On the bend is the night shift. He pulled himself out of the kiln, and when he went home and had eaten, he had just laid down when the puppy came. The puppy knocked on the door and shouted "Brother Bend", and without waiting for Brother Bend to answer, she pushed the door and entered, and came to the half of the hut belonging to Bend with ease. The door to the hut was covered with an old, yellowish white curtain, and the room was a little dark. She leaned against the wall on one side of the door, her hands behind her back, and looked at the bend on the bed opposite. The bend only showed one head in the quilt, and after looking at it for a while, he had eyebrows. She doesn't speak.
The bend asked her why she didn't go to Ganzi Mountain to pick up coal.
She said she didn't go, and she looked like she didn't care about anything.
The bend knew what the puppy was looking for him, and that incident really made it difficult for him. In terms of strength, he can poke a hole in the coal wall with one punch, but there are some things in the world that cannot be solved by strength. He tried to hide from it as much as he could, and asked the puppy anything else.
The dog said, "The man has come to my house again." ”
This bastard! ”
The bend scolded people, and he didn't mean to get up right away. He was Xi to sleeping naked, and his warm bedding was suitable for him. The puppy called him up.
The bend thought about it and said okay, I'll take a look. He grew two thick arms out of the bed and told the puppy to wait outside. The puppy said, "I'm right here." ”
The bend said, "That's not going to work! ”
The two were in a stalemate for a while, but the puppy still threw the curtain and went out, and the curtain gave her a little temper, as if to say, "Hmph! ”
The bend got dressed, kicked his legs and feet by the way, and walked out with the puppy. Here is a large area of low bungalows, the bungalows are divided into three roads, each road is nine rows, each row has a number of rooms, and each house is inhabited by men and women who eat kiln rice. The puppy's family lives in the middle of the road, not far from the bend's house. When he was about to reach the door, the dog hesitated to stand down, glanced at the bend, and asked what the bend was going to do.
The bend said, "Do what you say." ”
The puppy was very polite: "I want to know what to do and what to tell you to do, you are still a man!" Encouraged by the man's statement, he said, "I'm going to smack that guy's mouth." ”
The puppy was satisfied. But when the bend crossed her to take the lead, she took the bend by the arm and asked, "What about my mother?" The question was indeed a problem, and the bent said, "Yes, and my aunt!" ”
The puppy thought of an idea, and said that the bend was here to help her house chop wood, and let the bend look at her eyes and act on the rest. The bend scratches his head a little and splits the wood, which is easy to do. It's just the look of the eyes....This thing is relatively mysterious, I'm afraid it's not easy to master. The puppy said, "Stupid." She changed her voice and said loudly to the bend, "Brother bend, did you help my family chop wood?" The axe is behind the door of the stove house. ”
This is equivalent to pushing the bend to the foreground all of a sudden, and he can't play if he doesn't want to. He looked clumsy, and he couldn't catch up with his lines, he only said that the wood splitting was coming, and the wood splitting was coming.
The door opened, and it was the puppy's mother who came out. The puppy's mother blushed, smiled at the bend, and asked the bend to sit in the house, "Your Uncle Zhang is also here, you two drinks each." Then he said to the man in the house, "I grew up watching the bend, and I will look at the bend in this family's yard and be kind." ”
The bend was praised so much that he didn't know whether it was better to go in or stay outside the door, he remembered what the puppy said to look at the eyes and act, so he looked for the puppy's eyes. The puppy was dragging a piece of wood from the shed on the side of the door, presumably the old pit wood that the puppy's father had picked up from the kiln, and was coated with jet-black coal dust. The puppy threw the pit on the open space in front of the door, smashing the ground and scattering coal dust all over the ground. Thinking that he had spotted the puppy's eyes, he darkened his face and looked at the man with contempt. The man was the head of their coal mining area, and the bend was no stranger to him.
The district chief sat on a chair at the table with his eyes level, smoking, and didn't seem to care much about what the benders did.
The bend's disdain didn't go out, as if it bounced back intact, and smashed it on his feet, which made the bend a little annoyed, and he said, "What! ”
The district chief seemed to smile.
The anxious mother of the puppy, the woman nicknamed "Elephant Legs" had a white face, and she said: "Puppy, your brother is on the night shift, you don't let him sleep well, what kind of wood are you chopping at this time!" ”
The puppy said, "Who doesn't he cut?" Wood is for people to split, and if he doesn't split, he doesn't know that he is wood. Angry, she took out the axe and handed it to the bend.
