Chapter 7 a woman

Among close relatives, San Cui's name is put together with virtuousness and virtue.Everyone praises her so generously, because she can do things and manage the family, and at the same time she does not lack a pleasant round face. The small, fair, youthful, crimson Sancui's face became one of the reasons for the joy of the people around him, and those who knew each other estimated it on this face, saying that it would be a face of good fortune in the future.It seems that she also believes in the judgment of things like physiognomy, and San Cui is completely optimistic about her current life.She worked all day, and when she was done—no, it was time to go to bed—she went to the bed specially prepared at home. This bed had straw mats on the boards and calico quilts. On a hot day, they all fell asleep as soon as they got into the quilt.When she fell asleep, she would dream, dreaming of catching fish in the stream, picking up fungus on the mountain, picking up thread in the field, and flying a kite in the vegetable garden.It was all a reenactment of what happened when I was a daughter when I was a child.She is happy in the day, and she is also happy in the dream.In her dream, she forgot about grinding the mill, and forgot many other things that she found exhausting during the day.Sometimes she was frightened by nightmares, or saw a cow go crazy and touch people with its horns, or the water swelled, and the sky was full of water. She knew it was a dream, so she shook her feet violently, and woke up immediately .When she woke up, she always heard the sound of the waterwheel by the river in the distance. This sound seemed to be talking to someone, babbling all day long. Even in her dreams, she often heard its voice like an old lady singing.Although she was frightened by the dream and woke people up, but when she looked at the sky, it was still dark and nothing could be seen by the window, so she still closed her eyes and dreamed of catching fish in the stream again.

Behind her house is the cowshed, and the sound of the calf suckling and the big cow chewing grass helps her sleep soundly.There is a board in the bullpen, and on the board is an eighteen-year-old man named Miaozi, whom she calls her elder brother, who is waiting for Sancui, who is five years younger than him, to be with her when she turns fifteen. bedmate.She also knew about it.She was not afraid, not ashamed, and only when there was no one else around them, and he joked about what would happen in two years, she ran away blushing.She sort of knew what was going to happen two years later.She is a thirteen-year-old girl.When she woke up at night and heard the snoring on the cowshed, she knew he had slept soundly.

What does she do during the day?She did everything a daughter-in-law should do. Occasionally, I was scolded, and when I was sad, I hid in the kitchen or by the stream to cry for a while.After a while, I was still doing things happily.Her life is the life of many child brides-in-law, anyone who grew up in the countryside and came from the inland, you can imagine. Even her innocence and diligence are easy to imagine.What is slightly different is that many child brides-in-law live their lives in beatings, scolding and humiliation all day long, but she is only occasionally taught by her parents.Why are you so happy?Because there is only one daddy on it.As for the person who slept on the cowshed, she was a person with a "level title", not as good as a person in the city who knew the rights of men, so she laughed more than other child brides-in-law.

The rooster crowed, it was dawn, and the bright sun gradually climbed up from behind the mountain, and distributed its light to the ground, and when the chimney was also plated with golden color, she got up. When I got up, I went to the roadside well to fetch water, followed by a puppy.Her feet were wet with dew, she smelled the slightly fragrant air, and her face was blown by the wet wind. She went to the well and scooped water into the bucket one by one.The bucket was full of water, and he turned to the house in a hurry, and the dog entered the door first.Immediately ignited the pine hair in the stove belly with paper coal.Instantly there is hot water in the pot.The dog went outside and called passers-by.She is cleaning the yard with a big bamboo broom.At this time, the man on the bullpen got up, and Dad got up, and squatted in the courtyard to smoke under the eaves, or weaved the ears of straw sandals, and saw Sancui sweeping the floor.After a while, Sancui scooped up the washing water from a shallow wooden basin, steamed it, and put it on the porch. The father and son squatted down to wipe their faces again, and twisted it on with the tripe cloth veil made by Sancui. One, covering the face.There are also acacias beside the basin, which have been beaten to melt, and they were also made by Sancui.After washing your face, ask your parents: "Cook sweet potatoes or rice?" But what I ate later was sweet bibimbap.Sometimes Sancui decides what to eat, that is, after hearing "casual", Sancui is more troublesome, because he is a person who likes and knows what they like.After breakfast, everyone goes out.Those who go up the mountain go up the mountain, and those who go down the field go down the field. As soon as the people go out, the cattle and dogs go out too, and Sancui is left alone at home.Picking up the dishes, picking up... She also went out.She went out to wash clothes in the stream, or went to the back garden to look at the bamboo shoots and pick cauliflowers for lunch.

