Painting the Soul (short story) Zhang Baotong

After Ding Shaoguang left, Yujuan always had a feeling of trepidation, as if she had lost something precious. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info This feeling has been going on in her heart for a long time. During the day, the feeling was not so strong, but at night, this feeling churned in her heart, making her often miss nostalgia, toss and turn, and couldn't sleep at night. It wasn't until two or three months later that she slowly got used to it. However, the days without love are still very painful and bitter.

However, Yujuan put her mind on the vision of the future, thinking that in three years, when her lover returns, he will take her and the child to live in the big city of Kunming. She had never been to the big city of Kunming, but she had heard of it, there were cars, trains, high-rise buildings, countless shops and factories. These dreams are like dreams that appear and emerge repeatedly in her heart and mind, and have become the exciting and exciting content of her life, and even become her spiritual pillar.

Yujuan's house returned to its original scene. Yujuan and her grandmother worked in the fields and fields of the production team all day long, and Yujuan's father was doing housework at home alone. Although there were still three of them in this room, it was impossible for them to return to the simple peace they had in their hearts.

Yujuan worked very hard during the day, and she had to weave cloth for her grandmother at night. Because Grandma's health is not good, she has worked all day during the day and is already very tired. No matter how hard she worked during the day, she could endure hardship, but at night, when she thought about her lover, she would unconsciously shed tears. The fetus in her womb was getting bigger, and she could even hear him moving in her belly. Because Ding Shaoguang can only come back after three years, she can only keep her thoughts about him in her heart and put more expectations on the birth of her child.

The next spring, the child was finally born, a girl. The whole family was overjoyed. Because the Dai family has a tradition of preferring women over men. Yujuan immediately wrote to her lover and asked him to name the child. Ding Shaoguang asked Yujuan to give the child a Dai name. So, Yujuan named her daughter Yumei. Because the Dai people only have two surnames, the male surname is Yan and the female surname is Yu. At the same time, he also gave his daughter a Han name called Ding Yumei.

However, in the second year after Ding Shaoguang left here, **** began. Because of Ding Shaoguang's family, Yujuan was repeatedly dragged by the rebels to criticize and fight, and mobilized the whole village to expose Ding Shaoguang's crimes. Yujuan's parents are very face-saving people in the village, how can they stand such treatment, and soon, Grandma's illness worsened, and after a serious illness, she fell on the bed and couldn't get off the ground. Yujuan was also tortured, her body was very weak, and she couldn't get off the ground. Therefore, Abba is the only one with the child, and he has to take care of their mother and daughter.

However, the rebels came again to force Yujuan to write a letter to Ding Shaoguang, asking him to return to China to receive criticism and confess his crimes. However, Yujuan insisted on refusing. Because she knew that once Ding Shaoguang came back, she didn't know what would happen. Therefore, no matter how the rebels persecuted, she just didn't write.

Watching the rebels persecute and torture her daughter, the grandmother was angry, and half a year later, her condition continued to attack and deteriorate, and she closed her eyes forever. Grandma is the pillar of the family, and as soon as Grandma dies, the family is like collapsing. Yujuan and Abba cried to death, and then, invited a few relatives to bury Grandma. On the day of the funeral, Yujuan threw herself in front of her mother's grave, and because she was so sad that she cried and fainted to the ground. It was a few village sisters who carried her back home. It wasn't until the next day that she slowly woke up.

After Grandma's death, the family was like a dead person all day long, and there was no longer a little bit of anger. Within half a year, Abba was also ill and collapsed at home. Abba had tuberculosis, and because the family had no money and could not be treated, he could only stay at home and slowly survive. Within a few months, Abba also passed away due to illness. Yujuan is the only one left in the whole family, and the child is not yet two years old, so what does Yujuan do? Yujuan buried Abba, and lived alone and difficult.

