Chapter 7 A chick

one Ah Chu firmly remembers: his parents died one autumn night when he was six years old. That day, a passer-by brought news that Zouzhuang, five miles away, was going to show a movie.Lu Yuan, his parents were afraid that A Chu would fall asleep and his bones would be soft and difficult to hold, so they paid him five cents for candy, and tried hard and soft, and finally coaxed him to stay at home with the old grandmother. There are a lot of people watching the movie, and pedestrians line up on the ridge of the field, calling for each other. Under the black sky, there are human voices from far and near and the flickering yellow flames of the small horse lanterns.

To transition. The river was full of people in a hurry, and when the boat docked, the fleeing people rushed to board. The side of the boat was only two or three inches above the water, and two big men climbed on board.When the boat left the shore, the people on the boat stood up one by one, standing upright like sticks, trembling, not daring to look at the water.The boat went crookedly to the center of the big river, and a ship passed by in the distance, expanding the waves layer by layer. When people shook, the boat swayed and capsized. Everyone cared about each other, and ran for their lives, and the river was full of shouts for father and mother.If you know how to water, naturally you don't care.Half-aware of water, he choked on a few sips of water, rolled his eyes and went ashore, spitting water with his neck straight.A Chu's parents are both "landland ducks", and they sank when they heard a few shouts.

The people who got on the shore suddenly thought that they should go down to the river to save people, but the sky was so dark that it made people timid. Several people who went down the river shouted and scratched on the water, their movements were not small, but they were bluffing. pierced deep.When the brave ones arrived, it was too late. A few days after the accident, Dagou's father said at the village by the river that the boat capsized, and Achu's father hugged him tightly, and the two sank to the bottom of the river together.He pinched and twisted again and again, but Ah Chu's father refused to let go.He thought his little life was going to be over this time.After eating a mouthful of mud from the bottom of the river, he came up with a great wisdom: he pulled out the flashlight in his pocket and stuffed it into Achu's father's hand!spirit!A Chu's father was choking, thinking that he must have grabbed something to save his life, he let him go, but grabbed the flashlight instead.Taking the opportunity, he let go of the flashlight, got rid of Ah Chu's father, got out of the water, and climbed onto the shore alone.

When he said this, Dagou Laozi's face was very lively and shiny, showing that his intelligence was much superior to others. And those who listened exclaimed: "It's dangerous!" They admired the cleverness and cunning of Dagou Laozi. "Let's put it on me, and I have already followed to the underworld to serve as an army." "Then you can't sleep with your fat wife in your arms." "Chichi", two women laughed. At the end, Dagou's father couldn't help but feel a little regretful, and said, "I just bought that flashlight."

Ah Chu, who was among the crowd, listened silently, and then squatted on the ground.The crowd dispersed, but he was still squatting on the ground.Unable to squat anymore, he slumped on the ground, staring blankly at the river, watching a piece of rotten wood, a dead chicken, and a huge chrysanthemum floating on the river... It was dark, and I still watched. After three years, the old grandmother was gone, and Ah Chu lived alone. Sometimes she went to her grandmother's house for a few meals, and sometimes she ate from house to house in the village.He stubbornly believed that everyone in the village owed him.He eats fiercely, like a wolf cub in the wilderness who is extremely hungry, he does not chew, eats half of the food, and the other half is scattered all over the table and on the ground, and he often wanders outside with rice grains on the tip of his nose.

two Ah Chi has been raised extremely strong, a head taller than children of the same age.Naturally, a head of black and hard curly hair, like a pile of powerful coil springs.The eyes are short and narrow, and there is always an evil spirit of a small animal hidden in the eyes. The children in the village are afraid of him, especially the big dog who is two years younger than him. When he went to school, he was very dignified, and followed a large group of children hugging him.He let them carry him on a stool, which became almost a hobby.When it rains, he likes to do it more and more.He wanted to see those little bearers slipping in the mud, swaying and farting.If he fell, he would kick them in the stomach or ass.He seldom does homework himself, and whoever he appoints to do it for him has to do it.From the first grade to the fourth grade, he hardly had a breakfast at home.Whoever he puts on the nose and says "You!" has to bring hard-boiled eggs.That time it was Big Dog's turn to bring the eggs, and it happened that the family had just sold the eggs, so he had no choice but to steal them, but was caught and slapped three times on the back of the head.

