I don't know how long I ran, I was thirsty, tired and cold, I really couldn't run, I dragged my heavy legs, climbed a sand dune, looked around, it turned out that a hundred meters to the west, there was a cement road. I took a sip of the water I had brought with me, and with all my might, I finally came to the highway, and after waiting for a long time, I didn't see a person and a car. The temperature was lower, I didn't even dare to breathe, my mouth and throat and nasal cavity were like a knife, alas, stay up for a while, get through this for a while, wait a little longer, maybe the sky will be bright, the day will be dawn, I will not be able to die; As for me, maybe I'm dead or maybe I'm alive, it's not important, I'm really tired, I just want to lie down and sleep well......
When I heard someone chanting in my ear, I opened my eyes and saw a blue-striped plastic ceiling covered with brown mold. A woman, about forty years of age, sat across from me and nodded three times before she said, "Are you hungry, what kind of tea do you want to drink?" "When I heard this, I pondered the logic of this, if I was hungry, shouldn't I ask me what to eat? Could it be that she said fried rice tea that can fill your stomach? I don't eat fried rice tea, it's too sweet. The woman repeated the same question twice, and I replied, "I just want to drink porridge and pickles." ”
She said, "You say it louder. ”
I asked, "Do you have porridge here?" If you don't have porridge, green vegetable noodle soup will do. ”
She said, "No, it's different. ”
I wondered, "What's the difference?" ”
At this time, a middle-aged man came in and called the woman "cousin". He told me that his cousin was different from others, and that he had a soft spot for the number "three" and that if he wanted her, he would have to say it three times. He pointed to the head of the bed, you see, this narrow bed, she must put three pillows; This room is not big, and she must have three beds. I asked him if he lived here too, and he said no; I asked him if his cousin usually lives here alone, and he said yes. I asked him, "Does your cousin sleep in three beds in wheels?" The man laughed a few times and responded to me: "She only sleeps in one bed, and the other two beds are for her cat and dog." ”
As he spoke, he walked over and lifted my quilt, and at my feet there were three boxes woven of stiff wool, each with a cat asleep. I jumped out of bed and lifted the quilt on the bed next to me, and sure enough, there were three dogs sleeping. The woman came in with a wooden tray with three bowls of porridge and three dishes on it, and I laughed and said, "Why, you're not hungry anymore, are we going to eat these together?" Although the number of bowls is sufficient, the amount in them is less. The man replied: "We have eaten it earlier, and these are for you to eat." I glanced at the woman and blurted out, "'Three' is a good number." ”
The man said, "Isn't that a good number?" Then again, did it save your life? ”
I didn't understand and asked, "Which does 'it' mean?" Is it 'three'? ”
"Who else but 'three'?"
I was even more confused and asked, "Didn't you save me?" ”
The man said: "My cousin has always been pure and cold-hearted, and she doesn't like to meddle with other people's affairs. Early this morning, I drove her to visit my cousin-in-law's grave, and when you fainted in the middle of the road, she would have asked me to bypass you, but this time she asked me to stop and save you...... You know what the oddity of this is? ”
I shook my head, and now I hate him, annoying him for talking so verbosely that he can't get to the point for a long time. He cleared his throat, glanced at his cousin, then turned to look at me, and said with a smile: "Because at that time, you were curled up all over, and that shape happened to be just three characters of Arabic numerals, and besides, you had half a fist in each hand, and each half fist stretched out three fingers." ”
I smiled dumbly, and subconsciously nodded to their cousins three times, thanked them three times, and then sat down to drink porridge.
It is said that when Yu Shengxiang was just born, her whole face was purple and swollen, and she couldn't cry, and the doctor who delivered the baby behaved fiercely and acted directly, she saw that the situation was critical, and fished out the newborn baby, regardless of whether the umbilical cord was cut or not, and patted her chest three times, and the baby spit out a finger-sized transparent gelatin, and then cried with a "wow" sound. When her grandfather learned about this, he named his first granddaughter Yu Sanxiang, and when she was older, her grandfather passed away, and her father thought that it was inappropriate for a girl to be called that name, so he changed her name to Yu Shengxiang.
Surrounded by the Yinyue Desert, the water is originally scarce, but the people here believe in "self-reliance, abundant food and clothing", they dig deep wells everywhere, for convenience, directly build a house on the well, the locals call this kind of house Jingtang House, and Yushengxiang grew up in such a Jingtang House. A Jingtang house generally lives in three or four families, most of them are distant or close relatives will live in one place, but there are exceptions, for example, the Jingtang house where Yushengxiang's family lives is relatively small, there are two families, Yushengxiang's family is a foreign move-in, because his father did decoration, through the introduction of people, came to Yinyue to find a job to do, they lived in the Jingtang house is rented, a life is decades, and it has taken root.
When Yu Shengxiang was born, her mother was weak and lacked milk, so she was fed camel milk. Camel milk should be stewed with water before feeding to the baby, but Yu Shengxiang her mother Wu Pingcao is troublesome, and does not take other people's advice seriously, she is directly fed raw camel milk, after eating like this for a few months, the baby's whole face is so swollen that it is as high as an adult's half-knuckle fingertips, and her eyes can't be opened. Later, Qiu's second sister-in-law, who lived in the same well hall house with them, offered a sea party: take the old rapeseed seeds for more than three years to squeeze the oil, after squeezing it, take out a small half, deepen the well water and ginger sugar crushed and cook together until the fragrance comes out, and then put it in a clay pot to cool off; Rub the squeezed oil externally, and use the boiled oil for internal serving.
Yu Shengxiang's face was really cured with this earthwork, his face was swollen, and his eyes were opened. Qiu's second sister-in-law has a son named Qiu Jinluo, who is just able to walk on the ground. Every time Yu Shengxiang sleeps, the little boy Qiu Luoyun likes to come to her and smell it, saying that she is fragrant. Qiu's second sister-in-law asked him, "Is it fragrant?" What kind of incense is it? The little boy replied, "It's the fragrance of flowers." Wu Pingcao asked him again: "What kind of flower is fragrant?" The little boy said, "It's candy." His mother asked him again, "Do you like more flowers or more sugar?" The little boy pointed to the baby girl on the bed and said, "I like her." The two adults laughed and said, "Then let her grow up and marry you, okay?" Although it was just a joke, they said it smoothly, and over time, it became a tacit verbal contract between the two families.
Yu Shengxiang just arrived at the age of learning to speak in the ground, she was still called Yu Sanxiang at that time, and learned the origin of her name from the relatives around her, and then became more and more sensible, although she hated her "Yu Sanxiang" name, but also worshiped the word "three", the original reason for the inconvenience of further study, only the word "weird" can explain one or two.
The water in the well in the well hall house is getting less and less, the water level is going down more and more, people cut down the long bamboo that is trimmed and thin, and the branches of the whole body of the bamboo pole are split, leaving only two or three branch hooks at the top, when lifting water, hang the lifting ring on the bucket on the bamboo pole branch hook, throw it down, and then go up to the area, and carry a bucket of water full, which is also convenient.
To be continued, one update the next day......
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