Chapter Forty-Three
That night, the silly girl suddenly shouted that she had a stomachache. Mr. Liangtian did not dare to neglect, so he quickly called for the silly girl. The silly woman saw that her amniotic fluid had broken, so she quickly opened the kang hole, shoveled some ashes and poured them on the kang.
(At that time, the sanitary conditions in rural China were extremely poor, and women usually gave birth to their children on the ashes of the kang hole. Whether this was true or not remains to be verified.) Mr. Liangtian was standing in the yard, circling back and forth anxiously, when he suddenly heard the sound of a baby.
As she cried, Master Liangtian asked Mother Gaoda through the window: "What kind of baby was born?" Mother Mother Gaoda answered while wrapping the baby: "It's a baby with a handle." Master Liangtian danced with joy and ran out of the village, facing
The wilderness shouted loudly: "Lengmu, you blind guy! Where are you hiding? The silly girl gave birth to a son for you. Did you (didn't) hear you?"?!
It was an autumn, the most beautiful time of the year. In Mr. Liangtian’s yard, all the women from the village came to visit. Yang Yao, with a big belly, climbed up on the bed of Han Nu, and saw that Han Nu was breastfeeding her child. There was plenty of milk.
The child sucked greedily, her little hands and feet kept shaking, and saliva flowed out of her mouth. She asked the silly girl to touch her belly to see if the child in her belly was the same as the silly girl. The silly girl said very seriously: "
If you sleep facing left, you will have a boy, if you face right, you will have a girl." The potato wanted to give birth to a boy, so he did what the silly girl said and slept facing left in the dark every day. As a result, the silly girl's son just
When the moon was full, Yangyao gave birth to a daughter. Hannu hugged her son to see Yangyao. Yangyao said: "Hannu, did you remember correctly? I sleep facing left in the dark every day, why did I give birth to a daughter?" Hannu.
She said seriously: "This is God's arrangement. No one can do anything about it. She just happens to be a wife for my son."
Guo Ziyi had already left her hometown at that time, and Han Nu’s appetite was very large. Although the villagers gave her a little help, it was not enough for Han Nu to eat and drink. Ever since Guo Shanren had his little son, he and Mu Danhong stayed in the house all day long, behind closed doors.
No problem. Guo Quanfa became the father of his child at the age of seventeen, and all the affairs of the family were taken care of by his daughter-in-law. Nian Cuiying was not much younger than Mudanhong, and compared with her mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, Mudanhong looked even younger. Mr. Liangtian held Shengzi in his arms.
Borrowing food everywhere, I can only watch the silly girl starving. But the silly girl is nursing the child, and she must not let the child suffer, so she just ignores it. The child has just passed the full moon and picked up the sickle. Who is in charge of the food?
He cut firewood for someone else's family. The grain harvest happened to be bad that year, and poor people couldn't afford to hire Hannu. Hannu ate everything from grain chaff to red vines, but she still felt very hungry and couldn't fill her stomach.
But Hannu was very optimistic, holding her son in her arms and singing babblingly all day long. No one could understand what Hannu was singing, but the son listened with gusto and giggled from time to time. Lulu went home, Hannu
She carried her son to Geda's house and asked where Lengmu had gone. Geda said that Lengmu might be at Xiangu'an. After asking where Xiangu'an was, Hannu carried her son on her back and went to Xiangu'an to find Lengmu.
He Xiangu was lying on the couch smoking a cigarette when she suddenly saw a brown bear carrying a child on its back. She was so surprised that she picked up the cigarette pot and threw it at the silly girl's head.
The silly girl snatched the cigarette pot away and spoke: "You monkey spirit, you don't say a word when we meet, why do you hit me?"
He Xiangu was surprised that this brown bear could also talk. She asked, "Are you a human or a bear?"
The naive girl was not naive and scolded: "Your mother is a bear"!
He Xiangu smiled: "I thought I was the ugliest in the world, but I didn't expect there to be any woman uglier than me."
The silly girl said: "Stop talking nonsense! Have you seen Lengmu?"
He Xiangu asked: "Who is Lengmu to you?"
The silly girl replied: "Lengmu is my man, and I carry his son on my back."
He Xiangu hurriedly got off the bed and asked, "Have you eaten?"
The silly girl sat down on the futon in front of the Buddha statue and said, "I'm almost starving to death."
