Chapter 62: Liu Marriage's Red Pants
Liu Laozhuan and his wife are bent on Wang Lin, but they can't control the affairs of the fertilizer factory, and the status of Liu Xiangzhi's workers fluctuates. The other day it was said that it was going to be decentralized. Liu Laozhuan and his family were anxious. Coupled with Xing Er's blind date, they were afraid of getting a chicken and an egg. Wang Lin couldn't stammer, and Xing Er's head also fell short. Looking at the scene of Xing Er's blind date, if it weren't for the two in-laws to stir up the situation, the family affair would have to be successful. The two also heard that Xing Er became the section chief. That's when the fuss started. As soon as the blind date mother and daughter left, Liu Yanzhi then slipped into Xing's house and reconciled with Xing Er. still stayed at Xing's house, and finally stabilized Xing Er and kept the Xing family. I never thought that the fertilizer factory would merge with the city organic amine factory, Liu Xianzhi unexpectedly kept the status of a worker, Wang Lin also made progress, and Wang Lin's parents wanted to come to the marriage fat house to have a look. The name of blind date in the city is different from that in the countryside. Blind dates in rural areas are directly called blind dates, and blind dates in the city are called blind dates. If you can, you'll be in a relationship. No, it's still an ordinary friend.
When Wang Lin's parents and Wang Lin rode two bicycles to Liu Xianzhi's house, Liu Laozhuan and his family cleaned the house a day in advance. Chickens, ducks and geese are all confined all day, locked in cages and not released, afraid that they don't know what to do and in the yard. Especially the Chengli people, wearing leather shoes on their feet, polishing them brightly, one foot on a puddle of, sticky to the soles of their shoes, and a lot of them on the uppers. To be more deflated, how deflated. Wipe it down, it's too hygienic, not respectful enough for the owner, don't wipe it, it's really a little disgusting. Rural people are used to feeding chickens, and when they walk in the yard, they look at the ground in addition to the smiling face of the owner. Generally, you can't step on. The people in the city have no experience with this. After entering the farmhouse, I patronized the scenery in the courtyard, and I didn't know that I had to take care of my feet, and nine times out of ten I had to be hit. In order to avoid this embarrassing situation, Liu Laozhuan instructed his wife not to scatter chickens, ducks and geese. Put some sticks in their respective cages and let them poop themselves. {Cob is a colloquial name for corn β author's note}
Liu Laozhuan welcomed Wang Lin's parents into the house with a smile on their faces. The host sat down, made tea to entertain the guests, and found that there were not many cigarettes in the box when he toasted the cigarettes, which was half a box of cigarettes left over from the last Xing Er's marriage, and he immediately instructed the marriage: "Go and buy a box of cigarettes, don't buy a goldfish for a dime, buy a big golden deer for three cents and one hair." β
Marriage fat nodded out of the house, pushed the bicycle to the supply and marketing cooperatives to buy cigarettes, Wang Lin saw that the parents of both sides were listening to each other's details, and couldn't interject. walked out of the main house of the Liu family, while looking at the scenery, and paced to the small north house on the side of the wall between Xing and Liu's two families. This is Liu Xianzhi's leap room, and the small windows of this house are made of old-fashioned window lattices, and the inside is pasted with wool paper, and the inside and outside are opaque and cannot see each other. Wang Lin entered the house, pushed the door with his hand, and closed it with only a small crack. Inside the room by the window was a three-drawer table with a mirror, a wooden comb, alabaster, and a box of marital cream. There are kerosene lamps and matches on the windowsill, in addition. There is also a novel on the table, <> is about the love story of the Hero of the Soviet Union Paul Kochagin and his girlfriend Tonya. Wang Lin picked up the book, sat on the chair in front of the table, and read the novel intentionally or unintentionally.
Liu Xianzhi came back from buying cigarettes, and as soon as she pushed the cart into the house, she saw Xing Er lying on the wall, gesturing to her with her hand, telling her to come to the root of the wall, and pointing to the sky from time to time.
Liu Xianzhi didn't know what Xing Er was doing, so he put his bicycle at the door of the north house and didn't bother to enter the house. Coming to the partition wall first, Xing Er whispered to her: "The jet plane in the sky is flying really high, look at the white smoke it pulls is really straight." β
Liu Xianzhi raised his head and looked in the direction of Xing Er's finger, there was indeed a jet plane in the sky, dragging a long white smoke in the very high sky, flying straight forward. The plane glowed white and shiny.
