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Chapter 68 The noon of youth like a song (7)

Selected works of Chi Zijian 迟子建 2473Words 2018-03-20
Li Sanzhang was afraid that Chen Sheng would speak rudely again, so he quickly took him to Pu Jishun's dog meat restaurant for soup.Chen Sheng only drank one bowl and pushed the other bowl to Li Sanzhang.Li Sanzhang drank so much that his face was sweating, he said: "I have enough for one bowl, let me drink it first, if you really can't drink it, I will help you." Chen Sheng said: "I can't drink it anymore. "Li Sanzhang asked: "What's the matter with you today?" Chen Sheng sighed and said: "Why is the woman from the old Lu family so thin?" Li Sanzhang laughed and said: "So you were thinking about her Let me tell you, her uterus had a tumor, which was removed a month ago, and she lost weight just a few days after she came back from the hospital." Chen Sheng asked, "What is a uterus?" Li Sanzhang giggled She said, "It's just for giving birth." "Then she won't be able to give birth in the future?" Chen Sheng asked. "Don't say you can't have children, it's probably not good to do that kind of thing." Li Sanzhang said, "She used to be so fat and rare." Chen Sheng thought that the heat on this woman would never come back again. When I came, I was so sad that I shed tears.Tears fell into the soup bowl, splashing several oil stars.Li Sanzhang couldn't help but suddenly realized: "So you like this woman!" After Chen Sheng rushed back to the town that night, he moved the grass-made sewing machine back to the house and placed it in front of the window sill.He was lying on the kang, talking to Yang Xiu in the dark: "I have the sewing machine you want, and I will have an operation for you in a few days, and you will be able to live a good life. Today I will go to Absinthe Village with Li Sanzhang I went to beat someone, and there was a man who was not good enough to deduct his wages. I helped him get the money back. I also met a woman from the old Lu family. I didn’t tell you before. I slept with her for a while. Back, she’s hot enough. But I only slept with someone else this time, before you, so don’t be angry. What I want to tell you is that this woman made things for giving birth It’s broken, it’s cut off, it’s so thin that it makes people feel uncomfortable, I’m not in the mood when I’m drinking dog meat soup in Tantou Village.” As Chen Sheng spoke, tears rushed down like a flock of sheep being blasted down a hill. There was a rustling sound across the cheek.Later, his snot also flowed down one after another. He thought that his face must be so muddled that people couldn't see it, so he put the quilt over his face.When the tears stopped and the snot stopped, Chen Sheng wiped his face with the sheet.But he didn't move the sheet from his face, and he smelled a salty smell, which made him suspect that he had become a big fish.He touched his body, and there were no scales, so he was relieved.Later, he thought that Yang Xiu might be upset if he crumpled the quilt, so he stretched the quilt with both hands and shook it vigorously.Unexpectedly, the quilt was too old, and the fibers had worn down, so he accidentally tore it.Through this opening, he saw a few twinkling stars in the sky, and they rushed towards him like fireflies.Chen Sheng let out a "huh" and said, "I don't want to be bright tonight, you go to someone else's house to shine." After finishing speaking, Chen Sheng closed his eyes and fell asleep.

