Chapter 7 Chapter 5 Bilian's Paradise

When the women of Quliu Village chatted together, they would discuss Heizi and Dumb Uncle.They often said that Heizi's mother should marry the dumb uncle, not the boatman.The reason is that the dumb uncle and Heizi are closer than father and son.Heizi also hopes that his stepfather is a dumb uncle, not a boatman.He sometimes foolishly thought that it would be great if his mother divorced and married the dumb uncle.But that is absolutely impossible, he no longer has the right to choose, and he will never have the right to choose for his mother and father. It's a hot summer.At the beginning of this summer, Heizi was disturbed by a woman named Bilian. As soon as the name of this woman named Bilian appeared, Heizi faced a threat.He didn't know why he hated and was afraid of this woman.

He learned about Bilian from his mother. Mother mentioned Bilian in one afternoon.That afternoon, Heizi was making paper boats on the hall floor with his bare back.Every day when he is free, he sits on the ground and makes paper boats. For some reason, he is very obsessed with paper boats recently.After folding the paper boats, he would put the paper boats in the river, watching those paper boats drift away, he felt a feeling of flying in his heart.He was folding the paper boat when he saw his mother enter the house with a woman he had never seen before. "San Niang, which village is the girl you're talking about?" the mother asked the woman named San Niang.

Sanniang said: "It's from Hebei Village, it's just after crossing the ferry." The mother said, "Apart from being blind, is there really nothing wrong with that girl?" San Niang said: "No, she is white and clean. Don't look at her blindness. She is a sensible person. She can do everything from washing clothes to cooking. Maybe she can give birth to a son and a half for the mute. Isn't the mute There will be a queen. To be honest, when Bilian married the dumb uncle, he picked up a treasure!" Mother said: "Don't talk about it, the dumb is pitiful, and he is lonely. But if he doesn't agree, there's nothing he can do!"

Sanniang said: "Then you have to be more careful. I think this thing can be done. The mute listens to you. You talk to him carefully. There is no dowry or courtesy. As long as he nods, go to Hebei Village Just take people away." Mother said: "Don't talk like that. I heard that Bilian's parents and brothers drove her away, thinking she was a burden. One more person is one more mouth. In these days, who has surplus food to support an idler? Come back, if the mute agrees, it’s a good thing, the mute finally has a woman to accompany him until he grows old. I think so, you go back first, I have to discuss it with the mute, and I will tell you when I have a word. "

Sanniang laughed, and her laughter was quite nice.After laughing, she said goodbye.Heizi was so disturbed by her laughter that he lost his mind at all, and a paper boat was not folded after a long time. After dinner in the evening, Heizi went to the mute uncle's house as usual.In the light of the kerosene lamp, Heizi looked at the dumb uncle carefully.The dumb uncle has a beard all over his face, and his face is black and red with Chinese characters, revealing the unique light of a man.His eyebrows are thick and thick, like two big knives hanging from the eyes like copper bells.The dumb uncle's teeth were neat and white, which amazed Heizi.The dumb uncle's smile is kind and amiable.Heizi felt sad for a while, and he thought of his father again.His sadness has another meaning, he has a premonition that he and the dumb uncle will not spend much time together, because the dumb uncle will have a woman by his side.If that blind woman, Bilian, married the dumb uncle, then it would be impossible for Heizi to live with the dumb uncle again.He was afraid that after returning home to sleep, his screams would reappear, and the pain of the past would reappear.

Heizi's mood was extremely complicated. The dumb uncle seemed to ignore Heizi's complicated mood. He was concentrating on weaving a basket with wire.After he finished weaving, he hung the basket on a bamboo pole.After finishing these, he took out a bundle of pine branches that had been split during the day from the woodshed. Those dried branches had white or dark red rosin on them.The dumb uncle put the branches into a small dustpan and gestured to Heizi.Heizi knew that the dumb uncle was going to take him to the fields to cover loaches again. Heizi put some pine branches on the iron basket and lit it. The dumb uncle carried the burning iron basket with the fish basket on his back, and the fork for loach in the other hand, and walked to the field.Heizi followed behind the dumb uncle. His task was to hold a small dustpan full of pine branches and add pine branches to the iron basket.

