Willow Camp

Chapter 1: Imu

The walls of the men's and women's restrooms are insurmountable. Even though it was filthy, splattered with and urine, and some people wrote riddles about genitals, it was a wall of morality, a wall of law.

Butterflies and flies flew over the walls. Imu is not a butterfly, let alone a fly, but he has to go to the women's bathroom every day. It's a sadness, Imu is a man.

Imu pans for dung. Bent over, his dirty hair was wet and wisps, he was panting like a cow, and he was sweating. No woman would marry him, for the simple reason - he was mute.

Imu is mute, so he scoops dung, which makes sense. The toilet is where Yimu works, and every day at midnight, he sets off on time, pulling a dung truck like a ghost through the streets and alleys, and the urine and urine in the public toilet in Jiaxiang County, Shandong Province are waiting for him.

Imu is ugly and can scare the most beautiful woman to death.

He did not dare to come out during the day, for someone would surely spit on him, and if he was angry, he would be beaten.

Imu lowered his head and pulled the dung truck step by step. His eyes bulged out and flashed with a hint of panic, his frowning brow had not been stretched since birth, which made his whole face smile wry, his teeth were two rows of sparsely twisted "yellow bean cress", and his ears covered by unkempt hair looked like caves in which wild beasts lived. Low self-esteem made Imu accustomed to bowing his head, so he hunched back again.

Sometimes he looked at the sky, and there was no shadow of a bird in the sky.

Imu has been a sanitation worker for more than 20 years, and he has tied his life to this ugly filthy manure tank, with maggots tumbling under his feet. Imu was wearing a-colored overalls, his chest was breathing with a stench, and the silence gave the action a solemn color as he reached for the poop paper and sanitary napkins that were blocking the drain, and there were a lot of flies dancing around him.

The county town is going to be bustling back up in the early morning, and Imu is going to fill the dung trucks before dawn.

Once, in a public toilet, it was already dawn, and Imu saw a woman having diarrhea, and the woman screamed when she saw Imu. Imu put the in the bucket and dumped it in the dung truck outside the door. He went in and out, ignoring the bare-ass woman.

If there were a torch to illuminate the dead end in his body, he would see that at the end was a heart bound by rusty chains, imprisoned in his chest, beating unfreely day and night, and the harder it beats, the tighter it is strangled.

After 15 days of detention, Yimu was sent to the police station for hooliganism, and after 15 days of detention, he lost his job as a dung digger.

Chapter 2: Blind Ni

Blind Ni was born in a sorghum field in Yimeng Mountain, and her mother tore off the umbilical cord and fainted in pain, never waking up. The next day, passers-by heard the faint cry of Blind Ni, and the bodies of Blind Ni and her mother were transported home by a flatbed truck pulled by a donkey.

Blind Ni's father was a grumpy drunkard. Blind Ni's brother fed a she-goat. The goat's milk kept the blind girl from dying. One of the earliest objects she knew in her life was **, and since then Blind Ni has a vague concept of the circle. Later, her brother told her that the moon was round and the sun was round, and the woman, who had been blind since birth, began to feel at a loss about the world.

Blind Ni's world is very small, just a yard, and she has been accustomed to the life of chopping wood, feeding sheep, washing clothes, and burning kang since she was a child. She slept in the hot soil ash in front of the kang, and she knew it all year round.

Both the saffron and the green grass were black in the eyes of the blind girl.

All colors were predestined in the dark, but all colors changed when Blind Ni was born. Colorful and gorgeous, only black remains, boundless. Blind Ni stretched out her hands to the darkness, cautiously treading on thin ice, there was a chair here, a table there, she needed to avoid and remember where they were, she wanted them to never move.

Blind Ni had broken many bowls and pots, and her father would always beat her up and scold her in a rage, and would not give her food.

Sometimes, Blind Ni cursed her father to die soon.

Sure enough, on the day of his brother's wedding, his father died drunk under a birch tree outside the door. The sister-in-law was very fierce, and after passing the door, she gave Blind Ni a handful of straw to let her live in the sheepfold. Blind Ni soon got used to the smell of mutton, the cold and the stuffiness. But her sister-in-law hated her more and more, and often beat her for no reason, and her brother didn't care. Blind Ni thought of death and drank pesticides more than once. She knows the taste of dichlorvos, dimethoate, herbicides.

Once, her brother poured laundry detergent into her stomach and made her vomit. The neighbor's aunt asked Blind Ni, why can't the little blind Ni think about it? Blind Ni rolled around on her stomach and said, there was no food, no shelter, and no clothing.

Aunt Xiang said to her sister-in-law, let's find a man for this little man to live!

The sister-in-law asked the matchmaker to give the blind Ni Zhang Luo a portrait. The sound of the matchmaker's footsteps made Blind Ni nervous and happy at the same time. She squatted out the window and heard the matchmaker say that she had run all over the eight villages, and an old bachelor said that she would come on a blind date tomorrow. That night, Blind Ni lost sleep and lay tossing and turning on a straw mat in the sheepfold.

The next day, when the old man came, she stood under a stinky tree in the courtyard, bowing her head and twisting the corners of her clothes with her hands. Her breasts were shriveled, her buttocks were flat, her braids were burnt yellow, and her neck was dirty. At that moment, she was shy, and she was the most beautiful in the world. However, as soon as the old bachelor saw the blind girl, he shouted, and he clearly said that he was a little widow, but he was a blind man. The matchmaker hurriedly persuaded that since she came, she would go over and talk, she was only 18 years old, and she was also a yellow flower girl. The old bachelor waved his hand again and again, missed the hit, and turned his head away. The sister-in-law chased out the door and took off a shoe and smashed it viciously at the old bachelor, scolding, old turtle grandson, don't look at your bear. Blind Ni giggled, laughed and covered her face and cried again.

Three sacrificial stoves, four sweeping houses, five steamed buns, six killing pigs, seven rushing to the market, eight over oil, nine bags of dumplings, ten kowtows, meteors across the sky, in the blink of an eye, the New Year is almost over.

On the day of the twenty-ninth pack of dumplings in the lunar month, the matchmaker brought another person. Blind Ni later learns that he is a human trafficker. The traffickers circled around Blind Ni twice, pinched Blind Ni's shoulder, and patted her on the back. He told his sister-in-law that he was small, it was difficult to give birth to a baby, and he couldn't say whether he could survive or not. My sister-in-law said that she could give birth, and she could definitely give birth. The trafficker asked Blind Ni, have you ever had a period? Blind Ni was dazed. The traffickers spread their hands helplessly. The sister-in-law twisted the blind girl hard, she took out 50 yuan and said to the trafficker, this waste can be sold, and if it can't be sold, you can help throw it away. My brother was making hay, and he sighed and said, "My sister, pitiful, please find a good buyer!"

Riding on the train made her feel so fresh, her feet didn't move, but she had left home.

She asked where to go?

The traffickers said that Shanxi, that place is poor, and there are many wives-in-law.

Passing by Jiaxiang, Shandong, parking for 5 minutes, the trafficker said to get out of the car to buy a few buns.

Blind Ni said I'll follow you.

After getting out of the car, the traffickers muttered as they walked, if I want to play a mile, I'll run away now, can you catch up? In fact, the buyer has already been contacted, and there are several, one is psychotic, one is crooked, and one is a labor prisoner - which one do you choose?

Blind Ni bit her lip and didn't speak, clutching the corners of the trafficker's clothes.

30 buns.

The trafficker took out the 50 yuan given by the blind sister-in-law and handed it to a vendor on the platform.

The peddler glared at the money and said, "You can change it for me, this one won't work."

What do the traffickers say?

The hawker said it was a lie.

The traffickers and peddlers got into a quarrel and got into a fight. The peddler picked up a fire shovel and broke the trafficker's head, and the trafficker scolded his grandmother for being a bear, and splashed a pot of boiling water on the peddler's face, and the peddler screamed like a pig and fell to the ground.

The traffickers were taken to the police station.

Blind Ni huddled in the crowd of onlookers, as if the matter had nothing to do with her. A girl said, this guy has to be sentenced, he can't get out for three or five years, intentional injury, big New Year's Day, look at the people burned.

The crowd had dispersed, the train had already left, and Blind Ni was panicking as she held on to the telephone pole, and after a while, she crouched on the ground and covered her face and began to cry, the cold wind blowing her braids.

She cried, not because she was vulnerable, but because she didn't know where to go.

