Chapter 3: One Body and One Life

The crazy girl originally thought that her mother was cheating with him in these days when the "current reactionary demon" returned. How did she know that for this "private relationship", her mother and Li Dasuo had gone through more than ten years of unforgettable tribulations, and she would not have thought of it......

The geographical location and interpersonal relationships of Xiazhuang are obviously different from other villages.

Xiazhuang is located on the second embankment on the north side of the Grand Canal. It is one of the most remote villages in Granite Pan. The Grand Canal has two embankments, and in addition to the embankment, there is a second embankment about five or six hundred meters away from the embankment. The local people call the "embankment" "pile", the second embankment is called the "second pile", and most people call it "the back pile".

In the middle of Xiazhuang, there is a semicircular earthen platform connected to the back pile and protruding, which the locals called "nipple pile" earlier. The Grand Canal not only has an embankment and two embankments, but also a horizontal embankment connecting the embankment and the two embankments every three or four miles. It is said that the nipple pile was built here back then. Less than a third of the construction was made, and for some reason it was stopped. It is possible that the horizontal pile that was supposed to be built here was built in another place upstream or downstream. This leaves a "bald pile". People call the bald pile a nipple pile - because the "bald" is unlucky, and the "nipple" is auspicious. The nipple pile was later "shaved off" - the "belly" was enlarged,—— a house was built on it. As a result, it becomes a semi-circular earthen platform.

The nipple pile and the back pile connected to it were the birthplace of a small landlord surnamed Liu and a wealthy man a few decades ago. He likes to cry poor, and people give him the nickname "Crying Blind". He is not only crying poor around his hometown, but he is still crying poor in a foreign land thousands of miles away. People who don't know the details, looking at his clothes and food, really think that he is a poor man. His family does not have much land, and the family's internal and external affairs are basically handed over to the housekeeper to take care of. He mostly runs outside all year round, and I heard that he is in the tobacco business. Later, one of his sons became a senior official in the Nationalist Government in Nanjing. Later, the family moved to Nanjing, and dozens of large and small houses built on the nipple pile and the back pile remained intact, probably because the old rich man left a way back for his family. Later, the Japanese devils came over, demolished all the houses of the Liu family, and built a turret at the mouth of the West River three miles away.

The team house of the production team in Xiazhuang was built on the nipple pile of the old rich man's old mansion, known as the "rich land". The team house sits on the south and faces north, and the team field is connected to the "house" of two or three families on the back pile, so the front door of those two or three houses is much more spacious than the other place.

Xiazhuang is mainly composed of two families, Xia and Li. The Xia family accounts for eighteen households, and the people are prosperous; The Li family has fourteen households, and the people are worse than the Xia family. The remaining seven or eight households are miscellaneous surnames. The two families of Xia and Li have always had grudges. One of the most taboo things is that the girl of the family is married to one of the other family. That means: If the family who marries the girl betrays the ancestral teachings, he will be scolded and even spurned by his family: no matter what difficulties his family encounters in the future, he will not help each other. Because, the face of the whole family was smeared by their own family, and they were psychologically slapped by others - lost to the other party.

The crazy girl lives in the summer village on the back pile, and lives directly opposite the production team's team room. She runs to the team room to play as soon as she lifts her leg on weekdays. There are many busy people there all year round; In their spare time, there are many idlers who are idle there: playing chess, playing cards, bragging...... Even at night, it will never be broken: the team committee of the production team will have a meeting every three or two nights, feed the cattle in the middle of the night to add grass to the cows, watch the warehouse up for a small relief, and even gamblers go back late and the wife does not open the door, only shrink their heads and bend their waists to sneak into the cowshed of the team room and burrow into the cow grass to shrink for half a night. On winter nights, the cowshed became a bathing place for the men of the whole team. A large iron pot with cow water at the bottom of the pot is a thick wooden board that can sit two and a half children. The people who take a bath, in the order of first come, first served - naturally there are also polite, taking turns "out of the pot" - "out of the pot". The water in the pot was a little cold, and two more handfuls of grass were added to the stove; The water is hot, plus a large scoop of cold water. Young men always like to play while making jokes with hot steam in their mouths, and most of them can't do without the mundane things in the crotch - naturally they want to involve women, both clean and happy. Most of the old men like to talk about strange things that young people have not seen or the eight dynasties of the ancient dynasty or the north and the south. Those who listen don't explore the truth or falsehood, so they want to be fresh. Therefore, many people go straight to the cowhouse after dinner, and some even if they don't "get out of the pot", they have to join in the fun and listen to the anecdotes. Those old men who are old and can't sleep have to "soak" until midnight almost every day.