They walked slowly along a canal. The iron basket burned into a bright fireball.The fireball was close to the water surface, and the clear water bottom could be seen clearly at a glance.At night, loaches will emerge from the mud and lie on the mud surface to breathe freely.As long as the dumb uncle sees the loach, he will throw the loach fork in his hand towards the loach.The loach fork is a small fork as thin as a needle mounted on the top of a small bead.Uncle Mute is very skilled in doing this. His fork pierced the loach very accurately, and he never missed it once.Heizi admired the technique of the dumb uncle's forking loach. On this summer night, in the field where the sound of frogs was like the tide and the breeze was blowing, it was such a joy to fork the loach.But tonight, Heizi was not happy, he kept thinking about things that had nothing to do with Chaniqian.If it was different from the usual, he would be eager to see the dumb uncle miraculously fork the loach, and the dumb uncle would see his intentions, and he would take the loach fork from the laughing dumb uncle and throw it at a chubby loach , I only heard a chug in the water, and a small stream of muddy water was stirred up by the fleeing loach. He pulled out the fork of the loach and looked, oh my god, there was nothing.The dumb uncle smiled and patted his head with a palm like a cattail fan, then took the loach fork from him, and continued to display his magical skills.

They didn't go home with half a basket of loaches until the pine branches were almost burnt out.Every time he went home, Heizi's upper and lower eyelids started to fight.As soon as he got home, he fell asleep on the bed.Every time he was awakened by a strong fragrance, and when he opened his eyes, he saw the dumb uncle holding a large bowl of fragrant and delicious loach porridge in front of him.He fell back to sleep after eating, looking very happy, he didn't know how the dumb uncle made that delicious loach porridge. Tonight was different, he didn't feel sleepy. The woman bothered him so much that he couldn't sleep at all.

Back at Uncle Dumb's house, Uncle Dumb signaled that he could go to bed and called him after the loach porridge was ready.He shook his head, today, he wants to watch the dumb uncle make loach porridge.Seeing that he wasn't sleeping, the dumb uncle asked him to light a fire by the stove, which was something Heizi liked to do.After a while, Heizi ignited the fire in the stove violently. The dumb uncle put a little rapeseed oil in the dry pot, and when the pot was hot, he put the loaches into the pot one by one.Heizi heard the sound of frying loach, and the aroma came out from the pot, filling the house of the dumb uncle.

The dumb uncle fried the loach and put the loach in a small wooden basin.He washed the pot and poured clean water into it.The clear water boiled quickly, and the dumb uncle poured a small bamboo tube of rice into the boiling water.The rice rolled in the boiling water, and after a while, white foam appeared.Heizi knew that this was new rice with lots of foam and white.After the rice was cooked until it was seven times ripe, Uncle Dumb poured the fried loach into the pot, and at the same time put shredded ginger and minced garlic into the pot.After the loach porridge was cooked, the dumb uncle asked Heizi to put out the fire. He put salt into the porridge, sprinkled with fragrant shallots, and the loach porridge that made Heizi salivate was ready.

