Yimu and Xia Ni are both miserable people.

There is a well in the courtyard of the willow weaving factory. The bluestone is inlaid with a circle of darkness. There is a wooden barrel hanging above it. There is a stone trough next to it. Birds often fly to drink water and then fly away. Yimu once raised it high, put it down, and stretched out two fingers to the people around him. Others know that the stone trough weighs 200 kilograms.

There was a pile of dirty clothes soaked in the stone trough every day. Xia Ni was familiar with every edge of the stone trough. She washed clothes until late at night, and it didn't matter how dark she just liked to help others.

Yimu often held a tea cup with hot air and looked out the window in a daze.

Xia Ni dared not have any extravagant hopes for life. It was enough to help others wash clothes and listen to birds. When she heard Liu Ye’s giggle for the first time, she was stunned. It turned out that there was such a wonderful sound in the world. Liu Qing said, "Hug Xiao Ye Zi." Xia Ni quickly shook her head and waved her hands and said, "Brother, I'm ugly, I scared her." Liu Qing said it was okay and put Ye Zi in her arms. When a soft little body was pressed against Xia Ni's chest, she had difficulty breathing, and waves of happy tremors spread throughout her body. This was a feeling that only mother could feel.

Xia Ni felt that she would never have a child in her life because no one would marry her. When she was living in the sheep pen, she had a doll made of rags and straw, and she embroidered many stars and flowers for it.

Women love children just like grass in spring.

Xia Ni never thought about getting married, but love suddenly came.

That night, after washing her clothes, she changed into a pool of clear water. The moonlight shone. She sat on the stool and hummed a song. The few diapers of the leaves were quickly washed. Xia Ni smelled it and felt dissatisfied, so she washed it again.

While Xia Ni tiptoed to hang her clothes and diapers in the yard, Yimu walked quietly. Xia Ni was hugged before she could turn around. She exclaimed and immediately pinched Yimu's arm. Yimu was panting and was extremely strong. Xia Ni's belt broke, it was a straw rope. She shouted, but the voice gradually became begging. Yimu's right hand rubbed Xia Ni's left breast. Xia Ni felt dizzy, and her body was weak and her hands were still holding her pants tightly. After a while, she cried. Yimu picked her up and carried her into the woodshed. When a humble soul developed admiration for another humble soul, panic, full of fantasy, panic was like dry firewood, fantasy turned into fire, all the light and warmth appeared, and the world rotated.

柳青在第二天用棍子将伊木教训了一顿,他是厂长,他是收留他们的人.棍子打在伊木头梆梆地响,瞎妮哆嗦着身子扑通跪下了,说,别揍他,俺没想叫你揍他.柳青扔了棍子问伊木,你愿意娶她不?伊木捂着头,他看看瞎妮,咧嘴一笑说,啊啊啊.柳青又问瞎妮,那你愿意嫁给他不?瞎妮捂着脸,点点头.

Two cloves of garlic form a heart, and two onions form a cross.

Yimu and Xia Ni got married. They chose a good day, and a good day is a cloudy and rainy day, and they don’t have to work.

Saturday, June 19, 1982, it rained heavily.

That day, Xia Ni washed her face early, washed her hair, and used a match to dig out the dirty mud in the cracks of her nails. Then Xia Ni started braiding her hair, and before she knew it, her face turned red. Xia Ni touched her face and said, "It's so hot!"

Yimu did not sleep all night. He woke everyone up with one finger. The winter melon rubbed his eyes and said, "You have to buy a few chickens and drink some wine. You have to get married like this." Yimu slapped his forehead and went to the vegetable market in Beiguan, the county town in the wind and rain.

Xia Ni looked brand new. She applied a flake cream on her face and a new straw rope tied around her waist. Donggua knocked on the door and said, "Let's go find your man." The main room was very lively, and everyone was looking forward to the appearance of the bride. Donggua smiled and led Xia Ni to Xiaora and asked, "Is this your man?" Xia Ni touched Xiaora's head and said:

"No." Donggua took Xia Ni to the house again and asked, "What about this?" Xia Ni touched Jiaqi's arm and said, "Not this."

