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Chapter 30 Binu

Binu 苏童 2699Words 2018-03-14
Thousands of people kneel down, and countless people's knees hit the ground. Although the ground is muddy, people's knees are not taboo. They kneel very quickly. Although kneeling is not difficult, there are still many knees bumping into other knees, and many buttocks There was friction with other buttocks, all the owners of knees and buttocks were silently fighting for the land, only a few girls from Wugu City, who did not know the heights of the sky and the earth, cherished their new flower robes, kneeling reluctantly, complaining after kneeling down, squeezing Dead squeezed!A girl pointed at the iron cage and yelled, "Everyone kneels, why doesn't that female assassin kneel?"The girl's mother slapped her and threatened her, "Little ancestor, you are jealous of anyone, why are you jealous of her?"If you are unwilling to kneel, if you find it uncomfortable to kneel, do you want to stand in the iron cage and stand with that female assassin?

When all the people knelt down, only Binu was still standing in the iron cage.Binu was forgotten.Her legs and feet were tied tightly to the iron bars, and she was unable to kneel down.The soldiers under the city wall put their weapons flat in front of them and knelt down. The executioner beside the iron cage also put the ghost knife in the scabbard and knelt down.People forget Binu in the iron cage and let her stand there alone.The king died, so many people knelt down, even chickens and ducks should kneel, but she stood.Binu just stood in the iron cage like that, waiting for others to discover this mistake, but except for that little girl, no one noticed this mistake. Staring at the ground, maybe those people are afraid to investigate. How did you kneel? If you don’t look up, how can you see whether someone is standing or kneeling?

The deceased king's chariot stayed on the official road, and the people at the gate of the city knelt in the direction of the official road. The direction of the official road happened to be in the direction of the iron cage. It seemed that the people in Wugu City were kneeling toward an iron cage.A crow flew over from the Five Grains Pagoda and flew over the kneeling crowd. The crow was blind, thinking that so many people were kneeling to Binu, so it flew over Binu's head and circled around, speaking inarticulately to the crowd. The female prisoner paid her respects.Binu doesn't know the language of birds, but she can tell the joys and sorrows of birds from their singing. She can tell that it is the cry that crows admire, and crows admire her. Kneel down, they are pleading guilty to you!I don't know if this idea is from the crow or from herself, Binu was startled.She wanted to turn her face away, look at the sky or the city wall, and not look at so many knees, but the wooden shackles hindered her freedom, and her neck could not turn, so Binu forced herself to close her eyes and close her eyes. Tears flowed out of her eyes, she thought about her identity, maybe she shed tears at the wrong time, when others kneeled, she stood, and others shed tears, maybe she was not allowed to shed tears.She opened her eyes again, and forced herself not to look at people's knees or their drooping heads, but at people's robes, and she couldn't forget the newly dyed mourning robes, I worked so hard to dye a mourning robe with indigo, and I don't know who picked it up and put it on.

The black crowd was like a forest of stones.She couldn't see people's faces clearly, but adults and children were all wearing their festive costumes. Binu took a close look at those robes. The children in Wugu City wore red and green, and their hair buns were wrapped with red threads to ward off evil. Women wore Bright, large flowers are inlaid under the sleeves, and the girl's chest is also embroidered. She is dressed like a garden. Most of the men wear the popular brown jacket with green edges, and some wear blue robes. The crowd was showing off and attracting Binu's attention. Even though Binu squinted his eyes, he couldn't tell whether those blue robes were newly dyed or changed from mourning robes.Binu didn't know what was wrong with her, maybe she was bewitched by an evil spirit, and when she was about to die, why was she still thinking about that robe!She blamed herself for not thinking about the robe anymore. The witch in Chai Village predicted that she would die on the road. How many details were missed in that prediction. They didn’t tell her that when you died empty-handed, the winter robe would never be delivered to Qi Liang’s hands. Come on, unless your Qiliang knows how to use the yellow sand in the north to make threads and the stones from Dayanling to weave cloth, otherwise he will always be bare-backed!Standing in the iron cage, Binu was also afraid of missing Qiliang. A widow from Dayanling under the Wugu Pagoda advised her not to think about him every day. Poor woman, thinking about him is also bitter. You think about him every day. , he suffers every day!The weeping people in Zhan's house also warned her, be careful about your dreams, don't dream about your husband, poor woman, whoever has the most dreams will follow you into bad luck!Binu didn't dare to think about Qiliang, she forced herself to think about the remains of King Fugui, did he sleep in a coffin or on a boat in the Golden Tower?Was his shroud made of gold or silver?Does the king have the king's mark on his wrist?Soon she found herself imagining the king as Apiel, with small eyes, mouse whiskers, and her identity carved on her wrist.She dared not think of the king's wrist.How can you mix apigenin with king?What the king looks like, and whether there is the word king on his wrist, she will never know.Binu felt that there was an indescribable regret in her heart, which had nothing to do with her own life or death. The king, the good people in the world, who would not want to see the king with her own eyes, she also wanted to see the king with her own eyes, see his appearance, and His wrist, but the king is dead, and she can't see anything!

