Li Chaokuan is a well-known old lacquer craftsman, good at painting flowers, plants, fish and birds. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info He painted furniture light like a mirror, can shine on the shadow of people, does not fade paint, durable, especially the pictures painted on it, the image of flowers and plants is realistic, as if with the wind can smell the fragrance, fish and birds are more vivid, swimming and jumping, chasing and playing, as if they can take off the painting.

He was a man of solitude and casualness, not very diligent in his craft, and very good at drinking. How good is it? It's a drunken addiction. Three meals a day are essential. There was really no wine, and he had to take out the empty wine bottle and smell it.

Someone came to ask him to do his craft, and the first thing he said was, is there any wine at home? No alcohol? Sorry, I'm not available. It doesn't matter if people are embarrassed or not, whether they can step down or not.

He didn't drink a lot, but definitely a lot. At that time, most of the village used glass bottles of normal saline discarded in the hospital, which were filled with just one catty. He drank a little less in the morning and at noon, a bottle for two meals, and one bottle for dinner, two pounds a day.

This is not a small amount, and most people really can't take it.

In the 60s and 70s of the 20 th century, at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the country was poor, had a large population, and had many problems. The War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the Great Leap Forward was exaggerated, the big canteen, the three years of natural disasters, plus the repayment of the Soviet Union's foreign debts and support for the toiling masses in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Stubble after stubble, food has been in short supply, and eating has always been a big problem. This is particularly true in rural areas.

If you can't eat enough, wine is naturally a "luxury". In addition to rice, sweet potatoes, buds, sorghum, and even filtered sweet potato residues can be used to make wine. So it is not without wine. Most people steam a two-cylinder bottle of wine every year. This wine is rarely moved, and it is only taken out during the New Year and when guests come.

Li Chaokuan is so weird and good at wine, naturally there are not too many people who ask him to do his craft, although his craftsmanship is first-class. After all, food is limited, no one dares to waste it, and the days without wine and drink will be illuminated, and it will kill people if they eat no rice.

Is there anyone asking him to do the craft? He has always been indifferent, he does his own thing, he doesn't drink or enjoy. A good drinker tends to get drunk, and he often drinks high. But he was never heard of being drunk, only slightly or slightly drunk. Strange to say, even if he is drunk, he will not delay his craft, the work that should be done, the things that should be done, fast and good, and there is no mistake. It's just that there are a lot of words, and the naughty childlike willfulness and naughty nature is always ridiculous. There is also a must, slipping smoothly, limerick poems, he comes when he opens his mouth, and often has amazing words, and dedicates a lot of classic "famous sayings".

For example: "Strange wine is not strange food, there is wine and hands and feet are fast", "The sky is tired until dark, and I rely on wine to bear the blood", "A pot of wine, a fire, except for the gods, I am the only one." And so on, all from his drunken mouth.

He became a sight in the village. Often when he is slightly drunk, he will be followed by a lot of little children, and he is also giggling and laughing, like a madman. Under normal circumstances, he is a taciturn and unsmiling person, and the contrast is so great that it is really eye-popping.

Because of this, the village gave him the nickname of "drunkard".

Zeng Qingping is one year older than Li Chaokuan, and the friendship between the two is indeed not shallow. The two of them have been friends in private for three years. After leaving the school, Li Chaokuan worked as an apprentice in a paint shop in a neighboring county, and because of his cleverness, diligence and discernment, he was favored by the famous lacquer craftsman uncle of the owner, and wanted to take him as an apprentice and carefully teach him the skills of lacquer craft.

In the twenty-sixth year of the Republic of China, the Japanese devils invaded China. That year, there was a severe drought in Xinghua Village for hundreds of miles, and the people were not able to make a living, and a group of hungry people gathered on the Huilong Mountain at the junction of the three counties to become robbers, often robbing pedestrians on the road. Fortunately, they generally only need money and goods, and they do not kill people easily. On that day, Zeng Qingping sold some cotton yarn from Yangzhou City, and was going to take it home to weave cloth for his mother and wife to supplement the family, but unfortunately he was robbed by robbers on the way back to Longshan.

