Because it is the end of winter; As we approached our hometown, the weather was gloomy again, and the cold wind blew into the cabin, purring,
Looking out from the gap, there are several desolate villages in the yellow world, far and near, lifeless. my
I can't help feeling sad inside. Ah! Isn't this my hometown that I have been remembering for twenty years?
None of my hometown in memory is like this. My hometown is much better. But let me remember his beauty and tell him.
Beauty comes, but there is no image, no words. That seems to be it. So I explained to myself: hometown
The same is true-although there is no progress, it may not be as sad as I feel. This is just a change in my own mood.
I just changed, because I was not in a good mood when I went back to my hometown this time.
I came here to see him. The old house where we have lived together for many years has been sold to another surname.
The deadline for handing over the house is only this year, so we must bid farewell to the familiar old house before the first day of the first month, and it is still far away.
I left my familiar hometown and moved to another place where I looked for food.
Arrived at my door the next morning. When the wind is shaking, many broken stalks of hay on the corrugated board are talking.
Understand the reason why this old house will inevitably change owners. The family in several rooms probably moved away, so it was quiet. I went to my house.
Outside my house, my mother already greeted me, and then flew out of my eight-year-old nephew Honger.
My mother is very happy, but she also hides a lot of sad expressions. She taught me to sit down and have a cup of tea, not to say these things.
About moving. Macro son didn't see me, standing on the opposite side at a distance just watching.
But we finally talked about moving. I said that the apartment outside has been rented out, and I bought some furniture. this
You must sell all the wood at home outside and add it. Mom also said yes, and the luggage has been collected almost, wood
Less than half of the inconvenient ones are sold, that is, there is no money.
"Please take a day or two off to see your relatives and family, and then we can go." Mom said.
"yes."
"There will be leap soil. Every time he comes to my house, he always asks about you and wants to see you. I took you home.
Tell him the approximate date, and he may come soon. "
At this moment, a miraculous picture suddenly flashed in my mind: a golden wheel hung in the dark blue sky.
Under the full moon, there are sand by the sea and endless green watermelons, one of which is eleven or twelve years old.
With a silver ring around his neck and a steel fork in his hand, the teenager tried his best to stab a horse, but the horse turned around.
His crotch escaped.
This boy is a genius. I was only a teenager when I met him, and it has been thirty years now. At that time I
My father is still alive and my family is fine. I am a young master. That year, my family was a year of great sacrifice.
This sacrifice is said to take more than 30 years to turn once, so it is very solemn; In the first month, there are many offerings for ancestor worship, offering sacrifices.
The sacrificial vessels are exquisite, and many people worship them. The sacrificial vessels must be prevented from being stolen. My family has only one busy month (we give it to people here)
There are three kinds of jobs: those who work for a family all the year round are called long-term workers; Those who work for people on a daily basis are called short-term workers; Plant it yourself.
Naturally, he only comes to work for a family during the Chinese New Year holidays and collecting rent, but when he is too busy, he is right.
The father said that he could let his son moisten the soil to manage the sacrificial containers.
My father allowed it; I'm happy, too, because I heard the name Runtu a long time ago, and I know he looks like me.
Buddha was born in the leap month, and the five elements were short of soil, so his father called him leap soil. He can pretend to be [Gong Jing] and catch children.
Bird's
I look forward to the new year every day. When the new year comes, the leap land will arrive. Finally, at the end of the year, one day, mom.
Honey told me that the leap soil was coming, so I flew to see it. He is in the kitchen, with a purple face of Zhang Yuanyuan and a small hat.
A felt hat with a bright silver collar around his neck shows that his father loves him very much and is afraid of his death, so he is here.
Make a wish in front of the Buddha and trap him with a circle. He is shy, but he is not afraid of me. There is no one else.
He talked to me at that time, so we met in less than half a day.
We didn't know what to talk about at that time, only that we were very happy to moisten the soil. Did we see a lot after going to the city?
I saw something.
The next day, I asked him to catch birds. He said:
"It's impossible. It is bound to snow heavily. It snowed in our sand, so it took me a short time to clear a clearing.
The stick set up a big bamboo plaque and sowed the valley. When the birds came to eat, I pulled the rope tied to the stick at a distance.
The bird hid under the bamboo plaque. Everything: rice chicken, horn chicken, goose owl, blue back ... "
So I'm looking forward to snow again.