There are no children here who dare not listen to him.Do not listen?He will punish you cunningly and weirdly: he will drive you into the wheat field, take off your pants, let you reveal the "little teapot", squatting bare buttocks, too embarrassed to go out; force you to climb up the roof along the ladder , and then flipped over the ladder with one foot, allowing you to be scorched by the sun.The most ruthless tactic is to let all the children come to snub you, put you aside, let you feel lonely, and suffer all kinds of teasing and pain from time to time.If you persist until it is too late, you will steal things from the house and try to curry favor with him.

No one dared to tell the adults in the family. Telling him would not only make him feel uncomfortable, but it might also bring disaster to his family. The big dog is Hina's tail. three A Chu is in fifth grade, and he is called "Old Man Yang"—A Chu is never called "Teacher Yang".Old man Yang was old and his eyes were highly myopic. When writing on the blackboard, his face was very close to the blackboard, and the tip of his nose almost wiped the blackboard, as if he was smelling something.A Chu called him "Old Man Yang", and could even be heard by "Old Man Yang". "Old Man Yang" got angry and wanted to pull his ears.But it is usually difficult to succeed: Ah Chu only needs to sneak out ten yards away, and he is out of sight.

Old man Yang stiffened his neck and shouted to the principal Han Zixiang with bulging eyes: "If you don't fire him, I won't teach anymore!" So Han Zixiang called Ah Chu and punished him to stand for a long time. Counting, I have been punished four times.When she was punished for the fourth time, Ah Chu saw the big dog dangling past the office door, and there seemed to be a hint of ridicule in her eyes.It wasn't that Han Zixiang was watching, he just wanted the big dog to "eat life". A Chu hated "Old Man Yang". Old man Yang gets up very early every day, and the first important thing is to grab a piece of old newspaper that has expired and squat in the latrine.In this place, it is called "Xie Xiaoshou" to relieve urine, and "Xie Dashou" to relieve stool, and it is also called "Chu Gong".Chu Gong usually sits out, and the stool is called "Gong Stool".Old man Yang is very skilled at sitting on the Gong stool, and can sit for hours at a time.There are verdant bamboo forests in front and behind the hut. In the morning, there are birds standing on the bamboo shoots and calling, and the sound is as crisp as water drops falling into a quiet pool.While listening happily, old man Yang tossed and "sniffed" the corner of the waste paper that would eventually be used as toilet paper, feeling refreshed all over.Like this every day, "Gong" is very serious.

