Chapter 20: The Bachelor and the Widow
Thirty years ago, four babies born on the same day, same month, and same year caused a sensation in the town of Bridgeside. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info a blind man said that these four children are too rushing, and they will work together in the future.
It was a magic stick with a cane and sunglasses, like Wong Kar-wai, and when I recalled my childhood, the color tone was also Wong Kar-wai's movie style, and everyone pretended to read the lines with a straight face.
The town has a very literary tone, some people are in the canal in the middle of the night, and some people are secretly Chen Cang on the mahjong table, if the folk customs are just its appearance, then the word ** is used to describe the town is very suitable. There are all the stories of bad customs in the world's famous novels, such as freak love, wild cooperation, and dusting......
He also said that on the night we were born, he watched the stars at night, and he violated Wenchang, which meant that the literati would suffer. It is said that among these four children, some of whom will become literati in the future, will have bad luck; If there is someone who can learn a craft, he will definitely be able to become a great tool.
Later, I thought about it, in which era did the literati have had good luck, except for the literati of the Song Dynasty, who were so idle that they often held parties and chanted poems, which of the literati of all dynasties and dynasties were not made to die and live, and people were not ghosts or ghosts.
Even if Zhao Kuangyin of the Song Dynasty decided not to kill scholars, in order to unify the caliber and ideology, Song Gaozong did not kill Chen Dong and Ouyang Che and others, it was like killing dogs.
I never believe in the eight characters and constellations, and it doesn't make sense to explain them with constellations and eight characters, how can four people born in the same year, the same month, and the same day have such a different personality?
Brother Mei gave an explanation, saying that the time was uneven.
Later, Lu Zejun told me that in fact, the four of us are too similar, we are all double people, divided and forced, and we are all hiding the other side as if we want to die.
However, we ignore the gossip that bewitches the public, and the four of them grow ferociously on a sunny day, all over the town, and the age of evil boys comes.
Later, the four evil boys grew up and vowed to go to BJ to break into the world, and after several twists and turns, they realized their dream of drifting north.
Eight years after drifting north, when I had everything to take root in BJ, I suddenly became confused and thought of returning, so I returned to the place where the oath was born and decided to seal BJ in my memory forever.
I always thought that my small and fresh hometown would give me more inspiration for writing than the muddy and noisy BJ, but the reality gave me two resounding slaps.
Some people say that sex is a ritual for men to return to the **, so returning to their hometown is a ritual for human beings to find their roots and ask their ancestors, and it should be with a strong sense of satisfaction. However, I had to relive my childhood nightmare and face a demon who had followed our soul for twenty years.
Twenty years ago, this demon took away Yoon Deok-gi's sister and a pair of twins, and made his childhood and the town's rituals come to naught amid rumors of mountain gods and water ghosts.
The night I returned to town, the demon woke up and stretched out his hand to Wenwu's daughter, who not only kidnapped an innocent girl, but also disturbed the nightmare that had haunted me for twenty years.
Psychology professor Dave? Miles once wrote a book called "Intuition", in which he declared that intuition is mysterious, it is not a common trick of witches and gods, it is a sudden bright light in the soul, it is the creative inspiration of artists and inventors, and it is the magic of cooking.
Intuition is an innate and peculiar function for me, a person who writes, and when I reconnect with the old things of my childhood, my body and soul, this intuition flows like an electric current, concrete and vivid.
I could feel the demon's evil aura and his unstoppable sneer, he was secretly showing off, and I was destined to confront him and learn about the years of grudges.
Although I can't find the slightest clue or evidence to find this person, my subconscious tells me that he or she is in the town, cowering behind the fog in the darkness and peeping.
In order to awaken the memories of my slumber, I went to the elementary school where I had attended. This place is full of the past, like the ** of thinking, which gave birth to the memories of our youth.
The first primary school in Qiaobian Town is located on the east side of the town, it seems that the feng shui is not very good, and after the repair was settled, there were incidents of teachers jumping off the building to drink pesticides.
The school broke ground and dug up a black coffin, and several Taoist priests babbled and screamed wildly for a few days before things calmed down.
Although the feng shui is not very good, but a small always produces all kinds of wizards, what province in the primary school Olympiad champion is a small every year, we are very stained.