At noon the meal was ready and the man went home.If you don't come back at that time, you have to stand on the high sill outside the door and call Dad and Brother Miao sharply.She called the man who slept on the cowshed Brother Miao, which was taught by her father.Shouting, like shouting a chicken, so the man came back.Sancui is happy and busy.Three people have lunch.The kitten was meowing, and the chicken was noisy at the foot of the table. In order to get rid of the chicken, he often stopped to eat by himself. "Girl Cui, the food is cold!" shouted. "Coming," promised.Really here.But brother Miao had finished eating, and so had father, so she put away the bowl and went to the kitchen to eat.The kitten cocked its tail, followed behind to the stove, jumped onto the stove, competed to eat the rice in the bowl, and grabbed it to eat, making a fierce look at the kitten. "Xiao Hei, if you steal my food, I'll beat you!" Even though he said this, he actually gave the cat the food in the end, and rolled up his sleeves to wash the dishes in the hot water pot.

At night, people are still dispatched, dogs are dispatched, and cats are dispatched... Life in spring is different from summer, but it is exactly the same in terms of complicated and trivial affairs.In addition to cooking and boiling water, she can also weave hemp, spin cotton yarn, store shoes, and sew socks.God gave her more interest in work than fatigue, so she could not see her unhappiness in life. She was busy doing things, but she was also busy playing with the neighbors.The pounder, the grinder, the laundryman, whatever, when someone asks her for help, she doesn't think of refusing.

Many people have said this to Sancui when they see him so lively. "Sister Sancui, God bless you, Bodhisattva bless you, you are blessed to have a good husband." Hearing that, I thought it was funny.What bless is not bless!Those who sleep on the cowshed and snore are blessed, wear gold and silk, go to the city to sit in a sedan chair, sit at home playing cards, watch plays, and have nothing to do, just eat hookah to warm up, this is what the country people say Blessed.What's the benefit of having these?She thought: This is yours, and "you" refers to the elderly aunt and aunt who praised her.She herself is young, and young people do not need to enjoy themselves.

In front of her door is a stream.When the water falls, there are clam shells and the like shining in the sand, which can be picked up as treasures to play with.When the water rises, a large water jet will be thrown from the dam, and fish up to one foot long can sometimes be caught.This stream is very long, going up to the source of more than five miles and ten miles.Another thing she has to do with this stream is to drive ducks into the water. Every morning, sometimes before the water was boiled, she would release the chickens and ducks. Once the chickens were out of the cage, they would fly around, and the ducks would drive them down the stream from the high sill in front of the house.Descending from the height, after more days, the duck seems to be able to fly. She wants the duck to fly every morning!The weather was hot, and when she saw the ducks go into the water, they quacked and quacked joyfully, she would pick up stones and beat the ducks, cursing, "Bianmao, you're so happy to kill you!" Inexplicably happy.She is by this stream, and she is as happy as a duck seeing water all the time.

time passed. Sancui is fourteen years old. Nothing remains the same except for his height: the things he does, the habits of the place, the water in the stream.Chickens and ducks lay eggs in cages every day, Sancui has to pick them up with their hands, and when they go back, they have to wash their hands by the stream, this is also the same. It's winter.It was cold, it was snowing, and people didn't go out. Dad and Brother Miao warmed up by the fire.In this house, it can be seen that the family has lived in poverty this year.The smoke from the fire flew upwards, as if blocking the way out of the smoke were countless dark colored bacon in squares.The meat is hung on a hook with a string pierced there.There are also chickens, ducks, hares, deer seeds, all the meat prepared for the New Year are also hung there, waiting to be arranged for Sancui to process into things for drinking.

Dad and Brother Miao were warming up by the fire, discussing something by the fire. "Miao Zi, if you want to, it depends on the day." When Dad said this, San Cui was walking outside the door.She understood the meaning of looking at the day, as if she understood other things, she entered the room, holding a bowl of freshly steamed sweet potatoes, her hands were shaking a little.She gave the sweet potato to her father, smiled, showing a slightly coy look. "Father, there's rice crust. This time is the best." Dad took it and should give it to Brother Miao, but she didn't, so she put the bowl on the table and walked out.walk slowly.She didn't know what was going on with her, but at the same time, she remembered that she heard a bridegroom playing suona from the front of the house this morning.

