Su Tong's "Ciji"

When my aunt came home, I saw two big roosters, surrounded by mesh bags, one sitting and the other standing, but they all looked well-behaved. Seeing the big rooster of Luhua, my aunt knew that my cousin was coming home, she looked at the ground carefully, and did not know whether the chicken was hygienic, or hungry and could not stool, in short, the ground was very clean. My aunt grabbed the crown of a rooster and checked it, and said, it won't be a sick chicken, just know that if you bring the rooster back, you can't stew soup, you can't lay eggs, and you still make noise in the morning. My aunt went to the kitchen and was about to grab rice for the chickens when she saw a strange girl in a pink shirt sitting on the patio, scraping porcelain chips.

She thought it was my cousin who had brought his girlfriend back, a little joyful, a little nervous, flashed into the kitchen like a thief, flashed in, came out again, ruffled her hair, stood there coughing. The girl who scraped the shave looked up, raised a dark and red face, and saw that she was a country girl. She jumped up from the bench, not sure if she was shy or polite, and was trying to smile at her aunt. My aunt heard her muzzle a title out of her mouth, it was a country dialect, and she couldn't tell what she was calling. The aunt frowned subconsciously, the girl lowered her hand, her gaze bumped on the aunt, retracted, looked timidly at my cousin's room, and suddenly cried out, Comrade Xiao Yang, you come out, come out. My cousin came out sleepy-eyed, and as soon as he came out, the girl buried her head and got in. Seeing my aunt stunned there, my cousin scratched his stomach and laughed dryly, and said to her, what are you doing with your eyes so big? Think I brought my girlfriend back? I'm not so advanced in my thinking, find a countryman as a girlfriend! My aunt waited for him to explain below, but he didn't explain, pointed to the people in the room, and pointed to the two big roosters on the ground, perfunctorily saying that it was Gu Zhuang's Gu Cai sleeve, people are in trouble, and they want to live in my house for a few days to avoid the limelight!

No matter how twisty the story of the colored sleeves is, it should have happened at my aunt's house, and it has nothing to do with our family. But that night, my aunt came to my house with a big rooster in a hurry, saying that she wanted to discuss an urgent matter with my mother. In fact, that urgent matter is the matter of colored sleeves, and there is no hurry, but my aunt used a life-threatening tone to describe it, which showed how tricky things were. I was still young at that time, and I didn't know about the rural form of marriage that was prevalent in changing relatives, but I just heard the exchange relationship, much like the equation we learned in math class, X+Y=X1+Y1. If the brother of the colored sleeve marries the daughter-in-law, the brother of the daughter-in-law will marry the colored sleeve. The aunt emphasized that the man was very old, had horns, and bit off his tongue when he became ill, so he was still a man without a tongue. When I heard this, my mother cried out, how can this work, be a good girl, let her marry a tongueless? Gu Zhuang is not under the control of Chairman Mao, the lesbian is not a person, his parents do such a stupid thing, the party organization does not care? My aunt said, don't come to this set, the party organizations in the countryside are busy studying Dazhai, they can't be busy, where can they manage whose family changes relatives? He also said that the trouble was that the raw rice was cooked into cooked rice, and Cai Sleeve's brother had already married his sister home, but here Cai Sleeve was done by a group of intellectual young people who did ideological work and refused to marry over.

My aunt mentioned a young female intellectual named Gong Aihua, saying that Caixiang was originally ready to sacrifice herself for her brother, but Gong Aihua did not agree, decided for her, and helped her formulate a detailed escape plan. On the one hand, my aunt counted the parents who fell the colored sleeves, and pushed her daughter into the fire pit for the sake of her son, on the other hand, she has been counting down that Gong Aihua, she is a person who loves the limelight and is a careerist! Don't want her to go to the countryside, she wants to go to the countryside, just to be in the newspaper! When she arrives in the countryside, she has to be advanced, and she still has to go to the newspaper, so she will take people's colored sleeves to pad her feet. My aunt held a grudge, saying, I don't object to her first, I don't object to her saving people, but she can't carry the honorable plaque herself, throw the trouble to others, our big cat has no brains, he listened to Gong Aihua's call, let him bring it back, he took it. You said that our family is so narrow and all boys, what is the matter of leaving a country girl to live at home? Don't let people gossip? When my aunt said this, seeing that my mother had received the Tsai but did not say anything, she finally took out the urgent matter. Our family has no place to build her bed, your attic will sleep alone with the little sister, let the girl live in the attic with the little sister." Stay for five days, just five days, count it as a favor for me. My aunt stretched out a slap and dangled it in front of my mother, until my mother nodded. Finally, she breathed a sigh of relief and said, my family's brainless said, our house is the first traffic station, there are other liaison station command posts, they do this as a revolutionary cause! When Gong Aihua came back on National Day, I asked the big cat to send the girl to Gong Aihua's house, I told the big cat, there are so many children in our family, the traffic is busy enough, where else to make someone else's traffic stop?