The bend stomped the wood firmly with his foot, and with just an axe, he split the wood. The split wood is white and has a fishy smell.
The district chief and the dog's mother are on good terms, not for a year or two, and the bend has long listened to the kiln buddies in the mine. The district chief's wife was not in the mine, and as soon as the district chief said that he was hungry, the "elephant leg" said that her family had leftovers and asked the district chief to come to her house to eat the leftovers. Later, the allusion to the leftovers was known to the whole mine, and everyone was interested in this allusion. "Elephant Leg" works in the lamp room, and when she collects the lights a little slower, people shout: "Hurry up, hurry up, I'm hungry, waiting to go home and eat leftovers!" Hearing this, the "elephant legs" felt that they should be annoyed, but they couldn't be annoyed, their mouths moved, and their ears turned red. Seeing that someone was late for a meeting, the district chief asked him why he was late, and he deliberately was very supportive, saying that he had eaten a few more leftovers at home and was delayed. The crowd laughed. The district chief knew that people were embarrassed about him, and he didn't want to get angry, so he only said that he would pay attention to the time when eating in the future. Some people also aimed at the district chief and went to the house of the "elephant leg", hid under the window to listen to the room, and heard the "elephant leg" shouting "my son" to the district chief. The people who listened to the room went to the underground and did not see the sky to assign the roles slightly, and a colorful bed scene was transplanted into the coal nest, which could simply make people laugh to death. Every time he hears such a scene, the bend feels sorry for the puppy's father and the puppy. Bend and puppy are classmates. The puppy is a big girl now. The bend thinks that the puppy's mother should think about her daughter.
The puppy pulled out another piece of black wood, and the bend split it open. The bend was willing to keep chopping like this, and he said, "Bring all the wood!" ”
The district chief had no choice but to leave.
After a pause, the puppy mother said to go out to buy some food and left. Before leaving, she carefully explained a household chore to the puppy. The puppy said, "I don't care! ”
Only bends and puppies were left in the yard. The sun slanted in from the east, hitting a pile of frozen snow at the base of the tree. The snow turned into numbness, and the ground was wet. The bend is splitting the wood into thin parts, two petals into four petals, and four petals into eight petals. He thought that it would be good to chop wood to make matches. If the coal fire is not too strong, and cooking needs to be urgent, add some chopping wood to the bottom of the stove, and the two fires will be combined into one fire, and the effect is also good.
But the puppy said, "Don't split! ”
Before he understood why the puppy didn't let him split again, the puppy was already crying. The puppy's eye sockets were wet and confused, and the tip of his nose was red. Wanzi was afraid of the puppy crying, he would not persuade people, and he did nothing when he saw the puppy crying. He stopped chopping wood, but drew on the ground with an axe. He said to himself, "How stupid am I! He was a little angry with himself, "I told you not to have a long mouth!" "He slashed the ground with an axe and opened the ground into a big mouth.
The puppy said, "Brother Bend, look at this family..."My mom was fascinated by ghosts, and my dad was like a dead man...It's up to you in the future. ”
The bend said, "Don't worry, puppy, I'll have to give that guy some color sooner or later!" ”
There are a lot of things for puppies to find bends, and they are willing to go to bends' house for a while if they have nothing to do. The parents of the bend are extremely generous, and they didn't say that because the puppy's mother was indiscreet, the puppy was also bad, the green onion and the tofu were mixed together, the tofu was tofu, and the green onion was still the green onion. When the puppy came, the bent's father always squinted and said, "The yellow-haired girl is here." "If the old miner is drinking, he wants the puppy to taste it too, saying that it is not spicy. The puppy knew that the uncle was teasing her, but she still tasted it suspiciously. She regretted it after tasting it, pretending to eat spicy, saying that the uncle was a liar and made the uncle happy. The mother of the bent son disagreed with the old man to call the puppy yellow-haired girl again, saying that the girl was older, the black oily hair could not be grasped thoroughly, and the person was beautiful and shiny, **There was a little shadow of the yellow-haired girl. When she said this, she seemed to be angry with the old man, and it seemed that only by speaking with such an attitude could others believe that she was telling the truth, not a joke, and that the puppy's beauty could be maintained. The old man was willing to compromise with his wife on this matter, saying, "Okay, okay, don't call the yellow-haired girl in the future, call the puppy." - No matter how big the puppy grows, it's still a puppy! He laughed and laughed.
