Acts of God, II 36
Liu Xingmei seemed to have nothing to say at this time, the crops were gone, all the labor was equal to waste, and there was no hope for a year. At such a time, even a talkative person must be stingy with words!
Unexpectedly, Tao Zhenkun said: "This really responds to Hao Qiang's mantra!" β
Liu Xingmei still couldn't help asking, "What are you talking about?" β
Tao Zhenkun glanced at her and said, "'God wills, I can't help it'!" β
When Liu Xingmei tasted this sentence carefully, there was too much helplessness in it! She saw that her in-laws looked anxious and gloomy, so she choked her husband and said: "It's all burning eyebrows, and you still say this heartless words!" β
As the four of them stood at the doorway and looked out, they saw that the large coffin that had just been parked in the side building, waiting for paint, was floating in the flooding rain, and on it was black oil sticker, and on top of the oil sticker stood a beautiful rooster like a king and his wives and concubines. The coffin drifted away like a small boat with the surging water outside the gate, which is enough to make learned people think of the scene when Yang Guang, the faint monarch in "The Great Sui and Tang Dynasty", went down to Yangzhou by dragon boat, how many concubines and concubines were accompanied by palace ladies and show girls, the difference is only that the chicken is not a human coffin and a dragon boat!
"Oh no, can't let it float out of the yard!" Tao Qisheng shouted in panic.
Everyone knows that once the coffin floats out of the river, it will pour into the ravine with the flow, presumably the ravine has also converged into a river, if it is in the case of unimpeded terrain, it will definitely flow into the fairy river and drift to no one else, so it is really a failure!
Then the four of them looked for something to protect them from the rain and hail one by one, and without hesitation, they took off their shoes and socks, pulled up their trouser legs, and bravely rushed out of the door of the house, wading through the cold rain that was deep and deep in the stomach, and chased the big coffin at the gate, and worked together to push it back like a boat against the current. The black tiger is jumping left and right in the river, no matter how smart it is, it can't help humans! Looking at the chickens on the coffin, they were tightly packed together, and they were even stupid, as if they had forgotten that they would be afraid of people at close range. After the coffin was fastened to the apricot tree with a rope, the chickens woke up as if they had just dreamed, or they could not stand the baptism of rain and hail, and each rushed down the coffin one by one like a diver, and swam to find a place to escape.
When Liu Xingmei returned to the house, she still didn't forget the huge hailstone hidden in the rain, so she picked it up in the rain and brought it back to the house. Under the touch, she felt a chill to the bone, from her hands to her arms, there was a cold paralysis. She asked Tao Zhenkun to bring a basin and put into the basin this huge hailstone, which seemed to be the size of a football.
When the four wet people hid in the house to watch the hail, they all suddenly felt a pain in the clammy cold on their heads and bodies, and their heads were smashed into countless swollen packs by the hailstones, and they sneezed and coughed one by one, afraid that they were going to catch a cold in the rain. The family looked at each other in frustration, and the people in their eyes were all embarrassed, similar to the chicken in the soup, which looked very funny, and they couldn't help laughing at the same time.
Look at the hail in the basin, intact, crystal clear but not clear, shining with a dreamlike brilliance, like a mysterious and treacherous temptation, like a carved jade.
"It's amazing!" Liu Xingmei was excited with joy.
"It's not a valuable baby, what's so happy!" Tao Zhenkun said disapprovingly.
"You know that money is good!" Liu Xingmei choked him.
"How did we leave this thing behind?" Tao Zhenkun was afraid of sweeping away his wife's interest, so he seemed to have skepticism about it.
"Everything has its own master, I don't know whether this matter is good or evil, no one should say it casually." Tao Qisheng advised.
"Really, it's not a baby, what's hidden here, and it's not stealing or robbing, what's wrong with committing smuggling?!" Qiu Lanzhi muttered in confusion.
She was glared at by her husband, who had always been cautious in his words and actions.
is still a young couple who are sensible, and they both agreed.
Tao Zhenkun squeezed her eyebrows at Liu Xingmei and pouted, Liu Xingmei didn't understand what she meant, when she found that her clothes were crumpled and uncomfortable on her body, and the concave and convex curves of her body were as vivid as if she were semi-naked, she blushed her cheeks and hid in the West House to change into other clothes.
The rain is fleeting, when the rain is clear, the sun is still the same, the rainbow hangs high like an arc-shaped arch bridge across the sky, giving people a charming romantic reverie, if you walk on it, you can walk on it from the Peace Village to the outside world, the scattered clouds are like a rout of soldiers fleeing. The vegetables in every home were smashed like garlic by hail, and a layer of residual stems and leaves floated on the water, and some adults couldn't care about these seemingly inconsequential losses, so they couldn't wait to rush out of the house, leaving their children at home and calling their fathers and mothers! They didn't even have time to inspect the houses or ask each other if there were casualties, wading through the icy and biting water of the meandering river (and there were countless rats in the water, all of them with big bellies like pregnant, struggling in the water as if practicing dog-planing swimming, some toads were also enlisted in the army, and some even saw snakes in the water), and the road was washed out of the ditch by the rain, which was really scarred and devastated! The soil seems to be mixed with the fragrance of flowers and plants, which is refreshing, and makes people feel that they have entered the light from the darkness.
