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Chapter 1 the couple

the couple 沈从文 5269Words 2018-03-20
Huang, who lived in XXX village and thought that he could cure his neurasthenia in peace, felt at a loss when he was eating dinner one day, and he was too concerned about the bloody fried chicken served in the residence hall.Suddenly I heard someone shouting outside, "Look, look, I caught a pair of things!" The voice of the shout was very urgent, as if something serious happened, the whole village had the momentum to have a look.For some reason, Huang, who didn't really like to watch the excitement, also put down his rice bowl, took bamboo chopsticks, and went outside to watch the excitement by the big pond.

When I went out, I saw people running to the south, and hurriedly passed a message to passers-by, saying, "At Badaopo, at Badaopo, it's a very beautiful thing! If you want to go, just go, don't stop, I'm afraid it will be sent to the regiment soon." go up!" How it happened was not clear to him.I can only guess with meaning, since everyone wants to see it, it is naturally interesting.However, in the countryside, what is interesting is not easy for the people in the city to understand. He thought that maybe he had caught two live wild boars and wanted to see them too.

Following A, who was walking and talking to the passers-by, hurried to some small mountain roads that he usually didn't pass by. After turning the corner, he saw the crowd on the small depression. Surrounded by people inexplicably, it is still not immediately clear what is going on.That certain A seemed to rush forward with great courage and pushed the person away.It turned out that the wise man saw that Huang also followed to see, thinking that it was necessary to show the guests in the city what happened in the country, so he excluded the rest.The country people also seemed to think that this should be shown to outsiders, and hurriedly moved away.

Everything is unfolding before our eyes. What they caught turned out to be a pair of people.Huang, who was in the mood of watching a live wild boar, was extremely disappointed. However, because of Juan's presence, many people became more interested in the matter itself. Everyone smiled at each other knowingly, as if "the people in the city have seen it too".There are also country women who are curious about his western clothes and shirts, and ask, "Do people in your city who wear such clothes have the same thing?"Although Juan knew that these peasants were just as interested in seeing his hair, his leather shoes and ribbed fleece trousers as the two who were bound by the rope, but they still approached the man bound by the rope. went before.

It was only when he got close to him that he was even more frightened. It turned out that what he was bound was a young man and a woman.Both men and women are country people, both are young, and the woman sheds tears quietly under the merciless eyes of everyone.I don't know who put a ridiculous bunch of wild flowers on the woman's head. When the woman's head moves slightly, the corolla will sway in the air. From another point of view, it must have a very beautiful and good impression. Seeing this situation, it is clear without words, this is a crime that belongs to young people.

A is a smart person. When he sees that Huang is a "guest", he still comes to explain the matter to Huang. The thing is like this: Someone passed Nanshan, and found this pair in the Nanshan Col, next to the big grass.This young man did not avoid others in broad daylight, doing things that made everyone seem angry, so when he found out about this, he gathered the nearby men and arrested him. I caught it, how to deal with it?The person caught is not responsible. Now that he has been arrested, he will probably have to trouble the mayor later and sit in court for trial. Everyone guesses this.Why it is necessary to be caught, the two aspects of the caught and the person seem to be not very clear.However, the men who have nothing to do with sweating and panting, but who have brought people here to show the public, seem to have a kind of satisfaction with women at this time, which goes beyond sweating and panting.When the women approached the couple, they each shaved their faces with their fingers, expressing that it was a shameful thing to do. Needless to say, these people did not think that the weather was good enough to do certain things with men.The old people looked at it and just shook their heads. Maybe they have forgotten their temperament in their youth. After having children, it is necessary to advocate words such as customs.

The slight evening wind blew on Huang's face, and when he heard someone playing the flute on the mountain, he looked up at the sky, and there was a peach-red glow in the sky, and he thought in his heart that if the scenery is poetry, there must be a woman. He wanted to ask where the man who was bound by the rope and lowered his head thoughtfully came from, and he didn't commit any crimes. The man lowered his head first and saw Huang's black leather shoes.Shoes are not something he is used to. Although he does not forget the situation in front of him, he still admires the black square-toed leather shoes wantonly, and wonders that the small pants are too tight.At this time, someone asked him, and the words he asked did not sound like a judge, so he raised his head and looked at Huang.Although he didn't know him, he already saw that Huang was someone who sympathized with him, and he shook his head slightly, expressing the injustice of this matter.

