Chapter 21 20 wandering
After dinner, Dong Guihua went to Gu's house.Li Zhixiang felt weak all over, he promised to fix his uncle's hemp, but he didn't bother to go.Feeling panicked while lying down, he walked to the end of the alley, where there were a few people squatting under the shade of the trees, watching the slaughter of pigs.Li Zhixiang walked over, and they asked with a smile: "Cut a catty and go home to eat dumplings. It's cheaper than Jishang, one hundred and sixty one catty." Li Zhixiang also only asked lightly: "Sick?" "No, good pork. "Whose family? What kind of pig did Dafutian kill? If it can't be sold in a day, it won't be bad?" Everyone refused him.After a long time, the young man named Wang Youcai said: "It belongs to my brother. My brother heard that there was going to be communism, and he was willing to kill such a pig. He said that he didn't eat any meat all year round. Everyone Let’s all taste the fishy smell. If you can sell it, you can sell some, if you can’t sell it, you can eat it yourself, and it doesn’t matter if you add more salt. He is not even willing to pick it up in the market, so why bother with that?” Everyone laughed.Everyone said: "It's your brother's turn to talk about rich people in the village, so why worry about it!" Some people said: "Your brother is so stingy, it doesn't matter if you share a pig. Murakami just There are more than two hundred families, either uncles or uncles, and they are still not allowed to invite guests?..."
Li Zhixiang also forgot to ask why the group of people didn't go down to the ground, and walked away by himself.I ran into Li Chang on the street, and Li Chang was still in good spirits. He shouted, "Brother, didn't you go to the fields? There is a poor peasants' meeting tonight! Come earlier!" "Yeah." Li Zhixiang lazily agreed . "Brother, you have to make a fuss. This is the time for us poor people to turn around. Don't believe those nonsense that the Communist Party will not last long..." "Yes!" Li Zhixiang thought of what Li Tianshou told him yesterday, and he said: "Xiaochang Brother," but he didn't say it, just said: "There are Americans in the Central Army. Let's take our village as an example, alas, poor people are stupid, we are all honest people, others have goose feather fans, and Sai Zhuge ..." Li Chang hurriedly continued: "I pulled out his goose feather fan, what are you afraid of! As long as you have the same heart, you will not be afraid. I think you can't do it like this." Li Zhixiang would never tell him no, but Li Chang left He opened it, and only said: "I'm afraid I can't turn over, go to the meeting earlier in the evening, and change your brain." Li Zhixiang didn't want to say any more, and thought to himself: "Oh, we also want to change our brains, just touch it. Don't open it, we can't turn over.
Alas, you turned over, but you have to stand firm, don't turn over again. "
The uncle's family has all gone, the women don't know where they are, and there is only a lock on the door.The people in the yard asked in amazement: "Brother Li, are you sick? Look at your pale face!"
When he returned, he went to his uncle's house again.Uncle is a shriveled old man who has just finished plastering the roof and climbed down from the house, covered in dirt.Seeing his nephew coming, he opened both hands, hurriedly moved in, and said, "Why, are you free today? Our house has a lot of money in a year, it's too broken. The rain a while ago, It’s leaking enough to see that it’s raining heavily in the yard, and it’s raining lightly in the house. It’s not raining in the yard, but it’s still ticking in the house. We’ve wanted to move a long time ago, and we’ll use the money we’ve collected as rent, insurance. Live more spaciously. It’s just, alas, don’t look at your uncle’s old age, he’s thin-skinned, so he can’t open his mouth. This house is also owned by Uncle Diankui, who has planted other people’s land for decades, and is a family. Now people are having bad luck, the wall is falling and everyone is pushing, we don’t do this kind of thing. Haha, sit in the room and see what your aunt is up to.” He walked into the room by himself, took a sip of water in the gourd, and sprayed On his hands, he rubbed them again and again, half of the mud was washed off, and the rest was wiped on his old blue cloth vest.
This Hou Zhongquan, who was called the Nuomi Man more than 40 years ago, has now become a dry nest of buckwheat noodles, only the two shiny eyes that are rolling around have not changed their old shape.
Hou Zhongquan's woman also walked down the kang with a smile: "Oh, I am busy with this poor job all year round, and there are endless rags to sew." He went on to say: "Your daughter-in-law is considered promising now, and running around is the serious business."
"Get on the kang, sit down for a while, it's rare for you to be free, so take a puff first." The old man pulled out the pipe from his trouser belt and handed it to his nephew. Pushing the pipe back, he lit it himself, accostingly said:
"Ha, I've only had such a hobby in my life, I can't quit."
Hou Zhongquan's woman, his aunt, was afraid of the old man last night and didn't go to the meeting, but she was always thinking about it. She asked:
"Your daughter-in-law went to a meeting last night. Did you go? What did you talk about? They said there was going to be a settlement, and the land should be evened out. Whoever planted it would go to whoever planted it. Is there such a good thing?" The old man hurriedly said : "Oh, a woman who is old and old, and still likes to inquire, let's say it's none of your business. She's still arguing about going to a meeting, and it doesn't matter whether she understands it or not. Or Play your part and mind your own business."
Li Zhixiang also hurriedly replied: "The one in our family is almost crowned king, as if she can really do something. We don't know whether to let it go or not. Auntie, tell me, old man, it will happen now. What will happen? People in the village have all kinds of words, but there are many." Li Zhixiang felt that he had found someone he could discuss with, and he felt a little relieved.
"Are you asking us?" The old man stroked those short beards, glanced at the faces of the two, and laughed: "Ha, no, our brains are out of fashion. Now it's a new world , the new world has a new way, how good my comrades said at night! Which one is not for the poor? But—oh, our life is a mess. Your aunt, your cousin, and your cousin are all against our old man Well, if it weren't for us, they would have turned over and made a fortune, ha... You should follow your wife, she is a capable person; now the hen is also called Ming, and men and women are equal, ha..."
"It's called asking for directions to a blind man. Who in the village doesn't know that your aunt has returned Hou Diankui's one-and-a-half mu of land to others? If you ask him, he will tell you: 'Keep your aunt' Fate you servant, fasten your belt if you don’t have anything to eat.’ Well, the leaves of the tree are afraid of killing people when they fall, so what can I say, huh!” The aunt who couldn’t hold back the old man on weekdays, was in front of her nephew today, Start a whining, bring up the most unpleasant old thing.
Li Zhixiang listened to these two old people, one said this and the other said that, and he felt troubled again.He thought of the old man Hou Zhongquan's stubbornness, and the lack of sympathy that the villagers had for him. They all called him a dead man and had no popularity at all. acres and a house.
The wife agreed, "Well, it's not, well, well." She also searched the old man's face with her eyes, trying to find a little hatred or a little memory there.But she was disappointed, the old man showed no expression at all, he interrupted Li Zhixiang.
"Oh, it's all old talk, don't bring it up." It was obvious that he was no longer interested in this conversation.He stepped down from the kang and packed up the belongings in the mud house just now.Li Zhixiang had no choice but to stand up.The old woman was very sad, sent her nephew out, and told him quietly that she was going to see the sweet-scented osmanthus daughter-in-law at night, and asked him to ignore his uncle. This old man is not a good person.