This day, he got up early as usual, and did his kung fu as usual. At the beginning, nothing happened. It was probably because he was constipated in the middle, and he kicked the board under his feet with all his strength. The legs of the stool were broken, and the person "thumped" and fell into the cesspit. This incident also made several young teachers happy for several days. The duck-herding old man met old man Yang on the road on Friday, and he was also talkative, so he asked old man Yang for a cigarette, and whispered to him: "That day, when I was releasing ducks in the river, I saw Ah Chu cat in your hut with a saw. "

Old man Yang turned around and walked back, inspected the stool leg, and sure enough, it was sawed by the saw. He jumped up and down in anger, and shouted at Han Zixiang: "Go and teach!" A Chu was watched and imprisoned for a day. Old man Yang stopped teaching for a week, and all the teachers tried to coax him to the podium like a child.From then on, old man Yang stared at Ah Chu with a kind of cold eyes only for old people. Four From then on, Old Friday's duck froze, quacked and fluttered from time to time, flapped its wings and darted across the water, drawing countless white lines, as if it had been startled by something. It is the day when ducks are eager to lay eggs, which makes Lao Wu a big headache.At this time, the ducks can only rest quietly in the reeds on the bank of the river, not to be surprised.Startled, as soon as the anus was loosened, the eggs all slipped out into the water.In the past, every morning on Friday, I would pick up a large willow basket of duck eggs from the duck pen, and I was so happy that I smirked from the corner of my mouth.These few mornings, I can only pick up a few, and the bottom of the basket cannot be covered. He decided it was the weasel that was keeping an eye on his duck. When Ah Chu heard him telling people about the crimes of the weasel fiercely, she glanced at him, twitched the corner of her mouth, and smiled sinisterly in her heart.Of course, he did this: he hugged a cat, sneaked into the reeds, saw the opportunity, and suddenly threw the cat into the ducks! A Chu didn't want to let it go, she never spared anyone. It's autumn.There is a custom here: Every family eats melons on the day of Liqiu.As for why they eat melons, no one can explain the reason. They only know that Liqiu wants to eat melons, just eat them. In the morning, Ah Chu was fishing by the river, and saw Lao Wu go home with a big watermelon in his arms.After everyone went to work in the fields, Ah Chu flashed into Lao Wu's house.He dug a small hole in the watermelon with a knife, found a spoon, picked out the rustling red flesh and ate it until his belly was as round as a watermelon. Ah Chu decided: Grandpa Friday is particularly hateful! He had accumulated some urine, and was about to urinate, when he glanced at the empty watermelon in a blink of an eye, and those short, narrow eyes stared at it viciously... In the evening, Old Friday showed the generosity of a master, called out loudly, and called all his children and grandchildren, saying that he was inviting them to eat melons.Slashed with a knife, the melon was cut in half, and the yellow soup splashed all over the table. Old Friday was so angry that he rushed into the kitchen, grabbed the chopping board and the kitchen knife, rushed into the alley, and chopped hard on the chopping board with the knife!This is the most vicious method of cursing people in this place, and it is not easily used.It is said that the souls of those who do evil will be chopped to death.Old Friday is not like ordinary people chopping and cursing, but silently, step by step.His face was gray and cold, under the high eyebrows, a pair of yellowish eyes were fixed like pebbles.Every time the knife is chopped down, there will always be a deep mark on the chopping board.Sometimes the tip of the knife penetrates too deep into the wood, and it takes a few shakes to pull it out. A Chu sat motionless on the threshold, only shooting her eyes out of the tip of her eyes, staring at Lao Wu's curved legs moving forward, biting her nails with her shiny white teeth until they turned into sawtooths . A few days later, Ah Chu met Old Friday at the head of a wooden bridge.At that time, Lao Wu was putting a load of dung on the bridge to catch his breath, and planned to pick up the bridge after accumulating strength. "Fifth Master, let me help you carry it over there one by one." This made Lao Wu very shocked: Ah Chu is also willing to help others?A chick!Who did Ah Chu help? ! "Come on, fifth master." A Chu grabbed his shoulder pole. "I'm the only one!" Old Friday was a little