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Chapter 42 Sleeping Daguqigu (7)

Selected works of Chi Zijian 迟子建 1294Words 2018-03-20
Nan Nan remembered that that day she patronized butchering pigs and eating meat instead of making tofu.Crazy Wei didn't get any tofu, so he wanted to jump over to get it.But she would never understand why grandma invited everyone to eat meat, and why she squatted there to burn incense. On the third day after Gao Niang's funeral, Madman Wei suddenly disappeared. It was Nan Nan who found him.He froze to death in Tatoudianzi.All around him are the withered and yellow weeds on the pylons and the abundant white snow between the pylons.Looking from afar, the towers look like yellow chrysanthemums in full bloom, and Madman Wei seems to be lying among the chrysanthemums.

Nan Nan is leaving, leaving this small town.Together with her father, she counts Grandma's belongings.They were surprised to find that in a cardboard box stuffed with torn cotton wool, there were two stacks of tightly bound money, a total of two thousand yuan! Two thousand yuan, Nan Nan was stunned!To whom did she leave it? At the same time, people also found another cardboard box in Crazy Wei's house, and there was a litter of mice in the cardboard box.In front of several mouse holes, there is food.It seems that he is letting it die and wants it to exist forever, so that he can vent his eternal dream "disaster" every moment, right?

Nan Nan did not forget to say goodbye to the school, nor did she forget to say goodbye to the principal.The strange thing is that the souvenir given to Nan Nan by the old principal is a story, and the story told is the same as that told by Gao Niang. .However, the old headmaster denied what Gao Niang said that the salmon grows in the Huma River. He told Nan Nan: The salmon swims in three waters.Every year at the end of autumn, mature salmon emerge in groups from the Sea of ​​Okhotsk, rush into the dragon-like body of the Amur River, and then turn to the noisy Huma River to lay eggs. Become a small fish, enter Heilongjiang from the Huma River, and then enter the Sea of ​​Okhotsk.

Nan Nan finally understood why the Oroqen people named this land Daguqigu. She asked the old principal to tear down that "wall" and let his children go to Xiaona's house to watch TV.There are many new things on TV that have never happened here, let them watch it.Liu Hehe won't make false accusations against you again, no more.Didn't he tell her personally that the purpose of buying TV is for everyone to watch? It was the first time he "suffered a loss", but it was also the first time that people felt that he was "suitable". Another day in winter.It's sunset time again.The western sky is burning with a red and fiery sunset glow again.

Nan Nan followed behind her father who was pushing the bicycle, and slowly walked out of Shenxue Lane. The bicycle glides quickly on the snow.She held the handlebar tightly, her eyes staring in surprise at the wide meadow and the mountains after rushing out of the gourd mouth.Finally, she shifted her eyes to the rosy clouds in the shape of a kerchief that was getting bigger and bigger, and she felt that she was melting in it.She felt that Grandma, Madman Wei, and all the people who died in the town before were the fish that had already died on the beach. Their scales were all worn off by the river stones, but they still inevitably died.However, the eggs they laid unyieldingly turned into small fish in the spring of the second year, swam out of the narrow Huma River, entered Heilongjiang, and fell into the broad embrace of the Sea of ​​Okhotsk to mature.

She really believed she was such a little fish. She didn't want to look back at the town again.She knew that it was now sleeping with the night.Old people are always sleepy, and the place like the mouth of the gourd is stuffy, and it is about to fall asleep. However, she immediately denied her opinion.Because she thought of Xiaona and the daughter of the old principal's family.They don't like to fall asleep with it, because they like to sing and dance, they are so full of vigor and vitality, and they have that never-satisfying look when they ask for new things! Then, they will surely become a small fish like themselves, a small fish that swims out of the Huma River, matures in the Sea of ​​Okhotsk, and then swims back.

Of this, she firmly believed. In front of her is more open land and endless mountains.She looked up at the stars in the sky, at the stars that kept singing with puffed cheeks.For the first time, she understood their singing, this ancient, deep and timeless song.
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