Moisten the soil and say to me:
"It's too cold now, you come to us in summer. We go to the seaside to pick up shells every day, which are red and green.
There are ghosts, so do Guanyin players. Dad and I will look after watermelons at night, and so will you. "
"Do you care about thieves?"
"No, people who walk are thirsty. Pick a melon to eat. We don't steal here. It's a badger pig,
Hedgehog, Yan. Listen under the moon, la la la la, swallow bites melon. You walk gently with your fork in your hand.
Go ... "
At that time, I didn't know what this so-called embarrassing thing was-even now-just.
I feel as fierce as a puppy for no reason.
"Doesn't he bite?"
"Hu fork? When you get there, you will stab when you see it. This kind of animal is very clever. It runs towards you instead of following.
My crotch is off. His fur is as smooth as oil ... "
I didn't know there were so many new things in the world: there were so many colorful shells by the sea; Watermelon is too dangerous.
After experiencing it, I realized that he was selling it in fruit TV.
"In our sand, when the flood season comes, there are many jumping fish just jumping, and there are two frogs.
Feet ... "
Ah! There are endless strange things in my heart that my friends don't know at ordinary times. they
I don't know something. When moistening the soil by the sea, they all saw the sky at the four corners of the high wall in the yard, just like me.
Unfortunately, the first month passed and Runtu had to go home. I was so anxious that I cried. He was still hiding in the kitchen, crying and refusing.
I went out, but my father finally took me away. Later, he asked his father to bring me a bag of shells and some very nice ones.
I gave him something once or twice and haven't seen it since.
Now that my mother mentioned him, all my memory of time here suddenly came to Su Sheng like lightning. seemingly
I saw my beautiful hometown. I replied:
"This is great! He-how? ……"
"What? ..... His condition is also very unsatisfactory ... "Mother said, and looked out of the room. "These people come again.
He said he bought wood, so he took it away. I have to check it out. "
Mother stood up and went out. There are several women's voices outside the door. I brought Hiroko to me, but he did nothing.
Question: Ask him if he can write and if he wants to go out.
"Shall we go by train?"
"We will go by train."
"Where is the boat?"
"Take a boat first, ..."
"ha! This looks like it! The beard is so long! " A shrill and strange voice suddenly cried out.
I was startled and looked up quickly. I saw a woman with protruding cheekbones and thin lips in her fifties.
In front of me, I put my hands on the rafters, without a skirt, and my feet spread out, just like the thin feet in the drawing instrument.
Rules.
I was startled.
"Don't know? I hugged you too! "
I'm more and more surprised. Luckily, my mother came in and said:
"He went out for many years and forgot all about it. You should remember, "he said to me," that this is Yang Er across the hall.
Sister-in-law, ... runs a tofu shop. "
Oh, I remember. When I was a child, there was indeed a Yang Er sister-in-law who sat in the tofu shop across the hall all day.
Everyone is called "Tofu Beauty" [6]. But with white powder, the cheekbones are not so high and the lips are not so thin.
And sitting all day, I have never seen such a compass posture. At that time, people said: because of easy, tofu shop.
Business is good. But this is probably because of my age, but I was completely unaffected, so I completely forgot.
Yes However, the compasses are very uneven and show disdain, as if laughing at the French for not knowing Napoleon once, an American.
Don't know Liu Wu in loading, sneer at say:
"Come on? This is really a pair of noble eyes ... "
"There is this thing ... I ..." I stood up and said in fear.
"So, I say to you. Brother Xun, you are rich and heavy, so you can't move. What do you want from these broken wood products?
Let me get it. Our small family needs it. "
"I am not rich. I have to sell these before I go ... "
"Ah, you put the Dojo sign, also said not rich? You have three concubines now; There are eight elevators just outside the door.
Big sedan chair, still say it's not wide? Afraid, nothing can be hidden from me. "
I knew there was nothing to say, so I shut up and stood silently.
"Ahhh, the richer you are, the more you refuse to relax, and the more you refuse to relax, the richer you are.
Money ..... "Compass turned angrily and said, slowly out, by the way, one of my mother's.
The gloves were tucked into the belt and went out.
Since then, my family and relatives have visited me nearby. When I am entertaining, I will pack some luggage when I am free, so
Three or four days later.
One day, it was a very cold afternoon. I had lunch and sat drinking tea. I thought someone came in and went back outside.
Head to see. I was very surprised when I saw it. I stood up hurriedly and walked towards it.
