Chapter 87 life (6)

Liu Qiaozhen brushed her teeth.This incident was very common at first, but once it happened to her, it immediately spread like a storm in the village.In the eyes of the villagers, brushing teeth is the prerogative of cadres and scholars. Who cares about this?Gao Jialin brushes her teeth, Gao Sanxing brushes her teeth, and Qiaozhen's younger sister Qiaoling brushes her teeth. No one is surprised, but Liu Qiaozhen, an illiterate female commune member, brushes her teeth. Everyone finds it novel and unfamiliar. "Hmph, Liu Liben's second daughter can go to the sky! You are such a doll, why did you suddenly become like this?" "I didn't go out for a day, and Dou Da didn't know how to read, but I started to learn civilization! "Hygiene, old sows don't pay attention to hygiene, and they are fat pigs that cost more than a dozen dollars!" Not foreign?"... A small number of people in the village with old-fashioned ideas and not used to modern civilization, in the mountains, on the road, and at home, talked about the new "Western scenery" in their village.

Liu Qiaozhen doesn't care about these discussions at all, she must brush her teeth!Because that's what dear Jialing asked her to do!An infatuated girl can muster up any courage in order to make the man she loves like her.She cared nothing for the scorn of the world; she would bear anything for Galin's love. This morning, she squatted on the riverside of their house and brushed her teeth with a toothbrush in her hand. After a few brushings, the blunt toothbrush quickly broke her gums. with bloody mush".But she brushed vigorously regardless of these.Qiaoling told her that it is normal to break the gums when she first started brushing her teeth, and it will be fine after brushing a few times.At this time, it happened that a few women who came out of the mountain passed by her house, and stood down with a playful smile to watch her make a fool of herself; some brain-destroyed dolls in other villages saw these women gathered here, and they didn't know what happened, so they also ran away Come to join in the fun; Immediately afterwards, a few old men who got up early to pick up dung and passed by here also came to see the novelty.

These people gathered around the man who was brushing his teeth, discussing strangely, and their voices buzzed together.The old dung pickers actually squatted down in front of her, pointing to her mouth to express their opinions as if observing a sick calf.An old man who came from behind saw that her mouth was full of blood and froth, and thought she had some kind of emergency, and exclaimed to the other old men, "Why don't you call a doctor quickly?" Everyone present laughed out loud.Qiaozhen originally wanted to explain a few words to the people around her, so she made a joke to relieve herself, but she couldn't speak.She didn't care about it, she still brushed her teeth calmly.She originally wanted to end it, but she thought angrily: I will let them watch it a little longer, so that they can get used to it!

After fumbling with the toothbrush in her mouth with her right hand for a while, she took out the toothbrush, took a sip of the water in the jar, rinsed her mouth, spit the toothpaste foam on the ground, and took another sip of water to rinse.The eyes of the surrounding people saw her mouth from the tooth jar, and from her mouth to the land. At this time, Qiaozhen's father was driving two cows from the ditch to the riverside of his house.The farmer and businessman bought two more cows a few days ago, but they hadn't sold them yet. He just took the cows to the ditch to drink water. Liben is in his fifties, his face is pale and rosy, with few wrinkles, and he looks young.He was dressed in clean blue khaki, but in the style of a peasant; on his head he wore a white market cloth melon shell cap.He doesn't look like a farmer, at least he looks like a cook on a city stove.Liu Liben walked up to the riverside, and seeing a group of people surrounding Qiaozhen to watch her brush her teeth, he was already furious!He found that Qiaozhen changed her clothes three times a day, combed her hair endlessly, and even brushed her teeth.He wanted to get angry two days ago, but he felt that the woman was too old, and he was afraid that she would not be able to bear it, so he held back and remained silent.

Now that he saw Qiaozhen humiliated in front of a group of people, he was really angry.He left the two cows alone, blushed, cut aside the crowd, and shouted loudly: "Shameless thing, go back quickly! It's embarrassing for me to run outside the door!" Liu Liben scolded and dispersed all the onlookers.The doll girls ran away first, and several old men hurriedly picked up the dung baskets, and walked out of the place they shouldn't have come to in embarrassment.Qiaozhen held a teeth-brushing jar in her hand, with two tears in her eyes, she said, "Dad, why are you swearing at me! I brush my teeth for hygiene, what's wrong?"

"Stupid hygienic! You bumpkin, a common man, with a mouth full of white foam, the whole village is laughing at you, a prodigal son! You are ashamed of your ancestors!" "Anyway, brushing your teeth is nothing wrong!" Qiaozhen argued stiffly: "Look at your teeth, you lost so many teeth in your fifties, and you can't write because you didn't..." "Fart! Good teeth Bad teeth are born, it has nothing to do with brushing or not! Your grandfather never brushed his teeth all his life. He lived to be eighty years old and still had a full mouth full of teeth. The year before he died, he still gnawed on walnuts! Get rid of your teeth-brushing furniture as soon as possible. Forget it!"

