Chapter 11: The Lamp on the Porch
When the fat man welcomed his mother back, the fat man and his mother chatted about family life in the house, and Uncle Cao called me to go to the kitchen to help him. Parents never express their love for their children differently, Uncle Cao, like my father, is a strict father who hates his children most of the time, and my fat mother and I often have the same kindness and care for any family member on our faces.
"Yo, look at your skill, you can cook." Uncle Cao seemed a little surprised when he saw me choosing the food and the place, "You're at home, and your father and mother are willing to let you cook?" ”
"The children of poor families are in charge of the house early." I habitually perfunctory, but when I thought back that this was also an opportunity to confess to the fat man, I said, "It's hard to make money outside, how can you just buy it?" Cao Zhengyi and I often eat together, and we both have some good dishes on our hands. ”
Uncle Cao smiled noncommittally: "It's not that I don't know that it's not easy for you to be outside. When people are old, they don't want you to do anything else, but when they get married and have children, they often come home to see them. Yes, when are you going to marry your father and mother back a daughter-in-law? ”
As soon as I heard this, I hurriedly shirked it, trying to divert the topic: "It's not suitable." Marriage is the king and the eight pairs of mung beans, you have to look at it first, right? ”
"You stinky boy." Uncle Cao blamed me, "Life is ushered in, just this short 6 put on our four foreign customs, you should get married and have children at the age of 17 or 18." ”
I muttered, "Family planning is so tight, why do you want him to have a second child when he has a child so early?" ”
"You reminded me." Uncle Cao was stunned, and picked up the frying spoon again, "This week, the city will send someone from the Family Planning Commission to check family planning, and I have to hurry up and prepare." ”
"Those grandsons are coming again! In the past few years, because I gave birth to an extra baby, I have been fined to those who sold their ancestral property, those who were arrested and imprisoned, those who fled to other places, those whose families were ruined, and those whose wives were separated...... It's a big deal, I also responded to the call of the country, married a daughter-in-law and didn't give birth, and saved some food for the country. ”
"Nonsense." Uncle Cao "shhhhh ”
"You're the longest, you say it." I didn't continue to study this issue with Uncle Cao**, he is also a insider, can he not know the suffering of the common people?
The past two years have been good, in the first few years, every time the Family Planning Commission drove a big truck to check, it was really chickens and dogs, in the toilet, and under our most famous Dongtou River bridge, I don't know how many little children can be thrown, "wow" screamed for a while, and it stinked there.
It's also strange that I mentioned the Family Planning Commission, and Uncle Cao didn't talk to me much anymore, obviously the scale in his heart could only be nested in his heart, and he couldn't bear to support the bitter blood and tears of the people.
At noon, I accompanied the fat man to drink two taels of white wine, a little wine, and the fat man talked about the set he told me yesterday.
If you don't say that it is better to travel thousands of miles than to read thousands of books, the ancients did not deceive me.
While talking, the fat man chatted and talked about one thing, saying that he met a qigong master in a certain place, and his cultivation had reached the realm of transformation.
Uncle Cao's originally slightly melancholy face instantly converged, and his eyes widened and asked, "What kind of cultivation?" ”
The fat man said: "He asked an apprentice to grab a handful of soil with one hand, and stretched out his palms for everyone to see." The master stood behind the apprentice, and when he shouted his left hand, the soil in the apprentice's left hand flew up and swung in the air; shouted the right hand again, and the picture in the apprentice's right hand was also blown away out of thin air. At that time, there was no wind at all, don't you think it's magical? ”
I smiled coldly in my heart, but my face was very eager, and I even clapped my hands and exclaimed, "It's amazing!" "I thought to myself, if I put a pump in my sleeve to inflate, I would be able to blow even better than the master.
