Part 1 Wolong Village Chapter 16 The love story of the old bachelor

The old bachelor Zhao Dashan drank medicine and did not succeed in seeking death, after returning from the hospital, the whole person seemed to be more wilted, the price of the whole day was like a rag bag with a lot of patches, always picking a place where no one was squatting here, leaning there, originally not seeing him smoking, at this time he smoked diligently, and a cigarette pouch did not leave his mouth. Even if someone came up and wanted to say something to him, he was always silent, just bowed his head and listened as if he had no intention of it, and from time to time he would raise his face and look at the sky and shake his head alone and sigh for a long time, which made others scratch their heads and wonder if they were saying something that made him unhappy, and he couldn't find any words that made him so unhappy after blinking his eyes and thinking about it for a long time. The old bachelor Zhao Dashan didn't care about this, and walked away quietly at this time. In fact, the people in the village also knew that he was in the middle of the air, and they all felt sorry for him, but no one could persuade him to be spacious in his heart. It's no wonder that he Zhao Dashan fell like this, for decades, every piece of land in the village has his sweat flowing down, in the middle of the annual season reincarnation, he has the mood of rising and falling, every grass and tree has his hard work, everything in the village pulls his tendons and connects his heart, and in the end he ends up in this situation, and whoever spreads it on his head, everyone will be cold.

Zhao Dashan cushioned two cold buns and drank a bowl of cold water to deal with a dinner, lit the broken oil lamp and wrapped his clothes on the bed, and then put the bag of cigarette foam from the pocket of his clothes to the earthen platform in front of the bed, and put his legs into the dirty and heavy quilt, leaned his back against the wall in front of the bed and put a nest of cigarettes, and lit the cigarette pouch with his mouth, and his whole mind was like smoke coming out of his mouth and nose. He turned his head and glanced at the earthen platform between the bedside, this earthen platform has been some years old, and he was lying on this earthen platform and reading "Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin" and those old books on the light of a bean-sized lamp, and later he also wrote slogans on this earthen platform. He couldn't help but put his hand into the belly of the earthen platform, and trembled and felt out from it the set of scorched and scorched "Three Kingdoms" that was bitten by rats. He carefully put the "Three Kingdoms" in his hand in front of him and looked at it for a long time, Dongwu recruited relatives, Zhou Yu lost his wife and broke his army, but he complained that Zhou Yu was arrogant, and he was smart but was mistaken by cleverness. In "Three Kingdoms", the most scheming is not Zhuge Liang, but Sima Yi, although Zhuge Liang is shown as magical in many dramas, but in the end he failed to receive a piece of the country under his own door like Sima Yi. Zhuge Liang's wisdom is for the world, and Sima Yi's wisdom is for their own family. This person, hey, no one to talk about, his own life, can be regarded as ruined to "Three Kingdoms". If I hadn't read "Three Kingdoms" at the beginning, I wouldn't have had any "learning", I wouldn't have written those slogans, I wouldn't have looked at the situation in the village at that time and wrote those four-character sentences, I wouldn't have brought those disasters to myself, and I wouldn't have fallen to the point where I am today. How many times have I sworn that I will never watch "Three Kingdoms" again, and how many times I have gritted my teeth and wanted to burn "Three Kingdoms", but not only was I reluctant to burn this set of "Three Kingdoms", I really burned this set of "Three Kingdoms", and Xia Jing's photos had no place to hide.

This is a photo that is already very charred and looks like it can be broken with a shake, but the smile of the delicate girl named Xia Jing from Shanghai with two braids is still so sweet. Zhao Dashan looked at Xia Jing on the photo carefully by the lamplight, as if he heard Xia Jing's crisp and beautiful laughter again. This person is all fate, and he has not heard from him for almost 30 years. He looked at Xia Jing in the photo, he didn't feel that his nose was sour, and his eyes were hot. After so many years, he waited and waited in his soul and dreams, and finally waited for an empty time, who was playing tricks on himself! The more he pondered, the more things in the past dangled in front of him like a movie. Gradually, his eyes blurred, and his throat was choked. He glanced at Xia Jing on the photo again, and estimated that she should be a grandmother, but I don't know if I still remember this person in this village.