Xia Ni touched everyone but couldn't find Yimu. Donggua said, "Your man is gone, I don't want you anymore." Xia Ni said, "Stop messing around." Yimu came back at this time, holding a chicken in his left hand, wine in his right hand, and holding a few big radish with long tassels under his armpit. He stood at the door, dripping water all over his body.

Donggua led Xia Ni to Yimu and asked, "Is this your man?" Xia Ni lowered her head and said nothing. She heard the familiar panting. Donggua cheered, and others followed her to cheer. A mute took the wine and food from Yimu's hand, and a blind man scratched his hair, and a few pieces of shredded paper fell off.

Chapter 7 Seduction

One morning, two people came.

The woman among them was pretty. One of her sleeves was empty, her hair was permed and messed up by the wind. Her name was Tao Wan. Her brother was holding a canvas bag in his hand and his eyes were covered with bloodshot.

Deaf? Liu Qing asked the brother and sister.

The man shook his head.

Dumb?

The man said no.

A gust of wind blew, and he lifted up his trouser legs. Liu Qing saw half of the prosthesis made of wood, and later the prosthesis grew black fungus.

Liu Qing said come in!

The door opened and the tragedy began.

The man was an actor. He and his sister used to sing Shandong Bangzi in the county theater troupe. A fire made them disabled. The actor was educated and had an ejaculation style, and he would come every month. After he arrived at the willow weaving factory, he repaired the well railing. By summer, the well railing was full of morning glory. He planted vegetables under the courtyard wall, and his sister Tao Wan raised a few chickens, and killed one when she was happy.

The dirty rag is, life will be as messy.

The actor suggested to Liu Qing that everyone must take a bath and brush their teeth. He and Donggua built a simple bathroom, rebuilt the toilet with Yimu, separated the men and women with triple boards, and built a row of "concave" characters with bricks and cement. There were several jars on the windowsill, and he filled water and marinated eggs.

After he finished all these things, he became the supervisor of the Willow Weaving Factory, and his sister Tao Wan became an accountant.

Tao Wan is a one-armed woman. She was standing outside the door and saw Liu Qing for the first time. Liu Qing was smoking a pipe. She saw a face that was not very clear in the smoke. It was the man she had been looking for for many years. From that day on, a voice echoed in her mind. At first, the voice was very weak, but it was qualitative step by step.

As he asked, he came over: Marry him. Lightning flashed across the night sky, and the thought always smelled. It quietly appeared in the dark night and refused to wither for a long time.

When Tao Wan was helping Liu Qing clean up the room, she found a photo of a woman at the bottom of the box and asked, "Who is this?" Liu Qing said, "It's my wife, I'm dead, you look a bit like her." By night, Tao Wan was lying down in her cottage, and she was not sleepy. Xia Ni groped in and put Ye Zi's diapers on her bedside. She was not only an accountant, but also deliberately played the role of stepmother. "Have you slept?" Xia Ni asked. Tao Wan growled: "Get out of the bear." Then she looked at the light bulb

The next day, she deliberately twisted Ye Zi to cry when changing her diapers, and then sang a few more lines of play to make Ye Zi giggle. That night, the moonlight was beautiful, and a woman gently pushed open Liu Qing's door with her index finger. She was nervous in the dark for a while, then took off her clothes, lifted the quilt and crawled in. Liu Qing had not been asleep. He thought it was a dream, his voice was rejecting, his hands were hesitating, and his heart had already agreed.

Two months later, Tao Wan came out of the toilet and threw a ball of clean toilet paper in front of Liu Qing and the actor. I was pregnant, and she said angrily. The actor said what was going on. He looked at Liu Qing's face, and Liu Qing's face immediately turned into a pineapple egg. The actor whispered to Liu Qing, my sister was like this. Liu Qing patted the actor's shoulder: "I am a man, I have to be brave to act."