flattered and moved to the point of crying, "Hey!" A bucket of excrement was being carried across the bridge, and Lao Wu frivolously wanted to turn around and go back to carry the other bucket, but Ah Chu stood still and smiled slyly: "Did you tell old man Yang?" Lao Wu couldn't turn his head around for a while, he didn't know how to answer, and there were whites in his eyes. "Do ducks still lay so many eggs?" "you……!" "Is the watermelon delicious?" The pole was swung up. Ah Chu didn't back away, she crossed her arms across her chest sideways, and closed her eyes. Lao Wu's heels are off the ground, his body is leaning forward, his neck is stretched very long, all the veins are thick and black, like a bunch of tubes, the blood rushes to his brain, the tendons jump suddenly, and the corners of his eyes grin Then, the pole trembled in the air: "I'll kill you!" Ah Chu showed no trace of fear. Only the old Friday's panting sound, like a bellows. "Chop? Why not?" Ah Chu closed her eyes slightly, and tapped the beat with her feet. The pole fell, but it fell to the ground, making a small hole. Ah Chu left, walked ten steps away, suddenly raised her little butt towards Old Friday, and then slapped it rhythmically with her hands-this is a sign of contempt and "I'm afraid of you!" "Old ghost" is a specialized action. Lao Wu could have carried a load of manure across the river, but now there are only manure buckets at one end, and he can't come and go.He grabbed the pole and walked back and forth on the bridge a few times, then stopped in the middle of the bridge.After an unknown amount of time, he knelt down and looked at the river: "Don't miss him, he has no mother or father, I won't hack him to death! He knows this, this bad guy knows!" Then he thought angrily, "I thought I wouldn't dare to kill him!" Hack him to death? Don't you dare?" Old Friday's eyes were covered with tears and blurred.He had never been played like this in his life. Fives A Chu stands at the intersection: This is the only way for Big Dog to go home from school. The big dog could see from Ah Chu's evil eyes what was going on in Ah Chu's mind.Like a little chicken, he poked his head around and rubbed his head forward. He saw Ah Chu sitting cross-legged at the intersection, his calves were limp.He looked around for the adults with eyes for help, but it was almost dusk, everyone went home, the roads were empty, and the fields were empty.He wanted to retreat, but saw that Ah Chu had already stood up, forcing her over step by step. The big dog stood still, with a yellow face and begging eyes, looking at Ah Chu. "Follow me!" Ah Chi said. Passing through the fields, the atmosphere becomes more and more desolate.A flock of rooks glides across the dusk, making the dry, lonely sound of wings rubbing against the air.Twilight deepened and the sky darkened.The green fields were behind them, and a barren hill appeared before them.Standing alone on the barren hill was an old twisted and twisted tree. The sky was gloomy, and the old tree turned into a black shadow, like a giant claw.One in the east and one in the west, old graves are scattered on the barren hills. The big dog became cold and looked up at the sky, looking for a star, but the sky was only blue. "That day, I stood in the office, you were happy!" "I... I didn't... I didn't..." "No? I see you smiling. Turn around!" The big dog faced the unpredictable and seemingly dangerous barren hills. A Chu sat down on the ridge of the field: "Did you see anything?" "No." "Didn't you see the will-o'-the-wisp? I can see it. It's blue, with a green outer ring, jumping up and down, didn't you see it?" The big dog shut his eyes absolutely tight. "There are ghosts here, the adults in the village say so. I even met them when I was looking for ducks on Friday. Some old ghosts have no faces, and they have a bare face. A few little ghosts are jumping and playing on the grave... Did you hear that?" "Listen... I heard..." Big Dog's voice was out of tune, "Brother Achu, let's... go home." "What are you afraid of, I will sit with you." Big Dog bravely took a peek at Heihuangqiu, then quickly closed his eyes. The night wind blows on the barren hills, and the dry thatch trembles.A pheasant crowed suddenly in the depths of the darkness.This monotonous voice added a bit of desolation to the surroundings. Ah Chu was probably tired and stopped talking.Time passed inch by inch across the wilderness. "Brother Achu..." Big Dog felt that the surroundings were empty. No one answered. "Brother Achu..." Big Dog felt the darkness wrapping him heavily. No one answered. The big dog turned his head and saw that Ah Chu had long since disappeared, and