"Classic" Zhu Tiantian: The man from the wind cabinet

Introduction: Hou Xiaoxian's original novel of the movie of the same name, a group of teenagers fighting, will always remind people of Wang Shuo's "Animal Fierce", but Zhu Tiantian wrote not "sunny days", but shadows under the sun, the melancholy vicissitudes of the novel make youth have a sense of heaviness.

The sky over Penghu is different from the main island. There are too many seas, and everywhere is the sea, often as if the sky has been eaten. If you paint it, there will be a low horizon that crosses one-tenth of the picture, above which is the sky and the sea, the only land trees are not growing, with unkempt grass and celestial chrysanthemums, and short walls of stone houses and reefs are staggered in between.

In the winter, the northwest wind across the mainland carries the salt of the sea and directly hits the island, and the long wind that lasts all night seems to never stop, blowing people's faces dry and their memories blank. All weathered, the only ridge pole may be a plastic bag to the wind to grab and take away, when the cactus is left behind, hanging on the thorns, a clump of cacti, on the seashore, in the field, like a clump of flowers and trees.

Wind Cabinet, a village on the island. The wind pushed the waves from the sea level, and when they came here, they were locked in the black and hemp reef cabinet, and they could not be closed, and the angry waves rumbled out, and the clouds collapsed and cracked.

At this time, the wind season has passed, the big sun has appeared, after a whole season of salt and wind blowing, the village is clean and astringent, the stone walls and stone steps are all divided into black and white under the sun, black is the shadow, white is the sun, so clear and distinct afternoon, but it makes people dizzy. And Yan Huanqing mostly soaked in the bird-like marbles room opposite the passenger station sign outside the village, soaking off for an afternoon.

Say it bird, not only because it is the only one, the old man squatted next to the blackboard to score points, but also the one hundred and one green cloth platform, saying that it was for kindergarten students to play, no one doubted. A low stone house, crowded with five or six big boys, the sound of billiards, the crisp sound of tapping Dada in this hot and lonely afternoon, people are discouraged.

Bubbles, bubbles. After soaking down to fight, Ah Qing threw the pole and fished three cans of sarcoa from the refrigerator, like three grenades, and threw them to Ah Rong GuoZai, drying out of the marbles room in one breath. Otherwise, kicking the can on the road, Bibi who kicked far enough and loud enough, which one fell and which one lost, this time unfortunately Ah Qing, was assigned to run behind a group of tourists, shouting: "Hey, hey." Running to a woman with a rice noodle head, he bowed at ninety degrees: "I'm sorry, I recognized the wrong person." ”

The old man was not ambiguous, and recorded their arrears on the calendar by the wall, and most of the blank calendar was occupied by locomotive, fertilizer, and cement advertisements, densely packed, horizontally and vertically. On behalf of Ah Qing and their gang is a black circle, a few bottles of soda on a certain day in a certain month, a few packs of cigarettes, and the next few days the old man and his wife will be sent to the house to calculate how much money. Having forgotten when it began, Ah Qing and his mother didn't even have the strength to scold him, and gave the money to others, and it happened that he was there, just like the hatred of the enemy to look at him.

Every time he seemed to see his mother walk into the inner room in pieces, run to the edge of the bed, lift the corner of the tatami mat, and take out the hidden money to count. His father often sat in a rocking chair at the door, facing the light outside the door, becoming a silent shadow, maybe looking at the sea, maybe nothing, who knows. It made him want to run out of this old dark room, run to the big sun, and let the light tart sun blind and dry himself.

Often he was like this, running back, the family had eaten, the dining table was neatly packed, covered with newspaper, he soaked the boiling water of the hot water bottle, sat down, stood there and purred and finished eating, the dishes and chopsticks were thrown away, and went out again. Standing on the stone street reflected by the sun, the light is panic, and the unreasonable is panic. Looking at the old yellow dog's ass in the shade, it was a foot, and watched it run for its life with an old bald tail. It was not difficult for him to find Ah Rong across from the grocery store of the little cabbage family, and a group of guys gathered in front of the City God Temple, bored enough to bet who dared to take off their trousers and enter the store and buy peanuts with the little cabbage to eat. Ah Qing took off his trousers on the street, leaving a pair of fat shorts, if there were two large inky black characters of "flour" on his cloth pants, no one would be surprised. He staggered across the road, and the virtue of walking should really be replaced by a pair of wooden sandals, and the alley of white flowers was old and depressed! Then they squatted in front of the temple and sniffed off the peanut shells and cigarette butts of the afternoon, patted their knees, and left, stepping on the ground full of peanut shells.

Sometimes the wolves of the Ah Rong family were ridden out, and several people squeezed into the car in a bunch of flattened strings and flew to Magong Town to watch a movie. The broken movie theater, playing the grandmother movie of an unknown dynasty, from beginning to end, it was like a dim and dark yellow rain, and a row of them put their legs on the back of the chair in front of them, and after several breaks, they shouted and whistled. Ah Qing's two arms spread out on the back of the chair into a big character, looking at the light coming through the cracks in the cracks in the roof of the theater, and the light was busy running around with dust, like the old black room in his house...

Long ago, his father hadn't been hit by baseball until he reached his temple. It was as if the boat had arrived in Magong at night, and when their father returned from the main island, they slept when they got home, and their mother woke them up one by one to see what good things their father had brought them. The older brother is a set of twenty-four filial piety picture storybooks, the older sister has a box of sixteen-colored chalk, his is a toy airplane, and the mother gets a piece of cloth. In the dim light, the mother shook the material through the light, sky blue or peacock green, indistinguishable, it felt like a paste of gentle dead green water wrapped them all in.

