Chapter 24 whose magpie called

It was the day of "going up the beam". After the sound of a heavy whip, the old uncle's new house was considered completed. These days, I am a little tired, but the whole family is happy.Although it is a refurbishment of an old house, it is also "familiar inside and out".The outer layer of the adobe house has been replaced by bricks, which are red bricks.The roof is prepared with "gold inlaid jade"; it is half wheat straw and half small tiles, which can be regarded as the "dragon's spine" anyway.When the house was flipped, many people in the village came to help, and they all came voluntarily. For the single-family Feng family, this is considered a great respect.

Naturally, all of this is due to Liu Hanxiang.Building a house is not an easy task, which shows that a woman has finally propped up a house. At noon, the old uncle was giving smoke to the craftsmen.The tobacco is the "Xinghua brand" produced in this county, and it costs 17 packs, which is reasonable for ordinary people.The beam has been placed in the right position, the "Dragon's Back" has been seated firmly, and the rest is just some trivial work.He threw the cigarettes over one by one, and said with a smile: "Men, take a break, everyone take a break." The craftsmen took the cigarettes and made some salty jokes to the old uncle during the break.These days, the old uncle is probably overjoyed and makes some small mistakes from time to time.For example, when asked to deliver nails, he delivered an axe, and asked him to deliver a trowel, but he also delivered mud... So some craftsmen kept making fun of him: "Old uncle, listen, listen to me!" , The magpie is calling!" He looked around in a daze, and said, "Magpie?" The craftsman said, "No, magpie. I am confused, I am very confused. Do you want to marry a wife for your son, or do you want to marry yourself? ?!" The old uncle hurriedly glanced into the kitchen and said, "Don't make a mess. Don't make a mess."

"Boom!" Everyone laughed and laughed. But laughing and laughing, suddenly, people stopped laughing, and the laughter was very clear.This is because a person came in from the yard, followed by a group of people! ——The branch secretary is here. In other words, it’s okay if the party secretary comes, isn’t he already a “relative” now?But the branch secretary's face was not "relative" at all, it was purple, a swollen black and purple!That face looked black and wormwood, as if it had just been sprinkled with a layer of hot sesame seeds, or a purple eggplant that was stepped on!He came into the courtyard, trembling all over, very abruptly, actually weeping!Party Secretary Liu Guodou stood there with tears in his eyes...In an instant, he cursed loudly, like a wolf howling: "That conscience was eaten by dogs?! Is that a human being? Is it human feces?" ?! Is it a human thing?!——Pig!——Dog!——Bastard!!”

The courtyard was quiet, and the scolding lingered in the warm autumn sun, like a puddle of dog urine poured down from the head, dripping and splattering on people's faces!For a while people looked at him in bewilderment, not knowing what was the matter.What is unexpected is that the party secretary will also cry, which is something I have never seen before... But, it is clear that there is hatred in those eyes.That hatred is gnashing of teeth and piercing to the bone! For a moment, the old uncle stepped forward and said with a smile on his face, "Guodou, you... What, what's the matter? Are the kids making you angry again?"

Guodou snorted coldly, his face was pockmarked with black fire, his teeth were clenched, he didn't even look at him, he just gave a heavy "pooh" to the ground, and then he called out loudly Everyone said: "Today, I, Liu Guodou, am shameless! My face is no longer a face, it's a broken shoe sole! It's a rotten mat! It's his mother's stinky foot binding! It's the crab nest that thousands of people stomp on and ten thousand stomp on!  … ..." With that said, he let out a long sigh, shook his head, and said word by word: "This is the end of the matter, don't say anything, don't say anything... Smash! Smash me!!"

Before he could say a word, the members of the Liu family rushed up together... At this moment, Liu Hanxiang, who was cooking in the stove, hurried forward, stopped in front of the courtyard, and said, "Wait a minute." Then, she turned around and said to the mad Liu Guodou, "Dad, you Is it reasonable or not? Why is the building in this courtyard hindering you? Why do you want to smash it?! Who dares to smash it?!" Seeing his daughter, Guodou closed his eyes, sighed again, and burst into tears in an instant... He said: "Girl, you are still in the dark, people have already dried you up." It’s in the ground, my silly girl! You’ve been fooled! You’re so dark-hearted! You... don’t want us anymore!”

