Liuying

Chapter 1 Yimu

The wall between the men's and women's restrooms is impenetrable. Although it is dirty, spattered with unsightly feces and urine, and someone has written riddles about genitals, it is a moral wall and a legal wall.

Despite the bright sky, butterflies and flies flew over the wall. Yimu is not a butterfly, let alone a fly, but he has to enter the women's room every day. This is a kind of sadness, Yimu is a man.

Yimu was scouring for dung. He was bent over, his dirty hair was wet and stranded. He was panting like a cow and sweating like an ox. No woman was willing to marry him. The reason was simple - he was mute.

Yimu is mute, so he scavenges excrement, which makes sense. The toilet is where Yimu works. Every night at midnight, he sets off on time and pulls the dung truck through the streets like a ghost. The toilets in the public toilets in Jiaxiang County, Shandong Province are

Wait for him.

Yimu is so ugly that he can scare the most beautiful woman to death.

He didn't dare come out during the day, because someone would definitely spit on him, and if he got angry he would be beaten.

Yimu lowered his head, pulling the dung cart and walked step by step. His eyeballs were protruding, and a trace of panic flashed from time to time. His frowning eyebrows had never relaxed since he was born, which made his whole face have a wry smile, and his teeth were

The two rows of sparse and twisted "yellow bean petals" and the ears covered by the disheveled hair looked like caves with wild beasts living inside. His low self-esteem made Yimu accustomed to lowering his head, so he became hunched again.

Sometimes he also looked at the sky, but there was no shadow of birds in the sky.

Yimu has been working as a sanitation worker for more than 20 years. He ties his life to this ugly and extremely dirty cesspit, with maggots rolling under his feet. The work clothes Yimu wears are the color of feces, and his chest is breathing foul stench.

When his hands stretched out towards the toilet paper and sanitary napkins blocking the drain, silence gave the action a solemn color, and many flies danced around him.

The county town will resume its hustle and bustle in the early morning, and Yimu will load the dung trucks before dawn.

Once, in a public toilet, it was already dawn, and Yimu saw a woman having diarrhea. The woman screamed when she saw Yimu. Yimu put the feces into a cesspool and dumped it in the cesspool outside the door. He went in and out without noticing.

Ignore the naked woman.

If there were a torch to illuminate the dead end in his body at this time, he would see that at the end is a heart bound by rusty chains. It is imprisoned in his chest, beating uncontrollably day and night, and the harder it beats, the more it beats.

The tighter it gets.

Yimu was sent to the police station for being a hooligan. After being detained for 15 days, he lost his job of collecting dung. In the detention center, a kind-hearted prisoner said to him - you go to Liuying!

Chapter 2 Blind Ni

Xianni was born in a sorghum field in Yimeng Mountain. Xianni’s mother tore her umbilical cord and she fainted from the pain and never woke up. The next day, a passerby heard Xianni’s weak cry, and Xianni and her mother

The body was transported home on a flatbed cart pulled by a donkey.

Xianni's father was a bad-tempered alcoholic. Xianni's brother fed a female goat. The goat's milk kept Xianni alive. The first object she recognized in her life was the breast, and from then on Xianni had a vague concept of the circle.

. Later, her brother told her that the moon is round and the sun is also round. This woman, who had been blind since birth, began to feel at a loss about the world.

Xianni's world is very small, just a yard. She has been accustomed to the life of chopping firewood, feeding sheep, washing clothes, and burning the kang since she was a child. She sleeps in the hot ashes in front of the kang, and she knows all four seasons of the year, spring, summer, autumn, and winter.

Red flowers and green grass both look black in Blind Ni's eyes.

All the colors were destined in the dark, but all the colors changed when Xanni was born. The colors were gorgeous, and only black was left, which was boundless. Xanni stretched out her hands towards the darkness, walking on thin ice carefully, there was a chair here, there

There are tables that she needs to avoid and remember where they are, and she wants them to never move or change.

Blind Ni broke many bowls and hot pots, and her father would always get angry and beat her and would not give her anything to eat.