immediately ran back like a frightened rabbit. While running, he shouted loudly: "Ah Chu! Ah Chu!" Call father and mother.Horrible cries spread under the night sky... six The big dog was ill and had a high fever for two consecutive days before gradually getting better. It stands to reason that I, the big dog, can catch Ah Chu and beat him out of his pants.But he himself just didn't understand, when he saw Ah Chu's eyes that love to stare at people, his heart felt empty. After the big dog went to school, he no longer served as A Chu's tail, and kept away from him, and his face lost the look of shrinking when he saw him, and even dared to stare at him, which made A Chu very annoyed . "Tomorrow, it's your turn to bring me two eggs!" A Chu said. When Big Dog went to school the next day, he saw Ah Chu's hand stretched out in front of him, but he turned away and strode over with his head held high. This time it was Ah Chu's turn to be surprised, the hand that was outstretched and never returned for a while stopped there for a while as if it wasn't his own.Seeing that the big dog was about to step into the classroom, he ran a few steps, grabbed the big dog by the collar, swung him a few rounds, and knocked him to the ground. The big dog got up and walked straight forward. Ah Chu knocked him down again. The big dog got up, his nostrils were bleeding, and when he lifted his pants, he still walked forward, extremely brave. All the children stood and watched in silence. A Chu stood in front of the big dog and blocked the way. There were tears in the big dog's eyes, and he stared at Ah Chu with burning eyes.He threw the schoolbag three meters, and before the children could react, he had already hooked his head to his chest, and rushed towards Ah Chu like a cow. Ah Chi flashed, and the big dog fell to the ground.After a long time, he slowly raised his head, with blood dripping from the corner of his mouth, his face tilted, and he stared fiercely into Ah Chu's eyes. Aki stood still. The big dog struggled up from the ground and fought back again.The child ignored it, grabbed A Chu's clothes, scratched, bit and kicked. The weakest big dog rebelled! The children onlookers blushed with excitement, their hearts trembled, they squeezed shoulders and held hands, shrinking the circle smaller and smaller. A Chu punched the big dog viciously, knocking the big dog to the ground two meters away. Many teachers came. The big dog held his head high, and two tears rolled down his dusty face. Many children began to cry inexplicably. All the teachers of this elementary school went to the principal's office together, and formally declared a strike to Han Zixiang—unless Ah Chu was expelled immediately! Han Zixiang walked down the corridor, looked at Ah Chu, and smiled miserably.After a long time, he said, "Find Ah Chi's workbook." A teacher went. "Move the stool that Hina brought out of the classroom." A child goes. He didn't look at Ah Chu again... seven A Chu is like a ghost, wandering around in and out of the village all day long. What follows him is boundless loneliness. He leaned against the willow tree boredly, squinting at a group of ants coming and going, lively and lively, and suddenly felt a desire to kill them.He scraped up a layer of floating soil with tiles and built it into a polder, enclosing the group of small creatures with thin waists. Then he stood up and pulled his trouser belt so that the trousers fell to his feet.He hung his trouser belt to dry on his neck, and immediately, a bubble of thick and urgent urine was poured into the polder without a drop.He was not in a hurry to pull up his pants, admiring and playing with the images of those little creatures writhing and struggling in the water.He thought they were funny, too ridiculous. He lay half asleep under the willow tree for a long time, grabbing a branch to sizzle the air while wandering aimlessly. I don't know whose family is going to build a house. They have taken off a pile of adobe from the threshing field and are standing there to dry.With a kick from Ah Chu, one adobe fell down and overwhelmed another adobe. After a while, all the adobes in a row of about 50 yuan fell down with a "plop plop".This is very interesting, Ah Chu was very happy, kicked again, kicked again, and all the adobes fell on the ground. He still can't be happy. He even hates the sun in the sky: "The son of a bitch, the sun shines on people like every day!" Before he knew it, he had already reached the gate of Mr. Kuan's courtyard, and when he glanced inside, he saw the big bronze gong hanging on the wall.In the past few days, he kept looking at the gong with his eyes. The rule here: the gong cannot be