After Zhao Dashan was pulled out by Zhao Liuyou for the second time, he was still unconvinced in his heart, and always thought that he had nothing to do, but despite this, he was still pushed around and criticized for a while. He held his breath in his heart, and poured a heavy rain, and the whole person fell ill all of a sudden, and the fever never subsided, and he almost went to see the king of Yama before he came back on parole. Before the people arrived at the village, they heard that the woman left her child and went out with a celebrity to make some sports before the "Siqing". Since then, Zhao Dashan has been living with a three-year-old child, although life is not countable, but he has a child under his knees, and his heart is hopeful, and it can be regarded as down-to-earth. But no one expected that Zhao Dashan's son had a short life, and he couldn't stand up for a sudden illness in six or eight years. Zhao Dashan cried to death, but in the end he couldn't bring his son back to life. The woman is gone, the son is gone, Zhao Dashan feels that there is really nothing to count on, so he imitates the four-character sentence of "Chai Sangkou Wolong Hanging Filial Piety" in "Three Kingdoms" and sends a summary - "Woo hoo sky, my heart is uneven, I am single, let you toss! Young and ignorant, I can't help but instigate." Bold words, blood boiling. Scramble to be the first, desperate every day. Confused, head blue egg swollen. The barn and stables are fought every day. The head is shaved yin and yang, not ghosts and beasts. Trembling is better than sickness. It's like singing, but it's actually a dream. It's hard for the public, but it's okay for donkey bears. Live to suffer, live to suffer. Whoever doesn't want to die hasn't had enough. lost his wife and children, and did not rush. For a long time, if you don't die, you will be thin. Once they die, they all come to an end. ”

After sending this emotion, he wiped his tears in the middle of the night and went to throw the water of the Sang River. As soon as he arrived on the bank of the Mulberry River, before he could go into the water, he heard someone crying quietly under the riverbank, and when he listened carefully, it was still a woman. He wiped his tears and listened carefully for a while, it turned out that this woman was also here to find a short meeting. He didn't expect that there would be people in this world who would go to that world with him. He walked into the woman, and it turned out to be Xia Jing, a decentralized educated youth from Shanghai. Xia Jing has a bad background, her heart is not right, and her family is now a labor camp of labor reeducation, and the decentralization is scattered. In these days of decentralization, she gradually felt physically and mentally exhausted, and she couldn't see what hope lay ahead, so she ran to the bank of the San River in the middle of the night to seek relief. It's just that she didn't expect to meet Zhao Dashan at this time in this place.

may be a lament for life, Zhao Dashan no longer has the idea of seeking death, but stepped forward to persuade Xia Jing to live bravely. The two men sat down on the banks of the Mulberry and said a great deal of things, and at last neither of them jumped into the Mulberry River, but returned to the stockade together. In the future labor and production, Zhao Dashan knew that Xia Jing was a girl with a weak family, and she came from a big place, so she couldn't bear the work on the land, so she always secretly helped her. Xia Jing can also see that Zhao Dashan is a reliable man, although he has a wife and children, after all, he is a single person now. Although Zhao Dashan has no culture, he can talk about "Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin", and sometimes use the stories in "Three Kingdoms" and "Water Margin" to talk about many things at the moment. After finishing work and eating at night, she couldn't sleep well, so she often went to Zhao Dashan to listen to Zhao Dashan tell her about "Three Kingdoms" and "Water Margin", and gradually, the hearts of the two people got closer. In private, the two of them have been warm for nearly two years, and they are about to invite a few guests to eat candy and drink wine, and the two of them move together to eat and live, and an urgent telegram came from Shanghai, so that Xia Jing hurried back to Shanghai. Xia Jing hurriedly packed two clothes and returned to Shanghai. Before leaving, she repeatedly told Zhao Dashan to wait for her to come back. However, I don't know what happened to Xia Jing after she returned to Shanghai, and there was no news since she went, not even half of the letter. Some people say that it is probably Xia Jing who was implicated by her family and has a big problem, and some people say that it may be that Xia Jing went back to find a good job and is never willing to go back to this village, anyway, people say everything. However, Zhao Dashan still remembered Xia Jing's words before leaving, and waited for her to come back. Year after year, the geese in the sky went and came, came and went, and the leaves also fell, and Zhao Dashan still couldn't look forward to Xia Jing after all. There were enthusiastic people in the village who persuaded Zhao Dashan, saying that it was not a way to wait like this, and to pick up a person to enter the door while he was young. But Zhao Dashan kept shaking his head, and he pulled it up to now, and it was still a lone rod of light strips.