"Aren't you from this place?" If you ask this way, someone else will answer on your behalf and say no.Naturally, the speaker cannot be mistaken, because he knows more people than the people living in the area.Especially the women, who dress up differently from the young women in this village.He also knew the names of all the women in the village.But before Juan came, he had been asked by many people, but none of them got an answer.What kind of local people are they, even the good people can't tell. Juan looked at the woman again.The woman was less than twenty years old, dressed in very clean moon blue linen clothes, her face was reddish, her body was long and her appearance was not bad.Her body was indeed slightly different from that of an ordinary country woman, and although she was crying at this moment, it seemed that it was all out of fear, not out of shame.

Huang suspected that maybe this was the elopement of the two young people who betrayed their families, and felt that the two young people were very pitiful.He wondered how he could try to get this man away from this group of lunatics.However, the friend who is the host of the residence has entered the city, and the party chief here does not know who is involved.In front of a group of people, it is not known whether something more stupid than the situation at this time will be done.These people don't think it's unreasonable to meddle in their own business.Just as I was thinking this way, I heard someone suggest it.

A man with pimples on his face and a big distiller's nose looked like he had just drank wine and put down the wine gourd to watch the excitement. He touched the woman's face with his big and hairy hand, and said to himself It advocates stripping off the clothes of men and women, beating them with thorns, and sending them to the township chief after beating enough.He thought it was the most intelligent and reasonable disposition.This person did not hesitate to yell loudly and put forward this strange idea. If another person hadn't pulled the man's pants and pointed out that there are "city people" here, maybe he would have done it without the consent of others as soon as he finished speaking. what he wants to do.

