The heavy and tense wheat harvesting and sowing season lasted for a month. She was thrown around by the complicated work in the field and in the kitchen. The endless fatigue caused by the heavy work made her able to sleep at night.
She fell asleep after half the night. However, after the wheat harvest was over and the hot dog days arrived, she fell into that strange state again and became even more addicted. During the lunch break, she lay on the kang wearing shorts and shorts, thinking of her grandpa's big hands and furry hair.
Her beard and mouth felt itchy all over, and she couldn't help but moan. As usual, my grandmother went to the Sanguan Temple on the 15th day of the Lunar New Year to burn incense, kowtow, and keep vigil, praying to the gods for her two sons who were both in danger.
At noon on the fifth day of the afternoon, she served her grandfather a meal and did not leave immediately. She stood at the corner of the table and said sideways: "Dad, you like to drink in your own house. It would be too troublesome to go to another village and drink in someone else's house." Lu Zilin heard this.
The word "trouble" made her heart palpitate, so she pretended to smile and said: "I don't have any rivals when I drink at home. I drink and have fun with my friends." The daughter-in-law said: "When my mother is not in the house, you don't go out in the dark. I am alone."
At home... I'm afraid... it's... inconvenient to open the door for you..." Lu Zilin blushed and buried his head in eating. After the fever on his face subsided, he said sideways: "Oh oh oh, I
I'm not going out." The daughter-in-law took the opportunity to say: "If you want to drink, just drink in our house, and I'll cook you two dishes." Lu Zilin opened his mouth wide and forgot to swallow. He was as surprised as if he had stirred something out of a porridge bowl.
That time, Maicao was completely flustered and casually agreed: "That's good... that's good."
It happened that night. Lu Zilin sat in front of the stone table in the courtyard and fanned. There was a pot of wine and a brass wine cup on the low bluestone table. After the sound of frying oil in the kitchen stopped,
The daughter-in-law brought up four dishes of stir-fried vegetables on a wooden tray. Under the moonlight, it could be seen that they were scrambled eggs, bamboo shoots braised in vinegar, roasted tofu and cold mung bean sprouts. The daughter-in-law put the dishes on the stone table and stood beside them and asked: "Dad,
Try it and see if it’s salty.”
"Well, the eggs are neither salty nor bland, and they are also very tender."
“Try the winter squash”
"The winter squash is also crispy and crunchy."
"Try boiling tofu again"
“Oh, this tofu is so spicy and spicy, so delicious.”
She didn't ask about the taste of the fourth dish, so she grabbed the jug and filled the wine cup with wine: "Dad, please stop drinking and eating." Then she lifted the wooden plate leaning on the side of the stone table and moved it to the stove.
In the meantime, she washed the pots and dishes. After cleaning up, she went back to the Xiawu, washed her face with cold water, wiped the sweat from her neck, combed her hair and walked out of the Xiawu, stood at the door and asked: "
Dad, what do you want?" Lu Zilin was drinking wine, holding vegetables and shaking his fan leisurely. The full moon shone bright light on the yard from above his head. Every move and word of his daughter-in-law proved to him that he was
I had such a premonition, especially when I smelled the scent of my daughter-in-law’s newly applied powder. After half a lifetime, could a woman still not be able to see through this explicit and clumsy trick? The only obstacle was the handful of wheat straw. The act of stuffing wheat straw into the bowl and
The signal sent out today and the extraordinary courtesy made it impossible for him to explain these two completely opposite actions. He had met women who gave in half-heartedly, and women who refused due to their chastity. All his experience in this regard was
It cannot be used to explain away the daughter-in-law's contradictory behavior. In order to get to the bottom of the matter, he said to her: "Come sit here and talk to dad. Dad wants to talk to people when he drinks." The daughter-in-law said coyly:
"It's such a joke..." But he still walked over and sat across from him. Lu Zilin said, "You have a drink with dad." The daughter-in-law repeatedly waved her hands and said that she thought the wine was too spicy, but stood up and poured it again.
A full cup of wine was handed to grandpa. When Lu Zilin took the small wine cup, he couldn't help but touch his daughter-in-law's fingers. The daughter-in-law not only did not avoid it, but also grabbed grandpa's wrist with her left hand. Naturally, she used it as an excuse to let him hold the wine cup steady.