"Girl, come, let me ask you." Hearing Daddy's call, she came back and stood by the fire to dry her hands. Dad seemed to think about it for a while, then laughed without saying a word.Brother Miao also laughed.She heard the sound of the suona blowing in the distance again, and the gongs were played, and the cannons were fired. Although the sound of the firecrackers could not be heard, she thought that there must be a firecracker.There are also sedan chairs, there are companions wrapped in red paper handles, there are matchmakers in mandarin jackets, and the newlyweds hide in the sedan chair and cry for their mother, she can think of it all. Seeing the ghostly smiles of the two people, she went to the fire place in the stove house, and stirred the fire in the belly of the stove with an iron, thinking about what happened just now. She could figure out that they must still be talking about that kind of thing at this time, discussing dates, discussing treats, discussing... Afterwards, her father came to the kitchen and asked her to borrow the almanac from Godfather Wang's house in the next yard. Make a sound and go to Wang's house.Mr. Wang's family is a talented teacher, and his wife is paralyzed. He sits in the big wooden chair in the room all day long. The chair is like a bucket. The Mr. and his wife live in the bucket.Sancui is here, go to Mrs. and Mrs.'s side first. "Godmother, is it past noon?" "Cui Cui, thank you for your papa yesterday." "Do you want more? There are too many in the room over there, and they will be destroyed." "Your father doesn't go out?" "Don't go out at all." "Cui Cui, you are getting fatter, taller, and look like a big girl." She laughed, thinking of something else. "Have you got all your New Year's goods?" "Daddy went to the city to buy them all. There are big red yeast rice fish, godmother, you can come to my place to celebrate the New Year." "There are also big fish here, given by the students in the village." "You brother Miao?" "He, he—" "Daddy?" "He asked me to borrow the almanac." "What are you doing? Are you burning New Year papers?" "I have no idea." "There are so many pick-ups these days. (The paralyzed woman thought about it for a while.) Cui girl, how old are you this year?" "Fourteen, it's full in July. Godmother made it for my birthday and forgot!" "It's fifteen, you look like a big girl." Speaking of this, San Cui's face became a little hot.She kept silent, because when talking about these matters, as usual, little girls have no part, so she asked instead: "Godmother, is the almanac here?" "You talk to your godfather." She went down to the teaching office, stood under the window, and looked at the teacher from the window. The master is teaching "Guan Guan Suijiu" and explaining the meaning of the words in those books. Sancui went in immediately, she stood on the porch and looked at the snow in the lawn, there were magpie footprints on the snow.The magpie was still on the tree, not flying away, not chirping, only giggling like an old man coughing.The magpie is called Youxi.Today seemed to be a happy event. She looked at it in her heart, but she couldn't tell whether she was happy or not. After a while, Mr. saw the figure under the window, and asked inside, "Who is it?" "Me. Sancui." "Three, what are you doing here?" "Ask godfather to borrow the almanac to see the date." "What day do you see?" "I have no idea." "Could it be the day to see your brother Miao do a wedding?" She was a little anxious. "Godfather, do you have an almanac?" "You take it." Then she came in, went into the study, and took the almanac.At a glance, some little ghosts saw her with round eyes, took the almanac and walked out, she gave a soft sip.After getting the almanac, she still went to the paralyzed man. "Godmother, it's snowing outside!" "I can see it from here too. Open the window in the morning and it's all white." "That's not true. The world is completely white..." Suona was blown again in the distance.Another bride.She was fascinated by the sound.The paralyzed man also heard the sound of the suona, and the paralyzed man laughed. "Godmother, what are you laughing at?" "You really look like an adult, why didn't your father—" She doesn't listen.I was so busy borrowing the story that I couldn't even finish listening to this sentence, so I ran away in a hurry.He ran out and fell into the snow.Hearing the sound of slipping and falling, the paralyzed man asked in the room, "Cui Cui, you fell? What are you doing?" She stood up and brushed off the snow, refused and left. Fourteen days later, seven days before the Chinese New Year, the person who was sleeping and snoring on the cowshed was assigned to share the bed with San Cui, and since then he has been snoring beside San Cui.Sancui became a man's wife, fulfilling her duties as a wife. At first, she seemed to have a few more things, and she was a little unaccustomed to it. After the Chinese New Year, she got used to everything. She is still doing what a woman should do amidst the praise of everyone.Live the day for a year.At the age of fifteen, she raised a son, added a grandson to her father, and made her husband a father.When the mother's affairs were added to her, she was still the daughter-in-law of the family, doing various things all day long.People praised her for being capable in every way, even in the matter of bearing a son, she was admirable, and she