I don't know anything about the country girl named Caixiang, but I know about Gong Aihua mentioned by my aunt. She and my cousin are different intellectual young people, and they are exemplary by relevant parties. In the publicity window of our school hung a picture of her, a girl with big eyes, a pointed face and a big red flower tied to her chest. Because she was slightly sideways and posed when she took the photo, her gaze looked very distant and upward, which seemed to me to be a pose with communist ideals.

At night, my cousin delivered colored sleeves and a rooster to my house with a flashlight. As if he were escorting two pieces of luggage, the goods entered the warehouse, and the person turned around and ran. My mother asked him to take Shengtz's basket home, and he promised to do well, but in the end he left the basket in the corner behind the door.

In this way, the colored sleeves became our guests.

The rooster was upside down in the patio by a wooden crate, and the colored sleeves slept with my sister in the attic. Our family has never received such guests, not relatives, but the number of gifts for receiving relatives is indispensable. On the first morning, my mother cooked a bowl of water eggs for her, she was stunned for a while, did not know how to be polite, took the bowl and ate an egg, suddenly caught a glimpse of my eyes, and immediately knew the polite way, pushed the bowl to me, and said to my brother to eat, we have a lot of eggs in the countryside, often eat. My mother threatened me in her mouth, but her eyes showed appreciation for the colored sleeves, I could see it, so I brought the water eggs outside to eat, my mother did not stop me anymore, casually said to the colored sleeves, then you drink porridge, in the morning or drinking porridge is the most comfortable, easy to digest.

I caught a glimpse of the colorful sleeves drinking porridge, the bowl covering her face, and she didn't use chopsticks, almost like drinking water, holding the bowl and pouring it into her mouth.

Colorful sleeves, you drink slowly, porridge a large pot too. My mother said, do you sleep well at night?

She will not be perfunctory by the people in the city, thought about it, shook her head, woke up several times, how in the middle of the night there are trains calling, ships are also calling, scared me to death.

Didn't you sleep well? I didn't get up until eight o'clock! I hear you snoring." My sister looked at her with slanted eyes next to her and complained, I didn't sleep well, I woke up at six o'clock, let you grind your teeth and grind your teeth!

Just your ears and eyes are squeamish, grinding your teeth will grind you awake? People drink raw water in their hometowns, have roundworms in their stomachs, and grind their teeth when they sleep at night. My mother stopped my sister's complaints, and asked Cai Sleeve, Cai Sleeve, do you get up at eight o'clock in the country?

The rooster didn't bark, I thought it wasn't dawn, and in the country I woke up listening to the rooster. It's strange, you call the ship at night, but the rooster doesn't bark. She glanced towards the patio and muttered softly, the rooster was also afraid of life, and when it came to the city, it would not croak.

The rooster is gone. My mother said that the child's father had slaughtered the chicken early in the morning, marinated it to make salted chicken, and ate it just in time for the New Year.

The kitchen was quiet, the colored sleeves put down the porridge bowl, and her expression looked shocked, and she didn't know why. That kind of expression made our family feel some kind of inexplicable discomfort. My sister's shrill voice sounded, we are a hygienic street here, and chickens are not allowed!

Colorful sleeves leaned towards the patio, her face a little gray, she glanced at the naked rooster on the clothesline, leaned against the door frame, she didn't say anything, but I could tell that she was very unhappy.

We don't let chickens here. My mother chased after her, and while looking at the expression of the colored sleeves, she enlightened her, it is a rooster, not a rabbit or a lamb, there is something reluctant, the chicken will be slaughtered when it is raised.

Not reluctance. Cai Sleeve shook his head in denial, saying that the rooster was the chick I picked from the hatching room, and I fed it.

That's still reluctant. It's you who feed it, and it's even more reluctant. My mother looked at her tentatively and said, "If you slaughter, there is no way to do it?"

