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Chapter 94 Cat Town (15)

Collected Works of Lao She 老舍 3391Words 2018-03-20
The thunder went away.Did I really hear it, or was it a dream?dare not say.As soon as I opened my eyes; no, I couldn't open my eyes, the mud on the wall of the minister's wife seemed to stick to my face.Yes, it was still thundering, and I did wake up.I touched it with my hands; I couldn't, my hands were all pressed by stones.The feet and legs also seemed to be missing, and it felt like someone had planted me in the dirt. He pulled his hand out and pulled his face away.The house of the minister's wife was turned into a big earthen tomb.As I stretched my legs, I yelled for help like crazy; it doesn't matter to me, the envoy's wife and the eight goblins must be buried at the very bottom!There were still some raindrops flying in the sky, no matter how much I shouted, no one came: cat people are afraid of water, and of course they will not come out until the sky is completely clear.

Pulling out the half of myself buried, I began to scrape the pile of soil like a mad dog, and I didn't care to see if there was any injury on my body.When the weather cleared, all the cat people came out.While digging up the soil, I shouted for help.A lot of people came and stood watching from the sidelines.I thought they had misunderstood what I meant, so I began to explain to them: not to save me, but to save the nine women buried underneath.Everyone understood, and squeezed forward, but still no one made a move.I knew it would be useless to just rely on appeals, so I touched my trouser pockets, and the souls of the country were still there. "Come here and pick it up for me, give me a national soul!" Everyone was stunned for a while, as if they didn't believe me, I took out two pieces of national soul and showed them.All right, they came up like a swarm of bees.But one came up, picked up a stone, and left; another came up, picked up a brick, and left; I understood in my heart: it is the habit of cat people to pick up when it is cheap.Well, let you go; anyway, remove all the bricks and stones, and the people below will naturally be rescued.soon!Like ants transporting a pile of rice grains, people can't imagine that they can carry them so fast.There was a voice from below, and my heart relaxed a little.However, it was only the voice of the Minister's wife, and my heart jumped again.It's all been removed: the minister's wife is in the middle, sitting facing the wooden hole.The other eight women were all lying on the four corners, completely motionless.I wanted to help the minister's wife up first, but as soon as my hand touched her arm, she said: "Oh! Don't touch me, I am the minister's wife! Take my house, I will see the emperor, honestly Really move the bricks back to me!" In fact, her eyes are still covered with mud; it is probably a common thing for cat people to rob the house when they see it collapsed, so she has guessed it.

People around are still looking for it on tiptoe.The bricks have been completely removed, and some have begun to hold the earth with their hands; the economic pressure makes people feel that it is better to take a handful of earth than go home empty-handed, I think so. The minister's wife grabbed the mud off her face, two pieces were cut on her cheek, a large lump was swollen on her forehead, and her eyes seemed to be on fire.She struggled to stand up, and limped past a cat man. She didn't know how to be so accurate, and she bit his ear all at once, and yelled from the corner of her mouth while biting, as if the cat had caught him. mouse.The one who was bitten howled and beat the ambassador's wife's stomach backwards with his hands desperately.After walking around for a long time, the minister's wife suddenly saw a woman lying on the ground, she let go, and the cat man ran away like an arrow, and the people around shouted and retreated more than ten feet away.The minister's wife embraced a woman and wept bitterly.

My heart softened. It turned out that she was not a heartless person. I wanted to persuade her, but I was afraid that she would still bite my ear, because she was indeed a little crazy.After crying for a long time, she saw me again. "It's you, it's you, you knocked my house down! You can't run away, and they can't run away when they rob me; I'll go to the emperor and kill you all!" "I won't run away," I said slowly, "I will try my best to help you." "You are a foreigner, and I believe your words. The emperor must send troops to search the house for those things. Find a piece of it." Brick has to be killed too! I am the wife of the minister!" The wife of the minister's spit flew far away, and spit out a mouthful of blood with a slap.

I don't know if she has that much power.I started to comfort her, but I was afraid she was crazy. "Let's take these eight women—" I asked. "You come here, what do you do with these eight goblins? I only care about living, not about dying. Do you have a way to deal with them?" This stopped me, I know what to do, I haven't held a funeral in the cat country yet. The minister's wife's eyes became more and more frightening. There was a layer of water on the eyeballs, but the madness did not diminish. It seemed that the tears were drying in the eyes, and the white eyeballs glowed like magnetism.