Liu Hanxiang's face turned pale after a "swipe", but she still stood there and said softly, "Dad, why are you saying this? Who are you talking about?——I don't believe it." Liu Guodou stomped his feet and said, "Girl, my silly girl, this is the end of the matter, and I won't hide it from you anymore. That kid surnamed Feng, that bastard, that ungrateful thing that is worse than a pig or a dog, is now in the camp." , I became an official! He married a girl from the city in a lively manner, he, he, he... just get married!" In an instant, Liu Hanxiang felt dizzy!She shook her body and said stubbornly, "I don't believe it. Dad, who did you listen to? I don't believe it."

At this time, Da Baitao pushed aside the crowd, rushed over from behind, and cried, "My poor girl! Your father has already found out, it's really for nothing! This is what his comrade-in-arms said, and he just changed his job. He is now the officer of our county's armed forces department. He said that the matter has already been done, so can it be false?! If the sky has eyes, let's blow a thunderstorm!..." Unexpectedly, Liu Hanxiang was stunned for a while, but suddenly smiled, and said with a miserable smile, "It seems that it is true?" Da Baitao cried and said: "...It's really for nothing!"

At this moment, there was a "gudong" on the roof, and someone dropped the trowel in his hand!Immediately afterwards, I heard the leading craftsman, Lao Huai, say angrily: "Call the work, quit!" So, huh, huh, all the craftsmen withdrew from the house. However, Liu Hanxiang took a step forward, grabbed Liu Guodou's hand, and said tremblingly: "Dad, my daughter has disgraced you. Let me ask, do you want a daughter?" Liu Guodou's eyes were blurred with tears, he let out a long sigh, and said, "Yes. My daughter will always be my daughter." Silently, Liu Hanxiang had tears in his eyes.The tears were in the eyes, full of tears, but they didn't fall.She held her father's hand tightly, and said softly, "Dad, just break it up... If you insist on not wanting to, forget it. I'm not angry, and you...don't be angry either."

Liu Guodou shook his head like a shaggy dog, he bit his teeth again and again, wishing he could shatter them immediately!He said: "Sweet, fragrant, this mouthful of blood—it's so hard to swallow!" Bald, Liu Hanxiang had two lines of cold tears on her face, she said: "Swallow it, Dad. If you want a girl, then swallow it." Just saying that, Liu Guodou suddenly grabbed the girl's hand, raised it in front of everyone, and said, "Look at these hands, if you have a conscience, look at these hands!..." That's right, that hand doesn't look like a girl's hand anymore, it's deformed, there are blood blisters on that hand, layers of calluses, and that hand is still wrapped in a rag...that's A record of wear and tear from day to day and year to year!

