Chapter 5 minions

"Okay, you did a great job!" The man who spoke was a young man with a pale face and a bit taller for his age, but the well-developed mangosteen shoots formed his handsome appearance. .He is complimenting me. What kind of things do really well?I won't say, let everyone guess. Some would say this is a discussion article.no.Everything about this person and me, by now, has become a story in itself.Let me tell the story. At that time I was carving a wooden human head with a heavy square chisel.I will tell you that in one of my past days I was more interested in being a carpenter than in holding a pen.If the opportunity gave me another way, maybe I have been a master craftsman specializing in carving Buddha statues in our countryside for many years at this time of year.I admit that if my talent is to go to the road of sculpture, it will be easier to see it than to make a fuss.This is not bragging.But now, if you give me a German-style exquisite square-headed chisel, a piece of foreign oak cut into squares and squares to fit the material, I can't carve it into a wooden puppet.After a long time, I lost all my craft.Now I am a person who can only use a pen to sculpt various faces and images in this society, and the sculpts are always unsatisfactory.I think about the past, it's kind of miserable.

I'm a fat sheep, and other people were forced down like this, but they didn't ask for my consent.Seriously, I have become a "fat sheep".This noun seems a bit funny.Every winter when we live in Beijing, no matter where we live, don’t we always see a flock or a fat sheep with long hair?Some people, bored with nothing to do, go to the door of Dongsi, Xisi or other small restaurants, and don't they have the excitement of killing sheep and skinning them?I am that kind of sheep.Although my body is still much thinner than today, people treat me like a sheep.It doesn't have to be skinned, and it doesn't have to be killed, but only one kind, hanging up the mountain.If the family does not have money, it will not work.In fact, according to my point of view, recently, because restaurants do not accept credit, I often have to go hungry all day long, and I have to hide in the street during festivals, afraid of seeing the face of the shopkeeper in the apartment, it is better to be a fat sheep on the mountain at that time , receiving the kind hospitality from their minions, and eating boiled chicken soup with rice every day, life is much easier.I believe I ate more white chicken than anyone else in that year, except for a few people who sold stewed chicken or ate more chicken than me!Eat it every day, early in the morning, lunch, dinner, and midnight snack. I have been eating it for more than five months.If the family doesn't redeem me immediately, I'm afraid I will have to eat a hundred or two hundred chickens, that's for sure.I don't understand if another person who was forced to be a fat sheep by the king of the mountain was treated like this when he was locked up on the mountain.

To be honest, in the end, the family let me go down the mountain and go home for only five hundred strings of money.Based on the recent market price of chickens, and one male and one female two chickens per day, I have already made a fortune.Even if they lived in an apartment, the number of people in the past six months was more than this.There is one more thing I have to say here. When I got home from the mountain, my family members said that I had gained a lot of weight.It is normal to be treated like a sheep, to eat and gain weight gradually.But my friend stayed in the hospital for three months and came out as skinny as a monkey. It reminded me of another world, and I couldn't help but be fascinated.I was looking for a few witty words to criticize the life of this fat sheep, but for a long time I felt that none of them could make people have a bad impression.The majesty of the king on the mountain does not seem to be more intimidating than today's military officers; the minion is also similar to the Beijing rickshaw driver, so friendly that you want to worship him as a brother and family as soon as you see him, what can I do about it?It's not that I don't understand that we, the common people, in the past, were beaten twenty times by the magistrate of the county. After getting up, we should kowtow and say "thank you for your kindness"; until now, we also praise the government at any time. Duties of officials.Satire the crimes of state-appointed officials, and praise fallen heroes, which is suspected of secretly propagating something.

But I can't.At that time, my family did not dare to ask the officials to avenge me, but I was afraid of troubleping the officials, and had no other intentions.Now, I would rather raise this sum of money first, send it to the mountains, and ask them to take me in. It doesn’t matter if the food is a little worse than before, if there is such a place.Five hundred strings of Nanqian, converted according to the recent foreign price in Beijing, is about 125 yuan, which is much less than the food cost for my five-month apartment.Even if you go to places like the Reclining Buddha Temple in Xishan to escape the summer heat, you still don't see the coolness on the mountain.I have a slight cough in front of me, and once I go to the mountain where the king lives, I will recover naturally.All in all, it's really worth it.And if this kind of guesthouse can be set up near Beijing, I would like to advise a few of my friends to wish it well, because this way, it will not only be convenient for us, but also save the police department a lot of trouble-there are more fat sheep , there will be fewer people living in the apartment. Once there are fewer people in the apartment, it will be easier to check, and there will be no fear of hiding the revolutionary party. ... Now, I have to tell my story. As soon as I flick the pen, I slip away to other things. It's like joking with the law, which is wrong.I just said that it is easier for me to manage a pen than a chisel.Please look at the wooden puppets I carved.

