Chapter 5 Taocun

Taocun is full of mud, and the clumsy lines of the village are half hidden. Although the flood subsides day by day, half of the head of the unique circular house in Qingyun County sticks out of the water, and looks forward to the heights with the joy of remaining life after the catastrophe. They searched for their owners everywhere, but people were still afraid of water and refused to leave the slopes where they temporarily lived. They had lived in huts on the slopes for a long time. Those who were tortured by the water gradually showed muddy water on their faces. They stood on a high place in the dark with a large number of silkworm plaques, pottery, farm tools and a small number of pigs and sheep, waiting for something. They didn't know whether they were waiting for the water to recede or the time to pass.Time is now immersed in the water, and when the flood recedes, time will be transferred to the leaves of the mulberry tree and the body of the white silkworm, and Taocun will restore the inherent life of Taocun.

The people on the slope saw Binu coming back with a gourd, followed by a frog, and they laughed when they saw her come back, Binu, why is she holding a gourd, where is the horse you hired?How did you bring a frog home? Binu was used to the ridicule of the villagers, but the frog couldn't stand the boy's malicious attitude, it fled to the puddle in a hurry under the attack of many branches, leaving Binu alone, one person went to her to go to the ground house.Binu lifted the wet robe with one hand, hugged the gourd with the other, and walked calmly on the slope, just like passing a row of stupid mulberry trees.She felt that the eyes of the young women were particularly sharp and vicious. After autumn, the women in Taocun were no longer as close as before, and the men went to the north one after another, leaving a lonely hollow village.For the women in Taocun, they have encountered a difficult time, the days are short, but the nights are longer each day, each day and night have their own torment, some can be told, some cannot be said, so they have to bury it in their hearts.This torment first changed the delicate appearance of the Taocun women they were proud of. After the autumn, all married women suffered from strange dark circles, high cheekbones, dull eyes, and some breastfeeding women even had dark spots in their breasts. Grey-green milk flowed out, and the babies refused to feed them. Amidst the hungry cries of the babies, headaches also spread quietly among the women, and the beauty of the women withered mercilessly like fallen leaves.Their simple and kind hearts have also changed. Cursing voices against others are on the slope one after another, and unreasonable jealousy and hostility permeate the air in Taocun.

Binu is used to being isolated, and all the women in Taocun interrogated her with cold eyes. The mushroom transformed into Jinyi, and Qi Niang emerged from the pot ashes. Their husbands were taken away on the same day as Qiliang, but they They don't want to go north with her, maybe they are afraid of the prophecy of the witch in Chai Village, they are afraid of dying on the way to find their husbands, they are afraid of turning back into a mushroom, a pinch of grass ash, Binu is not afraid, Binu plucks the last straw from the gourd rack. A gourd, brought home.She has to choose a good place to bury the gourd and herself.Binu's fearlessness in turn questioned Jinyi and Qi Niang's chastity and love for their husbands, and their unintentional questioning annoyed them, so when Binu walked past Qi Niang's shed, Qi Niang chased her out and spat behind her, When Binu walked past Jin Yi, she smiled at her, but Jin Yi gave her a fierce look, and cursed, crazy girl, who wants you to smile at me?

Binu can't care about other people's hatred, because other people's hatred can't match her love for Qiliang.She went back to her basement room, ready to clean the gourd, opened the water tank, but the water scoop in the tank was gone, Binu shouted from the basement room, who took my water scoop?Someone outside said that your water ladle was taken away by the swineherd Su De, and Su De said that you are going to Dayanling anyway, so you will use your water ladle for him, and you will go back to the ground house in two days, and a lot of water ladles will be scooped out water!Binu said, he is smart, why didn't he move my water tank?The people outside said again, didn't you pick the gourd back, cut it open, dug out the meat, and there were two water gourds again!Binu didn't explain the purpose of the last gourd in her hand, explaining is useless, they will laugh at her, you will be saved if you bury the gourd?You still have no place to die!She bent down to check the pumpkins behind the water tank, and found that there were only two of the five pumpkins left. Binu yelled again, who is it? Why did you steal my pumpkin?People outside said, don't put it so harshly, what is stealing?You're leaving anyway, you can't eat that much, and you can't take it with you, so you might as well give it to someone else!Binu calmed down inside, and after a while she moved the remaining two pumpkins outside, saying, why don't I move them out by myself, so that you don't worry about my things, this is a pumpkin grown in Qiliang, Qingyun County The fattest and sweetest pumpkin can be eaten by anyone, as long as it is a pumpkin grown in Qiliang!

Binu gave away the last few pumpkins and started to wash the gourds on her knees in the water tank. Her distant nephew, Xiao Zhuo, a boy covered with scabies suddenly broke in and yelled at her back, mad What are you doing, girl?Binu said, I am washing gourds.Xiao Zhuo said, I know you are washing the gourd. You have to cut the gourd in half and throw it into the water tank to make a scoop. What are you washing it for?Binu said, the other gourds have been cut in half for you, but this one will not be cut, and this one will not be used as a water scoop!Xiao Zhuo cried out, why cut open all the other gourds but not this one, is it the king of gourds?Binu said, Xiao Zhuo, you forgot that your aunt was transformed from a gourd?Didn't you hear that I will die on the way to the north this time?If I die, I don't want to be divided into two halves and float in other people's water tanks. I have to wash myself clean and bury my whole body in Taocun. Liang Fei's thoughts!