In addition, it has a different meaning than a man, as if a woman who is extremely unwilling to sleep with a man in a beautiful mountain scenery like this, agrees to "beat" even though she disagrees with taking off her underwear. When the child heard this, he was inexplicably happy, and immediately scrambled everywhere to find thorns.At another time, they used to beat their backs too much because of their father's rods for beating cattle, so they were particularly interested in hunting thieves and wild dogs and cats. Seeing that the situation was too bad, Huang couldn't help it.Just at this time, a figure who looked like a soldier who was born in the army came running.As soon as this person came, there was a commotion among the crowd. Everyone tried to tell this person what happened, and each put forward their opinions.The crowd called this man the trainer, and Huang knew that he must be a powerful person in the village, so he kept silent and listened to how he dealt with it. The people in the ranks imitated the look of the battalion officers they saw in the city, frowning, not saying a word, only looked at the crowd sadly and solemnly, and then looked around, Juan was also seen by him, as if because of " "People from the City" was here, this man had to show his identity, at that time children and women all gathered around him, forming a circle, this man, unexpectedly, shouted "Stand away!" Because of this drink, everyone staggered and retreated.Everyone wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh. The man brushed the wronged man's face with a piece of foxtail he had pulled from the roadside, and asked in the tone of a customs official interrogating passers-by, "Where did it come from?" The man who was asked was silent for a while, then looked at the long face, and saw a mole next to the man's ear.He said, "I am the man on the kiln." As if this confession was enough, Lianchang asked the woman in the same tone, and he asked her last name. "What's your last name?" The woman didn't answer, but looked up at the face of her interrogator, and then at Huang.She lowered her head shyly and looked at her feet.The shoes on the feet are embroidered with double phoenixes, and they are good shoes that only rich people in the village would wear.At this time, someone was praising the rascal man on the woman's feet.The Lianchang asked in the same slightly frivolous tone, "Where are you from? Don't say, I'll send you to the county." As usual, country people are afraid of seeing officials, because officials are always a terrible thing in the eyes of country people.Sometimes it is necessary to see the official, and if the official decides the case, it means to rely on this fierce prestige to suppress the enemy. Therefore, just because they are afraid of going the wrong way, when they talk about entering the city, many people feel terrified. However, the woman was tied under a tree and tied together with the man. It seemed that she had no law and was no longer afraid of the officials. She still did not speak. So some people talked too much, saying "beating" is still the old way, because these country people usually lie, and they can't tell the truth at any time when they see officials.Therefore, it is the most convenient way among them to remember to fight. Others said to get a millstone and prepare a sinking pool.This is intimidation. Some people say that men are fed urine and women are fed cow dung.This is joking. It's the kind of words that are almost childish. The men and women who heard these words were silent, as if they were not afraid of anything. This made the trainer annoyed, his voice was much harsher, and he continued to repeat the threatening words that others had said before, as if this was entirely the opinion of the public. Nothing against it. The woman shook her head and said softly, "I'm from the kiln, and I'm visiting my relatives in Huangpo." The man who heard the woman talking like this also spoke timidly, saying, "Go on the same road to Huangpo." The interrogator said, "Fleeing together?" "No, we are going the same way." Regarding the explanation of "going on the same road" and not "fleeing together", everyone speculated that they got along because they met on the road, and everyone laughed. The countryman who caught the adulterer just came from the regiment at this time, and he couldn't find the Lianchang. When he came back to see the Lianchang, he was as happy as seeing a king rewarding his meritorious service.With his slightly cunning eyes, he looked at Lianlong, smiled and said how he saw what this pair of shameless young people did under the sun.The strangeness of the matter is naturally "the blue sky and the white sun", because in the blue sky and the white day, people in the village should take a nap except for work, and other things seem unreasonable, let alone what they do is not something they do outside. After hearing this, the trainer naturally felt that this was something that should be stoned to death by everyone, and he was sure.Before disposing of this man and woman, he still wants to know a little more about this man's net worth, because it is convenient for him to fine him a hundred strings of money in accordance with the customary law, or confiscate a cow in the family. I also have a little bit of light from it.With this kind of thinking, he still took the confession there, not afraid of getting bored, and his expression was much gentler. In desperation, the man could not hide anything. When the man arrived, he knew all about the situation of the man's home, his property, his status, and his family members, and he smiled complacently.Unexpectedly, the man who was tied up later said the following words.He said he was the woman's own husband.Because we were newly married not long ago, we went back to Huangpo women's house to see my father-in-law. When I came here, I saw that the weather was so good, so I sat next to the new straw pile to enjoy the scenery and the flowers on the mountain.At that time, the wind blew a fragrance, and the sparrow's cry made people's heart tired, so I remembered some things that young people should do, so they were arrested when they arrived. After the man finished speaking, everyone seemed to see from the situation of the man and woman that they were not a temporary match.However, at the same time, I lost a romantic interest in this matter, and felt that this matter must be punished.For those who have no points for fines, they still