It was snowing, and Blind Ni sat on a few snowflakes. Blind Ni's eyes widened, she couldn't see the white world, she hugged her knees and trembled, she didn't know whether to stand there and wait, or where to go, she just felt desperate in her heart. It was Chinese New Year's Eve, and only the snow could make her eat and the northwest wind could make her drink. When the midnight bell rang and the sound of firecrackers, Blind Ni raised her face and her teeth warped, and she said to herself, "Ah...... It's Chinese New Year! ”

The next day, an old man sweeping the snow found a blind girl who was about to freeze. He kicked Blind Ni's foot and said, "Girl, go to Liuying!"

Chapter 3 Land

A long time ago, farmers in Jiaxiang County, Shandong Province, had a desire to grow wheat on their land. Again and again they sowed, and again and again they were disappointed. Wheat is like weeds. When it doesn't grow and the heading is yellow. Wasteland is still wasteland, and what is planted is not harvested. The severe alkalinization of the soil has caused farmers in this county to live in poverty for hundreds of years.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the county party committee team has taken measures to improve the soil quality such as "deep ploughing the land, shallow farming" and "contributing a bucket of dung", but the drought and flood are ruthless, and the four pests are rampant, the sun is out, and the ground is still white and flowery.

People are desperate, even the county magistrate is desperate.

In 1972, Zhou Juzhi served as the magistrate of Jiaxiang County, and after he took office, he vigorously planted fruit trees. Apples, pears, peaches, hawthorns, apricots, walnuts, and apples are the main ones. By 1978, Jiaxiang County had 1,000 acres of orchards.

By 1980, Jiaxiang County had become one of the 23 fruit bases in the country.

In front of the department store, there is a sheep soup restaurant on the side of a quiet boulevard, garbage is piled up under the wall that says "no dad to take out the garbage", flies are flying, and the street lamps in the alleys decorate the night of the county. Early in the morning, motorized tricycles abruptly drive towards the wholesale fruit market. Rapid business led to a variety of side businesses, with the emergence of a number of transport fleets, canneries, and willow weaving factories. The two largest willow weaving factories in the county are the Nanguan Willow Weaving Factory and the Disabled Willow Weaving Factory in Liuying.

Chapter 4 Willow Camp

Liuying is eight miles away from the county seat and is a small village. There is a large yard near the road, which is very lonely and seems to be isolated from the world. However, for some people with disabilities who live in dark corners – this is a paradise!

If it doesn't rain, there will be eight blind men in the courtyard who sit on the maza and weave baskets, and the fastest one is the blind one. She moves skillfully, as if she were playing with her fingers. Imu and three mutes were on a tree on the embankment in front of the village, each with a machete in their hands, and they cut down the willow branches and carried them back like mules. The other three mutes stayed in the courtyard to prune and prune leaves, and do some chores. There were four lame and two paralyzed men who soaked and smoked the pruned willow branches, and a gnome who kept adding water and firewood, and who was also in charge of cooking.

There are two rows of houses in the courtyard. One row is a bungalow, and the other row is a tiled house.

If it rains, the courtyard will be empty. The bungalow near the iron gate has the door facing north and the window facing south. The door was made of broken wooden planks, and an iron hook was the lock. There is a rocking chair in the room, the wall against the bed is still pasted with newspapers from the "Cultural Revolution", two broken sofas are exposed with cotton wool, and a greasy coffee table is placed in front of the sofa.

Outside the window, the barren ground is drenched in the rain, voles are hiding under dandelion leaves to take shelter from the rain, and tractors are driving by on the road.

Several other bungalows were piled with sundries. Blind Ni lived alone in one of them, and at that time she was the only woman in the wicker factory. The spider hung down from the roof and down to her spinning wheel. Blind Ni can do anything, and when someone gives her some cotton, she spins the thread. Outside of work, I take the soles of my shoes in my spare time. Except for the two paralyzed men who had no feet, the workers of the willow weaving factory, including the boss Liu Qing, wore cloth shoes made of blind ni.

The corner formed by the bungalow and the courtyard wall is the toilet. A few bricks were piled up with a few fulcrums, and cigarette cases were thrown everywhere. Opposite the bungalows were four large tiled houses, three of which were warehouses, stacked with baskets, in which rats squeaked and gave birth to litters after litters. The remaining room was a dormitory, with rotten doors and windows, the sound of rain, the damp and oppressive air in the room, the sputum on the floor, a dozen iron beds with bunk beds against the wall, and the coarse cloth quilt emitted a sullen stench like a rotting corpse. A mute man in patched pants stood in the middle of the house and sang, humming through his nose until he finished singing, when a blind man in a felt hat pulled the erhu to accompany him. A dwarf, sitting on a small three-legged bench with a big head in contemplation, his head resembling a winter melon, others call him a winter melon, and the blind girl calls him a big head. A few blind men sat at their desks listening to the radio, and two mutes talked with gestures, one saying that the rain might fall until noon tomorrow, and the other saying that it would be better to fall until evening. In the corner, a lame man and a paralyzed man sat cross-legged on the lower bunk, drinking and eating meat. The lame man's name is Xiaola, and he is a Muslim. The paralyzed man got up, and he found a plank, and put four wheels on it, and he sat on it, paddling with his hands, as if there was a sea around him. When he came to Liuying, he was so hungry that he couldn't row, Liu Qing gave him two steamed buns, and after he finished eating, he choked and stared, and for a long time, he hiccuped very loudly.

The rest of the people were sleeping, and Imu was snoring like thunder.

Chapter 5 Liu Qing

There are two trees in front of the door, one is a willow and the other is an elm.

One day, Liu Qing came out of the door and cut down the elm tree, made it into a rocking chair, and shook her body under the window. He seemed tired and often looked out the window in contemplation, and then when it got dark, he saw nothing.

That willow tree, with the wind blowing, sings through the ages!

In 1980, a blind fortune teller passed by. He patted the trunk of the tree and asked Liu Qing, is this a willow tree?

Liu Qing said, yes.

Isn't the tree two feet eight feet tall?

Liu Qing said, well, almost.

Is there a puddle due south?

Liu Qing said that there is a pond.

The blind man asked again, is there a monument under the root of the earthen wall in the southwest?

Liu Qing said yes, and it was written "Taishan Stone Dare to be".

The blind man nodded, and muttered to himself, the same as I had dreamed of.

This tree is planted by willow green.

There was a broken mailbox hanging on the tree, and there was no letter, and after a long time, it became a nest for birds.

Liu Qing's parents died early, and they died by eating Guanyin soil during the three-year difficult period. At that time, Liu Qing was still a child, he broke a willow branch, ate all the leaves, stuck the branch in the road trench in front of the door, soaked the urine, and then fled to beg for food. After he left, the willow branch took root and grew into a towering tree.

Liu Qing wandered outside for many years, and he brought back a Sichuan woman. The woman's hair was coarse, dirty, and smelly. She could weave baskets, and she died after giving birth to a girl.

Liu Qing named her daughter Liu Ye.

Liu Qing has suffered from hunger and suffering, which makes him strong and patient, and he puffs up his chest even if he bows his head when he encounters difficulties. He had a city in his chest, and he frowned when he laughed. Liu Qing has a keen eye, since his handicraft workshop took in the first blind fortune teller who was about to starve to death, he saw that some people at the bottom of the society were shining, those people were waste in the eyes of others, and they were also the cheapest labor in the world, giving them a bite to eat, they would work hard, which made Liu Qing the earliest 10,000 yuan household in this county, and had a savior-like aura in the hearts of the disabled.

What started as a handicraft workshop developed into a large enterprise in southwest Lu a few decades later.

The workers are all disabled!

Chapter 6 Bonding

Imu and Blind Ni are both miserable people.

There is a well in the courtyard of the willow weaving factory, the bluestone is inlaid with a circle of darkness, and there is a wooden barrel hanging from it, and there is a stone trough next to it, and there are often small birds flying to drink water, and then fly away. Yimu once lifted it high, then put it down, and stretched out two fingers to the people around him, and others knew that the stone trough weighed 200 catties.

There was a pile of dirty clothes soaked in the stone trough every day, and Blind Ni was familiar with every edge of the stone trough. She washes her laundry until late at night, she doesn't care about the darkness, she just likes to help others.

Imu often held a steaming teacup and looked out the window intently.