knocked alone, especially not in a hurry.Because this is the signal to call the fire alarm determined by the people in this place.This gong was cast with money from members of various families in the past, and it hangs in the house of Kuan Ye who lives in the center of the village all year round. He walked past the gate of Grandpa Kuan's courtyard... I don't know how many days have passed. One afternoon, the people working in the field suddenly heard the big gong in the village "boom, boom, boom" and threw away the tools in their hands.Somebody yelled, "Firefighting!" All the villagers shouted, sprinting across the crop fields, and sprinted towards the village. As a result, the gongs in several nearby villages also echoed.Here, "fire" is called "water", so people shouted everywhere: "Qiancun has water!" They carried buckets, basins, iron buckets, and earthen pots, and they came over in a mighty manner, majestic and spectacular. This is the Ludang area, and the houses are all built with reeds. If a family "walks into the water", the surrounding villages have to be rescued.Every village has a large tool for firefighting, and the people here call it "water dragon".A copper-cast sprinkler was placed in a huge wooden barrel, carried by four big men, and put down at the "walking water" place. Immediately, there was a line of water handing up from the river automatically. Pour it into a large bucket, and eight big men stand on both sides of the water tap and press a lever on the water tap. The lever drives the piston, and the water is sprayed out from the copper pipe, which can be sprayed for a distance of 50 meters. Now, four water dragons are being lifted here, and countless people are hugging them.The man who carried the water dragon made a high-spirited chant. There was a sound of footsteps all around. A group of "snot monkeys" were startled and happy, jumping around: "Oh! It's on fire! It's on fire!" It seemed that they had been looking forward to it for a long time. Ah Chu had already dropped the gong, and climbed up to the branches of the old ginkgo tree at the head of the village to hide.He can see everything.Seeing the flow of people, the sound of people, and the flying dogs, he felt the satisfaction he had never had after being fired once, and he wanted to hum a song about the little daughter-in-law on the top of the tree. "Which family is in the water?" asked each other hurriedly. No one can tell which house is in the water.After a while, it was confirmed that no one had leaked water. According to superstition, when a water dragon comes, it cannot be carried back without spraying water. It has to be let to prove that the fire has been saved by it, otherwise, there must be "water" somewhere.As soon as people hear that there is no "water walking" here, their nerves relax, and they are no longer interested in passing water and pressing levers.The old people in the village came out to bow, and then one by one, the elders lined up to the water's edge unhappy. The four water dragons became interested and sprayed randomly on the house.People from other villages suddenly felt that they had been tricked today, and a few men who pressed the lever shouted loudly: "Go up the water! Go up again!" The men in charge of the water pipes closed their eyes, changed the direction of the water pipes at will, and sometimes sprayed directly at the crowd, so People fled in all directions with their heads in their arms, either knocking down the fence of a certain house or smashing the gate of the courtyard.After a while, many people were drowned, some houses were flooded, and the alley was watery.Only then did the people from other villages give up, and all the Adam's apples moved up and down, gasping for breath. The village seemed to have been looted. Looking at the trampled crop fields outside the village, and then looking at the water-drenched village, an old man poked the ground with a walking stick: "Who knocked the gong?" There is no sound. "Who knocked the gong?!" Many people shouted loudly, looking like they wanted to eat people. Jumping off the big dog from the haystack: "I know!" Eight There was a flood upstream, and the villagers were very nervous: once the dam broke, the flood would flood the entire village.All the families made preparations to retreat to the high ground, and many boats were tied to the river. Those kids don't think about it and play as usual. The big dog lay on the side of the boat and played with the reed-leaf boat. A Chu had been staring at him a long time ago, and while he was fascinated by the game, she quietly untied the cable, then picked up the penny, pushed the boat towards the center of the river, then