Chapter 8 War

A basket sold for one dollar, but the Nanguan Liuhe Factory quietly dropped to 80 cents, which undoubtedly gave Liu Qing two punches. Liu Qing did not sleep all night after learning the news. In the morning, he got up and walked around the room with a frown. The actor and Tao Wan came in. Liu Qing immediately said to the actor, "I will slap my ears on my face, what should I do?" The actor said, "Nanguan?" Liu Qing said, "He has dropped to 80 cents, and we have dropped to 60 cents." The actor said, "Then everyone's wages are less." Liu Qing said, "Our basket cannot be sold for a penny."

In the evening, Liu Qing announced the reduction of his salary. He asked everyone what he had. Xia Ni touched her legs and said, "Just give up, it's okay." Jiaqi said, "Just have a meal to eat." Donggua sneered, and a mute next to him waved his hand, meaning: Nothing is the big deal.

When the apple was about to ripen, the dead branches and leaves fell all over the ground. A group of people came from Nanguan, holding weapons, including kitchen knives, sticks, iron forks, wooden shovels, picks, axes, and big hammers. They were angry and came to Liuying from Nanguan Liuhei Factory. Liu Qing opened the iron gate and handed over a cigarette. But these people were almost angry, although they were not wearing hats. The bald man in the lead named Lao Gai, and he pointed at Liu Qing.

The nose said: "It has dropped to 60 cents, I think you deserve a beating." Since Liu Qing lowered the price, fewer and fewer people went to Nanguan to order baskets, and finally there was no one. Liu Qing didn't say anything, and a group of disabled people stood behind him. Yi Mu spitted, drew a circle on the ground with his right foot, and another mute raised his middle finger. Lao Gai said: "60 cents are not enough, and it is not enough for wages. Let's discuss and level the price and stabilize it. How about 80 cents? It's all sold for 80 cents?"

Liu Qing said: "No."

Lao Gai also said one word: "Smash!"

The fight between the two sides was terrible. Liuying Liu Factory was outnumbered. Soon, Liu Qing's ribs were broken and one ear fell to the ground. The actor's only leg was also cut off and a stick was hit on his head. A guy in a red sweater kicked Tao Wan's heart. Several blind men were lucky and had their bodies hung up. The blind Ni's face was swollen like eggplant. The two front teeth from the house were one in the soil and the other in the belly. However, he pinched the other's egg. Yimu was majestic, took a shoulder pole, screaming, and the people around him fell to the ground. The dramatic change came from a weight in the hand of Donggua. This child-like dwarf shouted to Lao Gai: "Look here." He was aiming at his head, but Lao Gai's eye was blind.

Lao Gai also became a disabled person. He covered his face and shouted: "Do it, evacuate, evacuate quickly."

The armed fight attracted the attention of the county party committee, and the task force and the head of the Disabled Persons' Federation investigated the matter. Soon, the Nanguan Willow Weaving Factory was ordered to stop production, and Lao Gai was sentenced to eight years in prison for injury.

Chapter 9 Yima

Tao Wan died in the hospital on the day of the fight. She touched Liu Qing's only remaining ear with her only hand and asked, "Do you love me?" Before Liu Qing could answer, Tao Wan died. At that time, the actor was lying in the ward and unconscious, and the others went back after bandaging the wound.

There is a trash can near the hospital and a baby is in the trash can. In the early 1980s, cruel parents often abandoned children with disabilities, like throwing garbage.

The baby was covered in blood and motionless. One of his feet was deformed, like a chicken claw. The onlookers thought he was dead, and the flies knew he was still alive and flew around his belly button. Suddenly, the baby's body twitched slightly, and his closed eyes slowly opened a crack. The onlookers retreated, and a woman said, "Borrow light and show me."

Yimu and Xia Ni happened to be in the crowd. Xia Ni stretched out her hands and fumbled towards the garbage dump. People dodged a way. Xia Ni touched the broken glass, the broken shoes, and the rotten vegetable leaves. Finally, she touched the baby.

It's a boy. Xia Ni said excitedly.

