Chapter 5 April 7, 1928 (Four)

April 7, 1928 (Four) We looked up and up the tree where she was. ① ①Back to the night when Damdi died. "What did she see, Versh," said Frony quietly. "Shh-," Katie said from the tree.Then Dilsey said, "So you are here." She came around the corner. "Why don't you listen to your father and go upstairs to bed and sneak out without telling me. Where's Katie and Quentin?" "I told him not to climb that tree," Jason said. "I'm going to report on her." "Who's on which tree," Dilsey said.She came over and looked up the tree. "Katie," Dilsey said.The branches swayed again.

"It's you, little devil," Dilsey said. "Get down here quickly." "Shh," Katie said. "Don't you know Father said to be quiet." Her legs emerged and Dilsey reached out and lifted her from the tree. "You're such a no-brainer and let them come play here," Dilsey said. "I can't control her," Versh said. "What are you all doing here," Dilsey said. "Who told you to come to the front of the house?" "It's her," said Frony. "She called us." "You gotta listen to whoever told you what she said," Dilsey said. "Go to my house quickly." Floni and T. P．go away.We lost sight of them after they had gone a few steps.

"Come out here in the middle of the night," Dilsey said.She picked me up and we headed for the kitchen. "Sneak out and play without me," Dilsey said. "You know it's past your time to sleep." "Shh, Dilsey," Katie said. "Don't speak so loudly, let's be quiet." "Just shut up and be quiet," Dilsey said. "Where's Quentin?" "Quentin is pissed off because he's going to be at my command tonight," Katie said. "He still has T.P.'s bottle of fireflies." "I don't think T.P. doesn't mind without the bottle," Dilsey said; "Versh, you go find Quentin. Roscus said he saw him walking toward the barn." Will Ersh walked away and we lost sight of him.

"They didn't do much in there," Katie said. "Just sit in the chair and you look at me and I look at you." "We don't need help from you little guys," Dilsey said.We went around to the back of the kitchen. Where are you going now, Luster said. ①Do you want to go back there again to watch them play?We've already looked there.correct.You wait a moment.You just wait here while I go back and get that ball.I have an idea. ① Return to "Current". It was dark in the kitchen. ②The trees against the sky are also very dark.Daner waddled out from under the steps and gnawed on my ankle.I go around to the back of the kitchen, where the moon is.Dan'er dragged along and came to the moonlight.

②Bengui recalled one night in 1906 when he walked out of the house alone. The flowering tree under the living room window was not dark, but the bushy ones were.My shadow glides across the grass, which rustles in the moonlight. "Hello, Benji." T. P．Say it in the house. "Where are you hiding. You slipped out. I know." Luster is back. ①Wait a minute.He said.Come up here.Don't go there.Miss Quentin and her boyfriend are on the swing set there.You go this way.Come back, Benji. ①Current. It was dark under the trees. ②Dan'er doesn't want to come over.It stayed in the moonlight, and then I saw the swing, and I cried.

② That night in 1906. Come back over there, Benji, Luster said. ③You know Miss Quentin is going to lose her temper. ③ "Current". Then there were two people on the swing, then only one. ④Katie hurried over, white in the darkness. ④ That night in 1906. "Benji," he said, "how did you slip out. Where's Versh." She put her arms around me and I fell silent, grabbing at her dress and trying to pull her away. "What's the matter, Benji?" she said. "What's going on, T.P." she yelled. "The man on the swing stand got up and came over, and I cried and yanked on Katie's clothes.

"Benji," Katie said. "That's just Charlie. Don't you know Charlie?" "Where's the nigger who looks after him," said Charlie. "Why did they let him run around." "Don't cry, Benji," Katie said. "Go away, Charlie. He doesn't like you." I stifled my crying as Charlie walked away.I tugged at Katie's dress. "What's up, Benji," Katie said. "Won't you let me just stay here and say a few words to Charlie?" "Call the nigger," said Charlie.He came again.I cried even louder, pulling on Katie's dress.

"Go away, Charlie," Katie said.Charlie came and put his hands on Katie, and I cried even harder.My cries got louder. "Don't, don't," Katie said. "Don't. Don't do that." "He can't talk," said Charlie. "Katie." "Are you crazy?" Katie said.She became short of breath. "He can see it. Don't do it, don't do it." Katie struggled—their breaths came together. "Please. Please," Katie whispered. "Send him away," said Charlie. "I will," Katie said. "You let me go."