The two executioners knelt beside the cage, kneeling furiously.At first they complained in low voices that the king's death was not at the right time, and that the once-in-a-thousand-year show around the cage had been rehearsed so many times before it suddenly disappeared.The skill of knocking on the iron cage with a knife cannot be displayed. In the past, there were rewards for killing people, and there were rewards for releasing people, but now they can't get any of them.When the city gate was in chaos, the minds of the two executioners were also in chaos. With such chaos, who would have the heart to watch us behead someone?When there was commotion in the rice barn, one executioner sharpened his knife viciously on the ground, the other raised his knee, knelt down again, and said, "We don't care about looting. It's up to the arresters. We kneel down on us."At first they insisted on guarding by the iron cage, but later the officials from the city gate came out in a single file, and someone shouted in the crowd, why did the officials run away?We are still kneeling here, honestly being bullied, we didn't grab Enmi!The voices of other men were strongly provocative, no more kneeling, no more kneeling, all the officials ran away, we still kneeled, everyone stood up, led Enmi to snatch them all, there was plenty in the rice shop, Let's grab the rice shop!At this moment, the two executioners couldn't kneel anymore, they stood up and asked the running officials sharply, is this knife still used today?Quickly give an explanation, if there is no explanation, we will also grab rice!Their complaints were not answered, and they left with a knife in a fit of anger.Two red figures left the iron cage, one rushed into the rice shop with the crowd, and the other was chased by several old men and women with angry expressions. The old man said, give me back my son, give me back my son!A few women went to pull him, grabbed the knife in his hand, and cried and cursed, "You will cut off people's heads. I won't let you go today. Let's see if you dare to cut off our heads!"The executioner who was attacked didn't dare to do anything wrong, so he held the bright knife high in the air, and shouted as he ran for the road, don't think that the sky is overturned, the old king is dead and the new king is enthroned, tomorrow I will replace you The new king beheads you!

Binu saw the executioner disappearing into the crowd.The executioner left, but she was still standing in the cage.The rioting crowd overwhelmed the figures of the officials and soldiers, no one cared about the iron cage, and they threw the iron cage to Binu.Binu didn't know who would remember this cage.She wanted to shout, but the black scarf still blocked her mouth, and she wanted to get out of the cage, but the wooden shackles still locked her body tightly.She saw crowds coming out of the rice shop and pouring into the nearby cloth and iron shops. Some people came out with farm tools, blood streaming from their faces. They were wounds left by hoes from fighting for iron girdles. The man was torn into strands and strands, and when he broke through the encirclement, he only carried a bare cloth scroll on his shoulder.Binu saw that some young and middle-aged men with disabilities who were exempted from corvee miraculously regained their health and burst out with enviable physical strength. One of the three refugees who carried the cloth was lame. He did not know when he had an extra leg. Running faster than the wind, another man nicknamed hunchback suddenly straightened his back and hurriedly ran towards the Guojia Tea House on the slope. They beat one by one, the hunchback was knocked off the slope by them, turned over nimbly, and got up again. Who cares about robbing your broken teahouse?While taunting the people in the teahouse, he raised his hand to call on people, there is nothing to grab at the gate of the city, go to the city to grab it!

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