Chapter 192: The Qingshui River is long
Just thinking about this in his heart, the old man specially asked his son-in-law to investigate. The female doll is the daughter of a grocery store owner in Huashi County, it seems that her surname is Liulai, the boy has nothing to do with her family, the two dolls just play. They don't know if the boy is from Liuqing Town, the accent is similar in the two places, only that the boy came to Huashi County when he was four or five years old, and was taken in by a single man who fished by the river, and took his new name Li Chun. Their Huashi County Li is the big surname, the bachelor's surname is Li, oh, the old son-in-law is also surnamed Li. ”
When the old man went back, he wanted to say hello to Li Chun and ask him if he was a blessing. But I didn't see him when I went back, and I never saw him again. Later, I heard from my son-in-law that Li Chun was no longer in Huashi County, and I didn't know where he went, and the girl Liu who played with him heard that it was gone in the early years. Alas, this person, the young man is gone early, and the old bones like the old body are still boiling. I don't know when God took me in. ”
"The prince inquired like this, presumably Laifu or Li Chun had a whereabouts. The old woman also hopes that he is still here, after all, looking at him for a few years when he was a child, I also hope that he can live well, it is too bitter for this child. ”
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Wang Da and his wife are already fifty years old, Wang Da is paralyzed on the bed, feces and urine are all on the bed, and they all need to be served by Mrs. Wang. The daughter-in-law is a very powerful woman, cleaning up the backyard firewood house a little and driving the old couple to live, pointing at chickens and scolding dogs all day long, scolding the old ones for not dying to grind their small ones.
This daughter-in-law took control of the kitchen, and the two old ones couldn't get a mouthful of hot water. Wang Da was dirty, so he had to replace and wash it herself, and the clothes and cloth were all moved to the river to wash, but there was no firewood for them to waste.
Mrs. Wang is also in her fifties now, and it is hard work to turn over a man and scrub it, if Mrs. Wang slacks off for a day, Wang Da can only lie in the feces and urine. There is a strong smell in the firewood house for many years, ordinary people don't approach it at all, and the two old ones are often scolded by their daughters-in-law, and they are not allowed to go near the kitchen, they are not allowed to enter the front yard, and there is no door to see their grandson.
Laiwang's daughter-in-law pushed the old woman: "You pricked up your ears and listened to this uncle's question, what the uncle asked, you must say it, do you know?" Otherwise, the old lady will not have any good fruit for you to eat, and you two old wastes should have died a long time ago, and kept to grind. ”
Bai Lin looked at the gray-haired woman, her hands were still red and swollen like turnips in April, and some places were frozen translucent, and there were many cracks. Although he changed his clothes, he still exuded the smell of filth and rancid that he had accumulated for a long time. He didn't have any sympathy, just covered his nose with a handkerchief and listened to what he wanted to know.
"The kind uncle is the master of the old woman, my daughter-in-law is really hateful... Ahhh Spare the old woman, don't drive me away, or my daughter-in-law will eat me raw... Uncle wants to know what I say, I say, don't talk nonsense..."
"Rifle? Woo woo, yes, he is the eldest son of the old woman, although he is not biological, now he thinks that he is much stronger than his own, the old woman gave birth to a beast in her belly, and she should have kept the blessing of the old woman... Ahhh ”
The old woman went to the eldest sister, saw Laifu, said that she was just one year old, she looked white and fat, and she looked thoughtful, and she touched her whole body very well, and there was no disaster or disease. In fact, the old woman didn't want it at first, because they guessed that the child was only abducted from a big family. Although he was wrapped in rags at the time, the child looked very handsome, and he looked very careful before. The man's price was very high, and he asked for twenty taels of silver for one bite, and the old woman and small family had it, so they hesitated. ”
"Or my sister is anxious for his brother, first scolded the old woman for being bad-eyed, she can't give birth and doesn't give her brother a woo... I ran to bargain with the family again, and the family was also anxious to get rid of it, and it was reduced to fifteen taels of silver, but the kind-hearted and generous uncle, these fifteen taels of silver were also going to die, I heard that the uncle rewarded the old woman's vicious daughter-in-law is fifty taels, she should really be thundered in the sky, obviously it is the old woman's business, why give her the silver, the uncle is the master of the old woman, and ask the daughter-in-law to give the silver to the old woman····· Ahhh Don't rush, don't rush... The old woman continued, and continued, ·····"
“··· My sister made peace several times at both ends, and finally bought it for five taels of silver. The old woman used her dowry to paste half of it, alas, the woman can't say anything if her stomach is not angry... When I brought the doll back, I said to the outside that I had raised it from a relative's house in the countryside, and named it Laifu. Laifu is really blessed, and he brought his younger brother back then..."
Bai Lin in the back had already heard about it from Mrs. Wang, and was impatient to listen to a filthy old woman who was verbose, so she only asked her sister's name and home and sent the mother-in-law away.
The Qingshui River rises abundantly after the peach blossom flood, the canopy boat shuttles on the river, the peach blossoms on both sides of the bank are mixed with willow trees, the pink and light green in the spring, which makes people look at the eyes of a bright. At such a season, Bai Lin is also willing to sit on the bow of the boat and blow the cold breeze, looking at the scenery on both sides of the strait, and occasionally flower petals are carried by the spring breeze to his hair.
He looked at the jasper-like flowing water, the young Li Chun was wandering along the river, thinking that his original background was first-class, his mother was the daughter of the Guogong Mansion, and his father was the eldest son of the Hou Mansion, and his fate was quietly changed on this water.
Bai Lin sketched Li Chun's childhood experience in his heart, and he felt it better than anyone else. In fact, the two of them have similar experiences, the difference is only that they still know their parents, and their parents took care of them when they were young, although they were very careless, but they didn't live on the streets after all.
But Maiji's son, the product of fornication, the discrimination of his father's family, a pair of blue eyes like the imprint of a prisoner, anyone who sees him can spit on him and scold him as a prisoner mongrel. What is especially bad is that this congenitally deficient body has trouble breathing from time to time, and his lips are purple. He still often asks himself why he lives with such a body, and why he still insists on coveting this life when no one expects anything in his life.
There was a child's crisp laughter on the shore, and there was a boy by the river with maybe his sister putting paper kites, and the little girl was pink and tender, clapping her slap and looking up at the sky, perhaps marveling at how high the paper kite could fly. The young Li Chun is also the pink and tender willow branch that he met in this spring, and the smile is innocent and sweet.
Bai Lin stayed in Huashi County for two days, walking back and forth countless times on the short stone road of Tianshuijing Street, and also walked through Luosi Lane and Jiuzhen Lane. Sitting in the Manxiang Building and watching the Qingshui River, he was able to spend spring, summer, autumn and winter here hand in hand as if he had seen Li Chun and Liu Zhi in his imagination, growing up together, and becoming the only consolation for each other.
Li Chun was luckier than himself, he had a strong body and met a little girl. People like them don't have a single memory in their hearts, and they really can't perceive the meaning of life.
So he can come back from the sea, so he can refuse the temptation of Madame Pearl, so he can live very clearly.
Bai Lin heard a trace of involuntary nostalgia in Lu Xiyue's description, and Lu Xianggong, who was very calm and seemed to have no desire at all, was the softest time in his life for the days of Huashi County.