Blind Ni didn't dare to have any extravagant hopes for life, it was enough to help others wash their clothes and listen to the birds. She froze when she first heard the giggles of willow leaves, it turned out that there was such a beautiful sound in the world. Liu Qing said, you hug Xiaoyezi. Blind Ni hurriedly shook her head and waved her hands and said, Big brother, I'm ugly, scaring her. Liu Qing said it was okay and put the leaf in her arms. When a soft little body pressed against Blind Ni's breasts, she struggled to breathe, and a shiver of happiness spread through her body, a feeling that only a mother could experience.

Blind Ni felt that she could not have a child in her life, because no one would marry her. When she lived in the sheepfold, she had a rag doll made of rags and straw, for which she embroidered many stars and small flowers.

Women love children as much as spring loves grass.

Blind Ni never thought about getting married, but love came suddenly.

That night, after washing her clothes and changing into a pool of clean water, she sat on the maza and hummed a song in the moonlight, and a few diapers from the leaves were quickly washed. Blind Ni sniffed it, felt dissatisfied, and washed it again.

When Blind Ni was tiptoeing to dry her clothes and diapers in the courtyard, Imu quietly approached, and Blind Ni was hugged before she could turn around, she exclaimed in surprise and immediately pinched Imu's arm. Imu was panting and powerful. Blind Ni's belt was broken, and it was a straw rope. She cried out, but her voice gradually turned to pleading. Imu's right hand rubbed the ** on Blind Ni's left, Blind Ni felt dizzy for a while, her body was soft and her hands were still tightly tugging on her pants, and after a while, she cried. Imu picked her up and carried her into the firewood room. When a humble soul develops a love for another humble soul, panic and fantasies, panic is like dry wood, fantasies turn into fire, all light and warmth appear, and heaven and earth rotate.

Liu Qing taught Yimu a lesson with a stick the next day, he was the factory director, and he was the one who took them in. The stick hit the ground on the head of the wood, and the blind girl trembled and fell to her knees, saying, Don't beat him, I don't want you to beat him. Liu Qing threw the stick and asked Yimu, would you like to marry her? Imu covered his head, he looked at Blind Ni, grinned and said, "Ahhhh Liu Qing asked Blind Ni again, are you willing to marry him? Blind Ni covered her face and nodded.

Two cloves of garlic form a heart, and two green onions form a cross.

Imu and Blind Ni are married. They chose a good day, and a good day was a cloudy and rainy day, and they didn't have to work.

Saturday, June 19, 1982, heavy rain.

That day, Blind Ni washed her face early, washed her hair, and used a match to dig out the dirty mud from between her fingernails, and then Blind Ni began to braid her hair, and before she knew it, her face was red. Blind Ni touched her face and said, "It's so hot! ”

Imu also didn't sleep all night. He woke everyone up with a single finger. Winter melon rubbed his eyes and said, "You have to buy a few chickens and drink some wine, and you have to get married." Yimu slapped his head and went to the vegetable market in Beiguan, the county seat, despite the wind and rain.

Blind Ni has a new look. He had alabaster on his face and a new straw rope tied around his waist. Winter melon knocked on the door and came in and said, "Let's go, go find your man." "The hall was bustling with activity, and everyone was looking forward to the bride's appearance. Winter melon grinned and led Blind Ni to Xiaola and asked, "Is this your man?" Blind Ni touched Lar's head and said:

"It's not." Winter melon led Blind Ni to his home and asked, "What about this?" Blind Ni touched her arm and said, "Not this one." ”

Blind Ni searched through all the people, but found Imu. Winter melon said: "Your man is gone, I don't want you anymore." Blind Ni said, "Don't make a fuss." Imu came back at this time, with a chicken in his left hand, wine in his right, and a few large radishes with long tassels under his armpits. He stood in the doorway, dripping with water.

Winter melon led Blind Ni to Yimu and asked, "Is this your man?" Blind Ni bowed her head and did not speak, and she heard the familiar wheezing. The winter melon cheered, and the others followed, a mute man took the wine and food in Imu's hand, a blind man scratched his hair, and a few pieces of shredded paper fell.

Chapter 7: Seduction

Early one morning, two people came.

The woman in it was beautiful, one of her sleeves was empty, her hair was permed, and she was messy by the wind, and her name was Tao Wan. Her brother had a canvas bag in his hand, and his eyes were bloodshot.

Deaf? Liu Qing asked the brother and sister.

The man shook his head.

Mute?

The man said no.

A gust of wind blew, he lifted up his trouser legs, and Liu Qing saw a prosthetic leg made of half a piece of wood, and later the prosthetic leg grew fungus.

Liu Qing said come in!

The door opened, and the tragedy began.

The man was a dramatist, and he and his sister used to sing Shandong Bangzi in the county troupe, but a fire made them disabled. The drama is cultured, and there is epilepsy, and it has to come once a month. When he came to the wicker weaving factory, he repaired the well railing, and in the summer, the well fence was covered with morning glories. He grows vegetables under the courtyard wall, and his sister Tao Wan raises a few chickens and kills one when she is happy.

How dirty the rag is, how messy life is.

Xizi suggested to Liu Qing that everyone must take a shower and brush their teeth. He built rudimentary bathrooms with Donggua, rebuilt toilets with Imu, separated men and women with plywood, and built a row of "concave" characters with bricks and cement. There were several jars on the windowsill, and he filled them with water and pickled eggs.

When he had done this, he became the director of the wicker factory, and his sister Tao Wan became an accountant.

Tao Wan is a one-armed woman, she stood outside the door and saw Liu Qing for the first time, Liu Qing was smoking a pipe, she saw a smoky face that was not very clear, it was the man she had been looking for for many years. From that day on, a voice echoed in my head, at first it was weak, but it was progressive

Asked: Marry him. Lightning streaked across the night sky, and the thought was always scented, quietly passing in the dark night, refusing to fade for a long time.

When Tao Wan helped Liu Qing clean up the room, she found a photo of a woman at the bottom of the box and asked, "Who is this?" Liu Qing said: "It's my daughter-in-law, dead, you look a little like her." At night, Tao Wan lay down in her hut, and she was not sleepy. Blind Ni fumbled in and put Ye's diaper on the head of her bed, she was not only an accountant, but also deliberately played the role of a stepmother. "Did you sleep?" Blind Ni asked. Tao Wan let out a low roar: "Roll the bear." Then he looked at the light bulb and thought wildly. The next day, when she was changing Yezi's diaper, she deliberately twisted the leaf to cry, and then sang two more sentences to make Yezi giggle. That night, the moonlight was very beautiful, a woman barefoot, gently pushed open Liu Qing's door with her index finger, she was nervous in the dark for a while, then stumbled and took off her clothes, lifted the quilt and got in. Liu Qing hadn't slept all the time, he thought it was a dream, his voice was refusing, his hand was hesitating, his heart had already agreed.

After two months, Tao Wan came out of the toilet and threw a ball of clean toilet paper in front of Liu Qing and Xizi. I'm pregnant, she said indignantly. The drama said what was going on, he looked at Liu Qing's face, and Liu Qing's face immediately turned into a pine flower egg. The drama whispered to Liu Qing, my sister is like this. Liu Qing patted the shoulder of the filmmaker: "I am a man, I have to dare to act." ”

Chapter VIII: War

A basket sells for one dollar, but the Nanguan Willow Weaving Factory quietly dropped to 8 cents, which undoubtedly gave Liu Qing two punches. Liu Qing didn't sleep all night after learning the news, and her eyes were black when she woke up in the morning. He frowned and walked around the room, Xizi and Tao Wan came in, and Liu Qing immediately said to Xizi: "The ear scraper is about to slap our faces, what should we do?" The drama said: "Nanguan? Liu Qing said: "He dropped to 8 cents, let's drop it to 6 cents." The actor said, "Then the wages of the people are less." Liu Qing said: "Our baskets can't be sold, and we can't earn a penny." ”

In the evening, Liu Qing announced the reduction of wages, and he asked everyone what their opinions were. Blind Ni touched her leg and said, "Come down, it's okay, it's okay." Jia Qi said, "Just have something to eat." The winter melon scoffed, and a dumb man next to him waved his hand, which meant: big fart.