Liu Qing and the actor were lying in the county hospital for more than a month. After being discharged from the hospital, Liu Qing's head was still wrapped in gauze and the actor was leaning on crutches. It was cloudy and their faces were also gloomy. Liu Qing asked Xia Ni, "Where did the child come from?" Xia Ni said, "I picked it up, picked it up in the garbage dump. That day, the wind blew the wires, whimpering. As soon as I touched it, the guy thorned me and touched it again. It smelled smelly and there was no heat on his body. When I came back, I asked my man to boil water, bathe him, wash it again, and then again. The next day, he ate and drank several sips of rice soup. This kid was hard and had some problems with his feet. Brother, give my child a name!"

On the road, a carriage pulling fruit seedlings passed by. Liu Qing named the child Yima without thinking. He touched the child's legs and said, "This is a cripple man. When he grows up, he can walk or run."

Chapter 10 Equality

The tree in front of Liuying Gate became a flag.

Many disabled people come here to see the trees from afar and see hope. This place is not far away, and it has always been in their hearts. Except here, for those who suffer from suffering and have no freedom, anywhere is hell and there is no need to fall.

There is gold in the dirt and pearls in the river clams. They are left to sleep and not opened, so they do not give a dazzling opportunity.

Many of them are ugly and dirty. They are not roundworms, but more like maggots. They seem to be unable to survive independently, and can only parasitize in one person, one home, and one society. They have a living environment that ordinary people cannot bear. Those who spit, complain, misunderstand, rejection and insults surround them all day long. Their life path is difficult, and their thoughts are squirming.

They are dormant in the shadow of society, and some people think that they are threatening the happiness of others. They have hands but no work, have a mind but cannot think, and even their genitals seem to be redundant. There is no other way to deal with harm except to endure.

Disabled people are a class, a suffering group, and the previous generation and the next generation have passed on pain. Every day, people fall into this vulnerable group. A blind man doesn't care about the night, but needs sunshine. Disabled people always exist, starting from humans to ending humans. They are as healthy as healthy people.

Disability is not the root cause of the pain of the disabled, and all unequal and unreasonable social phenomena are produced by society.

Liuying Liuhei Factory has become a gathering place for all kinds of suffering. God does not live in this courtyard, but it is a paradise for the disabled.

Chapter 11 Restaurant

One, two, three, four, five, count to five, and five years have passed.

During this period, a lot of things happened. The living standards in the city improved and the rural areas were still poor. Liu Qing expanded the factory and bid farewell to the original handicraft workshop. He bought another TV and entered a new era from then on.

The TV is a good thing, it tells people what is real and what is fake. Liu Qing climbed up the willow tree in front of the door and tied the antenna to the highest branch. The actor shouted below: "There is a shadow, and there is a sound!" At night, the villagers also watched the TV. The men squatted on the ground and ate noodles, while the old women sat at the base of the wall and hummed and coaxed the children.

Xiao La rubbed the mud while watching TV. After rubbing his neck and feet, he rubbed his feet into a mud ball. He smelled it, and smiled and smashed it into the pile of old women. This was a kind of teasing. Several old women also threw the little stones over and said with a smile: "Don't throw your mother's hydrangea." The word hydrangea made Xiao La think of it. The single man rubbed the big one and hit a widow's head. The widow slapped his thigh and cursed: "Which little crooked pussy?" Xiao La stood up and said it was me. The widow twisted her butt and walked up to him and slapped him three times. Everyone burst into laughter. Xiao La touched his head and looked at the woman's hand. No other woman had touched him except his mother.

Ye Zi is a naughty little girl. In Yima's memory, her skirt is always dirty. She waved a spoon in the crowd, shouting and beating. Liu Qing lay on the rocking chair and said, "Don't obedient, spank." Ye Zi still said to beating, beating. Liu Qing came up on her butt egg and asked her if she still beat her. She whispered and said to hug her.

Yimu was smoking a dry tobacco, and Xia Ni held a rope. Yima climbed to the east and west. His intelligence was different from other children of the same age. He could not speak at the age of five. Xia Ni pulled Yima back and put it on his knees, humming in a low voice:

Moon, Huang Baba,

Dad waters the ground, mom embroiders the flowers.

Little Guy, want to eat mom,

Take a knife and cut it to him,

Let’s hang it in his neck and eat it!

