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Chapter 22 official way

Binu 苏童 2616Words 2018-03-14
The flood in the early autumn miraculously remained on the land of Lulin County. The sun was shining brightly, illuminating the lonely and poor official road in Lulin County. The road was overgrown with weeds, muddy, and densely covered with water flows and earth pits of unknown origin. As soon as the coffin truck was on the official road, it encountered an ambush in a dark pit. As the elm axle suddenly broke, the coffin truck suddenly split into two halves. Two Qingyun cattle tried hard to cross the puddle, but the wheels and The coffin was left in the puddle, and both Binu and the boy were thrown out of the cart. When they got up from the water, they saw that one end of Qin Su's coffin had slipped into the water, and the other end was about to get out of the ox cart. .

The coachman flicked his whip and whipped his cattle. He said, what kind of job did Mr. Heng Ming give me? People make things difficult for me, water make things difficult for me, roads make things difficult for me, now even your cattle dare to make things difficult for me, see if I don’t beat you to death! Binu said, brother, don't beat the cow, don't blame the cow, it's the coffin that wants to run away! The coffin doesn't have long legs, so how could it run?The coachman snatched Binu out of his mouth, and stared at the coffin in the water in frustration, Qinsu, I love you mother!He suddenly scolded, Qin Su, you are a cheap thing, you are so cheap when you die, you are a ghost and you come to embarrass me, tripping my ox cart!

Binu said, big brother, I don’t blame the ghost of Apisin for embarrassing you. After walking in the sun for three days, no matter how good the coffin is, no matter how good the vanilla is, it’s useless. If you can't cover the smell, people will stink. Who can he blame for being unable to enter?Blame himself!The coachman yelled at Binu, I have delivered more than a dozen coffins to Baichuntai, but I have never delivered coffins like this, and I have never seen such a dead person, and when I arrived at the door, there was no one to pick them up!This Qin Su's life is cheap, if he doesn't stink, who stinks?

The coachman walked over by stepping on the water, with one foot on the coffin. His face was blue and white because of excessive exhaustion and anger. When he spoke, some liquid flowed out of his nostrils, and there was wriggling foam hanging from the corner of his mouth.The coachman began to kick the coffin with his feet. It is best if you refuse to leave. You escaped from the bullock cart by yourself. If you want to expose the corpse to the road, I can’t help it. God has eyes, I worked hard You sent it to Qilidong, I have an answer to Heng Mingjun!The coachman said, if I knew you liked to expose corpses on the road, what more do you need to return home?Why go to Qilidong?The official road in Qingyun County is wider than here, and there is not so much water. If I had known that your coffin would be unclaimed, I would have left you behind if I didn’t get out of Qingyun Pass. Why should I suffer so much!

It could be seen that the coachman had made up his mind, and he began to lower the car to help the escaped coffin go to the puddle more smoothly.Binu didn't dare approach the furious coachman, she said to the boy, please persuade him, don't let him leave Qinsu on the road, anywhere, but never on the road. The boy flicked the mud on his legs and replied impatiently, what do you know?It was Qin Su who was on the way, he was waiting for some prince or lord to pass by the official road, and he wanted to go back with them to be a guest! It can be parked anywhere, but not on the road, and coffins cannot be parked on the road!Binu said that with such a big coffin blocking the road, the souls of the dead would not be able to enter the soil, nor would other people's chariots and horses be able to leave.

It's good if you can't go, Qin Su likes this, he can't go by himself, and he won't let others go!The boy patted Qin Su's coffin, and suddenly smiled, I finally met someone who is less lucky than me. I forgot where my family is. Qin Su's home is in Qilidong, Qilidong does not accept him The coffin, this is called life cheap, Qin Su's life is three points cheaper than mine! No matter how cheap life is, you can't throw other people's coffins on the road!Binu couldn't help but go up and grab the driver's robe sleeve, brother, do your best to the end, your hands are inconvenient, we will help you unload the coffin into the ground, don't unload it on the road!

