In the first two years of Jiushan, I was very afraid of rain, especially heavy rain, because every time it rained heavily outside, it would rain lightly in our thatched hut, and the rain would leak up. The house was already small, and there were only two beds at most, so my third brother and I slept on the bamboo cool bed that my father bought and put in the hall for them to sleep on when my brothers first arrived at Liu's house; The eldest brother and the second brother were huddled on the original gray brick bed in the thatched hut, and the gray bricks hurt their backs, so they put a thick layer of straw on the bricks and spread bamboo mats. The eldest brother originally wanted to buy a straw mat, but the second brother was reluctant to sleep on the straw mat. Their biological father, Li Dahe, died in a once-in-a-century flood, and was salvaged and placed on the Dianzi at the foot of the former Jiushan Mountain, covered with a straw mat; Their sister, who was born on August 15 during the Mid-Autumn Festival and died at birth, was wrapped in a red quilt, and a layer of straw mat was rolled up on the outside of the red quilt before entering the ground. Every time he saw the straw mat, the second brother would involuntarily think of them, thinking of death, the eldest brother had no choice but to endure the pain and buy the bamboo mat at three times the price of the straw mat. However, fortunately, I bought a mat at the beginning, and it rained twice in three days, and if it was a straw mat, it would have been scrapped a long time ago. In the rainy season, the clothes never seem to dry, the quilt is always wet, and the thatch on the roof always exudes a musty smell of blending the old and the new.

From time to time, there will be all kinds of frightening sounds around the hut, and gradually after getting used to it, I can already judge what it is by the sound, for example, the rustling sound is mostly the infestation of long snakes, the whirring sound is the sound of birds flapping their wings and taking off, if you hear footsteps, in addition to people, it may also be mice, I didn't believe that rats can make such a loud noise, and then the second brother sprinkled ash on the stone steps next to the cave, and got up early the next morning, and really saw the footprints of rats on it.

What's more, there are always other things in the house at the two ends of three days, uninvited, cockroaches and rats needless to say, the most terrifying one is when we just went up the mountain on the twenty-ninth of the year, the heavy snow fell for a whole day and a night, fortunately, the most important thing in the mountain is firewood, we built a fire in the house, and the small hut was roasted warm. The family had nothing to do, staring at each other, so they started playing poker, I was too young, except for "picking up shit"*, I couldn't do anything else, I could only look here for a while, look at there for a while, and suddenly, I stood in the middle of the room, stared sideways at the bottom of the bed, and muttered, "Huh? Flower! As he spoke, he took the flat tan from behind the door, walked sideways to the cool bed like a crab, and when he passed the brothers, the flat tan hit the third brother first, and then pushed the eldest brother, but they were all immersed in the game, and they had no leisure to understand me. I pushed and pushed all the way, walked to the bed, first put the flat burden on the ground, lay down, and then lifted the flat burden, and the flat burden poked the second brother who was sitting on the back of the bed, the second brother rubbed the poked buttocks, turned back to me and asked, "What are you doing fifteen?" "There's a flower!" I replied as I stretched my pole under the bed. Where do the flowers come from in the winter? The second brother's eyes followed the flat tan into the bottom of the bed, and at this look, he jumped up immediately, where is the flower, it is obviously a cauliflower snake as thick as the flat dan, and it is sleeping in a ball! Seeing that my flat burden was about to poke at the snake's body, the second brother quickly grabbed the head of the flat burden and slowly pulled it out, trying not to make any sound. Although the cauliflower snake is not poisonous, it is very ferocious, and if you provoke it, there is absolutely no good fruit to eat, let alone such a big guy, you can only find a way to lure it out. I still remember that when the cauliflower snake left, the pointed head went out of the door, and the tail was still under the bed, if the second brother hadn't found out in time, I didn't know what would have happened that day.

However, even such a nasty little hut is not willing to be left for us.

It was the second day of the ninth lunar month, and in order to save the lamp oil and wax, the family went to bed early after eating. I was still pestering the third brother to tell me a story, and suddenly there was a dense sound of rain outside, the eldest brother and the second brother just added a few layers of thatch to the roof a few days ago, and thought that it should not leak rain, but I didn't expect the wind to blow again after a while, the rain became more and more urgent, and the wind blew more and more fiercely. Outside the house, "Woo la, Woo la, Woo la", like peeling cabbage, the branches are easily broken and crisp; For a moment, "boom...... There were two loud bangs, which were the sound of a tree being uprooted and then thrown out. Like a frightened cat, I clinged to the third brother and hugged his arm tightly. Suddenly, there was a whirl overhead, and a patch of thatch was blown away, and the house staggered. The eldest brother only said: "Not good! "Immediately pulled the third brother, the second brother also picked me up, rushed out of the hut, and ran desperately towards the cave, but when he came to the entrance of the cave, the second brother suddenly stopped, staring at the front with frightened eyes, as if there was a fierce red-eyed monster sitting inside. Seeing this, the eldest brother shouted: "Erhu, you don't want to die!" What are you doing with the pestle? Come on! "The second brother seemed to have fallen into an evil spirit, holding me and standing still. The eldest brother had no choice but to settle the third brother first, come back and pick me up, and finally, dragged the second brother into the hole.

Since the cave collapsed and his father passed away unexpectedly, the second brother has never entered the cave again. When rebuilding the earthen kiln, the second brother moved bricks, carried mud, and stirred slurry, and basically did the heavy work alone, but he didn't do one thing: enter the cave. The eldest brother knew that he had a heart disease, and he didn't force him, if it weren't for the violent typhoon that had not been encountered for decades, the situation was critical, and the eldest brother would not have dragged him in. The earthen kiln is built according to the hillside, one to save money, and then it is more solid, the more the cave is narrower, the lower the height, the innermost can only put one layer, eight rice bowls, the total length of the cave is only 30 meters, fortunately there was no kiln at that time, our four brothers and sisters only have a place to stay.