This made his judgment basically come into contact with the authenticity of the contradictory behavior, and at the same time he made his final decision. He said to his daughter-in-law: "If you don't drink, you eat vegetables. You should also try the vegetables you stir-fry." The daughter-in-law was shy
Then she mustered up the courage to use her chopsticks and took a small bite of the winter squash. Lu Zilin encouraged her further and said, "Try the cold bean sprouts again." This time, the daughter-in-law reached out to the bean sprout plate with her chopsticks more freely. When she put the bean sprouts into her mouth
She vomited it out and was so frightened that she froze beside the stone table. She ate wheat straw. Lu Zilin stuffed the wheat straw into the bean sprout dish when she returned to the building to wash her face and apply powder. The colors of the wheat straw and mung bean sprouts were
They were exactly the same under the moonlight. Lu Zilin threw his chopsticks onto the plate with a clatter, stood up and said sternly: "Learn to behave, you are the beast that eats grass."
The daughter-in-law woke up from the initial shock and stunned, and suddenly realized what was going on with the wheat straw in the bean sprouts. She was so humiliated that she wanted to cry but couldn't. She heard the sound of grandpa's footsteps coming up to the landlord's house, followed by the door latch.
There was a knocking sound. She unknowingly slipped from the stone wall and fell to the ground. She clutched the skirt of her chest tightly with both hands and lowered her head, unable to support it. She realized that she would never stand up again. Her limbs
She was numb, her whole body was trembling with cold, and her upper and lower teeth were chattering. She felt a warmth on her neck, and when she felt a handful of blood with her hand, she realized that her lip had been bitten and she began to feel pain. She raised her head.
Looking up at the sky, a full moon slanted to the west side of the ridge, still full and still bright. She lowered her head, saw the messy cups and saucers and the bean sprouts mixed with broken wheat grass, silently gathered the chopsticks and plates, and went to the kitchen
After washing up, she returned to the building. She thought of a rope and a door frame on which to hang the rope. She took out the rope used for silk shoes and combined the five strands into one. Then she stopped knotting the ring. She couldn't tell.
Losing courage, he changed his mind and stuffed the rope under the kang mat again...
She stopped talking from that night on. Whatever her grandma told her, she just did it without saying a word. After she finished, she went back to the foot of the building to shake the spinning wheel. The scary thing was that amidst the melodious and slow hum of the spinning wheel, she still saw the scene in front of her.
Recreating the scene of her grandpa hugging her shoulders and squeezing her breasts when she was drunk, the strange feeling of being hugged, pinched, and nuzzled by the furry muzzle also occurred in her body. She silently allowed that feeling to occur and disappear, looking forward to that kind of feeling.
It felt like it lasted longer... This mute life lasted for three or four months. When she entered the late autumn and early winter, she had nothing to do except cooking. She sat cross-legged in front of the spinning wheel from morning to night spinning threads. That was
After breakfast, she finished spinning five cotton twisters and had just connected the sixth thread, when suddenly a string of bright sparks exploded from a certain part of her body, and there was a softness that had been melted into water, forcing her right hand to
Throwing away the crank handle of the spinning wheel, she also threw away the cotton twister with her left hand, and hugged her chest involuntarily with both arms. She fell down in front of the spinning wheel, twitching and trembling like ice cubes melting, like a snow mountain collapsing. She hoped that this beautiful trembling would never disappear until
When he was about to die, he suddenly heard a bang in his head, like the sound of cotton thread snapping. He jumped up and ran out of the building, out of the street, into the village alley, and straight into the Bailu Nursing Home where my grandpa worked...
Lu Zilin took the three packets of Chinese medicine handed over by his husband, but did not get up immediately. He wanted to further explain his grievances to his in-law, Mr. Leng, but he could not speak. No matter how hard he tried, he could not think of a suitable word to say to relieve his embarrassment. Don't say anything.
Well, it was too unfair, and he was worried that Mr. Leng would also regard him as a grass-eating beast. Mr. Leng inspired him indifferently and said: "You go back and boil the medicine first." Lu Zilin finally didn't open his mouth, and went out with the medicine bag.
At the door, Mr. Leng walked to the door and said, "If you notice any effects after taking the medicine, please tell me."
