Only those who are awake can find it interesting to see another kind of person who is asleep.They came from a very far place, the long distance of eighty miles or a hundred miles, which exhausted their muscles and bones, so they were seized by deep sleep, and opened their mouths, like dead bodies, lying on the hard bed covered with dry straw. Snoring on the kang.They dream there, nothing more than dreams of fighting, thirst, burning mountains, gambling and so on.During the daytime, they live in a simple form that has become habitual. Eating, drinking, walking, and scolding mothers, everything is enough, and when they can sleep, they stretch their feet and fall asleep after lying down for a minute. caught.

There is no shortage of such people everywhere.People who are born in the city, even if they are geniuses, they would never have imagined that these people live in the same world.A doctor is a kind of superior person who knows a lot of things, and he will never know the existence of such a person.Gorky in Russia, George Bernard Shaw in England, all great Chinese writers, poets, and professors, Changhong who went abroad, party and state dignitaries who talked about people's livelihood, and Zhao Jingshen who is very familiar with the literary world, are listed in the special issue of women writers None of them knew the male writer who played a guest role.Revolutionary writers seem to know it, but most of them seem to be extremely at a loss when they go to discover the love organized in revolutionary emotions.

Most people in China not only live in a situation that is forgotten by ordinary people, but also live outside the imagination of writers.The area is too wide, and it is not easy to fight, and the rest have never been discovered, which is probably a matter of course.One thing here is to start from Nanjing, the center of China, and walk five thousand miles or more to the south, so that we go to a hinterland called Miao Ke, where foreigners live together.Here is the situation there on a certain day. It was almost dawn. In a small shop whose owner is named Black Cat, there are four people who have traveled long distances, sleeping on a long wooden bed and dreaming.From above Zhenyuan, a place where paper was produced, each of them carried a load of paper on their shoulders, and prepared to go to Chenyang, where Qu Yuan stopped the boat when he went back to the river.Nearly half the way.In another eleven days, they can sell the paper to the shop and return.Those who do such a career as a walking monk have to travel for many years for the sake of having children.You can rest for ten days at a time, and spend three-quarters of the year in small hotels in various places.Habit makes these men more able than he is a kind of businessman, and inns and homes are almost the same kind of place.

This inn is set up at the foot of the mountain. Those who cross the Chenzhou border in Hunan should climb over the mountain. Those who have traveled a long way will stay here, preparing to recover their tired bodies overnight and gather their strength to go up the mountain.The owner is a twenty-seven-year-old woman who belongs to Huajiaomiao.Why this woman was named Black Cat is difficult to trace.Probably because of the slightly dark skin, but also cute and joyful.This name seems to have been given by the woman's husband.The husband who chose such a good name for his wife died unexpectedly, but left his name for all passing guests to call.It is not important to leave the name to the past guests to call, the body of the black cat, after the death of her husband, is not as common as the name!

Happiness for fair skin is not as deep among the Miao people as it is among the Han people.Regarding the understanding of black, the men of the Baier tribe have more knowledge than any Chinese.However, since the death of her husband, Black Cat has continued to operate in the store, selling food, selling wine, and entertaining guests from afar, but it has never been heard that anyone has a skin-level understanding of Black Cat.Those who go out to do business are not without eyes. Most of the eyes can notice the faces of women outside of business. But for the black cat, it always seems that she is really a cat, which has nothing to do with men and women, and has nothing to do with love.Things are not so strange, she is not an ordinary Huajiao woman.This woman does not lack the coquettishness and beauty of Wupo women, and she also has a lot of talent for the enthusiasm of Huajiao women. At the same time, she has the self-esteem and shrewdness of the Baier women. To die, she survived as a widow in a choice.

She lived as a widow for three years without seeing a man who was tempted. The appearance of the white-eared man lost its alluring effect around her, and the singing of the commoner man did not conquer the castle in this woman's heart.The chieftain's wealth is not what she wants, and she only finds the squandering of the smokers amused.For the chores in the store, and for bodyguards, she hired a hunchbacked man in his forties to help with everything. Even if those who come here have bad intentions, they can't get much, and if they don't make an appointment, it's impossible.The black cat itself is a thing that attracts business. As for the dishes made by the black cat, it tastes really good, and there are real people.

Because of this, the black cat lives in a situation that everyone can't forget. Naturally, it is convenient to have both happiness and sorrow at the same time, and everything she deserves has come.The black cat, who has an advantage in business and psychological, inevitably has physical disasters.With singing, manners, and wealth, the black cat's heart could not be overcome at all, so some people thought of using their strength to do the last thing.Thanks to the vigilance of the black cat, it still won't be followed by others, and there are many stories in it.The story ends to the nearest day.