Xing Er beckoned the marriage fat to the wall, took out a bag of things from behind and handed it to her, and instructed mysteriously: "Speak quietly, and don't let outsiders hear." This is your red pants, which fell on my kang a few days ago, and you are too, the black light is blind and does not light the light, and you wear my pants by mistake, don't you think it is a little big on your body? It's only been a day since I put on your red pants, and my bottom is red and swollen, which is really embarrassing. β
Liu Xianzhi looked at no one around, so he lowered his voice and replied softly: "Didn't you touch the match at that time?" β
Xing Er said: "I'll wash and dry your red pants for you, wrap them in newspaper and return them to you, don't let people see them." And won't my pants hang on the windowsill behind you? Throw it at me. β
Liu Xianzhi took the pants handed over by Xing Er, and threw Xing Er's pants to him. didn't want to stick it all on Xing Er's face at once, Xing Er dodged his pants, his body flashed, but the chair under his feet was tilted to the side, and he sat on the ground with one back. Involuntarily screamed, this cry alarmed Liu Marriage Fat and her mother, she came out of the house to look at the partition wall, no one, and then look at the marriage fat, is walking from the side of the partition wall to the door of the main house, seeing that her daughter's face is a little panicked, she glanced at her, took the two boxes of cigarettes handed over by Marriage Fat, and turned back to the main house.
Liu Xiangzhi pushed open the door of her room, startled, Wang Lin fell asleep on her window table. She entered the room lightly, first tucking the newspaper-wrapped pants in her hand under the folded red quilt. He turned around and took a padded jacket and gently draped it on Wang Lin. Then he walked out of the house. Slowly close the door. When her footsteps walked away, Wang Lin got up and came to the bed, reached out and took out the thing from under the red quilt and stuffed it into it, Xing Er said it was good just now, and there was really a red pants in the paper. He put his things away as they were, and no longer pretended to be asleep, but walked to the main house, urging his parents to leave early.
Her mother-in-law said enthusiastically: "Virtuous nephew, you come often, it doesn't matter if you eat or not, as soon as your parents come back, they will always have lunch and then leave?" Although the food cooked by the countrymen is not as delicious as the food cooked in the city restaurants, let's make do with a face. β
Wang Lin's parents were also farmers, but they came out to work when they practiced steel, and gradually turned from farmers to workers. They understand the countryside and do not dislike the hot kang heads of the farmers. Wang Lin saw that his mother insisted on staying for lunch, and he was very helpless, so Xing Er had a conversation with his wife, but he couldn't tell his mother directly. Wang Lin has been cowardly by nature since he was a child, no matter how big or small things are, he is his mother's master. As the years go by, they form habits. He's used to snuggling up to his mother since he was a child, and he's obedient to his mother's words. He has the appearance of a woman, no wonder Duo'er said that he is a hypochondriac sissy, and even walks lightly. He gave up the idea of leaving, sat down next to his mother, and said no more.
Seeing that Wang Lin was so obedient, Liu Laozhuan was happy in his heart. Who doesn't love an obedient donkey? During the meal, Mr. and Mrs. Liu kept putting meat in the bowl for Wang Lin. Wang Lin's parents naturally praised the marriage fat a few words, and the hearts of the two of them were happy. After dinner, chatting outside the house, Wang Lin took an opportunity to report to his mother about Xing Er's red pants for his wife. Wang Lin, who was angry at the time, had a pale face and a crooked nose. Without saying a word, he took Wang Lin's hand, greeted Wang Lin's father, who was in the courtyard with Liu Lao, and went out to push the bicycle and leave. I didn't even say hello. Wang Lin and his father hurriedly said two words of thanks. Push the bicycle and follow behind his wife. When she got out of the village, Wang Lin's mother told her husband about the marriage fat and Xing Erhong's pants on the bicycle. Wang Lin's father didn't say anything, just smiled slightly. No comments were made. I don't feel emotional. Wang Lin's mother reached out in the back seat and pinched the man's back, and scolded him with a smile: "Dead wood".