The daughter-in-law refused to take the medicine. Lu He boiled the traditional Chinese medicine and poured it into a small yellow bowl and served it to his daughter-in-law. The daughter-in-law said, "I don't have any disease. What will happen if I drink that bitter water?" Lu He coaxed her and said, "To nourish the body."
Instead, the daughter-in-law said that it was poison and wanted to poison her to death so that her grandma could escape from her eyes. Lu Zilin listened in the bright hall of the upper room, and waved his hand to Lu He to signal not to force her, and wait until her madness passed. It seemed that
The daughter-in-law's madness was episodic, with fits of madness and recovery. As expected, the daughter-in-law calmed down after a while, and when Mr. Luhe brought the medicine again, she drank it in one go.
She fell asleep soundly, calling out loudly and affectionately in her sleep: "Dad, hold me tight, hold me tight, hold me tight." Mr. Luhe peeked in from the crack of the window, and saw that his daughter-in-law was naked, with her hands tucked between her hands
Between her legs, she was twisting and rolling on the kang. She walked into the landlord's house and said to Lu Zilin: "This shameless guy has lewd madness." Lu Zilin felt relieved for the time being, and there was no need to congratulate Lu Zilin anymore.
After proving his innocence, he said: "I have long seen that the nature of this disease is difficult to explain clearly." Luhe said: "A woman with this disease will get better as soon as she sees a man, and nine times out of ten she will take medicine.
It doesn't mean anything." Lu Zilin acquiesced and said nothing. Lu He said: "If you go to the city to look for Zhaopeng, you will have to kowtow and kneel to bring him back. You can sleep with that shameless guy for one night and just keep a baby.
Okay." Lu Zilin said: "Where can we find it?" Lu He said: "You can go quietly and inquire quietly. Ask Zhaohai, maybe you can find out where his brother lives..." Lu Zilin said: "Wait for these three days.
Take the medicine and then watch again.”
After taking three medicines, the daughter-in-law fell asleep all day and night for four days. Mr. Leng stopped taking the medicine for two days to see if he was still crazy after the medicine wore off. Later that day, the daughter-in-law woke up and grabbed the broom to sweep up.
The yard. Mr. Lu He watched her elegant sweeping movements from her window and felt warm. At this time, Lu Zilin walked into the yard. Her daughter-in-law glanced at her grandpa and suddenly became arrogant. She raised her broom with a giggle and said, "Dad,
Hey, you're drunk and I'll help you get on the bed." Lu Zilin suddenly blushed and walked quickly into the landlord's house. The next day he went into the city to look for Lu Zhaopeng.
The daughter-in-law's illness became more serious this time, and she became more and more crazy every day, and less and less good. Lu He had to call a neighbor woman to help her force-fed medicine. The daughter-in-law did not get better, and became more and more crazy every day. Lu Zilin left.
When he came back after five days, he was completely disappointed and quietly told Mr. Lu He: "Zhao Peng and the Bai family girl are living together." Mr. Lu He said: "It's okay for a big wife and a small wife. You have to let him come back and put this little girl back."
Just comfort him." Lu Zilin said, "I can't trace his trace at all." He then quietly told Mr. Leng the process of going to the city to find Zhaopeng, to show that he had done his best for his daughter-in-law, so naturally he could not mention it.
As for Zhaopeng and Bai Ling's secret marriage. Finally, he said: "Take the medicine carefully." Mr. Leng remained calm and handed Lu Zilin a packet of medicine. After taking the medicine, his daughter-in-law woke up and fell asleep.
He became mute and could only open his mouth but no sound came out. Lu Zilin frowned and asked in deep thought: "This medicine is probably too heavy." Lu He blinked in vain and said: "A light medicine will not cure the disease." Lu Zilin
He felt that the woman did not understand what he meant at all, so he still muttered: "Only Brother Leng dares to take such heavy medicine."
My daughter-in-law no longer shouted, was no longer crazy, no longer spun and weaved, and did not even clean the yard or cook. She did not take a bite of food for three days or two, she only climbed to the water tank and scooped out cold water to drink. Then she saw her the next day.
She was emaciated and resembled a skeleton. She died on the kang on the night of the ninth day of the winter solstice. When the women in the neighborhood were taking off the clothes of the deceased and changing into a shroud, they smelled a foul odor and found that her lower body was rotten and filled with pus.