Chapter 16 Lovesickness

At the foot of Changbai Mountain, there is a small shop selling dog meat, and the owner is an old woman, and the young people in the village call her Granny Meng, and some older people call her Mengni.

Granny Meng has no children and no daughters, and in her life, she has had two men and three dogs who have ruled her soul.

She spent the first half of her life with snakes and the second half with dogs. When she was a girl, she was already ugly, just not as fat as she is now. At that time she was in a large glass pool, and there were more than a hundred small colorful snakes in the pool, and she was visited with the snakes. The finale of this circus is to introduce a small cart with a large glass trough, or rather, a coffin made of glass, in which an ugly woman sits, and her body is crawling with snakes. Indeed, this glass box looks better than the trick played by the clown. Whenever a dwarf pushes out the glass coffin in a trolley, the audience will praise it, thinking that it was not in vain to watch the circus performance. The onlookers were applauding, but she couldn't hear it, she was a little deaf, her play was performed in glass, and the glass coffin was her whole world.

Although she sat still, the show was tiring, and sometimes, such as on a hot summer afternoon in 1982, she fell asleep in a glass coffin with the snakes curled up and crawling on top of her. It wasn't until the summer of 1983 that she began to get used to it, and she felt a burst of coolness, which was brought by a cold-blooded animal like a snake. From then on, she became more and more lazy, even too lazy to get out of the glass coffin, and only came out when she peed and, she yawned and asked the mountain tooth who was smoking outside the tent: "Where is this?" Shanya replied loudly: "Guizhou." Sometimes he replied: "Sichuan." She said "oh", finished peeing, went back to her coffin, kicked the snake into the corner with her foot, lay down and slept.

Once, she felt a stomachache in her sleep, woke up, went to the toilet, and she pulled out a snake.

Meng Ni sat in the glass pool, and after a long time, her ** sagged and her body became fat. At one point, blood was pouring from under her buttocks and soaking her pants, and she didn't feel a hint of panic and couldn't go to put toilet paper on because the show wasn't over yet. The snakes smelled blood and began to bite her, and the audience let out an exclamation, and she still sat there with a blank face because the show was not over yet. At this moment, an angry dwarf ran out from behind the scenes, and he stepped on the snakes that attacked her with his foot, and then lifted her up, and there was a snake hanging from her buttocks, and the dwarf pulled the snake down and threw it at the audience. From then on, she began to thank him and promised him. In an alley, she and he meet several drunks who are going for a walk, he hides in her skirt and she lifts a bicycle on the side of the road in self-defense. Since then, they have become husband and wife. No matter how small a man is, he is a big man, and no matter how big a woman is, he is also a small woman. Sometimes, she couldn't figure out if it was her brother or brother who came to sleep, because the twin gnomes looked exactly the same. Neither of these gnomes was of childbearing potential. She had two husbands.

Later, when the circus was disbanded, Mennie took one of the dwarfs back to her hometown and began to live a lonely rural life. She wasn't sure if the little man she was holding in her hand was the one who had saved her from the snake kiln. This villain has a very bad temper, likes to scold people, and sometimes beats people, and the whole village hates him. He likes to wrinkle his nose and sniff around in the air. After a drunken period, he disappeared, and by the time he was found, he was so stinky that the whole village ran to a pond to see the recovered body.

After getting drunk, he cried for his father and laughed for his mother, and he died drunk in a pond at the age of 40.

He doesn't know anything, he doesn't hide in his skirt and perform ventriloquism, he doesn't hide in a tank to perform magic, he's a trash.

Another dwarf followed Big Brother to Yunnan, and they sold drugs from abroad to Shanya, who in turn sold them to Sanwenqian and Ma Youzhai, and the disbanded circus formed the largest drug cartel in China.

There was a tall locust tree in front of the shop, and that year, the locust flowers fell late, and in the depths of the branches and leaves, magpies chirped.

Under the locust tree, Granny Meng stepped on an old-fashioned sewing machine. Another dwarf returned, and he stood at the junction with the wind blowing from behind, which gave him the air of dominating the world.

"Ni, are you doing, okay?"

She didn't answer, and tears flowed down her cheeks.