"Then why don't you care about Qiaoling brushing her teeth?" "Qiaoling is Qiaoling, you are you! She is a student, and you are a commoner!" "Ordinary people can't even talk about hygiene?" Qiaozhen was so wronged that she burst into tears.She yelled at her father, "Why don't you pay me to go to school? You know money! What else do you know? You ruined my whole life and made me blind! Today I am Brush your teeth, you still want to bully me like this..." She turned her back and covered her face with her hands and cried even harder. Liu Liben panicked all of a sudden.He quickly felt that he had gone too far just now—he hadn't treated his child like this for many years, so he hurried over to coax her and said, "Dad, it's wrong, don't cry, you have to do it in the future, and it's just working in our stove." Don’t go to the side of the earth to brush it! The people in the village are making jokes..."

"Let them laugh! I'm not afraid of anything! I'm going to brush on the side of Tuqian!" Qiaozhen said fiercely to her father.Liu Liben sighed, turned his head to look at the back of the yard, immediately screamed, and ran away—his two cows had almost eaten up the few rows of cabbage that he had worked so hard to raise!Qiaozhen wiped away her tears, turned around aggrieved and went home.She washed her face first, and then combed her hair carefully in front of the mirror.She changed the original two short thick black braids into the style that girls in the city are now in: the hair is tied into a fluffy ball behind the head with a floral handkerchief.What clothes are you wearing?She was distressed.

Ever since that night, Qiaozhen wanted to see Jialin every moment; she talked to him and wanted to be intimate with him.But for some reason, Jialin seemed to be avoiding her all the time, as if he didn't want to meet her face to face. She remembered that Brother Jialing had kissed her so fondly that night, and now he was so indifferent to her, and she couldn't help but burst into tears of grievance.She saw that he had been working in the mountains for the past few days, and he was dressed so badly all of a sudden, with a straw rope tied around his waist, making him look like a beggar.Every morning, he would carry an old picket, go to the mountains to dig out wheat fields for the team, and would not come back at noon, eating and delivering meals with everyone.He has new clothes, why is he in such rags?Yesterday she saw him fetching water, the clothes on the back of his shoulders had been torn by something, and the exposed flesh was sunburned black.She stood by the side of her house, weeping in distress, and wanted to run down to see him, but Brother Jialing seemed to ignore her, and walked away without looking back - he obviously saw her!

She didn't sleep well last night.After thinking about it, I don't know why Jialin didn't want to talk to her again.Later, she suddenly thought: Is it because Jialin thinks she is wearing too new clothes?In the past few days, she has taken out her best clothes and worn them. Probably because of this!Look how badly he is dressed!He probably thought she was too frivolous!They are knowledgeable people, unlike rural people who fall in love and change new clothes first.She is so cheesy!When she saw Brother Jialing wearing that rotten clothes, she felt that he was more handsome and elegant than wearing new clothes!But she was just the opposite, and changed into the latest clothes!Brother Galing must have been disgusted.But she thought uncomfortably: Brother Jialing, the reason why I did this is because of you!Now she decided to change the beige denim short-sleeved shirt and the dark blue denim trousers, and put on the clothes she usually wears for work: half-worn grass-green trousers, blue denim jacket that was washed white, Then turn the large lapel of the water red shirt outside.After she finished dressing up, she shouldered the hoe and walked towards the village.Today the team was hoeing corn, and Jialin happened to be digging a wheat field on the hillside opposite the cornfield. He would definitely see her...Gao Jialin went out to work on the mountain the day after the market was over.As if he was angry with someone, he wore the most ragged clothes and tied a straw rope around his waist. First of all, he "disguised" his appearance into a farmer.In fact, there was no farmer in the village dressed in such shabby clothes.His participation in labor aroused a lot of discussion in the village.Many people thought that he couldn't bear the hardships, and he might lie down after working for two days.Everyone sympathized with him; there were not many educated people in this village, and it felt that it was really incongruous for him to join the ranks of everyone.Especially the young women in the village felt sorry for him when they saw that the "sir" who used to be well dressed turned into a beggar.Gaojia Village is not a big village, with more than 40 households scattered on the hillside of a small ditch south of Dama River.Half of the households live on the side of the river outside the Mizoguchi, and the other half extend into the Mizoguchi.A perennial trickle of water in the ditch flows at the foot of the village and flows into the Dama River.A large piece of Sichuan land on both sides of the Dama River is where they mainly scoop rice and dig noodles.On the mountains on both sides of the Sichuan Road, the area of ​​cultivated land is much larger than that in the Sichuan, but they are all extensively planted and poorly harvested, most of which are wheat fields.

