People Outside the Wall Chapter 2 People are small ghosts and big Mo Xiaohe
The folk customs in this area of Shili Street are simple, simple means simple, and simple means rough.
In such a simple and rude place, whichever family has more adult men and strong combat effectiveness, which family's prestige is one level higher than that of others, so if any family cannot give birth to a man, it will be bullied and looked down upon.
In this place of Shili Street, whoever has a hard fist, who is not afraid of death, and who has a hoe in his hand that turns over crops is even more capable of turning over people, then who is the master. If you want to talk about heavenly principles, there are also heavenly principles...... But who is idle, has nothing to do, fights and loses, and shouts Tianli? Who knows what Tianli is in this hellish place?
The fist is the principle of heaven.
Who has ever seen a fart kid make a fight in the school, and if the fight is lost, he has to find a gentleman to judge? Then don't think about getting mixed up. It is most appropriate to use the world of bears and children to explain the people in this area of Shili Street.
Therefore, people in this area of Shili Street are very afraid of such a family, that is, the next door to Mo Xiaohe's house, that is, the neighbor of Zhang Ji grocery store, a family of three, who is old and married.
There are four sons in this generation of the old Cheng family, each burly and strong, especially the eldest brother of the old Cheng family, Lao Shrimp, who is tall and big, because of the perennial trek outside the mountains and rivers to steal chickens and touch dogs, the sun wiped his whole face as black as the bottom of the pot.
Every time the old shrimp carried the old smoking gun in his right hand, he stood up with his left hand and stood at the door of the house, his strong body with his black skin, his face full of stubble, and the eyebrows and scars left by someone under his forehead who was cut off by someone at some point and now, can scare the children ten meters away and dare not approach, even Ah Cai only dares to hide from a distance to observe.
It is strange to say that this vicious and vicious gangster has a virtuous wife at home.
His wife's surname is Tian Minghua, she doesn't like to see people, and in addition to making tea and cooking every day, she takes care of the family's vegetable garden. The vegetable garden is full of wild fruits and vegetables, and it is also full of peach blossoms.
Every time it is the peach blossom season, the old shrimp vegetable garden is purple and red, and the old shrimp's wife Tian Hua makes tea and catches fire, and I don't know if I can read it or not, and I always pretend to read it with a book in my hand.
At this time, the old shrimp will dance with a hundred pounds of axe in his hands, and when he is idle, he will grab the hundreds of pounds of water tank filled with water from Yanbian, one in one hand, and shoulder level, shout and go, the atmosphere is not kicked, and the steps are vigorous.
The peach blossoms bloom in the vegetable garden, and Kong Yong dances with an axe, which often becomes an amazing scene in Shili Street, where birds don't.
Children are afraid of old shrimp, and adults are afraid of them.
Because the old family never grows crops, and never raises chickens and ducks, but they have meat to eat and never lack money to spend...... Moreover, the catchers in the town will run to Lao Cheng's house at two ends in three days, and take away Lao Shrimp's second brother, or third brother and fourth brother for a while.
But the catchers never take away the old shrimp, more intriguing, if the old shrimp every time they come back and find that the family is gone, they will carry the ax from the house to the town yamen, and after a while, the old shrimp family will come out intact.
This posture, anyone with a long brain knows that this old shrimp is a little capable.
Although Mo Xiaohe is only four years old, he also knows a little bit about things, and growing up in such a simple and rude place, Mo Xiaohe is often very afraid.
Mo Xiaohe often heard that whose land was occupied by whom, and then who went over and poked someone's leg in the hole, and which kid had fought with someone again, and how many men from Shili Street rushed out and killed how many of the other party's people.
The people in this area of Shili Street are belligerent and have a strong sectarian concept, and the people in the village are fine, but it is better not to beep if the people outside the village are fine. Do you dare to come? The old lady will raise the kitchen knife in her hand to chop you.
Even in the minds of old ladies, there is such a concept: a man who can't win someone else in a fight is simply not a man, and the crotch of his pants is simply hanging a handle for nothing.
"Kill it!" "Kill it!" "Listen, old ladies scare their disobedient children, often this sentence, are you afraid?
Of course, Mo Xiaohe is the most afraid.
After all, there were no adult men in his family, no relatives, his parents were gone when he was born, he only had one sister, and the sister was only sixteen years old.
It was also strange to hear the old ladies of Shili Street talk about it, they all said that Mo Xiaohe's sister and brother appeared suddenly...... Because the house where Mo Xiaohe lives now used to be a desperate household, an old bachelor with no children and no daughters, and after the old bachelor died, the house was empty for a few years.
The house that had been empty for several years, and one morning, Mo Xiaoyan suddenly appeared with Mo Xiaohe, who was waiting to be fed.
However, no one has ever heard of any relatives in the old bachelor of the house, and no one in the ten miles and eight towns in the area of Shili Street has ever seen the two sisters and brothers.
Of course, although the people in this area of Shili Street are xenophobic, they will not be idle to find trouble with a pair of powerless siblings...... Besides, it was a house where the dead lived, and it was bad luck for them.
So although Mo Xiaohe was scared, he lived for four years, and he didn't see anyone really looking for trouble with him.
It's just that I often hear people on Shili Street describe himself and his sister like this, and Mo Xiaohe also feels a little strange.
Because even Mo Xiaohe has never seen his sister go out during the day.
His sister would just shut herself in her room all day long...... Locked in the room, either embroider or write couplets, and the embroidery of the embroidery will always be a phoenix.
Mo Xiaohe has never seen his sister laugh, never seen his sister angry, never even seen his sister frown, his sister even spoke with just a few words: Xiaohezi, sleep, get up, eat, bathe, don't be naughty...... The tone was as cold as ice.
