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Chapter 72 Noon of youth like a song (11)

Selected works of Chi Zijian 迟子建 2121Words 2018-03-20
As soon as Chen Sheng fell asleep, Fu Yucheng asked his wife to clear the table.While they were drinking, the woman had already put the three maids to sleep as planned, and gave Fu Datou a sleeping pill. Fu Yucheng asked her in a low voice: "Did you sleep deeply?" The woman tremblingly said with tears in her eyes, "The medicine is so strong that the child didn't even blink when he slept." "Is there no one outside?" asked in a low voice. "Everyone who should be sleeping is asleep, only the yard of Wang Laixi's house is still lit, and his house seems to be doing something." "There is always a lot of work in their house!" Fu Yucheng said, "I will go around Wang Laixi in a while Let's go home, Chen Sheng won't wake up for a while." The woman didn't say anything. "How many dumplings did he eat?" Fu Yucheng's voice trembled a little.

"Five." The woman sniffled her nose, tears streaming down uncontrollably, "I want him to eat six, six will go well, but he said he won't eat the sixth." "I don't want to eat it myself ——" Fu Yucheng's tears also fell, "But what do you think he will do if he continues like this? You and I are still alive, and someone will take care of him. When we die, his sisters are all married. How much should he do? Poor?" "We put the debt on Chen Sheng, I feel bad." The woman wiped her tears and said, "He didn't—" "It wouldn't have been possible to ask him to do this." Fu Yucheng said , "Didn't you see that? Chen Sheng has feelings for him, and no matter how demonic Chen Sheng is, he will not throw him into the river." As soon as Fu Yucheng finished speaking, his wife burst into tears.She seemed to see her son's body floating in the icy river.His big head floating on the water will bring her dark days like the sun falling into the water.

Fu Yucheng lowered his voice and said sharply: "Don't wake them up from crying!" The woman said tremblingly, "I can't bear to-" "You think I--" Fu Yucheng tremblingly said, "Treat him, right The whole family will benefit!" The woman hid her face and went out, crying in the garden.Her tears dripped on the dirt and the veins of the plants.The feeling of the soil is that it is raining, and it is eager to be watered; while the veins think it is the morning dew, but it just feels that the time is wrong, because it can also feel the moonlight at the same time, but its heart has been nourished anyway , do not care about the source of the water droplets.The soil sucked tears, and the veins kissed the tears. Moonlight also felt that his feet were wet by something. Moonlight shook his feet, but still staggered and stopped on the soil and veins.

Around eleven o'clock in the middle of the night, Fu Yucheng quietly picked up Fu Datou and walked along the crooked fence of the town towards the river.That river has no name, people just call it a river, and it is indeed a river.The river freezes in winter, and in summer, the men in the town like to drink cattle and horses and wash the mud off their feet; while the women like to wash those clothes that are difficult to wash, soak the clothes, and apply thick soap to make them dry. It fully soaks towards the dirt, and then goes to the grass on the bank to pick wild vegetables or wild flowers. The wild vegetables are used for people or animals, and the flowers are used to brighten the house.So if women wash their clothes, they bring back more than just clothes.The surface of the river is not wide and the water is not deep, but the current is fast and often knocks people who pass by into the whirlpool, but that is all without danger.People who stood up from the river were all giggling, as if the whirlpool was just playing a joke on them.Because Fu Yucheng drank some wine, coupled with his heavy and flustered mood, he felt that the son in his arms was extremely heavy.He walked staggeringly, flustered and short of breath.He didn't dare to look at his son, he didn't dare to look at the sky, and he didn't even dare to turn his head, for fear of seeing the grief-stricken woman under the dim light at home.Fu Datou had never slept so deeply, if he could not feel the heat from his body, Fu Yucheng would have suspected that he had not drowned to death.The night blurred all the scenes, and the surroundings were extremely quiet, so quiet that he was terrified when he heard his own footsteps.Then he felt an impelling coolness as sharp as lightning, and he knew that he was approaching the river.He quickened his pace.

The river is in sight.It was a glowing gray in the night, and the sound of the water was loud.Fu Yucheng looked back and forth, left and right, but found no one, which reassured him a little.He planned to kiss the child and let him go with the wave, but he tried to hang his head several times but failed.His neck was straight and straight, and he could only look at the willow bushes on the other side of the river that looked like splashed ink.He wanted to say "I'm sorry, son," but his tongue was turned to stone, so hard that no words could come out.Fu Yucheng had no choice but to close his eyes and throw the child into the river.The child didn't cry, but the sound of water kept coming.Fu Yucheng wanted to look at the river, but he couldn't even open his eyes.He felt a sudden rush of heat through his legs, followed by his shoes becoming wet, and a smell of bad smell rushed into his nostrils.Fu Yucheng knew that he peed in his pants.It was the second time in his adult life that he had this experience.The last time he was building furniture in Tantou Village six years ago, the family suddenly sent someone to call him back, saying that his old mother was critically ill.Fu Yucheng asked, "Are you still angry?" The visitor would not lie, so he truthfully said that the old lady had passed away, so Fu Yucheng gave a jolt and pissed in his pants.

Fu Yucheng shivered in front of the woodpile when he returned home.Seeing that he came back alone, the woman stuffed the little finger of her left hand into her mouth and bit it fiercely. At this moment, her face changed in many ways.Tears flowed from the eyes, and blood flowed from the corners of the mouth.Fu Yucheng saw that his woman was crying because of biting her finger, so she put her finger into her mouth and bit it, but what came out of the bite was only blood, and the tears still pooled in her heart.When the woman saw that her husband was so distraught, she pulled her finger out of her mouth, and then went to grab the finger in his mouth. The husband and wife hugged each other and trembled.

With the help of the woman, Fu Yucheng changed the wet trousers. The woman also cleaned up the blood on her body. Then they brought a basin of cold water into the small back room as agreed in advance, and washed Chen Sheng's shoes and trousers. All soaked. Shocked by the cold water, Chen Sheng shrugged involuntarily, thinking he had stepped into the river in confusion.Then, he felt pain dancing around him like bees and butterflies, and the sound of cursing came buzzing like bees.Then there was a whirlwind of cries, and he was dragged from the kang to the ground, all the way to the yard, and Chen Sheng finally woke up.

The neighbors were awakened from their sleep and ran over to ask what happened.Fu Yucheng's woman broke down in tears and said that she kindly asked Chen Sheng to come to eat dumplings at night and let him drink. After eating and drinking, he insisted on taking Fu's head out to play, but who knew that the child would disappear as soon as he took him out, and he was alone came back—— "Where did you get the baby?" the neighbors asked. "Look at his shoes and trousers are wet, he must have carried the child into the river!" Fu Yucheng said tearfully.
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