He Xiangu brought up a basket of sun-dried steamed buns. Those steamed buns were all paid tribute by faithful men and women. Usually there were too many to eat, so she dried the steamed buns, stored them in cages one by one, and hid them in the cellar. After a while, there were many flowers on the mountain.
Someone would come and carry it up the mountain on mules to serve as dry food for the bandits.
When the silly girl saw the cage of steamed buns, her eyes shone with excitement. She grabbed a few and ate them. She choked when she ate them. She picked up a ladle of cold water and drank it. He Xiangu watched the silly girl gobble it up.
, worried that Han Nu would have a bad stomach, so he took the steamed bun cage away from Han Nu. Seeing that Han Nu had a displeased look on her face, she kindly advised: "Stop eating for a while, I'll have enough steamed buns here." Han Nu glared
He raised his eyes to look at the statue of Bodhisattva and suddenly asked He Xiangu: "Whose mother-in-law is this handsome woman?"
He Xiangu laughed happily. After laughing, she straightened her face and taught the silly girl: "Don't talk nonsense! This person is a god, and that is the Bodhisattva Empress."
The naive girl is self-taught: "I know, the Bodhisattva's man is a bald monk."
He Xiangu lightly hit the silly girl on the head with a cigarette pot: "Don't talk nonsense, the Bodhisattva will cut out your tongue if he knows!"
The silly girl patted her belly and begged: "Let me eat a few more steamed buns from you, I'm still very hungry."
He Xiangu kindly advised: "It's not that I don't let you eat, I'm worried that you'll have a bad stomach."
The silly girl said: "Don't be afraid, I will eat nails and iron."
Seeing that Han Nu was pitiful, He Xiangu took another steamed bun from the cage to Han Nu. Han Nu ate it in two mouthfuls and asked for more after eating. He Xiangu refused to give it any more and coaxed Han Nu: "I still have wild boar meat here.
I'll stew it for you to eat later." The silly girl believed it, just like a pig, chirping and clicking her mouth. She paused for a while and asked: "Where did Lengmu go?" He Xiangu said: "Lengmu has gone far away, so you can feel at ease.
Let's stay here." The silly girl looked at the narrow couch and asked, "Where can I sleep?" He Xiangu pushed her foot into the ground and immediately saw a deep pit, and said to the silly girl, "Go down."
The girl stood by the pit and looked around, not daring to go down. She asked doubtfully, "Are you going to bury me alive?" He Xiangu knew that Han Nu was suspicious, so she jumped into the pit first, and then said to Han Nu: "
You carry the child on your back and follow me, don’t be afraid, I will take you somewhere.”
The silly girl was dawdling, clumsily, carrying her child down the pit, and followed He Xiangu forward. After walking for a while, her eyes suddenly opened up, and she saw everything in a cave dwelling dug against the mountain, and the sun shone through the window.
When I came in, a group of birds were chirping in the trees outside the window.
The silly girl smiled and asked He Xiangu: "Why don't I see your man and your baby?"
He Xiangu hit the silly girl on the head with the cigarette pot tip again: "You will live here, and you are not allowed to go outside. With your bear face, you are worried about scaring away those wish-granters. After a while,
Time will come back, and you will be reunited."
Silly girl suddenly hugged He Xiangu tightly and bit He Xiangu on the face. He Xiangu tried her best to tear Han girl apart and shouted: "Silly girl, you are crazy!" Silly girl dropped a string of tears and choked with sobs.
Said: "Sister, you are my biological sister."
Those days were the happiest moments in the innocent girl's life. Every morning when she opened her eyes, she saw the sun shining warmly on the bed. The son woke up, crawled on his mother's body, and cupped her mother's nipples with his mouth. Because he couldn't eat or drink.
Worry, there is enough milk. Every day, the silly girl touches her son's body with her hands. She sees that the son has gained weight. He is as hairy as the silly girl, like a hairy monkey. When she gets dressed, she sticks her head out the window and looks at this hole.
The cave dwelling is dug into the cliff, with no way up or down. There is only one exit, which is the tunnel. Tie the barrel to the rope of the pulley, stir the handle of the pulley, and see a mountain spring at the bottom of the ditch. The bucket falls into the spring water, and a wave of water rises.
Make ripples in circles, then hoist the bucket up with a wheel, and take a sip. It's cool and sweet, better than the mountain spring where my wife urinates in the ditch.
