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Chapter 66 The noon of youth like a song (5)

Selected works of Chi Zijian 迟子建 4055Words 2018-03-20
Half a year after Yang Xiu's death, a famous Intercontinental Winter Games will be held not far from their small town.It was a town much bigger than their small town with a famous ski resort, and Chen Sheng would go there several times a year.As the town's reputation became more and more prominent, there was an endless stream of people who came here for vacation and sightseeing.Most of them come to ski and hunt.Skiing is true, but hunting is just a formality, because there are only a group of silly roe deer that are stocked on the mountain, and even they are not allowed to shoot.Even so, tourists also feel that it is extremely exciting to turn around in a circle in the deep mountains and dense forests to look for prey.The Intercontinental Winter Games has alarmed the leaders of the provincial capital. They have come here to investigate over and over again, from the stadium facilities to the diet and daily life, and there is no omission, and the town has become more active than ever.Chen Sheng was called by an acquaintance to do odd jobs there.He first helped cook in a restaurant, and then went to clean up the track.There was very little snow that winter, the snow on the track was as sparse as the white hair of an eighty-year-old man, and the snow accumulation was very small when the race was about to begin, and the sky had no desire for snowfall, and most of the weather was pale and sunny. Occasionally there are cloudy days, but a layer of clear snow drifts down lightly, as if the skirts of the seven fairies dragged the ground slightly.The event was imminent, so the organizing committee had to take emergency measures, organizing manpower to fetch snow from a village hundreds of miles away with abundant snow, transported it by truck, and overturned it on the winding and undulating track.Unfortunately, that night a strong wind blew all that precious snow off the track.The organizing committee had to organize manpower to transport the snow again. This time they packed the snow into straw bags and carried them to the mountain without spreading them.Fortunately, the snow will not rot and can be safely placed in the straw bag.Chen Sheng is also a member of the snow-carrying team. Every time he carried bags of snow to the top of the mountain, he would say to himself: "Hey, they have a meeting, and we are really tired." But this time He earned some cash, which he used to buy sesame seed cakes and red sausages.By the day the competition started, Chen Sheng had already returned to the small town.When he learned from the mayor that hundreds of thousands of yuan had been spent for the snow, his heart began to tremble.When he saw on TV that all the sports were nothing more than some brightly dressed but bloated people gliding on the snowy track, or swooping down from a high altitude to make a few rotations, Chen Sheng became angry. He thought Aren't these moves just a game?It is simply too outrageous for a player to mobilize so many teachers and invest so much in the local area.He began to count with his fingers how many people like Yang Xiu could be operated on by the hundreds of thousands of yuan, and he calculated that there would be dozens of them. So he went to the city to complain.He had always thought that he had killed Yang Xiu, but now he felt that he was not the culprit, he could only be an accomplice at best.As a result, he took a lot of trouble to find the place to file a complaint, and he explained the reasons confidently, spattering his mouth full of spittle, telling others the right and wrong, good and evil, beauty and ugliness, but everyone laughed crookedly.They said that for the Intercontinental Winter Games, the country and the locality paid special attention to it, and many people donated money just to make the Games a success, which is related to the reputation of a country.The more Chen Sheng listened, the more confused he became, so he gasped and said, "It's useless for you to talk too much, these are all fallacies. I also saw it on TV with my own eyes, isn't it just playing fancy? What can I do if I play to the sky?" , and finally have to fall to the ground to live?" People saw his strange words and deeds, and they suspected that he was mentally ill.One of them asked the name of the town where Chen Sheng lived, and then quietly went to another office to dial the number of the town.The clerk answered the phone. As soon as he heard that Chen Sheng had filed a complaint, he called the mayor in a panic.After the mayor came, he dialed the phone number in the city and asked what was going on. Knowing that Chen Sheng was not suing him, he said to the man with peace of mind: "Chen Sheng is a man with a demonic disease. Don't take his words seriously. I will send someone to arrest him." When he comes back, take care of him first, and don't let him crash into a car when he is on the street." It happened that Fei Qinglin's