The father smiled and lifted him into the air, hit the light bulb, the light flickered, the shadows in the house ran out one by one, and the house shook like a boat on the waves. The mother didn't seem too satisfied with the color of the fabric, saying it was too young. But that night was truly joyful. Father also opened a box of mung bean cakes, which were plum-shaped, hexagonal, chicken-heart-shaped, pillow-shaped, and asked him to choose a piece of it first, and he chose a square, feeling very much like the robot he loved in comic books. He remembered his sister's chicken heart-shaped reluctance to eat, wrapped in calendar paper and hidden in a drawer, but the next day it was eaten by a rat, and his sister cried loudly, although she was given another piece of mung bean cake, she was still sad for a long time. There are also five-clawed apples, cut a five-bite person on the spot to eat, one person got a claw, and the sister also got the fragrant yellow apple meat is rusted, and only then is it extremely precious to scrape and eat it with the front teeth.

Is it a fairy tale that ends brightly and happily? If Yan Huanqing had not forgotten himself in the end, it was in a very deep place in his people, there was a brilliant glowing gem. A dream, a dream that he himself did not know.

He was woken up in a dream, Ah Rong told him to look quickly, he stretched out a big lazy waist, to see, or the unfinished yellow rain. But obviously the situation has changed greatly, just now is still a plague chicken-like guy, like a stimulant injection, squeaking and chattering endlessly. That is to say, to see a bird's R rating, or to enjoy that virtue! This kind of bubble method of a group of homeless people is really shameful.

He obviously felt that a little bit of life, a trickle, all flowed away, from his arm spread into a big character, like a muddy river, flowing, all flowing, he would eventually exhaust and die. The only hope he hoped was that the endless yellow rain would never stop, and that he would be able to collapse here forever like a big belly fish, dry, salty, and then cocked.

He hated the word "end of the play" at the end. The Taiping Gate of the Hate Theater squeaked open, and a basket of sunlight slammed orange into it, and Ah Rong shook him: "Hey, Ah Qing, let's go." "Hate to walk out of the movie theater, give a sharp reflection on the cement floor at the door, and don't live with fire eyes!" However, Yan Huanqing still mixed sausages at the entrance of the theater for three days, and he couldn't play any bird things, at most he won a large string of intestines for everyone to eat. Guo Zai's father repaired boats for people in the dock, and Guo Zai sometimes went to help with odd jobs. Occasionally, they dive to catch mussel shells and conch shells, digging up meat and selling it to seafood shops. Or get a few beautiful coral stones and cheat tourists out of money to make it. No more, gamble.

On this day they gambled with the monkeys at the docks. Ah Qingfeng was smooth, and he won a vote, the monkey's face could not be hung, and he did not know how to make a ghost under his hands, and was caught by Guo Zai and lifted. Without running out of the alley, Guo Zai put down the little monkey who was only single with one punch, told him to stand up and stand up, shouted a few words such as the wind cabinet three heroes and stood up fifty times before driving him on the road. The winning money was a few formal Slurks knocked on the town of Magong, and enough to order a plate of steamed shrimp turtles and a few bottles of beer.

In the evening, Ah Qing came home, the daylight hour was still bright, but the house was already lit, and in front of the porch, the brother sat on a bench, took off his shirt, and had a bruise on his shoulder, so that his mother could rub it hard with ginger dipped in wine. "The ox cart hit..." the brother said with a smile.

The brother is a very strong person, with his mother all the way, thin and thin, often tight mouth, making people think that this kind of person lives by a will or something. The older brother was teaching in the Principality of Ma, and he had nothing to ask his friends to help the desperate brother install Rausch. Brother Qingqing's narrow face rarely smiled, and occasionally laughing was really pure and deadly, and the current mirror illuminated him as a fool with a beard!

His mother told him to bring porridge and feed it to his father. It was as if he had seen him walking on a field path with his father again, on his way home from a baseball game, pushing a bicycle, which he was only a little taller than a bicycle. Suddenly found a snake, the two stopped, the father handed the car to him to support, took the baseball bat and quietly walked over, a stick down, hit the head of the snake, afraid that it was not dead, and hit, hit... He fed the meal too quickly, and the father choked, coughed, and squirted a knee of rice. The mother ran over, grabbed the spoon by the sharpshooter, and scolded with hatred: "Don't feed you if you don't want to!" Don't die outside! Come back, what are you going to do back..."

He stood there, watching his mother scold him, watching his mother clean up the end of his meal for his father, and his brother sitting on a stool and looking at him sadly... Everything, it's just as if it had nothing to do with him. He heard that outside the courtyard wall, there was a fishing boat on the sea, Bu Du Bu Du, driving back to the bay.

Later, he learned from Xiao Fat that his brother did not hit the ox cart, and that afternoon after school, the monkey put his brother in the alley and scraped away all the money on his brother's body. Ah Qing found Guo Zai and them, the wild wolf rode to Magong, in the evening in the front of the fishing market stall found a ticket for the monkey, went forward to fight, hit the inside of the market, the monkey grabbed a brick from the ground and covered it, and Was grabbed by Guo Zai with a shovel for the fish and slapped it in the face, the monkey screamed and fell to the ground, blood came out of his forehead, and people on both sides stayed. Ah Rong turned around and ran away, Guo Zai followed, Ah Qing watched the monkey holding his head in pain, a roll, rolled to his feet, he twitched his feet, and also ran.

The blood-red sunset was like a salted duck egg yolk soaked in the golden sparkling sea, and Guo Zai went to the waves to wash his hands and feet. The motorcycle was propped up on the beach, and a wheel mark was slanted from the main road across the thin white sand bank, and there were two people lying flat on the sand, and there was no one else on the empty seashore. An inch of dusk, an inch of erosion of the coast, and finally a darkness, the sun sinks into the water, the wind on the sand, the fine and clear evening cool wind, making people very tired, very tired, want to throw away this stinky heavy skin bag, let the tide take itself away, go far...

"Let's get out of here." Ah Qing was lying in the sand, and said in a very low and distant voice.