When the apples were almost ripe, the dead branches and leaves fell to the ground, and a group of people came from Nanguan, all with weapons in their hands, including kitchen knives, sticks, iron forks, wooden shovels, pickaxes, axes, and large hammers. They were furious and shouted all the way from the Nanguan Willow Weaving Factory to Liuying. Liu Qing opened the iron gate and handed over a cigarette. But these people were almost furious, even though they didn't wear hats. The bald head at the head is called Lao Gai, he pointed to Liu Qing's nose and said, "Drop to 6 Mao, I think you owe a beating." "Since Liu Qing lowered the price, there have been fewer and fewer people who have gone to Nanguan to book baskets, and finally there is no one. Liu Qing didn't speak, and a group of disabled people stood behind him. Imu spat and drew a circle on the ground with his right foot, and the other dumb man raised his middle finger. Lao Gai said: "6 cents is not good, even the salary is not enough, let's discuss and discuss, flatten the price, set it steady, how about 8 cents, sell 8 cents?" ”

Liu Qing said, "No. ”

Lao Gai also said one word: "Smash!" ”

The scene of the fight between the two sides was terrible, and the Liuying Willow Weaving Factory was outnumbered, and soon, Liu Qing's ribs were broken three times, and one ear fell to the ground. The only leg of the play was also broken, and he received a blow on the head. A guy in a red sweater kicked Tao Wan in the heart. Several blind men were counted as blood mold, and their bodies were painted, and the blind ni's face was swollen like an eggplant, and the two front teeth of the family were one in the soil and the other in the stomach, but he pinched the other party's eggs. Imu was majestic, took a flat pole, and screamed in a rage, and the people around him fell to the ground. The dramatic change came from a weighing stone in the hand of the winter melon, and the child-like dwarf shouted to Lao Gai, "Look here. "He was aiming for his head, but he was blind in one eye.

Lao Gai also became a disabled person, he covered his face and shouted: "Ruined, withdraw, withdraw." ”

The county party committee attached great importance to the fight, and the responsible persons of the task force and the Disabled Persons' Federation investigated the matter. Soon, the Nanguan willow weaving factory was ordered to stop production, and Lao Gai was sentenced to 8 years in prison for injury.

Chapter 9: Ima

Tao Wan died in the hospital on the day of the fight, she touched Liu Qing's only remaining ear with her only hand and asked, "Do you love me?" Before Liu Qing could answer, Tao Wan died. At that time, the actor was lying unconscious in the ward, and the others went back after bandaging their wounds.

There was a dumpster near the hospital and there was a baby in the dumpster. In the early 80s, it was common for cruel parents to abandon their children with disabilities like garbage.

The baby was bloodied and motionless, and one of his feet was deformed, like a chicken's paw. The onlookers thought he was dead, and the flies, knowing that he was alive, flew around his navel. Suddenly, the baby's body twitched slightly, and the closed eyes slowly opened a slit. The onlookers all stepped back, and a woman said, "Borrow the light and show it to me." ”

Imu and Blind Ni happened to be in the crowd. Blind Ni stretched out her hands and groped her way to the garbage heap, and the people dodged out of the way. Blind Ni touched the broken glass, the broken shoes, the rotten leaves, and finally, she touched the baby.

It's a brat. Blind Ni said excitedly.

Liu Qing and Xiazi lay in the county hospital for more than a month. After being discharged from the hospital, Liu Qing's head was still wrapped in gauze, and she was on crutches. The sky was cloudy, and their faces were cloudy. Liu Qing asked Blind Ni, "Where did the child come from?" Blind Ni said, "Pick it up, pick it up in the garbage heap, that day, the wind blew the wires, whining." I touched it, good fellow, I pricked it, and when I touched it, I touched him, it stinked, and there was no heat on my body, and when I came back, I asked my man to boil hot water, and bathed him, and washed it again, and again. The next day, he ate, drank several sips of rice soup, this kid has a hard life, his feet are a little wrong, big brother, you can name my child! ”

On the highway, a carriage pulling fruit seedlings drove by, Liu Qing named the child Yima without thinking, he touched the child's leg and said: "This is a cripple, when he grows up, he can walk and run." ”

Chapter 10 Equality

The tree in front of the willow camp became a flag.

Many people with disabilities came to see the trees from afar, and they saw hope. It's not far away, it's always in their hearts. Except here, for those who are suffering and have no freedom, everywhere is hell, and there is no need to fall at all.

There is gold in the dung, and there are pearls in the mussels, which are left to sleep and not opened, and do not give a dazzling chance.

Many of them are ugly and dirty. Not roundworms, more like maggots. They can't seem to survive on their own, they can only parasitize on one person, one family, one society. They have a living environment that ordinary people can't tolerate. The spittle, the complaints, the misunderstandings, the rejection and the insults surrounded them all day long. Their life path is difficult, and their minds are wriggling.

They lurk in the shadows of society, and some people think they are threatening the happiness of others. There are hands but no work, there are brains but they can't think, and even the genitals seem superfluous. There is no other way to deal with the damage than to endure it.

People with disabilities are a class, a people who suffer, and the pain is passed down from generation to generation. Every day, people fall into this vulnerable group. A blind man doesn't care about the night, but needs the sun. People with disabilities are always there, starting with humanity and ending with humanity. They are just as healthy as able-bodied people.

Disability is not the root cause of the suffering of persons with disabilities, and all unequal and unreasonable social phenomena are produced by society.

The Liuying Willow Weaving Factory became a gathering place of all kinds of suffering, and God did not live in this courtyard, but it was a paradise for the disabled.

Chapter 11 Restaurants

One, two, three, four, five, count to five, and five years have passed.

During this period, a lot of things happened, the standard of living in the city improved, the countryside was still poor, Liu Qing expanded the factory, bid farewell to the primitive handicraft workshop, he bought a television, and entered a new era.

Television sets are a good thing that tells people what's real and what's fake. Liu Qing climbed the willow tree in front of the door, tied the antenna to the highest branch, and shouted below: "There is a shadow, and there is a voice!" "In the evening, the people of the village also come to watch TV. The men squatted on the ground and ate noodles, and the old ladies sat at the base of the wall and coaxed the children.

Pulling is watching TV while rubbing mud. He rubbed his neck and feet, rubbed it into a mud pill, sniffed it, smiled, and smashed it into the old lady's pile. This can be regarded as a kind of teasing, and a few old ladies also threw small stones over and said with a smile: "Throw your mother's hydrangea." The word hydrangea made Xiaola think about it, and the single man rubbed it hard and hit a widow on the head. The widow slapped her thigh and scolded: "Which little crooked cunt? Ra stood up and said to me, and the widow twisted her ass and walked up to him and slapped him three times. The crowd burst into laughter. Mola touched her head and looked at the woman's hand. No other woman has touched him except his mother.

Ye Zi is a mischievous little girl, and in Ima's memory, her dress is always dirty. She waved a small spoon in the crowd and screamed punch, punch in her mouth. Liu Qing lay on the rocking chair and said, "Disobedient, spanking." "Ye Zi still said hit, hit. Liu Qing came up on her ass and asked her if she was still beaten, she pouted and said hug.

Imu smoked a dry cigarette, and Blind Ni clutched a rope. Ima climbed to the east and climbed to the west, and his intelligence was different from that of other children of the same age, and he could not speak at the age of five. Blind Ni dragged Ima back and put it on her lap, and hummed quietly:

Moon old lady, Huang Baba,

Dad watered the ground, mother embroidered.

Little girl, I want to eat my mother,

Bring him a knife and cut it to him,

Hang him around his neck and eat it!

She tried to lull her son to sleep, but she fell asleep in a daze. Ima climbed to the gate and sat there watching the whizzing cars. At that moment, Ima was lonely. A man came from the highway and turned a corner and stopped in front of Ima. His face was terrifying, and Ima was so frightened that he held his head in his hands. Finally, Ima's voice screamed. It was a summer night, and the people in front of the TV shivered at the sight of that face.

That face is simply the devil's handiwork. His head was shrunk in his shoulders, his stiff neck was bruised, his throat seemed to be punctured, and it took a great deal of effort to swallow his saliva. He had a hideous word on his cheeks, a toad lying on his forehead, and a tragic voice echoing through his flipped ears that might cause a storm. What to call his nose, a little pimple? An egg? A tumor? The teeth are crowbars, the lips become fulcrums, and the corners of the mouth are collapsed, and white foam may flow at any moment. The chin, the chin was weirdly upturned to form a dimple where a few drops of rain and sweat could be stored. Only one eye of the messy facial features was still alive, the eyelids were bloodshot, the frightened eyeballs bulged out, as if they could be shaken off with a slap, the other eye was dead, and the eyebrows looked like black grass in the deep-set eye sockets. The whole face was bark-like pimples and pitted, except for a small patch of skin between the eyebrows.

