Wang Chongfu
I don't want to doze off in class, especially in Mr. Liu's class, but I am still so tired that I fell asleep at my desk. When the bell rings, I feel like lying on a pile of hay, so comfortable that I don't want to get up]
I dreamed of a big snakehead. I grabbed it and pulled it to the shore. The sunshine in early summer is green and warm, which makes the soil on the shore green. I walked barefoot in the dark green mud waves, as if I had stepped into a cotton pile and couldn't walk any further. Looking back, the snakehead disappeared, and I dragged a dead pig as big as a boat.
Someone called my name. This is a strong baritone.
Teacher Liu's voice is always so beautiful.
I struggled to surface like a snake head before I realized that I had changed the world. The classroom was empty, and the students all went out to do exercises. A beautiful running script was left on the blackboard, written by Teacher Liu. Teacher Liu's handwriting is as handsome as his people. The overture of broadcast gymnastics came from the loudspeaker on the playground.
I'm still thinking about the snakehead. It was the snakehead that bit my hook. I also saw it emerge from the water, revealing its dark green back and shining in the cold sun. Why did you suddenly become a dead pig?
The old lady next door said that the bone stewed by the female snakehead can cure your mother's illness after drinking it for 7 days.
Gaopo said that the earthwork is very effective!
Gao Po also said that your mother just moved the aura of her ancestors, and they killed her soul. Black fish bone soup resurrected.
So I really hope to catch a snakehead. However, snakeheads are rare and can only be caught when they travel with snakehead dolls shortly after spawning. But now the season for snakehead spawning has passed.
Cure my mother's illness, and life will be different, just like before.
After breakfast, I put my schoolbag on my back and went to school against the rising sun. Come back at noon and go again in the afternoon. In the evening, my mother sat on the threshold of the gate, waiting for me to come back while choosing vegetables. I appeared on the winding path extending from the gate carrying my schoolbag. The setting sun is vast, but I feel as fresh as the morning sun. My mother called my name from a distance. I answered happily, ran to the gate in one breath, and looked at my mother who was choosing food on the threshold with a silly smile.
Mom looks good. Mom looks better when she chooses vegetables. She always sits sideways on the threshold, hands hanging from her left knee, peeling beans quickly, or tearing leaves and pinching stalks. The exuding vegetable juice tastes fresh, mellow and fragrant. This always reminds me of Miss Liu. Teacher Liu is an enthusiastic person, and he always gets chalk dust in class. Recently he began to cough, which was caused by inhaling too much chalk powder. If only he had come to choose vegetables and inhaled the smell of fresh leaves!
Wipe your face and choose vegetables.
Hmm.
At that time, there were many dishes to choose from at home. One is dinner. Second, mom will pick it out and sell it early the next morning. Only by choosing the right food can you be sought after. Mom said that if the dishes are well chosen, even your teacher Liu will buy them. However, your teacher Liu is also very poor. A big man always buys food, like a little wife. Well, he's not married, is he? The third is to choose leftover broken leaves and rotten stems and make them into pig food by the way. I have a sow at home, and my appetite is amazing. Every day, she fills a basket of vegetables.
Those dishes are all grown by my mother. When my mother was still healthy, the vegetable field under the doorway was green, full of golden flowers and full of fragrance. The fragrance is also planted by my mother. Mother sprinkled rape flowers with sweat, and the fragrance grew out of the soil and continued. The fragrance attracted bees and butterflies, and even birds came to catch up with the trip, flying up and down like bright stars. The stars shine, and the stars are planted by mother.
When the stars are scattered in the sky, the dishes have been selected and divided into three baskets.
The big basket was sold the next day, and the leaves were fat and big, dripping with water and threatening.
The small basket is reserved for sows.
The vegetables in the small basket are cooked and served. The leaves are obviously smaller and older, and they are rarely sold, so I keep them for myself. Mom looks good when she eats. She always sits sideways on a bamboo stool, with her left hand hanging down and her right hand holding food for herself and me. She chewed the food well and watched her mother chew it well. I buried my head and hummed and chewed loudly.
One day my mother put down her chopsticks and watched me eat. She suddenly said that she would fry the vegetables in the big basket tomorrow. As soon as I was happy, I immediately straightened my neck from the dinner table, but I said, mom, I like to eat food in a small basket. I'd better copy it from a small basket! I washed dishes that day. I finished my meal quickly and then went to do my homework. I've never done this before. I used to hesitate to eat, afraid to eat Mi Chong and sand, but I always ate. You will vomit when you eat, but rinse your mouth. So eat slowly, slower than mom. Mother eats slowly because she thinks while eating. I don't know what my mother is thinking, maybe it's because I miss my father and the food in the field, or maybe Miss Liu will buy food the next day.