"Let me tell you!" she shouted, "I have nowhere to complain. I have no money, no man, and I don't eat lost leaves. Wife of the Minister, please tell me!" I could see that she was crazy. She seemed to have forgotten what she just said, and wanted to complain to me. "This," she grabbed a dead woman by the scalp: "this dead elf. He was invited by the minister when he was ten years old. He was hired by the minister when he was just ten years old. , don’t get dark, when it’s dark, she, this little dead fairy, she howls, howls, parents scream, hold my hand and don’t let me go, call me mother, call me ancestor, don’t let me leave She. But, I am a virtuous woman, and I can't compete with a ten-year-old girl for the minister. If the minister wants to have fun, I can't control it. I am a wife, and I have to have the bearing of a wife. This little fairy, the minister ran past When she goes, she shouts to heaven and earth, howling like a human voice. When the minister is making fun, look at her pleading, she shouts: Minister's wife! Minister's wife! Good ancestor, come and save me! I can stop the minister from making fun I don’t care. After it’s over, she lay still, did she pretend to be dead, or did she really faint? I don’t know, and I don’t want to get into it. I gave her medicine and food. I don't appreciate my benefits at all! Later, when she grew up, seeing how domineering she was, she wished she could swallow the envoy whole. The envoy bought a new one, and she cried all day long, blaming me for not stopping the envoy Buyer; I am the wife of the minister, the minister doesn’t buy many people, who can think highly of him? This little elf, complains that I don’t care about the minister, wastes things, shames things, little elf!” The wife of the minister pushed the dead cat’s head aside , grabbing another one. "This thing is a prostitute. She wants to eat fan leaves all day long and lures the minister to eat them. How can the minister go to a foreign country if he is addicted to eating fan leaves? Look at her! What do you want me to do? I can't stop the minister from playing with prostitutes." , I can’t watch the envoy eat the fan leaves, and I can’t go to foreign countries. My difficulty, you don’t know how difficult it is to be the wife of the minister! Beware of her instigating the envoy to mess with me, this dead thing! She wants to run away all the time, my two eyes are simply not enough, I always have to take a look at her, the envoy's concubine ran out, everyone's Where is your face?" The envoy's wife's eyes seemed to be on fire, and she grabbed the head of a dead woman again:

"This thing, the most hateful thing is her! She is a new goblin! She asked the minister to throw us out before we even entered the door. She wanted to be the minister's wife, haha, how could it be done. She fell in love with the minister just because He is the envoy. The other goblins were bought by the envoy with money. This thing is willing to be with him. The envoy didn’t spend any money, so he played with her for nothing. She has completely embarrassed our lady! As soon as she entered the door, The minister didn't even dare to talk to us. When the minister went out, she had to follow, and when the minister saw guests, she had to accompany her. She seemed to be the wife of the minister. What am I doing? It is right for the minister to buy more women; the wife of the minister can only I have one! I had to punish her. I tied her to the house and let the rain drench her three times. She couldn't stand it anymore, little fairy! She asked the minister to let her go home, and she said The minister lied to her; can I let her go? The one who pretends to be the wife of the minister just casually quarreled with the minister? I have never heard of it. Want to marry someone else? It’s not that cheap. How difficult! Being the wife of a minister is not easy I watched her day and night. Fortunately, the envoy brought this thing again." She turned and picked out a dead woman from the ground. "She is close to me again, and plans to unite with me to oppose this new goblin. Woman It's all the same, panic when not accompanied by a man; the minister sleeps with this new goblin, and she cries all night. I have something to say: you still want to be the wife of the minister? Just because you can't do without the minister? You Look at me, the real minister's wife! If you want to be the wife of a minister, don't even think about monopolizing the minister, the minister is not a peddler who sells things, and only has one wife in his life!"

The eyeballs of the minister's wife were all red.He hugged a dead woman's head and hit the ground a few times.Laughed for a while, looked at me - I couldn't help but took a few steps back. "The envoy is alive, and they don't let me calm down all day long. They watch this, guard against that, scold this, beat that, and keep me idle all day long. The envoy's money is all spent by them. The envoy's power is all by them. It was sucked dry. The envoy died, and there was not even a boy left. It’s not that they never gave birth. All eight of them gave birth to boys, and none of them lived. How can they live? One gave birth to a baby Seven people try to murder him day and night. Compete for favor, lest a boy be promoted to the minister's wife. I am a real wife. I am not as jealous as they are, I just don't care, whoever kills whose child is their business , has nothing to do with me; I don't harm children, and I don't care if they murder each other's dolls, a wife must have a wife's bearing. "The minister is dead, no money, no man, give these eight goblins to me !Is there any way, can I let them run away and marry?I can't, I watch them all day long, and try to persuade them to understand the truth of life.Do they understand?not necessarily!But I am not discouraged, I take care of them day and night.what do i wantI have nothing to hope for, I just hope that the emperor will understand my difficulties, my ambitions, and my character, and reward me with some pensions, and give me a big plaque with the inscription 'Jie Lie Ke Feng' on it.But, didn't you hear me cry just now?Did you hear that? "

I nod. "Why am I crying? Crying for these dead goblins? I have time to cry for them! I'm crying for my fate, Mrs. Minister, I don't eat fan leaves, and now my house is collapsing and my grades are completely destroyed! Go to see the emperor, what can I say? Suppose the emperor sits on the throne and asks me: Mrs. Minister, what achievements do you have to ask for a reward? What can I say? I said that I took care of eight women for the dead minister, and I didn’t make a fool of myself. , Did not escape privately. The emperor said, where are they? What did I say? They are all dead? Can you get a reward without evidence? What did I say? Mrs. Minister!" Her head was pressed against her chest.I wanted to go there, but I was afraid she would scold me.

She raised her head again, her eyes were still fixed: "Mrs. Minister, have been to foreign countries... don't eat fan leaves... pension! Big plaque... Mrs. Minister..." The wife of the Minister lowered her head again, and her body slowly fell on one side, and lay between the two women.
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