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Chapter 73 The noon of youth like a song (12)

Selected works of Chi Zijian 迟子建 2572Words 2018-03-20
"I——" Chen Sheng just uttered a word, and Fu Yucheng's slap slapped him on the face, making him speechless and turning his head in a daze. "Chen Sheng, you can kill. How can you throw the child into the river? Although he is a big man, he is still a man—" The neighbors scolded him in outrage, and some people began to help Fu Yucheng beat him.Chen Sheng looked at his wet shoes, and didn't understand how he went to the river after sleeping soundly, and how he carried Fu Datou away.Fu Yucheng's three girls were crying with tears and snot all over their faces because of the sudden disappearance of their younger brother. Among them, the second girl who often invited Chen Sheng to dinner took out a pair of scissors and kept saying that she would cut off Chen Sheng's ears. In the end, Fu Yucheng took the scissors away.People beat up Chen Sheng again and again, spitting on him and blowing his nose on purpose, until he was paralyzed on the ground and had no strength to resist, then the neighbor suddenly understood and said that he should go to the river to see, maybe Chen Sheng was just playing around with Fu Datou and threw him on the bank instead of in the water, so a few people followed Fu Yucheng to the river with flashlights.

Later, Chen Sheng was helped home by Li Sanzhang who heard the news.Chen Sheng felt that his whole body was falling apart, and he could no longer walk on his feet, so he leaned most of his body on Li Sanzhang and walked with his feet dangling, which made Li Sanzhang out of breath, and kept scolding Chen Sheng: "Look at your flesh!" The smell of grass in the room made Chen Sheng feel sad like an old yellowed photo.The sky is already faintly bright.Chen Sheng saw Yang Xiu sitting on the edge of the Kang, crying with a yellow handkerchief.Chen Sheng felt sorry, so he said melancholy: "Oh, I was going to eat dumplings, but I didn't want to eat them all night. Are you angry with me?" Li Sanzhang helped Chen Sheng onto the kang and scolded Chen Sheng: "Don't always be so indiscriminate between human and ghost, okay?" Chen Sheng said very sadly: "Why did I carry Fu Datou into the river, alas, the river is so wet that my shoes are wet." Li Sanzhang yelled: "Go to sleep, we'll talk when you wake up." Chen Sheng really felt very uncomfortable, Li Sanzhang helped him take off his wet shoes, pulled a thin quilt to cover him, and Chen Sheng shouted loudly asleep.He had been sleeping until the sky changed from a slightly bright color to a clear white, and then he woke up dimly.He felt his stomach growling.

Chen Sheng struggled to sit up from the kang, he was dizzy, he only felt that the sunlight rushing in from the window had an aggressive aura, he couldn't help muttering: "Why did I sleep in such a color?" He tried to get some food under his shoes, but his whole body was so sore that every movement seemed to be cramping him. Looking at the purple butterfly-like spots on his arms, Chen Sheng didn't understand what was going on.While he was in a daze, Li Sanzhang brought him some warm corn dumplings.Chen Sheng sat at the same place and ate three of them in one go. He wanted to drink water. Li Sanzhang hurriedly scooped him a ladle of cold water.As soon as the water fell, the mayor came with the paperwork.The mayor's dog was ordered to stay in the yard, and he knew Chen Sheng didn't like it.

The mayor first looked at the things made of straw, and then "tsk tsk" said: "It really looks like weaving!" The mayor said: "Chen Sheng, do you remember what happened last night? Tell me the story You have to tell the truth.” Chen Sheng asked dumbly, “What happened to me last night?” “That kid Fu Datou asked you to throw him into the river and drowned.” I found it at Lazikou." Chen Sheng was in a hurry: "Fu Datou is dead?" "You throw him into the river, will he still be alive?" The mayor said, "Fu Yucheng's family cried to death, it's poor Tell me, you didn't throw him into the river on purpose, did you?" Chen Sheng tried hard to recall what happened last night, but he couldn't remember anything, so he couldn't help crying with his head in his arms: "I don't I remember going to the river, and I don’t remember taking Fu Datou out. I like that kid, he loves to smile when he sees me. He also likes to yell at me, he and I are connected, I don’t remember... ...Why did I go to the river, even if I throw it away, I should throw myself away, and I shouldn't throw Fu Datou..." The mayor sighed, and could only walk out of the house with the paperwork.When he arrived in the yard, the dog came up to grab his trousers affectionately, and the mayor kicked it away in a disturbed manner, saying, "Get out! Chen Sheng is like this, and you still have the mood to be mean to me?" The dog said, "Oh— —" cried out, and ran away with tail between legs.It ran out of the yard and stopped to look back at its owner. It still saw a sad face, so it continued to run forward wisely.Thinking about it, if the master's temper is not going well, it won't look good when it comes home, so the dog went to Fu Yucheng's house to watch the excitement.The Fu family had never gathered so many people.