The puppy said: "Smile and laugh, Uncle is the best at laughing at people, I will be good with my aunt in the future, not with you." As he spoke, he hugged Auntie's arm, and his head was coquettishly attached to Auntie. What she meant was to show her uncle the same way as her aunt right now, and she was angry.
The old couple has some selfish intentions for the puppy, they associate the puppy with the bend, and they don't know how many times they have thought about "later" in their hearts, and these two words came out of the puppy's mouth, although it seemed like a joke, but they still stayed in the old couple's heart, and opened a big flower. The aunt was a little moved, she said, "Yes, I'm just looking for my puppy." The uncle also made a remorse for saying the wrong thing, saying that he should punish himself for drinking, and drank a large glass of wine.
Puppies are like this, as long as the aunt and uncle are at home, she doesn't bother with the bend, as if the bend is an outsider. As soon as the two old men left, she was no longer her when she was left alone at home. For example, her bicycle was originally fine, but she had to fix the bend. The bend lifted the rear frame and kicked the suspended wheels to "throw" loudly, saying that there was nothing wrong with it and there was no need to repair it. She said, "I'm riding to death, and you're going to have to anoint me with some oil." The bend had no choice but to unload the car and anoint the axle bowl with oil. Bend squatted on the ground to anoint oil, she didn't do anything but cried cold, and put her cool hand into the clothes under the back of Bend's neck. The bend was cold, and it was a little itchy, and he reflexively tightened his neck, and as a result, he clamped the puppy's hand.
Hey, hey, it's so warm! ”
The bend was embarrassed and didn't know what to do with the little hand that was attached to his back. The hands on his back were cold, but he was almost sweating. Later, the bend stood up, he was tall, the puppy was short, and as soon as he stood up, the puppy couldn't get warm. He turned to look at the puppy and said, "I'm on you....Try to warm up? ”
The puppy hurriedly stepped back, hugged his chest, bent over and said with a smile, "Don't dare, don't dare." But she quickly let go of her chest and said to the bend: "Here, warm, don't be afraid!" "Quite a bit of courage.
The bend's face turned red in an instant, and he looked at his two hands, but they didn't stretch them out.
The puppy seemed disappointed and said, "I knew you wouldn't dare, Sesame Guts!" ”
The bend heard the meaning of the puppy's words, and became more and more embarrassed, and he said, "Whoever is cowardly, I have oil on my hands." ”
There's oil, wash it off! ”
The car is not repaired? ”
Didn't you say you didn't need to fix it? ”
I mean, you don't need to fix it, but you...”
What's wrong with me? You just listen to me! Listen when you shouldn't, and don't listen when you should. You, forget it, I kind of know you! The puppy smiled, smiling badly, very proudly.
When the bent saw the puppy laughing, he smiled too.
The puppy rides a oiled bicycle and goes to the gangue mountain to pick up coal. The puppy didn't work. Many of the sons and daughters of the mine's farmers are unemployed. Coal mines are where men come in, and the daughter's family is useless for a while, so it becomes an "old treat". Always unemployed, it will not be a problem, the puppy is plucked by other girls, and carries a large pocket sewn of hair dryer cloth around his neck, and he goes up the mountain like a guerrilla. Picking up coal is not a difficult task for them, and the brothers and elders of each family roll in the coal all day and night, and they have never heard of it if they have never done it! You don't need to look at whether it is coal or gangue, and you can weigh it out as soon as you start it. Every time a cart of gangue was dumped on the overturned frame at the top of the mountain, they swarmed up like a flock of birds, and soon picked up the large and small coal blocks entrained in the gangue. This scene reminds the puppy of a set of scenes in "Animal World", where the majestic lion pounces on the bison, and after the lions chew it, the bison is left with only a skeleton of bones, and then the vultures that have gathered around them and are already eager to try it gather and eat the muscles in the bones. The puppies were a little unconvinced, why did they eat all the good meat and let us gnaw on the bones. Naturally, she remembered the bend of being a shearer, and if the bend was a male lion, then she was a vulture. She was amused that she had such strange associations, that vultures were so ugly that she was better looking than vultures anyway.
No one in the mine looked down on these girls, and they compared them to fairies in the mountains. In summer, the red sun burns the gangue, and smoke rises everywhere on the mountain. In winter, the gangue pulled up from the well brings up the heat from the ground, and the heat turns into a diffuse white cloud when it is cold. All year round, these girls come in the smoke and go in the clouds, ethereal, looming, not like fairies! The gangue mountain is very high, and people can see them from a distance, and when they see them, they look very obsessed, and say, "Look, these fairy daughters! Someone else said, "If only these fairy girls could catch any of them!" ”
The girls knew that the miners called them fairies, you look at me, I look at you, and when they saw each other's noses and eyes, they couldn't help laughing. It turns out that the "fairies" look like this. After laughing, they had nothing to say for a while, standing on the top of the mountain and looking out into the distance. They didn't seem to see anything, but every girl was in tears.
