Chapter 7 Caterpillar

We in the street call him a caterpillar.He was also very beautifully dressed, with western clothes, cloak, and leather shoes, all of which were well-clanged.It is because he is not pleasing to the eye, with a pair of big goat eyes on the head of the round gourd, and he always looks at people with white eyes, as if he is a man.What's especially special is the two-step walking method: he doesn't walk, he bends and bows forward.In cold weather, he shrank his neck, put his hands in the pockets of his coat, and bent along the wall, more like a caterpillar.The neighbors ignored him because he ignored everyone; after getting used to it, everyone took it for granted-caterpillars are not good at talking.We ignored him, but we pretty much knew what his house was like, how many chairs, where the spittoon was, and the caterpillars didn't eat leaves, because he also had a small kitchen and had dishes and bowls.Almost all of us have been to his house.At the end of each month, our opportunity comes.He closes his salary at the end of the month.Mrs. Caterpillar died at least half an hour after he turned off his salary.We ignored him, but we all went to save his wife.Mrs. Caterpillar can be saved: as soon as we arrive, give her some sugar water, she will wake up slowly, and then cry for a while in front of everyone.He didn't say a word, just rolled his eyes at the corner and played.Seeing that she was crying hard, we all came out together, and left the rest to the caterpillar.Two days later, Mrs. Caterpillar will come out again dressed up to sell dawdles ①, or go to the street with a little red leather bag. We know that Caterpillar has done things by himself, and everyone feels at ease, and a little I think time goes too slowly, and it will be the end of the month soon.Ordinarily, we shouldn't be so cruel, expecting her to die again.But there is also a reason for this: after she was rescued by us, she didn't thank us, and she didn't like to talk to us when she met us.She is not at home all day long. According to her old lady, she is out to play cards; her place of playing cards is not on our street.Therefore, we don't have much affection for her.However, we cannot ignore death.Besides, she always dies at the end of every month, and the caterpillar just rolls its eyes, and we can't help but favor her, even though she doesn't play cards with us.If she'll play cards with us, or if she doesn't have to die once a month, we believe there's a cure for caterpillars.But then again, we're not just annoyed that she won't play cards with us, she's not good for anything.She doesn't care about her two children.A boy and a girl, two good children.Hmph, like a Shege ①follows the old lady all day long, his hair is disheveled like a kid, his face is never washed, and when he wakes up in the morning, he eats peanuts outside the street gate.We don't like this, although we also play cards, although we sometimes scold our children for playing cards, we can't just give our children peanuts when we get up early in the morning.We all know how to feed a baby milk replacer.We believe our street is so civilized that if it weren't for the Caterpillar family, we could have changed the name of the street to "Standard Street."But we can't push him to move, we are not his landlord, so we can't meddle in other people's business.Besides, he also graduated from university and worked in the yamen; as for her, she was also well-dressed, and her hair was curly and curly.This is better than making a family "lower three bad", and our streets are not allowed to have "lower three bad".In this way, they have been living for more than a year.After going back and forth, we can also understand the history of caterpillars.We didn't inquire, but the caterpillar's old mother was shaking out for him, and we couldn't plug our ears.As soon as we got to know his details, everyone's opinions were not so unanimous as before.We didn't care if we ignored them before. If they didn't associate with us, we wouldn't be able to curry favor with them. Don't look at him dressed in a suit.She died.We can't not do good deeds because she doesn't know good and bad. Who doesn't know that we donate the most millet to charity on this street.As soon as everyone got the details of the two of them, there were those who were facing the caterpillar, and some were facing Mrs. Caterpillar.Because of differences of opinion, we also quarreled.As the saying goes, some turn to the lamp and some turn to the fire, which is not bad at all.According to the report we got, this is the case: Caterpillar is a college graduate, but he has a wretched wife with a high crown at home.So he had to marry another one with all his heart.Here, our comments diverge.Those who have graduated from college say that caterpillars are forgivable, while the older generation snort.When we were playing cards, we dared not mention this matter again. If we fight over this, it will not count.After coming and going, the caterpillar married the new wife.Hearing this, most of us call him a liar.But there is more to come, and there are conditions: in addition to food and clothing, he has to provide the new wife with forty yuan pocket money every month.This gave the caterpillar a sigh of relief, and Mrs. caterpillar's status was immediately reduced.After