Monkey and his family went to the police station. When my brother and Guo Zai's father came to look for them, they had been in the inner circle for several days. It is an empty house of Guo Zai's uncle, the uncle has lived in Taipei Guo Zai's cousin's house, and once he has returned for a long time, the key is sent to Guo Zai's house. In the early morning of the next day in Neiquan, neidai beach has not yet woken up, the jade water, the salty sand bank, the shore is lined with stone houses, white stone walls, black reef short walls, the calendar is clear. They had just gotten up from the bed, and the stone window had penetrated the morning light of the white light outside, which seemed to be the beginning of a new day, which was very painful, and they ran out of the house, ran straight down the slope of the shore, and ran to the beach. Soft and powerful sand piles, after a while to run them tired, but only feel not enough, not enough... Stripped naked, run naked, still not enough. Until finally they were completely paralyzed in the tidal sand, allowing waves of soft and cool water to flood their backs and chests. Flood up, retreat, drown up, feel a full panic.

They killed a reed chicken, cooked soup with melon boys, and drank five plus skins. The brother came looking for them, they were eating happily, Guo Zai's father rushed in with arrows, and the sharpshooter knocked Guo Zai down on the wall. The brother didn't say anything, still looking at him with that sad and peaceful look. They were taken back to town and went to the police station to close the case.

Back home, it is the Middle Yuan Festival, the alley people's home, the door is burning a brazier, rolling cigarettes with a sparkle, a table outside the house, and there are vegetable and fruit cigarettes. My sister sent a box of pickled fish from Dingwan's house, worshiped the gods, received the offerings, and said no two words, and the sister angrily scolded him: "You have a kind of beating people' homes, you have a kind of responsibility, run away what is this!"

"Leave me alone."

"I don't care. It's the brother who helps you to apologize! Lose money!"

"Who told the man to beat his brother?"

My sister sneered, "You can." You go and hit people! If you go and beat people up, you're a hooligan. People can't get it right? Did you think they were going to beat up their brother again—"

"Dare? I told them to die!"

The mother chopped and chopped vegetables on the trough table, and was so angry that she grabbed the kitchen knife and threw it at him, flying over his feet and the bell bouncing on the ground.

He leaned against the wall and slowly rolled up the hem of his pants, and saw a piece of white flesh in his calf belly, and then bleed. The mother ran over, bent over to see it, and suddenly the old man burst into tears, crying: "Ah Hong, take the towel, quick, Ah Hong..."

He looked down at his mother and sister's two fluffy heads crouched in front of him, busy rubbing the medicine to apply the wound, there was no pain feeling, only to find that his mother had a dry patch of white hair on the top of his head, and he looked up at him in a hurry, and three or four horizontal stripes were carved on his forehead, making him hate himself, wanting to quickly escape from here and run far away.

On the day ah qing left, early in the morning, from the window, I could see that my mother had cleaned the vegetable garden on the sand in the back garden, and my brother had gone to school. The room was half dark, and there was dust flying in the light and shadow. In the quiet room, I heard the pot of water on the stove boiling, and the fluttering beeping began. Father slowly rolled over on the bed, and before he could get up, the rocking chair occupied its own space empty. He left a message in the blank space on the back of the torn calendar, writing: Mom, brother, I and Ah Rong, they went to Kaohsiung to do things. A qing.

He took the money his mother had hidden under the tatami. Carrying a simple canvas bag out of the door, looking back into the house, everything was as usual, and he didn't have much nostalgia and left.

Ah Rong's sister Mei Hui kicked her thighs in the Phoenix Song and Dance Troupe, the two-story building renovated by Ah Rong's family was mixed up by his old sister, the New Year's Festival return wind cabinet, the big bag and small bag were brought to the home, the shot was big, the experience was more, but a little bit of the liveliness of the relatives in the hometown was enough to make her live a refreshing life. When they found a house on Meihui River West Street, Meihui was rushing to eat fast noodles, and they were all stupid, opening their mouths and asking, "What are you going to do?"

"Let's find something to do." Ah Rong is a sincere and innocent bird look.

Mei Hui glanced at the three of them, put them in the room, and scolded Ah Rong first. Ah Rong found out the temper of the elder sister, just very sincerely let her scold, scolded Ah Qing next to him really want to go away, Mei Hui said: "Have you eaten?" Ah Rong said no, Mei Hui sighed, and did not eat instant noodles anymore, and picked up a leather bag to take them out to eat.

They were happily eating sweet and oyster noodles on the top floor of The Great Unity, Andi had already grunted and began to calculate the three tricky goods in her hands, and Ah Rong just jumped on the other end of the aisle and shouted at them to play with electric toys. The rest of Ah Qing felt that Mei Hui was miserable, and accompanied her to finish eating the noodles, and Mei Hui gave him the five-dollar copper plate she was looking for: "Go play a few games." ”

In the next few days, they first nestled in MeiHui's house for a few nights, Meihui made a phone call, contacted their residence and work, gave them money to go shopping in the movies during the day, played little bees, afraid that they would not recognize the road, and found a bad three in the dance troupe to accompany them. This idiot is more boring than them, such as watching a movie and telling them to buy student tickets, but when they give tickets, they collect tickets and chirp with the young lady: "They are not students buying student tickets!" Seeing that they had to go to the ticket gate to make up for the ten dollars of the inverted frieze, they smiled evilly with their faces.

They listened to the three blows of so-and-so street specially pulled people to see the X-level place, determined to try their luck, the sun did not plan to walk around, the agricultural era walked away for an afternoon, how to walk into a large group of cars, twittering bicycle flood like a flood to wash them to pieces, what is the ghost processing plant off work, the car fluttered over the girl, one by one race cabbage.

Finally, they were found by a middle-aged man in a secluded alley. "Young man, do you want to see it?" Good stuff. ”

The three of them know nothing, but they don't want to be seen as nerds, and each of them has a cold face that is quite familiar with personnel. "Two hundred yuan, two hundred yuan for one person, cheap." The man bumped into them, talked about the location and code, and held out his hand to beg for money. They did not say anything, and indifferently handed over the money.