In the past few years, due to the small size of the village, more than 40 households have been producing collectively and allocating them uniformly, which is actually a brigade accounting.With the change of policy in the past two years, it was also divided into two production responsibility groups.Many commune members asked for a smaller scale, and some even suggested that production be contracted to households altogether.But Secretary Gao Minglou withstood this pressure for the time being.They have not separated until now.In the past two years, the secretary has been unhappy.He felt that the current policy was unacceptable to him—in his words, “kicked out the stands of socialism; on the other hand, he could not resist the trend of society, and felt that everything seemed imperative.” He often said in a cold voice, "We will never forget the kindness of cooperation, and we dare not stop the contracted production." In fact, he is currently trying to procrastinate as much as possible, and only divides into two "responsibility groups" team) so as to make a public errand to prove that Gaojia Village is also following the new policy. Gao Jialin's family is in the first group of Qiancun.Chuandaoli is currently hoeing corn, and he is not very good at hoeing, so he went to dig the side of the field with the people who turned the wheat fields on the mountain. His labors immediately astonished the peasants.On the first day he went to the ground, he took off his upper body and didn't talk to the others, so he dug up the ground desperately.Without the effort of a meal, both hands are full of bubbles.He didn't care about these, he still dug desperately.The bubble is broken.Blood came out from his hand very quickly, and the handle of the shovel was stained red; but he continued to work like that crazily.Everyone advised him to slow down, or to take a break before doing it. He shook his head, not listening to anyone, just swishing his head desperately... It was like this again today, his handle was soon stained red with blood again. Seeing his situation, the old man Deshun who plowed the field hurriedly stopped his oxen, ran over and snatched the pick from Jialin's hand, and threw it aside, his white beard shaking with anger.He grabbed two handfuls of dry loess and wiped it on his bloody hands, and pulled him to a shaded place to prevent him from showing off.The old man in Deshun has been single all his life and has an extremely kind heart.He loves every doll in the village.There is a little bit of good stuff.I was reluctant to eat it, so I turned around and stuffed it into the hands of the dolls.Especially Jialin, he was full of affection for this child.Jialin went to school when he was a child, and his family was poor. Sometimes he didn’t even have the money to buy a pencil, and he often gave him thirty-five cents.When Jialin was in middle school, he went to the county town to sell melons and fruits, and often left half a basket for him to bring to school.Now he saw Galin so desperately, his tender hands were twisted to pieces by the handle, he couldn't bear it.The old man pulled Jialin under the back of a dirt cliff and forced him to sit down.He grabbed two handfuls of dry loess and rubbed it on his hands, saying: "The loess stops bleeding... Jialin! You don't dare to play tricks anymore. Just start working, you must use your strength evenly. The days to come will be long." Go! Oh, you stubborn temper!" It was only at this moment that Jialin felt his hand hurt like a knife.He put his palms together tightly, bent his head and wiped the sweat on his bare arms with difficulty, and said, "Grandpa Deshun, I wanted to taste all the hardest things from the beginning, and I will not do any hard work in the future." Don’t be afraid. Don’t worry about me, just let me do it. Besides, I’m very confused in my mind now. If I work hard and my skin hurts a little, I’ll forget about all these unpleasant things... Call it a rotten hand Rotten!" He lifted his disheveled head, bit his lip, and showed a cruel expression to himself.The old man in Deshun lit a pot of dry smoke, sat next to him, touched his yellow dust-covered head with one hand, shook his snow-like head helplessly, and said, "Don't dig the ground tomorrow." , learn to cultivate the land with me. Look at your hands, you don’t dare to hold the handle anymore, wait until your hands are better..." Jialin shook his head resolutely: "No, I want the handle to tighten my rotten hands again!" After he finished speaking, he stood up, walked to the ground, spit on his rotten hands twice, and weighed them. Lifting the picket and digging desperately.The sun was hot on his red and bare back, and the sweat quickly soaked his trouser waist. The old man in Deshun looked at his stubbornness, sighed, took a jar of water from the bottom of the cliff, put it not far from Jialin, and said, "This jar of water is yours. It's hot, You're not used to it, you drank it all..." He sighed and went to plow the field again.After Gao Jialin dug a field by himself, he came over and hugged the pitcher, and drank half of it in one go.He wanted to drink it all in one go, but seeing Grandpa Deshun who looked like a native, he sent the water back to the place where the cattle were returned to the field. Now he sat down on his buttocks, all the bones in his body seemed to have fallen off, his hands seemed to be holding two needles, the pain was so painful! However, he also felt an indescribable joy.He let all the peasants see: they judge the most important quality of an excellent peasant - the spirit of bearing hardships, and Gao Jialin also has it.In character, he is indeed a strong man; and this advantage has led him to make mistakes in certain situations. With one rotten hand he took out a cigarette, lit it, and took a deep drag.He thought it was the best cigarette he had ever smoked in his life. At this time, he suddenly saw Qiaozhen standing on the side of the corn field in the opposite Chuan Dao, looking up at him.Although he couldn't see the expression on her face clearly, he felt that she was about to rise into the air and fly towards him. His heart immediately felt like a needle prick...