Because there are "fairies", there are people who want to be Dong Yong, and there are more people who go up the mountain. When they go up to the mountains, they read books when they are suitable for reading, and they drink when they are suitable for drinking. He who did not read or drink made a mad appearance with his arms wide open, and said, "Ah, Gangue Mountain, I love you!" They scored the "fairies" behind their backs and ranked them. The puppy got the "Seven Fairies". The young man who said "Gangue Mountain, I love you" fell in love with the "Seven Fairies", and did not say it directly, saying that he was entrusted by others to give the "Seven Fairies" hymns again and again. Unexpectedly, the "Seven Fairies" said that those poems were so sour that they rolled up the face of "I love you", and the more people who lost face, the more they wanted face. "I love you" is not very kind to the puppy, saying, "Thank you, so that my friend will not always eat leftovers." The puppy knew the meaning of leftovers, and she scolded in her heart: "Your mother is leftovers!" He gave him a hard look at "I love you" and said that he would never pay attention to him again. After that, she still hated her mother and the district chief, and felt that this situation could not continue.
On this day, the puppy took a bend to block the two fornicators in the house, and the "elephant leg" stuck the door from the inside, and the puppy couldn't knock it open even if he knocked hard. "Elephant Leg" said that she was cupping and telling the puppy to wait outside for a while, and that it would be better to go to the free market to see what was available. The puppy knocked harder and instructed the bend to kick with his foot. The foot force of the bend is very strong. After two kicks, the whole room shook.
"You don't want your mother to live!" ”
The puppy said, "It's you who don't let others live." Open the door quickly, if you don't open it again, I'll order the house! ”
Order, if you have the ability, you can order, and you will be better off burning your mother to death! "Elephant Leg" reluctantly opened the door, and when he opened the door, he still pretended to be very proud and said to the puppy, "I'm a little angry, and I want your Uncle Zhang to help me pull out a few jars, so you just hit the door like a rush, and you don't understand anything at all!" ”
What is a cupping plug for? I'm not a two- or three-year-old kid! ......Hmph, I can't even say anything about you. ”
I walked upright, stood up straight, and didn't do anything to be sorry for your dad. If you don't believe it, ask your Uncle Zhang! ”
The district chief, like last time, sat on the chair at the table with his eyes level and smoked. His cigarette was obviously new, and since it was not lit, he couldn't let it out, so he had to focus on it once. His hands shook a little as he lit his cigarette.
The bend was facing the district chief, he put his fist in his hand, walked up to the district chief and asked, "What are you doing here?" Before the district chief could answer, he punched the district chief in the face. As the saying goes, those who can hit ten hits, and those who can't hit hit once. The bend belongs to the kind that can't fight, and it only takes one punch to bleed the district chief's nose.
The district chief did not fight back, nor did he speak, but only lowered his head and let the nosebleed on the ground, and it flowed in a while.
Now the "elephant leg" is gone, and she points to the bend very loosely: "Li bend, why are you beating people?" Which shelf are you a chicken on? ......Her fat fingers almost poked into the crook's face.
The bend stepped back, thinking, "Which shelf am I a chicken?" ”
The district chief said, "Forget it, forget it." He got up and went to the kitchen sink to wash his nose.
Of course, the puppy was protecting the bend, she pulled the bend behind her, and said: "If you hit someone, you beat someone, I let him beat it, what's the matter!" You see that my dad is honest, so I bullied him, and you did it because you did it! My dad doesn't have a son, he has a daughter, and his daughter also has a breath, not a dead man! In the future, whoever bullies my dad will not be able to do it, I just have to fight with him! The puppy's nostrils were wide open, and tears flowed in two large rows.
When the puppy is fierce, the "elephant leg" is not so fierce. She scolded the puppy and said, "Puppy, your wings are hard, it's not time to hold the milk melon seeds in both hands, leave your mother." A hundred of you are good, your mother is not good a hundred, you go, don't let your mother take you badly, and don't come back to see if your mother is dead and smelly. When the Elephant Legs heard her words, she felt sorry for herself, and she put her hands over her face and began to cry in fear.