"Dude, what's your face?" Liu Qing asked.

"It's hot, it's boiling water." He replied.

That night, Blind Ni said to Imu, "I know this new man!" "This person is the vendor who sells buns, and it was this vendor who changed her fate on the way to being abducted and sold by human traffickers. She recognized him with the characteristic hearing of a blind man. Life is full of dangers. A pot of boiling water fell from the sky, and his life was cut in two. The first half of my life is heaven, and the second half of my life is hell. Fate tortured him to the point where he was not Chéng Rén. He was like a ghost, unable to come out during the day, and turned into a wandering spirit at night, lonely. For this walking corpse, only Liu Ying is the place where he survives.

Disability makes them all equal.

His surname is Ma, and he is a Muslim, and Xiaola is also a Muslim. When the old horse came, he and Lara followed the Muslim diet. Eating is a treat. When the first snow fell in winter, the old horse boiled a big pot of mutton soup for three days and three nights. Snowflakes are flying, and the fragrance is permeating. He said to Xiaola that there is a pot in Shanxian County, which has not been turned off for more than 30 years, slowly stewing, gurgling, the soup is boiled, and the wood is fragrant when it falls into the pot and chews. Xiaola swallowed and said: "The sheep soup in Shanxian, Laiwu, and Xi'an is the best." "Lao Ma told a story: There was an old man by the Yellow River, and one year there was a big flood, and the old man and his three sons led the sheep and carried the family goods to the mountains. Floating out of the water came a medicine box, which contained thirteen kinds of Chinese medicine. The old man couldn't wait to die of hunger, so he slaughtered the sheep and boiled a pot of soup with the thirteen kinds of Chinese medicine. The smell attracted rats and snakes, all of whom were wandering around the pot. The old man said, "The house is flooded, the house is also collapsed, after drinking this pot of soup, go to each other to ask for food!" When the flood receded, the three sons burped, one went to Xi'an, one went to Laiwu, and the other went to Shanxian, and later they all opened a sheep soup restaurant. The thirteen kinds of Chinese medicine have become secret recipes, which are passed on to men but not women, and not to outsiders. He secretly studied in Shanxian for three years before learning this craft. Poured chili oil and sprinkled with coriander, Imu drank five bowls and Blind Ni drank three bowls. Liu Qing wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "It's enjoyable." "Lao Ma, you should open a small restaurant, the basket is a little wronged by you, let's be here," the actor said while drawing on the ground, "The south is Helin Street, and the north is National Highway 327, we are in the middle of these two intersections, you have to pass through here to enter and exit the city, Lao Ma, you should open a small restaurant." Lao Ma said: "I used to run a small restaurant. Liu Qing said: "Let's try to build a shed at the door!" ”

After the sound of firecrackers, Lao Ma's restaurant opened. A very simple shed, built over a ditch in the road, a log cabin without any romantic overtones, it leaks on cloudy days and staggers when the wind blows. Although the food was delicious, business was sluggish, and passing drivers were scared away at the sight of his face.

After a year, Imama gave Lao Ma a mask. He had earned it by playing with marbles, and he could already speak, walk, drag his right leg, have three marbles in his pocket, and make a rattling sound with every step.

Under a tree, Ima won a mask with the red of the three marbles. Ima, to the kid who lost, said that your marksmanship is also accurate. The child's name is Hu Dou, and he is the son of the head of Liuying Village. He sat on the ground and began to cry and scold Ima for being a stinky lame. Ye Zi said: "The puppy scolds and strangles you." The boy cried even harder, and the leaf stuck out his tongue at him and grimaced.

Ima's mask was given to the old horse. The old horse hesitated for a while, put it on slowly, and the whole person immediately glowed with dazzling light. It was a Peking Opera mask, one of the ugly ones in Shengdan.

Chapter 12 Clinics

Lao Ma's restaurant has been doing business since then.

A year later, another clinic opened in the restaurant next to Lao Ma. The person who opened the clinic was a paralyzed man named An Sheng, a native of Pingyin, Shandong. An Sheng was electrocuted when he was 13 years old, and his two legs were wasted, because he couldn't stand the discrimination and neglect around him, he resolutely ran away from home at the age of 25. During the day, he sold plasters in the bazaar, and sometimes put away his medicine stall and set up a tea jar to beg. He worked as a doctor and a beggar during the day, sheltered from the rain and snow under other people's roofs at night, and sometimes slept on the streets, sleeping in plastic sheds on the side of the road. A driver unloading cabbage told him that there was a basket weaving factory in Liuying, Jiaxiang County, and that the people who worked there were all disabled people, in the driver's words, just like you. After hearing this, he went to Liuying.

It was a winter evening when he arrived at Liuying, and the wind swept away the fallen leaves and plastic bags, leaving a clean road waiting for the heavy rain. Lao Ma, Datou, and Jia Qi were all roasting around the stove in the restaurant, and Xizi and Liu Qing sat at the table drinking tea and talking about the grafting of fruit trees. Thunder was rolling outside the house, and An Sheng came in.

He crawled in.

He had tires strapped under his buttocks, torn slippers on both hands, and an old leatherette bag around his neck. An Sheng raised his face and looked at the people in the room: "This is Liuying?" ”

Liu Qing said yes.

An Sheng squirmed towards the fireside with both hands and said, "Rest, it's finally here." The actor asked him where he was from. He said Pingyin, patted the tires under his butt and said, "There are 8 pieces of wear along the way." Lao Ma put a bowl of mutton soup on the small table in front of An Sheng, An Sheng opened his pocket, spread his hands and said, "No money." The old horse said, "Drink!" ”

An Sheng held the bowl, blew the hot air, and while drinking, he said: "It's really cold, the intestines are about to freeze, this soup is boiling well, the heat is almost, the soup is put pepper, anise, cloves, angelica, cinnamon, cardamom, sand kernels, more kaempfer, less good ginger, there is coptis and magnolia, as well as pepper and angelica, a total of thirteen kinds of Chinese medicine." Lao Ma was shocked, thinking that he had met a master. He asked An Sheng how he knew. An Sheng wiped his mouth and said: "I go to the rivers and lakes, sell plasters, know some Chinese medicinal materials, look." He took out two plasters from the bag on his chest, "One dollar two, apply to the navel, cure all diseases." ”

The big head came over and sniffed the plaster and said,,,. Liu Qing and Xizi laughed.

Jia Qi said: "Cure all kinds of diseases, can my leg be cured?" ”

An Sheng knocked on the car and said, "The willow wood is much more advanced than my tire." ”

An Sheng said: "A living leg can be cured, but a dead leg can't." ”

"What do you call a dead leg?" Home asked.

An Sheng burped, took out a slender needle from his bag, stuck it in his leg and said, "Look, this is a dead leg, no response." He pulled out the needle again, baked it on the lighter, and then stabbed it into the inner thigh of Jia Qi, who was grinning in pain.

Ansheng said: "You are a living leg, hehe, there is a reaction." ”

"Can it be cured?" Jia Qi rubbed his legs and asked.

An Sheng put the needle back in his bag and said, "No matter how big your ability is, you can't be cured, but it can make you stand up." ”

Jia Qi was very excited, grabbed An Sheng's hand and said, "If I want to be able to stand up, I will give you 100 kowtows." ”

An Sheng smiled and said, "No, your little car is good, just send me when the time comes." ”

Three months later, late one night, the family shouted for help! The sound sounded creepy at night, like a knife cutting through glass. Xiaola turned on the light, and the people in the dormitory saw that Jia Qi actually stood up, and he held on to the bed rail and looked at his legs, and the flesh on his face trembled. He slowly moved forward a little, and large tears fell on his feet. A few days later, with the help of crutches, he was finally able to walk upright, and he went from a reptile to a human.

In order to express his gratitude, Liu Qing bought a wheelchair and gave it to Ansheng. He burned the car, and the car, along with the tires under Ansheng's buttocks, was a great irony of a civilization.