The attitude of Wang Lin's family of three changed suddenly, of course, they couldn't hide it from the eyes of the old couple of the Liu family. After the family left. Liu Lao was in a hurry to water the wheat. If you don't water the wheat today, once the next family starts watering, your family will give up the right to water the wheat this time. If you want to cut in the queue again, it is more difficult than heaven. At noon this day, because there were important guests at home, he didn't go to water the ground, he told the next family that there was not much water in the well, and the water was long, and he would open the pump to water more at a time to save some electricity. The next family reluctantly agreed. A child's blind date is a top priority, and it is understandable to delay it for half a day. So as soon as the guests left in the afternoon, Liu Laozhuan carried the iron milling and hurriedly went to his own two-and-a-half-acre wheat land. The next family waited there, and in order to snatch back the time he had lost this morning, he just brought some dry food for dinner, nibbled on a few bites, and made up a meal. And do not go home to enjoy hot soup and hot rice. After he walked out of the house, Liu Marriage Fat was also going to Shangban, her mother was anxious to find out why Wang Lin's three people suddenly changed their faces, and when Marriage Fat handed Xing Er red pants, it was estimated that Wang Lin heard their conversation in the house, and simply recounted it to her mother. After the in-law figured out the reason for the relationship, she gritted her teeth angrily. She concluded that Xing Er was deliberately stirring up the situation. is a trick-or-treat, a typical person who can't get along with the Liu family. We must not let this matter go unchecked, and we must fight back. Otherwise, this Xing Er would definitely step on his nose and face, becoming more and more rampant. This matter is very important, and it is directly related to the lifelong happiness of my daughter. It seems that Xing Er's toss and marriage have to blow the lamp and pull out the wax. also blamed her daughter for not acting carefully, and she didn't wipe her mouth after eating shrimp paste, which caused so much trouble. Originally, Xing Er didn't get along on a blind date last time, and before that incident passed, Xing Er would definitely wait for an opportunity to retaliate. This is inevitable, and he can't prevent it, but he grabbed his tail. If I change it, this revenge will not be avenged. That Xing Er suffered a secret loss, how could he give up? The in-law said fiercely in her heart: "Okay, three or two bottles." I'll get you a pot of old wine to taste first, Xing Er, Xing Er, you little Wang Ba Lamb, you want to play tricks with the old lady, you are still a little tender. When the old lady stole peaches to eat, you kid was still wearing open crotch pants, playing yin, you are definitely not my opponent! β
At the moment, her mind was decided, and the in-law moved the chair to the partition wall, and then returned to the house to make a fuss, with a secret weapon in her hand, she strode to the wall, raised her legs and stood on the chair, holding the wall with one hand, and shouted softly to Xing Erjia: "Er, come and talk to you." β
Xing Er saw her smiling, not like she had evil intentions. He let his guard down. The chair next to the wall had not been removed in the morning, so he raised his legs and stood on the shelf, and asked casually, "What instructions does the second aunt have?" β
The in-law said: "Look at what you said, I don't dare to give any instructions, I just want to ask you." You young people have brains, read newspapers and listen to the radio, and you are well-informed, and there are quite a lot of planes pulling smoke in the sky these days, are you going to start a war with the US imperialists and the Soviet Union? β
Xing Er scratched his head: "I really don't know about this." β
The in-law girl struck all over the place, and deliberately pointed to the sky: "Then there are two more planes preparing to pull smoke." β
Tuseji looked up and searched the sky carefully, but saw nothing.
The in-law said viciously: "Here it is." Aren't you a rare woman's pants? The old lady will fulfill you today and reward you with a large size! As she spoke, she quickly brought her other hand to her chest and put the pants she had just taken off on Xing Er's head! Xing Er was defenseless, straightening his neck and looking for a plane in the sky. The in-law girl put a hood on him. Coincidentally, the book was not written, and Xing Er's annoyed bag competition was exposed from a pair of pants. A pungent smell of cats mixed with a strong stench came to the nose, and Xing Er's head was dizzy and swollen, you think, the old ladies don't take a bath when they are adults, and the pants they wear haven't been washed for more than three months, and they are stained with dry on the back, and they don't know what they are in front of them, and they are sticky and stained Xing Er's face! The lips and the tip of the nose are the most stained. Xing Er hurriedly jumped back to the ground from the chair, grabbed the strange-smelling pants with both hands, and pulled them off his head at once, exactly like he usually picks up his jersey, and wiped off the sticky things on his face. The smell is indescribable. He was angry and anxious, angry and corrupt. The in-law on the wall slapped the wall with both hands and laughed.