Mo Xiaohe's sister Mo Xiaoyan hid in the door of the house during the day to stab the phoenix, and only came out at night when there was no one, and then hung the couplet and the thorn phoenix she wrote outside the door, and she was not afraid of stealing, so she only marked a few tactful characters on the door: "All ten copper plates, thrown in from the window, no change"
This delicate character with this clean and neat tone is really not like the handwriting of the yellow flower girl.
This irresponsible attitude is coupled with indifferent words, and this business is really not popular.
But Mo Xiaoyan's embroidery is really good, the phoenix on the muslin is bright red, the wings are spread, the mouth is spitting nirvana fire, lifelike, and the words written are really beautiful, and the shape of the stroke is ...... Of course, it is not right to describe it this way, because in the eyes of the people of Shili Street, they only know two words, that is, they are good-looking, and if you add a few words, it is really good-looking.
Because it is good-looking, really good-looking, and it happens that Shili Street is at a crossroads, and there are many passers-by, so the clean and neat business of Mo Xiaohe's family is also prosperous, and the two days of the sister and brother are also considered solid.
Speaking of which, there are people who have such unclean thoughts as stealing words and embroidery, but ordinary people from other villages do not dare to come to Shili Street to find trouble, since ancient times, only people in Shili Street have always been able to find trouble with others.
Of course, the people in the village didn't dare to steal Mo Xiaoyan's calligraphy and paintings, because Aunt Chen of Zhang Ji Grocery Store was a caring person, and when she saw that it was not easy for her sister and brother, she would help watch it.
And even if Aunt Chen is not good at speaking, Aunt Chen's husband, that is, Zhang Ze's father Zhang Hu, is not easy to mess with, he is the head catcher in the town, and he plays with a big knife in one hand.
In the end, even Zhang Ze's father, Zhang Hu, is not easy to speak, but Mo Xiaohe's other neighbor, Aunt Ying, has to speak well.
Aunt Ying is the neighbor to the west of Mo Xiaohe...... The two have no sons, only two daughters, so they are also desperate in the local area.
The old man who is desperate loves little boys the most, especially the little boy like Mo Xiaohe, who has no father and no mother, and automatically sends it next door.
Therefore, Aunt Ying and Uncle Ying love Mo Xiaohe very much, and treat him as their own son and grandson, if they have anything to eat, they will be the first to bring it to Mo Xiaohe, and no other children are allowed to touch it; if there is anything to play, the first one will be brought to Mo Xiaohe, no one will want to rob it; every New Year's festival or something, they will give Mo Xiaohe a big red envelope.
It is said that the locals look down on the desperate people, but these two old people are not simple characters.
Uncle Ying went to the battlefield decades ago, whether it was the Snow Clan in the northwest, the Mo people in the northeast, the Sheng people in the southwest, or the Su people in the southeast...... There were a bunch of people who died under his sword, so no one dared to mess with him, after all, no one would be idle and try the blade with their bodies to see if the sword was old.
And this Ying Lady was also a character with a story earlier...... Thirty years ago, when it came to A Lanying on Shili Street, who didn't praise a good face, good figure, coquettish, and fierce.
This is just in this small town, if Aunt Ying had grown up in the county in the early years, the talents would definitely seal her with a good poem: she looks like a sinking fish and a goose, she is so commotion that she is captivating the country and the city, and she is so fierce that she doesn't let her eyebrows.
Therefore, with the protection of Aunt Chen and Aunt Ying, Mo Xiaohe's family is quite stable...... The people who dare to come to find trouble are generally those who have no brains.
However, there is no shortage of brainless people in Shili Street, for example, there are five in Ah Cai's family: Ah Cai, Ah Cai's uncle, Ah Cai's father who doesn't know if it's grandpa or daddy, Ah Cai's grandfather who doesn't know if it's dad or grandpa, and Ah Cai's grandmother.
Ah Cai's family also does not grow crops or raise livestock, although a family of five is crammed into a dilapidated house, but the family still has money to spend, all of which is due to Ah Cai's grandmother Alain.
Ah Cai's grandmother is in her forties, unlike the style of ordinary peasant women, she has long hair fluttering, a short skirt is very coquettish, and if she carries a small flower bag on her shoulder, in the words of the people on Shili Street, it is Ah Lanying's reincarnation!
Therefore, almost every day, a luxurious carriage stops at the door of Ah Cai's house, picks up Ah Cai's grandmother at night, and picks it up early in the morning.
There are so many brainless people in the Acai family alone, and there is naturally no shortage of people who are troublesome to Mo Xiaohe's two sisters and brothers.
It's okay during the day, there are a lot of people, Aunt Ying in the west, and Aunt Chen in the east are protected by the gods, no one dares to come, and they don't dare to say it at night.
Almost every night, Mo Xiaohe would hear someone stabbing the window paper in his sister's bedroom, whispering to the lady to come out, the lady to play with the husband, and the girl to come out.
I don't know who the lady in the mouth of the two people is, but he can recognize it as Ah Cai's father and Ah Cai's grandfather by listening to the voice...... Fortunately, Mo Xiaohe's sister was very calm, and she slept soundly at night, as if nothing had happened.
Now it's night again, and it's quiet, except for the chirping of insects and birds, only the moon is walking outside, and even the Chang Kee grocery store is closed.
Mo Xiaohe wrapped himself in the quilt and didn't dare to sleep.
He still remembers the way he started a fire at dusk and put one foot on Ah Cai's back...... The adults hurriedly sent Ah Cai to the doctor.
It was as if everything had passed, and his sister was still in the room as if nothing had happened.
Mo Xiaohe had an ominous premonition...... Because he always felt that Ah Cai's grandfather and father were coming back to him.
is coming, Ah Cai's grandfather knocked him to death with a stick, who will give him a head, who will protect his sister in the future.