Chapter 10 three horses

The town has been newly expanded and widened, and the streets that have not yet been paved with asphalt are empty, and there is no living thing walking.The poisonous sun in June scorched the earth, and the loess road surface reflected the harsh brown light in the sun.The air was sticky and hot, blinding everywhere, stuffy everywhere.The town was tortured by the scorching heat, and it lost its usual vitality.A dozen or so men were wearing shorts and slippers, half lying on nylon recliners newly brought from the city, chatting in the shade of trees at the west end of the town.A very handsome little daughter-in-law was sitting under a lantana tree in a small courtyard on the street with a sad face.A girl fell asleep on a straw mat under a tree.A few old hens were lying in the dirt under the wall, panting with their wings.There is a small river a few miles to the east of the town. The water is murky and hot. A dozen snotty heroes are bathing and picking crabs.They had all shaved gourd heads, and their bodies were covered with yellow mud.The main street emerges straight out of the town, becomes the main road, and extends into the vast fields.On both sides of the road are green corn, and the corn grows as impenetrable as a forest.On the edge of the town and the fields, there are dozens of bungalows with blue tiles and blue bricks, a large iron gate with peeling green paint and rusty spots, and a heavily armed soldier stands upright at the gate, which can be seen from a long distance away. His face was full of sweat.The location of the sentinel station is very good. Looking to the east, he can see the ocean-like green gauze curtain and the khaki-colored road; looking to the south, he can see the blue mountains in the distance; Broad avenue.

At the west end of the town, a dozen or so men lying on the deck chairs under the old willow tree were so hot and distracted, bored, and didn’t know how to spend the long noon, an apricot-yellow rubber-wheeled cart drove by Three tall horses with fresh coats and waxy coats rumbled into the small town.The driver was a thirty-seven or eighteen-year-old axle man. He was full of black stubble, and a broken straw hat was slanted on his head. The brim of the hat was drooping limply, covering half of his face. Messy hair protruded from the top of the torn straw hat.His walk was a little loopy, but his steps were clean, his feet gripping the ground like iron grapples.In his bony hands he held a large bamboo whip with red tassels on it. The tip of the whip was cut from raw calfskin, it was thin and flexible.This kind of whip tip is as sharp as a knife, and it can cut off a corn tree standing upright in one fell swoop.The man walked quickly on the left side of the car with bowed legs, and swung his big whip in a semicircle in the air, making a very crisp sound, and the sound of the whip drove waves across the town.Twelve horseshoes with nails on them paved the road, kicking up clouds of dust.The carriage full of daily necessities rushed into the small town eye-catchingly, making the man under the shade of the tree refreshed.

"Liu Qi, so it's you! The fiery big noon boss, what are you doing?" A middle-aged man got up from the recliner and called out to the man driving the car. "Fourth brother Huang, I haven't looked at you for a long time, and I feel comfortable, lying here to dry my wings." Liu Qi stopped the animal and answered the middle-aged man who asked the question. "It's a hot day, come here to have a bag of cigarettes, catch your breath, and cool off before you go." "But what about my horses? These three newly bought horses..." "Is this a newly bought horse? Three big horses, and this trailer? Hey, Xiao Yu, look up." Huang Si stood up in surprise and said, "Hurry up and let your horse rest. I also got to know these three dragon horses."

Liu Qi thumped the horse with a long and loud voice, and bent the car under the shade of a tree.He set up the carriage frame to lighten the load on the shaft horse, then propped up the hay basket and poured the hay, and then went to the press well to press down a bucket of cold water. After mixing the fodder in the basket, he walked into the crowd, picked out a pack of cigarettes with tin foil from the tattered coat, and scattered them generously.Several men stood up, gathered around the carriage, and looked at the three horses in a circle. "Good horse!" "What a horse!"