This is leap soil. Although I knew it was leap soil at first sight, it was not my memory.
His figures have doubled; The previous purple round face has turned gray-yellow, adding deep wrinkles;
Like his father, his eyes are swollen all around, which I know. People who farm by the sea blow the sea all day.
The wind, something like this. He wore a worn felt hat on his head and only a thin cotton-padded coat on his body.
Holding a paper bag and a long pipe in my hand, it is not the red and round hand I remember, but thick and thick.
Stupid and cracked, like pine bark.
I am very excited at this moment, but I don't know how to say it, just saying:
"ah! Brother Runtu.-You're here? ……"
Then I have a lot of words that I want to gush out like beads: horn chicken, jumping fish, shells, clams, ... but it's still the same sentence.
I always feel blocked by something. I'm spinning around in my head and I can't spit it out.
He stopped, his face showing joy and sadness; His lips are moving, but he is silent. His attitude is final.
In respect, qing call way:
"sir! ……"
I seem to have a cold shiver; I know there is a deep barrier between us. I
Can't talk.
He turned and said, "Shui Sheng, kowtow to the master." He dragged out the child hiding behind him, which happened to be one.
The leap soil 20 years ago was only thinner and yellower, and there was no silver ring around the neck. "This is the fifth child, didn't see it.
The world, escape ... "
Mother and macro son came downstairs, and they probably heard the sound.
"The old lady. The letter arrived early. I really enjoyed it until my master came back ... "said Runtu.
"Ah, you how so polite. Didn't you call yourselves brothers before? Still that: Brother Xun. "
Mom said happily.
"Ah, the old lady is really ... what's the rule? At that time, I was a child and didn't understand ... "said Runtu.
Also called Shui Sheng to play with the arch, the child was shy and followed him closely.
"He is aquatic? The fifth one? They are strangers, no wonder they are afraid of strangers; Or Honger will accompany him for a walk. "
Mom said.
Macro son heard this, then go to recruit aquatic, aquatic but refreshing to go out with him all the way. Mother told Runtu to sit down,
He hesitated, finally sat down, leaned his long pipe on the table, handed the paper bag and said:
"There is nothing in winter. This dried green beans are dried by themselves there, please master ... "
I asked him about his condition. He just shook his head.
"Very difficult. Lao Liu will also help, but he is always hungry ... not peaceful ... where is it?
Everyone wants money, there are no rules ... and the harvest is not good. If you plant something and choose to sell it, you always have to donate it several times and lose money;
If you don't sell it, it will only rot ... "
He just shook his head; Although his face is engraved with many wrinkles, it doesn't move at all, just like a stone statue. He only has about
I feel bitter, but I can't describe it I was silent for a while, then I picked up my pipe and smoked silently.
Mother asked him, knowing that his family was busy, he had to go back tomorrow; He didn't have lunch again, so he was told to go by himself.
I went to the kitchen to fry rice.
He is out; Mother and I both lamented his situation: many children, famine, exorbitant taxes, soldiers, bandits, officials and gentry,
Bitter as a puppet. My mother told me that you can give him anything that you don't have to move.
Let him choose for himself.
In the afternoon, he picked out a few things: two long tables, four chairs, a pair of incense burners and candlesticks, and a scale.
He also wants to treat me with all the grass ash (we cook straw here, and the ash can be used as fertilizer in the sand).
When the children set out, he took them by boat.
In the evening, we talk about some idle days, which are irrelevant words; The next morning, he brought Shui Sheng back.
Yes
Nine days later, it is the day when we set out. The leap soil arrived in the morning, and the water didn't follow, only followed.
A five-year-old daughter is in charge of the ship. We are so busy all day that we have no time to talk. There are also many visitors and many deliveries.
Yes, some people take things and some people send them away to take things. When we got on the boat at night, the place in this old house
Everything old and thin has been swept away.
As our ship sailed forward, the green hills on both sides of the river were covered with dark indigo coats at dusk, and they retreated to the stern of the ship.
Let's go
Macro son and I leaned against the window, looking at the fuzzy scenery outside, he suddenly asked:
"Uncle! When will we come back? "
"Come back? Why did you come back before you left? "
"But, Shui Sheng invited me to his house to play ..." He thought with big black eyes.
My mother and I were a little disappointed, so we brought up the leap soil again. Mother said Yang Er's sister-in-law,
I have been here every day since my family packed my luggage. The day before yesterday, Yi dug up a dozen plates in the ashes.