The driver pushed Binu away, and the heavy black lacquered coffin finally fell into the water with a loud noise.The three of them were startled by the sound, and they were stunned for a while, seeing the coffin half in the water and half on the road, standing alone on the official road like a flying black boulder.The restless soul of the dead man seemed to quiet down, and they could almost hear the water hissing into the wood.Wuzhang was the first to recover. He came to inspect the coffin in the water, pressed the lid of the coffin with his feet, breathed a sigh of relief, and said, fortunately, no one jumped out. He was not willing to jump out of such a good coffin. come out.Pressing down on the coffin lid again, he said, "It's easy to do this way, anyway, this dead ghost can't remember his hometown, so wherever the coffin stops, it's Qilidong!"Qin Su, don't blame me for being unkind, this is the place you chose yourself, this puddle on the official road is your Qilidong, I will pass here next spring, and I will definitely burn paper money for you here!

There were no pedestrians or horses passing by on the official road. After the coffin was unloaded from the ox cart, the two Qingyun cattle seemed much more relaxed. They were gnawing hay on the side of the road, waiting for the driver to put the broken ox cart on their bodies.The coachman was busy for a long time, and finally gave up the pile of carts and wooden wheels. He sighed and said, "No, I can't do it without hands. I can drive the cart with my feet, but I need my hands to repair the cart."He sighed in the direction of Qingyun County, it was all caused by Qin Su, I drove the car out and rode back on the ox, Master Heng Mingjun didn't know how to punish me, he should punish me too, and watch the fun People who don't know how to laugh at me yet.

The time to part ways came, and it came so hastily.The boy couldn't see his situation, so he climbed up the bull's back with the white leopard emblem flag, but was driven down by the driver with the flag.The coachman said, you silly boy, I may not be able to go back to Baichuntai, do you still want to go back?Do you think I brought you out to play tricks?Mr. Heng Mingjun made you Qinsu's son, I can't bear to leave you in Qilidong, but you can never go back to the woods of Baichuntai! The boy's little face showed a frightened expression, and he hugged the coachman's leg without crying or making trouble.The coachman kicked his hand a few times but did not push his hand away, so he dragged the boy towards Binu and went his separate ways. He said to Binu, I left you here too. Okay, this kid, you can take him if you like, if you don't want to, just treat him like a deer and let him go.

Binu went up to pull the boy, but couldn't pull it away, and was bitten by the boy on the hand.Binu pressed his hand and said to the coachman, brother, you still have two oxen, you ride one, and you have another ox, just take this child for a while. Take a road and a road, you will be a good person!Why don't you ask him where to take it?Nowhere, silly boy, he doesn't remember home!The coachman looked down at the boy and shouted angrily, are you still pestering me?North, south, east, west, you tell me a direction, where can I take you?To the stone, or to the deer? The boy suddenly let go of the coachman's legs, and he ran to a cart and sat down, wiped the tears from his eyes, and said angrily, "I'm not going anywhere, I'm just sitting here, waiting for the salt dealer's convoy to arrive!"

This place is poor and remote, even if the salt dealers don't pass by here.Binu pulled the boy to the coachman, but she couldn't pull it up, so she stood there looking north and said, if you have nowhere to go, child, follow me and go to Dayanling! The boy cried out as if being humiliated, only a fool would go to Dayanling, you are a fool, I am not, I will not go to Dayanling even if I die! After all, this strange coffin-delivery team dispersed in a hurry. The coachman and two cows staggered away in the twilight, leaving Binu and the boy on the official road in Lulin County.An albatross flew over from a distance, hovered over the official road for a while, and landed on Qin Su's coffin.Binu stood up to drive away the albatross, the bird was not afraid of people, it calmly pulled a pool of bird droppings on the coffin, and then flew away.Half of the black-lacquered coffin was submerged in the water, and half was exposed in the autumn sunset. The coffin, which was full of luxury yesterday, is now covered with yellow mud, which looks much weaker and a little old.They couldn't hear the voice of the ghost inside, and they didn't know what it planned for its situation. The ghost might not be the master of the coffin, but Binu decided to be the master of the coffin.She wanted to push the coffin out of the puddle, and then down the official road to the slope. But Binu couldn't move the coffin no matter what, the coffin was like a boulder growing in the water.Help me, child, she greeted the boy, no matter how bad Celin is, he was raised by his parents, we can't let his coffin stop on the road. He was not raised by his parents.The boy said, he is not as good as me, the seven-mile hole, the brothers and sisters of old men and women are all made up, and he is also a person who got out of a crack in the rock!
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