Liu Qi squinted one eye, the other eye was wide open, with two fingers in his left hand holding a cigarette, and holding a broken straw hat in his right hand to fan the wind in his chest, his face was filled with complacency.He looked at his three horses, his eyes became bigger and smaller for a while, his eyes were blurred and gentle.good horse!It's still up to you to say, or my twenty years of driving will be in vain, he thought.I, Liu Qi, started driving with a pole when I was fifteen years old. At that time, I was not as tall as a whip.For decades, even though I have used some lame mules and blind horses, I never dared to think that I could hitch such a decent cart with such a beautiful and strong horse, which makes people look energetic.Take a look at the sorrel pony that is pulling the tip by hand. It has no hairs all over its body, and its color is like an old boiled chestnut shell, and it is bright purple.Those two ears look like bamboo knots cut off by a sharp knife.Those big, heroic eyes are like two light bulbs.There are also legs like scale hooks, hooves like wine cups, and they are born with the appearance of a dragon and a horse.This horse is "toothless". It's a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy who hasn't grown up enough yet.The little bay red horse in the outside hand has a smooth fat body, girl-like eyebrows and eyes, and even its lips are as red as May cherries.Can the black horse pick out a thorn for me?It is not a hybrid of Japanese horses and Yili horses, but also a descendant of Mongolian horses and Henan horses. It is as tall as Shanda Chaiguang, and as dark as a pine.It can also be said that it was my luck, Liu Qi, who never dreamed that I could buy such three horses in the market.God has blessed us, and these three treasures are destined for us.Three horses and one trailer cost me 8,000 yuan.In order to save money to buy this horse, I drove my wife away in anger.I, Liu Qi, have been single for more than a year. My clothes are torn and no one mends them. My food is cold and no one warms them up. What am I planning?The picture is of this style.There is no career in the world more magnificent than our handlebar style.A man like an axle, as black as a half of a black iron tower, with a blue fur coat rooted in his waist, half of his arms open, exposing two lumps of flesh on his chest, with a cracking whip, humming a little song, a slap on the shaft rod Sit down, the horses are rattling, the wheels are dragging smoke, how chic you want to be, how messy you want to stay... Ladies, you have a long hair but a short knowledge, just because of this little thing you Just patted the tip of his buttocks, hugged his daughter and led his son and ran back to his mother's house. It was a year since he left, what the hell!Today, I drove the car back and parked at the gate of your mother's house and turned west. If you don't believe me, if you don't change your mind, you're lucky to find me.

"Okay! Liu Qi, the policy has been improved in the past few years. Your horse is a dragon and your car is a precious car. You can take care of yourself now." "What's there to care about?" Liu Qi sighed sadly and said, "My wife doesn't understand my heart. She famines with me every day and every day. I beat her up. She desperately wants to divorce me. I don't agree. , she tidied up, ran back to her mother's house, and didn't come back. The old rule since ancient times, "Wife is a man's horse, she can ride if she wants to ride, and hit if she wants to fight." She won't let her ride, You won't even be allowed to fight."

"Liu Qi, your rules have long been outdated, and now it's reversed, she wants to ride you." Huang Si said with a smile. "Brother Liu Qi, you are really too. How can such a young woman be willing to beat her? The sister-in-law was wiping her back in the house that day, and I slipped on my stomach by the back window, so I couldn't even roll my eyes. God, Bai Shengsheng , like a dough... If I were to kneel down and nibble her heels every day, it would be fine." Brother Jin, a well-known idler in the town, winked and said. Liu Qi's eyes seemed to be bleeding.He jumped in front of Brother Jin with one step, his slender neck was caught with fingers like iron pincers, he lifted it up like an eagle catching a chick, and fell a few steps away at once.Brother Jin rolled over and got up, rubbing his neck and cursing: "Liu Qi, your grandma's persimmons are only soft. Your wife is stealing men from her mother's house, and the sun is bright and the sun is a soldier in the east of the town. Hey... you are a cuckold and you are still playing a hero here."

Liu Qi picked up a big whip and rushed forward, but Brother Jin ran away beating around the bush like a rabbit.Seeing that Liu Qi was not really chasing after him, he stopped again, bared his teeth and said, "Brother Liu Qi, I won't lie to you. Since my sister-in-law ran back to her mother's house, my brother has been watching her. If you want a divorce, hurry up. Occupying the latrine doesn't suck at shit. Let me tell you, married women are like horses in the stalls, they wag their tails when they slap their buttocks." "Brother Jin!" A gray beard yelled, "You've thrown thirty or forty away, your mouth is as dirty as a horse ring, go home and wash that stinky mouth, don't embarrass your father here .”

The white beard scolded Brother Tuijin, walked up to Liu Qi, patted him on the shoulder, and persuaded him: "Young one, go and confess your mistake to your wife, take it home and live a good life, no matter how spiritual a horse is, it is still a horse." "Liu Qi, my brother and sister have been in town for almost a year. As soon as the spring started, your old mother-in-law and sister-in-law went to Heilongjiang to see her daughter. I heard that the old lady was sick there and couldn't come back. The two of them threw the land to the younger brother and sister. Kind of, a woman's family, with two children, gossips every day, lives with a dung pot, if you are really a widow, but you... the forest is big, there are all kinds of birds, brother!" Huang Si said sympathetically.

Liu Qi was like a frost-beaten melon seedling, he hung his head listlessly, and muttered in his mouth: "This stinky bitch still deserves a beating. I whipped you until you touched the grass all over the ground, and you knelt down and called daddy. Only then did you know that I, Liu Qi, was a non-vegetarian when the tiger went down the mountain." "Okay, young man, don't be so stubborn here. It's not a shame for a man to kneel down to his wife nowadays, it's very fashionable. My son combs and braids his wife's hair every day." Everyone laughed together.Huang Si said: "The carriages and horses are here, and I will take care of them for you. Your daughter-in-law may have heard your broken voice a long time ago, and she may be looking at you through the crack of the door right now." Huang Si faced the town. The central courtyard facing the street pouted.