For a period of time, the men and women in Xiazhuang, whether they were surnamed Xia or Li, were the most talked about in private about the crazy girl's mother and the crazy girl's stupid father. And what I want to know more about the root is the real father of the crazy girl - who is it?

Almost no one would have thought that the real father of the crazy girl is the "most reactionary demon in existence" - Li Dasuo!

Li Dasuo lives on the east side of the crazy girl's house, and the two families are only separated by an alley about fourteen or fifteen meters wide.

When Li Dasuo went to school, he was very naughty. For a while, he and Xia Xiangyu were at the front and back table. Once, in class, he took advantage of the teacher's turn to write on the blackboard, he also turned around, made a grimace at the classmates behind him like a monkey, and then quickly stuffed a small note under Zhou Liping's book on the back table. Zhou Liping hid from the teacher while guarding against the same table, and pulled out like a thief to peep, with a line of words written on it: "Don't worry when you see the trees." Zhou Liping was immediately attracted by this line of words - in fact, she was attracted by Li Dasuo. The two of them often talked, laughed, and made trouble. Zhou Liping thinks that Li Dasuo is quite interesting, and now this small note stuffed to herself - this line of words on this small note must contain a larger or deeper "meaning". When she thought about it, she always felt that this "tree" must refer to something. What does it mean? "Trees" are tall - "Li Dasuo" is tall and big? But among the boys, he is not considered "tall"? "Trees" are full of vitality - "Li Dasuo" is full of vitality and vitality? But aren't a lot of naughty boys like this? Hey, isn't Li Dasuo's "Li" just "Muzi"? To see "trees" is to see "lees...... It doesn't seem right: there are three boys surnamed Li in the class, do you want me to put all three "Muzi" into the "bottom of my heart"? Hee-hee, isn't this nonsense plus bullshit! She almost burst out laughing at the thought of this. She thought and thought about it, but she couldn't come up with a clue. What does this mean by 'seeing the trees at ease' - what kind of play is this Li Dasuo? She really can't think of the "end", but she still wants to put "it (him)" in the "bottom of her heart"—but she can't put "it (him)" in the "bottom of her heart"—hanging in the air. In desperation, she had to quietly disclose the contents of the small note that she originally wanted to "keep absolutely secret" to Xia Xiangyu, who was at the same table, and wrote a sentence on another piece of paper: "You have to guess it, I will clean it for you for 3 days." Xia Xiangyu looked at the content of the small note very seriously, and seemed to think about it very seriously, and then wanted to snicker but still didn't laugh, maybe she was secretly happy in her "heart", and finally shook her head at Zhou Liping, and continued to do her homework. Hey, what did the teacher say in this class, Zhou Liping didn't even listen to a word.

After class, Zhou Liping, under the quiet encouragement of Xia Xiangyu, proudly waved the small note and asked the students to guess the riddle. Zhou Liping is the kind of person who is stupid and loves to babble. The classmates gathered around at once, but they couldn't guess the answer to the riddle.

A boy named Chen Xiaoyu suddenly shouted excitedly: "I guessed, the riddle is one word - 'think'!" ”

"How can it be 'want'?" A few boys asked suspiciously.

Chen Xiaoyu became a teacher with great interest: "You see: behind the word 'see', the hidden mystery is the 'eye' of the eye - only the 'eye' can 'see'; ”

Everyone applauded excitedly.

Chen Xiaoyu suddenly stood on the table and deliberately asked everyone: "Who wrote this note?" ”

"Li Dasuo—" Everyone shouted in unison.

"Who is this note addressed to?"

