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.
.
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.
The walls of the bed were still covered with newspapers from the "Cultural Revolution" period. Two broken sofas were exposed to cotton wool. There was a greasy coffee table in front of the sofas.
Outside the window, the barren land was drenched in rain, voles were hiding under dandelion leaves, and tractors were passing by on the highway.
The other bungalows were filled with debris. Xanni lived alone in one of them. At that time, she was the only woman in the wicker factory. Spiders hung from the roof, all the way to her spinning wheel. What did Xanni do?
She lives in the city, and when others give her some cotton, she spins thread. After work, she wears shoe soles in her spare time. Except for the two paralyzed people with no feet, the workers in the wicker factory, including the boss Liu Qing, all wear cloth shoes made by Xanni.
The angle formed by the bungalow and the courtyard wall is the toilet. A few bricks are piled up on several fulcrums, and cigarette boxes are scattered everywhere. Opposite the bungalow are four large tile-roofed houses, three of which are warehouses, filled with baskets and rats.
There were squeaking noises inside, and litter after litter was born. The remaining room was a dormitory, with rotten doors and windows, the sound of rain, the air in the room was damp and oppressive, the floor was stained with phlegm, and there were more than a dozen beds with bunk beds.
The iron bed was placed against the wall, and the coarse quilt gave off a stench like a rotting corpse. A mute wearing patched trousers stood in the middle of the house and sang. He hummed with his nose until he finished singing, and a blind man wearing a felt hat sang.
He played the erhu to accompany him. A dwarf was sitting on a three-legged bench holding his big head in thought. His head was like a winter melon, so others called him winter melon, and Blind Ni called him Big Head. Several blind men sat at the table and listened.
On the radio, two mutes were talking with gestures. One said that it might rain until noon tomorrow, and the other said that it would be better until the evening. In the corner, a lame man and a paralytic man were sitting cross-legged on the lower bunk, drinking and eating meat. The lame man's name was Xiao La,
He was a Hui people. The paralytic called Jiaqi. He found a wooden board and put four wheels on it. He sat on it and rowed with his hands, as if there was the sea around him. When he came to Liuying, he was so hungry that he couldn't row anymore.
Liu Qing gave him two steamed buns. After eating, he choked and stared for a long time, burping loudly.
The rest of the people were sleeping, and Yimu snored loudly.
Chapter 5 Liu Qing
There are two trees in front of the door, one is a willow tree and the other is an elm tree.
One day, Liu Qing came out of the door and cut down the elm tree, made it into a rocking chair, and rocked his body under the window. He seemed very tired, and often looked out the window and meditated. Later, when it got dark, he saw nothing.
That willow tree, blown by the wind, will sing forever!
In 1980, a blind fortune teller passed by here. He patted the trunk of the tree and asked Liu Qing, was this a willow tree?
Liu Qing said, yes.
The tree is two feet tall, right?
Liu Qing said, well, almost.
Is there a puddle directly to the south?
Liu Qing said, there is a pond.
The blind man asked again, is there a monument under the earth wall in the southwest?
Liu Qing said yes, and it said "Taishan Stone Gandang".
The blind man nodded and murmured to himself, "It's just like what I dreamed about."
This tree was planted by Liu Qing.
There was a broken mailbox hanging on the tree. No letters came. Over time, it became a bird's nest.
Liu Qing's parents died young. They died of eating Guanyin soil during the difficult period of three years. Liu Qing was still a child at that time. He broke off a willow branch, ate all the leaves, inserted the branch in the road ditch in front of his door, and spread it.
After he finished urinating, he ran away to beg for food. After he left, the willow branch took root and sprouted and grew into a towering tree.
Liu Qing had been wandering for many years, and he brought back a Sichuan woman. The woman's hair was thick, dirty, and had a filthy smell. She could weave baskets, and she died after giving birth to a girl.
Liu Qing named her daughter Liu Ye.
Liu Qing has been hungry and suffered, which makes him strong and tolerant. Even if he bows his head when encountering difficulties, he will raise his chest. He has a strong chest and frowns when he smiles. Liu Qing has a keen eye. Since he was admitted to his handicraft workshop
After seeing the first blind fortune teller who was about to starve to death, he saw some shining people at the bottom of society. Those people were trash in the eyes of others, and they were also the cheapest labor force in the world. Give them a bite of food, and they would
He knew how to work hard, which made Liu Qing the first ten-thousand-yuan household in the county, and he had a savior-like halo in the hearts of the disabled.
This initial handicraft workshop developed into a large enterprise in southwestern Shandong decades later.
All workers are disabled!
Chapter 6 Combination
Yimu and Xanni are both miserable people.
There is a well in the courtyard of the wicker factory, with a circle of bluestone inlaid in the dark, a wooden barrel hanging above it, and a stone trough next to it. Birds often fly to drink water, and then fly away. Imuseng raised it high,
Then put it down and extend two fingers to the people around you, and others will know that the stone trough weighs 200 kilograms.
There is a pile of dirty clothes soaked in the stone trough every day, and Xianni is familiar with every edge and corner of the stone trough. She washes clothes until late at night every day. It doesn't matter how dark it is, she just likes to help others.
Yimu often held a steaming teacup and looked out the window in awe.
Xianni didn't dare to have any extravagant expectations in life. It was enough to help others wash clothes and listen to the chirping of birds. The first time she heard the giggles of willow leaves, she was stunned. It turns out that there is such a wonderful thing in the world.
Liu Qing said, please hug Little Ye Zi. Xianni quickly shook her head and waved her hands and said, Brother, I am ugly and scared her. Liu Qing said it was okay and put Ye Zi in her arms. She acted like a soft
When her little body pressed against Xanni's chest, she had difficulty breathing, and waves of happy shivers ran through her body. This was a feeling that only a mother could experience.
Blind Ni felt that she would never have a child in her life because no one would marry her. When she lived in a sheepfold, she had a doll made of rags and straw, for which she embroidered many stars.
and little flowers.
Women love children as spring loves grass.
Xanni never thought about getting married, but love suddenly came to her.
That night, Xanni finished washing her clothes and put them in a pool of clean water. Under the moonlight, she sat on a horse and hummed a song. Ye Zi's diapers were quickly washed. Xanni smelled it and felt dissatisfied, so she washed it again.
once.
When Xian Ni stood on tiptoes to dry her clothes and diapers in the yard, Yimu approached quietly. Xian Ni was hugged before she could turn around. She exclaimed and immediately pinched Yi Mu's arm. Yi Mu was panting and was extremely strong. Xian Ni
The belt was broken, it was a straw rope. She shouted, but her voice gradually turned into pleading. Yimu's right hand rubbed Blind Ni's left breast, Blind Ni felt dizzy for a while, her body became weak, and her hands were still tight
Pulling on her pants, she cried after a while. Yimu picked her up and carried her into the woodshed. When a humble soul develops admiration for another humble soul, it panics and is full of fantasy. Panic is like drying firewood.
, the fantasy turns into a raging fire, all light and warmth appear, and the heaven and earth rotate accordingly.
