Chapter 46: Dementia and Ignorance

If you want people not to know, unless you have done it. Xiaohong just couldn't understand that Xu Fengshu's family was so poor in the past, and the four of them didn't even have enough rice bowls to eat, and she didn't see her wife have three hands. Now she has lost her reputation for a dress that she can't wear, is it worth it?

In the evening, my mother came back from the vegetable patch, and when she found out about it, she also thought it was incredible. She looked at the light from the back window in the front yard, she thought for a long time in disbelief before saying: "If you lose it, you will lose it, you can't find it back anyway, living in the front and back yards, making a half-red face for a piece of clothing, what a joke." If you guess like this, and you don't catch someone, if someone bites back, you won't be able to eat and walk away! This woman, scolding is like singing, she sees people crying all day long, and she doesn't take advantage of it, so she has to be red-eyed. Virtue, isn't it just a piece of clothing, don't let her be knowledgeable, and buy another one one when she goes into the city one day! She wasn't afraid of Nie Yarong, but she felt that she couldn't figure out what was wrong with such a nonsense person.

"This was bought by my sister with half a month's salary, and I wore it once, and it was stolen right under my nose like a new one! Being a neighbor with such a person, sooner or later you have to prevent theft, and you don't even have a place to reason, it's really unlucky! Xiaohong said angrily. Her eyes were red, and she wanted to fly over the wall and teach the woman a hard lesson.

"There's no trick to get angry, you can't go to the door to ask for it, and you can't admit it if you ask for it, and then these trivial things, even if it goes to the township government, it's a lawsuit that you can't win, I think, don't go to poke that hornet's nest! Since she has the courage to take your clothes, she has the courage to break with you, why provoke her! If you lose a piece of clothing, you can't spoil it. Xiaohong's mother said, walked out, she stood in the courtyard with her waist crossed, frowned and looked at it for a long time, the boundary walls around her were more than one person high, if you want to climb the wall, you have to go through the garden, and then step over two low walls, before you can go to the courtyard to get clothes.

If the wolf dogs in the yard saw it, they wouldn't have to tear her up and swallow her alive! It seems that this thief's courage is really too great. Xiaohong's mother watched in the yard for a long time, but she didn't see any clues. When she returned to the house, she saw that Xiaohong was still angry, so she persuaded her:

Stealing people is not rich, one step more lenient, what's the big deal. She returns her, we are still us, these days, good people don't stick labels, bad people also hang up, and they are good people who don't hum when they walk. You have to think twice about this matter, and you can't blame good people. If the clothes weren't taken away by Nie Yarong, wouldn't this be a thief who laughed at others? Let's be a little more careful in the future!. ”

Xiaohong's mother thinks that it is not unreasonable, rural people have no culture, for the sake of sesame big things, if there is a conflict between the two families, if someone's head is hot, maybe it will cause some trouble. That's a big problem, and it won't end well.

Xiaohong thought about it carefully, her mother was right, no one can blame this matter, blame herself for not hanging it under her nose when she was drying clothes, this is good, not to mention the thief, there is no place to file a complaint, although Sun Xiaohong is very reluctant in her heart, she can only admit that she is unlucky. It's like spending money to buy a lesson. Then again, who would have thought that the clothes hanging in their yard could be stolen, and even the big black dog who cares for the yard didn't make a sound, except for the neighbors who could walk around so well, who else?

Sai Weng lost his horse and knew whether he was blessed or not, and he used a piece of clothing to see through a person, like this kind of woman who had been plucked by geese, Sun Xiaohong saw it for the first time. As the saying goes, you can't eat enough rice in a bowl, and if you suffer from poverty, you can't break the cheapness no matter how much you can steal. The heart is poor, even if there is a mountain of gold on the head, it cannot fill the ravine of greed. Sun Xiaohong felt very sorry for her missing clothes, but there was no way.

From then on, when Xiaohong saw Nie Yarong again in the alley, she no longer took the initiative to greet her. When she caught it once and became a hundred times, even when her mother was dating her, she was a little more careful, for fear that she would come to the house and take away her own things. Losing credibility for others, the thief's hat is firmly fastened on her head, which is not too much at all.

This knot is over, although no one has made a public announcement about it, but it has made the relationship between the two families strained.

The autumn wind swept up the yellow leaves, blowing everywhere. During the autumn harvest, the weather is hot and cold, cloudy and sunny. The adults went to the field to break the corn, and only the old man and the children were left at home, and the old man was busy with housework at home, and the children were like a flock of scattered sheep because of the lack of parental control, so they were a little more naughty and nonsense.

The alley was very quiet, a few naughty little boys laughed and ran out of the corner, they were fighting, shouting, either going up to the eaves to dig out the bird's nest, or climbing the wall to pick the begonia fruit from the neighbor's fruit tree, all of them made ugly little flower faces, playing with chatter, as if someone had built a ladder, they could all make trouble to the sky and jump.

