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Chapter 38 Sleeping Daguqigu (3)

Selected works of Chi Zijian 迟子建 1538Words 2018-03-20
This reminded Gao Niang of Liu Shi's family buying a TV.It has been a year since the TV tower was built in the county, but none of the people in the small town bought a TV.It's not that people don't have money.Almost every family of the elderly in this small town has multiple sons and daughters. After contracting these vigorous and vigorous laborers, money bills are sent home one by one.Besides, when the old people grow vegetables in summer, they also sell an anise for a piece every day, which is not short of the flowers on hand.Some people want to buy it, but they don’t want to be ashamed because there is no one to start it; Can't bear to spend money.

As for Gao Niang, she thinks that the money should be used where it should be used, and it should not be spent indiscriminately.Let’s just talk about this house. It is true that the mud blocks have fallen off, the pillars are rotten, and the paper shed leaks continuously when it rains.Her son had long said that he wanted to flip the lid, but she refused.One is that it is too expensive, and the other is that I have lived in this old house for many years, and I feel comfortable and docile. If I change to a big empty house, I am afraid that I will not even be able to sleep.Besides, this kind of hut is the most suitable for people who make tofu, because when the donkey pulls the mill, it always pulls its excrement on the ground, and the chickens and ducks are also willing to burrow into the house, looking alive, how wonderful.More importantly, she has her secrets in her heart, as the saying goes: "Building a house depends on the location."There is a lot of truth in building this house. If the wrong soil is moved, the gods are frightened, and the ground loses its aura, people will not prosper even if they are alive, and they will be ill all day long. Too late?

She didn't build a house and didn't buy a TV. She had her plan in mind.But Liu Shi's family bought a TV, but she didn't expect it at all, it was beyond her expectation. Liu Hehe is a well-known person in the small town who would go back to the bathroom of his own house after taking a shit.No matter what he does, he always tries to take advantage, even if it is a little bit.People say that the word "suffering" has never been associated with him, and when he rolls his eyes, many things will come out.Therefore, no one remembers that his name is Liu Chenggui, and people all call him "suitable".The young and his peers call him "the right brother", and the younger children call him "the right grandpa".After hearing this, he was not only not annoyed, but happily nodded and bowed to others, not without joy.

Gao Niang had a bad impression of him. During the Cultural Revolution, he sued that his neighbor, who is now the primary school principal, was a Soviet revisionist spy.The evidence is: his house makes an unusual sound every night, similar to the sound of a telegraph machine in a movie.It’s hard for the dry and skinny headmaster. He was interrogated and criticized all day long. He secretly swore that he would never study any radio again. For those red, green and green soft wires, you can’t go east or west. Explain it clearly to them. The two families used to be good, even the yards are connected.In summer, put a square table in the center of the ground for dinner, and after dinner, gather up a pile of green grass, burn out thick smoke to smoke and drive away mosquitoes, and have a good time talking all over the place.But those days were declared over.The old headmaster entered the cadre school, and his wife, angry, led the family to move the two stacks outside the gate into the yard, and built a "courtyard wall" in a hurry.

Since then, the large and flat courtyard connected by the two families has been brutally cut in half by a pile of bamboo sticks that are higher than the ridge of the roof. Liu Hehe kept complaining, not because he felt sorry for the old headmaster's family, but because he was worried that the high "big wall" blocked the sunlight, and his yard was like a prison in the morning. Even now, the old principal has taken up his post again, and the stack of firewood is still as solid as a rock and will not move.I remember once the old headmaster suggested that some of it should be taken down. He thought the "wall" was too high and looked awkward, as if it couldn't even let in fresh air.As soon as he said this, he was scolded by his wife:

"Old bastard! The scar is healed and forget the pain!" Liu Hehe, who was on the west side of the "wall", felt sad for the first time after hearing this. He sniffed his nose and said to his wife: "Who knows what's going on. That's what I did back then, so I followed the crowd and earned a reputation as an active person. I thought that wholeheartedly, and we were asked to do it. But now, again All in all, even if I'm a god, I can't figure out that today will happen." "You always eat shit and you can't grab the hot one!" My wife threw the chicken bowl hard into the yard.

Liu Hehe covered his head and began to cry like a child. He bought a TV, he has money, but who cares about going to his house to watch it? Gao Niang hastily taught her granddaughter a lesson: "Don't go to his house to see, what's there to see! It's better to stay at home, why don't you help grandma pick beans and soak them, and you will have to grind them tomorrow morning!" "No, I'll go and see! You said you wanted to go with me, but you changed your mind again, you're fooling people, I'll go by myself!" Nan Nan grabbed the scarf, pushed the door angrily and ran away.

"What a child, what a child..." Gao Niang shook her head helplessly and sighed.
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