As usual, as soon as the day turns gray, the black cat should get up with the hunchback, wash the guest's face with hot water, or boil a pot of wine, let the guest put on the straw sandals in the firelight by the stove, and then come to open the door to see the guest off.Send the guests away, if it is early and it is winter, you can curl up in the cotton wool and sleep again.If it falls on any day from March to September, there will be fog all over the place in the early morning, and you will go to the well beside the road to fetch water until the water tank is filled with clean water.The matter of carrying water was done by the black cat.

The black cat woke up very early today. When he woke up, he hung up the linen mosquito net and opened the small window beside the bed. The sky was full of stars, the sound of insects in the yard, and the cold wind blowing in made people know that the weather must be sunny today.The sound of insects seems to be wet with dew, and the light of stars is also like wet. The weather is so beautiful.At this time, I don’t know how many women are singing softly to send their lovers out across the bamboo forest!I don't know how many men heard the rooster crowing at this time, and sent the woman who played with him all night from the cave to transfer home!I don't know how many people shed tears and swore at that parting!Thinking of this, the black cat seemed to get up strangely.She is not free from what others have done!No shopwife has a right to hear false oaths at the bedside of a wicked man at this moment, but she cannot do it.Other women have the right to come out of a cave at this time, and she can't do it even if the man takes off his coir raincoat and puts it on for him to transfer home.

A woman in her twenties, with a strong and smooth body, long arms, and a healthy and sensitive heart, isn't it entirely for the enjoyment of men?But a man who has the right to enjoy her has given up this right after sleeping peacefully in the earth for four years.The rest are useless. Today's black cat is really a little different from usual, what he thinks of under the starlight is things about men and women that he never thought of before.She should have sensed good and bad guests in the entanglements of settling accounts, but at this moment she remembered the guests staying at the hotel from other indistinct impressions.The four guests come and go about fifteen or six times a year, and they have all stayed here for several years.Because of familiarity, she knows everyone's family affairs clearly.She knew that all these people had families.As long as you like it, leave the family aside, and do some intimate and informal things that only husband and wife can have, that's fine.Mountains are high and rivers are long, and it has been another month since the two broke up, just because it is difficult to be together or it is more interesting.She had thought of these things at another time, but what didn't work was still that there wasn't a man she wanted among the men.At this time, none of the four paper customers seemed to be able to swear tears with her.Even if she is willing to choose one of the four bowls of food, because this man is too familiar with the owner, it is difficult for him to be confident in raising his ambitions on this well-known and well-behaved woman!