Uncle Cao was also full of praise for this matter: "Good, good, good." This is the master, fighting cattle across the mountains, and passing on the air. ”
I reached out from under the table and dragged the fat man, turned my head and whispered to him, "What do you think, you still plan to support Uncle Cao's practice?" ”
The fat man had a smile on his face, squeezed his teeth and whispered to me: "Don't hurt the sky, don't be harmful, be a hobby." Didn't you give him two tapes too? ”
I was speechless for a moment, I was sending a good videotape, but I watched the content of the tape as a joke. I really don't believe it, would anyone believe that a so-called master can vomit blood to the last person with a dozen people apart? Would anyone believe that a dozen people surrounded this master, and the master stomped his feet and shook all these dozen people away? I glanced at Cao Zhengyi's father, and suddenly felt excited, looking at Uncle Cao's appearance, maybe he really believed it.
I gritted my teeth and whispered to the fat man, "I just want to do what he likes and get some benefits for you." ”
"What are you two muttering? Come, drink. Uncle Cao raised his glass, "Come, for the sake of the success of the motherland's qigong cause, we will be white." ”
The fat man and I were dumbfounded for a moment, and we raised our glasses and tried to pretend to be happy......
After eating at the fat man's house, I said goodbye to Uncle Cao, Aunt Cao and the fat man under the pretext that my mother was still waiting for me to return to the nest. Out of Cao Zhengyi's house, I agreed with the fat man to rest for a few days before trying to make a big deal. I turned down the kindness of the fat man's family and rode a bicycle from his house on the dirt road down the serpentine bend home.
When I arrived at our Lijiakou, I saw a group of people gathered around to watch the excitement. Originally, I said that I, like most people, love to watch the excitement, and besides, it is still in our mouth, so it is really not to watch in vain.
I shouted for this aunt, that uncle, seven aunts, and eight aunts while borrowing light and squeezed in. When I got inside, I realized that the person who was surrounded in the middle was a bruiser who sold bruises.
This medicine seller is only thirty-seven or eighteen years old, a black-faced man as thin as a pole. He spoke Mandarin with a southern accent, and Zhang Luo said: "I Luo Xiaodao, I don't seek wealth or fame, and I borrow your treasure to bring these people a rare bruise medicine from heaven to earth." Someone is going to ask, didn't you say that you don't seek wealth or fame? Isn't it okay for you to give us this medicine for nothing? Look at whether the vegetables are good or not, look at the people, and look at the curative effect of the medicine. I Luo Xiaodao This medicine is not expensive, 10 yuan a bottle, no more, no less, a full ten yuan. You have to ask, you are just a mouthful, do you have any real material? Then you have to open your eyes and open them wide, I Luo Xiaodao will let you see what miracle medicine works now. ”
As soon as I heard it, I happened to be in time for the show to start, so I shouted with everyone and told him to hurry up and do something real.
The medicine seller took out a chicken from the chicken coop and threw it to the ground: "Everyone can look at it, this chicken is alive and crumbling, I will kick it...... It's not stupid either, it still wants to fly. The medicine seller grabbed the wings of the chicken with one hand and pulled it to his chest, "This cat has nine lives, and the cow has eyes to see living things." Dogs have four legs and chickens have two legs. We know that this woman has two legs, but this man has three legs...... You don't know which man has three legs? Ask your old man to go. ”
As soon as the medicine seller's little yellow joke came out, everyone's attention was all on him.
The medicine seller continued to mutter the vernacular version of the slippery language, and with a strong hand, he turned one of the chicken's legs along the root of the meat and threw the chicken on the ground. He said: "A toad with a missing leg can still swim, but a chicken with a missing leg can only roll on the ground. As he spoke, a bleak tone began to win the sympathy of the onlookers.
I saw the chicken with its broken leg tossing and turning on the ground, and from time to time it raised a puff of dust, and the pain and despair, combined with the words of the medicine seller, caused some onlookers to shout for the medicine seller to kill the chicken and give it a good death.