"You're going to keep him out of the way," said Charlie. "I will," Katie said. "You let me go." Charlie walked away. "Don't cry," said Katie. "He's gone." I stopped crying.I could hear her breathing and feel her chest rise and fall. "I've got to get him home first," she said.She took my hand. "I'll be right back," she whispered. "Wait a minute," said Charlie. "Call Black Boy." "No." Katie said. "I'll be right back. Come on, Benji." "Katie," Charlie whispered, curtly.Let's move on. "You better come back. You're not coming back." Katie and I were trotting. "Katie," said Charlie.We ran into the moonlight, toward the kitchen.

"Katie," said Charlie. Katie and I ran.We ran up the kitchen steps and onto the back porch, and Katie knelt down in the dark and put her arms around me.I could hear her breathing and feel the rise and fall of her chest. "I won't," she said. "I'll never do that again. Benji. Benji." Then she started crying, and I cried too, and we hugged each other. "Stop crying," she said. "Don't cry. I won't do that again." So I stopped crying and Katie stood up and we went into the kitchen and turned on the light and Katie took the kitchen soap and went to the sink and scrubbed her hard Q.Katie smells like a tree.

Didn't I tell you over and over again not to go there, said Luster. ①They sat up on the swing seat in a hurry.Quentin stretched out his hands to smooth his hair.The man is wearing a red tie. ① Return to "Current".Quentin here is little Quentin. You crazy fool, Quentin said.I'm going to tell Dilsey you made him follow me around.I'm going to tell her to give you a good beating. "I can't control him," Luster said. "Come back here, Benji." "No, you can manage it," said Quentin. "You just don't mind. You're both trying to spy on me. Did grandma send you up here to spy on me?" She jumped off the swing. "If you don't take him away right away and never let him back, I'm going to have Jason whip you." "I really can't control him," Luster said. "If you think you can control him, try it." "Shut up," Quentin said, "are you going to take him or not?" "Well, let him stay here," said the man.He is wearing a red tie.The sun was shining red on it. "Look at this, Jack." He struck a match and put it in his mouth.Then he took out the match again.The match was still lit. "Would you like to try it," he said.I walked over. "Open your mouth," he said.I opened my mouth wide.Quentin raised his hand and knocked the match away. ② A contemptuous term for someone whose name is not known. "You're stupid," Quentin said. "You want to make him cry. Don't you know he'll yell all day. I'm going to tell Dilsey you're not taking care of Benji." She ran away. "Come back, girl," he said. "Hey. Come back soon. I'm not going to play tricks on him." Quentin ran to the mansion.She has gone around the kitchen. "You're messing around, Jack," he said. "Is that so?" "He can't understand you," Luster said. "He's deaf and dumb." "Is that so?" he said. "How long has he been like this?" "Exactly thirty-three years to this day," said Luster. "Born to be a fool. Are you in the troupe?" "What's the matter?" he said. "I don't think I've seen you before," Luster said. "Well, so what," he said. "Nothing," Luster said. "I'm going to the show tonight." He looked at me. "You're not the one who made the tune with the saw, were you," said Luster. "Buy a ticket for twenty-five cents and you'll find out," he said.He looked at me. "Why don't they lock him up," he said. "What did you bring him outside for?" "Don't tell me about your life," Luster said. "I don't care about him at all. I'm just here to find a lost coin. I can only go to the show tonight when I find it. It seems that I can't go." Luster searched on the ground with. "You don't have a spare coin on you, do you," said Luster. "No." he said. "I don't." "Then I guess I'll just have to try and find that fork," Luster said.He reached into his pocket. "You don't want to buy a golf ball, do you?" Luster said. "What kind of ball," he said. "Golf," Luster said. "I don't want any more, just twenty-five cents." "What's the use," he said. "What do I want it for." "I figured you wouldn't want it either," Luster said. "Let's go, jackass," he said. "Come over here and watch them play. Here. Here you go, you can play with Jim Green." Luster picked it up and handed it to me.That thing is shiny. "Where did you find it," he said.His tie, which was bright red under the sun, was getting closer to us a little bit. "Found it right under this bush," said Luster. "For a moment I thought it was my lost fork." He came over and took the thing over. "Don't bark," Luster said. "He will return it to you after reading it." "Agnes Maybel Becky," he said, looking toward the big