Granny Meng killed a dog to entertain him. She had this dog for six years. The dog snuggled up at her feet, raised its head, and licked its owner's trousers, and she stroked its head with her hand. After a while, she took out a knife, took its head into her arms, and sent the blade into its neck. The dog howled quickly into the pyre next to the shop, and she beckoned to it, and it ran back and continued to snuggle at its master's feet, shaking a little. She touched its head again, as if to comfort a wounded child, but the warmth was fleeting. Her knife stabbed into its neck again, the same wound as the previous one. The dog barked, with a knife stuck in his neck, and jumped into the pyre next to the shop. The master beckoned to it, and it bared its teeth, and this time crawled back—and so on two more times, before it died on the way to its master, and its blood was on the same path.

The gnomes brought a lot of gifts, gold jewelry, perfumes, a bundle of money, and a few poppy husks. Granny Meng threw everything out the window, and she said, I don't want it.

"And what do you want?"

"I don't want you to go."

"I'll be back."

"When will you be back?"

"Winter."

"When is winter?"

"When it's snowing."

In the evening, they ate dog meat, drank soju, and had a night of revelry.

The next morning, he was gone. This little dwarf, more like a man than a man, never looks back when he wants to leave.

It was a great blessing for two men to love her like one, even though the combined height of the two men was less than her ears. In addition to killing dogs, her only hobby is to sleep, and she rarely goes out, because she is so ugly, and her obesity outweighs her ugliness, and when she was 26 years old, she weighed more than 300 pounds. Excessive obesity even made it impossible for her to tie her own shoes, so she wore slippers all day long, skirts all year round, and in summer, she wore a skirt; In winter, she wears four skirts. Her skirt was specially made for her by a tailor in the village, she never wore a bra, it should be said that there was no bra that could accommodate her ** room.

Her ugliness has nothing to do with her face, at the age of 40, her weight is close to 400 pounds, and any movement is slow, such as she walks slowly, turns around like a ship, stirring up the hot air. This obese woman is so powerful that she can shake off the ripe dates on a tree with one palm, and she only needs a knife to kill a dog, and she can tear off the entire dog skin with a single force with both hands.

The poppy thrown out the window sprouted, grew quietly, and in summer, bloomed brilliantly, and soon produced spherical fruits. Granny Meng harvested the poppy, threw it into the pot, and put in star anise, Sichuan pepper, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, angelica, grass fruit, angelica, nutmeg and other seasonings. She cooked a pot of dog meat, picked it up and sold it at the market, and sold it out halfway through, so fragrant that many passers-by stopped and swallowed.

It doesn't matter what you eat, it's who you eat with and where you eat it. Eating dog meat isn't just a matter of dogs, it's the atmosphere that matters.

There are several messy tables in front of the store, and there are arm-thick ice picks hanging from the branches next to the old fence, which are dripping with water at noon, and Changbai Mountain is the background of the whole picture. In the snowy weather, there is the fragrance of plum blossoms behind every snowflake. After eating the dog meat, they disappeared into the wind and snow, and reappeared in a dimly lit house. Every year in the village, there are men who die of alcoholism, and those who fought for the fire of their neighbors yesterday have become arsonists in a blink of an eye, and those who give money to widows and widows because they have lost money in gambling and rob them.

The ginseng diggers had already gone into the mountains, and the night hunters were talking around the campfires, and they baked a brick to a red color, and lowered it into the frozen river with an iron rake. The bricks screeched, slowly melting the ice, and the same place where the sleigh had passed a day ago, where the fish had swum months ago, was now a hole, and the fish under the ice swam to breathe. Several people were smoking cigarettes and drawing buckets of water from the ice holes, each with a few fish churning around.

Granny Meng stood by the river, and she remembered that in the summer, her husband, the little dwarf, threw a wooden bed into the river and tied it to the aquatic weeds so that the wooden bed would no longer drift with the waves. He stood on the bed and cast his nets and fished, and he scraped off the scales with a dagger, washed the fish, threaded them on wire, and hung them in the backyard.

The snowflakes in the air were fluttering, Granny Meng raised her face and looked at the sky, a heavy snow made her gray hair in an instant, this poor fat woman said to herself to the sky:

"He didn't come ......"

In the summer of 1998, Granny Meng finally got tired of waiting. She had a bottle of wine on her dining table with plastic flowers in it, which she bought in the late '80s, and she got up from the table, closed the door, and walked onto the whitening country road, just after dawn. At that time, two more things happened - a wasp flew to the haystack, and a cauliflower snake coiled into a ball. She turned a corner and went to Shenyang to find Ma Youzhai, what was she looking for Ma Youzhai for, the best answer was not to say it, because the word acacia had already been written.

Since then, she has been away from home for a period of time every year.