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Vernacular Prose: Two Occasional Questions in the Countryside

author:Yi Cong named the local literature society
Vernacular Prose: Two Occasional Questions in the Countryside

Text: Huang Heqing

  Sixth aunt

  The sixth aunt got married when she was 14 years old. The husband is the man on the team and cooks a good dish. On the day of the wedding, her husband made a wish: in the future, he would let the sixth aunt eat the delicacies, wine and delicacies of the world. At that time, her husband's family could not afford to eat good food. Three days after the marriage, her husband left, leaving her with a mother-in-law in her seventies. Later, the mother-in-law died. She sent a letter to her husband, but did not hear back. She buried her mother-in-law. The sixth aunt kept filial piety for her mother-in-law for three years, but still didn't hear back from her husband, so she married the sixth uncle. She gave birth to two boys and two girls for her sixth uncle. Decades later, the two sons and two daughters had separate families and children. The sixth aunt and the sixth uncle worked together in a small vegetable garden, and the life was peaceful and leisurely.

  It's just that the wish made by her ex-husband has never been returned.

  In the twentieth month of the twelfth year of his life, a descendant came to visit the sixth aunt in a suit and leather shoes, saying that the ex-husband of the sixth aunt had returned from Taiwan. After her ex-husband and her newlywed, she went to Taiwan the next year. Later, my ex-husband stopped working in the team and opened a small restaurant on his own, which ran miserably for decades. Lee Teng-hui was allowed to visit his relatives, and he returned. Hou Sheng also said: "Your ex-husband said that the 26th day of the lunar month is the 41st anniversary of your marriage. It's been forty-one years, and he wants to see you. As she spoke, the sixth aunt cried "wow" and fainted.

  When the sixth aunt woke up, she gathered the whole family together and told her about it. The children naturally passed unanimously, but the sixth uncle was silent in the corner. The sixth aunt wiped away her tears and said, "If you don't allow me to see him, I won't see him." The sixth uncle said, "I, I didn't say no." ”

  So, the sixth aunt went to see her ex-husband.

  The place where I met my ex-husband was the county hotel, and the date was, of course, the 26th of the lunar month. No one knows the details of the meeting, but the sixth aunt has contracted a strange illness since she returned that day. At the onset of the disease, he danced and talked nonsense, as if he was obsessed. The sixth aunt will become another sixth aunt.

  So there are rumors: it is said that the sixth aunt and her ex-husband ate more than 2,000 yuan in one meal, which is enough to buy two high-quality Nanyang cattle; some people say that the person gave the sixth aunt 100,000 US dollars, a lot of gold and silver jewelry, enough for the sixth aunt to spend several lifetimes; some people even say that if the sixth aunt and the sixth uncle divorce, they can go to Taiwan with that person to live a good life; some people say that the sixth aunt took her ex-husband to sweep the grave of her mother-in-law that day, and the soul of the sixth aunt's mother-in-law was attached to the body of the sixth aunt, and the sixth aunt reprimanded the ex-husband fiercely in the tone of her ex-husband's mother, which is cloudy and unverifiable。 It's just that Aunt Liu's illness is real.

  If you are sick, you need medical treatment. The sixth uncle took the sixth aunt to a clinic. The sixth aunt said to the doctor: "I always feel that there is someone running around on my body, on my legs for a while, on my waist for a while, it hurts wherever I go, and it hurts to the heart, and it is said that I have fallen into evil." The doctor asked why, pondered for a moment, and said, "I have a wicked man here." You take it, and you hit it wherever you go. According to this rule of law, it really worked, but within three days, the condition was still the same.

  So I went to the doctor again. The doctor said, "Lie down." Needle prick!" the sixth aunt lay down. The doctor the needle. Tied and tied, a puff of white smoke suddenly came out with a "plop". Frightened, the sixth aunt sat up and was shocked. But the doctor said slowly, "It's gone, the man is gone." Looking at Aunt Liu, she described herself as a normal person immediately, took a moment's rest, and said goodbye to the doctor respectfully.