Zhao Dashan choked and cried for a while, and couldn't help but look up and look out the window. There was a bright spot outside the window, and at this time he seemed to remember that the month was halfway through again. Such a piece of white flowers under the moon, I don't know what, suddenly reflected the scene of Zhao Dashan when he was a child in front of his eyes. At that time, every moonlit night like this, the children of the whole village would gather together, and they would be crazy like bees. However, he doesn't like to be noisy with the children, and is always used to quietly watching other children jump up and down as if they were taking mad medicine. At this time, Zhang Lao Donkey's sister Yuzhi would always silently accompany Zhao Dashan to watch other children make noise next to him, and from time to time he would also accompany Zhao Dashan to watch the children who turned their heels into a nest and laughed. Thinking of this, Zhao Dashan couldn't help but rub his tears and smiled bitterly, carefully put the "Three Kingdoms" in his hand back into his stomach under the earthen platform, and couldn't help but tear off the quilt on his legs, slowly twisted his buttocks and kicked his feet on the ground to the shoes on the ground, bit the cigarette pouch in his mouth, and went out with the door.

The Mulberry River in the moonlight really looks like a sleeping dragon, and the moonlight that leaks between the leaves on both sides of the river is cast on the river, and after the wind passes, the moonlight spots shine on the water, much like the glittering dragon scales. There are two legends about the Mulberry River, one is that the old man of the fairy asked him to plant a mulberry tree, and the branches of the mulberry tree fell to the ground. Another theory is that the Sang River was not called the Sang River a long time ago, but the Wolong River. It was about the time of the Tang Dynasty, and there was a big flood in this land, and this flood did not recede for three years. In order to control the water, the Tang government sent an official surnamed Sang to the land. The official, surnamed Sang, sat on a raft and repeatedly looked at the water situation, and inquired in detail about the surrounding river conditions, so he led people to widen the course of the Wolong River from the downstream, and the flood soon became weak. After the flood waters slowly receded, the official, surnamed Sang, feared that there would be such a big flood in the future, so he led people on both sides of the river to spend more than three years deepening the river's bed and widening it from top to bottom. For more than three years, the official, surnamed Sang, stayed on the bank of the river all day long, lest the river channel was not wide enough or the riverbed was not deep enough, and he never went home to take a look. When the whole project was completed, and the autumn of another year came, he looked at the wild geese returning to the south in the sky, and couldn't help but sigh, and then he gave birth to two wings and flew away like a wild goose. Later, in order to commemorate the official surnamed Sang, the river was renamed the San River. Perhaps people are unwilling to give up the auspicious name of "Wolong", so they call this village Wolong Village. In fact, some people say that as long as you walk along the Sang River, there are more villages called "Wolong Village" on both sides of the Mulberry River, even if it is not a village of any village, it will be called "Wolong Village" or "Wolong Village", this Wolong Village is also one of the many "Wolong", which is not special. No matter what this river says, this river is a river that flows through the homeland, and it is a river that has nourished the homeland for I don't know how many years. After he just learned to swim, he often followed Zhang Lao Donkey and Ma Guohai along the river to dig crabs and touch shrimp, and Yuzhi often followed, two thin and yellow pigtails tied with two colored rags, and shook them behind their heads, like butterflies flying in the fields. Although the Yuzhi people are thin and shabby, they look very aura. Zhao Dashan looked at the sparkling waves flashing on the surface of the river, and the scene of catching fish and shrimp when he was a child suddenly seemed to have just happened in front of him. Decades have passed, and many things will never be forgotten in this life!

Now is the season of rising water, the water in the upper reaches is sufficient, at this time of year will be vigorously put down, the whole San River is supplied like a full duck, in such a breezy and moonlit night slowly flowing, the river water makes a gurgling sound, if you are not familiar with the San River, you will not hear this kind sound.

Zhao Dashan looked at the flickering scales of the river, and listened to the sound of flowing water, and suddenly thought of his father again. When my father was alive, every season I always liked to come here on such a night to see the scales of the river and listen to the sound of running water. My father said that he loved to see the moonlight on the river and to listen to the sound of the river flowing in the moonlight. My father is also a literati with half a bottle of vinegar, and at this time, he will also chant something to the river, "The willow bank is dawning and the moon is waning". Perhaps under the influence of his father, he gradually fell in love with the moonlight like the river and the sound of the river flowing under the moonlight. At that time, Yuzhi always liked to sneak out of the house to accompany herself to watch the moonlight full of the river and listen to the sound of the river flowing under the moonlight. At that time, I walked around the furnace of steelmaking all day long, and at the end of the day, I felt as if I was about to fall apart, and when I came out at night to look at the moonlight like the river, and listened to the sound of running water, I felt relieved. With Yuzhi by her side, the scales of the river are like a well-fed lamb, jumping up and down to look cheerful, and the sound of bubbling water is like the laughter of Yuzhi beside her, which makes people feel that they have drunk two taels of honey water. Although he also knew that Yuzhi had ordered a doll for her Lao Tzu, he still believed that there would be a good result. This person, many times, because he is too confident, it is easy to fall behind. Zhou Yu in "Three Kingdoms" was too confident, thinking that he was the number one great character in the world, but what happened? If a person makes such a trip in this world, he may be planted in someone's hands. I have really planted it in my life, and I can't get up anymore.