Heizi kept his head down when he was eating the loach porridge that night, but the same delicious loach porridge tasted dull to him.He didn't know, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow...whether his life would be broken by that woman named Bilian. What Heizi was worried about finally happened. The dumb uncle agrees to marry the woman named Bilian.Heizi got up early that day and came to the door of the dumb uncle's house. He has not lived in the dumb uncle's house since yesterday.He saw a pair of red couplets pasted on the door of the dumb uncle's house.The red couplet made Heizi feel the festive atmosphere.Mother and several women from the village were busy at the dumb uncle's house, preparing for the luncheon.Although the dumb uncle is dumb, he is also a man of etiquette. Although it is impossible to hold the wedding in a grand manner, the wedding banquet still needs to be held, and some relatives and friends should be invited to eat and drink.No matter how poor the dumb uncle is, he must tell the people in the village in a festive way that he is married. Mother saw the bewildered sunspot. The mother said to Heizi: "Heizi, hurry to the ferry and see if your dumb uncle is back. If you see him boarding the boat, run back and tell me." Heizi walked towards the ferry in a daze. On the way to the ferry, the birds fluttered away. Heizi came to the ferry. He sat on the bank and watched the boats moored on the opposite bank.The boatman stood at the bow of the boat, smoking a cigarette, waiting for the arrival of the dumb uncle and the bride. "Here we come." Someone on the boat said, "Look, the dumb uncle is here with the bride on his back." Heizi saw the dumb uncle on the other side carrying a man in red on his back, but he couldn't see the face of the man in red clearly.He watched the dumb uncle get on the ferry, and the dumb uncle didn't put down the bride, just kept carrying it like that.The boat moved, and the puntman pulled the boat over.Someone on board set off firecrackers. The boat gradually approached, and Heizi saw the vivid and joyful face of the dumb uncle, and he also saw another fair face. Although the eyes were blind, it was also a beautiful and moving face.Bilian is a petite woman. Heizi suddenly developed a dislike for Bilian. The dumb uncle laughed loudly at Heizi. The boatman said loudly to Heizi, "Heizi, go back and tell your mother, the dumb uncle is going back soon, go quickly." Heizi turned around and ran towards the village. In the process of running wildly, he couldn't hear any sound. He ran to the dumb uncle's house out of breath, and said to his mother with a flushed face, "Come... here, I'll be there soon." After finishing speaking, he came to a tree in front of the dumb uncle's house. , he climbed up the tree.His mother said to him, "Hei'er, be careful, don't fall." He saw the dumb uncle carrying the bride on the tree. The dumb uncle was like a victorious general returning to court with his trophy, and all the adults and children in the village came out to watch the excitement. "The mute married the woman back—" People in Quliu Village rushed to tell each other. Heizi was sad in his heart, he thought, from now on, the dumb uncle would never be as close to him as he used to be. Mother set a fire in front of the mute uncle's house. The dumb uncle jumped over the pot of fire with the bride on his back, and the sound of firecrackers rang again.The dumb uncle's house suddenly became noisy, the villagers poured into the dumb uncle's house, and the children in the village also crawled around under the adults' crotch, laughing and laughing. Heizi climbed down the tree and went home alone. He shut himself in the house. At noon, no one came to call him, and the adults forgot about him.He was crying all the time, as if the celebration of the dumb uncle's house was far away from him.Later, he heard that at noon that day, the dumb uncle was drunk. The dumb uncle remembered Heizi only after he was drunk. Brought back to the new house. From the night when the dumb uncle got married, Heizi fell into a nightmare again. In the nightmare, he not only dreamed of his father who was swallowed by the river, but also dreamed of the running fourth child, Li Laifu who was picking dirt, and There was Wang Shichang, who was stabbed to death by a butcher's knife in a white coat... These people appeared alternately in his dream, and his screams began to appear again.His screams did not attract the furious boatman, which gave Heizi a little peace of mind. The new bride, Bilian, got up very early. She groped her way to the door and opened it.The fresh air of Quliu Village on a summer morning blows in your face.She took a deep breath, and her heart and lungs relaxed.She thought that her happy life would start from now on. She got rid of the dull family of her parents, got rid of the supercilious eyes and accusations from her parents and brothers. She is no longer a debt collector in the eyes of her parents and brothers. She is now a happy wife. . Before that, she was afraid of the dumb uncle.She was afraid that she would fall into another kind of pain after leaving home, and the behavior of the dumb uncle on the wedding night reassured Bilian.On the wedding night, the dumb uncle woke up from his drunkenness and found a strange world. In the red candlelight, Bilian's white face was blurred and real.Bilian didn't expect the rough and dumb uncle to be so delicate.The dumb uncle held her face and kissed her lips gently, then he took off Bilian's clothes bit by bit, he found that Bilian's body was as white as jade, shining with the light of white porcelain, he was stunned up.The dumb uncle kissed Bilian's whole body, and then gently entered her body.From the time the dumb uncle kissed her all over her body to gently entering her body to violent impact, Bilian's tears flowed happily, and she fell into a huge whirlpool of happiness. In this early morning, Bilian savored the joy