daughter was getting married, and he was thinking of going to the city to do some dowry, so the mayor sent him there Take Chen Sheng back.As a result, after Chen Sheng was ridiculed, his mood plummeted. When Fei Qinglin went shopping, Chen Sheng just sat on the bed in the hotel with his back bowed and didn't even take a sip of water.When Fei Qinglin appeared in the town with a colorful dowry leading Chen Sheng, it happened that Li Quan was going to slaughter a big goose for his mother's 80th birthday.Li Quan was holding the fat goose at the door, trembling and not daring to use the knife.Chen Sheng stepped forward to take the goose with one hand, grabbed the knife with the other, and quickly twisted the goose's neck in a circle, as skillfully as a woman twisting a button. It died out of breath.The goose didn't even make a splash when it was thrown on the ground with a "poof," which shows that Chen Sheng used the knife just right.The onlookers couldn't help but click their tongues in amazement, because Chen Sheng didn't even dare to kill his own chicken before.However, Chen Sheng said to Li Quan with disdain: "You say you are a big man, but you still tremble when you slaughter a goose, what else can you do?" Li Quan could only say with a contemptuous smile: "Yes, yes, I will do anything No, it's a big waste." Chen Sheng said to the onlookers: "In the future, if there is something difficult to kill at home, just send me a message, and I will solve it with one knife." He also shook his wrist upwards forcefully , made a quick and easy solution.Although Li Quan's old mother is 80 years old, she has a very keen sense of taste. She only tasted a piece of goose meat, and she gritted her teeth and said to her family: "Who slaughtered this goose? It's so tender?" Since then, Chen Sheng naturally became the murderer in the town.Moreover, he also loves to fight against injustices. When he met others arguing before, he would always wrap his sleeves and walk away. Now, once he finds out who is wronged, he will stand up.And in the summer of the following year, Chen Sheng began to cut off the grass with a samarium knife, carried it home half-dried in the sun, and weaved all kinds of things for Yang Xiu.He was sure his woman was back.He always sits in the midday sun and weaves, the grass dances between his knees, as if singing.

Absinth Ai Village is the place where Chen Sheng goes most often to do odd jobs every year. There are over a hundred households in this village, and it is a well-known wealthy village.The gate tower of the village committee is made of bright yellow glazed tiles, and the pillars are made of marble, which is very grand.Some chicken coops were even covered with glazed tiles, which made Chen Sheng feel that the chickens living inside should lay golden eggs.Chen Sheng used cash to work here, so he was very happy to come.It was also in Kuai Village that Chen Sheng had his first taste of a woman. He was thirty-five years old that year.He paved a terrazzo floor for a family surnamed Lu, and the owner promised him one hundred yuan.After Chen Sheng finished his day's work and had enough to eat, he planned to leave early the next morning after receiving his wages.When he went out to work, he lived in other people's sheds. The owner threw an old quilt and spread it on the ground casually for a few nights.Since the barn is mostly a place to store food and sundries, it smells bad and there are many rats.Once a mouse bit his hand because it was stained with sweet potato residue.There is no light in the barn, and it is dark to live in, and I look forward to waking up to see the sun early.Every time Chen Sheng pushed open the barn door after suffering from the darkness, he would feel that the sky light pouring in from outside the door was like a big goose egg that had just been cooked and peeled, very bright green.Of course, it would be nice if there are fellow migrant workers living together, they will lie side by side and talk, and fall asleep when they are tired.However, most of the time they are alone, and when they arrive at Kuai Village, they all work their own jobs.If you dig a well for the east family, he may repair the gatehouse for the west family.But they will eventually make an appointment to go home.Chen Sheng lived in Lu's house alone that time.The moon had rolled in the sky for two hours before the woman from the Lu family entered the barn to deliver quilts to Chen Sheng.It was autumn, the nights were cool, and the air smelled of frost.The sound of moths flying up and down in the barn was heard from time to time. Their wings became weaker and weaker, and finally they lost their wings and fell to the ground and could no longer fly.If Chen Sheng heard the sound of flying disappear suddenly in the dark, and then the sound of worms wriggling came from the ground, he would say to himself, "Hey, you lost your arm, are you finished?" When the quilt was thrown to Chen Sheng, the plump figure of this woman was illuminated brilliantly by the moonlight behind the door, she poked there