For the first time in their lives, curious and nervous, but quietly without a word from each other, according to the secret place instructed by the man, climbed the cave, climbed seven floors, and secretly heard only the wheezing sound, like three steam locomotives. When you arrive, you are not allowed to ring the bell and knock on the door. There were three knocks on the door of the Qing Dynasty, and for half a day, without a sound, he gently tried to push the door, and the door actually opened--it was an empty house that had not been built. There was a neon sign outside the empty window, and the light was clearly extinguished and entered the room, turning blue and purple. Ah Qing rushed to the window to look down, ten thousand red dust flat up, not far from kaohsiung port, thousands of strips, red and green, shore lights, water shadows, miscellaneous jumping mess, really want to go down with the bucket, not cover.

No longer the pier of Penghu, here. In the far air there was a cluster of tongues of fire jumping and licking the sky. "What's that?" Ah Rong said to himself shyly.

"Refinery."

Mei Hui's semi-old apartment was in love, the walls were thin, and at night, the whole building was still noisy and noisy, and they slept on the millstone floor. One night was woken up by the tugging electric bell, I couldn't decide whether to open the door, "I come..." The light came on, and Mei Hui, who had just returned to take off half of her makeup, walked out of the room, and the skirt was fluffy across the limbs of their seven sittings and eight to open the door, it was a man. Mie stopped him from coming in, saying something, looking back at them on the floor, the man reached into his head and looked at them, very disappointed, punched Mi-hye in the ass, kicked and stomped downstairs. They moved a passageway for Mei Hui to pass, the lights were turned off, and they lay down again, smelling a suffocating smell of fat in the air.

One night the door of the house was knocked open, fell into a woman, the three people were shocked, sat up, looked at the woman standing in the middle of the house, back to the door outside the stair lamp, the curve of the exposed annihilation of the halo of water. Later, I learned that it was my girlfriend who lived with Mie. Mei Hui took her to the bathroom, they lay open in the semi-darkness of the living room, heard the sound of vomiting, flushing toilet brushing, gas Kada opened, put the bath water, the water heater banged, the bathroom door closed, the door opened, Mei Hui threw in the changing clothes, the sound of water splashing... It was hot again, with an impetuous and damp mood, dissolving into a buzzing nightmare.

"Let's go back."

A feeling of failure was like a snake, cool and slippery to climb up Ah Qing's body.

Mei Hui helped them find Boss Wan's upstairs, but unexpectedly, she was a neighbor with Huang Jinhe again. After that, Nishikiwa took them all to work in the factory in the processing and export zone.

The day they moved in, it rained heavily. Boss Wan opened half of the grocery store downstairs, half of the house, they went in and out of the back door stairs, in the dim rain chaotically moving things upstairs, found a yard full of debris, there was a girl bald standing in the rain drenched. Just strangely, upstairs Gu Dong Gu Dong ran to a man, holding up the umbrella to run to the girl's side, first standing side by side, the old half a day, turned around to face the girl, accompanied by not, for her to wipe away the tears on her face is rain, the umbrella is oblique, covering the two people.

Ah Qing they were still watching stupidly, the play was over, men and women with umbrellas walked down the porch, a look, sure enough, it was Huang Jinhe, when the cold noise, the girl bowed her head and went upstairs first. "Woman, alas!" Huang Jinhe smiled and sighed.

Jin He said: "Sister Mei Hui contacted me, as soon as I heard that it was you, I was really happy, this house alone has lived in several Penghu people." I didn't expect everyone to meet here. Ah Rong, Mei Hui sister is really the big sister of our Penghu gang. Ah Rong was chaotic and wanted to pull him to dinner together, Jin He hurriedly looked at his watch, went to night school, did not say much, waved his hand and left.

Upstairs in the middle is the living room, the living room on the other side of a large nishiki and living room, and then past the balcony, the three of them rent two cane boards separated by a bucket room. After a while, Ah Rong mysteriously ran up with the washbasin and said that the girl seemed to be living with Nishikihe just now, watching her change into a long nightgown and wipe her hair in Nishikiwa's house, pulling them to see. Guo Zai's interest was lacking, so he just took out his precious tape recorder and put it on the bedside to listen to Shen Wencheng, who he could not listen to for a lifetime.

Ah Qing followed Ah Rong through the door of Jinhe room, around to the outside balcony, the two sat on the balcony cement wall railing, the window saw the orange and yellow light of the house, at this time no one was seen, the most eye-catching thing was a double box-spring bed covered with sunflower flowers and large leaves against the wall.

In the evening, Nishiki and the four of them sat around the coffee table and chatted when they returned from school at The Sea College, bought brine vegetables and beers. Nishikiwa suddenly shouted into the room, "Xiao Xingxing, come out oh, meet my friend." When they were almost finished eating, Nishikiwa suddenly remembered and said to them, "Probably sleeping... My girlfriend, Tang Qiuxing, just call her Little Apricot. ”

Xiao Xing also works at the factory. Every morning they had to take a ferry from Qijin to the city, most of the time they went out, Xiao Xing and Jin He had already left, they came downstairs, always saw a handkerchief hanging on the balcony drying rack, sometimes apple green, goose yellow, water blue, eggplant purple, like a dream of Fang Fang, waving to people in the hall wind. Xiao Xing used to tie a handkerchief to the shoulder strap of the backpack, and he was not very careful, not energetic about the work, idle and scattered, idle back, carrying back a bag of melon grapes or something. It happened that they came out and went in, Jinhe was there, and they would warmly greet them to eat, and Xiao Xing faintly did not even look at them, making them feel that they were really a bunch of annoying fools.

Later they met once, Xiao Xing's sister came to see her from Chiayi, the two of them talked in the room for half a day, listened to a word and a half, probably to persuade Xiao Xing to go on like this is not the way, early to make a decision is in her favor. When Nishiki was about to return from school, Xiao Xing sent her sister downstairs to go back. Little Apricot, with red eyes, walked downstairs, walked up, and walked through the living room with his head bowed back to the room. They are very upset for Jinhe and try to find a way to win over Xiao Xing's centripetal force on Jinhe. The first time they were paid, they were forced to invite the two to eat at the night market, Ah Qing and Guo Zai pulled a big voice on the stall to draw the driver's fist, like two big roosters dancing with wings, and Xiao Xing smiled and fell on Jinhe, telling them to play happily for several days.

