Chapter 45: The Aftermath of the Sandstorm
The two hid under the mattress and fumbled, and one of them shared a pot helmet stained with egg liquid. The wet and sticky pot helmet was hard and fishy, and Yang Liufang didn't take two bites before he choked and rolled his eyes, and his throat hurt when he swallowed. In a hurry, he felt an egg and knocked it on the top of the carriage, feeling that the eggshell had cracked, so he bit it open with his teeth, regardless of whether there was chicken manure left on the eggshell, and drank it raw.
"Third brother, raw eggs can quench your thirst."
"Ah, you just swallowed the raw egg?"
"Well, break the eggshell."
Wang Shan also drank one, but soon retched, the fishy smell of raw eggs is not something that ordinary people can bear. After eating a pot helmet and drinking three raw eggs in a row, Yang Liufang's hunger was relieved, and his vitality quickly recovered, and the symptoms of hypoglycemia were gone. Wang Shan, who was really hard to swallow and gnawed on the pot helmet, had to bite the bullet and drink another raw egg, forcibly enduring the nausea to prevent himself from vomiting, and suffocating under the mattress.
The sky was getting darker, the black swallowed up the yellow sand, and the night was approaching, and it looked like they were going to camp out in the wilderness. The two huddled under the mattresses fell asleep back to back, leaning on each other.
The next day, they were woken up by a tractor pulling bricks and a frightened horse. Because Wang Shan tied the horse's reins to his calf before going to bed, after dawn, the sound of the tractor frightened the horse, and it used its front hooves to prop up the ground, stood up, and pulled Wang Shan up at once.
Yang Liufang, who was leaning against Wang Shan, lost his support, and immediately lay down, his head hit the ground. He scrambled to his feet, forgot about the carriage above his head, and hit his head with his head. Immediately, he covered his head with "hiss-sigh......", not caring about his pain, and hurriedly helped Wang Shan untie the horse's reins, and led the horse to hide on the side of the road.
Only then did Yang Liufang see that the sky was already bright, and as far as the eye could see, there was sand all over the ground, and even people walked over with the feeling of dust, making a sound of "poof, puff, puff, spit". Wang Shan got up with difficulty, and went to the tractor driver to theorize in disgrace.
"You two goods, why do you sleep with this nun (what)?" Before Wang Shan could speak, the driver shouted first.
"Hiding from the demon wind! Why are you driving? Does Wood (Not) See People? I almost killed me! Wang Shan ignored Lai Sansan.
"I'm sorry!"
Hearing the driver's apology, Wang Shan didn't say anything, patted the dirt on his body, turned around and untied the rope tied to the car, put on the carriage, turned the head of the car, and let the driver go first. The dust kicked up by the tractor splashed them again.
The two of them worked together to break the mattress clean, tied the horse to the tree, and began to look for something, except for the toothpaste and toothbrush, the remaining needles had long been blown away by the wind and sand. Seeing that there was no hope, he got into a carriage and hurried to Wangshawan. The loess road, which was originally covered with floating soil, was covered with a thicker layer after the sedimentation of sandstorms. When the horse's hooves stepped on, they could raise dust, and when they crossed the Zhao Ma ditch, the two tied the horses to the beheaded willows by the river, and went down to the river to wash themselves.
After the sandstorm, Zhaomagou returned to calm, and the river was still dim, but it could still reflect the reflection of the two. Through the water, Yang Liufang saw that his hair was unkempt, like a flower. Turning his head to look at Wang Shan, he found that like himself, his hair was also unkempt, gray-headed, and not angry at all.
He found that Wang Shan was missing something compared to when he set off, yes, cadre hat! Yang Liu Fang was born in the south, almost never wore a hat, and didn't care all the way, only at this moment did he notice that Wang Shan's hat was lost, and it is estimated that the cadre hat had already been blown away by the wind. The two of them washed indiscriminately against the river. In the end, Wang Shan simply untied the horse and brought it to the river to drink.
When the carriage was about to enter the village, Yang Liufang took out ten yuan to Wang Shan and said, "Third brother, you have worked hard, you can buy cigarettes and smoke by yourself." ”
"That's embarrassing!"
"No, no, third brother, if it weren't for you, I would have faced this demon wind alone, and I would have already met the king of Hades. This is what you deserve. ”
"Alright then, you're welcome, Brother Yang." Wang Shan took it and put it away.
As soon as the two entered the village, someone had already reported it to the village chief, and the village chief hurriedly went out of the village to pick them up.