Liu Qing used a stick to teach Yimu a lesson the next day. He was the director of the factory and the one who took them in. The stick hit Yimu with a bang, and Xianni shivered and knelt down, saying, "Don't do it."
, are you willing to marry him? Xanni covered her face and nodded.
Two cloves of garlic formed a heart, and two green onions formed a cross.
Yimu and Xanni got married. They chose a good day, and a good day was a cloudy and rainy day when they didn't have to work.
June 19, 1982, Saturday, heavy rain.
That day, Xianni washed her face and hair early, used a match to dig out the dirt from between her nails, and then Xianni began to braid her hair. Unknowingly, her face turned red. Xianni touched her face and said:
"It's so hot!"
Yimu also stayed up all night. He woke everyone up with one finger. Donggua rubbed his eyes and said, "You have to buy a few chickens and get some wine. This is what you have to do when you get married." Yimu slapped his forehead and resisted the wind.
I went to the vegetable market in Beiguan, the county seat, in the rain.
Xanni had a brand new look. She had cream on her face and a new straw rope tied around her waist. Donggua knocked on the door and came in and said: "Let's go find your man." The hall was very lively, everyone was looking forward to the bride's appearance. Donggua
Smilingly, Xanni brought Xiao La to Xiao La and asked, "Is this your man?" Xanni touched Xiao La's head and said:
"No." Donggua brought Xianni to Jiaqi again and asked, "What about this one?" Xianni touched Jiaqi's arm and said, "That's not the case either."
Xanni searched all the people but could not find Yimu. Donggua said: "Your man is gone and I don't want you anymore." Xanni said: "Don't make trouble." Yimu came back at this time, carrying the chicken in his left hand and the wine in his right.
, holding several big radish with long tassels under his arm. He stood at the door, dripping with water.
Donggua led Xianni to Yimu and asked, "Is this your man?" Xianni lowered her head and said nothing. She heard the familiar gasping sound. Donggua cheered, and others followed, and a mute took it.
With the food and wine in Yimu's hand, a blind man scratched his hair, and a few pieces of paper fell down.
Chapter 7 Seduction
One morning, two people came.
The woman among them was beautiful. One of her sleeves was empty. Her hair was permed and messy in the wind. Her name was Tao Wan. Her brother was holding a canvas bag in his hand and his eyes were bloodshot.
Deaf? Liu Qing asked the brother and sister.
The man shook his head.
Dumb?
The man said no.
A gust of wind blew by, and he lifted up his trousers. Liu Qing saw half a prosthetic leg made of wood. Later, a fungus grew out of the prosthetic leg.
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 troupe. A fire made them disabled. The actor was well-educated but had epilepsy, which happened once a month. He
After arriving at the wicker factory, he repaired the manhole fence. In summer, the manhole fence was covered with morning glories. He grew vegetables under the courtyard wall. His sister Tao Wan raised a few chickens and killed one when she was happy.
How dirty the rag is, how messy your life will be.
The actor suggested to Liu Qing that everyone must take a bath and brush their teeth. He and Donggua built a simple bathroom, and Yimu rebuilt the toilet, using plywood to separate men and women, and using bricks and cement to build a row of "concave" characters. There were several on the windowsill.
Jar, he filled the water and pickled the eggs.
When he finished doing this, he became the supervisor of the wicker factory, and his sister Tao Wan became the accountant.
Tao Wan is a one-armed woman. She stood 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 surrounded by smoke. That was the man she had been looking for for many years. From that day on, a
The voice echoed in my mind. At first, the voice was very weak, but it continued step by step.
Asked and came over: marry him. Lightning flashed across the night sky, this thought always had a fragrance, quietly flashing in the night and refusing 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, "She is my wife. She is dead. You look a bit like her." By night,
Tao Wan lay down in her small room. She was not sleepy. Xianni fumbled in and put Ye Zi's diaper on her bedside. She was not only an accountant, but also deliberately played the role of stepmother. "Are you asleep?
"Xanni asked. Tao Wan growled: "Roll the bear." Then she looked at the light bulb and thought wildly. The next day, when she was changing Ye Zi's diaper, she deliberately twisted Ye Zi until she cried, and then sang two lines to make Ye Zi cry.
It made me giggle. That night, the moonlight was beautiful. A woman was barefoot and gently pushed open Liu Qing's door with her index finger. She was nervous for a while in the dark, then she took off her clothes, opened the quilt and got in.
Went in. Liu Qing didn't sleep. He thought it was a dream. His voice was rejecting, his hands were hesitating, but his heart had already agreed.
Two months later, Tao Wan came out of the toilet and threw a piece of clean toilet paper in front of Liu Qing and the actor. I'm pregnant, she said angrily. The actor asked what was going on, and he looked at Liu Qing's face.
, Liu Qing’s face immediately turned into a preserved egg. The actor whispered to Liu Qing, my sister is just like this. Liu Qing patted the actor on the shoulder: “I am a man, I have to dare to act.”
Chapter 8 War
A basket sells for one yuan, but the price at Nanguan Willow Weaving Factory has quietly dropped to 8 cents. This undoubtedly gave Liu Qing a two-punch. Liu Qing stayed up all night after learning the news, and his eyes were black when he woke up in the morning. He frowned in the room
After walking around, the actor and Tao Wan came in. Liu Qing immediately said to the actor: "The ear scraper is about to slap us in the face. What should we do?" The actor said: "Nanguan?" Liu Qing said: "He dropped to 8
Mao, let’s reduce it to 6 cents.” The actor said: “Then everyone’s wages will be less.” Liu Qing said: “If we can’t sell our baskets, we won’t make a penny.”
In the evening, Liu Qing announced the reduction of wages, and he asked everyone what their opinions were. Xanni touched her leg and said, "Just lower it, it'll be fine." Jia Qi said, "As long as you have something to eat, that's fine." Donggua sneered.
There was a mute man next to him who waved his hand, meaning: It’s a big deal.
When the apples were about to ripen, withered branches and leaves falling all over the ground, a group of people came from Nanguan, all holding weapons in their hands, including kitchen knives, sticks, iron forks, wooden shovels, pickaxes, axes, and big guns.
Hammer. They were so angry that they came all the way from Nanguan Willow Weaving Factory to Liuying. Liu Qing opened the iron gate and handed over a cigarette. But these people were almost furious, although none of them were wearing hats. The leader was
The bald man called Lao Gai. He pointed at Liu Qing's nose and said, "If it's reduced to 6 cents, I think you deserve a beating." Since Liu Qing's price reduction, fewer and fewer people went to Nanguan to order baskets, and finally there was no one left.
Liu Qing did not speak. Behind him stood a group of disabled people. Yimu spat and drew a circle with his right foot on the ground. The other mute raised his middle finger. The old man said: "Six cents is not enough. It is not even enough for wages. We
Let’s discuss it, make the price even and stable, how about 8 cents, sell them all for 8 cents?”
Liu Qing said: "No."
Lao Gai also said one word: "Smash!"