On Sunday, Nishiki and Xiao Xingxing slept until almost noon before getting up, A washed his dirty clothes and went to the balcony to dry, and the thick curtain of Nishiki and the room hung down to cover the window. Ah Qing twisted the water of his wet clothes to dry a small bonsai and heard the laughter of Boss Wan's children playing downstairs. Suddenly, the curtains were brushed open, and Xiao Xingxing shouted out of the window: "Good weather." "Seeing him, I patted the window frame to say hello to him."

"Let's make curry rice at noon?" Xiao Xingxing turned around, leaned back against the window, and looked at Jinhe who was still lying on the bed. Even if his back was out of sight, Ah Qing could feel the kind of horizontal light in Xiao Xingxing's eyes that was not allowed to be rejected by others.

Nishikiwa jumped up from the bed, looked at his watch, and hurriedly changed his clothes and pants, "It's over, the business is in vain." "Come out and brush your teeth and wash your face or something, I don't know whose temper I'm going to throw, and I make a bang." When you leave, pull out a cardboard box from under the bed and put the electrical equipment in the box into the travel bag.

Xiao Xingxing said, "You must do this!" Nishikihe ignored her, and Dongdong ran downstairs.

"Huang Jinhe!" Xiao Xingxing stopped him on the balcony, dropped the wallet he had forgotten to take away, Nishikihe caught it, waved the clip thank you, and turned away.

Xiao Xingxing shouted to himself angrily, "Without him, we can't eat curry rice?" Come knock on their room, "Whoever goes with me to the wet market, we make a big meal to eat." Ah Rong and Guo Zai climbed up and said they were willing to go.

Beautiful Sunday. I was going to buy vegetables, but I went across the sea to play in the city. Go to the stall to buy sweatshirts, xiaoxing also help them choose a model, bargaining with people. Let them suddenly find that they are really boys, being indulged can be crazy, can be mixed, mixed up in a mess back, bo spoiled, helpless laughter.

In the evening, they had a picnic on the balcony, drank a lot of beer, and sang Shen Wencheng's songs, and when they were tired of singing, Xiao Xing went to the room to find a roll of Lin Huiping cassette tape and broadcast it to Guo Zai's tape recorder. Listening and listening, I was sad for some reason, the balcony lights were turned off, the windows revealed the dissolved lights of the small apricot room, and I could see the pale pink walls in the room. Xiao Xingxing suddenly stopped the cassette, "Sleep, I have to go to work tomorrow." He walked back into the house, and the window darkened, and turned off the lights.

Nishikiwa came back late and heard him kick down a beer bottle. The next morning, Ah Qing went to the balcony to collect the shirts to wear, and Xiao Xingxing was cleaning up the residue they had left the night before, sweeping the floor full of chicken bones and peanut shells, and when he looked back and saw him, he said, "There are buns on the table." ”

He collected his clothes and went into the house, and saw that the living room coffee table was lined with hot buns, still like many mornings in normal days. Something different to do, he thought to himself.

Xiao Xing is learning Japanese conversation. When he came back from work that day and walked down the street, he thought about it and went to the store to buy a set of basic Japanese. Ah Rong Guo Zai heard that he was going to learn Japanese, quickly laughed off his big teeth, and evilly teased him with colored eyes, and was scolded by him as a "red deer and red deer". He has a thick skin, learns one point and speaks five points, and makes rapid progress.

Life goes on like this. He read Japanese, Guo Zai was obsessed with electric toys, and he took a fancy to Liu Lihua, a female operator in the factory, and pulled them to help chase. Ah Rong and her old sister song and dance troupe three guys mixed, sometimes come here to find Ah Rong's, one by one than the monkey is not in the flow, play some tricks even they have not heard. One of them, Ah Rong, called him Sanjiu, came a few times, saw Xiao Xingxing cook with them, squeezed his eyebrows at them in front of Xiao Xing's back, and asked them if they had slept with her everyone, otherwise it was quite enough to see with her concubine... Before he could finish speaking, he sent Aqing Ribala downstairs.

Then there was the way home from work, witnessed a car accident, Jin He told them to leave it alone, they still went up to send people to the hospital, the truck driver who caused the accident wanted to settle the matter, the price code was not close, the victim's family sued the court, they were witnesses, several times summoned, they all arrived, and later found that the plaintiff's family was also difficult, both sides were not good things, and they ended up with three witnesses and entangled in it, and the nest was extremely bad.

Nishiki and busy making money, like stepping on the hot wheel under his feet, he couldn't stop for a moment, hurriedly coming, hurrying to go, counting him the most energetic life. One day Xiao Xing quarreled with him again and opened a loud voice: "Why do you want so much money?"

"Not for you yet." Nishikiwa was also loud.

Apricots are more angry. "At all you are feeling for the money, for your own feelings!"

"Tang Qiuxing, you speak politely." Nishiki and annoyed into anger, half a day, hate another sentence: "You don't want to get married, no money, fart!"

The little apricot's face was white, dry and choking, and the tears of the two beans fell straight to the ground. Grab a lighter on the table, dismantle, dismantle, burn your hair.

"You're crazy!" Nishiki and the sharpshooter went to grab it, the ends of her hair were already on fire, and hurriedly threw Xiao Xingxing to the bed, grabbed the pillow and smothered her head. Xiao Xingxing cried on the bed, and Nishiki fell to the side of the bed, glaring at him with anger.

During the day in the factory, Ah Qing they saw Xiao Xing walking through the corridor outside the window to another factory, and the low-hanging blister eyes looked very haggard. A brightly colored silk scarf is tied around the head and a bow is tied around the right side of the root of the hair. When she came back in the evening, Xiao Xing asked them to help her trim off a strand of broken hair, and was straightening it out, And Jinhe came upstairs, Livid's face, through the living room, into the house to get the textbook, and went downstairs, until finally did not look at them. Not long after Jin He left, they were doing food, and suddenly Ah Rong pulled Ah Qing into the room, looked down from the window, and two people came to the door of Boss Wan, one of whom looked like a strip, and asked Boss Wan what to do, and looked upstairs at them. Ah Rong hurriedly avoided the wall and said, "Look for me." Ah Qing, help me block it..." I hid in the toilet.

