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Chapter 72 a legend on the plain

Babel 李佩甫 1879Words 2018-03-20
If you start from Yingping County and walk thirty-five miles, you will arrive at Dingji, and after another fifteen miles, you will be Wangji.After these three episodes, it is the famous Hujiapu. On the road, the buses in the countryside are bumpy and bumpy, and the mouths of pedestrians are very broken. When you are shaking and half asleep, you can't help but hear some legends.These legends are processed orally by the villagers in the plains, so there are naturally exaggerated elements. At the beginning, you may not care at all.Gradually, some intermittent words will float into your eardrums, among which there are three words that will appear in your ears repeatedly, this is "Hujiapu".In their speech, you will constantly hear the three words "Hujiabao".When they say "Hujiapu", that kind of tone and that kind of posture will definitely attract your attention.After a while, you will be surprised and prick your ears curiously...

During the journey, those words are like endless threads, entangled in your ears.The sun is shining, and the blue plains are outside the car window. Cottages are passing by in front of your eyes. The poverty is obvious... Gradually, you will feel a little surprised, and you will have a feeling of "Hujia" The enigmatic doubts of "Legend of Fortress".You can't help but look around in a daze, look at the faces of passers-by, and try to read something, but you can't read anything. You can't guess words on the faces of people in the plains.So, your curiosity finally prevailed. When the car came to the Hujiabao stop sign, you would jump out of the car without hesitation, and you said: I want to take a look.

When you walk into Hujiapu, you will find that, as passers-by say, the cottages here are indeed row by row, one by one, and they look neat and uniform, all of which are two-story and two-story buildings.The layout of the building is exactly the same: the same roof tiles, the same doors and windows, the same small courtyard, and there are exactly the same kitchen and toilet in the courtyard.You read row after row, and when you get to the end, you still feel the same as you did when you read the first row. Then, you push open the door of a small courtyard and walk in, and you will be surprised to find that all the doors here are unlocked.Then you go in boldly and take a look at this family.When you look up, you will naturally see a small red wooden box hanging above the door at first glance. The small wooden box is square and hollowed out in front. In the hollowed out place, there is a red five-star engraved on it. Said, this must be a small speaker.

Immediately afterwards, you will see the curtains hanging behind the glass windows. The curtains are light blue with bamboo-like patterns on them.The curtains hanging on both sides of the door and behind the house were actually the same color, the same width, and the same length. Next, you will see the sofa placed in the room.The sofa is the all-inclusive one, it looks big, strong and heavy, and the sofa is covered with white and blue-rimmed covers, which is very eye-catching.There are three sofas in total, two single and one double.There is a small dark red lacquered coffee table between the two single sofas, and the double sofa is placed opposite, which looks like a small conference room.

Then, when you look up again, you will immediately see the wall clock hanging on the wall.The clock was very big, more than one meter long and nearly two feet wide. The case was rectangular, made of old-fashioned wood, and the wooden case was also painted with dark red lacquer.The dial of the clock is milky white, and there is a pendulum ringing steel sound hanging below it. The pendulum is walking with a click, and suddenly there will be a "dang", and the "dang" sound will startle you! Next, your eyes will sweep over some furniture, and when you turn around, you will see the portrait pasted on the coffee table. The portrait is not big, it is small, one foot square, and it is printed after photo-engraving. kind.If you paste it up, you will find that it is a portrait of an old man.The old man's face is very broad, a Chinese-character face with edges, corners and wrinkles. His eyebrows are thick and dark, his nose bridge is high, and his eyes are narrowed, but the light suddenly comes out from the eyelashes... People can't help but be awe-inspiring.

Of course, you don't just want to see one house, you definitely want to see more houses.Well, if you look down one by one, you will soon find that you are in a maze.You will immediately doubt yourself, are you delusional?Wrong door?You see, you entered another house, only to find that the layout of the house is exactly the same, the layout of the rooms is exactly the same, even the position of the furniture is exactly the same; the same courtyard, the same kitchen, the same small speakers , the same curtains, the same sofa, the same wall clock, the same color TV, the same air conditioner, the same portrait of an old man...

Go one more, and another, your head will be dizzy, and you don't know where you have gone.You will keep asking yourself, are you sick?What the hell? But when you exit through a door and return to the village street, you will definitely run into an old man wearing a red armband, and he will ask very vigilantly: Is it for a visit?You say yes.Then, he will smile kindly at you and nod "uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu" and go. Finally, you are leaving here.Walking on the asphalt road in Hujiabao, you will also see schools, hospitals, bathhouses and factories around the cottages... Everything seems to be in order, but you still can't figure out what kind of place it is.When you cross the neat fields and try to get on the national road again, there is another surprise waiting for you.

In the afterglow of the setting sun, you will see a large group of tombs, which are also neatly arranged, row by row, side by side, row by row. There is an inscription number in front of each tomb, and each number has a number on it. There is a prescribed order. Here, after death, the number and order are still arranged... On the flower wall in front of the tomb, there are several big characters written: Underground New Village. Maybe in some days, if you stay on the plain for a long time, you will hear such a sentence. This is a very famous sentence. This sentence is the declaration about Hujiapu: I don’t believe that cats don’t eat ginger!

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