Thinking makes mom look good. When eating, she thought, this looks good; I also want to choose vegetables, which is also very beautiful.
On that day, my mother finished eating and my homework was finished. I opened my cuffs to wash the dishes, and my mother said, go and do your homework! I said, there is very little homework, and I have already finished two. It turned out that I washed the dishes. I started washing dishes and my mother went out. Mom still goes to Gaopo's house next door.
When mom went out, she said, Xiu Xiu, you've grown up. That's in my mind. I like growing up, and I am eager to grow up. Choosing vegetables and washing dishes proves that I have grown up. When I grow up, I will look good, just like my mother, leaning sideways and hanging my hands. When I grow up, I can help my mother do more things and talk freely with Miss Liu. Teacher Liu always said that I didn't grow up. He said that your mother will be fine when you grow up. I wish he had heard his mother say that. But he can't hear you. At this time, he is squatting under the lamp to correct our homework!
Mom went out and said that I had grown up. I was so happy that I couldn't help looking at my mother. Mom's legs are slender and her waist is thin, which makes her look good even when she walks. What was Mom thinking when she walked?
I washed the dishes for the first time, and it was very clean. The key is that there is no oil on the bowl, which is easy to wash. Mrs. Gao's bowl is not easy to wash. Mom says her bowl is as greasy as people. Mrs. Gao's family kills pigs and eats pork every meal. As soon as they get fat, everyone in the family gets fat. Mom goes to Gaos to wash dishes and clothes, and goes for a while every day. Doing these jobs is rewarding. Gao Po's son, Gao Zhuang's father Gao Butcher, gives his mother some money every month. Mother put the money in a jar with a green pattern. I asked my mother why she saved money, and she said she had saved enough for you to go to college! I said, does it cost a lot to go to college? Mom said yes, the money saved is far from enough! I said it would cost so much to go to college, so I stopped studying. Mom said, if you want to study, study, go to college and fly out of golden phoenix in the mountain nest, then I will be the mother of Phoenix. Laugh when you say it. Mom smiles beautifully. Should mom be worried when she smiles?
Mom works part-time in Gao Zhuangjia, and Gao Zhuang is in my class. He always said that my mother was a "long-term worker" in front of many classmates. At first, I argued with him that it was "hourly workers" rather than "long-term workers", and labor was glorious. He actually said that he was washing dishes and washing clothes for his family anyway; It's weird, too Labor is glorious, please do my homework for me! The students burst out laughing.
Gao Zhuang is good at booing, and there have been some booing voices in school. His mind is not at all on his lessons, so his lessons are very poor. He often "hires" his classmates to help him with his homework, and each topic costs fifty cents. You want to hire me, as if you were rich. I won't buy his account! Isn't it just a little smelly money? Who knows that his family always kills sick pigs and dead pigs, and I don't know how many people are trapped!
Next door is gaos thought, and the slaughterhouse is in gaos thought's yard. There is a terrible smell in the yard of Gaos' home, fishy, smelly and greasy. That time I went to Gao's yard to find my mother, and the sow was eating. It was dark outside, and the gaos thought courtyard was brightly lit and steaming. A big pig was hung from a tree, and the high butcher cut it open with a knife. The pig was washed clean, and as soon as he entered the gaos yard, he saw a white strip. Mother sat on the threshold of his house to wash clothes, leaning sideways, her hands hanging from her left knee, and the rubbing action made her hair tremble like gossamer. Gao Po sat on a bamboo stool and talked to her mother while watching Gao Sha Pig.
Gao po said, how difficult it is to be alone. It's decent to live with Gao Zhuang's father.
Mom said, no, no, I can't get along with Gao Zhuang's father, and Xiu Xiu is not small.
Gaopo looked at her mother and then at Gaozhuang's father. The pig hanging from the branch with its cavity open seems to be shaking.
Mother rubbed her clothes hard for a while, and soap bubbles jumped up on the ground next to her and broke. She said, is the sewer changed to a back door?
The blood from Gaojiayuan Slaughterhouse dripped all the way along the drainage ditch into the vegetable field under the ridge. Green vegetable fields become dirty, and the unpleasant smell attracts green flies and haunts them. My pigsty is in the sewer.
Gaopo didn't even blink. She said, no, no,no. It's terrible to move!