Liu Qi scratched his neck a few times, laughed dryly a few times, his face was white and red, and he moved slowly towards the old man's house. He knocked lightly on the two small closed doors.There was no sound in the small courtyard.He knocked on the door again and listened with bated breath. A girl's babbling came from the yard. "Mother Zhuzi, open the door." He yelled half his voice, his voice was as dull as an old cow roaring.No one in the yard paid him any attention.He pressed his oily and sweaty face to the crack of the door and looked in, and saw his wife was sitting under the lantana tree with her back to him, breastfeeding the child, whose legs were kicking and scratching. "Are you going to open the door? If you don't, I'll jump over the wall!" He roared angrily.He really leaned on the top of the wall, jumped up, and jumped into the small courtyard, the mud on the wall fell rustlingly. The woman cried "Wow", and scolded: "You wild dog, you haven't tortured me enough, have you? You feel uncomfortable seeing our girls alive, don't you feel uncomfortable? You called, you..." Huai The girl in the house felt that the milk soup flowing out of her nipples had become less and tasted different, and she cried angrily. Liu Qi was at a loss, his body was dripping with sweat, he poked in front of the woman like a wooden stake, and the muscles on his cheeks twitched. "The child's mother..." he said, he looked at the woman's shrugging shoulders, her pale and haggard face, her two eyebrows that were knit together and trembling like willow leaves, and her exposed lips being sucked by the child. Looking at the snow-white plump breasts that he was scratching, he snorted and said, "Go and see our horses, three good horses..." "...Get out, get out, don't stand here and answer me. If you are still human and have a little bit of humanity, then leave me as soon as possible..." "Go and look at those three horses, a sorrel pony, a bay red pony, and a black gelding." Speaking of horses, his gray face suddenly became alive, and his foggy eyes Yi Yi shines, "These are really three good horses! Tender mouth, fat, straight mind, strong and slender hooves and legs, they walk like a cat climbing a tree, and they roar like '咴咴', full of confidence. Zhu his mother , you go to see our horse, you won't scold me, you will go home with me excitedly." "Go back and go with your horse fathers, horse mothers, and horse ancestors, those dead horses, rotten horses, and plagued horses!" "You, you fucking, you dare to call my horse! You are not as good as a horse!" Liu Qi's chest was filled with flames, his eyeballs were bloodshot, he took a step forward towards the woman, and roared, "You Say, to go back or not to go back?" "As long as I live, I won't go back to your stinky pen!" "I'll kill you..." "Hit it, Liu Qi, you didn't hit me once, let you hit me enough today. You beat me to death, if you don't hit me, it's not raised by your parents, it's the horse's, the donkey's... "The woman cursed and began to cry. Liu Qi looked at the woman's face full of tears, his hands softened, his heart trembled, and his raised fists drooped limply.He fumbled and took out the cigarette case from the tattered jacket. The empty cigarette case was clenched into a ball by his big hand and thrown on the ground angrily.He squatted on the ground in frustration, holding his head in his two big hands.You hag!He thought, why can't you understand a man's heart?I don't steal or gamble or walk around with my wife. I am a man who can chew iron and steel. I love horses and want to buy horses. I am a serious farmer.If it wasn't for you, Tai Gagu, I wouldn't beat you up if you were fired upon by me.When I beat you, I hit the meat on the buttocks, the pain is the pain point, but it can't hurt the muscles, move the bones, lose the disability, or disfigure you. You are not fucking satisfied.Today I beg you humbly, when did Liu Qi pretend to be such a bear?You don't even pay a visit.These damned cicadas are also here to join in the fun, screaming "squeaky la la", what's the matter if I don't feel bored?He raised his face and stared at the noisy cicadas on the lantana tree with hatred. Cicada slightly lifted his pointed buttocks and pissed his face.There was the neighing of horses in the street.It was the sorrel pony, and he knew it right away.This is looking forward to me, calling me.People are not as good as horses!Grandma, I'm still here twitching and pretending to be a bad grandson. If you come back, you will come back, and if you don't return, you will be pulled down. Anyway, I have a horse.He got up and wanted to go, but roots seemed to take root under his feet, and he seemed to have turned into a tree.He wanted to say a few manly words that were good enough to show off the prestige of this lady, but the taste changed