marriage—this old woman knows everything—they are doing well, he is content, and she has forty yuan to spend, which is a bargain.But before long, Mrs. Daojiao found her.Needless to say, everyone was upside down.The caterpillar accepted the condition again, and gave Daojiao 15 yuan pocket money every month, for the first two months.With thirty yuan in hand, she went back to the countryside, and left a message before leaving: She might be back sometime!Poor caterpillars too, we were about to say that, but the story took another turn.He was going to withhold the worthless fifteen from the new wife's forty: he said he couldn't afford to give them both fifty-five.If you can’t make money, don’t hug the two daughter-in-laws, we will speak for the new wife.For this reason, there was a riot at the end of every month, and at that time she hadn't invented a way to die for half an hour.She didn't often go out to play cards back then.It wasn't until the caterpillar asked her: "You have twenty-five is not enough, why do you have to use forty?!" She just wanted to make a debut and go to play cards.She also said bluntly: "Give it all to me, it's none of your business; otherwise, if I lose, you will pay back the debt!" The caterpillar didn't say anything, but it still didn't pay the full amount by the end of the month.She would also stay up for two or three days, until she got the money.After getting the money, she dressed up again and went out in a beautiful way, as if she had nothing on her mind. "You are buying it, I am selling it, money and goods are equal." She seems to be saying.In a few months, she was going to have a baby.Caterpillars hate children, and there are already three of them, and they are all "tired" of him.He didn't expect that the new wife would also have a baby.The caterpillar came and ignored it.Live as long as you love, out of sight, out of mind, he pretended not to see her belly.Didn't he pay much attention to this matter, and Mrs. Daobao didn't care much about it.In the two days before the birth of the baby, she came backwards.She serves the new wife.The caterpillar thinks it's a good taste. It's not bad that the new wife has a baby and the old wife takes care of her.When the child fell into the grass, the old lady showed the truth.She knew that only at this time could she be honest.Postpartum depressed, at least half dead, her chance for revenge has come.She sat down in front of the parturient mother, pointing at her face and scolding her, how many times she knocked the new wife out, and she didn't even give her some sugar water to drink.On the third day of cursing, she walked away backwards, handing over the new wife to God, and she loved it as she liked, and she didn't want to be mad at the name of the new wife.The new wife didn't want to live either, she didn't let her be so pissed off, she wanted to die by herself, and she ate nonsense before the full moon came out.At this time, the caterpillar felt that it was not a big deal. If the new wife died, how much would it cost to marry another one, so he invited a doctor for her.After going back and forth, she recovered.After it was done, she negotiated with the caterpillar, and she didn't care about the child.The caterpillar said nothing; so neither of them cared about the child.The wife went out to play cards as usual, and as usual it cost forty yuan a month.If the caterpillar doesn't give it, she will die for half an hour because she has a new invention.As it is with the firstborn, so it is with the second.That's it.We heard this, and everyone has no opinion, because no matter what you think, it is wrong.It's not right to say that it's bad, it shouldn't be that murderous hand, but she is guarding the widow herself.It's not right to say that the new wife is wrong, she has her grievances.At best, I can only blame her for murdering the child, but after thinking about it again, she also has her own reasons. Why does the caterpillar not suffer at all and leave all the suffering to her?Since she bought it—forty yuan a month is just a nice way of saying it—why take care of the children, and the caterpillar doesn’t give her any extra money.After all, it seemed that the caterpillar was wrong, but when he thought about it, he couldn't bear the joy.The old wife hated him with his money, and the new wife hated him with his money, and he had to work hard to earn money after the end.Thinking about it this way, none of us dared to bring up this matter anymore, and our hearts would be disturbed when we mentioned it.But we changed our attitude towards those two children a little, we just look at these two little things with pity—there are quite a lot of kind-hearted people on our street.Recently, whenever we saw the two children playing in the street, we went to pat them on the head, and sometimes gave them something to eat.For those two adults, we sometimes see them pitiful and sometimes irritating.But in any case, we found something in them that we had not seen before, something like the taste of solemn tragedy.It seems that what happened to the two of them was not entirely on themselves, but a bit of the curse of the age was fulfilled on them.So recently at the end of the month, when she died at half an hour as usual, more people went to rescue her than before.Who knows what will happen to them!