Seeing me coming, they stopped talking. Mother knew that You Zhu was having dinner, so we walked out of Gaos' yard together. When I walked out of Gaos Courtyard, I saw Gaopo curled his mouth.
Mom went back to feed the pigs. Mother washed her hands and feet before feeding the pigs, she said, so that she wouldn't infect her pigs with Gaojiayuan's disease. Pig food is ready. The fire is on, one pot cooks rice and the other pot cooks pig food. As soon as the rice is cooked, the pig food is almost ready. Pig food is the dish in that small basket, mixed with bran and polished rice. Sows love to eat arches, and a large pot of pig food is gone. Every time I feed, my mother always squats by the pig trough, scatters a handful of ingredients, mixes the food, and looks at the pig talking and thinking.
Sows sleep when they are full, and their bellies get bigger every day. Mom said that when those babies are born, you don't have to worry about tuition. I remember that all my tuition fees were paid after the pig was born. My tuition is in the pig's stomach, so my mother treats the pig very precious and greets it well.
Sows don't sleep in pigsty, just like a family, they sleep in a wing, which is only one hall from our bed. The wing was empty, and it was useless to be empty, so my mother moved the pig from the pigsty to the wing. She said that the pigsty is in the drainage ditch, and the ditch is full of the blood of sick pigs, so it is not easy to transmit the disease to sows.
But pigs are pigs after all. I saw with my own eyes piles of piglets, rolling and arching outside the shed in the wing, growing up slowly and selling them to others when they grow up. Pigs are good at arching. Every little pig has to arch several pits and spread hot manure before leaving his mother. So although my mother and I often clean the wing, it is always dirty, messy and sour; There are also many fleas. Climb across the room and onto our bed. My mother and I were bitten when we slept at night, and our underwear was covered with blood stars. Mom said that when the drainage ditch is diverted, the sows will be driven into the pigsty.
But before the sow entered the pigsty, her mother changed. No vegetables, no vegetables, no pigs. She's crazy. It was time to feed the pigs that day. Gaopo carried her mother into the house, and her mother seemed to be asleep.
Gaopo said that your mother was ill.
Gao Po said that the soup of mullet bone can cure your mother's illness after drinking for 7 days.
Gaopo said that the earthwork is very effective!
Gao Po also said that your mother just moved the aura of her ancestors, and they killed her soul. Black fish bone soup resurrected.
Mom slept for a long time before she woke up. The first thing mom said when she woke up was: Hey, who are you? Why not get married at this age? Her eyes are dull and loose. I didn't know what was going on, so I ran to the next door and asked Gao Po. The door was unlocked, and the high butcher and the high woman chattered endlessly. They were taken aback when I opened the door. I asked Gao Po, why is my mother so ill? Gao Po said that your mother lifted the shrine of my Gaos family and touched the souls of our ancestors. I ran home again, and my mother sang in public. I don't know what song it is, but it's always the same sentence:
Green watermelon, green watermelon, shines on my heart.
After singing the song, she slept in a bed full of fleas. She sleeps with her eyes open. Tired of sleeping, get up and sit on the threshold and curse. I don't know who to scold, but I scold one sentence in the east and one sentence in the west, one sentence in the left and one sentence in the right, and sometimes I chop it with a chopping board kitchen knife.
The news that mom was crazy soon spread, people gathered and left with a sigh. When they left, they couldn't help but look at me and pretend as if nothing had happened.
I can't stand those eyes. There is a trace of despair in those eyes. I'm sure mom won't always be like this. She will get better gradually. She doesn't feed pigs, I feed pigs. When the baby is born, the baby grows up, sells it, buys black fish stew, or goes to a big hospital, I can cure my mother's illness. But the vegetables in the field were almost finished soon, so I picked the leaves (a kind of leaf with broken petiole and thick juice). Pig food cooked with leaves is loved by sows, which my mother told me when she was healthy. Mom said that sows with calves should be nursed, and the leaves should be breastfed.
I carried a snakeskin bag to pick the buckle leaves early in the morning. Buckleaf trees can be seen everywhere, but you have to pick several bags every day, so you have to go to many places. I can't believe I picked it up behind the school. There are several bougainvillea trees behind the school, and Miss Liu's dormitory is hidden among them. I once saw Mr. Liu's open window and the pull-back sneakers hanging on it. Teacher Liu always wears those shoes to shoot in the sunset, and basketball is as magnificent as the sunset in his hands.
Picking leaves makes me get up early, lack sleep and doze off in class. It was Miss Liu who woke me up just now.
Teacher Liu is on my right. Here he comes. I saw a pen hanging in his right breast pocket. Pockets are beige, shirts are beige, pens are green, conspicuous and beautiful.