Liu Laozhuan went to water the ground last night and didn't sleep all night. When the four and a half acres of land in my house are watered, the sun is more than a pole high. He cleaned the iron in the water and returned to the well room from the ground. The probe looked into the well, and the water in the well was basically drained. If you want to water the ground again, you have to let the well grow with water, which takes about half a day. Come to the next home of the stubble watering, you may see that the well water is insufficient, can not continue to water the ground, go home to eat first and then rest for half a day, after the well water is reset, there will be a rest, a few labor baton in the family in general, the light replacement does not stop, until the end of the watering.
Liu Lao locked the small iron door of the machine well room, returned home for breakfast, and asked his wife to send the key to the iron door of the machine room to the next family by the way. As soon as the in-law lady left, Xing Er poked her head out from the side of the partition wall. Holding a branch in his right hand, he carried the pants that his mother-in-law put on his head yesterday afternoon, and he said, "Uncle Bolt, this is the pants that your aunt wears." In the second half of the night, she walked in a hurry and landed on my kang. I'm really embarrassed, she didn't dare to come over to get it, so I'll bother you, uncle, and take it back for her. Blame me for drinking a little wine and γγγγγ itγγγγγγ I hope that your old man will raise his noble hand and go around the little nephew this time. β
Liu Laozhuan took the branch that Xing Er was holding his pants and raised it to his eyes to take a closer look, and the pants were covered with sticky and white things. He was disgusted for a while, and thought: This pair of dog men and women, there are really a lot of things that come out, and there are no more than three times in a night, can a man produce so many x? At the moment, his face was blue with anger, and his stomach was bulging, like a big gas toad! Xing Er saw that he was really angry, and he was still arching the fire on the side of the wall: "Uncle Lao, your prime minister can sail in his belly, and you must not be angry, no one will serve you when you are sick." As the saying goes: aunts and nephews come three or two times a yearγγγγγγ" Before he finished speaking, he saw Liu Laozhuan yelling: "Let your mother's bullshit go!" After speaking, he lifted the iron milling, and the head that Xing Er poked over on the wall was an iron milling. Xing Er saw that he was angry, and his mind was prepared, and when he saw Liu Lao touching the iron milling, he knew that he was going to split himself, so he hurriedly jumped from the chair to the ground, hurriedly rode his bicycle, and slipped back to the cattle farm to drink tea. As for how Liu Laolian and his wife make trouble, it is a matter for the two of them. Xing Er estimated that this time Liu Marriage and her mother couldn't beat lightly.
Sure enough, as Xing Er expected, the in-law had just returned to the courtyard after sending the key to the next house, and when she passed by Liu Laoshuo, Leng Buding was grabbed by the man's hair, Liu Laozhuan grabbed his wife's hair with his left hand and pressed it down, took off the cloth shoes on his feet with his right hand, and beat the woman's upturned buttocks, and scolded in his mouth: "I call you a slut!" β
The woman was beaten, she was panicked with resentment, and she howled in pain: "It hurts me, old mongrel, you beat me for no reason, what is it for?" β
Liu Laozhuan put his pants in front of her face, and looked at her back with two soles: "Don't admit it yet?" These sticky things are ironclad proof! I see you are a relapse of the old problem. I couldn't sleep without a man all night. I've only been watering the land for a night, and you can't stand it and make such a nasty thing! Okay, you're an old slut, and you've got a lot of things out of one night with that little king and eight lambs. β
The in-law shouted: "Wronged, I'm wrong, those things are the paste I stuck to the upper of my shoes, and I wiped them on my pants to disgust that Xing Er." She endured the pain, turned over and sat on the ground, snorted and cried, and explained how to put pants on Xing Er's head from beginning to end.
After listening to her, Liu Laozhuan was skeptical. Fu picked up the pants again and examined them carefully for a long time. When he was convinced that there was some paste on his pants, he was relieved. Sitting on the stone mill and smoking a cigarette pouch.
The in-law endured the pain, went into the house and brought the food to the grinding plate, so that Liu Laozhuan had eaten, she couldn't eat because she had been wronged by the heavens, and she held the nest head in her hand, and the tears "Bada Bada" fell down. Early in the morning, she was really unwilling.