"Zhou Liping—"

"Li Dasuo-'Think'-Zhou Liping-" Chen Xiaoyu got carried away about his major discovery and his ultimate intelligence.

"Oh-" The students jumped and jumped, shouting and screaming, and they were about to tear off the roof of the classroom.

Zhou Liping was already lying on the table and crying ashamedly and annoyed, crying and crying and scolding Li Dasuo. In her "heart", whether she is really crying and crying, scolding and scolding, no matter how stupid she is, she will not tell the truth to others.

The head teacher, Mr. Liu, rushed in with an angry face, and after a few simple questions, he grabbed a small note from Chen Xiaoyu's hand, and then brought Li Dasuo into the office for interrogation.

Li Dasuo blinked, had an idea, and said, "I...... I didn't mean that at all. ”

"And what do you mean?"

"I mean: 'Trees' are the same as this 'number......,'" he said, writing with his pen.

"What else?"

"Teacher, you give us 'algebra' every day, isn't 'algebra' all 'number', I mean, when you see 'number', it's not enough to just stare at it, you have to think with your heart."

Teacher Liu glared at the half-stretched and half-shrunken little heads that were peeking outside the office door, then looked at Li Dasuo, pondered for a while, and said, "Hey, you're right, that's good, good!" ”

"But they ...... Thinking crookedly, ...... "Li Dasuo pretended to be very aggrieved. Under the teacher's questioning, he had to turn the finger to the boys led by Chen Xiaoyu.

Teacher Liu angrily brought Li Dasuo back to the classroom. Except for the few who eavesdropped outside the office door, most of the students thought that the teacher was going to deal with Li Dasuo severely.

Teacher Liu slapped the lectern suddenly: "Chen Xiaoyu, you stand in front for me!" ”

"Huh——?" Dozens of pairs of puzzled eyes turned to Chen Xiaoyu together.

Teacher Liu pointed at Chen Xiaoyu and said: "Chen Xiaoyu, no wonder your algebra grades are so poor, it turns out that your mind is not used for studying at all, but all day long crooked thoughts and evil ways!" Students, the meaning of this sentence written by Li Dasuo is: 'see the trees' - take the homonym 'number' of 'trees' - is the number of numbers, you can't just see the numbers, you have to use your brains and think carefully with your heart. Li Dasuo not only thought so and wrote this, but also did so, so his grades have always been at the top of the class. But it's not right for him to write notes in class and affect other people's learning. I've already criticized him. Chen Xiaoyu's crooked thoughts have had a very bad impact on the class. Chen Xiaoyu, you write a copy of the examination and hand it to me first, and you must seriously reflect on yourself. Then, give the class another profound review! ”

Later, Chen Xiaoyu said to Li Dasuo: "You are the first smartest, and I am the second smartest." Teacher, who wronged the good guys and promoted the bad guys, is an out-and-out big bastard! ”

Actually, the teacher is not a jerk. After that, Mr. Liu said to Li Dasuo earnestly: "...... You're a clever guy. I hope that in the future, no matter where you are, you will use this cleverness to the right path. If you can listen to me, you will be successful in the future. Li Dasuo didn't quibble anymore this time, he blushed and bowed deeply to the teacher.

Saying that Li Dasuo is a bad guy is a deliberate joke made by Chen Xiaoyu. Li Dasuo is not only not bad, but also kind and upright. There was a small boy in the class who was always bullied by two big boys. On the way home from school, they often forced the little boy to be a "turtle", and the two of them took turns riding him. One day, Li Dasuo carried half a brick in his schoolbag and followed the three of them. When one of them rode on the back of the "turtle", Li Dasuo rushed over with an arrow step, took a brick and slapped the big boy's head.

A good hand can't beat his fists, Li Dasuo was finally ridden under him by the other party, and asked while fighting: "Do you dare to meddle in your affairs anymore?" ”

"Dare!"

Then he hit hard: "Do you dare?" ”

"Dare"

Xiangyu and a few girls rushed over, shouting as they pulled. The two big boys finally let go.