An Sheng sat in a wheelchair and made baskets, Liu Qing said: "An Sheng, your hands are good hands, don't bury them, build a shed and open a clinic!" "Ansheng is proficient in traditional Chinese medicine, knows herbs, and distinguishes thousands of flowers. After the clinic opened, one day, Lao Ma took off his mask and asked An Sheng: "Can my face be cured?" An Sheng was so frightened that he roared "my day". After a while he said, "There are two kinds of medicine that will make your face look better, one is the clover that the white snake has bitten, and the other is the seven-colored flower that the elk has bitten." ”

The old horse sighed and said, "I'd better put this mask on!" ”

Ansheng has a lot of folk unilateral prescriptions, catkins can cure beriberi, kudzu root and skullcap can cure headaches, and grapevines can relieve cough and phlegm.

An Sheng will scrape, and with a Qing Dynasty word money, he can scrape Yimu's back pain. Ansheng's best practice is acupuncture. Acupuncture includes acupuncture and moxibustion. Moxibustion is generally done with moxa. Ima and Ye often went to the wilderness to pick the yellow-flowered wormwood and gave it to Ansheng, who gave them a few pagoda candies. Once, a constipated mason was carried to Ansheng's clinic, and the mason clutched his swollen belly and screamed, his face already purple. An Sheng washed his face with his hands, needles gushing springs, moxibustion large intestine Yu, on the giant void, and quickly pointed at the Lie Que acupoint with a burning hollow moxa, only to hear a snap, An Sheng said okay, after a while, the mason's stomach gurgled, let out a few farts, and ran into the toilet.

Ten years later, Liuying had grown into a thriving town, and the two sheds were gone, replaced by small white-tiled buildings lining the roadside. Ansheng's clinic has become the only traditional Chinese medicine hospital in southwest Lu, and Lao Ma's restaurant has become a well-known halal restaurant.

Chapter 13 Going to School

One day, Leaf jumped up and down to school, and Ima sat in the wilderness all morning. Imama was a gloomy, tolerant child who spoke little all day. Leaf caught a few tadpoles after school and packed them in canned bottles. She squatted on the ground and said happily: "Tadpoles will become frogs, and frogs will become princes, this is what the teacher said." Ima said, "Can a toad become a prince?" ”

Ima-Leaf quarreled for the first time that day, and they both cried while arguing. Ima sat beside Blind Ni all afternoon weaving baskets, and at night he hid, knowing that Leaf would come after him after school, and they had played a game of hide and seek countless times. Ye Zi asked the winter melon in the courtyard, "Have you seen Ima?" Winter melon said: "Who knows, it may be in the warehouse." The door of the warehouse was locked, Ye Zi jumped in through the window, looked around, she ran to a large cabinet, pulled the door of the cabinet hard, slapped and kicked it, and finally she was tired, frowned, and said: "Ima, I know you are inside, don't hide from me, I'm not happy, I'm uncomfortable, I've been uncomfortable all day!" She began to cry. Ima opened the cabinet and said come in! She screamed something bad and immediately jumped in.

Ima looked her in the eye and said, "Yezi, I want to go to school, I want to be with you." ”

Imu disagrees with Ima's school, and Ima's lying on the ground covered with rolls. Blind Ni dragged Ima up, patted the soil on Ima and said, "Son, let's not go, my mother will weave baskets to feed you, you are different from other children, you are a cripple, what can you do in school." Ima stubbornly said, "I have to go to school." Liu Qing said let Ima, be a companion with the leaves. Blind Ni sighed, and that night she sewed a school bag for Ima out of a noodle bag.

Chapter 14: The Game

The school in the village is a dilapidated temple with artemisia grass and a small locust tree growing on the top of the temple. The Buddha statue is long gone, and it is said that someone stole it. The so-called blackboard is a wall, and the original incense table is used as a lectern. Ima and Leaf spent the best childhood of their lives in this temple.

There are more than 30 students in the school, and there is only one teacher. The teacher's name is Shi Weiming, and he taught the children a lot of knowledge, from people, mouths, hands, to crows drinking water, to the magic pen Ma Liang, and then to the grass on the plain. The child sitting in front of Ima-Leaf is called Hu Dou, who is the son of the village chief, the unlucky guy who lost to Ima's mask.

There is a chicken coop in the playground, and there is a flagpole next to the chicken coop. One winter morning, the hen lays 3 eggs. Hu Dou said roast and eat, and he shook a box of matches in his hand. Then the dead leaves were lit, and the eggs became black in the ashes. There were many people and few eggs, and only a few older children rushed to eat them. Hu Dou, who had contributed the match, sat on the ground and muttered a string of vicious words. It was one word that was repeated, but it was five people who were scolded.

Every kid is a genius for swearing. They received the earliest and only sex education from swearing.

A knife fell from the sky and cut your mother's waist.

A needle fell from the sky, pick your mother's tendons.

Scissors fell from the sky and stuck in your mother's eyes.

The rod scale fell from the sky, hooking your mother's belly.

In the eyes of children with rich imagination, it seems that there is everything in the sky, and the other party's parents are unlucky, and they will be scolded for being indecent after a while. Sometimes, a certain talented child will suddenly say a wonderful sentence: A ragged gown fell from the sky and burned your mother's mouth.

Ima is a master of playing stones and marbles, and he can't participate in other games, so he can only watch others play by the chicken coop. For a while, Hu Dou often imitated his walking posture and made the other children laugh so vividly. Since then, Ima has stopped playing games and has become more withdrawn.

Ima stood by the hen's coop, his shadow like a small pile of garbage in the midday sun.

The games played by girls are more civilized. Jumping rubber bands, smashing sandbags, and catching mice. Catching rats is similar to throwing a handkerchief, and it is also sitting in a circle, clapping hands and singing songs:

Rats and mice are on the first day of January, tsk, the cat is coming.

Rats and rats are February 2, tsk, I didn't catch them.

Rats and rats March 3rd, tsk, and miles.

Rats and rats April 4th, tsk, run away!

Time has become very poetic in their eyes, and a circle is January. Soon they learned to play house, pots and pans, roots, and leaves were placed on the ground. Hu Dou leaned over with a smile and asked Yezi: "How about I be a father, I carry water, let me give the child an injection." Ye Zi said "Phew" and jumped and spat in his face. She held her little face and thought for a while, picked up the mud doll on the ground and ran to Ima's side, she covered Ima's ears and whispered, "Let's play together." ”

She smiled at Ima.

This smile touched Ima for many years.

Chapter 15: The Maniac

Blind Ni is crazy, and before you know it, she is crazy.

Her spirit was becoming more and more trance-like, and she stretched out her hands as if she was sleepwalking. When I walked to the well, I forgot what I wanted to do. When weaving baskets, my fingers are not as flexible as they used to be. Liu Qing said that she was old, and An Sheng said that it was a disease, a neuropathy.

Eyes open and eyes closed are the same for Blind Ni, they all see only darkness. A huge shadow hung over her, she began to lose sleep, sat on the bed all night, pinched Ima's arm, touched Ima's face, and when Ima woke up, she said: "Son, my mother's eyes are not good, you have grown up, use your mother as a crutch, wherever your mother goes, you follow her." Ima said, "Mother, go to sleep." However, she was very worried and said, "My mother is old and can't walk, what should I do?" Ima said, "Mother, I carry you on my back." ”

During the day, Blind Ni felt empty around her, and touched Maza, but Ima was not there. Blind Ni tilted her head in thought, shook her head, and sighed. At noon, and at dusk, she stubbornly stood at the door waiting for Ima's school. She is like a tree with a crooked neck, not afraid of wind and rain. Once, after school, a truck passed by on the highway, and Blind Ni quickly took Ima's arms in her arms, looked around in a panic, her chest rose and fell like waves due to nervousness, and she whispered as if she was calm, "The car is gone?" Ye Zi said, "Auntie, let's go!" ”

Blind Ni always thought that Imama would be run over by a car on the road, so she unbuckled her belt and tied Ima's to a tree. Winter melon came over to let Ima, but Blind Ni roared and grabbed Winter Melon's neck, his hands cold and powerful. Winter melon choked his throat and shouted: "Ruined me, let go, ruined me!" ”

Imu locked Blind Ni in the house. An Sheng said that let her eat whatever she wants, this disease can't be cured. Imu didn't complain, and his eyes still showed warmth. He combed Blind Ni's hair, braided her hair, and served Blind Ni with and urine. If he wasn't mute, he would sing a song to Blind Ni. Sometimes Blind Ni sobered up for a while, touched Yimu's face and said, "It's so good, I'll marry you in the next life." More often than not, she crouched in the corner shivering, or stood in front of the window and babbled.