One night, the child developed a high fever, but when he arrived at the health center, he was no longer able to do so. When Yujuan saw that the child was dead, she cried and screamed like crazy. Bang your head against the wall and don't want to live anymore. She was sad and desperate, crying all day long, and talking nonsense and strange things. The villagers all said that Yujuan was insane and that she was crazy.

Yujuan is a little crazy, she lies in front of the graves of her parents and children all day long and cries, crying all afternoon. Fortunately, relatives and acquaintances in the village came to persuade her, pulled her, and brought her home from the grave. One night, she somehow knocked down the kerosene lamp, lit the mosquito net, and then lit the quilt on the bed. Because the bamboo building itself is a combination of bamboo and wooden planks, when it is burned by the fire and the wind blows, it will soon burst into flames, and the fire will become bigger and bigger, and the whole house will be engulfed. Yujuan was fortunate to escape in time and was not caught in the fire. However, the entire bamboo building was burned to ashes. When she fled, the only thing she brought out was the pillow she was sleeping on, because it contained the "Beauty Bathing Picture" painted by Ding Shaoguang for her. This is the only painting that was not copied when the rebels raided the house. Because they didn't notice that she would sew the painting into the pillow.

Yujuan not only has no relatives, but also no place to live. From then on, one could often see a young woman with a disheveled, unkempt head, and dirty clothes walking around the various cottages and villages. People know that this is the flower of the flowers, Yujuan, which used to be called the three famous local flowers. Now, she's gone crazy. However, people still sympathized with her, and when they saw her go to someone's door, they would give her something to eat.

Once, an acquaintance in a foreign country saw a young woman lying on the side of the road on the edge of a cottage forest, wearing a dirty and crumpled dress, unkempt, and her face was full of flies. He walked up to the woman and took a closer look at Yujuan. As soon as he touched her breath with his hand, he gave her some water, and when she woke up, he realized that she had fainted from hunger, so he took her home and fed her. Then, she was sent back to the village.

Another time, an acquaintance in the village went to visit relatives in Liaozhai, far away from Olive Dam, and on the edge of a village, he saw a group of children amusing a neurotic woman around her. They beat the female neurosthetic with a branch, you beat her, I beat her, and when they saw the woman coming after them, they ran away, and when the woman stopped, they chased after her and hit her with the branch. When the acquaintance walked up to take a look, he recognized that the woman was actually Yujuan. So he shouted at the children and took her back to the village. However, Yujuan, who was brought back, had no relatives in the village, and returned to the village, and within a day or two, she didn't know where she had gone.

She often ran to the graves of her parents and children to cry, because she cried so often that her eyes were already a little crushed. At first, it was tears at the sight of the wind, and then it was harmful to the eyes, and it was not treated, and after a long time, the eyes were a little unable to see things clearly.

For many years, Yujuan went crazy and went to the countryside to wander around, asking the people in the village for something to eat when she was hungry, and falling asleep under any tree when she was sleepy. Pretty much everyone in Olive Dam knows her. Looking at the most dazzling beauty in the dam in the past, people can't help but feel a lot of emotion and sadness today. But they could only pity her and sympathize with her, but they could not help her.

That day, Xie Guangrui saw her on the way to the commune, took her back to school, and arranged for her to live in the hut where Yurong had lived in the past. Because his father's problems have been rehabilitated, his situation has begun to improve. Not only did he return to teaching at the school, but he was also appointed by the commune as the principal of Jingtai Taizhai Primary School. It's just that the delicate and beautiful Yurong has left school and married someone else.

He asked a female teacher to give Yujuan a bath and changed her into a clean and tidy dress. He wants to take good care of Yujuan and wait for Ding Shaoguang's return. However, when he was in class, Yujuan didn't know where to run. I searched for two days but couldn't find it. So, he came to Ding Shaoguang's past team, found Yanlong, who had already served as the production captain, and found the production captain of Yujuan's team with him, and asked him to find a way to build a simple bamboo building for Yujuan, settle her, and don't let her live in a foreign country all day long. (To be continued.) )