Liu Lao bolted to the sole of his shoe and glanced at the cigarette pouch: "If you didn't have the problem of being amorous when you were young, can I beat you?" A thief with a criminal record, he is the first person to be suspected in the police station. β
The mother-in-law said with tears in her eyes: "Who doesn't make a little mistake when you're young? You can't use the old imperial calendar to see today's new things, right? When you were young, you also climbed the wall of the matchmaker's seventh aunt, do you think I don't know? It's just that because of the skin, I don't expose this layer of window paper, and I blame Xing Er's little king next door for being too fine. β
Liu Laozhuan self-examined and said: "It's all blame on my temper, and I can't hold my breath when I encounter something." Hey, this is a big lesson, and it's better to provoke him less in the future. Our West Abduction Brigade, who speaks crooked ways and plays clever, from the elder to the new youth, counts him with many eyes, wants to fight him, and it is unlikely that he will win. For example, the two Niu are highly powerful, and Xing Er will definitely suffer a loss when it comes to fighting. But God just let him marry Hong Xing as his wife. The things that Lao Niu's family made in front of him weren't maggots that Xing Er put on Hong Xing? I really didn't expect that Daddy Niu was swept out of the house and taken in by Xing Er. This division of land and the matchmaker's seventh aunt teamed up to farm the land, and the two competed to the point of sleeping on a bed. β
"You're jealous, aren't you? What about me, in the blink of an eye, but I am cheap, and I am still qualified to beat me? If you don't make amends this time, don't you compensate me, we won't finish this matter today! β
The in-law was not afraid of people coming in and seeing her, so she took off her shirt in the courtyard, turned around to look at the purple marks on her back, she couldn't see it clearly, and untied her trouser belt, turned around and looked at the purple and black sole prints on her buttocks, and her mouth hardened: "Look at the one who beat me, this time I won't go against the grain again, go back to my mother's house in the afternoon, and call my little brother who is the head of the police station to come to you to ask the reason, you, just wait to clean up." My mother's brothers, when you beat me in the early years, they were all young, but now they are all big and strong men, jumping out of one is enough for you. You wait at home, I'll go to my mother's house to complain, move the troops, and I can't take care of yourself unless I beat you up, so I feel resentful in my heart. The more she talked, the more excited she became, and in the end, she was in a hurry, and she didn't go back to the house to change into clean clothes, nor did she comb her hair, but she was covered with dirt and didn't clean it, and limped out, and tears were still flowing.
Liu Laozhuan knows that he is at a loss, and in recent years, his brothers-in-law have become more and more promising, one has become the head of the police station, and another has a demobilized cadre to work in the city procuratorate. He was suddenly frightened in his heart, and just stepped forward to grab his wife's arm and pull him into the house, but it happened that his brother-in-law, who was the head of the police station, pushed a bicycle and walked into the house. It's really a house leak and even rainy, afraid of what. Isn't that fatal?
When the in-law saw her brother, she cried loudly, "Wow", and the thousands of grievances she had suffered in the Liu family for decades suddenly turned into tears, and she pounced on him at that time, hugged his brother's legs with both hands and cried: "Brother, your sister can't live. In Liu's house, he was a cow and a horse, his food was not delicious, his clothes were not good, and he was beaten from time to time. Look at this wound on my body, you have to decide for me."
The police station chief listened to his sister's crying, lifted his clothes and looked at the scars, the evidence was in his hand, and he didn't answer, put down the bicycle, kicked on Liu Laozhuan's small belly, Liu Laozhuan sat on the ground, and the police station chief took off his old cloth shoes, and then came to treat his body in the same way as a person, and used the sole of his shoe to shine on the thick flesh of Liu Laosian's body, and beat him violently. and warned Liu Lao that he was not allowed to squeak, and if he screamed a pain, let the neighbors hear it, and cause a bad impact, he would take him back to the police station and ask those security officers to deal with it. Liu Laozhuan understood that it would be more brisk to fall into the hands of the security officers. Those guys are not regular policemen, they are temporarily helped by the surrounding factories to the police station, they are punished and do not beat people, and they specifically ask you to practice the golden rooster independence. There are also those who ask people to practice push-ups, and there are also those who practice smoking, roll old newspapers into a big horn cigarette, light it and tell you to smoke violently, until your mouth is numb, and you are half dead when you choke, but there are no injuries on your body, and you can't find evidence to sue them.
