Chapter 5 The Ins and Outs
The little man spoke so astonishingly that we were all taken aback, and we all stared at him in astonishment, and the little man coughed a few more times, swallowed his saliva, moistened his throat, and said to us:
"It's a long story......
We looked at each other and leaned over to say we wanted to hear about it. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Just listen to the little man:
"My grandfather has four brothers and sisters, and the youngest fourth grandfather was born in the 20th year of the Republic of China. In those years, the war was raging, and the people in the township were so poor that my grandfather went to join the army outside the mountains in order to make a living. The fourth grandfather is still young, the family is surrounded by four walls, once he was really hungry, so he went to the landlord's house to steal a few sweet potatoes to satisfy his hunger, who knew that he had not yet gone out of the door, and he was caught by the lackeys who took care of the house, and the lackeys were local hooligans and ruffians, and were hired by the landlord to manage the tenant farmers, and he was ruthless, so he dragged my fourth grandfather to the firewood room and beat him badly.
My fourth grandfather was very young at the time, and his body bones had not yet grown hard, so he could withstand a flat shoulder from the lackey, and then his left leg was discounted, and he was left with a lifelong disability.
In those years, the landlord was powerful, and there was no way to sue, and if you went to someone else's house to steal things first, let alone discount one of your legs, even if you were beaten to death, there was no need to pay for your life. There was no way, so the family carried the fourth grandfather back, invited a herbalist master from the Miao family, and collected some medicine to apply to the wound, and finally saved his life.
The fourth grandfather has been lying in bed for a year, and after getting off the ground, he can't do without crutches, and because of his physical disability, he can't do rough work, so he can only rely on his parents to support him, and usually help with housework. Until the death of his parents and the separation of his brothers, the fourth grandfather was completely left to rely on, and his life was tight. After liberation, although the landlord was shot and the land was divided, the fourth grandfather was disabled and could not farm, so he could only rely on his brothers and sisters to help him make a living.
After my grandfather recovered, he became a cadre in the village, started a family, and began to think about asking for a daughter-in-law for the fourth grandfather after his life improved. At that time, it was the end of the fifties, and the fourth grandfather was already an old bachelor in his thirties, and because of his disability, he never looked down on his girl.
My grandfather was in a hurry, so he spent money to hire a local matchmaker, saying that he would find one no matter what, and it didn't matter if he lacked arms and legs, just be a good person. The matchmaker took the money, rolled his eyes, and said Oh, remember, there is a girl in the next village, although she is a little older, but she looks handsome, and she is still a big girl with yellow flowers, but she is ...... He was born blind.
When my grandfather heard this, he said that if he was blind, he would be blind, they were all poor families, and he could live a good life if he married. At that time, he gave the matchmaker a sum of money, saying that if the matter was done, he should not treat the matchmaker badly.
The matchmaker took the money, and went to the neighboring village to say goodbye to the fourth grandfather, blowing the sky, and said that the fourth grandfather became the descendant of the Baguo Tie kidnapping Li, saying that the lame leg was inherited from the family, and he could become an immortal after death. The blind female elder has no knowledge, and her daughter is old, and she needs food to raise at home, if someone is really willing to marry her, it doesn't matter if she is lame.
The fourth grandfather married his daughter-in-law at the age of thirty-eight, and after a year, the blind girl was pregnant for ten months, and gave birth to a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses, and the two children looked delicate and cute, but they were born to pick up the heredity of the blind girl and have a congenital blindness. The fourth grandfather was naturally overjoyed when he got a child in middle age, but when he saw that the child was born a pair of blind people, he cried and shouted at the time, and scolded my grandfather for being a bloody dog, saying What a good marriage did you do, and gave birth to two blind cubs for me!
Scolding and scolding, life still has to be lived. Although the fourth grandfather scolded verbally, he loved these two children very much, and he couldn't forget the children if there was anything delicious to eat and drink at home. Time flies, a few years later, the blind girl suffered from typhoid fever and went west, the fourth grandfather was sad, remembering that the children were all older, although they were a pair of blind eyes, they had to respond to Chairman Mao's call to send them to study and read. So I borrowed some money from my grandfather and sent my children to the town's primary school to enroll. When the teacher saw that they were two blind children, he waved his hand and said no, we can't accept these two children, we don't have this condition, we have to send them to a school for the disabled to learn Braille.
The fourth grandfather asked where the school for the disabled was, and the teacher told him that he was in the city, and the fourth grandfather was stunned when he heard it, he had never been to the city in his life, so he felt that it was out of reach, so he went home to discuss countermeasures with my grandfather. My grandfather said that you should not think about sending any school for the disabled in the city, so you let the children stay at home, and I asked my eldest to come over after school to teach them to read, and I also saved a lot of money. When the fourth grandfather heard this, he felt reliable, and nodded his head in agreement.