When people flocked to the crop field together, what they saw was a thrilling scene: almost all the crops in the field were razed to the ground under the ravages of the storm and hail, only the stalks of sunflowers, sorghum, and buds had been cut off and turned into a headless bare body, lying horizontally and vertically, but you could also see that the sparse and sparse seven high and eight low erections had become the hideous faces of the ghosts, and the ears of the millet were all soaked in muddy water! The turbid "Fairy River" river swelled, and the sound of surging and rushing came from afar, and I could only rely on the impressions in my memories to capture the silhouette of what was once like a woman.
I don't know who threw himself on the muddy ground after beating his chest and feet, and cried out in a kneeling position.
Months of hard work by the villagers have been in vain, and perhaps only a few families will survive the sweet potatoes and potatoes, because the fruits are hidden in the soil!
It was as if the scheming Heavens had orchestrated a great conspiracy to slaughter the peasants at the end of their hard work!
As for the "Magpie Bridge" and the water drum car, they were also destroyed in the flooding of the Fairy River, and they seemed to be about to fall apart. While people were looking forward to sighing, they had to prepare to repair it after the river subsided. Fortunately, on this day, Hao Qiang, the sheepherd of the Wu family, and Yan Meng, the cowherd, did not go to the other side of the river to graze, otherwise they were blocked by the river, and they could only look at each other across the river, and they could not return to the village, and the consequences were unimaginable.
There was only one man, who did not care about the crops at first, and took the opportunity to see the crops, but thought about running to the family at the east end of the village, three low earthen houses, but out of the dense residential area, located on a slightly remote hill, giving people the feeling of being isolated. It was the residence built by Miao Yunchang, who was a little withdrawn, and it was also the Garden of Eden where Wu He eloped with him to live here. When he saw that this family of four, young and old, was still shocked, but they were also safe and sound, he was finally relieved.
And a young woman in this family, when she saw his appearance, her teary eyes showed extraordinary excitement - of course, this person was Tao Zhenkun.
In this unforeseen natural disaster, there were also people whose walls collapsed and houses collapsed, but thankfully, there were no worries about life. The mud on the roof has been mottled by rainwater, and it needs to be repaired by taking a ladder to the house. It's just that the harvest that people crave has come to naught!
When re-smearing the roof with mud, Liu Xingmei picked up a fly under the eaves that was not yet plump and could not fly, and I don't know how it fell out of the bird's nest, while the anxious big swallow was flying around and screaming. She asked Tao Zhenkun to set up a ladder and put the poor son back into the nest.
Tao Qisheng and Qiu Lanzhi saw this in their eyes and were moved, and at the same time thought: As long as there is a kind heart, then this person's character cannot be wrong.
Yes, in human nature, only kindness is the most beautiful and best character.
A week later, at Tao's house, the window paper, which had been damaged by the wind and rain, was re-papered and pasted, and the missing mud flakes on the roof were repaired. The road in front of the gate that was washed into a channel by rain and the yard that lacked soil have been filled in by a truck, and the original appearance has been restored. At the foot of the wall in front of the window, there are still stacks of buds that have just been cleaned up, the skin has been peeled off, and they still look dirty, but the buds that have not yet been pulped look deflated and inconspicuous, and they are not big, which will remind some people of Zhu Le, who seems to have not grown and developed deformities. As Liu Xingmei secretly said in Tao Zhenkun's ear:
"Look at this bud ear, it's just a big one in the crotch, and this head is not as big as the mallet in the crotch of a good man's pants!"
"You're not serious anymore!"
"As the so-called one who is close to Zhu is red, and one who is close to ink is black, who can you learn from, and you can still learn well?"
Tao Zhenkun smiled and said, "This is true. People have no long-term worries, they must have near-term worries, they are about to be hungry, and you still have the leisure to say this, you really don't know how to worry about it, as if you have no heart and no lungs! Every family doesn't have much food in stock, and at the end of the year, even if the harvest is completed, it's just a toad beating flies - it will be for the mouth! β
"'God the point, I can't help it'! When the sky falls, everyone dies, even if they are worried, they can't use their farts, and they can survive by eating bran vegetables. Don't worry, God won't die of hunger! Liu Xingmei also learned Hao Qiang's words.
Tao Zhenkun was amused, and he was also interested in her jokes, so he said: "You finally know about me, then you have to be careful not to let other women know, otherwise you will commit robbery." My baby is two wheels and a cannon, where can I have eyes to go back and forth. β
Liu Xingmei glared at him and said, "Don't be stinky and beautiful, why don't you try the mouse hole?" I'll steal it and hide it someday! β
Tao Zhenkun said: "Do you want to put it in your pocket and take it out at any time?" β
As a result, he was suddenly attacked by Hua Fist and Embroidered Legs.
