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Chapter 40 Sleeping Daguqigu (5)

Selected works of Chi Zijian 迟子建 924Words 2018-03-20
Nan Nan didn't ask any more questions.She looked up with wide eyes, but she saw nothing, it was pitch black above.Then she leaned back and looked out of the window. She finally saw the stars and the light that could eliminate her fear. Then she dared to boldly open the gate of memory and recall the past... "Fishing, fishing, big horse, long pole, curved hook. Whoever wants to drink fish soup, follow me here." Crazy Wei often limped towards Tatoudianzi at sunset, carrying a wicker stick with dirty gauze pulled from the garbage bin of the clinic. Nan Nan and her friends always followed him from a distance, quietly watching what he was doing.

Going south from the small town, there is a piece of green Tatoudianzi.The green grass on the tower head piers grows lushly in pinches, and there are shallow puddles between the tower piers.Wild ducks and finches often make their nests on soft towers. Every time Crazy Wei went there, he sat in the tall grass, stuck his pole in the ground, and summoned salmon to the clear blue sky.Once, he found a nest of wild duck eggs, and he happily hugged them back, shouting all the way: "The big horse has turned into an egg! The egg can hug a chicken! The chicken can lay a big horse!" Nan Nan and the others followed behind, yelling as they ran:

"Crazy Wei, a big fool, sitting on a haystack and fishing for small fish. If you can't catch the small fish and touch the egg, take it home and cook it!" They ran like flies, ran straight in front of him, turned around, walked backwards, and said to him in one go: "Why don't you go fishing in the Huma River?" "Going further from Tatoudianzi is the Huma River." "There's only salmon in there." Crazy Wei stopped, was stunned for a while, and suddenly burst into tears: "Huma River won't be with me! Huma River won't be with me!" After shouting, he hugged his head and ran wildly.All the way back home, he took out two more mice, held them firmly in his palm, and yelled in the yard.

Since then, the people of the town have avoided him as if they were afraid of the devil.It was said that he was not only crazy, but also possessed by ghosts, although no one had ever seen a ghost. Nan Nan wondered why Madman Wei kept pinching mice.Why are there so many mice in his house?Why isn't he fishing for salmon now?Is it because of winter?Why doesn't he make trouble often? The stars are still singing with puffed cheeks.But Nan Nan didn't listen at all.Against the backdrop of the stars is the blue-black sky. She remembered Uncle White's words again.Uncle Huaide works in the same depot with Crazy Wei.Last year he came to the town to buy autumn vegetables, and said that on the morning of the accident, Madman Wei told him that he had a dream, dreaming that many mice were walking around him, and he was afraid that disaster would happen.No, something really happened that day!

Nan Nan thought, maybe when the accident happened, Madman Wei would think of the mouse all of a sudden, right?It was probably the only thing he remembered vaguely now.He always pinches mice, it must be because the mice have brought him disasters; there are many mice in his house, he must have raised them all hard, and then wiped them out with his own hands.Is that right?
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