Although it is small, the rivers and lakes are full of weather. In addition to the F4 more popular, there are also various gangs. It's just that no one dares to move F4, first, because we are united; second, because the four of us fight violently, and others can't afford to provoke us; The third reason is that my father and Geng Hao's father are still influential in the town, so naturally they can't rely on this power to be domineering.
Although F4 is domineering, it stresses the rules of the rivers and lakes, in line with the purpose of promoting good and eliminating evil, never bullying the weak, and taking it as its own responsibility to eliminate violence and uphold justice.
After the fat man Zhang Bing was taught a lesson by us, he had been depressed for a long time and waited for an opportunity to retaliate.
One day, he used two White Rabbit toffee to buy off a thug named Song Jingang in the senior class, and stopped F4 on the road, wanting to take revenge.
Song Jingang was tall, thin and thin like a bamboo pole, and his tyrannosaurus-like buckteeth were unconvinced to show out of his mouth, which made people want to beat him all when they saw it.
Song Jingang often bullied his junior classmates, which provided us with legitimacy to clean him up.
So, we worked together to beat Song Jingang into a Transformer, and from then on, Zhang Bing no longer dared to trouble us, and every time he met us on the road, he could only slip away.
F4, who is not afraid of heaven and earth, is only afraid of one person - eight large blocks.
Eight large blocks are a bachelor who lives alone by the Yi River. The question of why not call it seven or nine has always puzzled me.
Later, I learned that he was ranked eighth, and several other siblings starved to death in the fifties and sixties of the 20th century, and in the end he was left alone, and his wife did not get it.
Ba Da lived in a crumbling mud house, and the leaders of the town had negotiated with him many times to let him repair the mud house, and were even willing to pay half of the repair fee, because once the earth wall collapsed, people would die, and the government could not afford to lose face.
The eight big blocks are not cultivated, and outsiders are helpless.
Most of the townspeople shy away from the Eight Blocks, who were withdrawn and cold, and whose face was like a mossy rock, and could not bear to take a second look.
His face was burned, but we don't know how.
At that time, it was said that the eight large pieces were specially eaten for children, or steamed and dipped in Pi/county watercress to eat, starting from the head first, and the unfinished ones were salted and slowly eaten in the jar, so that we were convinced of this.
When a child cries and is disobedient, the parents will say, "If you are disobedient again, the eight big pieces will come to arrest you." When the child heard this, he immediately stopped crying, which was very effective.
When I returned to town, eight large blocks of old houses had already been bulldozed and commercial buildings were built. He didn't live in the house he was given, so he built a wooden house in the mountains and lived in seclusion.
After Wenwu's daughter went missing, I talked to Yoon Deok-gi about my thoughts.
Yin Deji told me about the eight big pieces and asked me if this person would do it.
The population of the town is not large, and because many young people go out to work, most of the three or four hundred left behind are middle-aged and elderly people and left-behind children. Although Ba Da Chung is suspicious, there is no evidence pointing to him.
In order to find out the past of the eight large pieces, I found Uncle Zhou.
Uncle Zhou told me that Ba Da Chung turned out to be a capable and handsome young man. At that time, the people's communes were vigorously pursued, and one was one and two publics, one level and two adjustments.
The identity of the eight blocks is the landlord, in order to make up for the merits, the eight blocks in their teens work very hard and can be a strong man.
One year when the river dried up and there was no water to water the crops, someone thought of the biogas digester at the west entrance of the town. However, no one knew the depth of the digester, so they arranged for a person to go down and see it.
But no one went down to look, and the mayor said, who went down to see Chairman Mao to bless him, but it was useless, and no one went down to watch.
Eight large blocks volunteered, and went down to the biogas digester with torches, and the open flame ignited the biogas, only to hear a loud bang, followed by the screams of eight large blocks.
When they carried him out, he was breathing weakly and almost couldn't hold on.
When he was sent to the hospital, the doctor said that it was a "black five category", and if he was not rescued, he was thrown in the corridor to die.
Unexpectedly, he miraculously came back to life the next day, and the doctor gave him several injections of antibiotics, and he was discharged from the hospital within a few days.
His face was burned, his former handsome appearance was no longer there, and no one wanted to talk to him who was not born well.
