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Chapter 67 The noon of youth like a song (6)

Selected works of Chi Zijian 迟子建 3494Words 2018-03-20
Li Sanzhang said to Ma Ziyuan, "You will make up for my wages." Ma Ziyuan's stern face stretched, and he said, "I've given it to you, so don't try to blackmail me. Don't think that we are in the Wormwood Village. People who have money have to give as much as you want, and tell you, our money is not blown by the wind!" Li Sanzhang said: "Are you going to give it or not?" Ma Ziyuan spat and wiped his face Said: "No!" Seeing Li Sanzhang winking at him, Chen Sheng knew that the time had come, so he walked up to Ma Ziyuan without saying a word, punched him on the nose, and immediately beat him down. A pool of nosebleeds stained his light-colored shirt.Ma Ziyuan yelled "Oh——", his woman dropped the basin and cried, "It's no good, I've hit someone!" Chen Sheng kicked Ma Ziyuan to the ground, and then made him face to the ground, Chen Sheng sat firmly on Ma Ziyuan's body and spanked his ass hard.Since he was riding on Ma Ziyuan's waist, he had to fight back when he was spanked, so Chen Sheng turned around and rode Ma Ziyuan backwards, which made the fight easier.While beating, Chen Sheng said: "I told you not to pay, you black-hearted bastard, you still want to be a big landlord in the old society, don't you?" Li Sanzhang sat on the kang with a playful smile on his face. He picked up half a bowl of soy milk from the kang head and drank it, feeling happy.At this time, Ma Ziyuan's woman stepped forward and scratched Chen Sheng's face with wet hands, and Chen Sheng kicked her to the ground.The moment she fell to the ground, she let out a loud fart, which made several people watching the fun outside the window laugh.She climbed up relentlessly, and rushed up to scratch Chen Sheng's face again. This time, Chen Sheng kicked the woman to the ground with his other leg.The woman wailed loudly: "Someone is going to die!" Her man was wriggling under Chen Sheng like an earthworm.This man likes to gamble, and his strength is as weak as that of a grasshopper.He was always lucky in gambling, so he was well off without working.Li Sanzhang did interior repairs for his newly built partial mansion a month ago, including plastering walls, building stoves, laying floors, etc., and worked for a full week.It was agreed that in addition to food and housing, I would give him a salary of 280 yuan.But when Ma Ziyuan was inspecting the work, he picked his nose and pointed his eyes. He insisted that the walls were not evenly plastered, and that the pits were so deep that swallows could build their nests; It is said that the gaps in the floor are too large, and children can pee in them along the gaps.In this way, he gave Li Sanzhang less than 80 yuan.After Li Sanzhang went home dejectedly and took two hundred yuan, he felt miserable every day.Especially the few acres of potatoes he planted, because the seeds were not selected, the seedlings were yellow and thin. He tried to pick a few plates of potatoes, but none of them were well-proportioned. It was full of yellow scabs, just like having smallpox.It seems that his harvest this year has been wasted.The more he thought about it, the more aggrieved he became, and the more he felt the value of the eighty yuan.He began to calculate what he could buy with 80 yuan, and then he figured it out. If you buy noodles, you can buy five bags, if you buy soybean oil, you can buy more than 20 catties, and if you buy bulk liquor, you can buy two plastic barrels.Thinking about it this way, he felt that he had lost both flour, soybean oil and wine.He began to plan to get the eighty yuan back.He knew that the only way to deal with a rascal like Ma Ziyuan was to use force, so he thought of Chen Sheng.It is not illegal for Chen Sheng to beat someone, because everyone thinks he is crazy.I just need to go to supervise the formation and just stand by and watch.So that night he went to find Chen Sheng. After hearing this, Chen Sheng was filled with righteous indignation, patted his chest and said that the matter was left to him, and he was ready to go to Absinthia Village to ask for money at any time.Li Sanzhang also told him what Ma Ziyuan said about Chen Sheng when he was working at Ma Ziyuan's house.Ma Ziyuan said that Chen Sheng didn't have a daughter-in-law, so it was a pity that he gave him a young ewe so that he could sleep well at night.After Chen Sheng heard this, he was furious and yelled that he would go to Kuai Village overnight to beat out Ma Ziyuan's brains and feed them to pigs.