At that time, it was already dark, and the beautiful lady of a merchant who was traveling with her suddenly went crazy, crying and laughing, talking nonsense, and then attacked others, and her strength was not like a woman at all, and three or four people could not hold it down. The bandits guarding them called a young accomplice, and when they looked at him, Zeng Qingping was surprised: Isn't this Li Chaokuan, a childhood friend and fellow villager? Hasn't he been working as a lacquer maker in other places? When did you become a bandit?

Li Chaokuan obviously recognized him as well, looked at him twice, did not speak to him, walked over and looked at the woman, and said that he had fallen into an evil spirit, and he could be cured, but the merchant had a hundred yuan. The merchant's goods have been looted by them, let alone a hundred, and not a single ocean can be taken out.

Li Chaokuan asked the merchant's hometown address and said, "I can exorcise her evil spirits and cure her first, but you must take the money to collect the person within five days, and you will not wait for it to expire." ”

The merchant agreed.

Li Chaokuan immediately walked up to the woman and asked the few people who were holding her down to let her go. Strange to say, just now she was scratching and biting, and the woman who was struggling desperately seemed to see a tiger, staring at Li Chaokuan and trembling with fear, she couldn't help retreating, and her mouth let out the wail of a beast.

Li Chaokuan took out a piece of rune paper from his body, asked someone to bring a bowl of water, threw the burnt rune paper into the bowl, reached out to jam the woman's mouth, and poured water into her mouth. The woman's face turned pale for a moment, her hands and feet twitched, her eyes rolled, and she fainted.

Li Chaokuan asked her to carry her to the thatch spread on the ground, about half a pillar of incense, the woman woke up slowly, except for her weak body, she was already well, and asked her what she had just gone crazy about, but she was at a loss.

Li Chaokuan instructed the two robbers to send the merchant down the mountain overnight, and again told him to take the money to exchange him within five days. The man was grateful, and went down the mountain with a thousand thanks. Li Chaokuan instructed Minions to take care of the woman in another room and not to be violated. Then he turned around and asked Zeng Qingping to go out with him.

Zeng Qingping fell into the ice water at that time, and his whole body was cold, he thought that Li Chaokuan must be afraid that he would leak it in the future, and he must be going to kill people.

There were no stars and no moon that night, and it was so dark that I couldn't see my fingers. Li Chaokuan took him into a thatched hut and set a big table with good wine and food, Li Chaokuan was very excited, and told him what had happened over the years while drinking cup after cup.

Li Chaokuan has indeed followed his master to do his craft all these years, and now he is a robber in the mountains, which is really out of helplessness and forced to do so.

The master has a son and a daughter, the son is the same year as Li Chaokuan, and he looks good, but unfortunately he burned his brain when he was young, and he was a little stupid, and his daughter was five years younger, and she was a little beauty with a sign of beauty. Li Chaokuan has been following the master, very important, the master has the intention to recruit him as a son-in-law, the little sister is also deeply affectionate to him, originally planned to marry the little sister on her eighteenth birthday in the winter of that year, but unexpectedly, her beauty brought her a big disaster.

There is a gentleman named Hu Dabiao in the village, who is in his twenties. Relying on his family wealth and his uncle as a company commander in the *** army, he often bullied men and women and ran rampant in the township. He coveted the beauty of his little sister, and once asked someone to be a matchmaker and wanted to marry as a concubine, but the master flatly refused.

Although the master is a lacquer craftsman, he has a skill, and the neighbors have always respected him, and the nephew who opened a shop in the city also has contacts with the county officials, Hu Dabiao has some scruples, but he does not dare to use force, but he does not give up.

It is also appropriate, Hu Dabiao returned to the village from the city after drinking one day, and saw the little junior sister washing by the river, except for the stupid senior brother sitting on the river embankment and playing, there was no one around. So the wine was bold and courageous, first teasing and flirting, seeing that the beauty wanted to leave, he was pulled by the lustful heart, and the younger sister resisted desperately and shouted for help. Although the senior brother is stupid, he also knows how to protect his sister, and he ran over to help, but was kicked into the river by the squirm during the fight.

The little junior sister was hit in the head and fainted at the same time as grief-stricken, Hu Dabiao was about to do nothing, and the little junior sister *** ran over when she saw the alarmed villagers, and fled the scene in a hurry. The villagers sent the disheveled little sister home, and searched for the salvage brother along the river.