Blind Ni spun around the house, a habit that the beast had developed in its cage. When someone walked by the window, she called out Ima's name, and she couldn't make out Ima's footsteps. She repeated again and again, "Ima, come here." Ima stood far away and whispered, "Mother, I don't." ”

The strength of a madman is astonishing. One day, Blind Ni broke a steel bar and jumped out of the window, but no one saw her, so she got on the highway and entered the county seat. Maybe she thinks Imama is still lying in the garbage. She stinks and has dog poop on both hands. Around the corner of Beiguan Elementary School, a group of dirty children heard Blind Ni muttering to herself, "No, it's not this." She looked up and rolled her eyes and thought for half an hour, then slapped her forehead: "By the way, go to the hospital." The hospital is on the south side. The group of children smiled wickedly and said, "Go west, go west." One of the children said earnestly, "There is a ditch on the west side, and you can cross the ditch." "Blind Ni is expressionless, blind commanding something!

Blind Ni wisely walked east, coming to a crossroads. She slowly crouched down amid the sound of the brake horn and the roar of the driver, and peed calmly, boldly and casually. She must have thought it was a sorghum field, but she forgot to take off her pants. She stood up in the stunned gaze of others and continued to walk on. I found an electric pole at the entrance of the family courtyard of the cotton factory, and there was a pile of garbage under the pole. Blind Ni flipped her hands carefully. However, there is nothing but garbage. Someone asked her what she was looking for, and Blind Ni said that she was looking for the child, but the child was gone. She rummaged through it again, and finally found a cardboard box with a dead cat in it. Blind said, "I found you." ”

There was a car accident that afternoon. On the road to Liuying, someone saw a blind woman holding a cardboard box, and perhaps out of joy, she ran up. As a blind man, it was her first time running, and the joy was indescribable. She ran faster and faster, when suddenly a large Yellow River truck came and knocked her down, dragged forward twenty meters, and ran over her with a clatter. Blind Ni's body was carried back, and Imu shivered at the sight of her, his hair stood on end, his eyes were wide open, and his mouth was open in astonishment, when suddenly he fell straight upright, convulsed and fainted.

A pit was dug in the embankment, and all the disabled people of the willow weaving factory came to pay them a funeral.

Blind Ni was wrapped in a straw mat, and her two calloused hands were exposed. Those hands were weathered, groping in the dark, growing up in the wind and rain, washing the diapers of the leaves and mending the pants of Ima.

Ima lay on the edge of the pit and cried until his throat was hoarse, and Ima shouted: "Mother, get up, get up!" Don't die, you can't see, I'll be a crutch for you, I'll carry you when you're old, and I'll follow you wherever you go. Mother, you get up, don't die. ”

Imu knelt there with a dull gaze, and when Liu Qing left the first handful of soil, Imu's chest cavity rolled like a muffled thunder, and he let out a wolf-like roar. Lao Ma, Xiaola, Jia Qi, and Xizi held down Yimu to stop him from jumping.

Imu wept at the grave of the blind nun for three days and three nights, and the tears soaked the ground before him, and who had ever heard the cry of a mute man, which echoed for a long time in the wilderness, like a saw sawing a door, like a stick smashing the things in the house, like a knife cutting through the chest, like a hammer breaking a man's heart little by little. In those days, the people in Liuying Village were listening, and on the fourth day, the crying disappeared, and Ye Zi carried a jug of water to bring food to Yimu, and Ye Zi said, "Uncle, you eat oil cakes." ”

Imu sat motionless in front of the grave, he was already dead.

One starry night, all the flowers and birds were asleep, shooting stars streaked across the sky, and the wind blew slowly. Ima and Leaf sat on a small dirt slope. Ima said: "Yezi, my mother is dead, my father is also dead, and I don't have any relatives." ”

Ye Zi said that no one can separate the two of us, just like your father and your mother.

Chapter 16: The Wilderness

Ima and Ye spent their days wandering the wilderness, and on the riverbank in front of the village were their humble dwellings, which were abandoned huts by fishermen. The grass by the river was already green, and there were reeds, and the leaves were spiky to the blue sky.

Nature is as beautiful as a dream. The footprints of Ima and Leaf are found in the most inhospitable corners. On a spring morning, the pond is filled with mist and the grass around it is wet. The swallow is a lover from afar, and the magpie flies about in the willows, its soft and delicate branches like a girl's hair, the silks hang low, and the leaves are pointy. The earth beneath your feet is soft and elastic, and a path leads to the sloping wooden houses of the foresters, with wild roses growing beside the fence and large flowers hidden among the branches and leaves. There is still water in an old well, and the iron bucket is hanging from the wheel, and after shaking it a few times, large droplets of water leak out. Ima and Leaf are the spirits of the wilderness, and the spring breeze makes her charming. She stood with a smile, a small person, big sad eyes, long eyelashes, like to wrinkle her nose, cute and naughty. She's a bad girl, jumping and jumping all day long, and her tongue is entangled. Sometimes she also bowed her head and sighed, kicked the grass, and then bit her lip to look up at the blue sky.

The sun shines on the earth, and after the summer rains, the air is fresh and sweet, mixed with the scent of flowers and weeds. A few sunflowers on the ridges drooped their heads, and the large leaves dripped water. Between the branches, in the grass, there were trembling cobwebs, and under a green shade was a meadow of raindrops. Algae floated on the wide surface of the river, and the reeds on the banks were submerged, leaving the reed sticks exposed. A fallen tree, the tentacles of two snails touch, and then crawling, carrying their respective little houses on their backs. Mushrooms grew on the damp trunks, and they were holding small umbrellas one by one, and they were preoccupied. The frog beats the small drum, and the grasshopper pulls the erhu. The sounds of nature are the best music. Suddenly the wind rose, and the wilderness fell silent, except for the sound of the wind being cut through the grass, and the trees began to panic. Dark clouds spread from the sky, soon swelling overhead, lightning sliced through the air, thunder rolled over, and torrential rain roared over the land. Ye tugged at her skirt and quickly jumped over the puddles, her hair swaying around. Soon she stood at the door of the fisherman's hut, beckoned to Ima, and said, "Quick, quick." Ima dragged his right leg and held his head, his clothes were already wet, but he giggled hehe. I don't know how long the summer rain will be, and once Ima and Leaf hid in that hut for the night, waking up in the very early morning light, the rain dripping through the roof on the hay of the previous year.

The autumn sun is like an egg. Ima and Leaf were walking in the birch forest, the ground was covered with autumn frost leaves, and a sparrow fluttered up from their feet. The sky was clear and cloudless, the west wind was blowing, and the leaves were falling.

In winter, the snow is covered and the rolling wilderness is clean. The earth radiated a beautiful white light, how soft and incredible. The haystack had thickened, and the snow on it was her hijab. A rabbit makes a noise, and it is not honest in the haystack, and it really does not know what kind of grass it wants to eat. The tree with ice cubes was still moving, and the red sun came out. Ima-Leaf breathed in the crisp cold, their little faces flushed with cold, and they built a snowman and punched and kicked it. A dozen carefree children smoke spinning tops on the river. The two older children picked up a stone and shouted, one, two, three, put, the ice "clicked", cracked a few thin cracks, and there was a white spot in the middle.

Chapter XVII

Among the relics left by Blind Ni, the cardboard box aroused Liu Qing's strong interest. The dead cat in the box emitted a foul smell, and the flesh of the white flower flower was born with maggots of the white flower flower! Liu Qing watched quietly for an afternoon, his heart was always excited, he was the first person to meditate on maggots. The actor came over and said, "Is this pretty?" Liu Qing said: "Xizi, look at the words on the box." ”

The carton is printed: Yantai apples!

The next day, Liu Qing and Xizi took a train to Yantai, and when they returned, they announced a startling decision. At that time, Liu Qing was standing on a rock, and that height gave him a sense of history. He talked endlessly, and the workers had never seen him so excited, never heard him say so much, and there were many new terms in it, enterprise, reform, market, packaging, generation, risk. He said that basket weaving is not good, and if it goes on like this, we will starve to death, we must have a long-term plan, we must set up a carton factory.

That night, a thunderclap was heard, and the willow tree in front of the door fell in the midst of the wind and rain.

Starting a business is tough. Plans have not changed much. It wasn't until a year later that Liu Qing officially established the Liuying carton factory with the help of the village chief. The village chief's name is Hu Jin, as early as the beginning of the reform and opening up, he took out a loan to contract 30 acres of orchards in the village, he and Liu Qing are both bold people, and soon became friends.