pushed the penny down to the side of the river, jumped into the air, and landed on board. The big dog panicked: "Let me go ashore!" "Go ashore? Let's dive into the water. If you jump down, I will definitely be like your old man!" When A Chu said this, she was cold and cold, not like a child at all. The big dog doesn't know how to water, so he had to listen to Ah Chu. Ah Chu kept her mouth shut, and desperately pushed the boat out of the river mouth, into the boundless reeds.A Chu threw down the pole and sat cross-legged on the bow of the boat, letting the boat drift with the current to the depths of the reeds. Far away from the crowd, alone in front of Ah Chu, on a small boat, surrounded by white water and patches of black reeds, the big dog was really frightened. The boat was already far away from the village. A Chu lay on the boat and said, "It was you, I was expelled from school. It was you who told them that I was the one who knocked the gong. They arrested me and locked me up for two and a half days. They kicked me! Kicked me." crotch!" "What do you want to do?" "Send you to a reed beach. I will starve you for two and a half days, and then I will pick you up again!" "dad--!" "Shout, shout, they can't hear." The big dog's eyes were wide open, full of fear. The boat drifted for a while, and vaguely heard someone shouting in the distance: "The dam has burst!" Ah Chu stood up, and saw a line of white waves rushing towards him from the sky. After a while, the river water began to shake the boat.The big dog squatted in the cabin, clutched the beam of the boat tightly with his hands and cried. Ah Chu let out a contemptuous "hum" in her nose. The boat was rushed a few miles away by the swell, and was blocked by a reed beach.A Chu jumped ashore and tied the cable to a handful of reeds: "The dam broke, and the boat couldn't go back with the waves. I'll be with you tonight. It's your luck!" The big dog lay on the reed bank and kept crying. Ah Chu got angry: "If you hum like a pig, I'll push you into the water!" The big dog stopped "pig humming", but still sobbed softly. At dawn the next day, they found that the boat had been swept away by a storm during the night. A Chu stared at the watery water, and was stunned. So the big dog "hummed the pig" even more vigorously, and called his mother and father hoarsely, with a very shrill voice. Ah Chu covered her ears and fell on the reed without moving. The big dog's throat gradually lost its sound, but it still knelt by the water's edge and opened its mouth to shout. Ah Chu suddenly jumped up from the ground and dragged him back: "You shout, you shout again!" The big dog fell limply on a pile of reeds, looking at Ah Chu with despair in his eyes. Ah Chu walked towards the reeds.Without raising his head, he broke off the reeds one by one with all his might, made a bunch of them, and then tied them into bundles. He worked non-stop for a whole day. small shack. Nine Not a single ship passed by here, and three days passed. A Chu and Da Gou depended on bitter reed root to satisfy their hunger every day, their faces became thinner, but their eyes became thinner, and their teeth gleamed white. Ah Chu felt flustered and empty, restless. The big dog seemed silent instead.The child didn't have the courage and strength to think about things. "Boat!" Ah Chu called out. The lying dog immediately jumped out of the shed. In the distance, there is a white sail gliding where the water meets the sky. They shouted with all their might, but hunger made their voices too faint, and the white sails faded and faded away altogether. The big dog trembled all over, his eyes full of pity. "People from the village will come to look for us." Ah Chu looked into the hazy distance. "Will you come to see us? Will you come?" The big dog leaned against Ah Chu. "They will come, they will definitely come to us!" At dawn, A Chu woke up the big dog: "Listen, listen!" Someone is calling from far away. They crawled out of the hut like dogs, knelt by the water's edge, and listened. "Did you hear that, they are calling us!" Ah Chu clenched her fists excitedly. "Big dog……!" The sound is getting louder and coming from several places. "Big dog……!" "Big dog……!" Only Dagou is called, no one is called Achu. The air was filled with the sound of "big dog", but there was not a single "Ah Chu"! Ah Chu suddenly fell down.When he struggled to lift his head, there was blood and dirt on his cheeks. The big dog stood up, trying to answer the call. Ah Chu suddenly threw the big dog down.Two hungry, menacing lights shone from his eyes. "Big dog……" Its call is so sad and moving that one can imagine that there are tears in the eyes of the