Chapter 296
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We didn't know what to talk about at the time, but we remembered that Runtu was very happy, saying that after going to the city, he saw many things that he had not seen before.
On the second day I asked him to hunt birds. "It can't," he said. It has to snow heavily. We were on the sand, it was snowing, I swept out a clearing, with a short stick to erect a large bamboo plaque, scattered the grain, to see the birds come to eat, I pulled the rope tied to the stick from a distance, and the birds and finches covered under the bamboo plaque. Everything: rice pheasant, horned pheasant, partridge, blueback ......"
I was looking forward to the snow again.
Then he said to me, "It's too cold now, so you come to us in the summer." We went to the beach to pick up shells in the day, and there were both red and green, ghosts and fears, and Guanyin hands. In the evening, my father and I will take care of the four melons, and you will go too. β
"Thief?"
"It's not. The walking people are thirsty and pick a melon to eat, and we don't steal it here. It is the badger pig, the hedgehog, and the Ru to be in charge. Under the moon, you listen, the cheering is ringing, and Ru is biting melons. You pinched your fork and walked softly......"
I didn't know what it was at the time - and I don't know it now - but I felt like a puppy and fierce for no reason.
"Doesn't it bite?"
"There's a fork. When you go, you see Ru, and you stab. This beast is very clever, and it runs towards you, but it runs under its crotch. Its fur is oily and slippery......
I had no idea that there were so many new things in the world: the seashore with its multicolored shells, and the watermelon with such a dangerous experience, that I only knew it was sold in a fruit shop.
"In our sandy area, when the tide is coming, there are many jumping fish just jumping, and they all have frog-like legs......"
Ah, there are endless wonders in the heart of the earth, which my usual friends do not know. They don't know something, when the earth is on the seashore, they all see the sky at the corners of the high wall of the courtyard, just like me.
It's a pity that the first month has passed, and the leap soil must go home. I was so anxious that he hid in the kitchen, crying and refusing to go out, but was finally taken away by his father. He later asked his father to bring me a bag of shells and a few beautiful bird feathers, and I gave him something once or twice, but we never saw him again.
This is the intercalary earth. Although I knew it was leap earth at first sight, it was not the leap earth I remembered. He was doubled in stature, his round purple face had turned gray and yellow, and he was wrinkled with deep wrinkles, and his eyes were swollen red like his father's, as I know is the case with the sea breeze that blows all day long. He had a tattered felt hat on his head, a very thin cotton coat, and a paper bag and a long pipe in his hand, which were not the red round hands I remember, but thick, clumsy, and cracked, like pine bark.
I was excited, but I didn't know what to say, so I said:
"Brother Runtu,-- you're here?......
Then I had a lot of words that wanted to pour out like beads: horned chickens, jumping fish, shells, and ,...... But I always feel like I'm being blocked by something, just swirling in my head, and I can't spit out.
He stood still, a look of joy and desolation on his face, and his lips moved but he was silent. His attitude finally became respectful, and he exclaimed clearly:
"Old man......"
I seemed to shudder, and I knew that there was a patheticly thick barrier between us. I'm speechless either.
He turned around and said, "Shuisheng, kowtow to the master." Then he dragged out the child who was hiding behind him, this is exactly a leap earth twenty years ago, but he is yellow and thin, and there is no silver ring around his neck. "This is the fifth child, who has never seen the world and is dodgy......"
Mother and Hong'er came downstairs, and they probably heard the sound as well.
"Old lady. The letter was received early. I really like it, and I know that the master will come back ......," said Runtu.
"Ah, how can you be so polite? Didn't you call you brother before? Mother said happily.
"Ah, the old lady is really ...... What a rule is this? It was a child, and he was ignorant...... "Runtu said, and called the aquatic to come up and arch, but the child was shy, and stuck to his back.
"He's an aquatic person? The fifth one is a living person, and it's no wonder that he's afraid of life, or Hong'er goes for a walk with him. Mother said.
Hong'er heard this, so he came to recruit Shui Sheng, but Shui Sheng was relaxed and shuang, and went out with him all the way. His mother asked him to sit down, and he hesitated for a moment, but at last he sat down, leaned his long pipe against the table, handed over the paper bag, and said:
"There is nothing left in the winter. This dried green bean is dried there by home, please ...... it."
I asked him how he was doing. He just shook his head.
"It's very hard. The sixth child also helped, but he always didn't have enough to eat...... It's not peaceful...... There is no rule that you need money everywhere...... The harvest was bad again. When you grow something and pick it up and sell it, you always have to donate a few times and lose the cost, and if you don't sell it, you can only rot ......."
He just shook his head, and his face, though wrinkled, remained motionless, like a stone statue. He probably just felt bitter, but he couldn't describe it, and after being silent for a while, he picked up the pipe and smoked silently.
His mother asked him that he knew that he was busy with family affairs and that he would have to go back to-morrow, and that he had not had lunch, so she told him to go to the kitchen and eat fried rice by himself.
He went out, and my mother and I lamented his condition: many sons, famine, harsh taxes, soldiers, bandits, officials, gentry, all bitter like a puppeteer. My mother told me that whatever you didn't have to move, you could give it to him, and you could let him choose it himself.
In the afternoon, he picked up a few things: two long tables, four chairs, an incense burner and candlestick, and a scale. He asked for all the ashes of the grass (we cook here with straw, and the ashes can be used as fertilizer for the sand), and when we set out, he will carry them by boat.
During the night we talked about idle days, all of which were inconsequential, and the next morning he took the water back.
Nine more days passed, and the date of our departure. The earth came in the morning, and the water did not come with him, but he took only a five-year-old daughter to take care of the boat. We're so busy all day long that we don't have time to talk anymore. There are also many visitors, some see off, some take things, and some see off and take things. By the time we got on the boat in the evening, all the old house, big and small, had been swept away.
Our boat moved forward, and the green hills on both sides of the river, in the dusk, were dressed in deep colors, and retreated to the back of the boat.
Hong'er and I leaned against the window of the boat, looking at the blurred scenery outside, and he suddenly asked:
"Uncle, when are we coming back?"
"Come back, why do you want to come back before you leave? β
"However, Shui Sheng asked me to come to his house to play......" he thought with his big black eyes open.
My mother and I were also a little confused, so we brought up the leap earth again. Mother said, the second sister-in-law of Yang of the tofu Xi Shi, since my family packed up the luggage, it is necessary to go every day, the day before yesterday Yi in the ash heap, took out more than ten dishes, after the discussion, it was said that it was buried in the intercalary soil, he can move home together when the ashes are transported; Yang second sister-in-law saw this incident, she thought it was very successful, so she took the dog gas to kill (this is the equipment we raise chickens here, there is a fence on the wooden plate, which contains food, the chicken can reach into the neck to peck, but the dog can't, can only watch the anger to death), fly and run, the loss Yi pretended to be such a high bottom of the little feet, ran so fastγ (To be continued.) )