When Chen Sheng rode on Ma Ziyuan, he remembered what he had said to humiliate him, so he hit harder.He said, "You're the one who sleeps with ewes, you son of a bitch, you little brat who drinks human blood!" Ma Ziyuan's wife saw that her man was dying, and the onlookers didn't come up to fight, knowing that her family was not well-known. Well, I was powerless and couldn't afford to suffer the immediate loss, so I went back and took a hundred yuan from the back room, held up the money and said to Li Sanzhang: "Here is the eighty yuan for you, save it and go buy medicine! You immediately Give me twenty yuan, and then you take this money and get out!" Li Sanzhang jumped off the kang nimbly, snatched the money quickly, and said, "The travel expenses between me and Chen Sheng are included in the twenty yuan. I've got one yuan, and I'll give you a fart!" He said, yelling at Chen Sheng to stop.Chen Sheng was still immersed in the plot of letting himself sleep with a baby ewe, so when he got up, he kicked Ma Ziyuan a few times and cursed him: "Next time you play with money, you will lose. If you lose, you can't even afford to wear a pair of pants, little boy!" The ewes won't let you sleep!" They walked out of Ma's house majestically with a sense of pride in their achievements.The onlookers scattered.Chen Sheng and Li Sanzhang walked quickly on the road. When they passed by the small shop, Chen Sheng suddenly saw a woman from the Lu family come out with a bottle of soy sauce in her open arms.Seeing Chen Sheng, she squeezed a smile from the corner of her mouth, and then buttoned the skirt of her shirt with her free hand.Chen Sheng felt that she didn't comb her hair well and it was messy.Moreover, she has lost a lot of weight, her eyelids are drooping, and she doesn't know where the heat all over her body has gone.Chen Sheng was stunned for a moment, and Li Sanzhang grabbed his sleeve and said, "Hurry up, don't stop here." They walked from Absinthia Village to Tantou Village on foot according to the pre-planned plan.The two villages were twenty miles apart, and they had to rush there to have lunch and then take a ride home from there.As it was approaching noon, the sun was shining very hard, Chen Sheng was dizzy and his mouth was dry, so he thought of going down to drink some water when he came across a small river ditch.Li Sanzhang held the money and shook it loudly.He whistled and said to Chen Sheng, "Hmph, he won't eat a toast and take fine wine. I think he'll piss his pants after a while." Look, a little sad in my heart.He still remembered the night when the woman from the Lu family left, he was lying on the floor of the barn with infinite intoxication, watching the scene of full moonlight peeking in through the cracks in the door one by one.They are slanted, white all over, like strings, as if any hand touching them will play a gentle sound.The sound of moths flying was always changing from strong to weak, and Chen Sheng couldn't help but shed tears.He just kept his eyes open, watching the moonlight give way to sunlight, and then he put on his clothes and left Absinthe Village.Since he had exchanged that one hundred yuan for a good night, his days were stretched thin and poor.He had no money to buy a full ticket to go home, so he had to use the few yuan in his hand to sit in a village called Legu, where he went door to door asking for odd jobs to earn money. He was able to return to town without incident.