and sweetness brought by the newlyweds. When she was standing at the door of the house breathing the fresh air, the dumb uncle got up quietly. He came to Bilian and helped the petite Bilian into the bed. Hall.They have no words or eyes to communicate, Bilian just uses her heart to feel the love of the dumb uncle.The dumb uncle asked her to sit there, and then went to make breakfast.Bilian could feel that the dumb uncle's heart was also immersed in happiness. The scene of the dumb uncle Fu Bilian entering the house was seen by Heizi who was hiding not far away.Heizi's eyes were full of sadness.He thought that the dumb uncle would never get close to him again. Heizi's sadness caught his mother's attention. The mother asked Heizi, "Hei'er, did you dream again last night?" Heizi nodded. Mother said: "Hei'er, you have grown up too, you should learn to live by yourself and be strong." Heizi nodded. The mother said, "Hei'er, I can see that you are not happy about marrying the dumb uncle." Heizi denied, "No wow." My mother said, "Hei'er, you don't have to be stubborn. You came out of my stomach and raised you. I know what's going on in your heart. You can't fool me." Heizi lowered his head. The mother said again: "Think about it, the dumb uncle is so kind to you. Now that he is married, you should be happy for him. Would you like to see the dumb uncle live a lonely life?" Heizi shook his head. What his mother said was right, but Heizi still couldn't turn the corner all at once, feeling sour and uncomfortable. During the wedding period, Bilian was the envied bride of the women in Quliu Village. The dumb uncle regards Bilian as a treasure, holding it in his hands for fear of breaking, and holding it in his mouth for fear of melting. Not only does he not let her do any work, but he also takes care of Bilian comfortably and loves her in every possible way. .Every night, the dumb uncle boiled the water, took her into the bathtub and bathed her, and washed her clean and fragrant. The women in the village saw it and were jealous, and they would say: "Look at that blind woman, she has become an empress dowager, and she doesn't take a picture of her urine, what is it!" Bilian naturally couldn't hear those words of extreme jealousy, she was immersed in great happiness.On the day Sanchao returned home, the dumb uncle carried her back to her natal home in Hebei Village.The people in Hebei Village looked at her with admiration, saying that she was very lucky to marry a good man.Her natal family was also happy. They drank wine, cut meat and killed chickens to entertain the dumb uncle.Bilian found a self-esteem she never had before. Bi Lian was happily carried back to Hebei Village by the dumb uncle. She lay on the dumb uncle's back and smelled the unique smell of sweat on the dumb uncle's body. She was very intoxicated. Heizi sat under a tree bored, teasing the ants with their whiskers.He made the ant bewildered.In fact, he had already seen the dumb uncle.If it was normal, he would greet the dumb uncle with a smile.But today, he doesn't have that kind of courage, he doesn't like Bilian.The dumb uncle came to Heizi with Bi Lian on his back, smiled and muttered something to Heizi.Heizi threw away Sosuke and stood up, and ran away without looking back.The smile on the mute uncle's face froze, what's the matter with Heizi?He was extremely helpless, seeing Heizi's thin back disappearing, he felt extremely sad, and a blurred color appeared in his eyes.Bilian didn't know what happened, she didn't know what happened from the beginning. For a period of time after that, Heizi ignored the dumb uncle, he believed that the dumb uncle would no longer love him like before. The dumb uncle is not what Heizi imagined, and the dumb uncle still loves him very much. One night, the dumb uncle came to Heizi's house. When Heizi saw him coming, he closed the bedroom door.He was lying on the bed, looking at the roof absently, his mind was blank. The mother said outside the door: "Heizi, what's the matter with you, the dumb uncle came to see you with good intentions, but you still ignore him." Heizi remained silent. Mother said: "You heartless thing, the dumb uncle loves you for nothing!" Heizi remained silent. The boatman drank tea with the dumb uncle.The boatman said: "Well, it's fine if he doesn't want to come out, it's useless to force him, stop screaming there. This kid is stubborn and has a bad temper." The dumb uncle sat for a while, drank a few cups of tea, saw that the sunspots could not come out, felt bored, and left very unhappy. No one can tell what happened in the world, a clear sky will turn out to be thunderous, lightning and downpour.As the saying goes, flowers don't have a hundred days to be red, and people don't have a hundred days to be happy. After living with Bilian for a month, the dumb uncle and Bilian experienced amazing changes. At noon that day, the dumb uncle and the commune members were cutting rice under the scorching sun.A woman came running from the village, and the woman said to the production team leader: "No, something happened to the dumb wife." The production team leader hurriedly let the mute go home.The dumb uncle returned home panting, and there were broken pots on the ground.Bilian's hand was scalded and blistered.The dumb uncle understood that Bilian accidentally broke the clay pot holding the gruel while cooking and burned her hand.The dumb uncle took Bilian to the medical center without saying a word. The dumb uncle carried Bi Lian home, put it heavily on the stool, and angrily blew an inexplicable anger at Bi Lian.It was the first time that Bilian was attacked by the dumb uncle, and she was so wronged that tears rolled in her eyes.The dumb uncle's face was very ugly.He never asked Bilian to do housework, but she insisted on doing it.In fact, Bilian was also kind and wanted to help the dumb uncle share some of the family's responsibilities, but she didn't expect it to be self-defeating. She