This is a grapefruit tree.I carved a bust on it.I secretly passed on the face of Zhu Wuge (the name of the second great king), but when the face was carved, I felt that it was not like him at all, but rather similar to Brother Tian (the name of the great king).They are similar, but the nose is slightly similar to the eyebrows.However, when San Nuo saw him, he laughed loudly, saying that he was "like a big brother".Soon the other people knew all about it, and when they gathered around to see it, they insisted that it was carved for the elder brother.I do have the instinct to be considerate of human feelings, so I do what I can, and I say that I wrote it on purpose to describe my elder brother.

When Dawang asked me to sample in front of him when he was eating, I corrected all the lines of Dawang's nose, ear, mouth and lower lip.As a result, I thought that I would become a sculptor in the future, and I was very happy.I forgot about my mother and my elder sister and second sister, and I only cared for that section of wood wholeheartedly.I believe that if it seems that the work has not been completed by then, the family has sent a helper, Lao Liao, to redeem me. I am not sure whether I will go or not. Seeing that the head was roughly fixed, I pressed the piece of wood firmly to my knees, and carved the skirt of the shoulders.There used to be a silver chain hanging on the eldest brother's head, and I carefully carved and raised the necklace.The one who watched was more absorbed than I was, especially the two brothers Sannuo, who never left me. Whenever there was something wrong with the chisel, Sannuo would send Sinuo to grind it.When an outsider came here, San Nuo took the piece of wood from my hand to show others to admire, and I got some more affectionate and personal titles than calling me young master from this.

"Third brother, don't make trouble with other people," Si Nuo always resisted his third brother for me like this.These four Nuo are the white-faced young man I mentioned.We are from the same village, so we didn't know each other at first, but he introduced himself to me after we got to the mountain.It can be regarded as watching me, but in fact, it is more docile than watching Niu Xiaozi at home, and stays with me in everything.He was born to be a genius for talking and laughing, but he didn't lose it because he became a minion on the mountain.Even if they have the same hands and feet, they are not necessarily different from an ordinary countryman.Although the clothes are shabby but clean, the sleeves are rolled up to the elbow, and with that pale face that always smiles, I think of a cousin, and they all resemble each other.This kid, when I saw him, my heart didn't seem to work.If you want to study the whole of my life, how I met Mei Tongai, I honestly say, it is him.From him I opened the door of my own life and let love into my heart.Thinking about it is also embarrassing.When I was with him, once, because I was going up a tree to pick ring berries, I hugged him up to the branch of the tree. I felt that I should hug him like a wife.I blushed in private.As for whether he loves me too, I don't know.

One day, we carved the wooden head under the big tung tree in front of the gate of the fortress. "Okay, you did a great job!" Si Nuo said it and smiled at me.I'm glad the smile that compliments me is beyond. San Nuo was coming down the back slope to the temple, holding a lot of groceries with flat elbows, sweat all over his head and face.Si Nuo snatched a big black pear from his brother and threw it at my feet. "Brother ordered this to be brought, Si Nuo!" "What's the matter?" When I saw this, I was afraid that Sannuo would get angry with his brother and want to get up and give away his pear.Si Nuo hugged his elder brother's back, "Let's go, tell the eldest brother, is it that kind of thing that the second young master ate a pear?"

"Sinuo, I'm not thirsty, let him go," I followed.Unexpectedly, San Nuo said that he wanted Si Nuo to take another pear and some dates. "...I have jujubes in my pocket, so you can grab some for the young master." San Nuo couldn't move without free hands.Si Nuo listened to his brother's words, and grabbed a large handful of dates from San Nuo's big leather pocket in front of his stomach. I put down the wood, and we come to eat dates together.The weather was hot, and the sun made the dog pant. We sat together under the phoenix trees and let the wind blow, and the ground was full of date pits.After eating jujubes and pears, the pears are so sour that we are fighting with our teeth. Who says it is not the best way to spend summer?

"Master, your craftsmanship is really amazing, you can carve Guanyin Bodhisattva." I still don't understand why people are people, and when I hear the voice of being with him, I feel itchy in my heart!It is said that ordinary carvers can carve all kinds of Buddhas, but only the image of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva is selected.Not only does this person gain devotion, but the carver's usual behavior also has something to do with it.A person who has carved Guanyin does not count as a person who ascends to heaven after death. Even if this person was not a good wife, he had to raise a good-looking daughter.This is the reward of Guanyin Bodhisattva.But I thought to myself that I am Guanyin, if I can get a good wife, will I look better than Si Nuo?I can't believe it.