The fight between the two sides was horrific, and the Liuying Willow Weaving Factory was outnumbered. Soon, three of Liu Qing's ribs were broken, and one of her ears fell to the ground. The actor's only leg was also broken, and he received a blow on the head.
.A guy in a red sweater kicked Tao Wan in the heart. The blind men were so unlucky that they were all stained. Blind Ni’s face was swollen like an eggplant, and her two front teeth were missing.
There was one in the soil and one in the belly, but he crushed the opponent's balls. Yimu held a pole in a majestic manner and screamed wildly, and the people around him fell to the ground. A dramatic change.
A weight came from Donggua's hand. This child-like dwarf shouted to Lao Gai: "Look here." He originally aimed at the head, but Lao Gai was blinded in one eye.
Lao Gai also became disabled. He covered his face and shouted: "It's ruined, withdraw, withdraw quickly."
The fighting incident attracted great attention from the county party committee, and the task force and the person in charge of the Disabled Persons' Federation investigated the matter. Soon, the Nanguan Willow Factory was ordered to stop production, and Lao Gai was sentenced to eight years in prison for injury.
Chapter 9 Imma
Tao Wan died in the hospital on the day of the fight. She touched Liu Qing's remaining ear with her only hand and asked, "Do you love me?" Tao Wan died before Liu Qing could answer.
At that time, the actor was lying unconscious in the ward, and the others bandaged the wounds and went back.
There is a trash can near the hospital, and there is a baby in the trash can. In the early 1980s, cruel parents often abandoned their children with disabilities, just like throwing away garbage.
The baby was covered in blood and motionless, and one of his feet was deformed, like a chicken's claw. Onlookers thought he was dead, but flies knew he was still alive and flew around his navel. Suddenly, the baby's body twitched slightly.
, the closed eyes slowly opened a crack. The onlookers stepped back, and a woman said: "Please lend me some light, let me see."
Yimu and Xanni happened to be in the crowd. Xanni stretched out her hands and groped towards the garbage dump. People moved out of the way. Xanni touched the broken glass, the broken shoes, and the rotten vegetable leaves. Finally, she touched
Here comes the baby.
He's a boy. Xanni said excitedly.
Liu Qing and the actor lay in the county hospital for more than a month. After being discharged, Liu Qing's head was still wrapped in gauze, and the actor was using crutches. The sky was cloudy, and their faces were also gloomy. Liu Qing asked Xianni: "
Where did the child come from?" Xianni said: "I picked it up from the garbage dump. That day, the wind blew the wires, whining. When I touched it, good guy, it pricked me, and then touched it again.
He was dead. He stinked and had no heat at all. When he came back, I asked my man to boil hot water and give him a bath. I washed him again and again. The next day, he ate and drank several sips of rice soup. This boy was very tough.
, there is something wrong with my feet, brother, please give me a name!"
On the road, a Laguomiao carriage passed by. Liu Qing named the child Yima without hesitation. He touched the child's leg and said, "This is a cripple. When he grows up, he can walk and run."
Chapter 10 Equality
The tree in front of Liuying Gate became a flag.
Many disabled people come here to visit. When they see the tree from a distance, they see hope. This place is not far away and has always been in their hearts. Except here, for those who are suffering and have no freedom, any place is hell.
There is no need to fall.
There is gold in the dung, and there are pearls in the river clams. Let them sleep without opening them, and don't give them a chance to dazzle.
Many of them are ugly and extremely filthy. They are not roundworms, more like maggots. They seem to be unable to survive independently and can only be parasitic on one person, one family, and one society. They have a living environment that ordinary people cannot bear. Those who spit, those who
Complain about the misunderstandings, rejection and insults that 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, they have brains but cannot think, and even their genitals seem superfluous. There is no other way to deal with harm than to endure it.
The disabled are a class, a suffering group, and the pain is passed on from the previous generation to the next generation. Every day, people fall into this vulnerable group. A blind man does not care about the night, but needs sunlight. The disabled will always exist, from the beginning of mankind to
Humanity is over. They are as healthy as able-bodied people.
Disability is not the source of the suffering of disabled people. All unequal and unreasonable social phenomena are caused by society.
Liuying Willow 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, counting to five, five years have passed.
A lot happened during this period. Living standards in cities improved, but rural areas remained poor. Liu Qing expanded his factory, bid farewell to his original handicraft workshop, bought a TV, and entered a new era.
Television is a good thing, it tells people what is true and what is false. Liu Qing climbed up the willow tree in front of her door and tied the antenna to the highest branch. The actor shouted from below: "There are shadows and there are sounds!"
"In the evening, people in the village also watch TV. The men squat on the ground and eat noodles while the old women sit on the wall and coax their children.
Xiaola was watching TV while rubbing clay. After rubbing his neck and feet, he rolled it into a clay ball, smelled it, smiled, and threw it towards the old woman. This was considered a kind of teasing, a few of them
The old women also threw small stones over and said with a smile: "Throw your mother's hydrangea." The word hydrangea made Xiao La think about it very much. The single man rubbed a big one with all his strength and hit a widow on the head. The widow suddenly
She slapped her thigh and yelled: "Which little crooked cunt?" Xiaola stood up and said it was me. The widow wriggled her butt and walked up to him and slapped him three times. Everyone burst into laughter. Xiaola touched his head and looked at the woman's hand.
.Except for his mother, no other woman has ever touched him.
Ye Zi was a naughty little girl, and in Ima's memory, her skirt was always dirty. She waved a small spoon in the crowd, shouting "Hit, hit." Liu Qing lay on the rocking chair and said
: "If you don't obey, spank her." Ye Zi still said spank, spank. Liu Qing then touched her buttocks and asked her if she wanted to spank her. She curled her lips and said hug.
Yimu was smoking a dry cigarette, and Xanni was holding a rope. Yi Ma 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. Xanni pulled Yi Ma back and put him down.
On my knees, humming quietly:
Yue Lao Niang, Huang Baba,
Dad watered the ground and mother embroidered.
Little darling, I want to eat mommy,
Bring a knife and cut it to him,
Put it on his neck and eat it!
She wanted to put her son to sleep, but she fell asleep in a daze. Imma climbed to the gate and sat there watching the vehicles whizzing by. At that moment, Imma was very lonely. A man came from the road,
He turned the corner and stopped in front of Yi Ma. His face was so terrifying that Yi Ma was so scared that he held his head in his hands. Finally, Yi Ma howled. It was summer night, and people in front of the TV were shocked when they saw that face.
Had a chill.
That face is simply the work of the devil. His head is huddled in his shoulders, a stiff neck with exposed veins, and his throat seems to have been ligated. It takes a lot of effort to swallow. There is a ferocious look on his cheeks,
There is a toad on his forehead. The turned ears may cause a storm, and a tragic sound echoes inside. What should I call his nose? A small pimple? An egg? A tumor? The teeth are crowbars, and the lips are
The fulcrum was on the fulcrum, and the corners of the mouth were sunken, and foam could flow out at any time. The chin was raised strangely, forming a dimple where a few drops of rain and sweat could be stored. Only one eye was left among the messy facial features.