The colored sleeves still shook their heads and said, not reluctantly. My mother waited for her follow-up, but she didn't have any follow-up, and said in a flash, a rooster can't eat a few pieces of meat after being slaughtered, and we in the countryside don't like to eat roosters.

My mother heard that it was a little condemnable, but a country girl was condemning her, my mother couldn't get off the stage, left her and left, and said as she walked, you in the countryside want to listen to the rooster crowing, we don't want it, there is an alarm clock, the rooster is still pickled and eaten!

The rooster's lush and beautiful feathers were plucked by my father and spread out in old newspapers to bask in the sun. The colored sleeve squatted in front of the pile of chicken feathers, picked up a golden chicken feather, pinched it and put it down, what are you doing with chicken feathers? She asked, do you make shuttles? Brother, you kicked the shuttlecock?

Who kicks the shuttlecock? I'm not a girl. I told her impatiently that if you dry it and sell it to the buying station, the chicken feathers can be sold for money!

After all, the colored sleeve is a guest of our family, and whether she is pleasing or not, hospitality is equally indispensable. On the first day, my sister went out with colored sleeves, saying that she was going to visit the park, but the colored sleeves were not interested in the park, and came out after a hasty circle. The colored sleeves said that there are so many big trees, just such a pond, a rockery is piled up by the pond, and a pavilion is built on the rockery, which is a park? Coming to collect money? When I came out and saw everyone else walking into the park, I regretted it and said to my sister, I shouldn't have come out so quickly, anyway, I can't get the three cents back, it's better to walk around more. My sister said that the colored sleeves were distressed by the three cents all the way, until she passed the Dongfeng Photo Studio, she forgot the harm the park gave her.

Cai Sleeve stood at the door of the Dongfeng Photo Studio and refused to leave, looking left and right at the photos of the beautiful girls displayed in the window. My sister liked the window of the photo studio anyway, so she patiently accompanied her to see it. Sleeve said she had never taken a photo, and asked how much it would cost to take a photo. My sister guessed her thoughts, and was a little difficult, and said, my mother will give me a dollar, saying that it is your entertainment expenses, only enough to take a small photo of half an inch, and it is the size of a fingernail. The colored sleeve put up his finger and weighed it, and said, then you can't see anything, you can shoot it in vain, is there a larger size? My sister said, why not, there are inches or two, that is, you want to stick money yourself, do you have money? Colored sleeves hesitated, looked at the pedestrians on the street, pulled my sister to his side, you blocked me. She instructed my sister. My sister blocked her with her body, heard her scrambling under her trouser belt, and finally felt a roll of wool tickets, tied with rubber bands, and the colored sleeves said, I have money. Our Guzhuang girls, I have the most money.

The reason why they came back so late was because they lined up to take pictures at the Dongfeng Photo Studio. Girls take pictures in photo studios mostly pretentiously, and they still look like that when they come back. The colored sleeves were wearing my sister's white embroidered shirt, and the two long braids were rolled into a pile of horse manure and coiled on the head. Her hair is now the same as my sister's, maybe she deliberately didn't wipe the lipstick provided by the photo studio, and her lips were very red, looking like she had just come off the stage, a little excited, a little shy. Because I couldn't figure out the meaning of the sample, I heard her repeatedly ask, so many girls go to take pictures, will the photo studio make a mistake, give her other people's photos, and her pictures are given to others. How so? My sister was annoyed by her questioning, and she couldn't help but speak a little meanly, how many times have you told you, taking photos is to see sample films, who wants other people's photos? You are not a beauty, what is the use of someone else taking your photo?

I was forced to spend five days with Colored Sleeves. I don't think the colored sleeves are as plain as my father said, nor do I think she is as scheming as my mother said. The impression that the sleeves left on me during those five days was almost a mystery. For example, I don't understand why she eats so little at the dinner table and opens the hood while there is no one in the kitchen. She was stealing the roast meat like a thief, and I could see it clearly, she used her hand to peel open the pork and pick the meat inside to eat. It is not rare for her to steal vegetables, and I often steal them, but she held the jar of white sugar in our house in her arms, and the action of stealing white sugar surprised me, so I shouted to her, what are you doing? I startled the colored sleeves, and the sugar jar fell to the ground, very crisply turning into a pile of fragments, and half of the jar of white sugar was scattered on the ground.

The face of the colored sleeve was frightened and pale, she stood there stupidly, came back to her senses for a long time, stomped her foot and shouted to me, look at the good things you did!

I didn't expect her to rake upside down and scream, you steal candy, it's a good thing you did!