During the day, He Xiangu welcomes pilgrims to Xiangu Nunnery. At night, He Xiangu will walk along the tunnel into the cave where Hannu lives, and sit with Hannu for a long time. The weather is getting colder.
A heavy snow covered all the imperfections on the earth. Look at the thousand-year-old cypress branches stretching out from the cracks in the cliff. The branches are covered with ice flowers. A wisp of smoke curls up from the crack on the cliff. The silly girl is holding her child.
Standing in front of the window, I longed for Lengmu who was far away in the horizon. Gradually, the silly girl became suspicious of He Xiangu, as if He Xiangu was deliberately prevaricating her and hiding some secrets. But she was reluctant to leave here, my child.
Every day will grow longer, and a naive girl doesn't want to carry her child on her back to wander around.
There was a sound of firecrackers somewhere in the distance, and it was the New Year's Eve. The tributes from Xiangu'an included everything, except meat. Buddhists forbid killing. He Xiangu made a special trip to Fengqi City to call the donkey.
The tavern bought half a pig's head and two pounds of donkey meat. On New Year's Eve, the kiln on the cliff was lit up with red candles. The two of them ate the meat with their hands. After eating the meat, the silly girl burst into tears: "Lengmu,
You idiot, your son is already half a year old, do you know?" He Xiangu understood the woman's mood and said, "Sister, cry if you want to. Cry out the injustice and you will feel relaxed."
The silly girl climbed on He Xiangu's shoulder and cried so hard: "I still miss my grandpa! Grandpa picked me up from the wild and fed me with dog milk. It's the Chinese New Year. I don't know what grandpa does..."
A meteor streaked across the sky and landed in the ravine. He Xiangu caressed the innocent girl's head and comforted her: "I think after the New Year, Lengmu will come back."
But when the mountain peach blossoms were in full bloom, Lengmu still didn't come back. The silly girl couldn't stay any longer and insisted on leaving. He Xiangu tried hard to persuade the silly girl to stay, but when she saw that the silly girl was determined to leave, she took the silk and satin that the pilgrims usually paid tribute to and some
Pack the cloth into a package, bring enough dry food for the silly girl on the road, and send the silly girl on her way.
The silly girl carried the child on her back. After walking for a while, she turned around and saw He Xiangu still standing under the cypress tree waving to her. The silly girl came back again. He Xiangu thought that the silly girl regretted and wanted to take the child. The silly girl faced He.
The fairy girl bowed and said: "When Lengmu comes back, tell him that the silly girl has been here. After that, he turned around and left resolutely."
Walking through Donkey Tailiang, the breath of the mountain is getting stronger and stronger. Hannu is the daughter of the mountain. She feels excited as soon as she gets into the mountain. The mountain peach blossoms are blooming, the grassland flowers are blooming, and the trees are covered with elm money. It is a farmer's house.
The rations for spending the spring famine were Yuqianqian wheat rice, which became more and more delicious the more she ate. Unknown wild flowers bloomed on both sides of the road. After walking for a while, the silly girl squatted down, pulled a handful of wild flowers, and put them on her head for her son and herself. She thought that soon they would be able to
Seeing grandpa, the silly girl was happy and sang babblingly. The son danced with joy on his mother's back and followed her mother in singing the song that only they could understand. When he walked to his wife's urinal ditch, he saw the smell of
Spring water, the silly girl put her son down, raised her buttocks, held the spring water in her hand, and drank as much as she could. Suddenly she heard her son yelling behind her, and quickly turned around to see a bald-tailed wolf holding her son in its mouth and drilling into the thorn bushes.
Middle. The silly girl roared and chased the wild wolf. After all, humans couldn't run as fast as the wolf. In the folds of the mountain, the silly girl saw a scene that she couldn't bear to witness. She saw that the bald-tailed wolf had swallowed her son into its belly.
Inside, he stuck out his bloody tongue and licked his mouth.
The silly girl pounced on the wolf, bit the wolf's throat with her mouth, sucked all the blood from the wolf, then opened the wolf's belly and saw that her son had turned into a pile of flesh and blood...
Have you ever seen a mountain angry? It was a magnitude 12 earthquake! The sky collapsed, rocks rained, snow fell in June, birds and beasts disappeared, there was no life between heaven and earth, only the cries of the silly girl spread far and wide.
Tianyu.
Chapter completed!