The medicine seller's face suddenly bloomed with joy: "Don't worry, everyone. Have you forgotten about it? What are we doing, we are selling medicine. He reached out and held the chicken down, grabbed its wings and pulled it up. With his other hand, he took out a bottle of brown potion from the small black wooden box behind his back, unscrewed the lid and poured out a little bit into the lid, and put the bottle aside. He put his finger in the potion in the lid, dipped it, and applied the potion to the chicken's injured leg three times and two times, and finally poured the remaining potion onto the root of the chicken leg and threw the chicken on the ground.
At this time, the medicine seller said: "Take a look, take a look, the lame chicken is cured in an instant, and the person with a broken leg is cured in three days." ”
The chicken was not as tossy back and forth as it had just now, blinking and sitting on the ground with a panicked twist to look at the people around him. The medicine seller was still talking about the effect of his magic potion, and in about a minute, the chicken stood together and swaggered around the medicine seller's medicine stall.
"Good!" I don't know who shouted hello in the crowd, followed by everyone cheering together.
As soon as I saw that this thing was not bad, I scrambled with a group of people to buy two bottles of potion, and then I happily rode my bicycle home.
When I got home, I told my mother about the potion, and my mother smelled my whole body and quickly told me to go to bed. As soon as I thought about it, I gave my mother the potion and went back to the house to sleep.
I don't know how long it took me to wake up to my big brother's alarm. I opened my eyes and saw that it was already dark outside the window, and I reached out and grabbed the phone to answer it.
The fat man's anxious voice came from the other end of the phone: "Ercui is making a strange fuss, Li Xiao, you hurry up and take a look." ”
"Where?" I wasn't awake yet, and I vaguely felt like I was still in a dream.
"Ercui family, come quickly. Is she haunted? ”
"Ghosts?" I jumped up with a spirit, "You wait for me, I'll go and find you." ”
I suddenly remembered what Li Laodao said to me, and perhaps his words came true. I jumped out of bed and asked, "What's going on with you now?" ”
The fat man was annoyed: "Don't mention it, my father and mother and I are all blocked at the door of Ercui's house, and this Ercui Niang is still relying on us...... Come over here, you have a lot of ideas, come and help think of a way. ”
"Alright, hang up. I'll talk about it when I get there. I put on my clothes and walked out on tiptoe, wondering what the fat man's situation was.
I never thought that as soon as I reached the yard with my front foot, a black shadow on my back foot rushed towards me like lightning. I was filled with excitement and shouted, "What! ”
I raised my foot to kick, but in the blink of an eye, I stopped my foot again, and my horror turned into surprise: "Li Dada, you sit down for me." ”
What kind of character is this Li Dada, I still have to explain a few words. Ever since I bought a house in the city, I have been hiding from meeting my father for fear that he will keep telling me about my heart attack. I don't blame me for not being a soldier, my father said that "I regret being a soldier for two years, and I regret not being a soldier for a lifetime", in fact, it is just that he only served as a Red Guard when he was a teenager and did not serve as a soldier, and he wanted me to realize this dream for him. I can't help but refute my father, I can't help it, I can't afford to provoke it, can I always hide? I avoided it, but when the big dog gave birth to a bunch of puppies, I brought back a small milk dog to the family, and this little milk dog became my father's heart and soul after I left home, named Li Dada.
My name is Li Xiao, my dog's name is Li Dada, I am small and big. What's even worse is that in the dialect on our side, "big" means uncle and uncle. Come on, three generations shorter out of thin air.
I shouted "Li Dada", and the black dog, which was more than half a meter long, immediately wanted to stop. But it ran so fast that it stopped on its feet, and its head hit me directly on my legs.
Lee let out a loud scream, and the lights in my parents' house came on in an instant. My father said, "Who? Who's in the courtyard? ”
I hurriedly hugged Li Dada and replied, "Dad, I'll take me out for a walk." Without waiting for my father to reply, I hurriedly went out with my big arms in my arms.