Li Dasuo's nose was bleeding, and a bag was swollen on his head, and he pointed to the two big boys: "Come here tomorrow, don't dare to come to the turtle with a shrunken head!" ”

The next day, Li Dasuo hid a knife in his schoolbag! I don't know who found out, and someone quietly passed the word to the two big boys. The two of them didn't dare to report to the teacher because they knew they were wrong, and they slipped away quietly without waiting for school to end.

Unexpectedly, this battle quietly beat a boy to a girl's heart, this is Li Dasuo and Xia Xiangyu.

In fact, Li Dasuo already had Xia Xiangyu in his heart, and the clever Xia Xiangyu had already known it in his heart. But the two of them, whether in Xiazhuang or at school, are separated by the invisible but tangible "boundary river" that has already been formed by the two families of Xia and Li: they rarely speak to each other. Once you open your mouth, it must be a-for-tat confrontation. Therefore, the growing private relationship between men and women between them is not noticed by anyone, and even Li Dasuo's best friend Chen Xiaoyu is kept in the dark.

Chen Xiaoyu once scolded the teacher for being a big bastard, but in fact, he himself was an "authentic big bastard". Sometimes, he actually said bad things about Xia Xiangyu in front of Li Dasuo: "Dasuo, if you really want to be good with Zhou Liping, you have to beware of Xia Xiangyu." Don't look at her for three days and can't let out a single fart, but there are so many ghost ideas in her stomach that she will ruin the good things for both of you. ”

"Oh, did you hear something?"

"Many classmates know that your two families of Xia and Li are old rivals - this is what Xia Xiangyu quietly revealed."

"Yes, she's my old enemy. I don't know the same things as she does; If she spoils my big thing, I either don't make a move, or if I do, I'm going to make a splash of stinky shit with the surname Xia'! Li Dasuo pretended to grit his teeth.

In private, after Xia Xiangyu listened to Li Dasuo's colorful "secret report", she couldn't help but smile and pointed at Li Dasuo's head: "You are so bad, so bad."

"Hehe, aren't you better at pretending than me, and you made Zhou Liping a scapegoat."

"And the face said, it's not your prank......"

"It's not a prank, I'm just striking the east and west - also called 'curve chasing love'."

"It's also 'curved to save the country', hehe."

"Yes, Wang Jingwei once engaged in a 'curve to save the country', but the result was ruined;

"Don't be too happy: Wang Jingwei is a big traitor in the eyes of the Chinese people, and you are a big traitor in the eyes of the Li family......"

"Hahaha......" Dasuo laughed disapprovingly.

"You're still laughing? Have you ever thought about it, the two families of Xia and Li have such a deep grudge......"

"Alas, I have thought for a long time, I am not a 'big traitor'......; The burden in my heart is still to come. Xiangyu lowered her head and did not speak.

"You...... You ......"

Xiangyu remained silent.

"Are you stressed...... Any thoughts......"

Xiangyu jerked her head up and stared straight into the big lock's eyes.

The four looked at each other, speechless for a while.

Then, the two of them reached out in unison and grabbed each other. Xiangyu's slender hand, although it is so weak, is so firm and powerful.

- Silence is better than sound at this time......

Both of them dropped out of junior high school. Later, Li Dasuo signed up and did a physical examination - he was going to enlist in the army. On the evening of the day Li Dasuo got the "enlistment notice", he quietly asked Xia Xiangyu out.

"Oh my god, why did you bring me to this place?" Xiangyu hugged her chest with her hands and shrunk her shoulders.

It's a very secluded and very permeable place: mass graves. The mass grave is gloomy: the trees of all sizes and thicknesses that cannot be named, block out the sunlight that should be there, adding a bit of gloom and sadness, even horror.

"There's poetry here." There was a bit of pride in the big lock's tone. As they spoke, they sat down on a waist-deep meadow.

"If you think about it, I'm getting goosebumps."

"That's good—you don't dare to run around. A big girl, staying in this realm infested by many wild ghosts, if a wild ghost takes a fancy to you, suddenly jumps out and grabs you......"

"Oops, you're so bad......" she said, smacking his chest with her little white fist.