in his mouth. He wanted to make old wine, but the result was sweet vinegar, which surprised even himself. "Didn't I just slap you so many times? What else can I do to you? Now, we have a horse and a car, so why don't you go back?" "Horse, it's a horse again! Ever since I married you, I have suffered from horse plague with you. That year you built a grave for the horse, set up a tablet, and asked people to drive it to parade the public. At that time, the pillar was just 20 days old. I Suffering from confinement disease, half-dead, half-alive, you don’t care about it, you only think about your dead horse father. In the past few years, I have been raising minks with you from morning to night, and my hand was bitten by a mink until blood flowed. I am quite Going down to the field with a big belly to pick cotton, going out wearing a star, and coming back with a full moon, the children were almost born in the field. What was I planning? In recent years, who’s daughter-in-law didn’t have a bright body and a glossy mouth? Erlin’s My daughter-in-law is five years older than me, and looks younger and fresher than me. You don’t care about the shabby cabinets at home, you don’t care about your wife’s and children’s rags, and you put small coins on your ribs, and you end up buying so many rotten horses. You said you wouldn't listen, and you still beat me, which made me bruised and swollen... I was a good husband and wife with you, so I didn't go to the court to sue you, you still don't know how to behave, or you would have entered the prison room long ago." "You didn't see what kind of horses these are! Go and see..." "You heartless horse bastard, get out! As long as you keep these horse parents and mothers, I will divorce you." "I know why you want to leave me!" Liu Qi kicked a chicken bowl a few feet away, and said gloomily, "You shameless slut, you... are so fucking shameful! You Do you think I care about you? Leave and leave!" Liu Qi staggered towards the door angrily, opened the door and walked out, and slammed the door again with a "cracking sound". The woman seemed to have been hit on the head with a sap, her eyes were blank, her lips were trembling, the corners of her mouth were trembling, and her teeth were chattering loudly.She stood there like a stone statue.The hot wind rushing in from the gate brushed her fluffy hair on the side. The hot wind choked her lungs with the smell of rotten grass in the field, making her dizzy for a while.The hot wind blows the elegant and colorful lantana tree in the courtyard. The branches and leaves of the lantana tree are whirling and shaking in the wind, the feathery light green leaves rustle, and the pink lantana flowers are shining like clouds.Women have heard people say lantana is also called Albizia julibrissin.Another horse, another damn horse.She felt an unbearable pain in her heart.The child bit her nipple with its unpleasant teeth, and she felt no pain.Acacia, acacia, you can't get together if you have a horse, and you can't get along if you are together.As she thought, two lines of tears rolled down her cheeks. The seven or eight naked monkeys in their late teens had fought enough water battles in the Zhendong River ditch and dug out enough crab nests and eel holes, and they were covered in mud, carrying a crab or two eels, Looking east, looking west, looking south, wandering north, squatting down the road and walking towards the town. Walking in front of the team was a black boy with big eyes, a wide mouth and a bulbous nose.In his left hand he held a crab leg - the rest of which had been eaten raw.He said, my father said to eat raw crab roe and live shrimp, and half-cooked clams.The crab legs are reserved for the little sister, who has just grown two crooked front teeth—holding a thin willow stick in her right hand, waving it along the way, picking weeds at weeds and young trees at small trees.At the head of a black corn field, he raised the wicker, aimed it at the side of a corn tree, and swung it vigorously, only to hear a "swish", and two fat corn leaves broke off in unison.Hei boy shouted excitedly: "Hey, look at my whip!" He waved his hand again, and cut off two more corn leaves. "Who doesn't know that?" said a child, and ran to a willow tree beside the machine well, climbed up, broke a few willow branches, held them in his mouth, and slid down with a "chiliu" .The rough bark rubbed his belly full of white spots. "Hey, hey," he said, patting his belly, "You don't have to worry about going up the tree, but you get meat when you go down the tree. Zhuzi, what are you blowing? Look at my saber." He peeled off the leaves on the willow branches, and "cracked" at a few corn trees. "Crackling", the few wickers thrown on the ground were snatched up by several children, so a few "horse whips" and a few "sabers" were