He is alive, his eyelids are bloodshot, his eyeballs bulge in fear, as if he could be shaken off by a slap, the other eye is dead, his eyebrows are like black grass in the deep sockets. The whole face is bark.
It looks like bumps and bumps, but only a small piece of skin between the eyebrows is intact.
"Dude, what's wrong with your face?" Liu Qing asked.
"It's hot, it's hot with boiling water," he answered.
That night, Xanni said to Yimu: "I know this new guy!" This person was the hawker selling steamed buns. It was this hawker who changed Xanni's fate when she was abducted by human traffickers. She relied on the unique characteristics of blind people.
With his hearing, he recognized him. There are dangers hidden everywhere in his life. When a pot of boiling water fell from the sky, his life was cut into two parts. The first half of his life was heaven, and the second half was hell. Fate tortured him to the point where he was not human. He was like
A ghost cannot come out during the day, and turns into a wandering spirit at night, all alone. For this walking corpse, Liuying is the only place where he can live an elusive existence.
Disability makes them all equal.
His surname is Ma, and he is a Muslim, and Xiaola is also a Muslim. After Lao Ma came, he and Xiaola followed the Muslim eating habits. Eating is a kind of enjoyment. When it snowed for the first time in winter, Lao Ma couldn't bear it.
A large pot of mutton soup simmered for three days and three nights. Snowflakes were flying and the fragrance was filling the air. He told Xiaola that there was a pot in Shan County that had not been turned off for more than 30 years. It simmered slowly, gurglingly, and the soup was boiling.
The wood tasted delicious when chewed when it fell into the pot. Xiao La swallowed his saliva and said: "The mutton soup in Shan County, Laiwu, and Xi'an is the best." Old Ma told a story: There was an old man by the Yellow River. One year, there was a flood.
The old man and his three sons took the sheep and their belongings and went to the mountain. A medicine box floated from the water. There were thirteen kinds of traditional Chinese medicine in the medicine box. The old man couldn't wait to die of hunger, so he killed the sheep and used the medicine.
Thirteen Chinese medicines were boiled into a pot of soup. The aroma attracted rats, snakes, and all to wander around the pot. The old man said: "The house is flooded and the house is collapsed. After drinking this pot of soup, they will go their separate ways to beg for food."
Let's go!" After the flood receded, the three sons burped. One went to Xi'an to beg for food, one went to Laiwu, and the other went to Shanxian. Later, they all opened a sheep soup restaurant. The thirteen Chinese medicines became the secret recipe
, passed down from male to female, from within to outside. He secretly learned this skill for three years in Shan County. He poured chili oil on it, sprinkled with coriander, Yimu drank five bowls, and Xanni drank three bowls.
Liu Qing and the actor wiped the sweat from their foreheads and said, "It's fun." "Old Ma, you should open a small restaurant. Weaving baskets is a bit unfair to you. Here," the actor said while drawing on the ground, "to the south is Huolin Street.
, to the north is National Highway 327. We are right in the middle of these two intersections. You have to pass here when entering or leaving the city. Old Ma, you should open a small restaurant." Old Ma said: "I used to open a small restaurant." Liu Qing
Said: "Let's build a shed at the door and try it!"
After the sound of firecrackers, Lao Ma's small restaurant opened. It was a very simple shed, built on the road ditch. This was a small wooden house without any romantic color. It leaked on cloudy days and swayed when there was strong wind. Although the food was
It's delicious, but business is sluggish, and passing drivers are scared away as soon as they see his face.
A year later, Ima gave Lao Ma a mask. He won it by playing marbles. He could already talk and walk. He dragged his right leg and had three marbles in his pocket. He made noises every time he took a step.
A crashing sound.
Under a tree, Yima won a mask with the red one among the three marbles. Yima said to the lost child, your shooting skills are also very accurate. The child's name is Hu Dou, and he is from Liuying Cuncun.
The eldest son. He sat on the ground and started crying, calling Imma a stinky lame person. Ye Zi said, "Puppy, I will strangle you to death." The child cried even harder, and Ye Zi stuck out his tongue at him and made faces.
Yi Ma gave the mask to Lao Ma. Lao Ma hesitated for a while, then slowly put it on, and his whole body immediately glowed with dazzling light. It was a Peking Opera mask, one of those who are born clean and ugly at the end.
Chapter 12 Clinic
Lao Ma's restaurant has been prospering ever since.
A year later, another clinic was opened next to Lao Ma's restaurant. The clinic was opened by a paralytic named An Sheng, who was from Pingyin, Shandong Province. An Sheng was given an electric shock when he was 13 years old, and his legs were disabled because he could not bear the pain around him.
Discriminated and neglected, he ran away from home resolutely at the age of 25. He sold plasters in the market during the day, and sometimes put away the medicine stall and set up a tea jar to beg. During the day, he worked as a doctor and a beggar, and at night he worked in other people's houses.
He sheltered from rain and snow under the eaves, and sometimes slept on the streets in plastic sheds on the roadside. A driver who unloaded cabbage told him that there was a basket weaving factory in Liuying, Jiaxiang County. The people working there were all disabled people, and they used drivers.
He said that they are all the same people as you. After hearing this, he went to Liuying.
It was a winter evening when he came to Liuying. The strong wind swept away the fallen leaves and plastic bags, leaving a clean road waiting for the heavy rain. Lao Ma, Da Tou, and everyone were warming up around the stove in the restaurant, and the actors
Sitting at the table drinking tea with Liu Qing, they were talking about grafting fruit trees. Thunder was rolling outside the house, and An Sheng came in.
He climbed in.
There was a tire tied under his buttocks, both hands were covered with broken slippers, and a very old artificial leather bag hung around his neck. Ansheng raised his face and looked at the people in the room: "This is Liuying?"
Liu Qing said yes.
An Sheng squirmed toward the stove with his hands on the ground and said, "Have a rest, we're finally here." The actor asked him where he came from. He said Pingyin, patted the tires under his butt and said, "8 of them were worn out along the way.
"Lao Ma filled a bowl of mutton soup and placed it on the small table in front of An Sheng. An Sheng opened his pocket, spread his hands and said, "I have no money." Lao Ma said, "Drink!"
An Sheng held the bowl, blew on the hot air, and said while drinking: "It's so cold that my intestines are almost frozen. This soup is not bad, but the heat is a little too high. There are peppercorns, anise, cloves, and angelica in the soup.
There are more cinnamon, cardamom, amomum villosum, more kaempferol, less galangal, and there are coptis and magnolia bark, as well as pepper and angelica, a total of thirteen Chinese medicines." The old horse was shocked, thinking that he had met an expert.
. He asked An Sheng how he knew. An Sheng wiped his mouth and said: "I travel around the world, sell plasters, and know some Chinese medicinal materials. Let's see." He took out two plasters from the bag on his chest, "It costs one yuan and two, and I can apply it on my belly button."
Cure all diseases.”
Datou came over and smelled the plaster and said, "Fuck, that's a lie." Liu Qing and the actor burst into laughter.
Jia Qi said: "Can all diseases be cured, can my leg be cured?"