My uncle followed my grandfather's instructions, went to the fourth grandfather's house every day after school, read some texts to the pair of blind children, and repeated some of the teacher's personal sophistication to them as they were. When my uncle graduated from high school, one day he suddenly ran up to my grandfather and said that the blind girl in my uncle's family had somehow her stomach stood up, and it seemed that she was pregnant.
My grandfather was born in the military, and he had a violent personality, and he was shocked when he heard this, and slapped my uncle in the face, saying that you are a brute, you can do this kind of thing, I have to kill you today! As he said that, he was about to go to the kitchen to touch the kitchen knife, but my uncle turned pale with fright, and hurriedly knelt on the ground and swore an oath, saying that he was wronged, but I didn't do it. I just went to read the texts to them in the past few days, and I found that my cousins were a little weird, they couldn't see with their eyes, and they had to learn the texts face to face, eyebrows and eyebrows. I asked them what was going on, and they were not ashamed, so they told me that they were 'in love', and not only that, but my cousin also rolled up her clothes, let me look at her belly, and smiled and told me that you were going to be a cousin.
My grandfather was furious when he heard this, and pointed to my uncle's nose and said that you, as a teacher, can be regarded as a family, what a misfortune for the family! With that, he left my uncle and ran towards my fourth grandfather's house.
As the so-called family ugliness should not be publicized, this kind of incest thing happened in the family, and it must not be publicized, my grandfather discussed with my fourth grandfather, first lock up these two shameless things, and wait for me to go to the field to find a Jianghu Langzhong, bring it back to get rid of the evil seed in the stomach, if this is born, how can we hold our heads up and be human beings in the village in the future?
It was also thanks to the fact that my uncle and the cousin had been together for many years, and they had developed feelings for each other, and after knowing that they were locked up, he went to the town to buy some food, and handed it in through the window at night. The cousin was quite bold, and when she saw that my uncle brought food, she said that although you can save us for a while, you can't save us for a lifetime, and the child in my womb is my life, and if I can't keep it, then I won't live. If you have a good conscience, let us go and put us in a cave in the mountains, and we will never come out again.
My uncle struggled in his mind for a long time, and finally moved his heart of compassion, sighed, and said I should let you go, otherwise I will not have a good time in this life. Taking advantage of the fact that my fourth grandfather was not paying attention, I picked the lock open, went home and got a flashlight and some food, and sent the two cousins to the mountains overnight.
When my grandfather came back from inviting a man from other places, but he didn't see the figure of the brother and sister, he was so angry that he gritted his teeth, and immediately called the fourth grandfather, my uncle and my father, two brothers, and went to the mountains to find someone with the dog. My uncle was afraid that his cousin and sister would be found by them, so he secretly did something and quietly walked away, and moved his cousin to a deeper cave. Grandpa searched for two whole days in the mountains, but they couldn't find anyone, so they sighed and went back. Later, I searched for it a few times, but my uncle also went around it, and my grandfather simply gave up when they didn't let them find anyone. Only my fourth grandfather is still not giving up, and he has to go into the mountain several times a month, shouting the names of the blind children.
After my uncle graduated from high school, he was assigned to work as a private teacher in the town, and he kept this secret in his heart, and he had to deliver rations to his cousins every week. Later, when his cousin was in labor, he was afraid that the matter would be exposed, so he read two gynecological medical books, made two pots of boiling water, and went to deliver his cousin with a pair of scissors.
After the baby's head came out, my uncle reached out to pull it, and as soon as the hand touched the baby, he felt that it was wrong, and when he pulled it out, he saw that there were two heads!
My uncle was stupid at the time, but after all, he had a higher education and studied biology, and knew that there was a certain chance that a deformed child would be born if he intermarried. I persuaded my cousin not to be sad, saying that you live in the mountains, and no one looks at him, so you will raise him as a normal child, as long as I still have a breath, I will not care if you live or die.
Who knew that the second month after my uncle made this promise, he was punctured by a tractor in the town. This time it was very badly injured, and when my dad and I went to see him in the hospital (I was seven years old at the time), he grabbed my dad's hand tightly and told my dad the secret hidden in his heart, asking him to promise to take care of them, and then he died.
After my uncle died, my grandfather was devastated, and soon after he went to see Marx. My dad was entrusted by my uncle on his deathbed, and with the family ties between them, he had to shoulder this burden. At first, I saw that the little cousin had two heads, and I was very frightened and very resistant.