The common people have always been afraid of officials, and Liu Lao is no exception, he moved to his wife's side, grabbed the corner of his wife's clothes with his hand, and gently pulled it twice, meaning to ask his wife to intercede for him. For the first time, the in-law ignored him.
The head of the police station said: "Beating people like this is a typical family crime, come back to the police station with me to deal with it, you don't have to pull the corner of my sister's clothes, it doesn't work, I can't catch you, she said it doesn't count." If I say that you will do it, and if I say that I will spare you, I will spare you. β
Liu Laozhuan looked sideways and saw that his brother-in-law's waist was very bulging, and nine times out of ten he was still carrying a gun. This made him even more frightened. He didn't dare to meet the majestic gaze of his brother-in-law. So he instinctively hid behind his wife. He grabbed the corner of his wife's clothes with both hands and dragged him three times, and when he saw that his wife hadn't let him go, he knelt behind his wife with a "plop" and said with a crying voice: "Marriage fat mother, for the sake of decades of husband and wife, spare me." If you enter the detention center, you won't be able to withstand the toss. Besides, our family's four and a half acres of land are still counting on my old bones to cultivate. Take 10,000 steps back, you want to punish me, even if you beat me in our family, I promise not to fight back. Those people there are ruthless, if you can't grasp the size and make me crippled, how will you and your mother live in the future? What our family lacks is labor. β
The in-law saw that the man was pitiful, so she moved her heart to hide, and she knocked on the mountain and shocked the tiger, scared him, and then told him to know that his mother's family had someone to support him, and he didn't dare to raise his hand to fight, and when he opened his mouth, he scolded and pulled him down. I don't want to actually deal with him, I don't have a son at home, I lack strong labor, and I still count on this donkey to pull the mill in the future. So she pinched Liu Laoshuan's shoulder with her hand and scolded him: "Old fool, I knew today, why bother in the first place." Looking back, do you dare to hit me casually? β
Liu Laozhuan hurriedly replied: "I don't dare to do it again in the future, from today onwards, I will obey your command in a qiΔ action, tell me to beat the dog, and never scold the chicken." Spare me. β
Seeing that the man had been subdued, the in-law thought that the effect had been achieved, so she stepped forward and said, "Her uncle, spare this old thing who doesn't know what to do." β
The director said: "If I beat you again in the future, you go to the police station and squeak, and I will settle the old account and the new account." Ask my second brother to sign an arrest warrant, arrest him and enlighten him for a few years, and when he comes out, he is honest, this kind of person is lawless, and if he does not beat and beat, he will not know the interests and disadvantages of the dictatorship of the proletariat. β
The in-law turned around and shouted: "Why don't you go and make tea and get cigarettes, and ask his brother-in-law to dissipate his anger, such a trivial matter, are you still waiting for my orders?" β
Seeing that his wife had spared him, Liu Laozhuan was very happy in his heart, and hurriedly ran to the house, moved the small wooden table out, and put the cigarette on the table. I was busy making tea in the house again, and when the tea was ready, I poured a full teacup, held it in both hands, and respectfully handed it to my brother-in-law. In the same way, I also served my wife a cup of tea. The in-law lady was not polite, she took the cup in her hand and said casually: "This is about the same." At this time, Liu Marriage Fat happened to get off work, and her mother asked her to go to the street to cut meat and buy vegetables, so that she could entertain her mother's brother.
The in-law was in a normal mood at this time, and she asked tentatively, "Her uncle, where are you coming from?" Is there something wrong with looking for my sister? β
The director took a sip of tea, slowly put down the teacup, and said softly: "There was a murder case in Beiyingzi, the district bureau came down to arrest the criminal, I went to assist, the matter has been done, the criminal asked the district bureau to take it away, I went back to the police station, passed by your street, and specially entered the house to see my sister, I don't want to meet my sister to be beaten like this, I am resentful, if it weren't for my sister to intercede for him, I would have to make him a cripple." The more he spoke, the more angry he became, the anger he had just suppressed rose from the bottom of his heart again, and in his anger, he took out the pistol on his waist, slapped it on the table with a "snap", and warned Liu Laozhuan sharply: "Next time, beat my sister again, be careful that I shoot you bastard!" β