But the strange thing is that the black cat's temperament has changed for no reason today. A protruding and unruly desire grew in the heart, and the black cat began to think of someone who could be close to these four travelers.What she wants is a kind of strength, a kind of wholesome and stubborn attack, a kind of stupid change, a kind of rest after a storm.The good experience given to her by the man who had slept peacefully in the past made her recall her lost rights, and she developed a kind of resistance to her usual reservedness.She felt that she should grab one of them, no matter who it was, to fulfill her wish, and do that wild behavior around her for a while.When she was thinking about such a thing, she seemed to hear the sound of someone going up the mountain. She looked at the stars in the sky from the window again, the size of the stars was innumerable, the light emitted by the huge stars was white, and the outline of the temple appeared on the top of the mountain. Anyway, the sky was getting brighter. Hear the crowing of chickens, the whimpering of a distant mill, and the sound of a dog.The barking of the dog is obviously someone who has taken advantage of the morning cool and set out on the road.At another time, she should naturally get out of bed at this time, but now she thought that the barking of the dog was sometimes resentful for chasing the ruthless guest, and she lazily closed the window again. The hunchback was a very accurate clock. He was old and he had to get up at dawn. At this time, he was lighting the stove and lighting the lamp by the kitchen stove, and the sound was heard by the black cat. The black cat was on the bed, seemed to be angry, and said, "hunchback, what are you doing so early?" "It's getting late, I know. Today's weather is fine, this year's August is really blessed by the Bodhisattva!" As usual, the hunchback lit the lamp and took it to the guest's room, so the guest woke up too. A guest asked the hunchback what the weather was like. "Good weather! This kind of weather is more suitable for leading a girl to sleep on the mountain than taking a long walk!" The hunchback's words made three of the four guests laugh, and one was yawning.The yawner only cared about yawning, so he couldn't hear the truth.The hunchback seemed to want to speak to someone other than the four guests, and said, "It's changed now, and everything is not as good as it used to be. People these days get up early to work. In the past twenty years, young people had a lot of things to do. , got up earlier, but what he did was to climb out of the quilt he was in love with and go home, or to send the woman home. They broke up and stood on the hillside. There was no one on the opposite side of the fog, and it was okay. Whistle and sing. It's over now, and women rarely have a pure heart." The owner, Black Cat, heard the hunchback's words in the back room, and called out to him, "Humpty, please boil the water and stop talking nonsense!" "Oh, oh," the hunchback agreed, and made a bad face to the four guests, indicating that what he said was not groundless, and that the host was just an ignorant woman.As he walked, he was talking to himself, saying, "The world has changed. Women don't sing and drink well when they are young, but instead become restaurant owners. When they become hotel owners, they don't..." He didn't finish the sentence, because I have arrived at the stove, and there is the Stove King Bodhisattva.Perhaps it was the weather's fault. Today, this person also felt that it was not right for his master to be a widow. Hearing the hunchback's sigh, the black cat got up at this time, took off his shoes and came to the guest's room. His clothes were not buttoned up, and his hair was casually coiled on his head, which looked like an eagle's nest, which made people imagine To Meijin on the wolf-skin mattress in Shandong, waiting for the lover not to come and commit suicide.One of the guests, when he heard the hunchback's unfair words, saw the slender figure of the black cat, and saw the pair of swollen breasts of the black cat, he thought something harmless, and said: "Madam, you Sleep well at night!" She said, "Okay! I've never had a bad night!" "It would be better if you have your boss around." Normally, when a black cat hears such words, its color will immediately become serious. Now he looks sideways at the guest who told the joke and smiles.She weighed the man's strong arms, she weighed his shoulders, his waist, his thighs, and finally saw the man's nose, which was long and large. The guests have already got up, and everyone puts on their clothes and tie their belts there. After packing up, they go to the stove outside the room to put on straw sandals.The guest who told the joke was alone at the end.After the three partners went out, the black cat saw the big-nosed guest, and there was really an inexplicable subconsciousness, so he put his hands in his arms and swayed his body, wanting to say a few words to the guest. Although the guest once told a joke with the black cat, he did not expect the black cat's desire at this time.After the partner left, seeing the black cat by his side, he had nothing to say.He slowly tied up the leg bindings and walked out of the room.The black cat was supposed to make the quilt at this time, but she just leaned on the bed and sniffed it, like a person pretending to be drunk. Another guest came from outside because he was looking for the herbal tobacco leaves tied on the bedside. The black cat immediately got up and lit the lamp for the guest. went out again. The black cat took the lamp and followed out of the room, put the lamp on the stove, and went to look at the water tank.There was not much water left, so she had to fetch water, so she took the pole in hand and dragged the bucket from under the square table. After opening the store door, two or three dogs walked by in the street outside, and she hurriedly closed the door again. "Humpty, why are there more wild dogs recently!" "Autumn comes every year. I've been talking about it for a long time. I have to install a medicine crossbow, and there is always no time. I heard that wild dog skins can be sold for three or four taels of silver in Chenzhou. If you get a pair of fox dogs, I can make a fortune." The big-nosed guest said, "It's not just three or four taels of silver? I saw with my own eyes that someone paid ten yuan for a badger." "I can't believe this." Another customer was suspicious, because if this statement is true, then this paper business can be changed to a fox hunting business. "Who's lying? They sell otters for twenty taels of silver. I've seen it with my own eyes. I can swear on it." "What have you seen with your own eyes? There are many things you would not have seen with your own eyes. If you had eyes, you would have—" The black cat said this.She laughed when she said that. None of them knew what she meant, nor why they laughed. But this big-nosed visitor seemed to understand something, he touched the black cat's waist when he was neglected by everyone in a convenient way, the black cat didn't make a sound, just looked at the man's nose, It seems that the nose is something that can play tricks. Although there are wild dogs, wild dogs are not beasts that can eat adults, so there is nothing to be afraid of, so the black cat opened the door and went out to fetch water soon.The big-nosed guest also followed out with a cigarette in his mouth, ready to beat the dog or relieve himself, there was always something going on.The load of water seemed to have been picked up a mile away, and when it came back, the black cat sat by the stove and warmed up without saying a word. The hunchback saw the big-nosed guest coming more slowly, but said he thought the guest had been eaten by a dog.Or a dog, or a cat.Somewhere there must be cats and dogs that can eat people.People are scared by dogs. As for cats, they are not scary things anymore. When someone asks, the big-nosed person can tell. After washing his face, the host cooked a bowl of eggs for the guests for some unknown reason, and put honey in the eggs.After eating, the money was delivered, and it was already dawn, and the four guests carried the poles on their shoulders and turned them out.The owner of the black cat stood by the door for a long time, and then sat by the stove for a long time, without a word to say to the hunchback. After about a month, someone stayed in the hotel again.Among the four paper sellers, the big-nosed one disappeared. When asked why, he found out that he died of an emergency on the way. Eight months later, there was a little black cat in the inn. Some people said that this was the son of the hunchback. Because of this ambiguous rumor, the hunchback became the black cat's husband after the little black cat was born. After arriving, the black cat really complied with the unfortunate big-nosed guest, and it would be even better to have a boss.The three paper guests still came and went to stay in this hotel. When they arrived at the hotel, they saw the appearance of the hunchback, and they always wondered why this man could make the black cat happy. I don't know where.Who can understand these things?For example, in the past there were four companions, but later they became three. No one knows for sure. Made on January 10, 1929