The result was the factory's guards and district police, because the factory lost a batch of goods, Jinhe was responsible for guarding the warehouse, the most suspicious, asked him to go to the police station to investigate.

Xiao Xing listened and smiled miserably, as if she had expected it. "I'll take you to him." He simply packed up his bag and went downstairs with the police. Still on the bag strap is a clean pale blue handkerchief.

Ah Rong came out of the toilet snake snake scorpion scorpion and sat on the sofa with Ah Qing in a daze. Ah Qing looked at Ah Rong coldly and asked, "What are you doing outside?"

"We went to smash the little roe deer bullet room and put down a man..." said Ah Rong Bird.

"Fuck, I see your friends are broken, you fucking better stay away from them." Ah Qing sent a nameless fire, dropped a few rags on it, and went back to the room.

Xiao Xing went to work with Nishiki during the day. Came back that day on Sunday and it was raining. Xiao Xingxing, like a withered half of the people, asked her how the result was, and said lightly: "Those things that were lost, he lost money, fired..." He didn't want to say anything more.

The rain fell for a while, stopped for a while, and suddenly became bigger and smaller. Boss Wan's puppy gave birth to four little dolls, making a nest in the yard, and when it rained and watered, it was mournful and mournful and the toothache was like a toothache. Xiao Xing changed her nightgown and stood on the balcony, the rain flew in and out, like she was the only one left in the world, no one could replace her and share something with her. Seeing Yan Huanqing go downstairs, "A Qing", he called him. He saw Xiao Xingxing on the balcony on the second floor from under the porch, and felt that she was very tall, in a place like the Moon Palace, and it was cold. Apricot said, "Shall we move Harry under the corridor?" So pathetic. ”

Xiao Xingxing came downstairs and put a paper box in the corner of the corridor, asking him to get the puppy in first. A Qing has never dealt with a dog in his life, ran through the rain to the side of the nest, he was going to hold the puppy, he was almost bitten by Harry's six relatives, tried twice, him, really wanted to give it a kick. Apricot shouted, "Ah Qing, you call it by its name, Harry, Harry." Take your time..."

Ah Qing looked back to see Xiao Xingxing's anxious face, and Boss Wan's two children climbing in the yarn door looked at him with a serious and nervous look. He did as Xiao Xingxing did, slowly coaxing, picking up one, two, and the last one was also put into the box, Harry Long jumped into the box, the two children clapped their hands and cheered, and Xiao Xing also laughed.

As the rain poured down, he jumped and ran into the house, his wet hair and eyebrows so thick and black that they pressed against his round, sly eyes. Xiao Xingxing looked at him, and there was a deep glow under his smiling eyes, making him feel that he had really done a wonderful thing.

Very late, Ah Rong Guo Zai was not in the room, Xiao Xing came to his room, and he was listening to the FM station. Xiao Xingxing first climbed by the door, as if he just stopped by, and said casually: "Ah and he are going to get on the boat..."

Ah Qing was surprised and looked at her, and Xiao Xingxing smiled miserably. A-Ching said, "What about the school? Don't read it? There's only half a semester left!"

Xiao Xingxing said: "Anyway, he doesn't care, he just wants to make money." Now that he's gone with a dime, get on the boat and make a lot of money back... I don't want him to get on board. Tell him he's going to get on board, and we're done. He doesn't listen. It didn't work, it didn't make sense to him. ”

Xiao Xingxing's thin face was white and peeled, and there was no more emotion and excitement. Ah Qing turned off the radio with his backhand, there was no room for music, and suddenly there was a silence like ancient -- the hole sank to the bottom of the abyss, gray and cold.

Xiao Xingxing said, "Ah He didn't know I had a child." "She talks about herself the same thing she does about other people.

Ah Qing looked at Xiao Xing's face vaguely, he didn't understand. "Why don't you tell him?"

"Tell him!" Xiao Xing sneered, "He will be responsible?" He would hate me for the rest of his life. ”

A-Qing said, "What are you going to do?"

Xiao Xingxing looked at him quietly. "I want to get rid of the child."

He couldn't face such a pale and innocent face and avoided Xiao Xingxing's eyes. Xiao Xingxing said, "However, I don't want Ah He to know, and I don't want him to know." ”

He didn't understand why Xiao Xingxing was telling him this. Xiao Xingxing said, "... Need a man's signature... Can you, help me, sign a letter. ”

I don't understand. But he nodded his head in agreement without hesitation. Xiao Xingxing's eyes were red, and he couldn't bear to shed tears.

The night before Nishikiwa boarded the ship, they drank wine for Nishiki and Raoxing in the living room, drinking more, but stuffy in their stomachs, and the more they drank, the heavier they became, the heavier they became. Nishiki and perhaps wanted to finish with Xiao Xingxing in his heart, only to nail the small apricot with such a gloomy and unscrupulous eye, xiao xingxing nailed the eyelids more and more heavily, the whole person's thin cheeks were like a mouth red and hot, and finally put the cup on the table and staggered back to the room. Nishikiwa followed, the door closed, the inside was locked, and I heard the curtain brushing the floor and closing it.

"Bless Ah He, dry!" Guo Zai Ah Rong drank a cup.

Ah Qing looked at his two friends who were swollen with drinks and felt indescribable and deep sorrow. He put down his glass, pushed aside his chair, and went downstairs, out of the building, into the neon sea of red, green, and green on the street. He went to beat Slough in the middle of the night. When he returned in the early hours of the morning, in the dark light and shadow, he looked at the cups and plates on the coffee table in the living room, looked at the closed door of The Nishiki and the room, fell back on the bed, and fell asleep.

