Chapter Forty-Four: The Lone Star

People outside the Great Wall are called Guanwai people in the Northeast and outsiders in North China, and they all mean the same thing, they are people outside the Great Wall Pass.

In a long history, migration is the basic survival law of human beings or an animal instinct, no matter what the reason for this migration is, we will use various ways to find our roots to pay tribute to those who created legends in migration. In addition to migration, there are also a small number of people, just for the sake of livelihood, individuals or groups of three or five, to do some actions that are capable in the eyes of the public, such as the old days of going to the west, going to the east to the present, to Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Beijing and Shanghai.

Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, there was such a small couple from outside the mouth, the man was an eyeless, the corner of the woman's mouth did not know what reason was open, and had an ugly scar, all the way to Yunzhou County, which was still under the management of the Yanbei Agency, to ask for food, although the man was an eyeless, but the huqin played well, and the begging and singing was also positive, and the female played the lotus flower (a kind of allegro with color stripes) The silk and satin danced, and it was also very good-looking. Where to go to the shop to sing "Nian Xi" (casually made up auspicious words), the shopkeeper has to give a little, the size of the township in Yunzhou County wandered around, I didn't expect a begging for food, singing the tune of begging for food, and gradually became famous, people call the man blind offspring, and the woman is called open-mouthed.

The two later traveled to Yunshan County, and with the money earned from begging for food, they bought a yard and settled down.

The two of them were not prosperous in their small days, but they had enough food and clothing, and later gave birth to a daughter, don't look at the defects of both of them, but this girl is exceptionally handsome, and she gave her a good name after being blind, Little Bell.

When Xiao Ling'er was six or seven years old, New China was founded, and the blind man had his own land, not to mention, he was also invited to the art troupe to be a propagandist, he couldn't write, and now he wrote and acted in a lot of local plays, and gradually became more famous. Just when the blind man played the huqin all day long, singing the praises of the coming of the good days, the four old ones also followed.

Fifteen or sixteen-year-old little bell, watching, blind dad and Huozui Niang were dragged to the street all day long, he lived a very low self-esteem and panic, less than a year, blind dad did not fight, returned to his hometown (died) only Huozui Niang accompanied the little bell.

Two years later, an article in the People's Daily entitled "We also have two hands, not eating idle meals in the city" was published, and the lively re-education of intellectual youth in the countryside began, so our little bell met Bai Xiaofeng, a young man from Shijiazhuang, Hebei.

Bai Xiaofeng and a few classmates temporarily lived in the house of Little Bell and his mother, and Huozuizi and Little Bell were driven by the people in the brigade and lived in the cowshed of the county brigade. In the days to come, Little Bell and these classmates got along happily, and after a long time, Bai Xiaofeng and Little Bell got along, and in the middle of the night, the two hid in the grass hut and secretly tasted the forbidden fruit.

In the days that followed, it was unsatisfactory, Bai Xiaofeng because he was the poison of capitalism, which was infected with the vices of capitalism, and harmed the daughter of the poor middle peasants of socialism, which could not be spared, and was imprisoned by the armed forces of the brigade, and heard that he was going to be sent to Beijing to be shot, the little bell cried and begged to save Bai Xiaofeng, although the life of the open-mouthed son was not satisfactory, but the heart was kind, thinking that anyway, the girl's reputation had been ruined, and then the life of the good future was ruined, it was not worth it, so he went to the brigade to save Bai Xiaofeng, and the condition of the brigade was that in the future, Bai Xiaofeng's household must fall in Yunshan County and marry the little bell。

It didn't take long for Bai Xiaofeng to live in Little Bell's house with the support of his classmates, become a native of Yunshan County, and give birth to a lively and lovely girl, Bai Ying, a few years later.

Before Bai Ying was ten years old, she was always happy, but when the group of handsome uncles next door gradually left, everything began to change, and her parents began to quarrel every few days, and gradually became noisy every day, so that in the future, when grandma accidentally hit the edge of the stove in the process of persuasion, and passed out, Bai Ying's happy childhood disappeared completely. In less than half a month, the open-mouthed grandmother saw that it was no longer possible to go on the kang, and stretched out her hand to signal, asking the little bell to take something from the foreign box on the kang, and the little bell trembled and turned out a flower cloth bag from the foreign box, and the flower cloth bag was wrapped in a pair of lotus flowers with satin, and the mouth of the open-mouthed mouth kept chanting the "Nian Xi" joke of the lotus falling:

"It's not easy for a young couple;

walked through the streets and alleys to the door of the eldest aunt and uncle;

happened to catch up with the daughter-in-law, and the two of them got some good fortune;

As soon as the firecrackers went off, I saw the joy of raising my head;

……”

After grandma left, Bai Xiaofeng and the little bell were quiet for a while, but suddenly one day, Bai Xiaofeng disappeared, Bai Ying only remembered those days, as soon as it was dark, her mother hugged herself tightly, and quickly fell asleep, even if she was covered with sweat, her mother did not let go of her, although the ten-year-old Bai Ying was young, but she already remembered very much, I remember that it didn't take long for my mother to run out with herself, sat in the car for a long time, and met people with different accents, and after more than ten days, the money on her body was spent, and the dry food was eaten, so my mother could only take out the lotus flower left by my grandmother, and sang a begging tune along the street, began to ask for food, and continued to wander。

Bai Ying knew that her mother was looking for her father, so Bai Ying and her mother begged for food outside for five or six years and did not find their father.