house. ① This is a brand of contraceptives commonly used in the United States in the 1920s.Luster sees a tin box containing contraceptive tools on the ground, picks it up and gives it to Benji to play with.The man with the red tie knew that little Quentin had another lover when he saw it. "Don't yell," Luster said. "He will pay you back for sure." He gave me that thing, and I stopped barking. "Someone came to see her last night," he said. "I don't know," Luster said. "People come every night, and she could have climbed down that tree. I don't like prying people's secrets." "One of them gave away his secret," he said.He looked towards the big house.Then he walked away and lay down on the swing seat. "Let's go," he said. "Stop messing with me." "Come on," Luster said. "You got into trouble, and Miss Quentin must have told Dilsey about you." We came to the fence and looked out through the coiled branches.Luster was looking for something in the grass. "I still had the money with me when I was here," he said.I saw the little flag fluttering, and the sun was slanting down on the broad grass. "They'll be here in a minute," Luster said. "I've been here a few times, but left again. Come and help me find it." ① Refers to a person who plays golf. We walk along the fence. "Cut it off," Luster said. "If they don't come, how can I get them to come. Wait a minute. They'll be here in a minute. Look over there. Isn't it coming?" I walked along the fence until I reached the big iron gate, where girls with schoolbags always passed by. "Hi, Benji," Luster said. "Come back here." What's the use of looking through the gate, said T.P. ②Miss Kitty has gone somewhere for a long time.I got married and left you.It's no use tugging at the door and crying and yelling.She can't hear you. ②Benji thought of the girl students passing by the big iron gate from what Luster said about the players coming, so he walked there all the way, thinking of the scene at the big iron gate in May 1910 (shortly after Katie got married). What does he want, T. P． , said the mother.Can't you play with him and make him quieter? He wanted to go back and look outside the gate, T. P．Say. Oh, that's no good, said the mother.It's raining.You just have to play with him and keep him from making noise.Be good, Benjamin. Didn't try to keep him quiet at all, said T.P.He thought Miss Catty would be back if he went to the gate. Nonsense, said the mother. I heard them talking.When I walked out of the house, I couldn't hear it anymore. I walked all the way to the big iron gate, and the girls walked through here with their schoolbags on their backs.They looked at me, turned their heads away, and walked faster.I tried to talk but they just kept going and I followed them along the fence trying to talk but they went faster.Then they started running, and I got to the bend in the fence and couldn't go any further.I grabbed the fence and saw them walking away, I wanted to talk. "You, Benji." T. P．Say. "What were you sneaking out for. Don't you know Dilsey's going to whip you." "What's the use of you doing that, moaning and grunting at 'em over the fence," said T.P. "You're freaking out these little girls. Look, they're all walking across the road." How did he get out, said the father. ①You didn't lock the door when you entered the yard, Jason. ① Later, one day after June 2, 1910, Bengui slipped out of the gate to chase the schoolgirls.The following is the conversation between Mr. Compson and Jason after this incident.Jackson, the capital of Mississippi, does not have a state mental institution.Mrs. Burgess is the student's mother. How come, Jason said.How could I be so sloppy.Do you think I am willing to do such a thing.Our family's reputation is bad enough, for God's sake.I should have told you that long ago.I think it's time for you to send him to Jackson.Or Mrs. Burgess would have shot him. Stop it, said my father. I should have told you that earlier, Jason said. I touched the big iron door with my hand, it was open, and in the twilight I grabbed it. ② ②He recalled the scene of chasing college students at the beginning, and the time sequence was earlier than the content described in the previous paragraph. I didn't yell, I tried my best not to cry, watching the little girls coming in the twilight.I didn't shout. "There he is." They stopped. "He can't get out. He can't hurt anybody anyway. Go through." "I dare not go across. I dare not. I want to go across the road." "He can't get out." I didn't shout. "Don't be like a timid cat. Come on." They walked on in the twilight.I didn't call anyone, I slammed the door tightly.They walked very slowly. "I am afraid." "He won't hurt you. I walk here every day. He just follows the