Let's not talk about anything else, the big dog gave birth to seven cubs, all of these seven cubs have outstanding intelligence, and they seem to have their own natural powers for their respective owners, and they are loyal to their owners.
I put Da Da on the ground, tiptoed to the yard and rode again, and then I shouted Da Da to follow me. I followed me all the way without saying more, until I reached the gate of the Ercui family's compound, only her house was still lit on the porch, and a large group of people huddled together and shouted.
I parked the bike, tied it to the bike with a thin rope, and then stepped over.
Playing far away, Er Cuiniang's crying voice reached my ears: "My daughter, this is a bad crime." Your old Cao family can't die well, and we have to leave this marriage if we don't leave. It's only been a few days, and my daughter has gone crazy? ”
When I got closer, I saw that Er Cui Niang was sitting at the door of the house, and Er Cui Dad also led a group of people to block the door and confront Cao Zhengyi's relatives.
Cao Zhengyi's father said: "Ercui's father, no matter what, we only know how to treat Ercui when we meet." Now we haven't even seen anyone, what do you think is going on? ”
Ercui's father said: "Then don't worry about it, notify you to come, and our two families will be cut off." Don't say anything else, we will take care of our daughters by ourselves, and you can't worry about it. ”
I heard the noise loud and loud. I pulled the fat man out of the crowd, and when I saw him looking pitiful with his head drooping, I hurriedly cheered up, "Isn't it that I haven't seen anyone yet?" Don't worry, let's go over the backyard. ”
The fat man's eyes lit up, and he hit it off with me immediately.
The fat man hurriedly recounted to me what happened: Originally, he was making up for sleep in the afternoon, and Ercui's family sent relatives to his house to shout, saying that Ercui was on the road and crazy. Immediately, the fat family of three rushed to Ercui's house, who knew that when they arrived at the door, the family was crying and making trouble, but they were not allowed to enter the door, and this toss came to night. The fat man was in a hurry, and there was a group of elders around him who couldn't give him ideas, so he remembered me and called me.
The peasant houses on our side, except for the side, are all connected to the north and south to form a series of alleys. Most of the houses are three or four meters high, and every house has a ladder leading to the roof.
I shouted that the fat man borrowed the ladder of Ercui's neighbor's house and went to the house, and when I arrived at Ercui's yard, I slipped down the ladder of Ercui's house.
This thing is really so strange, almost all the members of the Ercui family are blocked at the door, but there is no one in this compound. The fat man pulled me to the edge of the window of Ercui's house, and the curtains were drawn on the window, so he listened attentively.
Ercui looks beautiful and has a good voice, and a sad song came out of Ercui's house, she sang it really tear-jerking, which made people break their hearts.
Flowers and flowers fly all over the sky, and there is no one to pity the red incense; The gossamer is soft and fluttering, and the flocculent is lightly stained with the embroidery curtain; Three hundred and sixty days a year, the wind, frost and sword are strictly pressing; When can the bright and fresh beauty be, it is difficult to find it once adrift; Flowers are easy to see and difficult to find, and the front of the steps is sad to kill and bury the flower people; Leaning on the flower hoe alone to secretly shed tears, sprinkling empty branches to see blood marks; May the wings grow under the wings and fly with the flowers to the end of the sky; Now he is buried when he dies, and he does not know when he will be mourned; Nong is burying flowers and laughing idiots, and he knows who it is when he buries Nong; At the end of the day, where is the incense hill? At the end of the day, where is the incense hill? Try to see the remnants of spring flowers gradually falling, that is, when the red face dies of old age; Once the spring is full of red and old, the flowers fall and people die without knowing.
The fat man and I stupidly finished listening to a song at the window. After Ercui finished singing, I also gave the fat man a thumbs up, this song "Funeral Flower Yin" is really amazing.
I whispered, "Fatty, I told you, if the fuck is crazy, there is no one in the world who is not crazy." This song is sung well by ordinary people. ”
The fat man was stunned: "I don't know." What kind of medicine is sold in their gourd? As he spoke, he walked to the door of the house in two steps, intending to push the door in.