An Sheng knocked on the car he had bought at home and said, "The tires made by Liumu are much better than mine."
An Sheng added: "Live legs can be cured, but dead legs cannot."
"What do you mean a dead leg?" Jia Qi asked.
An Sheng burped, took out a slender needle from his bag, inserted it into his leg and said, "Look, this is a dead leg, it's unresponsive." He pulled out the needle again, lit a lighter and roasted it.
, and then stabbed Jiaqi's inner thigh violently, Jiaqi groaned in pain and grinned.
An Sheng said: "You are a living leg, hehe, you can react."
"Can it be cured?" Jia Qi asked, rubbing his legs.
An Sheng put the needle back into his bag and said, "No matter how powerful you are, you can't cure it, but I can make you stand up."
Jia Qi was very excited. He grabbed An Sheng's hand and said, "If I can stand up, I will kowtow to you 100 times."
An Sheng smiled and said: "No, your car is nice, just give it to me when the time comes."
Three months later, late one night, Jia Qi shouted for help! The sound sounded creepy at night, like a knife cutting through the glass. Xiao La turned on the light, and the people in the dormitory saw Jia Qi and stood up. He
Holding on to the bedrail and looking at his legs, the flesh on his face was trembling. He slowly moved forward a little, and tears fell on his feet. A few days later, Jiaqi was finally able to stand upright with the help of crutches.
By walking, he transformed from a reptile into a human being.
In order to express his gratitude, Jia Qi asked Liu Qing to buy a wheelchair for Ansheng. He burned the car, and the car and the tire under Ansheng's buttocks. This kind of transportation is a huge irony to a certain civilization.
Ansheng was sitting in a wheelchair weaving baskets. Liu Qing said: "Ansheng, your hands are good hands. Don't bury them. Build a shed and open a clinic!" Ansheng was proficient in Chinese medicine, knew hundreds of herbs, and could distinguish thousands of flowers. After the clinic opened, one day
, Lao Ma took off his mask and asked Ansheng: "Can my face be cured?" Ansheng was so frightened that he shouted "Oh my God". After a while, he said: "There are two kinds of medicine that can make your face look better.
One is the clover carried by the white snake, and the other is the seven-colored flower carried by the elk."
Lao Ma sighed and said, "I'd better put on this mask!"
There are many folk prescriptions for Ansheng, catkins can cure athlete's foot, kudzu root and skullcap can cure headaches, and grapevine can relieve cough and reduce phlegm.
Ansheng knew how to scrape, and he was able to cure Yimu's back pain with a piece of money written in the Qing Dynasty. Ansheng was best at acupuncture. Acupuncture includes acupuncture and moxibustion. Moxibustion generally uses moxa. Yimu and leaves are often picked in the wilderness.
Ansheng was given mugwort with yellow flowers, and Ansheng gave them a few pagoda candies. Once, a constipated bricklayer was carried to Ansheng's clinic. The bricklayer screamed while covering his bulging belly, and his face turned purple from holding back. Ansheng cleaned his hands.
Wash the face, apply acupuncture to the spring, moxibustion the Da Changshu, and use a burning hollow moxa stick to quickly point at the Lieque point, only to hear a popping sound, An Sheng said it was done, and after a while, the mason's stomach rumbled, and he put it down.
After farting a few times, I ran into the toilet.
Ten years later, Liuying developed into a prosperous town. Those two sheds no longer existed, replaced by small buildings with white ceramic tiles lined up on the roadside. Ansheng's clinic became the only traditional Chinese medicine hospital in southwestern Shandong.
Ma's little restaurant has become a famous halal restaurant.
Chapter 13 Going to school
One day, Ye Zi jumped to school, and Imma sat in the wilderness all morning. Imma was a gloomy, patient child, who spoke little all day. After school, Ye Zi caught a few tadpoles and put them in cans
In the bottle. She squatted on the ground and said happily: "Tadpoles can turn into frogs, and frogs can turn into princes. This is what the teacher said." Imma said: "Can toads also turn into princes?"
That day, Yi Ma and Zi Zi quarreled for the first time. They quarreled and cried. Yi Ma sat next to Xi Ni throughout the afternoon and weaved baskets. He hid at night. He knew that Zi Zi would look for him as soon as school was over. They had done this countless times.
They played a hide-and-seek game. Zi Zi asked Dong Gua in the yard: "Have you seen Yima?" Dong Gua said: "Who knows, maybe it's in the warehouse." The door of the warehouse was locked, and Zi Zi jumped in from the window and looked around.
After looking at it, she ran to a big cabinet, pulled the door of the cabinet hard, slapped and kicked it. Finally she got tired, frowned and said: "Ima, I know you are in there, don't hide from me, I
I'm unhappy, I feel bad, I've been feeling bad all day long!" She started to cry. Imma opened the cupboard and said come in! She called out something bad and jumped in immediately.
Imma looked into her eyes and said: "Yi Zi, I want to go to school and I want to be with you."
Yi Mu did not agree with Yi Ma going to school, so Yi Ma was lying on the floor full of chicken excrement and rolling around. Xianni pulled Yi Ma up, patted the dirt on Yi Ma's body and said: "Son, we won't go. Mom makes baskets to feed you. You
Unlike other children, you are a cripple, what can you do if you go to school?" Imma said stubbornly: "I have to go to school." Liu Qing said to let Imma go and be with Ye Zi. Xianni sighed.
That night, she used a flour bag to sew a schoolbag for Imma.
Chapter 14 Game
The school in the village is a temple, dilapidated, with wormwood and a small locust tree growing on the top of the temple. The Buddha statue is no longer there, and it is said that it was stolen. The so-called blackboard is a wall, and the original incense table is used as a lecture table.
.Ima and Ye Zi spent the best childhood time in their lives in this temple.
There are more than thirty students in the school, and there is only one teacher. The teacher is Shi Weiming. He teaches the children a lot of knowledge, from people, mouth, hands, to crows drinking water, to the magic pen Ma Liang, to Li Li Yuan grass.
The child sitting in front of Yima and Ye Zi is called Hu Dou. He is the son of the village chief, the unlucky guy who lost to Yima Mask.
There was a henhouse on the playground, and a flagpole was erected next to the henhouse. One winter morning, the hen laid three eggs. Hu Dou said they would roast them, and he shook a box of matches in his hand. Then the dead leaves were lit, and the eggs were
The ashes turned dark. There were many people but few eggs, and only a few older children rushed to eat. Hu Dou, who contributed matches, sat on the ground and muttered a string of vicious words. One word was repeated, but five people were scolded.
Every child is a genius at swearing. They receive the earliest and only sex education from swearing.
A knife falls from the sky and cuts your mother's waist.
A needle drops from the sky and picks your mother's skin.
Scissors fall from the sky and stick them in your mother's asshole.
A scale falls from the sky and hooks your mother's ass.
In the eyes of children with rich imagination, everything seems to be there in the sky, and the other parent is unlucky, and soon they are scolded. Sometimes, a talented child will suddenly say a wonderful sentence: Everything is broken from the sky.