fence." They came over.When I opened the iron gate, they stopped and turned around.I want to talk, I grab her, I want to talk, but she screams, and I keep trying to talk, ① then the bright shapes start to blur, and I want to crawl out.I wanted to brush it away from my face, but I couldn't see the bright shapes again.They were walking up the hill, towards where the hillside was going down, and I wanted to call them.But I breathed in, but couldn't exhale, couldn't make a sound, and I wanted to keep myself from falling down the mountain, but I fell off the mountain into the bright, swirling shadows. ①Then Bengui was knocked unconscious by the schoolgirl's father, Mr. Burgess, with a fence post.Later, he was sent to the hospital for castration.The following paragraph is about Bangui's impression on the operating table. Hey, fool, Luster said. ②A few people have come.Stop murmuring and humming, do you hear me? ② Return to "Current". They came to Xiaoqi.One of them pulled the flag out and they played, and then he put the flag back in. "Sir," Luster said. He turned around. "What is it?" he said. "You want golf balls," said Luster. "Show me," he said.He walked to the fence, and Luster handed the ball through the fence. "Where did you get that?" he said. "Found it," Luster said. "I don't know how it got here," he said. "Where did it come from. From someone else's golf bag." "I found it in the yard here," said Luster. "Give me a quarter and I'll give it to you." "What makes you say the ball is yours," he said. "I picked it up," said Luster. "Then go and pick up another one." He said.He put the ball in his pocket and walked away. "I must go to the show tonight," said Luster. "Is that so?" he said.He walked onto the terrace. "Get out of the way, Brother Kai," he said.He hit a ball. ①The player's words reminded Benji of his sister Katie. "What a man you are," said Luster. "You yell when you see 'em, and when you see them, you yell again. Can't you shut up. Don't you know it'd be a nuisance to hear you yelling all the time. Take it. Your Jim's gotta throw It's gone." He picked up the grass and gave it back to me. "Got to pick another one for you. This one is almost wilting for you." We stood by the fence and watched them. "That white guy is hard to deal with," Luster said. "You saw him take my ball." They moved on.We also walked forward along the fence.We came to the garden and could not go any further.I grabbed the fence and looked through the branches.They are gone. "You have nothing to whine about now," said Luster. "Shut up. It's I who should be moaning, not you. Take it. Why don't you hold your grass. You're going to cry about it again in a minute." He gave a flower to I. "Where are you going again?" Our shadows fell on the grass.The shadow hits the tree before we do.My shadow arrives first.Then both of us arrived, and then the shadow left the tree again.There is a flower in the bottle.I plugged in the other one too. "You're already a grown-up," Luster said. "And this game of sticking two weeds in a bottle. Do you know what they'll do to you when Miss Caroline dies. They're going to send you to Jackson, where you're meant to be. Mr. Jason That's what it says. Over there, you get to hang out with a bunch of idiots, hang on to the bars all day, and hum what you want. Well, do you like that kind of life? ." Luster knocked the flowers away with a wave of his hand. "In Jackson, that's what they do to you whenever you call out." I want to pick up the flowers.Luster picked it up first, and the flowers went to nowhere.I burst into tears. "Cry," Luster said. "You're crying. You've got a reason to cry. Well, here's a reason, Katie," he whispered. "Katie. You cry. Katie." "Luster," Dilsey called from the kitchen. The flowers are back again. "Don't cry," Luster said. "Hey, isn't it. Look. Isn't it in the bottle just like before. It's okay, don't cry." "Hi, Luster," Dilsey said. "Well, you," said Luster. "Here we come. You're such a mess. Get up." He tugged at my arm and I got up.We come out of the bushes.Our shadows are gone. "Don't cry," Luster said. "Look, everyone's looking at you. Stop crying." "You bring him here," Dilsey said.She walks down the steps. "Hmph, what have you done to him again," she said. "It didn't bother him at all," said Luster. "He cried for no reason. "You're just messing with him," Dilsey said. "You must have bullied him. Where were you?" "Right under those cedars over there," Luster said. "You pissed off little Quentin," Dilsey said. "Can't you just take him away, away from her. Don't you know she doesn't like Benji around her." "How much time I spent on him," Luster said. "He's not my uncle." "Don't you talk back to me, boy," Dilsey said. "I didn't mess