"What nonsense are you talking about? My eldest son is handsome and good at studying. He wants to take the exams for the title of scholar and become an official! How can he be interested in the black, fat and lazy youngest daughter of Nora Pola? She is dreaming, wishful thinking..."
"Oh...oh...Ergou's, you don't have to hide it. I heard that you and your Dalang took a lot of things from others. The flower is ugly, but Nora Pola and Du Zisi love this youngest daughter very much. As long as she asks for something, they will give it to her. There is no way to pick the stars in the sky, otherwise they will pick them for their daughter! If your Dalang marries her, he won't have to worry about the money for the exams for the scholar and the juren..."
"Shut up, shut up! Who took her things? Who took her things? Who saw it? ... Would our Dalang want that fat black thing? If anyone says that I saw it, I will smack his stinky mouth with the sole of my shoe!"
Ergou's family was so angry that their faces turned red. They took off their shoes and pretended to hit someone.
Dujia Village is backed by the Daqing Mountain and faces the Niuqiu River. There are more than 200 households in the village, but not all of them are surnamed Du. People with the surname Du account for the majority of the village and have lived in the village for nearly a hundred years. There is also a small number of people with the surname Shi who came here to seek refuge from the war thirty years ago and also settled down in the village, where they reproduced and had children.
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