After the discussion, I have to say that it is buried in the leap soil, and he can move home together when transporting ash; Yang Er Sao
I saw this and thought it was meritorious service, so I took the dog away and killed it (this is our chicken raising equipment, wooden board)
There is a fence on it, and there is food in it. Chickens can stretch their necks and peck, but dogs can't. They can only watch and fly.
I ran away, too. Kui Yi pretended to run so fast with such high and low feet.
The farther the old house is from me; The scenery of my hometown has drifted away from me, but I don't feel a trace of nostalgia.
I just feel that there are invisible high walls around me, which separate me into loneliness and make me very bored; Silver on watermelon field
I used to know the image of the little hero in the collar very well, but now it suddenly blurs, which makes me sad.
Mom and macro are asleep.
I lay down and listened to the gurgling sound at the bottom of the boat, knowing that I was going my own way. I thought: I am isolated from the leap soil here.
Point, but our younger generation is still angry, and Honger does not see aquatic products. I wish they would stop being like me,
We are separated again ... but I don't want them to live as hard as I do because they want to be angry.
I don't want them to live like the hardships of the leap soil, and I don't want them to live like the hardships of others.
They deserve a new life, because we have never lived.
I thought of hope, and suddenly I was afraid. I secretly laughed at him when he wanted a censer and a candlestick to moisten the soil.
I think he has always worshipped idols and never forgot them. Now my so-called hope is not made by myself.
Idol? It's just that his desire is close, and my desire is far away.
In the dim light, I saw a piece of green sand by the sea and a round of gold hanging in the deep blue sky.
Yellow full moon. I thought: Hope is nothing, nothing. It's like a road on the ground; In fact, the books on the ground
There is no road, and more people walk, and it becomes a road.
192 1 year 1 month.
□ Notes
(1) This article was first published in 192 1 May, 2008, Volume 9,No. 1.
⑵⑵: In a letter to Shuxin City on May 4th, 1929, the author said, "The word ⑵⑵comes from the countryside.
The voice that people say is born and created, and it is read as' stop'. ..... Now that I think about it, it may be a badger. "
⑶ Annual Sacrifice: In feudal society, large families held annual activities to sacrifice their ancestors, and the expenses were subordinate to the family.
In the "sacrifice" income exit, each room is hosted in turn every year, which is called "value year".
(4) The lack of soil in the five elements: the superstition of the so-called "eight characters" in the old society. That is, Tiangan (A, B, D, E, G)
Xin Guiren) Match the earthly branches (Zi Chou Mao Yinchen has been in Xu Hai at noon in Shen You) Remember the year and month of a person's birth.
The words "day", "hour" and "character" together; They are also considered to belong to the five elements (gold, wood, water, fire and earth).
Each has its own place, such as A, B, Yin and Mao, C, D, Si and Wu. If eight words can contain five, it is five elements.
Everything is available. "The five elements are short of soil", that is, none of these eight words belongs to soil, so we should use soil or soil as the radical to name them.
Let's find a way to make it up.
5] Seeing the fear of ghosts and Guanyin hand are the names of small shells. In ancient times, people along the coast of Zhejiang used this kind of small shell with lines.
String them together and wear them on the child's wrist or ankle, thinking that they can "ward off evil spirits." Most of these names are based on "avoidance"
The meaning of evil.
[6] Shi: Yue beauty in the Spring and Autumn Period was later used as a general beauty.
(7) Napoleon (1769- 182 1): namely Napoléon Bonaparte, a strategist during the French bourgeois revolution.
Home, politician. 1799, he was in power as a republic. 1804 established the first empire of France, claiming to be
Napoleon I
(8) Washington (1732-1799): namely George Washington, American politician. He led 1775.
1783 to 1784, the United States fought against British colonial rule and became the first president of the United States after its victory.
(9) Daotai: the common name of official Taoist priests in Qing Dynasty, which is divided into Taoist priests who are in charge of administrative positions in a region and Taoist priests who specialize in a certain profession.
A highway clerk with a fixed position. The former is the chief executive below the provincial level and above the prefecture level; The latter is responsible for the specific affairs of a province, such as
Supervise the supply of food, prepare for war, etc. After the Revolution of 1911, the Beiyang warlord government also used this system and renamed it Daoyin.
Hometown, Lu Xun's, if you think it is not, you can find something else, but it is not Lu Xun's. It should be, uh, gone. ......