like a piece of thick sugarcane just harvested, exuding a seductive Sweet aroma.Chen Sheng couldn't help but stammered, "I want to sleep with you." The woman was not surprised at all, and she said calmly, "Then I won't give you a salary of one hundred yuan." Chen Sheng said without hesitation : "Okay." The woman said: "I'll come, first go into the room and tell the child's father that I went out to visit and came back late." Chen Sheng was overjoyed and just spread the quilt in the dark when the woman came back.She turned back and bolted the door of the barn, and then quickly undressed.Chen Sheng couldn't see anything clearly, he could only hear the sound of clothes falling to the ground. He thought women were like moths shedding their wings.Chen Sheng still sat there dumbfounded.The woman took off her clothes, and she came up to Chen Sheng and said, "You still want me to help you? Hurry up, I'm going to die of cold." Chen Sheng took off his clothes while shivering, and then grabbed the man all over his body. A woman exuding heat is hugged in her arms.He just felt that a big plump and flexible fish was caught by him.The woman's vigorous breasts arched like a squirrel under his chest, and he was deeply fascinated by a kind of happiness that made him dizzy.He fell apart very quickly.But the woman had helped Chen Sheng regain his strength with great experience, allowing him to enjoy this kind of happiness for a relatively long time, which made him secretly vow to marry a fat woman.After that, Chen Sheng came to the Lu family several times to look for work, hoping to relive the joy that made him tremble, but the women of the Lu family were very indifferent to him, always saying that there was no work at home, and Chen Sheng could only feel bitter. go away.Later, Chen Sheng figured it out. The reason why the woman accompanied him was because of the one hundred yuan salary.Without the benefits of wages, she would naturally not accompany him anymore.So Chen Sheng lived frugally and saved money, thinking of marrying a wife and going home to sleep as a matter of course.The only thing he said when he handed 3,000 yuan to the matchmaker was: "I want a fat one." However, standing in front of him was a skinny yellow-haired girl who seemed to have just come out of hell. No wonder he asked for a fat one. Shaking with disappointment.

Chen Sheng came to Kuai Village this time not to do odd jobs, but to fight.He came with Li Sanzhang.As soon as they stepped off the coach, they were choked and coughed by the dust carried by another heavy truck speeding past.Li Sanzhang yelled "fuck you" at the back of the truck, and Chen Sheng followed suit, and then they walked quickly towards the west end of the village.Everyone in Kuai Village knew Chen Sheng and Li Sanzhang. When they saw them, they asked, "Whose family does the work?" They just pointed to the west and didn't talk to them.Seeing that their faces were full of clouds, others knew that the visitor was not good, so they quietly followed behind to see where they went to make trouble.Chen Sheng was wearing the most ragged piece of clothing. He was afraid that the good clothes would be broken, and no one would mend them for him.It made him look even more down and out.Li Sanzhang asked him as he walked: "Chen Sheng, do you remember what I said?" Chen Sheng said impatiently: "Remember, remember, once you ask for wages, if he pays, we will It’s easy to talk and go; if he cheats, I’ll beat him, his buttocks and chest, neither head nor kick his crotch, it’s not good if he damages his seeds.” Li Sanzhang instructed again : "If he begs for mercy and pays him, you should stop immediately, remember?" Chen Sheng stopped this time, his face blushing and his neck stuck up, and he said, "Sanzhang, you treat me as a fool, You have to tell me eight times a sentence, even a dog is not rare to listen to!" Li Sanzhang quickly patted Chen Sheng on the shoulder, and said: "It's not like you don't know me, and I panic when things happen. Just to remind myself." After Chen Sheng heard this, he started to walk forward again, but he muttered, "Why did you still say it out loud when you reminded yourself?" Li Sanzhang led Chen Sheng into the horse house with arrogance. Yuan's courtyard.A big wolfhound was tied to the west end of the wall, and it jumped up and down barking with its ears pricked up.Chen Sheng stopped and yelled at the dog: "If you bark again, I'll cut off your tongue!" Smash it.The dog didn't hit it, but smashed the pumpkin. It bloomed in pieces, and even the jade-white seeds burst out, and the dog barked even more arrogantly.At this time, Li Sanzhang reminded Chen Sheng in time: "We don't ask the dog for money, just let it bark and ignore it." Chen Sheng followed Li Sanzhang into the house.When Ma Ziyuan heard the commotion, he had already put on his shoes and got off the kang. His woman was making dough in the kitchen, when she heard the noise, she came out with a washbasin, her face covered in flour.

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