Three days ago, something even more bizarre happened. It took three days and three nights for the huge hailstone to slowly become smaller in the melting, and when it floated in the melted water, and there was still a fist left, it was Liu Xingmei who was the first to discover the secret, and she saw that there seemed to be something hidden in the hail, which was blood-red, and looked like an unfinished embryonic work of art.
Surprised, she brought the ordinary ceramic basin to the east house kang and summoned the whole family to see it.
As the family sat around in amazement, the still large and strange hailstones looked like a goldfish in the haze, as the fins and head were exposed.
"It's amazing!" At that time, Tao Zhenkun was a little anxious, and wanted to help see the true face of Lushan as soon as possible, so he tentatively stretched out his hand and carefully uncovered the ice shell.
Unexpectedly, his impulsive hand was pulled aside by Liu Xingmei, who was usually more impatient, and said with a serious and respectful expression: "It's good to let it be!" β
So, in the midst of a longing and anxious waiting, the family saw the igloo, which was as thin as a cicada's wings, melt, and sure enough, it was a golden fish with brilliant scales, and the whole process was like a butterfly that had transformed into a cocoon shell in a chrysalis. In anticipation of holding his breath, what was even more unexpected was that the goldfish, which had been motionless for a moment, still had life, and its tail was slightly stirred a few times, as if it had woken up from a long sting nightmare, and began to swim in the basin, from clumsy and slow to agile and lively.
The four of them were all stunned, as if they were in a dream, there would be such a strange thing in the world, it was really incomprehensible.
It's a world of wonders!
Liu Xingmei was the first to wake up, she hurriedly went to the kitchen cabinet in the outhouse to find a pinch of rice grains, put it in the basin, and saw that the goldfish deftly opened its mouth to prey on the rice grains one by one, and quickly swept away, as if she was hungry and didn't know how long she hadn't eaten. It then stopped swimming, and looked at the humans who were watching it with a pair of large eyes that seemed to be full of curiosity.
"It's not full yet, go get some more!" Tao Zhenkun was overjoyed, and he smiled with his eyebrows!
Liu Xingmei said angrily: "What do you know? I don't know how long it will be hiding in the ice, it hasn't starved to death and froze to death, so it can't survive all at once! β
The family rejoices in inadvertently saving a small life in captivity, because it is covered with a layer of mystery that no one can fathom through it. They don't know how long this little life will last, and they can only guess that it will last longer than humans, because it is from the heavens, could it be the baby of the Queen Mother on Yao Chi who came to the mortal world? I don't know why it's here? This is a mystery to be solved by the ignorant human race, and perhaps there is no real answer to it!
Of course, this strange thing will make the family tight-lipped, not afraid to leak the secret of heaven, but about this Arabian Nights mythical story If it is told, others will definitely think that it is spreading rumors, this kind of grandstanding method is too naΓ―ve and ridiculous, probably even children can't be deceived.
It was Tao Zhenzong who saw the mysterious goldfish in the most common basin on the cabinet for the first time, and was immediately attracted by its stunning beauty and liked it sincerely. Under his excitement, he forgot the dogma that "a gentleman does not win the love of others", and blurted out: "Uncle! It's the best of the best, it's perfect, it's beautiful, can you give it to me? β
Tao Qisheng was smiling with both eyes, he looked extremely sophisticated and calm, and said quietly: "This is what your sister-in-law likes, I can't call the shots." β
This kind of prevarication is the most tactful refusal, of course, Tao Zhenzong will not be difficult to force, especially Liu Xingmei's beloved thing. He asked, "Where did you get it?" β
Tao Qisheng had no choice but to perfunctory with a deceptive lie: "Your brother fished it from the river." β
"Will we have goldfish in this fairy river? Why haven't I ever heard of it or seen it?! Tao Zhenzong's eyes widened, although he was full of suspicion, he would naturally believe it.
Tao Qisheng looked at him, and he could only laugh secretly.
Because the Tao family has this goldfish, people who have never seen a goldfish will come to watch it curiously, just like the big coffin that can make others inconceivable, because others can't imagine that there are goldfish in the fairy river, don't believe it but can't get a credible explanation.
For several days in a row, Qiu Lanzhi led her son and daughter-in-law to the field, using dustpans, pinches and pockets to pick up the millet and millet grains that were spread all over the ground. A heavy rain and hail bring suffering to people, but it is not a grain without a harvest, it is food that can fill the belly! Who knows that Chinese food is hard work!
Judging from this way, people who don't have grain in store will not be able to open the pot next year!
"There are unforeseen circumstances in the sky, and people have good and bad luck!" These days, Tao Qisheng has been muttering this sentence repeatedly.
The sun's radiant smiling face seems to be forever full of love and tolerance for all things on the earth, but in this weather that is about to enter late autumn, it seems to be less blazing than before. However, in this slightly bleak autumn wind, people crave the warmth it gives, and sometimes they have to thicken their clothes.
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