Seeing that Chen Sheng was unhappy, Li Sanzhang said, "Let's go to drink dog meat soup at noon, one bowl for me and two bowls for you! You have worked hard today!" It was green, without the flash of white water, and he felt that his throat was going to be so dry that it would smoke. "If you think two bowls are not enough, I'll give you three bowls! I'm going all out, who made you so righteous, it's really kind." Li Sanzhang said with saliva all over his mouth. Chen Sheng just walked forward, as if he didn't hear anything.Li Sanzhang was a little at a loss, he said: "Chen Sheng, what's wrong with you? Don't worry about that bastard Ma Ziyuan, you didn't beat him, he couldn't die, and if you really beat him to death, you wouldn't There is no need to pay for his life, he deserves to be in bad luck!" At this time, a walking tractor suddenly drove up from behind them.It was driven by a toothless middle-aged man in a yellow vest who pulled a load of chickens.Li Sanzhang looked back and saw that it was Zhang Huanshan from Kuai Village, so he exclaimed overjoyed: "Hey——" Zhang Huanshan stopped the car and said, "You beat him up, that's all!" Run away quietly?" Li Sanzhang said with a smile: "If you don't run away, wait for him to cook two dishes and drink two cups?" As he spoke, he swindled his legs and stepped into the car, his buttocks on the iron railing of the carriage, and his feet Then reach out to the chickens.Those chickens were all pinned to their wings and crowded together in groups.Li Sanzhang's feet invaded their footing, so they clucked, and the red crowns stood up like flowers.

"Take us to Tantou Village." Li Sanzhang said to Zhang Huanshan, and then beckoned Chen Sheng to get into the car.Chen Sheng came over silently and got into the car. He stretched his feet behind the chickens, which caused dissatisfied clucking as usual. Zhang Huanshan said, "Do you go to the beach for lunch?" As soon as Shan stepped on the gas pedal, the walk-behind tractor was on the road with a chug and a chug.Li Sanzhang knew that Zhang Huanshan was going to the city to sell chickens.These chickens are domestic chickens, which are in the season of laying eggs, but the price of eggs is far less than that of native chickens, so these chickens are often sold when they are young and fertile.Without exception, they face the fate of being slaughtered.Chen Sheng held the guardrail with one hand, and fondled the cockscomb swaying between his legs with the other.Seeing Chen Sheng's pitiful look, Li Sanzhang felt that Chen Sheng's heart was really good, and he must reward him well in the afternoon.If he still wants to eat mutton stewed noodles, he must also order a bowl for him.

When Chen Sheng and Li Sanzhang were dumped in Tantou Village, their feet were covered with chicken feces, which made them feel like they were going to slip while walking on the dirt road.Later they rubbed chicken droppings off a pile of sand at a construction site before heading to a tea stand for tea.The stall owner is an old woman in her sixties, a well-known model of supporting the army.Her tea stand is clean and tidy, and the price is cheap, you can drink a bowl for ten cents.After drinking tea, Chen Sheng felt that his head was not so cloudy, but all the sights on the street could not arouse his interest.He also had no desire to eat, even though the sun was already high in the sky, and the sound and smell of cooking could be heard from the few restaurants, Chen Sheng was not moved either.The old lady at the tea stand knew Li Sanzhang, she chatted with Li Sanzhang, and then asked who Chen Sheng was.Li Sanzhang said: "You don't know Chen Sheng? He is the one who went to the city to sue for the sports meeting that winter!" He's quite a real person, he doesn't seem to be complaining!" Then, she said to Chen Sheng earnestly: "You are such an old man, why don't you have any awareness? How big is the sports meeting? , the people of the whole country support it, why can’t you figure it out? Let me tell you that I have supported the army all my life, as long as it is something called by the government, we have to actively respond to it, don’t you think so?” Chen Sheng glanced at He glanced at the old woman, and then said hesitantly: "You have finished the army, will they eat your milk?" The old woman was so sharp that she picked up the tea bowl and threw it at Chen Sheng, cursing in her mouth: "Sick!" Li Sanzhang hurried forward to grab the teacup, and then whispered into the old woman's ear, "He's got a demonic disease now, you can't be mad at what he said." Then the old woman stopped her hands suspiciously, and sat down on the low stool, He beat his chest to give himself comfort.

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