Chapter 65 The noon of youth like a song (4)

Fu Datou seldom cried in front of Chen Sheng. He used to show Chen Sheng a knowing smile.So once Fu Datou got carried away and cried, Chen Sheng became a little flustered.He coaxed him first, showed him the alarm clock, and wound it seriously, and put the alarm clock on Fu Datou's ear, letting him hear the "click" of the hour hand, but Fu Datou was unmoved; Chen Sheng Seeing that the soft ones are not enough, come to the hard ones, and scare him that there is a hungry wolf coming down from the mountain. If he doesn't stop crying, he will eat him bloody into his stomach, bite the meat into mud, and chew the bones into dregs.But Fu Datou still went his own way, crying continuously like mountains.Chen Sheng saw that he refused to eat, so he suspected that he might have suddenly grown horns or had pockmarks all over his face, so he hurriedly called Fu Yucheng's second girl to bring the mirror.When Chen Sheng was single, he would occasionally look in the mirror to see if he was getting old and how likely he was to marry a wife.After he and Yang Xiu got married, Chen Sheng stopped looking in the mirror, because Yang Xiu was his mirror, Yang Xiu would say: "Why are your eyelids drooping, go to sleep when you're tired." Yang Xiu would also say: "You should shave your beard, or the children of the old Li family will call you grandpa next time they see you." Yang Xiu would also say, "Hey, why have you lost weight these days? Don't crawl into my bed tonight It's gone." Chen Sheng saw himself clearly through Yang Xiu.After Yang Xiu died, Chen Sheng put the mirror under his pillow, because Yang Xiu loved to look in the mirror, and he thought that the living Yang Xiu was still hidden there.So as soon as he hit the pillow, he often dreamed of Yang Xiu, sometimes she was washing rice, sometimes she was hiccupping, and most of the time she was tossing and breaking.

Fu Yucheng's second maid gave Chen Sheng a mirror the size of a carrot.Chen Sheng didn't see any horns or spots, which reassured him.But the person in front of him made him a little strange, the thick neck has not changed, the strange thing is why the wrinkles at the corners of the eyes are so deep?And that lips, why is there a layer of callus-like white skin?As for the rough beard, how did it turn white?Chen Sheng was deeply seized by sorrow.He put down the mirror, held his head and cried loudly.His crying stopped Fu Datou's crying.Chen Sheng cried until he couldn't distinguish his eyebrows and eyes, the sky was dark and the sky was dark, Fu Yucheng couldn't persuade him no matter what, so he could only let him go.Chen Sheng finally got tired of crying, he raised his legs and walked home unsteadily.Because he didn't look at the road, he kicked over a basin of water and a stool, so Fu Yucheng wanted to send him home.Chen Sheng said: "What's wrong with me today? Wang Laixi's girls want to take me home, and you have to take me home too. Can I let Chang'e move my home into the moon?" Fu Yucheng's woman asked softly. "Then you have to walk slowly." "I can't lose it." Chen Sheng said, "I can get home with my eyes closed." "If you still feel uncomfortable, go watch other people play cards." Fu Yucheng said.

"I can't go back too late, Yang Xiu should be in a hurry. The sewing machine I gave her hasn't been built yet, so she's probably angry." Chen Sheng said as he left the room, he was startled by the moon as soon as he got outside Jump, for it spreads milky light all over the floor in its fullness.Chen Sheng chose to walk in the shadows by the fence, he was afraid that the moonlight evenly scattered in the middle of the road would leave scars, and the road would not look good.Chen Sheng's sleeves were often hung on the fence, and he walked carefully, so as soon as he arrived at the door, he felt like returning from an adventure. He shouted hoarsely into the house: "Yang Xiu, I'm back, today's moon is so bright." Ya!" He pushed open the door and stumbled into the darkness.He doesn’t lock the door after he returns from his complaint in the city, because he’s sure Yang-soo is still in the house.Yang Xiu did not agree, but a man's voice came from the darkness: "Chen Sheng, I have been waiting for you for three bags of cigarettes and two times of squatting to shit, and you went to watch someone play cards again? Who will catch the king tonight?" Caught the most?" Chen Sheng farmed in summer and went out to do odd jobs in winter.Due to iodine deficiency, he not only has a thick neck, but also has bowed legs, which makes him always look like he is riding something when he walks.He likes to rub his face when he is full after eating and drinking, as if his face is a flower bud, once rubbed, he will reveal a blooming smile.Although his usual expression is a bit dull, when he hears that the projection team is coming to town, his expression will become lively, and he will ask everyone he meets: "It's going to be a movie, do you know what to do?" Others know that Chen Sheng likes to watch some boys I watched a video about a girl’s love scene, so I teased him: “Let’s act as a romantic partner.” Chen Sheng’s face blushed immediately, but he couldn’t hide his inner joy. , nailing sheds or lifting pig manure and so on.When watching a movie, he would always grab a small bench and go to the theater early. Sometimes before it was dark and the screen was not hung up, Chen Sheng would go to the cafeteria of the town government to peek at what the projectionists were eating.He is short, and he has to stand on tiptoe when looking in through the window. Sometimes the lights inside are dim, and he can't see what to eat, so his feet are sore.If the cook on the stove happened to go out to pour a basin of dirty water or throw some rubbish, he would see Chen Sheng who was like a penguin, and would yell at him, "Chen Sheng, come in and eat too!" Chen Sheng was so frightened that he fell to the ground, and then He got up quickly and ran away in a hurry.He always sat in the front row at the movies, with his hands on his knees, very well behaved.Whenever people on the screen hug or kiss, the courtyard will suddenly become silent, and people are appreciating with enthusiasm and breath-holding. Only Chen Sheng, he will involuntarily let out an ambiguous laugh, just like he It's like seeing someone catch a king in the game.Sometimes the movie was very dry, without any emotional content. After watching it, Chen Sheng sighed in great disappointment: "How can such a thing be included in a movie?" In this film, the hero and heroine have intimate scenes every ten minutes, and Chen Sheng laughed almost from the beginning to the end, and said to himself: "Look at the life!" But when the film was about to end, Suddenly, a gust of wind blew up, and the curtain was shaken like waves, and the scenes of the hero and heroine kissing were shown in twists and turns.Chen Sheng didn't watch the whole thing, and after the screening ended, he lingered and insisted on asking the projectionist to replay the ending for him.The projectionist played a prank on him, so he froze the shot. Chen Sheng looked at the screen and said sadly, "How can people stop living after such a short time?" There are still many jokes about Chen Sheng, so he went out to find a job Dry migrant workers always love to take him.Chen Sheng worked hard and often made amazing remarks, which added a lot of joy to their working life in a foreign land.But when Yang Xiu was alive, Chen Sheng was not willing to go out, he was afraid that Yang Xiu would miss the opportunity to conceive.Even when he was repairing a cemetery for an old mother of a rich family in another place, Chen Sheng dropped his pickaxe and quit. He squatted on the ground and watched a pair of butterflies playing with straight eyes.Others asked: "Chen Sheng, what's the matter with you?" Chen Sheng said: "What's the matter? Look at that pair of butterflies, they are so good at playing, how can people live worse than them? I miss Yang Xiu, so I won't do it." It’s time to go home.” Chen Sheng did what he said, he grabbed his clothes, walked away, and went home to be the male butterfly.