The next day was another day where the sun danced enchantingly.In the morning, Chen Sheng went to work in the field and stopped by Wang Laixi's house to see if his horse was still crying.Ma and Wang Laixi were not at home, but the hostess was at home, and she was steaming buns, making her hands full of gnocchi.When Chen Sheng heard that the horse stopped crying, he was about to leave.At this time, Wang Laixi's woman suddenly took Chen Sheng's hand and said, "The steamed buns will be cooked later, eat one and then go to the ground." Chen Sheng had already eaten the steamed buns in the morning, so he said, "I ate them all." "Chen Sheng ——"Wang Laixi's woman said with a rather mysterious smile, "I'll ask someone to tell you a daughter-in-law, do you think it's okay? Tell me, how much money do you have in your hand? Tell me a real number." "I If I have a daughter-in-law, won’t I break the law if I mention one more?” Chen Sheng muttered, “Yang Xiu treats me very well, I will perform an operation on her in a few days, and she will be able to conceive a child then.” Wang Laixi The woman sighed for a long time, and said: "Chen Sheng, what can you do?" Chen Sheng felt that this meant ridiculing himself, so he shouted very dissatisfied: "I have managed myself very well. , What should I do?" Saying that, let go of striding out of the door angrily.While walking, he was blowing his nose vigorously, as if he wanted to throw all the resentment and bad luck he had just provoked in the courtyard of the Wang family.When he left Wang's house, he first saw a black crow squatting on a poplar tree in front of the town health center, so he picked up a stone from the ground and threw it over, cursing, "You bastard, get out!" Crows are used to sitting there. There was a tree, so he didn't panic. He remained calm and remained motionless. Chen Sheng was so angry that he wanted to cut down the tree in half.Later, a few children who were playing with medicine bottles in front of the hospital saw this scene, and each of them picked up a stone, and together they came to bombard the crow.Finally the crow couldn't sit still, it had no choice but to fly away, leaving a series of hoarse voices in the air, Chen Sheng felt that the poplar tree in front of the hospital could keep it alive.After the children helped Chen Sheng achieve success, they yelled "Chen Sheng" from the left and "Chen Sheng" from the right, and Chen Sheng was filled with joy in his heart. All the children broke off an ear of green corn, and asked them to gather around a fire in the field and roast them.

Chen Sheng came back from the field and ate a bowl of noodles. Then, with his squash-like flat head hanging down, he sat in the midday sun and wove things with green grass.He felt that the sun was covering him like a white net, and he was like a herring at the bottom of the net.He is weaving a diamond-shaped bag.Yang Xiu had seen this kind of bag in the city before, and she liked it so much. When she asked about the price, it cost more than 300 yuan. She was so scared that she hiccupped a bunch of times.Afterwards, Yang Xiu kept nagging about the bag: "Let's just say it's made of pure cowhide. It wouldn't be worth more than three hundred yuan, right? How much is a cow? How many bags can a piece of cowhide make?" Sheng felt sour, hating why the merchant set the price so far away from people like a rainbow.Yang Xiu used a pencil to draw the bag on the paper in his free time, and he drew no less than dozens of them. The more he drew, the more realistic they became. Chen Sheng was so distressed that he didn't dare to look at it.So whenever he went to the toilet to wipe his shit with a piece of paper with a leather bag on it, he always felt that a bee was stinging his ass.He felt very sorry for his woman, so he was extra careful when weaving bags. Even if there was a piece of grass that was not the right color or had a fork, he would remove it, so his bag weaving was very slow.The grass danced softly on his lap, shining on him like a different kind of light.Then the mayor led a man and a dog into the yard.The dog belongs to the mayor's family, but the people don't.The dog follows the mayor wherever he goes, as if the owner is famous and he has to shake his prestige.Chen Sheng hated that dog with its tail up.

"Chen Sheng——" the mayor said, "Did you go to Kuai Village to beat people yesterday?" Chen Sheng raised his head, pointed at the dog and said, "I will only talk to you if you let it go out." Chang kicked the dog in the stomach and shouted: "Wait outside!" After all, the dog was living under someone's fence, so although his face was filled with displeasure, he obediently slipped out of the yard. Chen Sheng said: "I went to beat people, what's the matter?" The mayor pointed to the short strange man next to him and said, "He is from the Kuai Village Security Committee, and he came here specifically to learn about the situation of beating people yesterday. " Chen Sheng glanced at the stranger and said, "Why haven't I seen you in Kuai Village?" The stranger said, "I've only been here for half a year, but I've heard of you. Tell me the truth, who Instructed you to beat people?" Chen Sheng cleared his throat and said, "I came back from Fu Datou's house that night, and the moon was bright that night. As soon as I entered the room, someone said: 'Chen Sheng, I'll wait for you. You have three bags of cigarettes plus two times of squatting to shit.’ It turned out to be Li Sanzhang. He told me that Ma Ziyuan in Kuai Village deducted his wages. Did he abuse the bitch? Li Sanzhang and I went to beat him in a car and got the money back. That’s what happened." "You beat people up, don't you know?" Stranger Say.

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