Volume 1: The Story of the Three Bowls of the "Wine Fairy" in the Collected Works of Yuan Pu
This year's autumn seems to have come a little suddenly. A few days ago, the sun was still scorching, and with a few dripping light rains, the temperature dropped a lot, which was really an autumn rain and a cold. Within a few days, people suddenly gained weight.
This is a good time for wild fishing, and it is also the fattest time for wild fish. During this time, wild fish prefer to go to the shallow water return area in the morning and evening to feed on fertile aquatic weeds and abundant saprophytes.
According to experienced people, it is the fish that are storing energy for the winter. I also like to go wild fishing at this time to feel the joy of the harvest.
On this day, after lunch, I was in high spirits digging earthworms for fishing. As soon as I walked out of the door, I was confronted by a middle-aged man who was staggering with a smell of alcohol.
He glared at me in a daze and shouted, "Hey, hey, brother, let's drink, let's drink." I, I just drank three bowls at home, let's go, go back to your house, drink some. ”
I saw that it was my cousin's "Three Bowls" brother, and hurriedly said, "Big brother, I'm in a bit of a hurry, aren't I in a hurry to rush over." You're almost drunk, so hurry home, so that your sister-in-law won't worry about it again. ”
After saying that, I hurriedly "escaped" without saying anything. It wasn't until I walked far away that I could vaguely hear his voice talking to himself: "I, I didn't, I drank too much." This, this is just, I just drank three or three bowls, and I can drink three or three bowls of him again, and I can drink him again, three or three bowls•••••"
Looking at his crooked figure from afar, I couldn't help but sigh.
This person is the famous wine fairy "Three Bowls" in the village. Because he always likes to repeatedly say the classic saying "I just drank three bowls" after getting drunk, the good people in the village gave him the nickname "three bowls".
And because he is a well-known wine in our neighborhood, he must drink, and when he drinks, he will get drunk, and when he is drunk, he will be mad, and people have named him the wine fairy. The name of "three bowls" is known to people in a dozen or even dozens of villages within a radius.
When it comes to "three bowls", everyone will naturally think of his classic drunken words: "I just, just drank three or three bowls", "I can also, can drink three or three bowls of him again", "After that, I don't care, he", "No one cares about me, I drink it myself, and I drink his three bowls", "You can, you can, you can, look at me, but, but, you can, you can't, coax me every day" and so on.
And he also has a unique and eternal signature move: when drunk, his old face full of vicissitudes is always unusually distorted. The two bloodshot eyes glared violently, the jaws twitched rhythmically, and the teeth creaked and creaked. At the same time, saliva will be left from the crooked corners of the mouth from time to time, and a long line will be pulled up from time to time.
He always clutched one hand tightly to his chest, as if he was ready to strike at any moment. The other hand was exaggeratedly stretched out to the upper right from time to time, and five short thick fingers were stretched out, constantly bending and stretching, as if trying to grasp something.
He dragged his lead-filled legs and staggered for a long time measuring the turning earth. From time to time, you can also see a curved water mark behind him, which is supposed to be him sprinkling water for the sanitation workers.
He, like most "gentlemen in wine" when they get drunk, when they don't have enough in one place, they have to look for wine elsewhere. If you don't drink it in the dark, if you don't drink a mess, you must not hastily withdraw the troops. It seems that he has too much resentment and dissatisfaction, and he seems to want to vent it after getting drunk.
"Three Bowls" is one of the thirteen cousins in our family, which is recognized as one of the more loyal. After he was discharged from the army, he was assigned to work in the town government, where he worked for more than 20 years, and finally became a section-level cadre. I just retired recently, and I heard that I was persuaded to retire because of drunkenness.
Whether in the village or in the town government unit, he is recognized by everyone as an honest man. The brothers of the family have talked more than once about the reasons why he is today, and everyone can roughly summarize them into three reasons: family planning problems, non-agricultural problems, and the problem of raising cadres.
Brother "Three Bowls" was the eldest son of the second uncle's family, probably because of tradition, he gave birth to three sons and one daughter in a row, which was not allowed by his status at the time.
At that time in our place, family planning had already begun. There are generally only two children with his status, and I don't know what tendons he had, but he gave birth to four children in a row.
So far, everyone doesn't quite understand why he would "produce a lot" against the wind, but just remember Chairman Mao's old man's words "there are many people and great strength".
Now it seems that due to his continuous "large-scale production" at that time, it directly led to the embarrassing situation of his later political career. At the same time, the heavy burden of four children also brought considerable difficulties to his life.
The four children slowly bent his body like four hills, and his passion for life was consumed. He has told us more than once that the burden on these four students who are shouldering each other is too heavy and too heavy.