Outside the kiln seems to have become purgatory, the hurricane is like black and white impermanence, the fierce god is vicious, the mouth spits out the long tongue, and it is facing the entire Tao Town to suck the soul and scatter the soul, everywhere it goes, destroying the world and destroying the earth, unstoppable. The trees screamed and struggled in the wind, and they writhed their bodies in pain, dancing wildly. Branches and leaves, broken grass and broken trees, overwhelming, flying all over the sky. A whirlwind lifted our little hut with great difficulty, like a hat, and threw it away, leaving not a single thatch behind.

The eldest brother was worried that something would blow into the hole, so he pulled his younger siblings to hide as much as possible, but the second brother was still frozen at the entrance of the cave, staring straight at the top of the kiln with his eyes. I used to ask my eldest brother, "Why does the second brother never go into the cave?" "The eldest brother said that the second brother was afraid of the dark, and at the moment, it seems that this is really the case. I was so frightened and trembling that I suddenly became brave, hurriedly ran back, patted his back with my little hand, and comforted him: "Second brother is not afraid!" Fifteen will protect the second brother! As he spoke, he took his hand and dragged it in like a tug-of-war, however, the soles of the second brother's feet were like hanging a scale, and every step was difficult, and I used all my strength to feed, so I barely moved a few steps. Suddenly, there was a loud bang, and the second brother subconsciously hugged me, bent down to protect me in his arms, and after a long time, he dared to straighten his waist. Nothing fell down, the roof of the kiln must still be there, the sound seemed to come from the entrance of the cave, we turned to look, we could vaguely see a vague black shadow, I don't know what hit the mouth of the cave. "Second brother, don't be afraid!" It's rare that I can still be so calm, the second brother finally got some soul, rubbed my hair and said, "The second brother is not afraid." ”

When I escaped from the hut earlier, I was in a hurry, I didn't bring anything, and I didn't even have time to wear a coat, the third brother and I always kicked the quilt at night, and we both put on cotton sweaters and pants, the eldest brother only wore single pants, and the second brother only had shorts and a white vest with many holes. In the middle of the night, our four siblings shrunk into a pile of green onion rolls in the narrow cave of the world, leaning together. The third brother and I didn't know how to worry, and we quickly fell asleep in the wind and rain, and the eyebrows of the two elder brothers were beaten into dead bumps, thinking that this damn wind blew us to nothing, what should we do after dawn?

There was no television, no weather forecast, no warning, no warning, no greeting when you left. When the day was almost dawn, the wind stopped, the rain stopped, the morning light slowly sneaked into the cave, and the second brother finally saw clearly what was blocked at the entrance of the cave: a pine tree with the thickness of a bucket bowl was lying at the entrance of the cave, most of the branches had been broken by the wind, and there were sharp knives and sharp weapons full of trees.

After the typhoon, it was a mess.

Overnight, the world was ravaged and thrown into a misplaced place, and what we saw was turned upside down: the roots were not in the soil, and the leaves were not in the branches. The nest of young herons behind the hut was scattered, and most of them were buried in the mud, and the living ones either broke their flesh or broke their foot bones, and the soaked feathers stuck to their bodies, and they did not even have the strength to snap their wings, so I picked them up, and buried them on the hillside, and raised the dead in the cave. The small thatched hut has been razed to the ground, the contents of which are gone, there is no left, our four brothers and sisters are looking all over the mountains, but only find a big iron pot that has been knocked crooked, a bed hanging on the rock, wet cotton quilt and a pair of pants pressed under the big tree, the pants have been soaked in yellow muddy water all night, has become mud pants, I am still very happy, hee and said: "Now, the second brother finally no longer has to bare buttocks!" ”

Although the typhoon took away our hut, it finally left us something: the rocks trapped many birds and animals, in addition to the injured birds, we also picked up four pheasants, three hares, and a big wild boar with a black mane weighing 180 pounds, when the second brother saw it, it was crushed under a pile of stone slabs, and it was already dying, most likely in the dark night it was frightened and rampage, and unfortunately crashed into the stone pile of the quarry, and then lost its life. A fat local pig can be sold for about 100 yuan, and it stands to reason that the price of wild boars is higher, but when the eldest brother and the second brother carried the pig to Yu Yuanxiong, the pig killer on West Street, Yu Yuanxiong was picky about the wild boar like a flight attendant: the pig is too thin, and the meat is not fat; The mouth is too pointy, the skin is too dark, and the main thing is a dead pig, worth a maximum of thirty pieces. The second brother raised his eyebrows and said angrily: "It's not for sale!" Big brother, let's take it back and eat it ourselves, just smoked bacon for the New Year! "The eldest brother is so talkative, so he pulled the second brother back, and asked Yu Yuanxiong to add more. Yu Yuanxiong saw that the second brother was so angry that his eyebrows hung upside down, it didn't seem like he was just talking, he hurriedly built a few steps for himself, touched the pig's belly with a gesture, and said: "This pig doesn't seem to be dead yet, so let's do it!" For the sake of my eldest brother, your father Liu Dawan, everyone in the street, I will do a favor, plus fifteen, I really can't do more, no more your uncle, I will really have to pay upside down. "Although the brothers know that they are bullying them when they are young, but at the moment they are meat to be slaughtered like the wild boar, and they are forced by the current situation of the family, regardless of where they live, they all need money for food and clothing, and forty-five yuan can at least solve their urgent needs, so they can only admit it.

Many years later, every time we play the wind, we will always think of the sad and unfortunate pig, without it, I really can't imagine how the next days after the typhoon that year will be lived.