Chen Sheng was able to go to the ground gradually.He can also sit in front of a wooden pier and weave things with green grass at noon with his squash-like flat head hanging down.The green grass danced like lamps and shadows on his lap, as if to cast a ray of light on his bleak life.Chen Sheng's energy is not as good as before, and he is about to take a nap while writing.He also walked towards Fu Yucheng's house twice, and when he reached the door, he remembered that Fu Datou was dead, so he went back sadly with his head down.When someone called him "Chen Sheng, Chen Sheng" on the road, he refused.He walked with his head bowed, his back bent like a bow.Once he bumped into someone else's pigsty and bled his forehead.

Only when Chen Sheng was lying on the kang at night did he feel better.He would talk to Yang Xiu in the dark and report to her about the growth of the crops in the field this year.Potatoes are all swollen, but cabbage always attracts bugs; sunflowers have many shriveled seeds, and the seeds were not selected at the beginning;Sometimes he also talked about the moonlight with Yang Xiu: "Being so thin, the moon hasn't had enough to eat, and the light it emits has no strength." Only God knows what Yang Xiu's attitude is.After Chen Sheng finished making up all the things that should be made up, he felt that the time to perform surgery on Yang Xiu had come.Chen Sheng chose a sunny day to enter the city.He was going to the operating room of the hospital to see what those instruments looked like, so that he could weave a set out of green grass when he came back.

It was afternoon when Chen Sheng arrived in the city. He bought a piece of bread and ate it. Instead of looking for a hotel, he rushed to the hospital first.After he entered the hospital, he asked two people in white coats, and finally found the location of the operating room.Seeing a girl who looked like a nurse standing outside the operating room, Chen Sheng asked, "Is there an operation?" The girl nodded and said, "Are you the patient's family?" Chen Sheng laughed suddenly, but he didn't answer. The girl asked questions, but rushed into the operating room.His strange laughter followed into the operating room. The surgeon in charge was about to perform an appendectomy on a patient. Chen Sheng's terrifying laughter made his scalpel tremble, and the just-made incision was just right. Accidentally stretched a few centimeters.

It was about dinner time, and the phone in the town government office rang like a sow in heat.It was the security guard from the hospital in the city who said they had caught a man who was insane. He called himself Chen Sheng, and said that his wife was seriously ill and needed a major operation. (Chen Shengyu).The security guard said that out of humanitarian considerations, the hospital kept Chen Sheng in the hospital for fear of accidents in the street, and hoped that the town would send someone to pick him up as soon as possible. The mayor was watching horses at Wang Laixi's house when he listened to the phone call from the document.Many people gathered at his house.The horse was crying, and they were looking for Chen Sheng to kill the horse.

The mayor said to Wang Laixi: "You go to the city to pick up Chen Sheng, and when you come back, take him directly to your house and kill the horse first." Come out, I’ll go into the city right now.” The woman pouted and said, “Who’s looking at you? Just go like this!” Wang Laixi asked the mayor again: “Can I sell the travel expenses to the city?” The mayor said: "Co-marketing, let's go." Wang Laixi said to everyone: "You can eat horse meat tomorrow. Don't worry, I won't sell it too expensive. But it can't be too cheap. It's just tears, internal organs There's nothing wrong with it, the meat must still be fresh." After Wang Laixi left, everyone dispersed and went home.They thought that they could buy horse meat the next day, and they were a little beaming.But they didn't believe that the horse meat was fresh, because it was an old horse after all, and the meat must be difficult to cook.So many families piled up high firewood in front of the stove in advance.

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