I thought about going elsewhere, so I said the wrong thing, and I said: "Si Nuo, I can carve one for you, please bless me." "Can I bless you?" Si Nuo smiled slightly, and I already felt that he blessed me with his eternal friendship. "You can, Si Nuo. You bless me to get a wife in the future, like—" "Xiang is the dragon girl who accompanied Guanyin Bodhisattva to stand." Seeing that I didn't go on, he made up for me. Wrong, I didn't mean that. "Dragon girls match good talents" has its own master.I want Si Nuo to bless me to get a wife as good as him in the future, but I'm afraid to say it, so I won't. We move from the statue to the pear.Si Nuo told a story. He said there are more sour pears than this.Not long ago, the king and his third brother went to a place to treat guests (in other words, to catch sheep), and picked a pear by the side of the road, which almost made their teeth sour.When the king got angry, he drew out his knife and chopped the pear until it was very pulpy. He also asked his third brother to go up the tree and shake off the pear tree, so as not to harm others later. Si Nuo laughed at himself when he said Si Nuo, but I didn't. What's so funny?Si Nuo's words sound like singing.A person, especially recently, I feel that a young minion will have such a gift of goodness, beauty, and everything. I don’t laugh, not at all. That’s how it was at the time. device, I'm about to cry. I said, "Sinuo, this career is really not suitable for you, why don't you learn to sing?" "It's much better than singing." "Don't you want to be a king in the future?" "As soon as my brother became the leader, I became the second king—but I should be called the fourth king." "I don't think so. I want to study and become an official." "It's easier to make money as an official than as a bandit, isn't it?" I promise him yes.Is it really easier to make money as an official than as a king on the mountain?This is for sure.Because in the cottage, the king and the minions, even if they don't divide up the property equally, they have to calculate the amount and distribute it according to their merits. It is impossible for the king to monopolize it. As for officials, since China had officials, until now, the money is found by subordinates, and the enjoyment belongs to one person.But I said at the time that I was an official, but I didn't want to make money.For a child living in the city, his outlook on life, it is true that it is easier to be an official than a king.If I were a minion, I must also just want to be promoted to the king and become the leader of the minion. I have paid attention to the sackcloth physiognomy since I was a child, and used it to observe the future of Sinuo. With a long nose and a wide forehead, it is a Hanlin physiognomy. "Si Nuo, if you study, you will be the top scholar in the Imperial Academy in the future." "Do not wish" "You can rely on me to read a picture. You are a Hanyuan Prime Minister." He didn't understand "Hanyuan", but he knew that he went to Beijing to be a civil servant.He said that he was going to take the martial arts exam and be the champion of martial arts.As long as it is the number one scholar, whether it is Wu or Wen, what difference does it make?I'm in favor of his minion life. (Two years later, I became a subordinate of the official family. The danger is the same. I have been running around with the king of the city for many years, and the money is less than half of the four Nuo. It can only be said that I am not as good as the four Nuo. ) I have to add a few words about my character.Because I played truant from school, I escaped to the big river outside the city to fish, so I was caught up in the mountains and used as a fat sheep.As a result, Chu Chu was naturally not used to it, and wanted to go home crying and fussing.In the end, I saw that the freedom in the mountains was completely different from the freedom when I lived at home. My presumptuousness in restraint was almost the same as that of a pony.For me, who feels that playing is more important than eating and drinking, it is natural and comfortable to stop. It wasn't my family who came to redeem me, even if I was allowed to escape, I wouldn't be happy to do it.The name of hell, I think, is to describe the private school, if there is hell for children.I am a person who was frightened enough by the punishment of my husband turning green and asking me to move the stool to spank my buttocks. After I was fifteen years old, I would sometimes cry when I was dreaming. It may not be because the majesty of the past is engraved in my heart. on the results!After arriving in the mountains, there is no need to read or play, and you can do all kinds of wild and rough games at will, and with an expert and suitable companion, I have become a king in my own world.I don't do anything other than find new ways to play with my heart, and I don't fear anyone's discipline.People completely treated me as a guest, treated me very politely, and calculated the general ledger according to my life distribution. At that time, it was really a piece of good luck.Until now, I still have some parts of my wild horse character, which is the influence of those five months of nature education.It's a pity that the time is too short, which makes me a wild person who lacks the more important stamina. Otherwise, it's not too late to go to the grass now! Sanuo's face is in the shape of a field, and his condition is like a mountain field that has never been plowed. He has randomly grown hair and beards, and his body is strong. Well, it looks like a Guanyin who can be dressed in a big feast to welcome the story.Such a timid and slightly sick impression all day long can never get rid of it from my mind! After the wooden statue of the great king is carved, send it to the king, and I will not bother with it anymore.Only the image of Si Nuo is carved on my heart, and I will carry it with me until I die. Completed in September 1927