Gown, burn your mother's mouth.
Yima was a master at playing stones and marbles, and could not participate in other games. He could only watch others play by the chicken coop. For a while, Hu Dou often imitated his walking posture, and he imitated it so vividly that the other children laughed.
From then on, Yima stopped playing games and became more withdrawn.
Imma stood next to the chicken coop. In the midday sun, his shadow looked like a small pile of garbage.
Girls play more civilized games: rubber band jumping, punching sandbags, and catching mice. Catching mice is similar to throwing a handkerchief, and they also sit in a circle, clap their hands and sing songs:
Mouse Mouse January 1st, smack, here comes the cat.
Rat, rat, February 2, tsk, I didn’t catch it.
Rat, rat, March 3, tsk, there’s more.
Rat, rat, April 4th, click your tongue, run away!
Time became very poetic in their eyes, and one circle was January. Soon they learned to play house, and pots, pans, roots, vegetables and leaves were placed all over the floor. Hu Dou approached Ye Zi with a playful smile and asked, "I am the father."
How about it? Let me carry water and let me give the child an injection." Ye Zi said "bah" and jumped up and spat in his face. She held her little face and thought for a while, then picked up the clay doll on the ground and ran to Imma
, she covered Imma’s ears and whispered: “Let’s play together.”
She smiled at Imma.
This smile moved Yima for many years.
Chapter 15 Madman
Xanni was crazy, and she became crazy before she knew it.
Her spirit became increasingly dazed, and she stretched out her hands as if she was sleepwalking. When she walked to the well, she forgot what she wanted to do. When weaving baskets, her fingers were not as flexible as before. Liu Qing said she was old, and An Sheng said it was an illness.
Neuropathy.
It was the same to Blind Ni whether she had her eyes open or closed, she could only see darkness. A huge shadow enveloped her, and she began to suffer from insomnia. She sat on the bed all night, pinched Imma's arm, touched Imma's face, and
After Ima woke up, she said: "Son, my mother's eyesight is not good. When you grow up, you will be a walking stick for my mother. Wherever my mother goes, you will follow her." Imma said: "Mom, go to sleep.
"However, she was very worried and said, "Mom is old and can't walk anymore. What should I do?" Imma said, "Mom, I will carry you on my back."
During the day, Xanni felt empty around her. She touched Maza and found that Imma was not there. Xanni tilted her head to think about it, shook her head and sighed. At noon and dusk, she stood stubbornly at the door waiting for Imma to finish school. She
Like a tree with a crooked neck, it is not afraid of wind or rain. Once after Ima got out of school, a truck passed by on the highway. Blind Ni quickly took Ima into her arms and looked around in panic. Her breasts were so big that
Nervous and undulating like waves, he pretended to be calm and asked softly: "Is the car leaving?" Ye Zi said: "Aunt, it's leaving!"
Blind Ni always thought that Yi Ma would be run over by a car on the road, so she took off her belt and tied Yi Ma to a tree. Dong Gua came over and wanted to let Yi Ma go, but Blind Ni roared and pinched Dong Gua's legs.
The hands on my neck were cold and strong. Donggua shouted with a choked voice: "You've destroyed me, let go now, you've destroyed me!"
Yimu locked Xianni in the room. Ansheng said to let her eat whatever she wanted. This disease cannot be cured. Yimu did not complain, and his eyes still showed tenderness. He combed and braided Xianni's hair.
He would carry shit and urine for Xianni. If he was not mute, he would sing a song for Xianni. Sometimes Xianni would wake up for a while, touch Yimu's face and say: "It's great, I will marry you in the next life." More
Sometimes she would squat in the corner and tremble, or stand in front of the window and talk nonsense.
Blind Ni was circling in the room, which was a habit developed by wild animals in cages. When someone walked by the window, she would call Imma's name, but she could no longer distinguish Imma's footsteps. She repeated it again and again.
Repeated: "Ima, come here." Imma stood far away and whispered: "Mom, I don't."
The madman's strength was astonishing. One day, Xianni bent a steel bar and jumped out of the window. No one saw her, so she got on the highway and entered the county town. Maybe she thought that Imma was still lying in the garbage heap. She smelled bad
Yes, both hands were stained with dog feces. At the corner of Beiguan Primary School, a group of dirty children heard Xanni saying to herself: "No, it's not this." She looked up, rolled her eyes, and thought for a moment.
Half an hour later, he slapped his forehead: "By the way, let's go to the hospital. The hospital is in the south." The group of children said with a bad smile: "Go west, go west." One child said seriously: "There is a hospital to the west.
Ditch, just after crossing the ditch." Xanni's face was expressionless, what are you giving!
Blindie wisely walked east and reached an intersection. Amidst the sound of the brake horn and the driver's roar, she slowly squatted down and peed calmly, boldly and nonchalantly. She must have thought that there was sorghum there.
But she forgot to take off her pants. Amid the astonished eyes of others, she stood up and continued walking forward. She touched a telephone pole at the gate of the cotton factory's courtyard, and there happened to be a pile of garbage under the telephone pole. Xianni carefully turned over it with both hands.
However, there was nothing but garbage. Someone asked her what she was looking for, and Xanni said she was looking for a child, but the child was gone. She rummaged through it again, and finally found a cardboard box with a dead cat in it. Xanni said:
"I found you."
There was a car accident that afternoon. On the road to Liuying, someone saw a blind woman holding a cardboard box. Maybe because she was happy, she started running. As a blind person, this was her first time running, and the joy was indescribable.
. She ran faster and faster, and suddenly a large truck from the Yellow River rushed over and knocked her down, dragged her forward twenty meters, and ran over her with a thud. Xanni's body was carried back, and Yi Mu saw it.
She shuddered, her hair stood up, his eyes were wide open, and his mouth was open in shock. Suddenly he fell straight down, convulsed and passed out.
A pit was dug on the river embankment, and all the disabled people in the wicker factory came to pay their respects.
Blind Ni was wrapped in a straw mat, and her two calloused hands were exposed. Those hands were weathered, groped in the dark, and grew up in the wind and rain. Those hands washed Ye Ye's diapers and mended Yima's pants.
Imma lay on the edge of the pit and cried until her voice became hoarse. Imma shouted loudly: "Mom, get up, get up! Don't die. You can't see. I will be your crutch. When you get old, I will carry you on my back. You go."
I'll follow you wherever you go. Mom, get up and don't die."
Yimu's eyes were dull, and he knelt there. When Liu Qing dropped the first handful of soil, Yimu felt as if thunder rolled through his chest, and he roared like a wolf. Lao Ma, Xiao La, Jia Qi, and the actor held down Yi Mu.
Only then did he stop him from jumping.
Yi Mu cried in front of Xianni's grave for three days and three nights. His tears soaked the land in front of him. Who has ever heard the cry of a mute? The cry echoed in the wilderness for a long time, like a saw cutting through a door.
, like a wooden stick smashing things in the house, like a knife cutting through the chest, like a hammer breaking people's hearts bit by bit. In those days, people in Liuying Village were listening. On the fourth day, the crying disappeared
Ye Zi brought food to Yimu with a water jar. Zi Zi said, "Uncle, you eat fried cakes."