"San'er, haha (scared) to death! Your mom didn't close her eyes all night. It's all the way (okay), right? ”
"Big, it's okay, it's not good!"
"Where are you sheltered from the wind?"
Wang Shan told him about the wind on the road, and the old village chief was very satisfied with his son's performance. Yang Liufang also stepped forward, thanked the old village chief, and told him about the regular soap in Hongclay Village. The old village chief told them to hurry home, wash their clothes, have a good meal, and get some sleep.
After entering the old village chief's house, Wang Shan's mother ran over excitedly when she saw her son coming back, and read carefully before and after chanting "good girl" in her mouth, and found that she was not injured before she was relieved to kill chickens, wash potatoes, and make them a large plate of chickens to eat. The eight willow trees in the yard have been cut into segments and placed neatly in stacks, just waiting for Yinhua's father to send someone to pull them after they are dried.
At noon, the two of them feasted and ate most of the large plate of chicken and two bowls of lasagna, as if they wanted to make up for all yesterday's hunger.
"Slow down, no one will rob you." The old village chief accompanied them to eat and served them with meat.
"Suo (uncle), when can Brother Shi come? I want to go back to Xizhou as soon as possible, buy the tools, and make up for the goods that my third brother and I owe to others as soon as possible. ”
"Let's eat first! Eat well and sleep well, and in the afternoon (I) will send someone to inform him to pick you up. ”
The two had a solid meal, after the meal, Wang Shan sent Yang Liufang back to the village to rest, and when he arrived at the village, he said that he wanted to take a bath, but he didn't want to move when he sat on the stool, and fell asleep on the conference table unconsciously. After being hungry for a day and a night, he was full of food at the moment, and there was nothing more comfortable for Yang Liufang than a good night's sleep.
When I woke up, the stone village chief had already arrived. Originally, the old village chief was going to send someone to inform him, but he thought that the wood used for his brother-in-law Wang Shan's marriage had been made, and he was afraid that his mother's family would come to pull it, Wang Shan was not at home with Yang Liufang to sell goods, and his father-in-law was old, and there was no one in the family who contributed to the family, so he came to take a look, but he didn't expect to catch up with Yang Liufang and them back. This sleep is particularly relieving, the young people are energetic, and Yang Liufang has a "big" business in his body, and he is even more energetic and full of vitality.
Yang Liufang asked the village chief to wait, and he went to the nearby waterlogging dam to get a basin of cold water, and in the bathroom of the village department, he took a towel and scrubbed himself with soap, because he knew that when he arrived at Shiyi Village, the water there was much more expensive than here, and it was all pulled back by the stone village chief from more than ten miles away in a donkey cart when he got up early in the morning and used a donkey cart.
After washing, he packed up and said goodbye to the village chief and Wang Shan, and got on the donkey cart of the stone village chief and rushed to Shiyi Village. It was already late when I arrived in Shiyi Village, and because I was too full at noon, Yang Liufang only ate one potato for dinner, and went to bed early. The next morning, I got up with the stone village chief who went to pull water, and together I carried the bucket to the donkey cart and fixed it, and went out. This time, the stone village chief still sent Yang Liufang to the three-way intersection to wait for the car, and the two agreed that tomorrow afternoon, the stone village chief will continue to come here to pick up Yang Liufang.
Yang Liufang is familiar with the road, so he took a hitchhike and went to Yantan first. When I arrived at Yantan, I found that the original green vegetables were gone, and the vegetable farmers' vegetable fields had been ploughed, and the newly planted winter vegetables had not yet sprouted, so the whole vegetable field looked very empty. I went to the shack at the head of the vegetable farmer's vegetable field and looked at it, but no one was there.
Yes, now that the busy farming has passed, winter vegetables such as cabbage and spinach hardly need to be taken care of after planting, and they are cheap, so there is no need to watch the vegetables and pick them early and late. Yang Liufang was a little stunned, got out of the shack, and walked towards the station. When I was about to arrive at the station, I thought I had to go back and leave a message to tell the vegetable farmer that he was back, don't come back here at night and live in the shack without saying hello, which will scare the vegetable farmer uncle, which is impolite and embarrassing. Thinking of this, he turned back again, found a branch, and wrote on the ground: "Uncle, I am Yang Liufang, I have come back to buy goods." I still need to spend the night at your place, so please bear with me and cause you trouble. After writing it, he didn't feel at ease, and leaned the branch on the Mazha bed before leaving.