Craftsmen often walk outside, and that time the master and apprentice painted a dowry at a rich man's house in a neighboring township, more than 30 miles away from home, and did not return home for several days. After receiving the report from the villagers, the two were sad and indignant, and rushed home overnight, where the senior mother and sister were lying on the bed, and their throats were already crying hoarsely. At that time, the body of the senior brother had also been salvaged by the villagers and placed on the river embankment.

After Hu Dabiao fled home, he woke up, knew that he had caused a big disaster, and after informing his family, he sneaked out of the village and hid in the city. Li Chaokuan was furious and immediately went to the Hu family to find someone to take revenge. The Hu family flatly denied that his family was a wealthy local man, raising more than a dozen family members and a few fast guns, and of course he couldn't even enter the door. The master dragged him home, called a few brave members of his family, and discussed the revenge plan together.

The senior brother was hastily buried, and the master and apprentice stayed at home to take care of the bedridden mother and daughter. A few days later, news came from the city, saying that Hu Dabiao's hiding place had been found, and the master ignored his pleas and opposition, and asked him to take care of his sister at home, and went to the city alone.

The master stayed in the city for two days, and finally stabbed Hu Dabiao, who was hiding in the police captain's house. After returning home, everyone packed their luggage and decided to flee overnight to prevent the Hu family from retaliating, but unexpectedly a step too late, the police and the Hu family's nursing home rushed to arrest the "communist bandits".

How could the master and apprentice and a few of their own families be quick to capture, and they were holding a few bird combs to fight at the moment, but how could the bird comb be against the fast gun? In the chaos, the master was shot, the master and sister were arrested, Li Chaokuan and several masters' families escaped, and after several twists and turns, they gathered a group of hungry people who were not afraid of death, and became robbers at the junction of the three counties more than 70 miles away from the city.

As they spoke, the two of them had finished drinking a pot of soju. Zeng Qingping asked with a big tongue:

"And what about later? What about your sisters? “

"At that time, we were only concerned about running for our lives, and only later did we learn that Master was seriously injured but not dead, and was carried back to the city, where he was shot three days later in the name of "gangsters". The sister died of illness in prison on the same day, the little sister, the younger sister...... He died on hunger strike in prison......"

The master's family was tragically fired, and Li Chaokuan did not want to take revenge all the time. One dark night more than two months later, he took a few brothers into the house of the rich man Hu. At the same time, fires were lit in many places, and a fire burned the Hu family, and Master Hu was burned to death, and it is said that several people were burned.

Although the revenge was avenged, the master's family was gone forever. This wound will not be healed for the rest of his life.

After listening to Li Chaokuan's narration, Zeng Qingping couldn't speak for a long time. Two childhood friends and classmates drank two pots of soju with tears in their eyes, and fell drunk on the ground of the hut.

Early in the morning of the third day, Li Chaokuan returned Zeng Qingping's goods and gifts, and also gave him ten pieces of ocean, and personally sent him down the mountain. When parting, Zeng Qingping said: "The sky is above, I Zeng Qingping will never leak anything about Brother Li in my life, if you violate the oath, the sky will thunder, and you will not die." “

Li Chao's eyes were filled with tears, and he clutched his hands tightly. Zeng Qingping said again:

"Brother, with all due respect, it won't last long to be the king of the mountain, so it's better to make another plan as soon as possible. You are a wise man, you don't need me to say more, but that's all you say, and you cherish ......"

Half a year later, the security group encircled and suppressed the bandits back to Longshan, Li Chaokuan has not heard from him since, and it was not until the eve of liberation more than ten years later that he returned to Xinghua Village with his wife and children, and his wife was the evil woman back then. Which merchant made heavy profits, and did not go up the mountain to pay the money to redeem the beautiful concubine within five days. Li Chaokuan did not tear up the ticket, but the woman was sad, desperate and discouraged, and would rather be a female bandit than go down the mountain, and later became a husband and wife with Li Chaokuan.

After Li Chaokuan returned home, he returned to the lacquer craft. Xinghua Village is more than 100 miles away from Longshan, and no one in his hometown knows his past, thinking that he has been walking outside all these years, and he does not explain it to others.

Since then, Xinghua Village has had more alcoholics with strange personalities and alcoholics.