chopped horizontally and vertically.Dozens of corn plants were badly molded, lacking arms and legs, standing on the ground with a sad face, and became dozens of corn bachelors. "Don't chop it up, my mother! This piece of corn belongs to my grandma's house." Hei boy held up a half-short willow stick and whipped it at a few bare buttocks. "Oh, pillar, you took the lead in chopping it down." "I cut it from my grandma's house, did you cut it from your grandma's house?" Zhuzi's willow slapped the stubborn boy's ass again, and the boy grinned in pain, crying and cursing: " Zhuzi, your father is dead, you don't have a father..." "Who do you think doesn't have a father?" "You don't have a father!" "My father is in Liu Tuan. My father is as tall as the black tower, and my father's fist is as big as a horse's hoof. My father is a magic whip. My father can knock down a horse with one whip, and the whip tip hits the horse's ears. My father He told me everything. My father went to the county to pull oil that year, and a house sparrow was squatting on the wire. My father said: "Whip! 'The house sparrow fell like a stone, and the house sparrow was still squatting on the wire.My father said: "My son, you can't cut it so neatly with a knife." I will go to my father in two years, and my father told me that I want to buy three good horses! Humph, my father is a great father !" "Your father is dead! You are a bastard!" "My father is alive!" Zhu Zi pounced on the boy who was taller than him by a palm, like a little wolf.The two naked monkeys hugged each other and rolled all over the ground.Several other children clapped their hands and cheered.Some shouted and cheered, some fought Taiping, and some fought against injustice.In the end, the children all rolled together, looking from a distance, they looked like a pile of meatballs rolling.The crab was thrown on the grass beside the road, foaming half-dead.The ricefield eels are almost drying into dry sticks.The crab leg of the pillar is being dragged towards the nest by a group of big ants working together. "Liu Qi, how are you? Promise to go back with you?" Gray Beard asked with concern. With a livid face, Liu Qi tidied up the hay basket and the cart bracket with a "crackling" sound. "Brother, it doesn't seem to be going well, should you kneel down and apologize? Look at your little face, it looks like a black chicken comb." Huang Si teased teasingly. Liu Qi picked up the whip with his right hand, and the fine hemp rope connected to the horse's bit with his left hand. With a loud roar, he turned the car sharply, and the tail of the car rubbed against the trunk, peeling off a large piece of willow bark. "Brother Liu Qi, sister-in-law didn't let you make out?" Brother Jin stood far away, joking with revenge. "My dear grandma!" Liu Qi roared angrily, two big muddy teardrops popped out and fell on his dusty cheeks.His hand has been holding tight to the string that is connected to the bit iron. The hard bit iron tightly tightens the sorrel pony's bright red tongue and the corners of its delicate mouth. The ground raised up, and finally the front hooves volleyed in the air, and the body stood upright.This majestic and bank-like shape made Liu Qi's blood boil and his heart trembled. He let go of the iron chewing rope, and before he had time to adjust the front of the car, the car body and the street were slanted at a 60-degree angle.He played a whip on the tops of the two young horses, only to hear two crisp bangs, the sorrel horse and the chestnut horse received a sharp blow on the neck, almost at the same time, the thick whip The handle also stabbed heavily on the black horse's buttocks.These movements are stretched and coherent, done in one go, people can't see how the handlebar pose has played these tricks, only feel that the whip is flying like a living thing in front of their eyes. Each of the three horses was hit.The sharp pain and the deafening sound of the whip made the sorrel pony and the bay red pony sprint forward recklessly, and the black shaft horse followed them hard, and the cart slanted towards the yellow dirt road.The parking spot just now is a small open space, and the junction between the open space and the main road is a small road more than two meters wide.Liu Qi's carriage was not facing the road directly, and the tail horse and shaft horse were very powerful. He had no chance to straighten the carriage while the carriage was moving forward. One wheel slipped down the road ditch, and the cart was tilted.The horse stopped.The tin buckets, brooms, reed mats and some miscellaneous goods on the carriage for Liu Tuan Supply and Marketing Cooperative also tilted, as if they were about to overturn the carriage. "Liu Qi, have you taken the gunpowder? Where is this driving? This is a life-threatening job." The gray