She wanted to coax her son to sleep, but she fell asleep in a daze. Yima climbed to the gate and sat there watching the whistling vehicles. At that moment, Yima was very lonely. She walked over the road alone and stopped in front of Yima. His face was extremely terrifying. Yima was so scared that she held her head with her hands. Finally, Yima shouted. It was summer night at that time, and the people in front of the TV shuddered when they saw the face.

That face was simply a masterpiece of the devil. His head was cramped in his shoulders, a piece of stiff neck exposed with blue veins, his throat seemed to have been ligated, and it took a lot of effort to swallow his mouth. His cheeks were written with ferocious words, and a toad was lying on his forehead. His flipped ears might cause storms, and a tragic sound echoed inside. What should I call his nose, a small bump? An egg? A tumor? A tooth is a crowbar, his lips become a fulcrum, and the corners of his mouth collapsed.

, White foam may flow out at any time. The chin and chin are strangely raised up, forming a dimples, and a few drops of rain and sweat can be stored there. The messy facial features are only one eye still alive, with blood on the eyelids, and the terrified eyeballs are protruding, as if they can shake off with a slap in the face, and the other eye is dead. The eyebrows are like black grass in the deep-sinked sockets. The whole face is bumpy and bumpy, and only a small piece of skin between the eyebrows is intact.

"Man, what's wrong with his face?" Liu Qing asked.

"It's hot, boiled in boiling water," he replied.

That night, Xia Ni said to Yimu: "I know this new person!" This person is the vendor selling buns. On the way that Xia Ni was abducted by human traffickers, it was this vendor who changed her destiny. She recognized him with the unique hearing of the blind. There were dangers everywhere in life. A pot of boiling water fell from the sky, and his life was broken into two pieces. The first half of his life was heaven, and the second half was hell. Fate tortured him to the point of being unhealthy. He was like a ghost, unable to come out during the day, but turned into a wandering soul at night, lonely. For this walking corpse, only Liuying was where he lived in vain.

Disability makes them equal.

His surname is Ma, and he is a Hui Muslim, and Xiao La is also a Hui Muslim. After Lao Ma came, he and Xiao La followed the Muslim eating habits. Eating was a pleasure. When it snowed in winter, Lao Ma cooked a large pot of mutton soup, which lasted for three days and three nights. The snowflakes were flying and the fragrance filled the air. He told Xiao La that there was a pot in Shanxian County, which had not been turned off for more than 30 years, and it was slowly simmering, Guru Guru, the soup was boiled, and the wood fell from the pot and chewed it smelled fragrant. Xiao La swallowed his mouth and said, "The mutton soup in Shanxian County, Laiwu, Xi'an is the best." Lao Ma told a story: There was an old man by the Yellow River. One year, he had a lot of water. The old man and his three sons took the sheep and carried the house to the mountain. A medicine box floated from the water, and there were thirteen kinds of Chinese medicine in the medicine box. The old man couldn't wait to die starving, so he took the sheep.

I used the thirteen Chinese medicines to make a pot of soup. The fragrance caused mice and snakes to wander around the pot. The old man said, "The house is flooded, and the house is collapsed. After drinking this pot of soup, go their separate ways and go to beg for food!" The flood receded, and the three sons burped. One went to Xi'an, one went to Laiwu, and the other went to Shanxian. Later, they all opened a mutton soup restaurant. The thirteen Chinese medicines became secret recipes, which were passed down to men but not women, and were passed down to inside and outside. He secretly learned this technique for three years in Shanxian before he learned the craft.

Pepper oil, sprinkle with coriander, Yimu drank five bowls, and Xia Ni drank three bowls. Liu Qing and the actor wiped the sweat on their foreheads and said, "It's satisfying." "Lao Ma, you should open a small restaurant. It's a bit wronged for you to build baskets, here," the actor said while painting on the ground, "The south is Huolin Street, and the north is National Highway 327. We are in the middle of these two intersections. You have to pass by this when entering and leaving the city. Lao Ma, you should open a small restaurant." Lao Ma said, "I used to run a small restaurant." Liu Qing said, "Try building a shed at the door!"
To be continued...