After all this fuss, according to the puppy's estimate, her mother probably won't have any more dealings with that person. She knows that lotus root can be broken, water can be broken, and things between men and women are not something that can be broken by saying it.
Towards the end of the Chinese New Year, it snowed heavily. Because of the squinting of the snow and the slippery mountains, the puppies "went down" after a while on this day. When she came to the door of the house, the puppy heard the sound of the piano spinning out of the house, and she was overjoyed, and she didn't know how happy her father was today. For as long as she can remember, this huqin has been hanging on the wall. She asked her father to pull it to her many times, but her father didn't say no, but he always said, "Wait for Dad to be happy one day...""The sound of the piano is faint, as if telling an old and sad story, and the snowflakes are moved by it, and the sound of the piano is flying all over the sky. The snow moved and fell silent. The puppy didn't understand, Dad was finally happy, why did he play such a sad tune! Dad is much older than Mom, and Dad is a dull and silent person, and the puppy has always been foggy about the marriage between Dad and Mom. She thought that her father must be very bitter in his heart. Dad probably touched the scene today, and vented the pain in his heart a little with the help of the huqin. The puppy was afraid of interrupting his father's piano and did not enter the house immediately. She planned to call out to Daddy when she entered the house to see if Daddy's eyes were wet.
The puppy didn't expect that she didn't find her father when she entered the house. It was the district chief who his father's huqin in his hand. The other person was my mother, who was sitting by the fire, looking very distracted. This time the puppy didn't get angry, she turned around and left, and went to the bend's house.
The puppy's dad died. The falling rocks on the working face buried an iron pillar and buried it deeply. Everyone else says forget it, isn't it just an iron pillar! But the old miner felt like he had eaten iron, and he had to dig a hole to dig out the iron pillar. Halfway through the hole, two boulders squeezed down, and his skull sounded like a walnut, and the person was gone.
The district chief was very concerned about the puppy's father, and made a coal hole the size of a house on the side of the alleyway, and only let him manage the tools inside. This work does not work hard, and there is a lot of money to earn. Helplessly, this old miner did everything more seriously, once there was a squad leader who handed back a shovel, he said that he didn't follow anything, and the squad leader uncovered his scar, saying how he sold leftovers to the district chief, and the district chief sent him such a good job. The puppy's father was annoyed, abandoned this job, and insisted on returning to the coal mining face. Once I went back to the work face, I died.
"Elephant legs" has no husband, and the people in the mine say that the district mayor will no longer have to sneak around, and the two of them can shake off their arms and do a big job. However, since the death of the puppy's father, the district chief has never been to the "elephant leg" house. It is said that the "elephant leg" found the district chief and cried, made trouble, and tore and pulled it, but the district chief still did not go. Not once. The district chief said, "If you want me to die, you can..."Otherwise, I'm really sorry for my big brother! ”
Now that the relationship between the district chief and the puppy's mother is broken, the puppy no longer has to use the bend as a mountain cannon. As for the bend, he felt that his task was accomplished, and he was a little happy as he usually had after a difficult fault. As soon as people are happy, they sleep exceptionally comfortably. When spring came, the bend slept and replaced the quilt with a towel quilt, and because of that preserved Xi, he slept tightly covered. I was sleeping sweetly, and suddenly I felt that my nose was a little blocked. He was dazed, thinking that he was going underground, and the worker pinched his nose and joked with him, so he pouted and said, "Your mother, don't make trouble!" He tugged at his nose with his hand.
The puppy said, "Wow, you're still scolding!" Her tone seemed to be appreciative of the curvature.
Seeing that it was a puppy, the bend pressed the towel tightly. He asked the puppy what he was looking for him.
The puppy asked him, "What did you say?" ”
Isn't it okay? ”
What do you mean it's okay, me? ”
The bend didn't know what was wrong with her.
The puppy told him to get up and said he had something to say to him. The bend snorted and didn't want to get up, saying that he was sleepy. The puppy said, "You have to get up even if you are sleepy!" She unwrapped the bent towel.
Both were surprised. The bend was in a hurry, and hurriedly rewrapped his exposed body. He felt a little sorry for the puppy, but he said he couldn't be blamed for it.
The puppy didn't speak, but sat down on the edge of the bed with his back and his head buried.
Seeing that the puppy's back was shaking, he thought the puppy was crying. He didn't know how to comfort the puppy, but the puppy suddenly turned around, pounced on him, hugged him tightly, and said, "Brother Bend, I'll marry you..."Now....”
Selected from Liu Qingbang's short story collection "Heart Matters", People's Literature Publishing House).