What did I do? A fly flew in the sugar jar and I caught it. She quickly calmed down, knelt on the ground, and carefully gathered the sugar into a bowl, I don't like sugar, and my mouth is not so gluttonous. She raised her head and looked at me, her tone was not so firm, even if I am gluttonous, you don't scare me sugar jar will not fall to the ground, brother you are also responsible.

I'm not responsible, it's you stealing sugar!

She was not very flustered, her eyes were shining, she must be using her brain. Ah Niang they are coming back, she put a bowl of white sugar back on the wooden shelf, tentatively looked at me, this sugar jar, just say that I accidentally broke it, but brother you can't accuse me of stealing sugar, don't slander people, ah?

Who slandered you? I saw you steal and eat. I was suddenly full of discrimination and hatred for this country girl, and a cruel evaluation blurted out, a person like you is only worthy of marrying a man with horns!

Colored sleeves must not have expected me to say such mean words, she stared at me in horror, who taught you this sentence? I saw a flash of furious white in her eyes, and I had a premonition that she would do something dangerous, it was too late to run, and the colored sleeves clattered in her throat, and she lowered her head and rushed towards my chest like a beast, and I lost control and sat down on my water tank.

That was probably the only head-to-head confrontation between me and Colored Sleeves. Such a nondescript thing, there is no defeat and no victory, and victory is not interesting. I didn't speak to the colored sleeves after the sugar jar incident. Later she must have regretted hitting me with her head, and when I went to school, she diligently straightened my collar for me, and I was so disgusted with her hand that I threw it off. She stepped aside in amusement, not knowing whether to comfort me or herself, saying, it's okay, the little ones, it's okay. Of course, I don't have anything, but every time I walk through the school's publicity window, I see Gong Aihua's photo and think of the colored sleeve, and when I think of the colored sleeve, I feel that there is a figure crawling in the window, a strange country man, no tongue, foaming at the mouth, so the bright window suddenly becomes gloomy.

My sister got her and the color sleeve sample back. They seemed to be holding a grand secret event, hiding in the attic to watch, I heard them laughing and making trouble on it, the photo brought my sister always dissatisfaction, she always felt that the photographer made her ugly, and the one-inch large sample brought a surprise to the colored sleeve, not only related to appearance, maybe related to life, I saw the colored sleeve come down from the attic that day, and the black and red face was filled with an unparalleled joy. Then the colored sleeves were scraping in the kitchen with that joy, and my sister was changing the honeycomb coal for the stove on the side, and she suddenly remembered the man with the horn wind, and turned back to the colored sleeve and asked, what does the horn wind look like? Why is it called a horn?

The colored sleeves were silent for a while, probably waiting for my sister to give up this kind of problem that harms others and is not good for herself, but my sister not only did not mean to give up, but also asked more deeply, does the horn wind want to hit people? Cai Sleeve answered unambiguously this time, if he doesn't hit people, how can he hit people? It's good if the person doesn't hit him. Her voice sounded unusually calm. Have you ever seen a sick mad sheep? Like a sheep committing madness, falling to the ground, cramping, shivering, foaming at the mouth. Cai Sleeve said this suddenly dry laugh, and then the laughter sank, and after a while, I heard Cai Sleeve say in the kitchen, in fact, they are all confused, I marry no one has a good life, marry him, it's not me who suffers, it's his life that is even more bitter. My sister didn't understand what she meant, and when she wanted to break the casserole and ask the end, the colored sleeves threw the porcelain pieces in her hand on the floor, covered her face, rushed out of the kitchen, and went to the attic.

I don't remember if it was the fourth or fifth day that the colored sleeves came to my house, but I remember that it was the evening, our family and the colored sleeves were having dinner, my aunt came in a hurry, and waved at the colored sleeves as soon as she came, don't eat, don't eat, go to the attic and hide!

It turned out that the elder brother of the colored sleeves came to live longevity. My aunt was obviously not prepared for this emergency, she was sweating, she pushed the colored sleeve to the ladder in the attic, and said to the colored sleeve, Your brother scared me to death, squatted in front of my house, brought a fertilizer bag, contained a marijuana rope, he is coming to tie people! My father patted the table and said, "Bring a rope to tie someone in broad daylight, and there is no royal law, twist him to the police station!" Everyone was angry at the marijuana rope, but after the anger, they were a little panicked, after all, it was someone's family affair, and it was not good to treat him like that. My mother said to my aunt, I came by the house number, will I squat in front of my house? My aunt reassured her, saying that Changshou recognized her door, not mine. My mother was not at ease, saying that I don't know about the neighbors next to your house, they are all long tongues, and they will say it without asking. My aunt denied this possibility in her mouth, but her heart was empty, her brain sweated, she fished out a towel to wipe, and suddenly there was a fire of resentment in her eyes, Gong Aihua, it was all trouble she made! Aunt shouted, she is a good person, she doesn't care about anything, where in the world is there such a cheap thing, I don't care if she comes back or not, tomorrow I will send the colored sleeves to her house, long life knows my family, I know her family!

