Chapter 7: Juan'er is missing
At night in the mountain village, the five fingers are not visible, the chickens and dogs are staggered, and every household rests at night in order to save kerosene, and few people light the oil lamps until midnight. The two figures touched Juan'er's house with one foot deep and one foot shallow.
", open the door. There was a soft knock on the door, and the door creaked open, then closed quickly. There is a kerosene lamp lit in the cellar of Juan'er's house, and the fire on the wick flickers with the movement of people. Juan'er didn't resist either, and let them toss. At this moment, an old man took Juan'er's pulse, and then stared at her, shaking his head and sighing. Juan'er's father and mother were so nervous that they didn't dare to come out, and after a while, Juan'er's father dared to ask, "Langzhong, what's wrong?"
The old man got up, walked to the table and sat down, wiped his hands, and said, "The baby is happy!"
Juan'er's father was dumbfounded, Juan'er's body staggered, and she almost fell. Juan'er's father pleaded: "Old man, please take a closer look, the baby hasn't come out of the cabinet yet, and there may be joy in the bag!"
"It's true! My old man has been practicing medicine all his life, but I can't tell you whether it's a man or a woman!" The old man was a little unhappy. Juan'er's father hurriedly made amends: "Old man, don't blame me, I'm also in a hurry, how do you say this is good! I'll kill this shameless prostitute......" Juan'er's father picked up the flat shoulder and rushed towards Juan'er, Juan'er's mother grabbed the first two steps to block the middle, and begged: "His father, I can't help it! Zhiguo's life and death are uncertain, and we have this seedling left! You beat her up and let me live! Is it dead or alive, ask clearly first?"
Juan'er's mother turned around and hugged Juan'er, crying: "Juan'er, my baby, you should say something, which ten baby mongrels did a good thing......?
Juan'er was always expressionless and didn't say a word, Juan'er's father was furious, strode up and scraped Juan'er's ears a few times, and scolded: "Lao Tzu let you be a stuffy gourd......"
Juan'er didn't hide or cry, but Juan'er's mother was heartbroken, she cried: "Dad, take your time in everything, you don't have to force her anymore!"
When the old man saw this meeting, he couldn't sit still, so he got up and said goodbye. Juan'er's father had no choice but to send Lang Zhong out of the house stupidly, and his mouth was full of compensation: "Old man, I'm sorry, I didn't entertain you well today, so I made you laugh!"
"The love between parents and fathers in the world is the truest, and tears and blood dissolve into their children. Exhausted his efforts to become a son in the end, pity the hearts of parents all over the world. You stay, say goodbye!" "Send Lang Zhong away, Juan'er's father continued to torture to extract confessions, Juan'er had an expression of looking at death as if she were at home, Juan'er's mother was heartbroken when she saw it, and her sobbing turned into crying loudly. Juan'er's father fidgeted and looked gloomy, he took two puffs of dry cigarettes, and scolded in a low voice: "Dead mother-in-law, in the middle of the night, what are you howling? I'm afraid that someone else who doesn't know that there is a bad morals in the house? You shut your mouth for me......"
Juan'er Niang gradually suppressed her crying and wiped her tears one by one. Juan'er still sat there without moving, her eyes were empty, like a Buddha statue sitting down, but deep in her heart was like a flooding river, she was tired of such a poor mountain village, tired of the ignorant and harsh abuse here, and tired of the cold family affection now......
The family of three had their own agendas, and the air in the cramped cellar became more and more dull, and people were breathless. There was a faint sound of a rooster crowing, and after three watches, Juan'er suddenly whispered: "Mother, you go to rest! ”
"My baby, are you finally willing to speak? Okay, okay...... I'm going to rest with your father, you are so resting, if you have something to say, we will talk about it tomorrow, tomorrow!" Juan'er Niang was pleasantly surprised, and hurriedly pulled Juan'er's father towards the wooden stairs. Tom tom ...... Tom tom ...... After a burst of footsteps, the cellar returned to silence, and Juan'er listened to the noise outside.
Juan'er's father fell asleep at the end, and he was in a hurry these days, tired and had cramps in his legs and stomachs, and he couldn't accept it. Juan'er Niang leaned on the head of the bed and sighed for a long time, and gradually closed her eyelids.
As soon as the sky turned white, Juan'er's mother pulled Juan'er's father up in a panic: "His father...... Big things are wrong...... Juan'er is gone......"
"What's the matter? You melon girl...... Lao Tzu told you to put the cellar well, you have a person to watch!" Juan'er's father ran to the cellar with his shoes, the door of the cellar was pried open, just enough to drill out a person, he scolded: "Shameless prostitute, it's better to die outside, don't come back!"
"Is your heart so hard......? She's your daughter......" Juan'er Niang began to cry again, wiping away tears. Juan'er's father dragged her into the house with a black face.
Juan'er is missing, Juan'er's mother doesn't think about tea and dinner, she falls ill, Juan'er's father is like an eggplant in a dry bar, he can't keep his spirits, he has no face to walk around the village anymore, and he gets drunk all day long. Ma Zhu'er collided with evil spirits, Juan'er disappeared, and for a time became the talk of the people in the village after dinner, and the more it spread, the more evil it became, and it was divine.