beard said. "Brother, unload the car, put the empty car on it, and then reload it. We will help you." Huang Si said. "Liu Qi, quickly ask my sister-in-law to call her lover, he is most willing to help people solve their 'difficulties'." Jin Ge said. "Get out, fuck off!" Liu Qi looked like his eyes were about to burst into flames, and he yelled at the crowd, "Want to watch men play and play with men's bears? Ah, I'm blind!" He took off the sweat-stained tattered gown, put it on the car casually, took a breath, retracted his stomach, slammed the blue fur skin into his waist, and tied a knot behind his hands.As soon as he stood up, his waist was tight, his shoulders were jerky, his bronze-colored upper body was fanned out, and his muscles and tendons were stretched horizontally and vertically, like an old elm root that was invulnerable to a knife or an axe.His back is a bit hunchback, a muscle the size of a fist bulges at the back of his neck, his two arms are slender and strong, and his hands are big like cattail fans.This is a beautiful manly body, full of brutality and spirituality.Good body!The gray beard was amazed in his heart.Brother Jin suddenly felt sore in his neck that he didn't dare to move, so he quickly raised a hand to rub it. Liu Qi wiped the sweat from his hands on the blue fur skin, screaming "Ooooh", shaking the chewing rope with his left hand, shaking the whip with his right hand, crossing his feet into a figure-of-eight gait, his eyes were full of vigor , staring straight at the two horses.The whip spun like a windmill in the air, only the sound of the wind that stirred up the "woo woo" was heard, but it didn't fall down.The sorrel pony and the bay red pony opened their eyes like bells, their waists slumped, their legs bowed, and they stretched their strength, the wheels of the cart moved, and then retreated. "Liu Qi, don't be brave, unload the car, and drag the empty car up first, we will help you." Gray Beard said. Liu Qi didn't answer, and retreated three steps away, swung his round whip, "crack, clap", three crisp whips hit the buttocks of the three horses, and the horse's buttocks immediately swelled with whip marks as thick as fingers.He greeted again, and the three horses pulled the wheels away from the bottom of the ditch with all their strength, and moved up an inch with difficulty, but finally retreated all at once, and the wheels sank even deeper. "Grandma, even you are bullying me." He spat a few mouthfuls into the palm of his hand, jumped up on the pole of the car, separated his legs, stood crookedly on the two poles of the car, and waved his big whip.Bowing left and right, the whip sounded continuously, and there was a "swish" wind on the whip tip, and the horse's fine hair was stained on the whip tip.When his left hand was tired, he switched to his right hand, and when his right hand was tired, he switched to his left hand, and his kung fu in either hand was not weak.The buttocks of the two young horses were bloody and sweaty, and their furs were shining brightly like satin.These are two young animals that have just been harnessed. The sorrel young horse, full of nature, was set on fire by the owner's unreasonable whip. Then his mane stood on end, his hind legs flew into the air, and he swung his hooves again and again.The bay red horse was also infected, whining loudly, flying its hooves deftly, flicking left and right, avoiding the master's ruthless whip and resisting the master's abuse.The four horseshoes with iron palms dug up the hard loess on the ground, and it was like a rain of mud in the air.The onlookers dodged far away.The sorrel horse hit the black horse's chest with a flying hoof, causing it to raise its head violently in pain.The black horse's eyes were fierce, and he took a bite of the little horse's buttocks. The little horse pawed like crazy, and a small stone flew up and hit Liu Qi's earwheel.Liu Qimeng tilted his neck and covered his ears with his hands, his hands were covered with blood. His face turned yellow, his eyeballs turned green, and the blood vessels in his neck were throbbing.He jumped out of the car covering his ears, tiptoed, and jumped to the middle of the road in front of the horse, about three to five meters away from the two horses.He muttered something in a low voice, and raised his whip lightly. The shadow of the whip drew a circular arc in the air, and there were two clapping sounds, and the two live dragon colts collapsed on the loess road. Liu Qi's move shocked the whole group of people.Several people stuck out their tongues and couldn't retract them for a long time.The gray beard held his breath, and approached Liu Qi with a bent waist.Arching his hands together, he said: "Master Liu, you have opened the eyes of the little old man today." He bent down to look at the horse's ears, Liu