"Don't come in." Ercui blocked the door, and in such a short moment, Ercui sang loudly: "The silk blows to the idle courtyard, and the spring is like a line." Stopped for a long time, didn't steal half of the flowers, and the colorful clouds were off. How can I show my whole body in the boudoir. This sentence turned out to be the singing voice of Kunqu Opera.
I didn't have any achievements in opera, and I was completely confused for a while.
"Ercui, what are you doing here?" The fat man knocked on the door a few times, frowned, and said, "I know you're fine, what are you going to make trouble with this time?" ”
"Ugh." Ercui sighed in the room, "There is no difference for a while, and I am full of emotion." ”
In the short half a year that I have been in contact with Ercui, I never thought that Ercui was still a amorous woman (amorous, not dusty, meaning natural mood and charm), and this talent show that followed the madness was really envious of others.
The fat man was obviously a little anxious: "Which one are you singing?" ”
"Sanli River Pan, half a meter into the ground, rats bite insects, and half a cent is not left." Ercui confided these sixteen words, and then turned off the light, "You go, how can you let me live now." ”
I was a little confused, but at this time, the fat man had already grabbed me: "Let's go, let's go to Sanlihe." ”
Sanli River is a river channel to the south of our area, and the big river ditch is about three miles long, hence the name.
"What are you doing there?"
"On the way, I probably understand Ercui's thoughts."
I saw that the fat man looked firm, so I agreed. The two of us slipped back to the door of Ercui's house along the roof, and at this time the fat man went to explain his plan to his father, and I was ready to wait for him by the bicycle.
I went back and forth, and after a while, when I got to the car, I saw another black dog helping my Li Da untie the rope! It was said that it was untying the rope, but in fact it was another black dog who was helping to bite the rope around his neck, and I was about to be succeeded by these two dogs.
I identified it a little and guessed that the black dog was not the one from the Ercui family? At the beginning, I, the fat man, and Ercui took a puppy born to a big dog, and I didn't expect that the sentence "broken bones and tendons" was fulfilled in these two half-sized dogs.
I went up to separate the two of them, when the two gadgets united and rubbed against my trouser legs to please me. I'm so angry and funny, I'm really out of temper with these two shrewd little guys. I untied the rope from Da Da's body and simply let the two of them play for a while.
I watched the two dogs frolicking, and in a few moments the fat man was already in front of me. He pointed to the two dogs and said, "We don't know why these dogs are so smart, every time I bring my family Huanhuan over, the Taotao of the Ercui family knows that they are born to a mother." Do you think this is strange? This one is your big one, right? Let them play with each other, and they'll be home by themselves tomorrow morning. What the fuck is a dog, it's just a human spirit. ”
I originally planned to take Da Da away, but just as I was thinking about catching it, the two dogs actually ran back to Ercui's house with their companions. Forget it, it's a big deal to go back and pick it up.
I nodded to the fat man: "Let's go, let's go to Sanlihe." I can't take you with your weight, so you should take me. ”
The fat man glanced at me and said, "Big brother, haven't you noticed that you have gained a lot of weight in the two months since I left?" Don't call me fat, don't you see I've lost a lot of weight now? ”
I joked: "Pull down, if you don't take me, you will go by yourself." I rode the bike! ”
"Fuck, this car belongs to us." The fat man feigned anger.
I rolled my eyelids and pretended to think for a moment. I said happily: "Isn't it, you don't ride your car and wait for me to ride?" ”
The fat man waved his hand helplessly: "Let's hurry up, I don't have time to talk to you." When I get to the place, I probably know where Ercui's disease came from......"
I muttered in a low voice, "As long as it's not the thing that Li Laodao said...... This matter should not be on Ercui, it should be ......" I glanced at the fat man, and beat the drum excitedly in my heart, hoping that Li Laodao was just blowing a.