Quincy's Quiet Contemplation Chapter 41

When Mao Dan came back to visit his father, the villagers asked: How did you seduce Cuicui to school? He said: She came by herself. Asked again: What did you do? He said: No! He was so anxious that his eyes were red. The villagers thought that Mao Dan was still a boy and maybe he wouldn't be able to do that. But before Mao Dan left, he told his sister-in-law and second brother that in order to honor his father well, he must eat two poached eggs for his father every day, and he would pay for the poached eggs.

After Cuicui was caught, Shuanlao's wife beat her up and shaved her hair, making her look neither male nor female. Someone said to Shuanlao: The child is grown up, you can't treat her like that! Shuanlao said: Alas. He looked very sad. Everyone in the village knew about Shuanlao's wife, but the villagers didn't understand why Shuanlao didn't care even though she did such excessive things. Cuicui didn't stay at peace and ran away again. This time Shuanlao's wife didn't catch her, saying that she could live or die outside and that she didn't have this evil child. But she and Shuanlao quarreled at home and scratched Shuanlao's face, leaving five bloody marks. She came out and went to the office of the Farmers' Association with Ma Sheng. Ma Sheng hung his hat on a wooden peg on the wall and said: Come on, hang your face too.

On the morning of the winter solstice, Baihe was lying on the kang, and his daughter-in-law was cooking poached eggs for him. Baihe said: Pick a big one and cook it for me, cook one. The daughter-in-law said: Why cook only one? Baihe said: Save some money for the raw eggs. Xing Gulu ran over and said: Get up quickly, get up quickly! Baihe said: Can't I stand up? Xing Gulu said: I'll tell you something so you can stand up and jump! Xing Gulu said that people from the township government came and tied up Shuanlao! Baihe sat up from the kang, but still couldn't walk. Xing Gulu carried Baihe to the yard of the Farmers' Association. Before he arrived, he saw Shuanlao tied up at the entrance of the alley and walking out of the village. Ma Sheng took out the seal from his pocket. When Shuanlao was taken away, Ma Sheng spread the story that Cuicui complained to the township government, saying that Shuanlao had R@p3d her four years ago. When the township government interrogated Shuanlao, he admitted everything and never returned to the village. He was sent from the township government to the county town to be imprisoned.

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In April, during the Chinese New Year, when the cherry blossoms were blooming like snow, Shiraishi suddenly came to see me at the county art troupe and brought a bag of fungi. Only then did I find out that he had been transferred from the township government to the county seat and became the director of the Commerce Bureau. I said: Oops, I haven’t congratulated you yet, but you’re giving me a gift? ! Bai Shi laughed and had a gold tooth in his mouth. At that time, it was a noble thing to have gold teeth in your mouth. I don’t know whether he wrapped a layer of gold skin on the front teeth or directly extracted the front teeth and reinstalled the whole gold tooth. He said: Ma Sheng gave this to you! I said: Ma Sheng? He said: You don’t remember, Ma Sheng from Laocheng Village! You have to go to Laocheng Village to sing for him. I said: Is the horse alive or dead? He said: How could he die? Life is so hard that he can only force others to die. I said: Many people died in his hands. Then who should I sing a negative song to? He said: Ma Sheng is getting married, and there is going to be a yang song show in the village. Ma Sheng thinks that the voices of the Yang song troupe in Chengguan Town are not good. They say that if you can sing yin songs, you can sing yang songs. I must invite you to go there Trip. There is a Yang Singing Troupe in Guan Town, the county seat. I have also seen their performance during the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month. There are hundreds of people in the team wearing colorful clothes and holding red umbrellas. There are umbrella heads, civil and military figures, and clowns in the field. Singing sacred songs, twisting flower steps, and then circling into different formations, such as five plum blossoms, overlord tripod, double-backed bow, mat tube, octagonal tower, and snake coiled egg. However, what they are singing is a yang song, which is sung for the living people, so that the living people can live more prosperously and brilliantly, while what I sing is a yin song, which is sung for the dead. I want the souls of the dead to be safe. How can we go? I expressed that I couldn't go, but said: This bachelor finally has a woman of his own! Where is the bride from? Shiraishi said: Ha, a pair of old furniture! I said: Is this your second marriage? Baishi said: "You know Shuanlao, but you may not be familiar with Shuanlao's wife. She is Shuanlao's wife." How could I not be familiar with Shuanlao's wife, but I never imagined that Ma Sheng was married to Shuanlao's wife. Things in this world are so ever-changing! I still care about things in Laocheng Village. I ask about Baishi's father Baihe and his uncle Baitu, about cabbage and jade bracelets, about Li Changxia, Liu Bazi, Gong Renyou, and that Xing Cuuluo. We talked about the topic of Laocheng Village for almost an entire afternoon, and he didn’t leave until the wind picked up and the flying cherry blossom petals spread a layer on the ground. When leaving, he asked me in a low voice if I was familiar with the commander of the military division? I said that the commander of the military division is a senior official, but I have never seen him before. He said: You are coaxing me. I heard that you helped Easton Kuang before liberation. I said: You mean Easton Kuang? Has he been transferred to the military division? ! Is it Commander Easton Kuang? ! He said: When will you take me to pay a visit to the commander? I said: It's okay to accept it, but I don't know if he recognizes me.