Their unscrupulous noise became louder and louder, and with the erratic wind, they fell headlong into the courtyard of Erniang's house. This noisy sound immediately woke up Dabao, who was sleeping. He suddenly got up from the kang and sat up with his ears pricked up, and he squinted and listened for a while, then climbed to the windowsill and stared, looking out in a daze.

The second uncle sat in the yard with his head bowed, and there were some freshly cut sunflower flower trays at his feet, this year's rain was particularly harmonious, and the sunflowers in the garden grew very well. At this time, he was holding a wooden stick in his hand, and kept beating those flower plates, and every time he knocked, countless black and shiny sunflower seeds splashed out from his hand, like little stars, and instantly fell to the ground.

His back was facing the windowsill, and in the sunlight, a pair of dull eyes, through the thick glass, looked directly at the back of the second uncle, like a pair of briquettes without luster, staring at his every move in a daze.

He is the son of the eldest daughter of the second uncle, and he is born with a mental retardation. He can't speak, he can't walk, and he can't even take care of himself with simple actions like eating and drinking. He was born like this, he is in his twenties this year, but his IQ is not even as good as that of a three-year-old child. With an innate loneliness, he sat there quietly, no one liked him, and no one wanted to look at him more,

But God did not give him a strong skeleton, but did not give him a complete soul. He sat alone in the corner every day, like an abandoned child, staring out the window at the sky, but unable to take a step on his own. Even if someone deliberately reprimanded him a few words, he laughed and listened to it happily like a joke without any emotion.

Because the second uncle's daughter and son-in-law both have jobs in the city, perhaps they are also looking for reasons to evade their responsibilities. After the child was born, the couple saw that he was a fool, and discussed sending this burden to a welfare home, changing his name and surname, and then cruelly letting him stay there, never knowing who his parents were.

Erniang held the child in her hand, in the face of such a small life, how could she bear to let his parents send him away, after all, the child has a blood relationship with herself, since his parents don't want to see him, she is not too troublesome, nor too tired, so she insists on taking the child back.

Erniang feeds him with a sip of water and a mouthful of food every day, and never gets bored of this child. He has been in the countryside for more than 20 years, but more than 20 years have passed, and he still has a small towel hanging under his mouth, and he still has an endless stream of harazi, and he looks white and fat, and his mind is still empty.

This child is born with troubles and sorrows, and in his world, he will always be so simple and naïve. He sat all day, like a pet without a soul. He has a name and a surname, and the people in the village call him a little fool in order to make fun of him, and he doesn't know how angry he is, so he nodded and agreed, only Erbo and Erniang called him Dabao. No matter what others call him, even if he scolds him on purpose, he can laugh out a long string of snot bubbles.

After lunch, Dabao has been sitting in front of the window watching the second uncle knock on the sunflower plate, he is holding the windowsill with both hands and watching intently, from his empty eyes, there is no expression on his face.

"Dabao, don't look at it, come and sleep!" Erniang stood behind him, and she was very distressed to see him look stupid.

"I don't --- --- sleep—sleep-----, I want to eat -----------" Dabao pointed to the sunflower head outside, and then pointed to his mouth, and said vaguely. Every time he said a word, a string of haras flowed from the corners of his mouth. Erniang understood what he meant, he wanted to eat melon seeds. It seems that he is not sensitive to anything, except for sunflower seeds.

"If you want to eat it, you have to wait for grandpa to dry it and fry it before you can eat it! Don't look at it, come and sleep! "Dabao loves to eat sunflower seeds, and it is still a habit that Erniang has developed for him. In the past, someone in the alley told Erniang that this child's brain was not good, and he would be able to eat more fried peanuts and sunflower seeds to make up for it. I don't know which country's home remedy this is, since then, in addition to planting peanuts in the garden of Erniang's family, it is planting sunflowers.

As soon as autumn comes, after the second uncle cuts off the sunflower head, knocks off the seeds, spreads a plastic sheet in the yard, dries the sunflowers and peanuts all over the yard, puts them away after drying, and puts them all in a big canvas bag.

Fried sunflower seeds have a special taste, and when Dabao smells this taste, the corners of his mouth can't help but flow a lot of halazi.

"Dabao, be obedient, hurry up and come to sleep, or grandma will be angry!" Erniang saw that Dabao was disobedient, so she shouted again. Maybe this is a bit tough,

When Dabao heard this, he was extremely excited. He opened his hands and grabbed the glass vigorously, pushed his head forward hard, his head hit the window frame with a "bang", he covered his red and swollen head and grinned, watching Erniang cry.

Erniang saw that his snot and tears were flowing down with Harazi, and hurriedly came over to help him wipe his mouth. He hugged Erniang's arm and bit it hard.