Although my cousin was born in a cave and grew up in the wilderness, he also knew the outside world under my words and deeds. At the beginning of the 2000s, his blind father and mother died one after another, and my father and I helped to bury him. Later, I persuaded him to go out and live, the fourth grandfather is also dead, the house is empty, you can live there. My cousin said that he didn't want to say anything, saying that he was used to living in the mountains, and he was afraid that he would not be able to adapt to it when he went out. Later, he asked me to get some sheep cubs, and he herded them on the hillside by himself. This hillside has been a terra nullius since ancient times because of a poisonous forest, and my cousin took possession of the hill, and I helped him build this wooden house on the edge of this cliff. After he raised the sheep, I helped him send them to the town to sell them in exchange for some firewood, rice, oil, salt and daily necessities, and lived a peaceful life until I discovered that secret ...... today."
When the little man said this, his face changed in vain, and the whole person looked exhausted, probably because of the excessive blood loss, and his face was already pale. We listened anxiously and hurriedly asked him what secret he had discovered.
The little man beat his spirit and said to us:
"Today, as usual, I sold a sheep for my cousin, bought some groceries in the town, and drove him over. But when I got here, I saw no one else, and I thought he had gone out to herd the sheep, so I sat outside the wooden house and waited for him to come back. At eight or nine o'clock in the evening, I still didn't see anyone, I felt that something was wrong, he had already come back at this time, why was it so late today and there was no one, and I was about to take a look around, when I saw him carrying a few people and came over.
My cousin has lived in the mountains and forests since he was a child, and his body is as strong as a wild beast, and he is tall and strong. I saw that he stopped one in each hand, and there was a person on his shoulder, and he didn't talk to me when he came over, so he threw the person into the firewood room.
I was very surprised, and said what's the matter with you, why did you come back with a few people? My cousin suddenly turned his head and smiled at me, saying they should be damned, and hit themselves at gunpoint, and two more, when I clean up, I will come back and ask you to taste human flesh.
I was shocked when I heard this, and I said, how can you eat human flesh, I used to teach you the code of ethics, have you forgotten the etiquette, righteousness and shame? But he quibbled and said, I am different from you, I grew up in this deep mountain and old forest, I am a wild beast, and when the beast is hungry, it will eat meat, and as for what meat to eat, it is the same, and human flesh tastes better!
When I heard this, I was furious, and said that today I will teach you a good lesson on behalf of your parents, this mad ogre, and as I said this, I picked up a wooden stick and hit him in the head, and I was so angry that I hit him more heavily, and hit him on the head with a few sticks, and it hurt him. This kid is really hard to train, and he turned his face with me all of a sudden, saying that you forced me this time, don't blame me, and after speaking, he took out the firewood knife on his waist and slashed at my shoulder......"
When the little man told the whole story, we were all deeply shaken, and we sighed while thinking back to what he had said. This two-headed man has a poor background, and he is fortunate to have such a secret help from such a relative who will never abandon him, and he has worked hard for many years without asking for anything in return, who knows that he will turn his face when he says it, he is simply an ungrateful white-eyed wolf, which reminds me of the story of "The Farmer and the Snake", and the two-headed man is no different from the sinister and cunning snake.
The little man made up his mind and asked how we had come here, and we told us where we had come from, and he asked us if there were any other people who knew we were here and might come to the rescue. I told him that my partner Liu Chang knew that I was here, but he didn't know the exact location, but if I didn't go back for a long time, he would definitely call the police.
The little man asked me where the store was located, how much time it would take if the rescue was carried out, etc., and asked in great detail.
I was not thinking about waiting for help, so I said:
"Since that's weird...... Your cousin is a person, even if he has two heads, he won't grow four arms, two fists are hard to beat four hands, when he comes, we will hide behind the door and ambush, since he wants to eat human flesh, he will definitely not starve us to death and then eat, do you think, that monster eats Tang Seng meat to fatten Tang Seng and then eat, we are all hungry skin and bones, isn't he difficult to gnaw? ”
The fat yellow man nodded yes and volunteered, saying that he had the greatest strength here, and he could take the lead later. We discussed the details of the ambush and discussed various possibilities, after all, this time the lives of all of us were at stake, and we were all very serious and did not dare to slack off.
I don't know how long it took, but the sky gradually darkened, and I said in my heart that it was time for dinner, and the monster might have been sharpening its knives, so I reminded everyone to be vigilant. At this time, the little man's body twisted a few times, saying that he wanted to go to the toilet, and who could help him. The yellow fat man had a lot of strength, so he took this kind of thing and helped the little man to the toilet built on the cliff.
The braces boy has been silent beside him, watching the fat yellow man help the little man into the toilet, and suddenly gave me a look with a very strange expression.
I was about to ask him what was the matter, but he immediately made a silent gesture, only to see him suddenly pick up a finger, put some spit in his mouth, and quickly wrote a few words on the ground:
He's lying!