After all, the father couldn't find it, and the mother and mother returned to Yunshan County singing the lotus flower along the street, and soon after returning to Yunshan County, the mother lost her mind and often talked nonsense. One time when he was sober, he installed a warbler door panel on the door of his house, and told Bai Ying that one day his father saw this warbler door mark, and he knew himself, and his mother taught him that he could find himself.

On a thunderstorm night, after a thunderstorm, Bai Ying's little bell ran out and never came back, life and death were unknown, leaving Bai Ying alone at seventeen or eighteen.

Bai Ying told her own story, very calmly, just like telling the story of someone else's family, when Da Lin and Jiang Er were embarrassed, Bai Ying was like a nobody, which made Jiang Er suspect for a while that this story might have been made up by Bai Ying herself. This made him unable to find any reason to comfort Bai Ying.

After the story was told, several people made friends, Jiang Er smiled and joked to Bai Ying: "Gang, the fate of the lonely star, the people who get along with Gang, none of them have a good background, and they are all unhappy." ”

Indeed, I have no father and mother is like this, Li Qi'er is like this, the sea is like this, Dalin Erlin is like this, even the woman Erxiu I have seen is like this, and I met such a Bai Ying in front of me.

Jiang Er asked Bai Ying again why she became a great immortal, and Bai Ying said with a smile: "Dagang, you also have to find a way to live, you can't follow Ne Niang, beg for food for a lifetime, this great immortal has seen a lot of livelihoods, and they can do a little bit of what they can do, just to have food and clothing." When I found someone, I didn't do it. ”

Jiang Er listened to it reasonably, but Bai Ying's work in his hands was too bad, and he didn't have the style of a great immortal, so he could only coax a master like Liu Yunshui, a little wary of the master, he must not be able to fool him, in the conversation just now, Jiang Er felt pity for Bai Ying, and asked Bai Ying: "Have you ever learned fortune telling?"

Bai Ying knew that she had met an expert, so she couldn't hide it, so she told the truth: "No, who do you learn from, and you don't know a master, those old rivers and lakes are all thieves, and I met one last year, and I wanted to accept him as an apprentice, but in fact, I saw that he was an old pervert, and I wanted to pay attention." ”

Jiang Er didn't cover up at all when he heard Bai Ying speak, and he really didn't look like a girl, and asked, "Have you ever heard of a broken gold?"

"Yes!"

"If you want to learn, the post can teach you, although it is not as good as a serious fortune-telling routine, but it is somewhat effective. Jiang Er said.

Bai Ying looked at Jiang Er carefully, wondering if this man who had just known him for half a day was a good person or a bad person: "Jiaone, what good are you?"

Jiang Er just out of pity, wanting to make this layman's life easier, didn't think about any oil and water, was asked by Bai Ying, he didn't know how to answer at the moment, Dalin was on the side, just now I listened to Bai Ying's words, thinking about the past when I took my younger brother to beg for food, and immediately took over the words: "Big sister, Ne Ergang doesn't have anything to want, just to see that you are pitiful, I want to help you, Ne and Ne brothers are also from the background of asking for food, and Ergang is also looking at Ne and his brothers are pitiful, so he took Ne and his brothers, and took them wherever he went." Ne Ergang is a capable person, the craft is very familiar, if you want to learn, Ne Ergang must teach. Dalin said in a hurry, Jiang Er couldn't take it if he wanted to, so he could only let Dalin speak.

Bai Ying listened, and the two big men in front of her also had the same experience as herself, and said: "If you want to learn, you can't learn for a while, it's not early today, Master leave a contact information, and when you are free, you will go over and learn a few hands from Master." Bai Ying didn't call the post, but changed to the master, and agreed to learn "a break of gold", for Jiang Er, there was no special experience, and he just nodded and agreed, left the address and pager number of his shop, and left with Dalin Erlin.

Bai Ying leaned against the street door of her house, looking at Jiang Er who was leaving, and wondered what happened today? Why did she talk so much, the first time we met, I told all the bitterness of my past, would it make outsiders feel that I was a too casual person. Returned to the courtyard. Looking at the mark of the warbler door that was about to be forgotten at the head of his door, he reached out and probed, wanting to take it off, when his hand touched the bamboo board, his hand retracted like an electric shock, and the words of the crazy mother bell lingered in his ears: "When your father sees this mark, he will come to recognize you!"

Bai Ying was just clubbing in the courtyard, and at that moment, the air around her was quiet, as if the sacreds in the inner room could also hear the desires and calls in their hearts, and they were all erected behind them.

Bai Ying decided to go to find Jiang Er tomorrow!