Qi pulled him aside with a whip, and faced the two horses. With two lashes in his thigh, the horse rolled and stood up.They all bowed their heads and ears, trembling all over their bodies. "Brother, no wonder you love horses so much, no wonder!" Huang Siyan said timidly. "Brother Liu, magic whip!" Brother Jin yelled. Amidst the compliments from everyone, Liu Qi's face was full of distress, and his dark face turned gray.He stroked the horse's head, and lowered his own head to the horse's ear, as if whispering to the horse.Later, he raised his head, strode over to the side of the cart, flicked his whip, and shouted: "Hey——" The three horses seemed to be crazy, their heads were almost on the ground, their waists were stretched into a bow, and they were dying. Tighten the noose.The noose made of six strands of rawhide sizzled, and the little Saturn danced on the rope, raised his waist, lifted the shaft pole on his shoulders, and the wheels began to turn.The sorrel pony knelt down on its front legs and crawled forward on its two knees. A dozen or so men watching the scene rushed up, lifted and pushed, and the carriage "hulled" onto the avenue. Liu Qi never looked back, and the gray beard called him to re-bundle the dangling goods on the cart, but he didn't seem to hear it either.His feet were brisk little strides, his hand was swinging a whip, and his mouth was screaming "嗻嗻".The car, the horse, and the person seemed to have gone mad.The sun also seemed to be mad, emitting fiery white light.The chariots and horses "rumbling" rushed forward.The road was rough, and the goods on the car were bumped "clinking".When the carriage rushed five hundred steps from the place where the carriage was nested, and was still a thousand steps away from the small military camp at the east end of the town, the hilly cargo on the cart finally fell apart.The iron bucket rolled down, the mat bundle slid down, and the wooden shovel fell in all directions... The mat bundle hit the horse's back, the iron bucket hung on the horse's leg, and the broom pierced the horse's buttocks.The three horses were terrified and galloped forward like flying through the clouds.At this time, the cart was already light, and the horse was startled. At this time, Liu Qi was swept into the ditch by a bundle of brooms, and the majestic whip was lying in the mud pit like a dead snake.The carriage flew away like a fired shell.His eyes were darkened, his mouth was bitter, and he lost his mind. The men under the willow tree were stunned. Liu Qi's slender, beautiful-faced little daughter-in-law stepped on the stool and slumped down from the wall, staring blankly at the blooming flowers on the lantana tree. At first, he saw a whip shaking on the horse's head from a distance, and two seconds after the whip fell, the crisp sound came.Later, the sound became one, like setting off firecrackers in the night.He thought, oh, what a waste of time.I don't care, whoever nests is unlucky, not to mention a carriage, I don't care if a Hongqi sedan is nested.These days, good intentions are not rewarded well, it's really fucking unlucky.Last Sunday, platoon leader Lu—the mountain is high and the emperor is far away, and the hozen is called the king. You platoon leader Lu is the emperor here—you didn’t ask indiscriminately, you scolded me for two hours, what’s the big deal?You are bluffing, and the eyebrows of the brush are frowning. "Zhang Bangchang!" You are still Qin Hui, my name is Zhang Yuchang.No matter how many times you correct it, you don’t correct it. You can’t correct your characters. You can still be a platoon leader. If I become a company commander, I will send you to the first grade of primary school to study culture and learn the Chinese pinyin alphabet, so as to save you from embarrassing the Eighth Route Army.I said, my name is Zhang Yuchang!You said: "Zhang Bangchang, you did a good job!" What am I doing? "You know it yourself." What do I know? "Stop pretending to be stupid!" Aren't you torturing people?Give a time and place, and I can remember it. "What did you do between 12:00 and 2:30 last Sunday?" I stood guard. "Have you ever left your post?" "Where did it go?" In the cornfield. "Who's in the cornfield?" A woman and a child.Stinking rogue!You spitting blood! "I can't complain about you. Those who join the army in the theater troupe, those who sing niche, male or female, what the hell. The male singers are hooligans, and the females are broken shoes. There is nothing good." Platoon leader, you are not allowed to insult Man, what happened to singing?Premier Zhou also sang operas in Nankai Middle School, and even played the role of a big girl! "Okay, okay, don't mention this. You left your post without permission, you smelled people in the corn forest with a gun, you bullied women and acted like a hooligan!" I