They went to the dock to deliver Nishiki and. For many years, Xiao Xingxing has always thought that she can't do without Jinhe, not necessarily Jinhe's people, and later, most of them are inseparable from the days they have lived with Jinhe, and many things that have become habits, even if they have taken it for granted that they no longer shine. And this relationship and distress that cannot be separated from her own efforts. However, when it came to the end, it did not seem to go to the extreme of feelings as expected - it was very common to send away Jinhe. Without saying goodbye, Nishikiwa shook her hand when he boarded the ship.

After the boat left, A Qing accompanied Xiao Xingxing to the hospital, signed, and removed the child. He remembered all his life that when Xiao Xingxing entered the operating room, he turned his head to look at him, those wheat-brown eyes, there was nothing in the gray eyes, not even fear. Like a small beast, according to its own instincts, obeying a decision, it staggered into the depths of the wasteland.

He sat on the stairs in front of the hospital and waited. Looking at the people, cars and shops on the opposite street under the big sun, the windows are decorated with beautiful imported goods, and the shadows of the houses are cast on the white light road. People are lonely and cannot be replaced by each other. Yan Huanqing thought, we are all fucking lonely.

Receiving a letter from my brother, my father passed away. He immediately packed up his things and went home. Xiao Xing stopped him: "Ah Qing, wait for me, I will go with you." ”

He stood on the stairs and looked up at her, not understanding what she meant. Xiao Xingxing said: "I have never been to Penghu... Want to see where you guys live... Wind cabinet? Ah He also lives there. Without waiting for him to say yes or no, he turned around and went to his room to collect his bags.

The Taiwan Penglun got off the dock, and the passenger car drove out of Magong Town. Xiao Xing sat by the window, and he was next to him, pointing to the sea outside the window, and said, "Look, sea." Pointing to the rows of low stone walls in the field that blocked the wind, he said, "Wall." Pointing to the oxen, he said, "The ox cart." Passing the bird-piercing marbles room outside the village, he said, "Sloughk." ”

It was still the streets and houses he was familiar with, the days and dark shadows in the sun, those desolate afternoons. But something is different. Leaving only a few months of moonlight, he used to think that the alley was very long, it was getting shorter, the courtyard was very wide, it was narrower, the roof was very high, it was getting lower, and this big village was coming to an end. Surprised to find that the original wind cabinet is just such a small place.

As he walked home, he saw a shed on the ground in front of his house, with a coffin and monks doing their work. In the dark shed, outside the bright house, it was like a wild dream. He approached and looked at the coffin, not quite understanding, how could his father's tall figure fit? Strange, no tears.

Then he looked up and saw his brother standing at the door of the house. The brother hurried out, squeezed his arm, opened a faint smile, and said, "I thought you couldn't come back." The hour is set, and the funeral will be out tomorrow morning. The brother saw the little apricot under the sun and nodded kindly.

My sister and brother-in-law all came, busy taking care of him inside and out, and it was comforting to see him come back. His mother came out from behind the house, and he called out to his mother. The short mother, who stood in front of him, looked up at him like a tree of clouds flying into the air in the spring, and cried.

There was no place in the house where he could meddle, so he took Xiao Xingdong for a walk, looked west, and bought a pack of cigarettes at the grocery store of The Little Cabbage's house. Xiao Cabbage has married into Baisha Chi chi village, and Xiao Cabbage's mother Old Cabbage is watching the shop. Walking to Nishikiwa's house again, Nishiki and his sister-in-law squatted at the door with the baby on their backs, wearing dried fish on the net hook one by one. At first, I didn't recognize Ah Qing, but I knew that it was Mr. Yan's younger son, so I invited them into the house, poured tea, and sat down opposite them.

They looked at the baby lying on the woman's back, pulling at the woman's hair, and the woman turned her face sideways and pulled the baby's hand away, giving the baby one of her fingers to grasp. Two children on a large bamboo bed in the room were playing, and they pulled the earth flower cloth apart to cover their bodies and heads, revealing their eyes and smiling at the little apricot. They watched the salty sunlight outside the house, and a big fat cat crouched next to the dry fish box and snoozed.

After the funeral, trivial and aftercare work is handled in a silent atmosphere and daily life. Father's rocking chair was still sitting under the porch, facing the sea. Since his father hit baseball until his temples were paralyzed, maybe seven years ago his father died that time, and now it's just gone. There was a day when my father sat in a rocking chair, bent over and fastened his shoelaces, got up, and shook the legs of his pants, and my mother handed him a suitcase, and my father patted his head and went out. He hid behind the door and watched his father go far, come out, and sneak out the bicycle that was leaning under the corridor. He stepped on the car and could not even feel the ground, put his body into the bar, stepped out high and low, stepped on, stepped, remembering that it was a bright spring morning.

His brother asked him, "What does Miss Tang's family do?"

"I don't know." A Qing said.

My sister said, "Girls in Taipei are more generous..."

The apricot has finished eating. Last night, I didn't sleep in the east and west, and then I squatted down in the shade to play with the children, and I didn't know what the family who was eating in the kitchen looked at her. Ah Qing remembered that it was another day, the light bulb on the dinner table was hanging low in the air, the family was eating, the five bright yellow faces in the light and shadow were like five flower plates, forgetting what, the father suddenly stretched out his hand and hit him hard with the bone knot of the middle finger, he hung his head, and his chin was almost buried in the rice bowl. He had forgotten that his father had such a strong strength, and the tears fell in two lines and landed on the bowl of rice. But he seemed to be feeling sad for Xiao Xing again.

"Just like that, bang, hit the temple here, my dad fell down, never got up." It was strange, the first second was fine. You don't know, my favorite thing is to go to baseball with my dad. At that time, it was very popular to belch, and when there was a holiday, the unit and the unit, or the community, played with each other. ”

"How old were you back then?" Apricot asked him.

"Fifth grade. Once I came home from a game with my dad and saw a snake on the road, my dad used a baseball bat to hit, hit, and beat the snake to death. After many days, I ran to see the snake, there was no more, only a dry layer of skin remained..." Ah Qing said funny, for some reason, it was funny, Xiao Xingxing also laughed. "It's all gone, it's strange, only dry skin remains."