is blind, and she does things based on her feelings, so of course accidents are prone to happen. Bilian didn't learn this lesson. After the injury on her hand healed, another incident happened that stunned the dumb uncle.After Bilian's hand was burned, the marriage between the dumb uncle and Bilian was cracked. Life is not just a play. There is no possibility of communication at all, and the mute raises Bilian as a treasure, which seems more dangerous and lacks the authenticity of real life. That day, the dumb uncle was also working in the field with the members.Suddenly, someone saw thick smoke in the village. "No, it's on fire!" Someone exclaimed.There was also a call from the village: "Uncle Dumb's house is on fire!" "Put out the fire, Uncle Dumb's house is on fire!" The members and the dumb uncle ran wildly into the village. The dumb uncle's kitchen was billowing with smoke, making crackling noises when it was burning. The dumb uncle rushed into the kitchen and carried the suffocating Bilian out.Everyone poured buckets of water into the dumb uncle's kitchen.Fortunately, it was discovered in time, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous. Heizi also took part in fighting the fire with a washbasin in his hand. The fire was extinguished, and Uncle Dumb's kitchen was in a mess. The dumb uncle sat in the hall, his face turned blue with anger. Heizi stood at the door and looked at the dumb uncle. The dumb uncle's hands were trembling, his clenched fists loosened and then clenched, clenched and then relaxed. Heizi's mother and a few women from the village were taking care of Bilian in the bedroom.Bi Lian regained her composure and woke up leisurely.Heizi's mother said to her, "Bi Lian, why are you so careless? Oh, just wake up, just wake up!" Bi Lian began to cry.It turned out that she wanted to make a good meal and wait for the dumb uncle to come back to eat after work. Unexpectedly, a burning firewood fell from the stove and ignited other firewood, and the fire ignited. Once the fire ignited, she was frightened There was nothing I could do. Bilian's whining sound fluctuated in the scorching summer air. Early the next morning, someone saw the dumb uncle carrying Bilian back to Hebei Village.The boatman found that the dumb uncle came back alone, and asked him what was the matter with gestures. The dumb uncle shook his head and waved his hands, making an indistinct murmur, which seemed to mean that Bilian couldn't do it, and couldn't go on like this. Bilian is disobedient, no good! The boatman knew the dumb uncle's temper, and the things he decided could not be dragged back by nine cows.The boatman didn't say anything more. Heizi's mother tried to persuade the dumb uncle again, but he still refused.After the mother came back, she said to Heizi, "Hei'er, go and persuade the dumb uncle, he is so kind to you, he listens to you, Bilian is a good person." Heizi originally hated Bilian. After several incidents happened to Bilian, he felt a little sympathy for her.Bilian was sent back to Hebei Village by the dumb uncle, and he felt more sympathy for that unfortunate woman. Heizi listened to his mother and went to the mute uncle's house. The dumb uncle seemed to have aged a lot, like an eggplant beaten by Qiushuang, wilting. Heizi walked in eagerly. When the dumb uncle saw Heizi, a kind of light flickered in his eyes.He pulled Heizi over and held him in his arms. The dumb uncle's tears fell on Heizi's head and neck, and the tears were hot. Heizi didn't make the dumb uncle change his mind either. Heizi was with the dumb uncle again, and since then, Heizi's nightmare has disappeared, and Heizi doesn't know whether that nightmare will haunt Heizi again. Heizi's complex for the dumb uncle in his heart will not change, he already regards the dumb uncle as his father in his heart. Heizi woke up one morning, and he heard the crisp and clear jade song.He got up and walked out the door.He was surprised to see Bilian sitting on the threshold with a blank expression on her face.He hurried to call the dumb uncle.When the dumb uncle saw Bilian, his face immediately changed.Without saying a word, he carried Bilian on his back and ran towards Hebei Village.Along the way, Bilian wailed desolately: "I won't go back, I won't go back, I will die with you—" Heizi was very sad. At this time, he thought, if the dumb uncle can accept Bilian again, he is willing to help them with everything, and he would rather go back to the night haunted by nightmares. But he can't change the dumb uncle. His strength is so weak, it seems that it is not poor Bilian who is helpless, but himself. As the summer was about to pass, Bilian returned to Quliu Village time and time again, and was sent back time and time again by the dumb uncle.She would tell everyone how the dumb uncle treated her well. At first, people would sympathize with her and give her advice.Later, people avoided her as soon as they saw her, and people were also afraid of hearing her desolate and helpless nagging. Her nagging like Xianglin's wife did not arouse people's attention and sympathy at all. On the same fresh morning, someone knocked on the dumb uncle's door. The man took the dumb uncle to the river. In the water grass by the river, there was a corpse floating. Heizi saw the corpse, the corpse was swollen, and Bilian's face was whiter than usual, with a holy light.The dumb uncle choked up, he jumped down and picked up Bilian's body.The dumb uncle howled and whimpered, and there was an inexplicable sadness in the morning air. The dumb uncle buried her. Heizi picked a bouquet of bright wild flowers and placed them on Bilian's grave.He prayed that he wished that Bilian would live happily in heaven and be free from the pain in the world forever. If there was an afterlife, he prayed that God would give the beautiful Bilian a pair of bright eyes so that she could see clearly all the beautiful scenery and the world. The face of a loved one.