People of a little age in the village know that he Zhao Dashan and Yuzhi were so affectionate back then, I am afraid that no one can tear them apart, but later Yuzhi still cried and married the doll son-in-law that her father ordered for her. At that time in Zhao Dashan, the anxious person lost weight several times, and looked at the place where Yuzhi married all day long. Zhao Dashan's mother and his sister looked at Zhao Dashan like that, their hearts were in a panic, and they persuaded back and forth endlessly, and finally Zhao Dashan's heart relaxed a little. Who knew that Yuzhi married a short-lived ghost, and after three years of famine, she couldn't survive it, so she left with a bang. When Zhao Dashan got the news, his heart rose with hope again, and he was busy asking someone to talk from the middle, thinking that he could bring the two people together. At that time, he didn't expect that Yuzhi was already dead, and Zhao Dashan entrusted several enthusiastic mothers-in-law to turn her around. Zhao Dashan had no place to complain about the bitterness in his stomach, and he worked hard in the production team all day long, so that he could be tired and no longer think about anything. It wasn't until "Siqing" that he hurriedly picked up a woman who had fled to the village from nowhere, and made do with the life of a woman. Within a few days of the stable days, Zhao Liuyou, a figure of their Zhao family, came out and fought. Let's fight, no matter what you say, the woman who picked it up still gave birth to a son for him, and there is always hope in his heart, and it is nothing to be wronged. But he didn't expect that after Zhao Liuyou was pulled out for the second time, the woman left her son and followed others alone. Later, his son was gone, and his whole body was empty all at once. was originally going to die, but it happened to be with Xia Jing, a decentralized educated youth from Shanghai. The empty people felt a little steady, and there was no news as soon as Xia Jing left. In this way, he waited endlessly and waited endlessly to get to the current situation.

Zhao Dashan walked slowly along the Sang River, and the old cloth shirt on his body shook twice by the gust of wind blowing in front of him, and fanned out two very thick and sour smells of sweat. However, this kind of sweat sour smell is already used to him Zhao Dashan, and he can't feel anything awkward, and sometimes he even feels that he feels comfortable smelling the sour smell of sweat on his body. If you don't have such a sour smell of sweat on your body, maybe you will mumble in your heart if someone has sewn and washed yourself, and you will make yourself think about those things in the past. However, he didn't know what was going on tonight, he felt that the sour smell of sweat on his body was really not a taste, and the old cloth shirt on his body should have been changed and washed a long time ago, if there was a woman next to him, why would he not wear the clothes on his body like this, soaked back and forth with sweat, dried and soaked, as if he had pasted several layers of rice paste. Whether it is Yuzhi, or the woman who picked it up, or even Xia Jing, as long as one of them guards his life, his clothes will definitely be as clean as others are dressed, and the two pairs of quilts on his bed, how can he not be dismantled and washed once for many years! This person, no matter which step he takes, it will be retribution. Since ancient times, the master who shaves his head does not donate food or taxes, and travels all over the world with a load, but he was dizzy for a while in five or eight years, and smashed Ma Lao's shaving pot to make steel. At that time, Ma Lao picked him and was out of power, and he was standing on his Ma Lao pick's head and peeing along the back of his Ma Lao's pick!

The wheat that was about to ripen in the wilderness swished in the golden moonlight with the gentle wind, and the insects in the field stopped singing abruptly because of Zhao Dashan's approach, and as Zhao Dashan left, he released his throat behind him, and the singing competition was even more joyful. At the beginning, Yuzhi often accompanied herself back and forth on the banks of the Mulberry River on such nights, and many times the two of them would make a detour to the ruins of the temple on the other side of the river to make a wish. Today, it is still such a moonlit night, but it is not the same as it used to be, the San River is still there, the temple ruins on the other side of the river are still there, but those wishes are no longer there. There is only one lonely figure who is still there, and only the memory that remains in my heart. What are people living in this life?

The old bachelor Zhao Dashan walked back and forth on the bank of the Sang River without a goal, and muttered back and forth in his heart, until the moon was about to land, he still didn't want to go back to the village, and he didn't want to go back to the home in the village that was not called home at all.