This is what Teacher Liu always wears. I wonder if Mr. Liu has two sets of beige clothes or never washes them. I think Miss Liu probably needs a woman.
Teacher Liu said: Did you get up early to pick the buckle leaves again?
Hmm. I agreed, but I thought to myself, how did the teacher know that I had picked the buckle leaf? Did he see me pick the buckled leaves?
Is your mother better? Teacher Liu patted the chalk powder on her body and coughed violently again. Mom sells vegetables when she is in good health, and Teacher Liu often patronizes food stalls in the afternoon when business is light.
She sat on the threshold and started cursing again today. I stood up and looked out the window. My classmates are doing jumping exercises in broadcast gymnastics. I saw Gao Zhuang deliberately kicking the short man next to him when he was kicking. The short man staggered, but still insisted on doing exercises.
She will get better gradually. Teacher Liu said she wouldn't be like this forever. What Mr. Liu said was exactly what I thought, which made me very happy. With that, he walked out of the classroom. He suddenly stopped at the door, turned around and said as if he had forgotten something, the director wants to see you.
The broadcast gymnastics has ended, and students have poured into the corridors and classrooms. A fat man is always the trend, just like his clothes.
I struggled against the trend and walked to the director's office. Although I tried to avoid it, I bumped into some malicious shoulders and hands with ulterior motives-I also bumped into Gao Zhuang's hand, which seemed to be particularly long. He gave me a note. The note was greasy and wrinkled, as if it had been in my hand for a long time.
Tall and strong characters are big and thick, crooked, like dangerous houses after the earthquake: see you under the tree behind the school after school.
Are those trees with crooked leaves? I picked the buckle leaf there and saw Mr. Liu's white pull-back sneakers. But what's important to say? I crumpled up the note and gently threw it out. I feel like shooting, so I want to whistle, just like Teacher Liu whistling when shooting. Gaozhuang also plays basketball. He has been chewing gum while playing basketball. I don't know where he learned it. He said it was a trend. So is it a trend to take notes for girls?
I pushed open the door and walked into the office. I can't remember how many times I walked into the academic affairs office. Almost everything in the room is familiar: sofa or sofa, teacup or teacup, and the dust on the windowsill is still there. Newspapers are always yesterday.
The academic director hides his upper body behind an open newspaper and his lower body is stuck in the sofa. I can only nod to his naked sow's belly and report, chief, I'm coming.
The newspaper in the director's hand showed a decline and glanced at me slightly. I am here. Why did you come here? Do you understand if you don't say it this time? Your tuition, he just ate a meal, and immediately threw out the number that kept pestering me-200 yuan! When are you going to pay it off?
When the sow was born ... I didn't dare to look at the director's face when I answered. I just turned my eyes to his finger on the coffee table, sharp and thin, which is the hand that grabs money.
I understand, I understand! The director nodded heavily. Although you have some difficulties at home, you can borrow it! Why do you always wait until the pig gives birth ... I don't know what's wrong with your parents!
The director waited patiently for my answer.
I just stood indifferent. The sunshine in early summer was dazzling white, but I still looked out of the window. The dusty sunshine drifted faintly across the playground, and a row of bougainvillea trees stood upright against the blue-gray stone wall. The bell rang in a hurry and a button leaf moved at that time.
Time passed in a suffocating silence, and the director's patient smile disappeared. He finally got angry:
Don't come tomorrow without paying!
I didn't go to class this afternoon. I still can't afford the tuition. Borrow it from the old lady next door? Her family is rich, but they value money very much. Mother borrowed money from her to buy rapeseed, and she pushed it away with a pout. Mom didn't curse when she woke up. She washed her face with a washbasin and then combed her hair. Xiu Xiu-She called my name, and Miss Liu came. I want to dress decently. Then he sang: "Green watermelon, green watermelon, shine on my heart." When you sing, your eyes are still dull and scattered. I shook my head helplessly. When will she get better?
Mom will be fine.
Teacher Liu really came. When Mr. Liu came, the sunset was close to the ridge in the west. Mother sang her "Green Watermelon" in a deep voice, and I cooked porridge on the stove. On the thin rice soup, there are chopped leaves floating, light green and steaming. The fire in the kitchen hall was so big that the blackened wall burned red. I added a handful of firewood to it and went to the wing to feed the pigs, so I met Teacher Liu. Teacher Liu talked to her mother, and her mother answered irrelevant questions.
Mom said, gee, what a big man.