Everyone did not express their position at once. My father signaled my aunt to lower her loud voice so that the colored sleeves in the attic would not hear her, and my aunt suppressed her voice, but with that resentment, she said, not afraid that she would hear it, and that we were very good to her for no reason.

My mother asked me to take a look outside the door, there was no one outside the door, the big yellow dog of the blacksmith opposite squatted in front of my house, I looked towards the east of the street, and saw a group of figures piled up in front of my aunt's house from a distance. I don't know if it's because I'm blind or overly sensitive, but I vaguely see people pointing at my house.

By the time I got back inside, my aunt had already made the decision to move the colored sleeves out of my house immediately. You have been hosting her for me for several days, and you can't burden your family anymore. My aunt said that the country people are quite unreasonable, and if her brother comes to make trouble and makes some accident, I can't explain it to your family. My mother asked, send Gong Aihua's family now? Didn't Gong Aihua come back? My aunt said that the night is long and dreamy, and I am not at ease with the mouths of Grandma Shaoxing and Aunt Qian. Sooner or later, it is better to send it now, what is Gong Aihua afraid of when he is not at home? It's not all parents who have suffered for their children, I'm not ruthless, it's to be fair, it's Gong Aihua's turn to take care of the sleeves.

My aunt pushed my father's bicycle out, she wanted to personally carry the colored sleeves to Gong Aihua's house in Xiaoliu Lane, she couldn't go if she didn't go, only she knew Gong Aihua's home. My mother and my aunt discussed how to get around my aunt's door, and they agreed that going out of the grease processing factory was the most scientific route. To be more secure, my mother also brought out a blue overalls for the colored sleeves to wear. Then I heard my aunt calling the name of the colored sleeve at the stairs. Colored sleeves, colored sleeves, come down. My aunt said, we went to Gong Aihua's house. There was no sound in the attic. The aunt shouted to the attic again, go downstairs with colorful sleeves, go to Gong Aihua's house is the safest, your brother can't find you. The silence of the colored sleeves caused everyone to gather at the stairs, and everyone's heads looked up uneasily. My mother said, colored sleeves, it's not that we're afraid of things, it's for your good, your brother came with a rope, how you make trouble are all brothers and sisters, it's all family affairs, we are caught in the middle and it is difficult to handle. My aunt looked very impatient, she was tapping on the stairs with her bicycle keys, you are coming down soon, and soon your brother will come, and you can't walk when he comes, so we have to watch him tie you back to the country. The aunt was a bit like cheating a child, she no longer pointed the finger at Gong Aihua, but exaggerated the advantages of Gong Aihua's family to Caixiang. Gong Aihua's family is in the small alley around Quli, which your brother can't find. He also said that next to Gong Aihua's house is the police station, and she is an advanced figure, your brother dares to go to her house to make trouble, and the police station will tie him up!

The colored sleeves went down to the attic with a white face. I don't know if she cried, she kept her eyes down, it was a grim expression after being humiliated, it could also be said that it was a relaxed expression after the release of sadness, and I noticed that her chin was wet. Carrying her gray leatherette travel bag, Colored Sleeve slowly walked down to the last compartment of the stairs, and I saw her suddenly throw down her travel bag, cover her stomach, and sit on the ladder.

My sister rushed over to help her, colorful sleeves do you have a stomachache?

The colored sleeves nodded first, saw that my mother had opened the blue overalls, shook her head, pushed my sister away, and stood up on her own, standing like a wooden man. They put on their work clothes for the colored sleeves, my sister looked at the colored sleeves, the colored sleeves you go to look in the mirror, you are not like you! Her suggestion was unanimously protested by my mother and aunt, what kind of mess are you coming, when are you, where do you have the mind to look in the mirror?