Uncle Zhou said: "The eighth is a poor person, at that time, your grandfather and I were also beaten into a capitalist faction, and we were criticized with him, I don't want to talk about those things, it's so painful, hey!" ”
I said, "I'd like to visit him." ”
Zhou Bo saw my thoughts and said, "Do you think he is suspicious?" We've visited and haven't asked anything. Xiaoyu, don't be confused by the surface of things, Ba Da is single, and people are also weird, but it is also caused by the environment, he has suffered a lot, and he is kind in his heart. ”
"There are many facets, and besides, he had no witnesses to prove his alibi at the time of the crime."
Zhou Bo thought for a while and said helplessly: "This case is really a headless case, we don't have a clue at all." ”
"Didn't anyone on the street spot any suspicious people at that time?" I asked.
"It was past 10 o'clock in the evening, and everyone was asleep in the house, and there was no one else. Our small place can't compare with BJ, just that group of young people drink some night beer, and usually no one has a night life. Hey, this case is hanging again. ”
Uncle Zhou's speech is often rambling, and he can't get to the point, let alone any detective ability.
Over the years in Qiaobian Town, the biggest case he has handled is to recover the lost old sow of Widow Ye's family, which was found under the leadership of Widow Ye's dog Da Mao, for which he was proud for half a year.
Widow Ye reciprocated the favor and gave the family's inventory, a bottle of Wuliangye that had been hidden in the snow for more than ten years, to Uncle Zhou, and he couldn't close his mouth with a smile.
Uncle Zhou's words are not unreasonable, think about it, no one has a motive to commit a crime, it seems that everyone has a motive to commit a crime.
For example, this widow Ye, her husband liked to fight weasels when he was young, and he carried a gun to the mountains to fight weasels every night.
As a result, he didn't come back one day, and when he was found, he had a big blood hole in his head and was shot in the head by his own gun. Some people say that he sinned against the mountain god and was punished. Later, guns and hunting were banned, and no one did this kind of thing anymore.
Sexually repressed, stealing...... Widows are endowed with the aesthetic prejudice of male power in literary works, and widows in their twenties do not understand emptiness, loneliness, and coldness, and widows do have a lot to do.
Widows are often portrayed as seductive, coquettish, and amorous. But I'm sorry, as much as I think it's morally reprehensible to say that a woman is ugly, we, the leaf widow, are really ugly.
There was once a child who saw everyone who was naturally familiar with everyone and was hugged and teased by adults without crying, and as soon as he got into the hands of Widow Ye, he immediately cried so much that he was so scared that he peed.
Her husband was sad when he didn't see her, dug a pit and buried the matter, and said: "Lao Tzu knows that sooner or later this turtle son will die, deserve!" ”
Ye Widow has no queen, but she loves children. Every time I see a child on the street, I have to smile and go over to ask for warmth, of course, the child is not sensible, and is often so frightened that he runs away and shouts "the wolf is coming".
From a psychological point of view alone, she and the eight major blocks all have certain personality traits that commit crimes. However, this kind of simple theoretical analysis is completely useless, and at most it plays an auxiliary role in the specific criminal investigation process, and everything is empty talk without solid evidence.
A week passed, and the police did not find anything of value. At first, they investigated the child abduction and trafficking case, and my intuition always hinted to me that they were completely on the opposite path.
As soon as I returned to my long-lost hometown, I encountered this kind of thing, and my heart was so troubled that I couldn't sleep.
At night, the night is boundless, and the sound of autumn is infinite. Twenty years of time are like a white horse passing through a gap, the heaven and the earth are yellow, the universe is desolate, no matter how high our ambitions are, this rapidly decaying world does not bother to remember the names of whomever and whom.
Turn on the computer and pull out the old photo, which was the first photo we took after gathering at BJ: on the Great Wall, F4 squatting in front, military enthusiast Mei Ge wrapped his face around his face with a scarf and pretended to be a terrorist with a trekking pole and AK47 to execute us.
Seeing the childishness, innocence and fearlessness of life on the faces of those people in the photos, I felt a burst of warmth.
We are not powerful people, nor are we freaks with special abilities who can move objects and break boulders in the chest, we are just a group of ordinary people who pursue freedom, love and ideals, we have been crazy, loved, cried, and hurt in BJ, and lived the feeling and life we wanted, and our lives have that memory, which is enough.
Although the body has left BJ, it is not so easy to cut off all kinds of connections with that city.