A tragic song (short) Zhang Baotong

The next day, riding the cool breeze of the summer afternoon and looking at the scenery along the way, I came to Huanglingchong. There are three or five families living in the col, surrounded by bamboo forests and trees, which is fresh and quiet. Xiaohong's house is leaning against the side of the mountain, there is a small pond in front of the house, and behind the house is a pine forest. The sun shone down the col on the houses, dyeing them with a dazzling golden light.

As I walked down the path in the col around the pond to the threshing floor in front of the house, Little Red greeted me with a bright smile. Later, Xiaohong's mother also greeted me, looked at me with kindness and joy, and said, "This guy is so handsome!" I respectfully called Auntie.

When I entered the house, my aunt asked Xiao to boil tea. But she sat down with me and questioned me. After a while, Xiaohong brought me a cup of hot egg tea. The people in the mountains are poor, but they are very hospitable, and this egg tea is the most hospitable etiquette for our mountain people. I drank tea and continued to chat with my aunt about family life. Xiaohong blinked and sat beside her to listen.

There are a lot of paper-cuts pasted on the doors, windows and walls of the house, including the god of wealth and fairies, chickens, dogs, ducks and cows, which are exquisite and chic. I walked around the house and watched. Auntie said that this was all cut by Xiaohong. Xiaohong said shyly that she still learned from her mother. I said that these things are called works of art in the city and can be taken out for display and sold. Then I asked Xiaohong to cut a few for me. Xiaohong said that it is not possible yet, and when I learn well, I will cut some more for you.

As he spoke, a man in his fifties dragged his feet full of muddy water into the house, this was Xiaohong's father. From the appearance, you know that he is many years older than Xiaohong's mother. Moreover, Xiaohong's mother appears gentle and kind, while Xiaohong's father has a bitter and fierce face. It's a little scary to look at. The aunt told him that this was the sixth child of the Xu family, and he had just finished high school in the county seat. I was about to open my mouth to call uncle, but I didn't want him to look at me very coldly, and without saying a word, I turned away and left. I felt that this man didn't like me, and immediately felt uncomfortable staying here any longer, and was about to leave. But my aunt and Xiaohong insisted on keeping me for lunch, and said that they would kill a chicken. But I don't like to be hated and disliked by others, so I insist on leaving for some reason. They also felt that the atmosphere in the house was not suitable for me to stay here, so they let me go and sent me all the way to the mountain behind the house.

I went to a friend's house for an afternoon, and when I got back to Zhushan Village, it was already dark. Walking along the path to the bend to the east of my second sister-in-law's house, I suddenly saw a figure reflected in the bright light in front of the window of my second sister-in-law's house. The man seemed to be peering into the room. I stopped and looked carefully over the side. However, the light was so dim that I couldn't see the man's face clearly. I coughed loudly. The man ran west in a panic. Judging from the running posture of the figure, it looks like the fourth brother. I wondered what he wanted to see, why didn't he go into the house to look inside, but peeked in? So I went to the window and looked through the cracked hole in the plastic, and saw my second sister-in-law standing naked in the tub bathing.

In our country, it is a bad reputation to watch women take a bath. I hurriedly left my second sister-in-law's window and walked towards my father's house. My father's house was to the west of my second sister-in-law's house, only more than 30 meters away at most. My father was sitting under the lamp smoking a hookah. The smell of smoke was very strong, very choking. My father was nearly fifty years old and was interested in almost nothing but this annoying hookah. When my father saw me come in, he asked me to sit down. But my father and I felt constrained and had nothing to say. I said I was looking for the fourth brother, so I went into the Westinghouse.

Seeing me come in suddenly, the fourth brother looked flustered. I looked at the fourth brother with a direct gaze for a while, and said What are you looking at just now lying outside the window of the second sister-in-law. The fourth brother's face turned red all of a sudden, and he said that he didn't look at anything, but just saw that the second sister-in-law was not at home. I said no, you were watching your second sister-in-law take a bath. The fourth brother's head drooped down suddenly, and he whispered in a pleading tone, brother, don't tell others about this, it will make me lose face. I said I can not tell others, but you have to be honest, are you in love with the second sister-in-law? The fourth brother hesitated, nodded, and said that he couldn't sleep if he didn't see the second sister-in-law for a day. But the second sister-in-law just liked the merchant who sold the goods, but she ignored me.

I solemnly warned him, after all, the second sister-in-law is our second sister-in-law, you have to show some respect in front of her, and besides, she is older than you, even if you love her, you can't marry her. As soon as the fourth brother heard this, he argued forcefully and said, "Guisheng from Qinghewan has married his sister-in-law, so why can't I?" Although the second sister-in-law is one or two years older than me, I don't think so. Indeed, in this mountain far away from the town, if you want to marry a daughter-in-law for your child, you don't know how many layers of skin you have to take off when you are a parent, so it is not strange for a brother-in-law to marry a widowed sister-in-law in order to save money. But I still think that if it is not consensual, not based on love, then this kind of marriage will only be an absurd tragedy.

So, I emphatically said, do you love the second sister-in-law, does the second sister-in-law love you? The fourth brother shook his head and lowered his head. I persuaded him again in a sincere tone, "There are many girls and women in the mountains, why don't you let your father ask someone to tell you the next one?" The fourth brother said that he had said a few things before, but no one refused, and besides, I only looked at the second sister-in-law.

I know that he is obsessed with his second sister-in-law, and it is useless to bother him more. I figured that my second sister-in-law had finished taking a bath, and left the fourth brother's house. When I entered the bedroom of the second sister-in-law, the second sister-in-law was leaning on the side of the bed and knitting a sweater. Yueyue was already asleep beside her. The second sister-in-law was not only neatly dressed, but the house was also neatly cleaned and spotless. A handsome and exquisite woman like the second sister-in-law is indeed extremely rare in this mountain, so being able to marry a daughter-in-law like the second sister-in-law is really a great blessing for our Xu family. But I also know that the second sister-in-law's maiden family didn't take a fancy to the silent second brother at the beginning, just because the second sister-in-law's maiden family is deep in the North Mountain, and the grain that can only be eaten for half a year can be eaten, and it is good to be able to marry a place with food and clothing. It's just that the second brother's life is not long, and after less than two years of marriage, he will be killed by a collapse in the coal kiln in Jiangxi. The second brother is not there, and the second sister-in-law has to do everything in the fields at home, but the second sister-in-law never gives up on herself, and always dresses herself up like a new daughter-in-law.

When the second sister-in-law saw me come in, she smiled brightly, put down the woolen work in her hand, and freed up a place for me to sit on the edge of the bed. I knew that my second sister-in-law was waiting for me to tell her those new and interesting stories. Although the second sister-in-law has never been to the county seat, she has a strong interest in the dress, eating habits and love methods of women in the city, so whenever she has time, she will ask me this and that, and often show a strong envy and yearning.

After chatting for a while, the second sister-in-law told me about Xiaohong. said that Xiaohong is the most beautiful girl in this mountain, said that I am the smartest girl in this mountain, and said that the two of us are talented and beautiful, talented and beautiful, and they are a natural pair. I said second sister-in-law, you don't say it, you are making fun of me. The second sister-in-law said very seriously, for many years, the marriage of women and men in this mountain has been arranged by their parents, and it is rare to have a couple like you and Xiaohong. I said that I would make my own decisions about my marriage, and that if my parents were going to arrange it, I would rather never get married. The second sister-in-law nodded at me with a very appreciative look.