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Chapter 37 Sleeping Daguqigu (2)

Selected works of Chi Zijian 迟子建 1326Words 2018-03-20
He swung his arms high, like a boxer maddened by his victory. In this way, he performed similar farces again and again.As long as this kind of sound is heard in the small town, people will quickly close their doors and shut their doors.The old people said it was a cry that would bring disaster.As soon as he appeared, people fled away like a frightened bird. Gao Niang was widowed when she was young.Her three sons all work in the county seat, and the eldest son puts his daughter Nan Nan here to keep company with his grandmother.She opened a tofu shop. Every day when selling tofu, Madman Wei stood at the door on time, stretched out his hand, and asked for a piece.

Only Gao Niang dared to approach him, and he only listened to what Gao Niang said. The interviewer said that the lunatic was haunted by a little ghost.Because there are several barren graves next to the fork where the accident happened, those little ghosts turned into mice to vent their anger and kill them, and the lunatic crushed the mice to death. In this way, the ghost energy attached to him was even greater, and he needed to eat it once. Votive meat.Otherwise, the madman will attract all the rats and bring disaster to the town. Although Wen Gaoniang didn't quite believe that this would happen, she was still choking in her heart.If it is true, wouldn't this town become a rat town?The more she thought about it, the more her scalp became numb, and her heart seemed to be pulled by a hemp rope, making her extremely uncomfortable.She knelt on the ground with a "plop", as if she had seen a savior and grasped the straw of life-saving, she kept begging:

"Sir, old sir, please hurry up and do something. We are not afraid of old bones and old flesh. We will die when we die. We are almost crawling to the edge of the loess, but there are so many dolls and small ones. Let's do it." Ok." Yes, since the first day the town was born, it has become a world where old people and children live by convention.At that time, the girls and boys who had the ability to work and earn their own food, all signed up for employment because they did not have the "worry" of going to school, and plunged into the vast forest, clearing forests, cutting trees, They lived in canvas tents separated by a straw mat between men and women.When they reach the age when they should start a family, they will naturally get married, settle down, and have children. They have opened up a new world of their own life, and they are naturally and proudly the Tai Sui Lord of the birthplace.And when the children are older, they will be sent to small towns to be raised by their parents and relatives until they finish elementary school.

It has been like this for many years. Gao Niang likes children.She received the dolls in this world with her own hands, which can be counted as a class.When she thought that the children would be implicated by a lunatic, and their tender cheeks would be gnawed by mice, she trembled with distress. How could she not beg? The face-to-face person also showed a very anxious look, sighed and said: "Let's make votive meat. Kill a pig and invite men, women and children to eat it, and the disaster will be wiped out." "Spirit?" Gao Niang stood up and asked with some doubts.

"The heart must be sincere to be able to be spiritual." She gave him thirty dollars as he had ordered.Because the face-to-face said that he would buy the cloth with his own hands and make a "stand-in" for Crazy Wei, and when the day came, he would send it away.When the ghost energy dissipates, the lunatic will be healed, and the town will be saved. Decades of life have been spent on this land.No matter how barren and barren it is, she still loves every mountain, river, grass and tree here, from the bottom of her heart.When she thought that a votive meat could avert the catastrophe that had not yet befallen the town, she would do anything.At this moment, she used her whole body and mind to think and do this devoutly, for Madman Wei, for the child, and for the town.

Didn't this "noble person guide the way" clearly foreshadow this to her?She was drinking porridge, but her eyes were fixed on the poker.She really regarded the face-to-face person as a "noble person" who guided the way. She was grateful to him, and even deeply complained that she gave him too little money. "Thirty yuan is too little. It can buy the life of a small town man!" She couldn't help talking to herself again. "Grandma, you're so slow, it's getting dark!" Nan Nan couldn't help getting angry when she saw Gao Niang muttering to herself.

Gao Niang finally listened to her granddaughter's words, and she quickly said with a smile, "What's the rush, it's been a long night. Grandma has bad teeth, don't you feel distressed?" After she finished speaking, she deliberately sullen her face. "That TV show is about to start, and I can't even find a seat." Nan Nan was very sad.
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