." "Four years later, I will come back." There was a huge disparity, and he was sentenced to life!Later, Hao San said: "I will suffer the crimes I made myself." Did Hao San "run to the blasthole" just to reassure him?yes! Yes.It’s not because of being “stupid”, nor is it to get rid of the hardships of squatting in the labor camp——Hao San himself is right, it doesn’t matter if his personal life is outside the labor camp, but he wants to repay his care for him since he was a child with death. Repay him with "Third Brother" twice, and repay him with two catties of "Iraqi candied dates"... Surely Hao San thinks this way: as long as he lives in this world, he, Wei Tiangui, will not feel at ease outside, and he will be timid when he leads the villagers to drive "Heitian".Hao San didn't know how to write letters, and he didn't have a chance to send him a message, so he could only use his own death to tell Wei Tiangui: You can live with peace of mind, lead everyone to work hard, and let the villagers have enough to eat... Who said that among the illiterate farmers, there are no strong men who are high-spirited and upright, who sacrifice their lives for righteousness? One-eyed Hao San is one! "I...I can't, well...Han Yumei..." He gently pushed her away a little, trembling like a doll who has done something wrong. "Then...why not? It's my fault, do you dislike me?" Han Yumei looked at him affectionately, rubbing his shoulders with both hands. "No, no." He shook his head anxiously, "Hello, I have you in my heart. But I can't..." "Then why? I won't ask you to divorce her, so let's quietly..." "Xiong, you can't leave. If you want to talk about leaving, I really want to leave. But the two of us... I always feel that we can't." "Then...why?" Han Yumei frowned, puzzled, "Is it because of fear?" "Bah!" He spat, and mentioned the word "scared", which aroused his masculinity, "What am I afraid of?" It's not that she dislikes her, nor is she afraid, so what else is there?Han Yumei didn't ask any more, she blinked her big eyes, pursed her lips and smiled mischievously, and suddenly took action, throwing her arms around him onto the kang desperately. "Are you crazy? Are you crazy?..." With a little effort, he broke free from Han Yumei's arm, jumped to the ground, straightened his clothes, and scolded Gou Niang sternly. Han Yumei was stunned for a while, and then like a volcanic eruption, tears flowed from a pair of big eyes, and she clapped her hands and stomped her feet and cursed: "You're not a fucking human! You're a gelding! You heartless... people miss you...you're a gelding! You're not a human, you're a gelling! A gelding! . . . My life is miserable! Father, father! My life is miserable! I post it to others and no one wants it..." She jumped violently for a while, then turned over and threw herself on the kang, crying for her father and mother. He made Han Yumei cry for a while, then went over and lifted her shoulders, facing her face, and said to her in a very serious tone. "Listen, I'll tell you the truth, but you must not tell it. In order for you not to go to the labor camp, I sent the one-eyed Hao San to Lord Yan. Tell me, can I still sleep with you? Think about it carefully." Han Yumei slowly raised her tear-drenched face, sobbing and thinking.He wiped her tears with his broad palm, patted her on the head again, turned and walked out the door. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but shed cold old tears, and he didn't wipe them, just letting them meander along the curved wrinkles to his mouth.Tears are bitter.He really wanted to cry, but he couldn't cry. This is probably the sign of old age that Lao He said. The donkey cart wobbled and approached a puddle by the river.The frogs and clams sleeping in the bushes clucked silently three or two times, and then jumped into the water with a plop. A gust of wind awoke the rushes and reed leaves, swaying lazily.The whole world seemed to be alive again, alive again.He wrapped the jacket a little tighter, and continued to think about his thoughts.