The colored sleeves in the overalls are still colored sleeves, and if she doesn't speak, you don't know what is going on in her mind. Then Colored Sleeves followed my aunt's bike, and we followed her, and the group made their way down the street cautiously. Looking at the east direction of the street, the shadows of a bunch of people at the door of my aunt's house are much thicker, indicating that the danger of leakage is increasing. Hurry up! The colored sleeves were almost mounted by us to the back seat of the bike. Colored sleeves sat on the bike, and I realized why she walked so badly, photos, photos! She suddenly turned around and shouted to my sister, my picture, how do you give it to me?

That night, Changshou came to my door. He knocked on the door, knocked on the door and no one opened, he beat the door with his fists, shouting while knocking on the door, colored sleeves, you give me out, die out! My father went to open the door later, not to let him in, but to go out and call someone. My father calmly stepped over the fertilizer bag, glanced at the rope in the bag, and sneered, you also brought a rope to bind people, I don't know who this rope will tie in the end.

When I got up from bed, my father's men had already arrived. A large group of men, some elderly, came to do persuasion work, and a few were friends of my cousin, people like the third in command, all of them were big and round, and you could tell at a glance what they were here for. The third-in-command they pulled Changshou out of the door, and scolded him while dragging him, you redneck, sell your sister as a beast, and dare to run to us to make trouble? People like you, buy a piece of tofu and kill it!

Longevity is short, but very stout, his body was carried out of the door frame of my house, and soon came in tenaciously again, colored sleeves, colored sleeves, you give me death! He was pressed to the ground, but one hand desperately grabbed the door frame of my house and tried to come inside, and he did not care about the insults of others, nor did he refute them, but just shouted his sister's name. The dim light illuminated his face, and it could be found that his face and colored sleeves were unusually similar, square face, the bridge of his nose was collapsed, but his eyes were large and bright. After fighting like this for a while, Changshou finally quieted down, not quiet, the third commander took advantage of his trouser belt to fall off, simply ripped off half of his pants, threatened him with saying, if you make trouble again, send you to the police station like this, and the crime of hooliganism will arrest you! Changshou desperately tugged at his pants and finally quieted down. The third in command they can't stop, they pushed Longevity around, and began to scold him again, if you can't marry a wife, you won't marry, you have so many pigs and so many sheep in the country, you won't fuck the old sow, fuck the ewe, why change your own sister to the old man of the horn wind? Give you back the belt of your trousers, you hang yourself with the belt of your trousers!

Changshou did not return the favor, his eyes avoiding the youths, as if their insults were some kind of fact. He also listened to his political and moral education of the old people, as if they were educating themselves. He sat on the ground, one shoe was stepped on by whom, and Changshou pulled the legs of others one by one to find his other liberation shoe. The shoe was right behind my father, and Changshou leaned over to pick up the shoe, and the three hands quickly picked it up and threw it far away. Go pick it up, you won't be allowed to come back after picking it up! The three hands pushed the longevity, let me go east, go to the long-distance bus station for the night, there will be a shuttle bus at dawn, you will roll me wherever you come from!

You can see that the shoe is important for longevity. We saw Changshou standing beside the third leader, glaring at him angrily, and the third leader said, what are you staring at me for? Dirty and smelly liberation shoes, if you don't hurry up to pick them up, the dog will gnaw it as. Changshou tried to push the third hand, the third hand monster laughed, you still dare to push me, you don't toast and don't eat and punish wine, and then make trouble for me to throw your people out, do you believe it or not?

Changshou went to pick up the shoe, he walked a little looped leg, walked very hard, and a little like hurt some joint. We watched him go pick up shoes. My father was a little uneasy and said to the third leader, you can just scare him, why do you fix him so much? The third commander said that this kind of countryman wants the dictatorship of the proletariat, and if he does not dictatorship, he will not be able to do so, and he will be scared when he returns. Everyone thought that Longevity would come back after picking up shoes, but to everyone's expectations, Longevity only stayed in the distance for a while, stopped for a while, and really walked east. He walked slowly, a short figure, slowly drifting in the lights of Toon Tree Street, everyone thought that Longevity was tamed, and suddenly a harsh cry exploded in the distance, colored sleeves, colored sleeves, you give me death!

He began to call his sister's name again, this time along the street late at night, so the voice sounded a little terrifying, accompanied by an empty echo, I remember very well, far away, I could vaguely hear the sound of longevity choking, after the sympathetic choking, or the horrible cry, colored sleeves, colored sleeves, give me death, follow me home!