They are still back in Kaohsiung, throwing themselves into the vast crowds of commuters.

Guo Zai received a notice of military service transferred from his family, and he did not do it after getting a salary this month. After Ah Rong got off work, he helped his friends sell tapes at night at night, and sometimes several people sat on the stall with Ah Rong for a night, and the pop songs were played one by one in the whole night market. Exhausted, go back to bed and go to sleep. You can hear the hustle and bustle of the night market in the distance, faintly, steaming, and many sounds of the big city merge into a big river, whimpering slowly flowing. They are just one of the tens of millions of households in the river, with their little lights on. The days are long, but life is short.

Ah Qing likes this, walking in the brightly lit streets of the night market, sometimes the little apricot is single, buying hairpin pins at the stall, and sometimes like a kitten at his feet. Let him feel that this world of flowers and flowers is all his, and there is a person who is always there to watch him.

Little Apricot squatted in front of a small shop to tell fortunes. There is a small yellow finch in the cage that will be specially signed, and the fortune teller will take the signature paper and appreciate the bird a shell to eat. The old man unsigned with Xiao Xingxing, and Xiao Xing listened very carefully. Ah Qingshou watched and watched, and suddenly he wanted so much, strongly wanted to create a bright world for her, and he stood on the edge of that world, defending her.

Later, when they were playing a game of asparagus juice and cigarettes, Xiao Xingxing flicked the nail ball, plucked it, and cried.

But during the day, when he met at lunch in the factory restaurant, Xiao Xingxing looked completely fine and asked him to go to the movies together at night. That night, the two came home from work, and the mailbox had an airmail, Nishikiwa sent from Japan, the ship was broken, the Japanese ship was repaired, and the company sent them back first. Xiao Xingxing told him, and the two of them were half shy. Xiao Xingxing said: "Hurry, go to the movie, it is too late." ”

However, Ah Qing felt that Xiao Xing was not watching a movie at all, and her people were not in the movie theater, sitting together, so close to each other, so far away.

The next morning, Ah Qing came knocking on the door of the room and looking for Xiao Xing to go to work. "Come in." Apricot said.

Ah Qing turned open the door and saw Xiao Xing packing his luggage, a large suitcase on the bed, and Xiao Xing did not look up at him.

"Hey, where are you going?"

"Taipei."

Ah Qing was surprised: "Taipei!"

Xiao Xing said, "My aunt is there." ”

"What to do?"

Xiao Xing said, "Find something to do." ”

"Aren't you doing a good job here?" Ah Qing's voice could not restrain it from rising.

Long. Xiao Xing said, "Ah He is coming back... I didn't want to see him again. ”

Ah Qing stood in the doorway, as if the whole person, at once, had been hollowed out. Many things, in front of you, in the past, a scene like a stream of dust flying in the stream, watching it leave, can not grasp it. Ah Qing said, "Shall I send you to the car?"

Xiao Xing said, "No." You're going to work, I'll go by myself. ”

She quickly and neatly packed up her things, and she treated herself like someone else's business. When I came over and handed him a seal, I had to look up at him, but it was just an indifferent blank face. She said, "Seal. You help me get this month's salary. I will send you the address when I get to Taipei, and you will help me send it back... Let's go, it's going to be late for work. ”

He accepted the seal. Said, "Goodbye." "Turned and went downstairs.

At the head of the Kitsu ferry, he bought a ticket and waited in line for the boat. Morning light, and like twilight, the blur of the ferry head, the blurred pedestrians hurrying. The blur in his heart blurred into a great collapse of sorrow, and the boundless continued to flood and cover him up. He turned away from the bow of the ferry again and walked home.

Climbing upstairs, I was bumping into Xiao Xing carrying two boxes of luggage downstairs, meeting in a narrow way, or reuniting, I can't tell. Ah Qing said, "I think I'll send you to the station." ”

Xiao Xingxing said, "No, you have to go to work." ”

"Send you me again, too." Ah Qing took Xiao Xing's luggage and went downstairs together.

At the highway bureau station, he bought a ticket for Xiao Xingxing, handed it to Xiao Xing, and accompanied her to wait in line for the train. Congestion was extremely noisy on all sides. Xiao Xing used the strength of her whole body to call out, saying: "Don't tell Ah and I that I went to Taipei, just tell me that I am going back to Chiayi - getting married." "It's a joke, and the two can't laugh."

He said, "I want to get out of here..." and said, "It's all too familiar." She said, "I just want to run farther..." She shouted like that, like a desert of yellow smoke and dust between them, and at once she ate a mouth full of sand and dust, and her throat was dumb. If it wasn't such a bad place, such a bad moment for them to meet, Xiao Xing might just have to shout: "Ah Qing, I'm here." ”

But at this time he looked at her and smiled at him, carrying his luggage and running to the Guoguang car. The car drove up, stumbled across the door and waved goodbye to him. He gave her a flying nice gesture, goodbye.

After supper with Ah Rong Guo Tsai, Ah Rong carried a canvas tape on his shoulder and walked on the road that was clear in the middle of the night, singing and singing. "Hey, do you remember the last time we ran naked on the beach in The Inner Circle?" A Qing said.

, run. Guo Zai said.

They ran to the beachhead of XiziWan in one breath, Ah Rong threw the canvas bag on the sand, and the three of them stripped naked and ran. I couldn't see anything in the night, only the feeling, the feeling that the gravel under my feet was thick and there was a lot of garbage. They ran all the way into the dissolved halogen mist and wet wind, leaving behind the dark night that had run by, all the way to the front of the invisible front.

Ah Qing suddenly said, "Ah Rong, what are you going to do in the future?"

Ah Rong said, "I want to marry a wife." ”

Ah Qing said, "That's it?"

"Come again, have two children, I'll come home from work, and they'll run out and call my dad..." Arong said.

You can see a stack of dark clouds in the far sky, and three gray stripes floating on the beach. The tide shore does not know where to reach. They will also be, and their going is unknown.

1983

Pay attention to the literature of the past, and push you short classics every night.