caller. A Chu gasped heavily, then threw herself on the big dog and beat him up and down. The big dog closed his eyes without any resistance, and let him hit him, tears rolling down from the corners of his eyes. With tears in her eyes, Ah Chu dropped the big dog, walked to the side, and sat on a bundle of reeds. Autumn is very deep, and the reeds are a bleak yellow.Under the gray sky, withered silver-white reeds are roaming.A line of wild geese crossed the sky, uttering lonely cries, and flapping their black wings with difficulty to fly south. Ah Chu looked at the sky, at the homeless geese, tears streaming down her cheeks silently. The big dog crawled over and looked at Ah Chu for a long time: "Brother Ah Chu!" He yelled weakly, and then fainted. Ah Chu left, walking towards the depths of the reed beach.After a long, long time, he came back staggeringly.His clothes were torn off by the reeds, and his hands, arms and face were cut by the reeds, leaving scars one after another.The road behind him was one bloody footprint after another—the sharp reed stubble pierced his feet. He holds a nest of wild duck eggs in both hands. He knelt beside the big dog, smashed the wild duck eggs, and let the egg white like milk and the yolk as bright as the sun slowly flow into the big dog's mouth... ten The night sky was very clear, and the stars were light blue, sparsely inlaid in the sky.A bright moon hangs obliquely on the sky like a golden bow.The tops of the reeds were silvery.The river hit the shore, and the voiceless sound of the water waves kept ringing. Two children were lying on the reeds. "Are you thinking about your mother?" Ah Chu asked, her tone was very cold. The big dog looked at the moon. A Chu sat up and forced the big dog with her eyes: "They all want me to die, don't they?" The big dog was still looking at the moon. "Didn't you say that?" Big Dog nodded. "you are lying!" The night was very quiet. A mallard glides through the moonlight.Ah Chu's gaze followed until it fell into the reeds in the west... At dawn, Ah Chu moved his legs that were as soft as cotton wool, pushed aside the reeds and walked westward, gently, gently... He slowly poked his head out from behind a big tree: a wild duck was Lay eggs in the grass with your back to him.He closed his eyes tightly and shivered involuntarily. He grabbed a sharpening brick left by a reed cutter, and it took him about half an hour to stand up while holding onto the tree trunk.His legs shook so violently that the whetstone nearly fell to the floor.For a while, he lost all confidence, and even wanted to yell loudly to drive the wild duck away.His eyes widened, and his hand grasping the brick was slowly raised.The brick was finally thrown out. Due to insufficient strength, the wild duck was not killed, but after being seriously injured, it flapped its wings and fled forward. Ah Chu was paralyzed on the ground, looking at the bleeding wild duck five meters away, helpless. The wild duck rested for a while, and then flapped its wings forward again. Ah Chu stood up and ran a few steps, and was about to grab it, but fell down again. The following scene is repeated endlessly like this: he chases forward, the wild duck jumps forward, he falls, and the wild duck has no strength, and lies on the ground with drooping wings, whining, there is always a moment A distance that seems never to be shortened. The wild duck wanted to escape from the hut and into the water, but when it saw the big dog lying there, its eyes shining brightly, it changed its direction again. A Chu crawled to the side of the big dog who was too hungry to move: "Wait for me, I will definitely catch it!" He smiled confidently, and looked back at the wild duck, his eyes full of murderous intent. The big dog looked at Ah Chu: he gradually disappeared into the reeds. The wild duck finally struggled into the water.Ah Chu leaped forward and jumped into the water... The people in the village found the big dog.He still has a breath.After waking up, he looked around with his eyes: "Brother Achu! Where's Brother Achu?..." The child became like a little old woman, babbling nonsense about Achu on the reed beach: "I'm cold, Achu Brother Chu took off his underpants and vest to me..." He didn't shed a tear, his eyes were blank, and at the end he always said to himself, "Brother A Chu is gone, brother A Chu is a light Walking around..." The world fell silent. People went to look for Ah Chi. "A chick!" "Ah chick—!" "Ah Chi...!" "Ah Chi...!" The calls of men, women, old people, and children lasted for about fifteen days on the water surface with a radius of more than ten miles. Room 106, 21st Floor, Peking University, January 10, 1988