with him at all," Luster said. "He was having a good time there, and all of a sudden he was crying and yelling." "Did you touch his grave?" Dilsey said. ① Refers to Benji's toy: a bottle placed in the ground under the bushes in the backyard, with two grasses inserted in it. "I didn't touch his grave," said Luster. "Don't lie to me, boy," Dilsey said.We went up the steps and into the kitchen. Dilsey opened the oven door, pulled a chair over in front of the fire, and sat me down.I stopped crying. Why are you pissing her off, Dilsey said.Can't you take him away? ① Think back to the day in November 1900 when Mrs. Compson changed the name of her youngest son from Maury to Benjamin."She" here refers to Mrs. Compson. He was just watching the fire, Katie said.His mother was telling him what his new name was.We didn't mean to make her angry at all. I know you don't mean that, Dilsey said.He was at one end of the room, she at the other.All right, don't touch my things at all.Don't move anything while I walk away. "Aren't you ashamed?" Dilsey said. ②"Trick him like this." She put the cake on the table. ② "Current". "I didn't tease him," Luster said. "He was playing with that bottle full of dog's tail a minute ago, and then all of a sudden he's crying and barking. You heard that too." "Didn't you touch his flowers?" Dilsey said. "I didn't touch his grave," said Luster. "What do I want his scum for. I'm just looking for my coin." "You lost it, didn't you," Dilsey said.She lit the candles on the cake.Some are small candles.Some were large candles, cut into little pieces. "I told you long ago to keep it hidden. Now I think you'll have to send me and Frony to get it again." "I'm going to the show anyway, with or without Benji," Luster said. "I can't follow his ass endlessly day and night." "You've got to go along with what he's gonna do, you nigger," said Dilsey. "Did you hear my life?" "I don't do it all the time," Luster said. "I always go with what he wants. Isn't that right, Benji." "Then you go down like that," Dilsey said. "He made a scene, and you brought him into the house, and you made little Quentin angry. Now you eat the cake before Jason comes back. I don't want him for a cake. Jumping and screaming at me, I bought this cake out of my own pocket. If I baked a cake in this kitchen, he would count the eggs one by one. You now have Be careful and don't mess with him again, or you won't go to the show tonight." Dilsey is gone. "You can't blow out candles," Luster said. "Look at me blow them out." He leaned forward, puffing his cheeks.The candles were all extinguished.I cried. "Don't cry," Luster said. "Come on. Look at the fire, I'll cut the cake." I could hear the clock ticking, I could hear Katie's breath behind me, I could hear the sound on the roof. ①Katie said it was still raining.i hate rain.I hate it all.Then she dropped her head on my knees and cried, and she put her arms around me, and I cried too.Then I looked at the fire again, and the bright, slippery shapes were gone.I can hear the clock and the roof and Katie. ①The day Bangui changed his name. I ate a few bites of the cake. ②Luster's hand reaches out and takes another piece.I can hear him eating.I watch the fire. ②Current". A long wire brushed over my shoulder.It reached as far as the furnace door, and then the fire was out of sight.I burst into tears. "What are you talking about," Luster said. "Look." The fire reappeared.I also stopped crying. "Can't you just sit quietly, watch the fire and be quiet like grandma took care of you?" Luster said. "You should be ashamed of yourself. Why. Get some more cake." "What did you do to him again?" Dilsey said. "Can't you leave him alone for a while?" "I was just telling him not to cry, not to wake Miss Caroline," said Luster. "Somehow he felt uncomfortable again." "I don't know who made him uncomfortable," Dilsey said. "When Versh comes home, I'm going to have him stick you. You're begging for a beating. You've been dishonest all day. You Did you take him to Xiaohegou?" "No," said Luster. "We've been playing in this yard all day, just as you told us." He stretched out his hand and wanted to take a piece of cake.Dilsey struck his hand. "Here, watch me chop your claws off with this kitchen knife," Dilsey said. "He certainly didn't eat a piece." "He ate," said Luster. "He has eaten twice as much as I have. You ask him if he has." "You try again," Dilsey said. "You should try it." Exactly, Dilsey said. ①I see that it's my turn to cry next time.I think Maury would like to let me cry for him for a while too. ①The day the name was changed. Now his name is Benji, Katie said. What kind of a thing is that, said Piersey.The name he was born with hasn't worn out yet, has he?