  I was friends with the doctor, and when I asked about the evil basions and the white smoke, the doctor smiled and replied, "The evil batons are made of a chopstick wrapped in gauze, and the white smoke is a piece of gunpowder taken from the cannonball, and when she the needle, she ignishes it when she is not looking." It's just a matter of getting rid of the heart disease. ”

  Soon, Aunt Liu's ex-husband returned to Taiwan. No one dared to verify those rumors in front of the sixth aunt. After Aunt Liu's illness recovered, she still cultivated the small vegetable garden with Uncle Liu, but since then, Aunt Liu's eyes have a little more melancholy and a little more gloom. Life can no longer be peaceful, and it can no longer be leisurely.

Dog leftovers

  In the old days, Chen's family entered three courtyards: one was for servants and long-term workers, two for his sons and daughters, and three for Chen's four wives. Chen Caizhu died in 1946, reportedly in the house of his fourth wife. Later, the land reform, and the fourth wife's house was divided into the dog's leftover father. Dog's leftover father died in 1960. So the house was left by the dogs. The dog was only eight years old that year, and he had listened to the elders before.

  At the age of eighteen, he became a militia platoon commander, a militia company commander at the age of nineteen, and a militia battalion commander at the age of twenty. A few years ago, there was a subsidy for work in the village, and when the army was conscripted every year, the dog leftovers could receive some gifts, so the dog leftovers never did farm work, carrying a shotgun to fight rabbits, throwing a detonator to blow up fish, and life was also delicious.

  Later, the dog was no longer the battalion commander, and like the villagers, he was given a few acres of land and relied on labor to eat. It's just that the dog is really not interested in farming, so there is not a lot of food growing in that land, so that the dog will not starve to death, and he will not be able to hold on, and so the dog is still a single person in his nearly forty years. Seeing that the villagers had built new houses, the villagers who had originally shared the rich man's house moved out one after another. The dog is still living in the fourth wife's house. Except for the fourth wife's house, Chen's house was already in ruins, and it was desolate.

  However, this year's rain is particularly diligent, from the white dew to the autumn equinox, and there is no sign of rain. The dog's remaining house could not withstand the rainwater and was in danger. It is also a dog with a big life, and that night he got up to relieve himself, and when he was spreading freely, he suddenly heard a creaking sound, so he didn't care about finishing it, and "swished" into the bottom of the bed, leaned slightly, and the east partition wall fell to the ground leisurely.

  Unexpectedly, the collapse of the east partition wall poured out four cans of silver and two cans of gold bars for the dog. Dog Yu was naturally overjoyed, and after being overjoyed, he decided to demolish the house overnight. The villagers are never allowed to come close to the house. Three days later, the house was demolished. It's a pity that apart from the four cans of ingots and two cans of gold bars, there are no other valuable objects.

  Later, the dog left to go to Guangzhou. After returning, it was just in time for Murakami to contract an orchard. The dog didn't say a word, and wrapped it up. Naturally, no one dared to surpass that bid. Regarding the outbreak of dog leftovers, the people of Murakami were really confused for a while.

Later, Gou Yu built a very luxurious building, and after building the building, he married his daughter-in-law, but he left not long after. Divorce and remarry, marry and divorce. In less than two years, Gou Yu married four wives. At present, the one who has been left with the dog is a "southern barbarian", who looks very charming, and the people in the village secretly call her "Fourth Aunt". There are often young people in strange costumes entering and exiting the dog's house, and a "rental" will be parked at the door every three or five days, adding a bit of majesty and mystery to the small building where the dog is left. The villagers were puzzled, but they were still puzzled after all.

  The dog died in the grave of the rich man Chen. That night, people suddenly heard a dull sound, followed by the pig-like howl of the "fourth aunt". When the people in the village heard the sound, they rushed to see that the dogs in the tomb had become a pile of meat scraps. An elder asked the "fourth aunt", and the "fourth aunt" replied: "I won't let him dig it, the tomb is made of stones, he just didn't listen, he found a detonator, and before it was blown up, he blew him up." "Why did you blow up the tomb?" and the "fourth aunt" told the origin of the four cans. Unexpectedly, it made people jaw-dropping, and they were surprised one after another. After being surprised, several men rushed to the tomb like hungry tigers, and dug up to the bottom in a moment. It's just that in addition to a few white bones, what is left in the tomb of Rich Chen is rubble and wet soil.

  Then the people shook their heads and exhaled a deep sigh.

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