Sometimes, Xianni cursed her father to die soon.

Sure enough, on the day of my brother's wedding, my father died of drunkenness under a birch tree outside the door. My sister-in-law was very cruel. After passing the door, she gave Xanni a handful of straw and let her live in the sheepfold. Xanni quickly got used to the sheep smell.

She was used to the cold and stuffy heat. Her sister-in-law hated her more and more, and often beat her for no reason. Her brother didn't care. She thought about death and drank pesticides more than once. She knew the taste of dichlorvos, dimethoate, and herbicides.

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Once, her brother poured washing powder into her stomach and made her vomit. The neighbor Xianggu asked Xia Ni, why can’t she think about it? Xia Ni covered her stomach and rolled around and said, she had no food or shelter, so she couldn’t.

Nothing to wear.

Xianggu said to her sister-in-law, let this little man find a man to live with!

The sister-in-law asked the matchmaker to find a match for Blind Ni. The sound of the matchmaker's footsteps made Blind Ni nervous but also happy. She squatted outside the window and heard the matchmaker say that after visiting all the villages in ten miles and eighty miles, there was an old bachelor who said he would go on a blind date tomorrow.

.That night, Xanni had insomnia and lay on the straw mat in the sheepfold, tossing and turning.

The next day, the old bachelor came. Blind Ni stood under an ailanthus tree in the yard, her head lowered, twisting the corners of her clothes with her hands. Her chest was shriveled, her buttocks were flat, her braids were burnt yellow, and her neck was dirty. At that moment

She was shy and the most beautiful in the world. However, when the old bachelor saw Xianni, he started to yell. He clearly agreed that she was a little widow, but she was a blind person. The matchmaker quickly advised her to go over and talk to her since she was here.

She was 18 years old, and she was still a young lady after all. The old bachelor waved his hands repeatedly and said, no hit, no hit, and turned around and walked away. The sister-in-law chased her out the door, took off one of her shoes and threw it at the old bachelor fiercely, cursing, "Old turtle grandson, you don't even look."

You look like a bear. Xanni giggled, covered her face with a smile and cried again.

Three sacrifices to the stove, four cleaning of the house, five steaming buns, six killing of pigs, seven going to the market, eight cooking of oil, nine making of dumplings, ten kowtows, shooting stars streak across the sky, and the New Year is almost here in the blink of an eye.

On the day of making dumplings on the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month, the matchmaker brought in another person. Xianni later found out that he was a human trafficker. The trafficker circled around Xianni twice, pinched her shoulders and patted her back. He said to his sister-in-law

, the vagina is too small, it is difficult to give birth to a baby, and it is not sure whether she will survive. The sister-in-law said that she can give birth, she will definitely give birth. The trafficker asked Xianni if ​​she had her period? Xianni was at a loss. The trafficker spread his hands helplessly. The sister-in-law twisted Xianni hard.

After a while, she took out 50 yuan and said to the trafficker, if you can sell this waste, you can help me throw it away far away. Her brother was cutting hay, and he sighed and said, "My sister is so pitiful, please help me."

Find a good buyer!

Sianni felt very fresh while riding the train. Her feet could not move, but she had already left home.

She asked where to go?

The trafficker said, Shanxi is a poor place and there are many people buying wives.

Passing by Jiaxiang, Shandong, I parked for 5 minutes and the trafficker said I got out of the car to buy some steamed buns.

Xanni said I will follow you.

After getting out of the car, the trafficker muttered as he walked, "If I want to have fun, I'll run away now. Can you catch me?" The buyer has actually been contacted a long time ago. There are several of them, one is crazy, another has a crooked neck.

, there is a reform-through-labor prisoner—which one do you choose?

Blind Ni bit her lip and said nothing, tightly holding on to the trafficker's clothes.

30 buns.

The trafficker took out the 50 yuan given by Xianni's sister-in-law and handed it to a vendor on the platform.

The vendor glared at the money and said, "Please give me another one, this one won't work."

What did the trafficker say?

The vendor told lies.