insist that they call them and talk about it later.Lian Zhang obviously became more thorough because the man said that they were a real couple. Precisely because they are real couples, they do some things without avoiding others under the blue sky and broad daylight. On the contrary, it arouses a kind of resentment and commotion that only single men can have. It is natural that things will not be agreed to anyway. Huang, who knew about this from beginning to end, was also taken aback by accident at first, then he talked to the trainer, and he asked the trainer to let them go.Seeing Huang's face, the trainer probably guessed whether Huang was a foreigner's translator.After looking at it for a while, the man saw a special certificate on the side of the belt of the yellow leather trousers. The man didn't want to show that he was a pure countryman, so he smiled and wanted to hold out his hand.He didn't hold his hand well, so he rubbed his hand on his leg, feeling a little disgusted, and said, "Sir, you can't let it go." "why?" "We want to punish him, he has insulted our township." "If you did something wrong, make an apology and let him go on his way." The bad nose said among the crowd, "That can't be done, this is our business." Although they were speechless, the men and women who saw Huang speaking for the sinners agreed with the bad nose's words.But when Huang turned his head to look for the objector, Bad Nose lowered his head and squatted behind the person to smoke. As soon as the bad nose failed, there were some people who agreed with Huang and said good things to the trainer. There were also women among them, but they were very afraid of the "city people" kind of middle-aged women who usually gossip, and they could be posthumous. She is worthy of being a gossip woman.Some of them knew who Huang was, so they pulled the corner of Lianchang Heixiang Yunsha's clothes, and gently told Lianchang who it was.After hearing the words, Lian Zhang knew that extortion would not work, but in order to maintain his status in front of everyone, even though he knew that he was standing in front of the master, he still pretended to be a businessman and said, "Mr. Huang, you are right. But the matter in our country I can't make the decision, there is also the regimental president." "I'll go see your regiment president, okay?" "Okay then, let's go. I have nothing to do, just don't let the natives talk." Huang had already seen through the cunning of the trainer.Said that he wanted to see the head of the group and pushed the matter to the head of the group, so he followed this person.So everyone moved away, ready to make way. They also took the man and woman together.A group of people followed behind to watch and sent them all the way to the courtyard of the regimental headquarters, and many of them hadn't dispersed yet. It was getting dark. Negotiations from the regiment headquarters got a good result, the cunning trainer did nothing in front of Huang, and the rope of the two young couples was released in the courtyard of the regiment headquarters.The trainee, pretending to be human, said to the young woman, "Thank you sir." The woman was untiing a bouquet of flowers wrapped around her head by a countryman's prankster. Hearing this, she even bowed to the flowers.She held the flower in her hand and did not give it up.When the man saw it, he bowed in the same way.The Lianchang left with an excuse, and this matter ended in a comedy. Huang escorted the two young countrymen out, without saying a word, and passed some foolish and good-for-nothing people who had not dispersed and guarded outside the courtyard, and because of Huang, these people dared not follow.He escorted them to the mountain road, and he didn't leave until he asked them if they were hungry.The man said that Huangpo was in time for dinner.He also told Huang that it was only six miles to Huangpo, not far away, and even though it was night, he could still walk to his Yue's house by starlight.When talking about the starlight, the three of them looked at the sky at the same time. There were several stars in the sky, and the distant mountains were a touch of purple. The night scene was extremely beautiful. Huang said, "You go, they won't make things difficult for you." The man said, "Mr. lives here. I will come to see you in a few days." The woman said, "God bless you good sir." The young couple left. Huang, who was alone by the small bridge at the foot of the mountain, felt that the fragrance of flowers was brought by the breeze. He suddenly felt that this event could be left as a kind of commemoration. Thinking of the bouquet of flowers still in the woman's hand, he said from a distance, "Go slowly, slow down." Go, throw your bouquet of flowers on the ground and give it to me." The woman smiled and left the flowers on the side of the road, and waited for Huang there for a while. Seeing that Huang couldn't come up, the man walked back by himself and brought the flowers. The shadow of the man disappeared behind the small bamboo bushes.Mr. Huang, who got a handful of half-withered unknown flowers, sat by the bridge and smelled the strange bouquet that had been left on the young woman's head in the past. His incomprehensible heart was also slightly shaken by an ambiguous desire. . He remembered everything from that day, and felt that his world was really narrow.If he had such a wife, he would be surrounded by some invisible dangers at this time, so he would feel that living here is a boring place. Although the scenery is beautiful, the country people are as boring as the people in the city. Prepare to enter the city tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. Sometimes I often feel that there are two styles of writing articles, one of which is writing about the countryside, which seems to have similarities with Mr. Fei Ming.From my own point of view, I was influenced by Mr. Fei Ming, but the style is slightly different, because writing in a lyrical style is economical only for Mr. Fei Ming.This article also has this trace. People who read a little more of my articles and like Mr. Fei Ming's articles will be able to find the slight differences in their similarities. This article has not been written in two months since I wrote it. Yes, add this post to note my surprise at this time. It was July 14th, and it was hot.Living upstairs all day is just sweating.Jia Chen Ji. Graduated on July 14, 1929
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