could only smile.Her goodness is not born to be rewarded by anyone.Days passed and she didn't change. However, times have changed. Because of the change of place, the farmer couldn't farm in peace, and when his father died, the husband followed others and went to other counties to serve as a soldier.Sancui, who lives by the paralyzed godmother at home, raised her son until he was two years old. He is still kind-hearted, and there are benefits worthy of people's joy.Although her life experience was very unfortunate, in the eyes of an ordinary person, her round face still smiled like a child in front of children.The depression of life cannot make this person another, and she is only eighteen! It's winter again.The teaching wing has been reduced from ten students to four, and what Mr. Xiucai is talking about is still the chapter "Guan Guan Jujiu".Everywhere is still picking up the bride in a sedan chair at the end of the year, coming and going with suona and gongs.The sky is a cloudy day that wants to snow but has not yet fallen.Thin ice had formed where there was water, and snow was about to fall anyway. San Cui hugged the child, came out of the godmother's room, and stood under the window to listen to the lecture.She could see the branches of the stripped erythrina tree behind the house where the magpies had nested.At that time, there was the sound of suona passing by the door, so she chased out to see the sedan chair, and played with the children. When the children saw the sedan chair, they yelled "Marry your mother, marry your mother".She also yelled in the child's tone.When I arrived, I went back to the courtyard. It was snowing in the sky, and the child shouted for snow again.She also called snow.The sky is snowing, and tomorrow, the snow is all over the ground, and the yard will look the same as it did four years ago. He carried the child into the house and arrived at the godmother's side. "Godmother, it's snowing, it's very big." "Has it fallen yet?" "Luoxue will be warm tomorrow, and it is falling now." Because the godmother wanted to see the snow, she put the child on the bed and opened the window.Opening the window, the godmother not only saw Luoxue, but also heard the suona. "It's cold like this, and there are still people picking up their wives." Sancui didn't answer, she was in a daze. The godmother said again: "Cui Cui, after fifteen years, you Mao Mao will be able to take a wife again." Cuicui just laughed.Fifteen years is not fast, but it seems to be within reach in a blink of an eye, so the woman smiled.The godmother who said this did not expect that she would still be alive in the world fifteen years later.Because the snow fell, I wanted to open the window, and because of the wind, the paralyzed man was afraid of the wind. "You closed the window, it's windy." According to godmother's wishes, she went to close the window again.The child started to make a fuss at this time, so he hurried over to pick up the child. "Baby hungry?" "No. Feeded. He's going to bed." "You let him sleep." "He doesn't want to sleep." The child cried loudly, as if he had grievances in his chest. "Why are you crying? Xiao Mao, cry again, the cat is here." The mother took the child in her arms, undressed and exposed her teat to nurse, and the child was suckled, and the sound of sucking was like a cat eating. "Godmother, it's snowing, we can make frozen tofu tomorrow." "I want to make some tempeh tomorrow." "I can do it. Our bacon is too bland this year, so we can't cook that one the day before yesterday." The day before yesterday, I cooked bacon to go to the grave, so I continued, "When Daddy is here, bacon always likes to be salty. He likes salty ones, he couldn't even taste the one yesterday! " "It's a pity he can't see Mao Mao anymore." San Cui didn't answer, and after a while, he said, "There are so many pheasants this year, I passed before digging the grave last day, and four of them flew up, clucking and clucking, if Daddy was here, there would be pheasants to eat." "Miaozi also likes these." "He only likes to beat furry rabbits." "Why didn't you sell that gun to the regiment?" "I don't sell it. Put it there, when you want it." "I'm afraid they will be punished if found out in the future. They said that they are not allowed to accept this thing. I heard your godfather said it." "If they want it, let them take it. What is it worth?" "I heard it's worth tens of dollars!" "Where, that's the Jiuzi gun! Our claws are worthless at twenty ounces." "I've heard people say that a machine gun is worth a thousand dollars. You can't get twenty cows for a gun. There is such a thing in the army. " "Miao Zi has always seen it in the army." "Miaozi didn't even believe me for a month!" "I went to ×× on a business trip. It will take forty days to write a letter. I mentioned it earlier." At this time, the children were quiet and asleep, and their voices became softer. "It's Chinese New Year, why haven't there been any letters. Miao Zi has become an official, so it should be... (A family member passed by in front of the door, a cannon was fired, the child was awakened, and cried again.) Young master, don't cry. Your father brought The silver is back. Silver, gold, baby, don’t cry, the tiger will bite you when you cry!” The mother also coaxed. "Hey, don't cry. Look at the snow. It's snowing. To marry the bride, blow the suona, woo woo la, woo woo