A few days later, my sister sent the photos to Little Willow Lane. She worked hard to find Gong Aihua's house, but she didn't see Gong Aihua or the colored sleeves, but she saw Gong Aihua's grandmother through the kitchen window.

Gong Aihua's grandmother is also scraping in the kitchen. My sister said that she recognized it at a glance as a ciling from Gu Zhuang, fat, round, and with a pink tail. When he saw Gu Zhuang, he saw the people from Gu Zhuang. But my sister couldn't call Gong Aihua downstairs. Gong Aihua's grandmother was full of gray hair, maybe she was confused, maybe not confused, but shrewd, my sister looked inside outside the window, she watched out quietly, closely monitored my sister, when my sister called Gong Aihua's name, the old woman stood up tremblingly. Don't shout so loudly, the neighbor has a night shift and is sleeping. Through the window, she waved to my sister busily, Aihua was not at home, she was a busy person, and she went to the province for a meeting again!

My sister said that she saw the face of a short-haired girl flash by the upstairs window, and she suspected that it was Gong Aihua, and that there was a white corset worn by a young girl on the drying rack upstairs, still dripping water, which deepened my sister's suspicions. She didn't know why Gong Aihua was not at home. My sister had to ask the old woman about the whereabouts of the colored sleeves, and the old woman became more vigilant, and she asked my sister, who are you? Where did it come from? Such a simple question stumped my sister, she couldn't tell who she was, and she threw the photo of the colored sleeve on the table by the window as soon as she gambled, so I didn't care about other people's affairs, I just sent the photo. Thrown it in, my sister was not at ease, returned to the window sill, reached in to block the old woman, felt a picture out of the small paper sleeve, and said, it is not easy for people to take a photo, your family's attitude, I don't worry, keep one for her.

Before leaving, my sister heard the last news of the colored sleeves. The news was revealed by Gong Aihua's grandmother, and the old woman obviously had some bias in listening to the matter of colored sleeves, or she completely misunderstood Gong Aihua's role in this matter. She criticized my sister through the window, don't use my family Aihua as a gun, come to her for any trouble. Do you want her to take care of the marriage of the girl? You guys are not kind, watching Aihua is advanced, deliberately affecting her future! My sister let her scratch her head in criticism, stood there and rolled her eyes at the old woman, and the old woman threw a tail out angrily, saying, don't roll your eyes with me, the affairs of the country girl are not under the control of my family Aihua, but under the management of the Women's Federation, you have to find her, go to the Women's Federation to find it!

The news that the colored sleeves went to the Women's Federation was brought back by my sister. Later, we learned that Cai Sleeve had indeed visited the office of the Municipal Women's Federation. It was Gong Aihua's father who took her there, he is also an organ cadre, and he knows best what organ solves what problems, which higher unit has jurisdiction over which lower unit. But it was obvious that our women's federation here could not solve the trouble of Cai Sleeve for a while, and Gong Aihua's father asked Cai Sleeve to report her situation in detail to the cadres of the Women's Federation, and he was anxious to go to work, so he drew a map of Cai Sleeve and asked her to find her home. They said that Cai Sleeve sat in the office of the Women's Federation that day, sat for a long time, and talked for a long time, and no one knew that she was talking about herself, and it seemed that she was describing a terrible marriage of someone else. Later, she was sent out of the office and did not leave, she sat quietly on a bench, listening to a couple of divorced men and women insulting each other in the corridor, exposing each other's private lives, and she also went up to persuade the woman a few words, what to persuade, others could not understand. Later, when the Women's Federation got off work and the cadres left, a female cadre at the reception desk passed by the Iron Lion Bridge and saw the girl from Gu Zhuanglai sitting under the bridge of the Iron Lion Bridge, drinking a penny cup of hot tea while looking around against the map drawn on the letter paper. The female cadre went to the rice boat under the bridge to buy a pack of indica rice, and then glanced at the tea stall, the colored sleeve was still sitting there, but the sadness of the colored sleeve had already spouted like the morning sun, the colored sleeve held a cup of tea and cried, the colored sleeve looked at the people coming and going on the iron lion bridge crying, the owner of the tea stall and a few enthusiastic passers-by gathered around the colored sleeve, they thought that the country girl was crying for the letter paper, but the letter paper was spread out, and those enthusiastic people saw a simple map outlined with a ballpoint pen. The female cadre hesitated for a while, and finally hurried home to make dinner, because she heard someone enthusiastically stand up and say, Little Willow Lane? Are you going to Little Willow Lane? I know, I'll take you!