Shanzi blamed himself after hearing that Juan'er was missing, he felt that what happened to Juan'er's sister was caused by helping him at the beginning, he blessed her with all safety in his heart, and in the future, he must repay her kindness;
Ma Xuan'er woke up unexpectedly on the third day after Juan'er's disappearance, and Ma Xuan'er turned the sky upside down and sent ten eggs to Shanzi for the first time. Shanzi shirked and refused to accept it, and Ma Bolt's mother simply put it down and left.
Ma Xuan'er woke up very weak, he seemed to have a long dream, in the dream, the cow ghost, snake god, beautiful woman and fairy he seemed to have seen. After all, he was young, and in a few days, Ma Xian'er regained his strength, and he walked around the village, and the big guys avoided him, and seeing him was like seeing a plague god. Ma Xuan'er went to Juan'er's house, stood at the gate of the courtyard and shouted: "Juan'er, Juan'er...... You come out ......"
Juan'er's father picked up the flat shoulder and staggered to the door of the yard, and scolded: "What are you crazy about?
"Uncle, I'm here to ask for a kiss. Will you let Juan'er be my mother-in-law?" said Ma Shu'er with a hippie smile.
"What's the matter? I'm afraid the toad wants to eat swan meat...... Get out, get out of Lao Tzu, or I'll break your legs......" Juan'er's father raised his flat shoulder as he spoke, and Ma Bolt was so frightened that he ran a few steps back and stopped, he raised his throat and shouted: "Old thing, you have to agree if you agree, and you have to agree if you don't agree, Juan'er has long been my mother-in-law!"
"You still dare to give Lao Tzu nonsense, see if I don't beat you all over the ground to find teeth......" Juan'er's father was angry, he raised the flat pole and ran towards the horse bolt, suddenly, one ran in front, one chased behind, the flat pole rose and fell behind the horse bolt like raindrops, the horse bolt hugged the head and ran away, the people in the village watched the excitement from afar, and no one stood up to stop it. People who saw what was going on gloated and added fuel to the story of the ins and outs of the incident, and a group of people whispered and laughed. People think that Ma Shu'er has gone crazy after hitting the evil spirit, and has become delirious.
Ma Bolt's mother saw Juan'er's father chasing and beating Ma Bolt from afar, grabbed a broom and brought it over, for a while, the two of them were in a mess, and the escaped Ma Bolt had nothing to do with himself, standing aside to watch the excitement. Tired, the two stopped, Juan'er's father put the flat pestle on the ground to rest, Ma Bolt'er Niang crossed her waist with one hand, held a broom in the other, and asked pantingly: "I asked you, do you want to beat my baby?"
"Why? You should first ask you, a little bastard who doesn't know the height of the sky, what is he trying to do?" Juan'er's father sighed. Ma Xuan'er said angrily: "No matter what it is, it's not right for you to beat my baby......! Tell my mother, what is the matter?"
"I said I was going to ask for a kiss, and I said to let Juan'er be my mother-in-law...... He, he went crazy......" Ma Shu'er stood still, and his words caused everyone to snicker. Ma Xuan'er was so angry that she blew her nose and glared, she jumped to her feet and scolded: "What? I said you bastard, are you really sleepy?"
"I'm sleepy, I'm awake!" argued aloud. Ma Xuan'er Niang ran over nervously and pulled him up all the way to trot, and said as she ran: "You, you...... You let me say hello...... Juan'er is gone, no one alive, no corpse dead...... I said that your evil energy is not over yet, I'm afraid I'll have to help you find a 'great god' again!"
"What's the matter? Juan'er is gone?, what happened at that time?" Ma Xuan'er gave him a blank look and replied, "Just a few days before you woke up, you suddenly disappeared...... It's wicked!"
"Really, I'm not so blind and such a beautiful mother-in-law?" Ma Xuan'er's words were full of regret. Ma Xuan'er grabbed him and warned: "Don't mention her again in the future, such an evil person...... I'm afraid I won't be able to live in peace!"
At night, Ma Xuan'er dreamed of Juan'er, Juan'er smiled at him on the mountainside, the smile was drunk at a glance, he ran up the mountainside in a hurry, roared and threw her to the ground, the two hugged each other, rolled on the grassy slope, he felt the crotch of his pants down, and woke up, he touched the crotch of his pants, and ran away. He felt unbearably hot all over his body, his heart was pounding, he rushed to the yard dam, twisted a bucket of well water and poured it over his head, and poured cold water on his body, and the temperature in his heart instantly decreased with the temperature of his body, making him feel empty. Since then, Juan'er has lived in his heart, making him uneasy, he will have trysts with her in his dreams from time to time, and he will always burn himself when he wakes up. As the days went by, he began to look forward to the darkness and to sleep. He didn't know that there was still love in the world, which was a worrying and soulless thing, he only knew that he wanted Juan'er to be his mother-in-law, and it was really comfortable to do that with her, even if it was just in a dream. He had an intuition that Juan'er was not dead, she was living in a corner, and one day, he would definitely be able to reunite with her.
Juan'er's father sat in the courtyard dam drinking soju and smoking dry tobacco, the apple trees in the courtyard dam were blown by the wind, he was distraught and recalled Ma Xuan'er's crazy words this afternoon, he suddenly knocked the dry tobacco gun on the bench. After a while, he got up and went to the house, talking to Juan'er Niang for the first time, Juan'er Niang looked at him with her mouth wide open, tears rolled down uncontrollably, these days, she has no spirit to cry, and she can't make a sound in her throat.
The next day, Juan'er's father led more than a dozen people from the Li family's family to block the gate of Ma Xuan'er's house.