protest your slander!I guarantee it with teamwork and humanity.You can go ask that sister-in-law... On the sentry post that day, I heard a child crying in the cornfield with a hoarse voice, like a sick cat meowing.I thought, could it be an abandoned baby?Could it be... I'm a soldier, I can't just leave him alone.Besides, in peacetime, when the sky is bright and the sun is bright, standing guard is not deaf ears—a decoration.I will come back after I go to have a look. Saving a life is better than building a seven-level pagoda.With a submachine gun on my back, I got into the corn grove and followed the sound of crying.I first saw a piece of plastic sheeting, and then a small quilt. A little girl was kicking her legs and crying on the quilt. Next to the girl was a bag of fertilizer, a water bottle, and some clothes.I shouted loudly, but no one answered.Walking along the ridge, I suddenly saw a woman lying on the ground with white flesh all over her body.I hesitated for half a minute, but I went forward, helped her up, and pinched her with my fingers.She woke up, ashamed.I don't know who this is.I'm going to take her home.She declined.She walked back to the baby and nursed him.She said thank you, and said that the weather forecast was raining, and she wanted to catch up with the fertilizer before the rain.I dropped Dan in my pocket for her and turned and emerged from the cornfield.That's it, I was so hot that I was covered in sweat, and my clothes looked like they had been fished out of salt water. "There are letters from the masses exposing you!" the platoon leader said. I bit my middle finger, and blood dripped down.I said, swear to God.The platoon leader called me an asshole and asked the health worker to give me medicine.He said: "This matter is not over, we still need to investigate!" Investigation is a fart.You go to find that sister-in-law, and if you don't ask, it's over.He actually called to report to the company. The company headquarters was 60 miles away. The company commander was driving here on a motorcycle.I have been busy here for a few days, and it is still the same as what I said.The company commander was kind enough to criticize me for leaving my post without permission and praise me for having feelings for the people.One divides into two dialectics, which I learned in school. Today, even if you get off the train, even if you faint in the cornfield, the Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, I will not leave the sentry post.The platoon leader is crazy, whistle at noon, whistle at night, and let the bullets be suppressed.It's so hot this day, my pants stick to my legs like I've pissed.真不该来当这个兵，在京剧团唱小生你还不满意，还想到部队来演话剧。美得你，吃饱了撑得你，话剧没演上，日光下的哨兵先当上了。这叫扒着眼照镜子——自找难看。这帮猴崽子在糟踏那位大嫂的玉米，喊他们几声？算了，练你们的武艺去吧。这边的车没拉上来，哈，那两匹马怎么也躺了？大概也是中暑了。我的人丹给那小媳妇吃了一包，还有一包在兜里装着。马吃人丹要多大剂量？不许胡思乱想，集中精力站岗。最好来几个特务捣乱，我活捉他们，立上个三等五等的功。狗小子们滚成一团了，像他们这么大小时，我也是这样，从端午节开始光屁股，一直光到中秋节，连鞋都不穿，赤条条一丝不挂，给家里省了多少钱。那时也没中过暑，那时也没感过冒。好了，不必替别人发愁，不用愁老母鸡没有奶子。我没去，这辆车也没窝在那儿过年，瞧，已经上了大路，还放了跑车，嘿，热闹…… 一只铁皮水桶不知挂在马车的哪个部位了，反正车上是“咚咚咣咣”地乱响。真正高速行驶的马车是一蹦一蹦地跳跃着前进，远远看上去，像是腾云驾雾。三匹马高扬着头，鬃毛直竖着，尾巴像扫帚爹煞开，口吐着白沫，十二只铁蹄刨起烟尘，车轮子卷起烟尘，一捆挂在车尾巴上的扫帚扬起烟尘，车马后边交织成一个弥漫的灰土阵。几只鸡被惊飞起来，“咯咯”叫着飞上墙头，有一只竟晕头转向钻进车轮下，被碾成了一堆肉酱。镇子西头那几个男子汉泥菩萨一样呆着。刘起从那捆扫帚下边爬起来，掉了魂一样站着。刘起媳妇倚在墙上，满脸都是泪水。光腚猴子们的战斗已进入胶着状态，一个个喘着粗气流着汗，身上又是泥又是土，只剩下牙齿是白的。 站岗的大兵张摹长打了一个寒战，热汗涔涔的身上爆起一层鸡皮疙瘩。他焦躁地在哨位上转着圈，像一只被拴住的豹子。他突然亮开京剧小生的嗓门喊着：“孩子们，闪开！”孩子们不理他的茬，在路上照滚不误。这时，他看到栗色儿马疯狂的眼睛和圆张的鼻孔。他想高叫一句什么，可嗓子眼像被堵住了，一点声音也发不出来。他把冲锋枪向背后一转，一纵身，像一只老鹰一样扑到栗色儿马头上，抱住了马脖子。惯性和栗色儿马疯狂的冲撞使他滑脱了手。他凭着本能，也许是靠着运气就地打了一个滚，车轮擦着他的身边飞过去。It's over!he thinks.马车离孩子们还有一百米。还有九十米。八十米…… 孩子们终于从酣战中醒过来，他们被汗水和泥土糊住了眼，被劳累和惊恐麻痹了神经。他们呆呆地站在路上。甚至有几分好奇地迷迷懵懵地望着飞驰而来的马车。“三匹马！是我爹的三匹马！”柱子想。他很想把这想法传达给伙伴们，可小嘴唇紧张得发抖，心里像有只小兔子在碰撞，他说不出话来。 还有七十米。我到底是离开了哨位，我又犯了纪律。我尽了良心，我没有办法了。他想，再有十秒钟，根本不用十秒钟，这车快得像一颗飞趱的子弹。他的脑袋里忽然像亮起了一道火光，他兴奋得手哆嗦。他不知道冲锋枪是怎样从背后转到胸前的，好像枪一直就在胸前挂着。他幸亏没有忘记拉动枪机把子弹送上膛，幸亏保险机定在连发位置上，他连准都没瞄，以无师自通的抵近射击动作打了半梭子弹。他眼见着那匹栗色马一头扎倒在路上，枣红马缓慢侧歪在路上，黑辕马凌空跃起，在空中转体九十度，马车翻过来扣在地上，两个车轱辘朝了天，“吱吱嘎嘎”转着。黑辕马奇迹般地从辕杆下钻出来，一动不动地站在两匹倒地的梢马面前。灰土烟尘继续向前冲了一段距离，把那七八个男孩遮住了。 枪声震动了被褥暑折磨得混混沌沌的小镇，也惊醒了镇西头那几条汉子。他们，刘起，都跌跌撞撞地冲上前来。枪声也惊醒了驻军最高首长鲁排长和全体战士。战士们穿着大裤衩子冲出营院，鲁排长一见正往这儿汇拢着的大男小女，急忙下令统统回去穿军装，他自己也是赤膊上阵，所以一边往回跑，一边怒吼，“张邦昌，你这个混蛋，你等着！” 张莘长好像没听到排长的话，端着枪走到马跟前，他感到疲倦得要命，脚下仿佛踩着白云。 栗色小儿马肚子被打开了花，半个身子浸在血泊里。它的脑袋僵硬地平伸着，灰白的眼珠子死盯着蓝得发白的天，枣红马腹部中了一弹，脖子中了一弹，正在痛苦地挣扎着，脖子拗起来，摔下去，又拗起来，又摔下去。那双碧玉般的眼睛里流着泪，哀怨地望着张摹长，黑辕马浑身血迹斑斑，像匹石马一样站在路边，垂着头，低沉地嘶鸣着。 他一阵恶心，腔子里涌上一股血腥味，他想起适才拦车时胸口被儿马猛撞了一下子。他看到排长已经跑过来。他看到一大群老乡正蜂拥过来。他再次端起枪，背过脸，枪口对准枣红马的脑袋，咬着牙扣动了扳机，随着几声震耳欲聋的枪响，随着枪口袅袅飘散的淡蓝色硝烟，他的眼里流下了两行泪水。 “下掉他的枪！”他听到排长在对战友们下命令。 “我的马吨！我的马……”他听到那个高大汉子哭喊着。 “这是我爹！爹！”他听到那个泥猴一样的小男孩对着伙伴们炫耀。 他还听到远远地传来一个女人的哭声。这哭声十分婉转，在他耳边萦绕不绝，袅袅如同音乐。他还听到人们七嘴八舌的、七粗八细的、七长八短的、一惊一咋一板一眼一扬一抑的呵斥、辩解、叙述、补正之声。这一切也许他都没有听到，他的枪没用“下”就从手里松脱了，他口吐鲜血，倒在地上，他恍惚觉得躺在一团霓虹灯色的云朵上，正忽悠悠地向高远无边的苍穹飘扬…… 黑马长嘶一声，抖抖尾巴，沿着玉米林夹峙着的黄土大道慢慢地极不情愿地恋恋不合地向前走去。黄的土，绿的禾，黑的马，渐渐融为一体，人们都看着，谁也不开口说话。 一九八三年十月