The trafficker and the hawker got into an argument and got into a fight. The hawker picked up a hot shovel and broke the trafficker's head. The trafficker called her a bear and poured a pot of boiling water on the hawker's face. The hawker howled like a pig.

, fell to the ground.

The trafficker was taken to the police station.

Xanni squeezed into the crowd of onlookers, as if the matter had nothing to do with her. One woman said that this guy must be sentenced to three years or five years of being jailed for intentional injury. If he is older than the New Year, he will be burned.

The crowd dispersed and the train had already left. Xanni was holding on to the telegraph pole and felt panicked. After a while, she squatted on the ground and covered her face, whimpering as the cold wind blew her braids.

She cried not because she was weak, but because she didn't know where to go.

It was snowing, and Xanni sat down on a few snowflakes. Xanni opened her eyes wide, she couldn't see the white world, she hugged her knees and shivered all over, not knowing whether she should stand there and wait, or whether she should go

However, she just felt extremely desperate in her heart. It was New Year's Eve, only snow could make her eat, and only the northwest wind could make her drink. When the midnight bell and bursts of firecrackers came, Xianni raised her face, her teeth chattering,

She said to herself: "Ah...it's Chinese New Year!"

The next day, an old man clearing snow found Xanni who was about to freeze. He kicked Xanni's feet and said, "Girl, go to Liuying!"

Chapter 3 Land

A long time ago, farmers in Jiaxiang County, Shandong Province had a wish to grow wheat on the land. They sown again and again, but were disappointed again and again. Wheat is like weeds. It withers and turns yellow before it can grow into heading. Wasteland is still wasteland.

Nothing was harvested from what they sown. The soil was severely alkalized, causing farmers in this county to live in poverty for hundreds of years.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the county party committee team successively adopted measures to improve the soil quality, such as "deep plowing, shallow planting" and "contributing a bucket of manure". However, droughts and floods were ruthless, and the four pests were rampant. Even after the sun came out, the ground was still covered with white flowers.

People are desperate, even the county magistrate is desperate.

In 1972, Zhou Juzhi was appointed as the county magistrate of Jiaxiang. After he took office, he vigorously planted fruit trees. Apples, pears, peaches, hawthorns, apricots, and walnuts were mainly planted. By 1978, Jiaxiang County had thousands of acres of orchards.

The apple flowers bloomed and faded, and by 1980, Jiaxiang County became one of the 23 fruit bases in the country.

People were passing by in front of the department store, and there was a sheep soup restaurant on a quiet tree-lined roadside. Garbage was piled under the wall that read "Take out the garbage without a father." Flies were flying around. The street lights in the alleys decorated the night of the county town. In the early morning, the motor vehicle

Tricycles drove toward the fruit wholesale market. The rapid development of business drove various side businesses, and some transportation fleets, canneries, and wicker factories appeared. The two largest wicker factories in the county are Nanguan Willow Factory and Liuying Disabled Persons

Willow weaving factory.

Chapter 4 Liuying

Liuying is a small village eight miles away from the county seat. There is a large courtyard near the highway. The courtyard is very lonely, as if isolated from the world. However, for some disabled people living in dark corners - this is a paradise!

If it hadn't rained, there would have been eight blind men sitting on their horses in the yard weaving baskets. The fastest one was Xanni. She moved skillfully, as if she was playing with her fingers. Yi Mu and the three mutes were sitting on the river embankment in front of the village.

On the tree, they all had machetes in their hands. They cut down the willow branches and carried them back like mules. The other three mutes stayed in the yard to do some chores, pruning branches and leaves. There were four lame men and two paralyzed men working.

The pruned willow branches are soaked in water and then smoked. There is also a dwarf who keeps adding water and firewood. He is also responsible for cooking.

There are two rows of houses in the courtyard. One row is bungalows and the other row is tile-roofed houses.

If it rains, there will be no one in the yard. The bungalow near the iron gate has the door facing north and the window facing south. The door is made of broken boards, and an iron hook is the lock. There is a rocking chair in the room.
To be continued...