Liu Hanxiang glanced across the entire yard with dumbfounded eyes, and there were traces of her everywhere... Liu Hanxiang sighed and said with difficulty: "Dad, don't smash it. If you smash it, it's your daughter My heart! It’s not easy to set up this family. Since we haven’t done anything wrong, please let me start well and end well.” Turning around, Liu Hanxiang grabbed the hand of the craftsman Lao Huai again, and said, "Uncle Huai, I was the one who took it off. The house was built by me. This can be regarded as one of the things I have done in Feng's years." Witness. You're old...just let me do it. Don't go, please." For a moment, everyone was silent, and everyone's faces seemed to have frost! What a blow!She was originally happy, but suddenly... Liu Hanxiang's heart was about to break, and her face was pale and pale.But she still smiled and said to everyone: "The noodles are all in the pot, and the tofu sister-in-law made a special plate of good tofu, or... eat the tofu!" The sun is very good, the sun is like steamed buns from the dough, soft and gentle.Looking up, the "Dragon Back" on the roof has been erected, and the "Dragon Head" on the east side has been fastened; Fluttering in the breeze, but the heart is very cold.In the yard, people are standing silently, what should they say?What else can I say? ! With a "plop", the old uncle knelt down, kneeling in the courtyard!He stretched out both hands, bowed left and right, and slapped his face one by one... The slap hit his face heavily, making a "thump, thud" sound, which made his own mouth bleed! No one moved, no one said a word... Liu Hanxiang let out a long sigh, took a step forward, grabbed his hand, and said, "Father, it's not your fault. Don't do this, get up...the house, we still have to build it." The old uncle knelt there, mouth trembling and said: "It's a crime, it's a crime!... If this matter is true, that bastard, if he really did such an outrageous act, I... have nothing to say Said. You ripped off my house, smashed my pot, let the old and young masters dispose of it! If there is another... change the leader. My father, I will send someone into the city to find him, whether it is dead or alive, take that kid Get it back. Face to face, tell me what happened, and give an explanation to the young and old!" Still no one speaks, people's eyes are like awls, nooses, powder pots... Finally, Party Secretary Liu Guodou spoke, and Liu Guodou said: "...Okay, that's okay. Although it's hard to get over the water, hey, at this point, let's do our best. Old uncle, I'll give you three days. Within three days, you'll be the one. The son of an official is still an official. Three days later..." Liu Guodou gritted his teeth and said with a grinning grin: "I fell into this can of blood! How did he put on his military uniform? Why did I take it off for him? !Even if he is capable every day, I will let him go back to the ground to plan food... I don’t know if you believe it or not?!" The sun is shining brightly, but people's hearts are very cold, very cold. Then, Liu Guodou said one more word: "Let's go!" After speaking, he led the people away. After a while of silence in the yard, the craftsman Lao Huai spit on his hands silently, and went back into the room. Standing on a shelf in the corner, he said loudly to his apprentices: "Work! The work must be done well. Do it carefully... But, you can't even drink a sip of water!" His meaning was very clear, not to eat, but to do work.He wants people to see what benevolence and righteousness are! The apprentices also went to the room in unison. The work was done very tightly and carefully. It was done with a sigh of relief... The scene was no longer as lively as before. There were very few words, and only half a word was uttered. , like gunpowder twist, there is a smell of gunpowder: "Mud!" "Tile!" "Ash!"... In front of everyone, Liu Hanxiang showed extraordinary strength!Although her face is pale, no one can see through her heart. At this moment, no one knows what is going on in her heart... I saw her stubbornly and even arbitrarily pulling the old uncle from the ground up.The old uncle was still kneeling on the ground, he was paralyzed on the ground like a pile of mud, he just couldn't get up... For a moment, the two were in a stalemate, but Liu Hanxiang still pulled him up.She said: "Father, don't let people see the joke. We are building a house. If you don't get up again, I will kneel down." Afterwards, she still directed the eggs as usual, put mud when it was time to put mud, handed straw when it was time to pass wheat straw, and picked it up when it was time to tidy up... She was busy inside and outside the house like a revolving lantern, without giving Give yourself a minute to spare.She even knew that people were stealing eyes on her.At this time, she couldn't fall down.At this moment, she just stood upright, upright like this. Outside the door, men and women, people kept coming in, making excuses to take something or give something away... But she knew that they were all here to see her, to see her face, to guess her mind, to see what she was doing. What?Good things don't go out, bad things spread thousands of miles, and people know about her in an instant... Yes, people sympathize with her, and people's eyes seem to say: Xiang, you cry, you cry a lot!That way, I might feel better. But she didn't cry, she just didn't cry. I was busy until the evening, when all the work that should be done was done, the craftsman was sent away in a dignified way, and everything was cleaned up inside and out... At this time, I saw Liu Hanxiang standing in the empty yard. Inside, looking at the sky in a daze, he said abruptly: "Whose magpie has called?" Immediately afterwards, a mouthful of hot blood spurted out of her mouth! ... The eggs rushed forward with a "wow", shouting in unison: "Sister-in-law, sister-in-law!—"