Now we all know that the enthusiastic man did not bring the colored cuff back to Gong Aihua's house later. This is a puzzling result, and until now, people related to this matter are arguing, who exactly is that person who led the way? Where the hell did he take the colored sleeves. Changshou did not find his sister later, he made trouble at Gong Aihua's house for two days, did not see the figure of the colored sleeves, and Gong Aihua never appeared, but the people from the police station came, according to the relevant provisions, they forcibly escorted Changshou to the long-distance bus station and sent him back.

None of us had ever seen the colored sleeves, and my sister came back one day to tell my mother that she had seen a notice under the Iron Lion Bridge looking for colored sleeves. My mother said that the colored sleeves were missing, of course, and of course a notice should be posted. But my sister cried, crying and shouting, that photo, photo! My mother immediately understood, and when she understood it, her face turned white, and she said, you know to cry now, let you take her out to play, you prefer to take her to take a photo, why did you take that photo? Why? What is this photo for, huh? Yes? My mother impulsively questioned my sister and cried herself. The result of their logical reasoning was heavy, and my sister couldn't get rid of it, so my mother took a heavy moral burden. In order to vent this pressure, my mother had to blame my aunt, and the final result can be imagined, my mother and my aunt broke off, our two lived so close, living on a toon tree street, my aunt was my father's own sister, my father was my aunt's own brother, but our two families broke off like this.

Cai Xiang later took a boat to sell Tsai and returned to Guzhuang, and these news were conclusive, because it made us and my aunt's family happy for a while. It's just that in the days when the colored sleeves disappeared, where she spent it, how she spent it, and with whom, these details have never been a headless case, and we all don't know at all.

The cousin said that the colored sleeves later fulfilled the family's promise and married the middle-aged man who suffered from the horn. When my cousin came back for the Spring Festival and said that their marriage was good, he saw Cai Sleeve and her man go to the fair, the woman sold the chickens, the man bought hoes, and walked one after the other on the road. When he returned on May Day, his cousin refused to mention the name of the colored sleeves, and when he asked, he asked about the shocking news, and the colored sleeves committed suicide with pesticides. My cousin said that Cai Sleeve died very planned, she was playing pesticides in the vegetable garden, and after the pesticide, others saw her sitting in the ground with a plastic bucket, they all thought she was drinking water, saying that Cai Sleeve saw you drinking water just now, why was she thirsty again? The colored sleeves said that it was hot today and the thirst was dead. Cai Sleeve drank half a bucket of pesticide in front of many people. My aunt's side, our family's side, were all frightened by the news. My cousin flashed and mentioned some gossip in the village, saying that Cai Sleeve may have been pregnant when she died, and everyone suspected that the child Cai Sleeve was carrying was a wild species, not a sheep's horn. The aunt immediately shouted, the horn does not affect fertility, who is not his?

Then everyone suddenly fell silent. Thinking of the time when Cai Xiang disappeared, thinking that she returned to Gu Zhuang with a secret, no one dared to speak. Everyone is hiding their flustered heart, but they can't hide the expression with a sense of guilt. Later, my aunt suddenly stood up, a sentence to let everyone get relief, she said, we have a clear conscience about the color sleeves, the color sleeves are hard, no wonder others, if you want to blame, blame that Gong Aihua, not she caused this trouble, color sleeves she will not end up like this.

Residents of Toon Tree Street are accustomed to pressing photos of relatives and friends under the glass table, and the photo of the colored sleeve has been pressed under the glass table of my chest of drawers, usually in that position is a bottle of plastic flowers, the bottle of plastic flowers covered with colored sleeves all year round, like covering a piece of privacy, can not be discarded, and does not want to be exposed. We have our ordinary and tedious daily life, who would think of a country girl from Guzhuang for no reason? We almost forgot about our colored sleeves. Until I moved that year, when my sister and I cleaned the photo under the glass bench, we suddenly saw the photo of the colored sleeve, and for a moment I couldn't remember who the person in the photo was, I tried to remove the photo stuck to the glass, who is it, the face is so familiar? My sister suddenly exclaimed, it's a colored sleeve, why is her picture still under this?

So I also thought of the colored sleeves, for some reason, when I thought of the colored sleeves, I thought of Tseng, when I was a child, I didn't like to eat Tseng, but I love to eat Tsai roast meat, now people are middle-aged, I don't eat Tsi Ling, Tsi Ling Roast Meat does not eat anymore.

(Zhongshan, Issue 4, 2007)