Chapter XVIII. Choice

Puberty comes imperceptibly.

Ye Zi is already a slim girl. Innocent, smart, and charismatic. Some bad boys whistled at her, and instead of salivaing, she smiled back. She seemed to know how to seduce, and then departed, walking lightly, carefully keeping her distance, and within three steps there was an invisible boundary. Whoever is good, who is bad, who is dismissive, all talk to them with their little faces. She knew she was a girl, so she became haughty. The chest quietly bulged and became two secrets that no one knew. No longer barefoot, she crept over and grabbed Ima in her arms. A scent began to emerge from her body, and it was because a small flower opened in her heart. Her hair was as smooth as water, and Ima said, "Leaves, I want to touch them." Ye Zi pouted, lowered his eyes and whispered, "Of course!" ”

When Imu and Blind Ni died, Ima was finished, just as everything was dark as soon as it was dark. Ima no longer goes to school, grows up like a wild man, no one cares, no one cares. His only pleasure was to run with the leaves in the field or in the county town all day, most of the time in the workshop where the machines were rumbling and the confetti was flying, sweating and doing the most tiring work. Sometimes it rained suddenly, and Ima sat on a broken tire, and felt very lonely, unfortunate, and melancholy in his heart, and when he looked at the rain under the eaves, he felt that a person's tears were flowing, and they would never end. The drama suggested that Ima's go to learn a skill from Lao Ma or Ansheng, and Ima's said that it would be the final decision. He developed a decadent walking style, his hair was dirty and messy, and he didn't care about anything. Ye Zi often helps Ima, and Ima, who pretends not to care, is actually willing to be with her. When Leaf wasn't with Ima, Ima felt empty and uncomfortable. Ye Zi said, "Ima, why can't you be a little happier? I think you've changed. "Ima said listlessly, I've always been like this.

Beans come almost every day in search of leaves. The two of them went to the county high school together.

There was a pot of moonflower on the windowsill of the leaves, and one day she pinched off the flowers and pinned them to her ears, and asked Hu Dou with a smile, "Is it beautiful?" Hu Dou said, "Yezi, I want to tell you something." Ye Zi glared at him: "Don't say it." Hu Dou still said, "Yezi, I like you." The roots of the leaf's ears immediately turned red, and she smashed the flower on the head of the bean and said, "Badass." With that, she ran out.

After graduating from high school, the production scale of the carton factory is getting bigger and bigger, and the water is overflowing, Liu Qing wants to expand the carton factory into a large pulp mill, so as to win a broader space for development, and the students from the deaf and dumb schools in the city, including several nearby counties, came here as workers as soon as they graduated, and he wanted to make full use of this cheap labor. Liu Qing and Xizi used a calculator to calculate the amount of money needed, and after addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, they needed a lot of money.

That night, Liu Qing went to find Hu Jin. When he came back, he hiccuped and spewed alcohol and said to the actor: "It's solved, everything is solved." Hu Jin promised to help him with a loan and propose marriage for his son, and he agreed without hesitation, he felt that it was a good marriage.

Early the next morning, Ima ran to Yezi's room, and Ima said to her, "Yezi, let's go to the county town to watch a movie." ”

Ye Zi was a little hesitant, she was lying on the bed, her hair was messy, her eyes were a little swollen, and she had obviously cried.

Then Ima said, "If you feel ashamed to be with me, let us go at night, and no one will see you." ”

The leaves are bent around and say that it may rain.

Ima said, "Whatever, you didn't talk so much before. "Then you don't have to work?" She asked, pouting.

"I gave myself a day off, and today, I have something to say to you."

"If you don't say it, I know it." She ran her fingers around her hair, and after a moment of silence, she began to cry and said, "I'm going to marry Hu Dou." ”

Ima said, "Oh. Slowly crouched on the ground.

When Ima heard the whistle, Hu Dou pushed the door and came in, combing his hair and wearing a pair of shiny leather shoes, and he said to Ima angrily, "Newly bought, yo, it's a little muddy here." He wiped his fingers and then kicked his legs so that his pants were straight and vertical. He smiled again and said to Ye Zi: "Daughter-in-law, come, I'm so lazy, I haven't gotten up yet." Ye Zi glared at him and said, "Don't you think about it." ”

Ima squatted, not daring to stand up, his pants had three patches, two on his knees, and the one on his cheek was yellowed with sweat.

Hu Dou and Ye Zi began to quarrel quietly, and this quarrel had a somewhat flirtatious flavor.

Imama stood up and said, "Yezi, I'm leaving." ”

Ye Zi bit his lip and looked at Ima with a pair of big eyes full of tears: "Where are you going?" ”

Ima said, "It doesn't matter, who knows. ”

Ima dragged one leg and looked depressed, and he didn't dare to look back, because tears were already rolling down. Walking into the courtyard, several new disabled people looked at Ima, in fact, they all knew why Ima was crying, and Ima slowly walked away in their gaze. Little La said to Ieki, "Ima may never come back, poor fellow. ”

At noon, Liu Qing set up a fragrant banquet for Hu Jin, and they happily talked about the loan. Hu Dou was very happy and kept putting vegetables in front of the leaves. Ye Zi forced a smile, picked up the steamed bun, took a small bite, and then put it down again. Her little face was flushed, and she tried her best to restrain her tears.

This heartless man lost his soul all day, and in the evening it rained heavily. Ye Zi walked around the room with her hands on her shoulders, she frowned, her face was pale, and every now and then she listened to something outside the window. She ran to the warehouse, opened the door of the cabinet, and said with a dejected expression that she was not here. Back in her room, she fidgeted and continued to walk around. After a long time, she stopped, stood in front of the window, let the cold rain wet her, and after a flash of lightning, she finally cried out: "He is gone, he will not come back, he will never come back!" "She cried so sadly, stubbornly, and unscrupulously. Everyone was woken up. Liu Qing stood at the door wearing a raincoat and said angrily: "Shame, go to sleep, you see that you are shivering with cold." Ye Zi clenched his fists and shouted, "Isn't he cold?" A loud thunder exploded, and Ye Zi muttered to himself, "I have to find him." Liu Qing said: "You dare? Grabbing her arm, she pinched her father with her fingernails, jumped out of the window into the rain, and ran out of the gate into the wilderness.

Leaf's two shoes sank into the mud, his feet were cut by pointed stones, and his skirt was clinging to his body. She ran into the hut on the riverbank in one breath and looked at the hay on the ground, and she said that someone had come. So she stood outside the door and shouted hoarsely into the wind and rain: "Ima, come out, please, don't throw me down, bad thing, please." She yelled, "Scoundrel, come back......"

The rain was roaring in the wilderness, and the leaves squatted on the ground in despair, covering their faces with their hands, and began to cry.

In fact, Ima did not go far, he sat in front of the grave of his parents, he held his head, and remembered many things. He shuddered when he heard Yezi's voice, and then he didn't hesitate to get up and walk towards her.

Leaves scream!

The two of them hugged each other tightly. Ima wouldn't kiss, so he licked her and licked the tears off her face. After a while, she raised her face and said, "Do you want me?" "Ima said yes. She looked at Ima, slowly took off her skirt, the heavy rain washed over her body, she closed her eyes and said, "Come on! ”

That night, in the storm, lightning and thunder, on the wasteland, in the quagmire, the two people were united.

Liu Qing didn't sleep all night, and almost all the disabled people didn't sleep all night, and they all sat in Lao Ma's restaurant. At dawn, the rain stopped, and Imako and Leaf appeared in front of them hand in hand. Ye Zi said, "I am already a member of Ima, and no one can separate us unless I die." Liu Qing looked at Yima, and after a while, he said, "If you can get a loan, I will marry you Yezi." "Ima said I didn't, but I'd be nice to her. The disabled people were silent, they made eye contact, and the actor was the first to take out his passbook and put it on the table, and the other disabled people also took out their passbooks and cash, which were their savings for many years. Liu Qing had a gloomy face and said, "If you lose money and go bankrupt, then you will all have to become poor." The drama said: "It's nothing to be poor, everyone didn't come to Liuying for money at all." An Sheng said: "I used to be a beggar for food. "I said so did I. With that, he pulled off one of his front teeth and placed it on the table.

That's a gold tooth!

Chapter 19: The Ending

After 10 months, Ye gave birth to a healthy baby.