Yimu sat motionless in front of the grave. He was already dead.
On a starry night, all the flowers and birds fell asleep, shooting stars streaked across the sky, and the wind blew slowly. Ima and Ye Zi sat on a small slope. Ima said: "Ye Zi, my mother is dead."
My father is dead too, so I don’t have any relatives left.”
Ye Zi said that no one can separate us, just like your father and your mother.
Chapter 16 Wilderness
Yima and Ye Zi wandered in the wilderness all day long. On the river embankment in front of the village was their simple residence, which was an abandoned fisherman's hut. The grass by the river was already very green, and there were reeds, and the leaves were pointed and thorny.
blue sky.
Nature is as beautiful as a dream. The footprints of Yima and Ye are all over the most desolate corners. In the spring morning, mist rises from the pond and the surrounding grass is wet. Swallows are lovers from afar, and magpies also fly in the willows.
Flying away, the soft and delicate branches are like a girl's hair, hanging low and with pointed leaves. The soil under the feet is soft and elastic. A path leads to the sloping wooden house of the forester. Wild roses grow beside the fence, and among the branches and leaves
It is covered with big flowers. There is still water in an old well, and the iron bucket is hung by the windlass. After shaking it a few times, big drops of water will leak out. Yima and Ye Zi are the elves of the wilderness, and the spring breeze makes her charming. She
Standing with a smile, she has a small stature, big sad eyes, long eyelashes, and likes to wrinkle her nose. She is cute and naughty. She is a bad girl, jumping around all day long, and her tongue is entangled. Sometimes she also lowers her head.
Sighing, kicking the grass, then biting his lips and looking up at the blue sky.
The sun shines on the earth, and after the summer rain, the air is fresh and sweet, mixed with the smell of flowers and wild grasses. Several sunflowers on the ridge of the field droop their heads, and the big leaves are dripping with water. Between the branches and in the grass, there are trembling spider webs, and a patch of green
Under the shade is a grassland glistening with raindrops. There are algae floating on the wide river surface. The reeds on the shore are submerged, leaving reed sticks exposed on the water. A fallen tree, two snails' tentacles touch each other, and then crawl,
Carrying their own small houses on their backs. Mushrooms grew on the damp tree trunks. Each of them held a small umbrella and was worried. The frog played the snare drum and the grasshopper played the erhu. The sound of nature is the best music. Suddenly the wind started.
Now, the wilderness has become quiet, leaving only the sound of wind being cut through the grass, and the trees begin to panic. Dark clouds spread from the sky, and soon swell above the head, lightning streaks across the sky, thunder rolls across, and heavy rain makes a noise on the earth. Leaves
Lifting up her skirt, she quickly jumped over small puddles, her hair swaying back and forth. Soon she stood at the door of the fisherman's hut, waving to Imma, saying: "Quick, quick."
Ima dragged his right leg and held his head. His clothes had already been soaked, but he giggled. I don’t know when the summer rain will fall. Once, Ima and Ye Zi hid in that hut for a night. They were very early in the morning.
I woke up in the early morning light, and the rainwater seeping through the roof dripped on last year's hay.
The autumn sun is like an egg. Ima and Ye Zi are walking in the birch forest. The ground is covered with red leaves covered with autumn frost. A sparrow flies up from the feet. The sky is clear and cloudless, the west wind blows, and the leaves fall one after another.
Come.
In winter, the snow is covered with snow, and the undulating wilderness is clean. The earth exudes a beautiful white light, so soft and incredible. The haystacks have become thicker, and the snow on them is her head. A rabbit makes a noise, and it stays in the grass.
The pile is still not honest, I really don’t know what kind of grass it wants to eat. The tree hanging with ice is motionless, and the red sun comes out. Yima and Ye Zi breathe the clear cold air, their little faces are red from the cold, they
Build a snowman and then punch and kick it. A dozen carefree children were playing tops on the river. The two older children picked up a stone and shouted, one, two, three, let go, ice.
There was a "click" sound, and there were a few small cracks, and there was a white spot in the middle.
Chapter 17 Carton
Among the relics left by Xian Ni, the cardboard box aroused Liu Qing's strong interest. The dead cat in the box gave off a smell, with white flesh and white maggots! Liu Qing looked at it quietly all afternoon.
His heart was always excited, and he was the first person to meditate on the maggots. The actor came over and said, "Does this look good?" Liu Qing said, "Actress, look at the words on the box."
Printed on the carton: Yantai Apple!
The next day, Liu Qing and the actor took a train to Yantai. After returning, he announced a surprising decision. At that time, Liu Qing was standing on a stone. The height gave him a sense of history. He talked incessantly, and the workers had never seen it before.
He was so excited. I had never heard him say so many words before. Among them were many new terms, including enterprise, reform, market, packaging, replacement, and risk. He said that weaving baskets would no longer work. If we continue like this, we would starve to death. We must have something.
As a long-term plan, we have to set up a carton factory.
That night, people heard a thunderbolt, and in the wind and rain, the willow tree in front of the door fell down.
Starting a business was difficult. The plan did not change much. It was not until a year later that Liu Qing officially established the Liuying Carton Factory with the help of the village chief. The village chief’s name was Hu Jin, and he had contracted loans in the village as early as the beginning of the reform and opening up.
With 30 acres of orchard, he and Liu Qing were both bold people and quickly became friends.
Chapter 18 Choice
Puberty arrives unknowingly.
Ye Zi is already a slim girl. She is innocent, smart and full of charm. When some bad boys whistle to her, she no longer responds with saliva, but looks back and smiles. She seems to know how to seduce, and then leaves, walking lightly and cautiously.
Keeping a distance, there is an invisible boundary within three steps. Who is a good person, who is a bad person, and who is a dismissive person, they all talk to them with their little faces raised. She knows that she is a girl, so she becomes arrogant.
They swelled quietly and became two secrets that no one knew about. She was no longer barefoot, quietly walked over and hugged Imma suddenly. Her body began to have a fragrance, which was because a little flower bloomed in her heart.
Her hair was as smooth as water. Imma said: "Ye Zi, I want to touch it." Ye Zi pursed her lips and lowered her eyes and whispered, "Of course!"
After Yimu and Xianni died, Yima was finished, just as everything was dark when it got dark. Yima stopped going to school and grew up like a savage, with no one caring about him or caring about him. His only pleasure was to run away with Ye Zi
Wandering around in the fields or in the county town for a whole day, most of the time he was in the workshop where the machines were roaring and paper scraps were flying, sweating and doing the most tiring work. Sometimes it started to rain suddenly, and Ima sat on a broken tire.
, there is a very lonely, unfortunate, and melancholy feeling in my heart. Looking at the rain under the eaves, I feel that one's tears are flowing and will never end. The actor suggested that Yima learn from Lao Ma or An Sheng.
He has a skill, so Imma says it doesn't matter. He has developed a decadent walking style, his hair is dirty and messy, and he doesn't care about anything. Ye Zi often helps Yima with work, but Yima pretends not to care, but in fact he is willing to be with her.