Yang Xiu's death deeply stimulated Chen Sheng.He knew that there was something wrong with her stomach and intestines, but he didn't expect it to be serious.The doctor in the city said that he should be admitted to the hospital for an operation as soon as possible, and there should be no further delay.When they heard the operation fee of several thousand yuan, they were so frightened that they stared at each other for a long while speechless.Chen Sheng bought Yang Xiu in exchange for the money he saved before marriage. In his opinion, the reason why Yang Xiu was so weak was because the three thousand yuan was too shabby.None of the money in Chen Sheng's hands was brand new. They had passed through the hands of countless people, and they were wrinkled and unrecognizable. Some were moldy, and some were stained with oil or ink.With such money piled up, Yang Xiu inevitably had a haggard look.After marriage, he saved less than one thousand yuan, and he still wanted to use the money to hire a midwife for Yang Xiu, and buy feeding bottles, red belly and rattles for the newborn baby.However, the disease is like bad weather, coming towards them involuntarily, no matter what you do, you can't escape its envelope.Chen Sheng wanted to borrow money, but Yang Xiu firmly opposed it.She once threatened Chen Sheng with a hemp rope and said, "If you borrow money, I will hang myself." Chen Sheng asked why, and Yang Xiu said, "How can we pay back the money after we have been sick? It’s better to bear the disease, I’m used to carrying the disease. If I recover from the disease and then bear the debt, my disease will relapse again, and the money will be thrown away for nothing.” Chen Sheng heard that it made sense, so he didn’t insist on it anymore. .Although Yang Xiu is getting thinner and thinner, she doesn't seem to be dying, she can still eat, likes tossing old things, and she screams like a cicada in midsummer when she has sex with Chen Sheng.But Chen Sheng still worked hard to save money in secret, as long as there was a job that gave cash, he would do it no matter how hard or tiring it was.He dreams of saving enough money for surgery within two or three years, and reshaping a lively Yang Xiu with a blush on his face. Then his child will break out of the ground like a seed finding good soil.However, one night when Chen Sheng came back from his neighbor's house to watch the cards, he found that Yang Xiu had suddenly died in the barn. An oil lamp was flickering on the wooden pier at the door, and Yang Xiu fell to the ground clutching her stomach. .Her hair was loose and dusty.Apart from rags and shoes with dropped soles, there were half sacks of moldy corn on the ground.Chen Sheng opened Yang Xiu's hand and found that she was holding a few grains of corn in her palm, and the afterbirth of corn was stained under her nose. This poor woman must have put the corn under her nose to smell it carefully as before to confirm it. Is it still edible.Chen Sheng knelt beside Yang Xiu, crying loudly.He felt that it was his own stupidity that delayed Yang Xiu's illness, and his poverty prevented her from buying anything she wanted after marriage, and he squeezed the heat out of her body bit by bit.Chen Sheng felt that his sins were serious, and he thought that it would be better for a poor man like him not to have a wife, because he was powerless to share troubles with women.After burying Yang Xiu, Chen Sheng became less talkative.Once the screening team came to the town again, and people did not find Chen Sheng who used to sit in the front row in the courtyard.The card fans feared that he would have something wrong at home, so they took the initiative to summon him to watch the cards. Only then did Chen Sheng go out for a walk, but his expression was rather bleak, and his walking became more and more awkward.