"Really, there's a real sense of poetry here. You see, in the graves, large and small, are the dead ancestors, and the two of us are the living descendants; What are we doing in the space of life and death - falling in love, this is called 'love of life and death'. ”

"With your mouth, a dead man can tell you to live. Stop talking nonsense, let's get down to business. ”

"Everything I say is serious, really, it's just that you don't fully understand it."

"Well, I don't want to understand." Xiangyu sighed.

"Why?"

"Da Suo, let's break up......" Xiangyu suddenly said such words.

"Nonsense."

"Really. I also opened the window and spoke brightly. With your ability, your clever mind, and your clever mouth, you will definitely have a future when you arrive in the army. ”

"It's still nonsense."

"I'm talking from the heart."

"More than half of what you say in your heart is nonsense. I'm a panting living person, and I don't want to talk nonsense in this hellish land, and I don't want to listen to nonsense. Otherwise, we'll both be living ghosts. ”

Xiangyu was choked by him and couldn't talk anymore.

"Why don't you speak?" Big Lock asked her.

"As soon as I open my mouth, you talk nonsense, how can I say it?"

"Okay, then I'll tell you a few words. First sentence: I love you; Second sentence: I love you forever; The third sentence: In this world, I only love you as a woman; Sentence 4: I want to grow old with you. Hahaha, let me tell you, none of what I said came out of my heart, it was all said by others a long time ago, hahahaha......"

"Then you can't say what you want to say?"

"Actually, I still don't want to say it. Because the 'words in the heart' should be put in the heart - that is the truth, that is the precious. Is the 'heart's talk' still called 'heart'? If you want to hear it, I'd better say a few sweet words that I 'created'—you women love to hear them...... "You take out the pen and paper in your bag......"

"What?"

"Take it out!"

…… He wrote eight words in two lines on the notebook she took out:

One expression

Proof of a lifetime

She was about to open her mouth to read it, but he covered her mouth: "I can't read it—put it in my heart." ”

But she still pulled away his hand: "I don't fully understand what it means, how can I put it in my heart?" What does the above 'one' mean – celibacy? ”

"Hahaha, your imagination is so rich, how can 'one body' be celibate?" Celibacy' is a single, and a single-minded is a lifetime without a wife. If I don't want to get a wife, why am I sitting here with you? Lie to you, play you, and then 'that'...... 'that' - hahaha......"

She pounced on him at once, scratching and scratching: "You...... You're bad...... It's terrible......"

"Let go, let go, I haven't finished speaking, do you still want to listen?"

She let go of her hand: "Listen, you say, be serious." ”

"The 'body' is the body from head to toe, the whole of the body—including the most important heart. What I mean by this is that true love for a person is best expressed not with the mouth, but with the whole body and mind – from head to toe and inside out. And also...... Saying that they love you for a lifetime, how many are true, and how many are true? - This is called unfounded. Maybe you are still in love at night, but as soon as you turn around at dawn, you will fall in love with someone else. This is just like the old people often said, called 'the heart of the people turns day and night'. Therefore, three years of love, or even thirty years of love, does not mean that you will love her (him) for the rest of your life. Some couples have been in love with each other for most of their lives, and their children have started a family, but the husband is still carrying his wife behind his back and quietly looking for a good partner outside. Falling in love for a lifetime is easier said than done. If you love each other for a lifetime, you must prove it with a lifetime and with your whole body and mind! What is 'a lifetime'? As long as you are still breathing, your life has not passed......"

She listened and listened, looked him in the eye affectionately, and couldn't help but shed tears......

He stretched out his hand and hugged her: "Cute little sister, look at what touched you - I was lying to you too, you were fooled again hahahaha......"

She scolded and shyly broke free, but the more she broke free, the tighter she held: the bodies of the two opposite sexes gradually ...... Tightly synthesized "one" - from the body to the body and mind......

Unexpectedly, at this moment, he left the regret of "a lifetime" in her stomach and in the future life of two people......

In the end, Da Suo agreed with Xiangyu: "You wait for me, after three years, whether I am discharged from the army, transferred jobs, or stayed in the army, I will marry you." ”

"A word?"

"It's a deal!"

……

Alas, can heaven do as man wishes......