Together. When Ye Zi was not with Yi Ma, Yi Ma felt empty and uncomfortable. Ye Zi said: "I Ma, why can't you be happy? I think you have changed." Yi Ma said listlessly that I have always been like this.
Hu Dou came to Ye Zi almost every day. The two of them went to the county high school together.
There was a pot of roses on Ye Zi's window sill. One day, she pinched the flowers and put them on her ears. She asked Hu Dou with a smile: "Is it beautiful?" Hu Dou said, "Yi Zi, I want to tell you something." Ye Zi glared at him:
"Don't say it." Hu Dou still said, "Yi Zi, I like you." Ye Zi's ears immediately turned red with embarrassment. She threw the flower on Hu Dou's head and said, "Bad guy." After that, she ran out.
After Ye Zi graduated from high school, the production scale of the carton factory became larger and larger, and the water overflowed. Liu Qing wanted to expand the carton factory into a large-scale pulp factory, so as to win a broader development space, including the city's several nearby counties.
A student from a deaf-mute school came here to work as a worker as soon as he graduated. He wanted to make full use of this cheap labor force. Liu Qing and the actor used a calculator to calculate the required funds. After addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, they needed a lot of money.
money.
That night, Liu Qing went to find Hu Jin. When he came back, he burped and smelled of alcohol and said to the actor: "It's solved, all the problems are solved." Hu Jin promised to help him get a loan and propose marriage for his son, but he didn't
He agreed before hesitating. He thought it would be a good marriage.
Early the next morning, Yi Ma ran to Zi Zi's room. Yi Ma said to her: "Zi Zi, let's go to the county town to watch a movie."
Ye Zi was a little hesitant. She was lying on the bed, her hair was messy, her eyes were a little swollen, and she had obviously cried.
Imma added: "If you feel embarrassed to be with me, let's go at night and no one will see you."
The curved leaves say it may rain.
Imma said: "Never mind it, you were never so nagging before." "Then you don't have to work?" she asked with a pout.
"I gave myself a day off. Today, I have something to say to you."
"I know even if you don't tell me." She twisted her fingers around her hair and was silent for a while. Then she started crying and said, "I'm going to marry Hu Dou."
Imma said: "Oh." He slowly squatted on the ground.
Imma heard the whistle, and Hu Dou pushed open the door and came in. He had his hair parted and wore a pair of shiny leather shoes. He said to Imma proudly: "Newly bought, yo, there is a little mud here." He wiped it with his fingers, and then
He kicked his legs to make his pants straight up. He smiled and said to Ye Zi: "Daughter-in-law, come on, I'm so lazy. I haven't gotten up yet." Ye Zi glared at him and said, "Don't even think about it."
Imma squatted and did not dare to stand up. There were three patches on his trousers, two on his knees, and the one on his buttocks was soaked yellow with sweat.
Hu Dou and Ye Zi began to quarrel quietly, and this quarrel somewhat smacked of flirting.
Imma stood up and said: "Yi Zi, I'm leaving."
Ye Zi bit her lip and looked at Yima with a pair of big tear-filled eyes: "Where are you going?"
Imma said: "It doesn't matter, who knows."
Ima dragged one leg and looked depressed. He did not dare to look back because the tears were already rolling down his face. When he walked into the courtyard, several new disabled people looked at Ima. In fact, they all knew why Ima was crying.
The horse slowly walked away in their eyes. Xiaola said to Jiaqi: "Ima may never come back, this poor guy."
At noon, Liu Qing set up a fragrant banquet for Hu Jin, and they talked happily about the loan. Hu Dou was very happy and kept putting vegetables in front of Ye Zi. Ye Zi forced a smile, picked up the steamed bun, and bit it.
She took a small sip and then put it down again. Her little face turned red and she tried her best to hold back her tears.
This heartless person was in despair all day, and at night, it started to rain heavily. Ye Zi walked around the room with her hands on her shoulders, frowning, her face pale, and listening to the sounds outside the window from time to time. She ran
When she arrived at the warehouse, she opened the door of the cabinet and said with a depressed expression, "It's not here." When she returned to the room, she was restless and continued to walk around. After a long time, she stopped and stood in front of the window, letting the cold rain hit her.
Wet, after a flash of lightning, she finally burst into tears: "He is gone, not coming back, never coming back!" She cried so sadly, stubbornly, and unscrupulously. Everyone was woken up. Liu Qing was wearing a
The raincoat stood at the door and said angrily: "Shame on you, go to bed, you see you are shivering from the cold." Ye Zi clenched his fists and shouted: "Isn't he cold?" There was a loud thunder, and Ye Zi murmured to himself.
"I have to find him." Liu Qing said, "How dare you?" Pulling her arm, she pinched her father hard with her nails, jumped out of the window into the rain, walked out of the door, and ran towards the wilderness.
Ye Zi's shoes got stuck in the mud, her feet were scratched by sharp stones, and her skirt stuck to her body. She ran into the hut on the river embankment and looked at the hay on the ground. She said that someone had been here. So.
She stood outside the door, shouting at the top of her lungs into the wind and rain: "Ima, come out, please, don't leave me, bad thing, please." She shouted: "Bad guy, come back..."
"
With the sound of rain in the wilderness, Ye Zi squatted on the ground in despair, covered his face with his hands, and began to cry.
In fact, Yima didn't go far. He was sitting in front of his parents' graves. He held his head and thought of many things. When he heard Ye Zi's voice, he shivered all over, and then he stood up and walked towards her without hesitation.
go.
The leaves screamed!
The two hugged each other tightly. Imma didn't know how to kiss, so he licked her and wiped the tears off her face. After a while, she raised her face and said, "Do you want me?" Imma said.
Yes. She looked at Imma and slowly took off her skirt. The heavy rain washed over her body. She closed her eyes and said, "Come on!"
That night, amidst the storm, lightning, and thunder, in the wilderness and in the quagmire, two people were united.
Liu Qing stayed up all night, and almost all the disabled people also stayed up all night, sitting in Lao Ma's restaurant. At dawn, the rain stopped, and Yi Ma and Ye Zi appeared in front of everyone hand in hand. Ye Zi said: "I am already
I belong to Yima, and no one can separate us unless I die." Liu Qing looked at Yima, and after a while, he said: "If you can get a loan, I will marry Ye Zi to you." Yi Ma.
Ma said I didn't have one, but I would be nice to her. The disabled people were silent and made eye contact. The actor was the first to take out his bankbook and put it on the table. The other disabled people also took out their bankbooks and cash.
, this is their years of savings. Liu Qing said with a gloomy face: "If we lose money and go bankrupt, we will all become paupers." The actor said: "Being paupers is nothing. Everyone came to Liuying not for money at all.
." An Sheng said, "I used to be a beggar." Jia Qi said that I was too. After saying that, he pulled out one of his front teeth and put it on the table.
That's a gold tooth!
Chapter 19 Ending
Ten months later, Ye Zi gave birth to a healthy baby.