la. Play the gong; clang, group! clang, group! Look, look, look, my baby wants too Pick up a little bride! Whoop, whoop, clang, group! clang, group!" The baby was still crying, and it was impossible to nurse at this time. "Could it be that the wind blows and catches a cold." Hearing what the godmother said, she quickly touched the child's head with her hand, sucked that little hand, and hugged the child in circles around the room, making the child feel like a boat.Still crying.Then he hugged him to the bright place by the door again. "Oh, let's see the snow! Oh, let's blow the wind! My mother-in-law said she was afraid that the wind would blow you up. It won't hurt you. Do you want to go out? Yes, just go out! Listen, baby, woo-woo-la..." Then she went on again Take the child out of the hospital.Going down the steps, she dodged a little, and she remembered that she fell in the snow the year before last.She also remembered what the godmother asked in the room at that time.She also remembered how to run.She just stood and let the snow fall on her head, and there was snow on the child's head. Another two years. There is no news from those who go out.The son is four years old.The godfather died, leaving the paralyzed godmother.She still lives next to this godmother.Because of her care, the paralyzed woman seemed to be able to live forever.In the eyes of others, whether this matter is a merit or a sin is still unknown. God bless her, she is still healthy and happy.Still young, with that cute and kind face.Still able to do things, handle everything, and be organized.The son has grown up and needs to be taken care of less often, and her expectations have shifted from her husband to her son.God bless this man for his son to become a talent.When she was expecting her son to grow up, she didn't think about how her mother would grow old when her son was grown up. Four years have passed, and the time does not seem to be very short. All the changes in personnel are enough to prove that the time transfer is terrible. However, she has no other hope but to hope that the days will pass by quickly.Time passes by without mercy or hesitation, some new powerful blows, some unavoidable fears, some natural and man-made disasters, and it is not easy to resist.However, because of the estimation of other people's happiness, she can't be selfish, and she is willing to become useless while her son becomes a great person. Since the godfather who taught him died, the paralyzed man needs Sancui for everything.She didn't have the so-called "unbearable heart" to stay away from the only member of the family, and she didn't need encouragement to come and live with this old, weak and tired woman.She is a person who lives by habit. Under habit, she has assimilated all human virtues and conscience, and only thinks that she can live in this way.She obeys fate everywhere, and she does not want to escape and does not know how to escape all the misfortunes that fate imposes on her.She knew that there were other lives than hers, but she did not know that one could choose to do things that chance would not allow. Apart from living within the ways she could, the only thing that was slightly different was her dreaming.In the past, I was young, playful, and envied the unrestrained and teasing life of nature, so I either dreamed of catching fish or dreamed of climbing mountains.A dream in which a child's temper has nothing to do with life has ceased to occur recently.She has been dreaming of falling snow lately.She seemed to be very young in Xuezhong, and when she heard people talking about being a woman, she would eavesdrop for a while.She often dreamed that the teacher took the imperial calendar and taught the chapter "Guan Guan Jujiu".She dreamed that the man who was snoring in the stall was still snoring in the stall, and the small sound of the big cow chewing the cud seemed to be in her ears all the time.Also, daddy's kind face and daddy's smile are all from four years ago.Sometimes when she dreamed about these things and woke up and heard the sound of the old waterwheel singing in the distance, she recalled the past and inevitably cried too.If she realizes what unfortunate teases heaven has given her, this person will cry all day long. What is the use of dreaming?She can warm her childlike innocence and forget her eyes. Just like others, she has not only dreamed of a sweet and good life in the past, but also in the future, she will not feel that her ambition is expanding, and her dreams will unfold in front of her eyes.She dreamed that her son became an adult and picked up his wife.She dreamed that the man who used to sleep in the cowshed came home wearing new clothes and growing up.She also dreamed that there was still a cow in the house, a small yellow cow, which the man who slept in the cowshed bought with money. The days passed by, the son grew up, and he was able to shoot a flying pheasant with a shotgun, and the paralyzed man became old and tired, and Sancui's perfection in everyone's mouth did not disappear. Arrived later.A cow has been caught from her two diligent hands.A daughter-in-law is about to enter the door.In her dreams, she only dreamed of holding a child, but this child was not born to sleep on the cowshed. She was thirty years old when she carried her anniversary grandson into the snow to watch others pick up the bride in a bridal sedan chair.