Slowly, he began to like drinking, seeking a kind of relief in the anesthesia of alcohol and the release of drunkenness in the haze.
In the present view, the non-agricultural hukou is no longer a good condition. But at that time, non-agricultural hukou was still very popular, especially in the area of job placement.
Therefore, at that time, many rural people did everything possible to get non-agricultural hukou for their children.
In order for his four children to have a better life in the future, he spent money everywhere to find a way to get a non-agricultural household registration for his children. In his words, the kind of lowly days of begging others to do things are the most humble in his life.
For the sake of his child's future, he had to grovel and beg a lot of people. Not only did he spend a lot of money, but he also felt that his human dignity had suffered a great humiliation. Even so, in the end, the bamboo basket was empty, the money was gone, and nothing was done.
Financially, he can bear it, but this game-style deception is something he absolutely cannot afford. What's more, the snubbing and teasing he suffered again and again when he begged people to do things hurt him deeply.
This incident once caused him to have a nervous breakdown, and it is said that he was admitted to a rehabilitation hospital for recuperation. Soon he was back to normal, but since that incident, he has been getting drunk more and more. Slowly began to get drunk every time he drank, in his own words, that time he was deceived miserably.
Perhaps, he drank desperately, deliberately stimulating and anesthetizing his nerves, and using alcohol to vent his inner sorrow and anger.
The loyalty and woodenness of the "three bowls" brother also seemed to have become an obstacle in his career at that time.
He was always accustomed to working silently, not used to the flattery of the officialdom at that time; He always deals with himself silently, and is not accustomed to the dependence of the relationship group; He always waited silently, not accustomed to the invisible rules of job title evaluation.
Listening to the comments of some of his former colleagues who have already been promoted and made a fortune, this person is "too real" and not good at handling interpersonal relationships, which is indeed not suitable for a career. When I heard it, it was very sour.
It is true that the insight of the world is knowledge, and the practice of human feelings is the article.
This sentence speaks to the art of the world and human feelings, and he lacks the ability to do so. Watching the cadre promotion again and again, he slowly became more silent, and at the same time, his thirst for drunkenness became more crazy.
But it should be solemnly emphasized that he never drinks at work, even in work receptions, he only drinks heavily after work.
But in the end, he was persuaded to quit, not knowing whether it was his long-term drunkenness at home that had affected the image of the government, or his body, which was indeed no longer suitable for working in the leadership position of the town government.
After being persuaded to retreat, due to spiritual loss and pessimism about reality, he completely indulged himself. increased the frequency of his drunkenness even more, and the drunkenness almost completely destroyed his already weak body.
Every time I see him, I have a sour emotion and unbearable. Most of the time, I chose to run away because I really didn't have the ability to help him thoroughly. What's more, drunkenness may be his best way to live.
In drunkenness, he can vent and accuse to his heart's content, which can release and liberate his suppressed spirit.
Actually, I personally love to drink. I like the rich and mellow aroma when drinking, and I also yearn for the hazy drunkenness after drinking, and I yearn for the tranquility and freedom after being slightly drunk.
I once wrote a self-metaphorical poem about wine, "Lonely Drunk": The small pavilion is steep and cold, and the lonely plum stands proudly and flies crazy in the snow. Hugging the wine jar hazy and drunk, gently plucking the remnant kite wind silently. Qin, chess, calligraphy and painting are smiling, and tea and sword are easy to forest. The barren hills are hidden in the depths of the ages, and they laugh at the world's emptiness. I love to get drunk in my life, and I am obsessed with watching the green shirts floating. A few strokes of the seal dance clear shadow, the downtown has no intention of entering the secluded realm. The dream deduces the Wenwang class, and the mirror platform is empty and psychic. After several years of wandering, when will the Xuanmen Sect purify the heart?
In this poem, my two favorite sentences are: "Qin, chess, calligraphy and painting are gentle, and the tea and sword are easy to love." "And" loves to get drunk in his life, and he is obsessed with watching the green shirts floating. ”
The former is the dream and hope of my soul, when in reality I am more busy with the simple and humble life of the world. Therefore, I also want to slowly fall in love with drinking like the "three bowls" brother.
Under the relentless impact of fantasy and reality, I also seemed so pale and powerless. I also chose an escape, a helplessness about real life. In my hazy and drunken feeling, I looked at the free and traceless flowing green shirt in the dream••••••
Maybe this is also the resonance of too many "gentlemen in wine", but I sincerely hope that "gentlemen in wine" like me can grasp the degree in their hearts and get slightly drunk••••••