Mother stopped singing when she saw me talking to Miss Liu. She stood up from the threshold, leaned in and said to Miss Liu that Xiu Xiu should have married a long time ago. You should marry her tonight, huh? You make my face burn. Teacher Liu said that she was really ill. He said, I have paid your tuition and will go to school tomorrow, huh? Let me know if you have any difficulties.
Tears welled up in my eyes and slid down my chin. In the dim eyes of tears, I saw black spots on Mr. Liu's pen pocket. Why doesn't he buy himself more clothes? Mom suddenly said, don't thank me yet ... At that time, I thought she was suddenly better, but her eyes were still scattered. I'm going to feed the pigs ... she said, stumbling towards the wing, getting a lot older, knocking over the washbasin on the bamboo stool and splashing the washing water all over the floor. She didn't pick it up, but went straight into the wing. The sow is barking! Probably knocked over the pig trough, and the pig food was below.
Mother went into the wing to feed the pigs, and I was chatting with Teacher Liu in the main room. It was getting dark, and a greasy face flashed by the door. It is tall and strong. One foot of Gaozhuang reached into the door, and the other foot was still outside the threshold. He saw Mr. Liu's tall figure, and the expression on his face was a little strange because of surprise. It was at that time that we smelled a strong smell of pesticides. Teacher Liu and I immediately ran into the wing. The sow is lying on the ground, and her long nose is covered with foam. And my crazy mother a face of indifference, clap your hands and sing:
"Green watermelon, green watermelon, shine on my heart."
On the ground behind her, there was a pesticide bottle with a rotten label, and the rubber plug was thrown away by her. Pesticide was bought by my mother when she was healthy, and it was specially used to kill bugs in vegetable fields. Ben put it on the windowsill of the wing, but she is a madman who feeds pigs.
Gao Zhuang finally stretched his other leg forward and followed us into the wing. His greasy face turned pale in the dim light, and he soon understood what was going on. He said:
Drag it to my house and kill it, and the mother pork can still fetch a good price. The suckling pig in the pig's belly is still a first-class dish, which is very expensive!
Teacher Liu pondered for a long time, and the choking smell of pesticides made him cough violently. Female pork ... is poisonous, so eating it ... is not allowed ... he said.
Sows lie prone on the ground, their long noses keep arching around, and the ground is full of tide insects. The pig twitched in the abdomen and stopped moving.
I looked at my mother who clapped her hands and sang, and at the dead pigs and bulging pig bellies on the ground, and my heart trembled; But I still calmly said that it was just burying it, and we don't want heartless money.
I don't know why I am so calm. Think about it, maybe it has something to do with teacher Liu standing next to me.
As night fell, Mr. Liu and I dragged the dead pig together, like dragging a boat stranded in mud. The slope was dragged under the ridge of the field, that is, the abandoned corner of the vegetable field, buried the sow, buried my mother's hope of recovery, and buried my tuition.
Gao Zhuang has been following us, and he wants to step in and help. I won't, I said. Your hands are dirty. I put my despair, through my mouth, in a tall, strong and red face. Gao Zhuang looked at his hands sadly. Although there was nothing in his hand, he still saw a full face of shame.
There are already stars in the sky, and the stars are shining. Are the stars planted by mother? At this time, my mother was still sitting on the threshold, singing "green watermelon, green watermelon, shine on my heart."
She sang and sang, and the evening breeze blew in waves.
Teacher Liu and I walked back. Under the cold, the pen on Mr. Liu's chest shook violently, and he began to cough extremely violently again. Gao Zhuang stopped us at this time, and he said:
I need to say something to you. I wanted to tell Xiu Xiu at noon today and gave her a note. ...
Gaozhuang's eyes are full of stars, so they are very bright. He is also very excited. I have never seen him so excited about fighting with others before. I'm a little regretful that my words and deeds were too rash.
Xiu Xiu, do you know why your mother is like this? It's my dad. Your mother was washing clothes that day, and my father went to hug your mother's waist. Your mother bit my father, and my father was covered in hair. I kicked your mother to the ground and didn't know what the key was, so your mother fainted.
Tall and thick chest falling together, he said, Mr. Liu, go and sue my dad! He also killed many sick pigs and dead pigs ... I can also be a witness.
Gao Zhuang's greasy face became vivid. He said, Xiu Xiu, you must cure your mother. ...
Then he looked at his mother sitting on the threshold. Mother slapped and sang, and the slap hung down from her left knee:
"Green watermelon, green watermelon, shine on my heart."
She sang and sang, and the evening breeze blew in waves.
Children's Literature, No.7, 2000