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Chapter 36 Sleeping Daguqigu (1)

Selected works of Chi Zijian 迟子建 1726Words 2018-03-20
Another winter.Another winter sunset. The sun is like a child who is tired from playing, and sits down the mountain.With its majestic, majestic momentum and beautiful appearance, Yun Ni stretches from the southwest corner to the northwest corner, boiling the entire western sky.The cloud red is gray in the middle, and powder is added to the gray, lingering around, like a flame rising from the earth. Above the clouds is a gray and bleak sky, and below it is a blue-black mountain peak with a sylvestris pine forest. Below the mountain peak is an endless field stretching to the east.At the starting point of the wilderness, a county town has sprung up.

Further east, the mountains stretch forward in two ways.All the way along the northeast direction ups and downs, all the way along the southeast direction smoothly sliding, has been stretching for more than ten miles, the two groups of soldiers and horses suddenly joined together.After that, without firing a single shot, they opened up again, each hugging the terrain, and marched eastward in a tidy manner. The small town we are going to talk about is more than ten miles away from the county seat, and it is in a place like the gourd mouth where the two mountains meet. Its terrain is relatively high, standing here, you can see the county town in the distance.At this moment, this huge cloud and neon painting is like a square scarf fluttering at the foot of the town.And that county town, due to the influence of the sky, is like a mirage, flickering indistinctly and flickering.In a small mountain village with hundreds of families, they are living a monotonous and rigid evening life year after year and day after day.

There are mostly mud huts, which are a memorial to the birth of the town; there are more than a dozen houses with bricks on the north gable, which belong to the second-generation product of the town in the renewal process; and a unique big red brick house, majestic It's quite there, it was built by the superiors for this elementary school.Its causes were uncomplicated, the gables of the ramshackle house of the elementary school collapsed under the onslaught of a heavy rainstorm.At that time, the students were in class, and five people were injured by the accident. Fortunately, no deaths occurred.The comrades in charge of education in the county had to take a serious look at the thick stack of reports handed over by the principal of this school over and over again, and generously allocated funds to help the "disaster".The red brick house stands out from the crowd and is the only pride of the townspeople.At this moment, in a secluded snowy alley in the small town, the sound of a face-to-face person ringing a bell came.

Creaking... Ringing, ringing... The sound of big-toed shoes stepping on the snow and the sound of the bell blend together, begging and seducing the people of the town for the last time. However, none of the doors were opened again.Maybe people were getting bored of him, maybe hungry bellies were making people go all out for dinner, maybe it was something else, anyway, no one invited the face into the house any more.Like a clumsy, fat, black polar bear, he slowly walked out of the alley, stepped onto the road, and patted his pockets contentedly down the mountain. The cloud is getting darker, the red color is gradually fading away, but the black and blue color is getting thicker, and the sky is getting darker.

Gao Niang sat on the edge of the Kang, playing poker over and over again, and her granddaughter Nan Nan was getting impatient. "Grandma, I'm starving to death, I'll eat first." "Well, let's eat, let's eat." She was still flipping poker and drawing pairs.A lock of white hair floated over a wrinkled forehead. "Yes, um, okay, there is a nobleman. Draw another card and have a look." She was talking to herself, with an unconcealable smile hanging from the corner of her mouth, she took out another one. "The tip of the red peach, good, good! The circle matches the tip, the nobleman will guide the way, and it is red again, so you can go through it! Nannan, bring grandma a bowl of rice!"

Gao Niang excitedly rolled the poker together, dunked and dunked on the edge of the kang, and put them neatly into the box. Nan Nan agreed, filled a bowl of sticky porridge with big hawthorn seeds, handed it to grandma, and pulled out a piece of cucumber pickle from the pickle jar. Thus began their supper.Nan Nan ate very fast. She made an appointment with her classmates after school to go to Liu Xiaona's house to watch TV tonight.I heard from Xiaona that the people on the TV are very clear. Some of them are jumping up and down, some are singing, some are acting, and some are talking cross talk.She also said that the TV was as big as the cardboard box in which her chickens were packed, and that she could see people when it was turned on. "Grandma, I went to Xiaona's house." "Yeah." "Her house has a TV, and she let us all watch it." "Yeah." "Grandma, you watch TV with me too, okay?"" Hmm." "Then you should eat quickly." "Hmm."

Gao Niang kept mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm constantly,still eating slowly and absent-mindedly, she has her own mind.In fact, she didn't listen to what her granddaughter said. When the sun was still a pole high, she heard the ringing bell of the interviewer.She stopped him and took him into another house— The house of Crazy Wei, who terrified everyone in the town. He is a lunatic who loves to pinch mice.When he was young, he drove a small train. Once, when he drove to an intersection with a highway, a car grabbed the road and the two cars collided.He was the only survivor among those killed.He has been insane since then, and was sent to Bei'an for treatment twice, but he still hasn't improved.His wife was killed by him, and his two children were brought up by his grandma's family. Crazy Wei lived here alone.

His neighbor is Gao Niang. When he first lived here, Madman Wei was quiet for many days.But one day, he suddenly fell ill again, and with two mice in his hands, he ran to the yard, shouting and tossing about for an hour or two, but no one dared to stop him.Later, he gritted his teeth and squeezed the mouse until it screamed, and then laughed and said: "Aha, you can't bully me anymore, I'll crush you to death, crush you to death! You disaster star, disaster star! Hahaha..."
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