Chapter 4 fish bone(4)

The flowering jacket is quite solemn.I don't know how many times he has guarded the river in his life, but I think his history of guarding the river every time must be brilliant. I walked up to the river bank, wrapped my fur coat tightly, and stood among the dark willow bushes.At this time, the small town of Mona fell asleep quietly in the wind and snow.No barking dogs can be heard in the town, and all the houses are integrated into the misty night and become a part of nature.On the other hand, this frozen river is dotted with fishing lights and the shadows of people are vague, completely a picture of the peaceful life of a primitive village.

Aunt Qiqi set up three nets, but they were all empty. She suddenly became suspicious of the pile of fish bones.After all, Qiqi is still a child, and now he has been talking endlessly with Aunt Qiqi.Aunt Qiqi asked her to go home and sleep, but she refused to say anything.She said that she had grown up so much that she hadn't got such a beautiful fish bone like mine. The second half of the night is the hardest time.Cold, hunger, and fatigue hit at the same time.I felt that my legs were numb from the cold, and I really wanted to take Qiqi back to town.The stars in the night sky seem to be so close to us, yet so far away.

Huahuayao drank a bottle of white wine, sat on the river and sang hoarse songs to the brazier.The main idea of ​​the lyrics is to talk about the emotions of a woman thinking about her husband.Although the song was very low, it was full of a deep charm.Qiqi said to me again: "Grandpa Huayao not only loves to sleep with women, but also loves to sing?" I smiled, not knowing what to say to Qiqi.Later Aunt Qiqi said to her: "If you are a human, you love to sing." "Then why don't you like to sing?" Aunt Qiqi fell silent.I saw her eyes were moist.She wiped the corners of her eyes with the sleeve of her coat, and then sang a song affectionately:

on the frozen river, Running my beloved sled. There's my grain on the sled and hay for warmth, there's still one beautiful girl at sunset Hold my little doll. Aunt Qiqi cried after singing, laughed again after crying, and went to Huayao for wine after laughing.I hugged Qiqi and looked obsessively at the hazy town of Mona and the mountains in the distance. If I were asked to express my understanding of life, then I would say that the small town of Mona is a place with life. At four o'clock in the morning, Aunt Qiqi had already set up twelve nets.A few miscellaneous fish were thrown on the ice.These miscellaneous fish were still alive when they first came out of the river, but after a few minutes, they died sadly and froze into a hard bar.

The sky was a little gray, and the brilliant stars were not so bright.On the surface of the river, there were piles of burnt residues like splashed ink, and the cold air made everyone's faces red and thick, like pine bark. Aunt Qiqi kept watch all night. Although she was yawning, she was full of energy.She said that these few catties of miscellaneous fish can be eaten well.So she talked about the past of the river.She said that every time the fishing season came, the fish caught filled the river, and every family had to put on a dog sledge to put the fish back.Qiqi hissed from the cold and asked through his teeth:

"Why didn't you give birth to me then?" "At that time, I couldn't give birth." Aunt Qiqi held Qiqi in her arms, rubbed her face, and asked, "Will Qiqi come to guard the river in the future?" "Again." "How is Shou Jiang?" "It's really interesting to guard the river." Qiqi cried, "I just can't catch a big fish, and I don't have a good-looking fish bone—my feet are too cold to stand up." "Qiqi, what happened to your feet?" "My feet were frozen. I was cold at first, so I stomped my feet. Later, my feet became warmer, and I sat on the river again. After a while, my feet hurt like needles. After the pain, it doesn't hurt. I don't feel cold anymore."

"Oh, it must have been frozen. Qiqi, why didn't you say it earlier?" "I see you are setting up the net, I'm afraid you will let me go back." "Then your feet are freezing, why shouldn't you go back?" I interjected. "It was the first time I guarded the river. I couldn't even guard it overnight. How embarrassing. Grandpa Huayao is eighty years old, why is he still standing?" Qiqi's cries became louder. Aunt Qiqi and I quickly took off the cotton boots for Qiqi, and then rubbed Qiqi's feet with snow.Qiqi stared blankly at her feet, put one hand on my shoulder and the other on Aunt Qiqi's shoulder, and said:

"Let me go back to the town after dawn, and I can say that I have kept watch all night." The dying fishing fire on the river flickers on and off.But the outline of the mountains in the distance gradually became clearer.At around eight o'clock, a fluffy sun appeared in the eastern sky, wrapped in cold air like a pile of feathered sun.Wisps of confused cooking smoke rose from the sky above the small town of Mona. At this time, the mayor Cheng Shan suddenly appeared on the river.He walked from south to north like a patrolling soldier, and from north to south again, and then called all the fishermen on the river together, and solemnly announced a secret.

He put the pile of fish bones there on purpose.Because they received a task: to catch a big black bear alive in this mountain forest.They hadn't done anything like this for years, and he feared they wouldn't be up to the job of hunting bears.So, I tried to put out the fish bones to see if they are still as sensitive and durable as they were decades ago. Then, he clicked on the list of bear hunters.Aunt Qiqi is the first, and Huahuayao is also on the list. All the nets on the river came out.The people of Mona Town walked back to the town illuminated by the morning glow without a word...

Winter is always cold, and there is another heavy snowfall in the town of Mona.Aunt Qiqi and the others prepared for three days, and decided to set off to hunt bears on the morning of the fourth day. Qiqi's feet were frostbitten, the wound was festering, and it was often so itchy at night that she couldn't sleep.Aunt Qiqi asked me to move out of the hotel and live in her house so that I could take care of Qiqi and wait for her to come back from hunting bears. The night before Auntie Qiqi was going to leave, it was a gray moment, and I was about to go to the garden to relieve myself.Suddenly, I found a man staring at me with hawk-like eyes, and I hurriedly called Aunt Qiqi.Aunt Qiqi still had food stuffed in her mouth, when she saw the man, she was so frightened out of her wits:

"Are you a ghost? Ah? Are you a ghost?" "I'm not a ghost, I'm a human! I'm sorry for you. I lived with a woman again, and I realized that it's not your fault that you can't have children." The man squatted on the ground with his head buried very low.Sweat was still coming out of his temples.I know that this is the return of the man who Aunt Qiqi has been away for more than ten years. "You shameless, you're still coming back?!" Aunt Qiqi scolded, picked up a wooden stick, and hit him hard like a dead dog. The man didn't move, but the tears But it came out.I saw his face was old and wrinkled like a dried mushroom. The man said "I was wrong, I should kill", then stood up and staggered out.Aunt Qiqi was stunned for a moment, then desperately caught up with him, crying and saying: "If you want to go back to this home again, go and get us a beautiful fish bone, a transparent fish bone!" The man was as silent as a rock.Suddenly, he stretched his arms convulsively, and hugged Aunt Qiqi tightly into his arms.And Aunt Qiqi was like a tiger that had just been locked in a cage, constantly scratching the man's chest, crying and shouting. In an instant, the man let go of Aunt Qiqi slowly and gently, and went towards the setting sun.His bent legs arched over the snow, and he seemed to be straddling a gray sun as the chill of the northern evening blew back and forth. Aunt Qiqi stood on the endless snow, rubbed her red and swollen eyes, and told him loudly to his receding back: "Don't go fishing in the river, all the fish in the river have gone into the river! The mayor of Chengshan got a beautiful fish bone from the river! Go to the river! Come back when you get the fish bone!" The next morning, Aunt Qiqi and the others took a sled to hunt bears with food and hay.