Quincy's Quiet Contemplation Chapter 16

However, Easton Kuang did not go to Yi Street, he came to see me.

After I sang a sinister song in Wangwuping, I was invited to Jianzi Village. Jianzi Village is on the official road from Qingfengyi to Huangfu Street. There is a medicine shop there, and the owner's surname is Xu. This pharmacy is a branch of Qingfengyi Guangrentang Pharmacy. It is actually a medicinal material purchasing point of Guangrentang. Boss Xu is the nephew of the shopkeeper Wang of Guangrentang and has been following his uncle for more than ten years. Shopkeeper Wang buried silver coins under the tree in the yard. Xu knew about it when he buried them, but when he dug up the silver coins a few years later, he didn't find any. Wang asked Xu what was going on? Xu said that silver coins would run away underground. Xu was telling the truth. Silver coins would indeed run underground. But Wang actually doubted Xu after hearing this. Although Wang later dug up silver coins under the pear tree outside the courtyard wall, he believed Xu. , and Xu Zai refused to work in Guangrentang, so he went to Jianzizhai to work as a small boss in a purchase shop. Xu only had one son. In order to be powerful in the future, he sent his son to the county security corps to serve as a soldier. Unexpectedly, during the battle on Huangfu Street, his son was killed, so he asked someone to invite me to the store. After I went there, I learned that Xu’s son was only 23 years old and had never been married. Xu had already contacted the family of a woman who died of illness in a neighboring village. The woman was also unmarried, and the two families agreed to arrange a secret marriage for their two children. I said: I sing Yin songs. This marriage belongs to Yang, so I have to sing Yang songs. Boss Xu said: There are no Yang songs in our area, and marriages for children are also Yin marriages. I just stayed in Jianzi Village. The residents of Jianzizhai are scattered, and the pharmacy is built on the highest slope of the village. On the day of the wedding, the white couplets on the door were replaced by red couplets, and the white gauze was removed from the mourning hall and a red curtain was hung. The son's coffin The woman's coffin and the woman's coffin were placed side by side amidst the beating of gongs and drums. Of course, I also changed my tune and sang: I played the flat drum and sang. When I came to the door of the wedding home, I looked up from outside the door and saw a pair of white chickens standing on the door. files. The steward said, "Singer, singer, those are not a pair of white chickens, those are a pair of phoenixes." The phoenixes flashed on both sides, letting me, the singer, enter the hall early. When I arrived at the door of the wedding home, I saw a pair of black dogs lying on the door. The steward said, "Singer, singer, those are not a pair of black dogs, those are a pair of unicorns." Qilin divided the room on both sides and asked me to go in for the wedding ceremony. When I got to the upper room, I sang "Eighteen Pulls" while walking around the two coffins. "Eighteen Pulls" means pulling the quilt from east to west, the sun, moon and stars in the sky, the cows, ghosts and snakes in the earth, the emperors and generals in the sky and the earth, talents and beauties, pigs, dogs, cattle and sheep, firewood, rice, oil and salt. As long as you have a good memory and can arrange it smoothly, There’s nothing not to sing about. I was singing: Brother Asthma, listen. In the past life, you liked to mutter, but in this life, there is a bellows in your throat. Brother Mazi, listen, you have fought with pigs for chaff in your previous life, but in this life you will be disgraced. Lame brother, listen, in your previous life you picked pears secretly, but in this life you are walking with uneven legs. There was a lame man watching the fun nearby. He hit me on the head with a long smoking pot and said: Maggots were born in my mouth in my previous life. In this life, you will be a singer! Everyone laughed, and I laughed too. Just as I was laughing, the security guard came, and someone shouted at the door of the courtyard: The security guard is saluting! But the security chief was not here to salute. He raised a gong, banged it three times, and announced: Today the security team escorted the guerrilla bandits captured alive on Huangfu Street to the county town, and they have to pass through Jianzi Village. The superiors requested Villagers along the way have to go and watch! As soon as Boss Xu heard about the security team, he started crying again and rolled his eyes. Everyone quickly poured bowls of liquid into their mouths and rubbed their hearts for a while before they finally regained their breath. The security chief didn't let Boss Xu go, so I said, "I'm not from Jianzizhai. I'll accompany Boss Xu." The security guard said: If you are on my territory, you have to listen to me. Go! After driving everyone, they stood by the official road.

Among the people being escorted, I saw Brielle. She was wearing a new dress, but it was stained with blood. She was carrying a load. There was a stone in the front cage of the load, and her brother, the third brother, was placed in the back cage. Hai's head, with its mouth open, was stuffed with a dust root. Brielle didn't look at the crowd and kept talking to her brother, saying that her father and mother were taken to the town hall after you became a guerrilla. They couldn't stand the torture and humiliation before they hanged themselves. They were tied to the window lattice with a rope. On the street, one was hanged in the window and the other was hanged outside the window. You said that Miss Liu from Qingfengyi Dongjiekou has always been interested in you, but you became a guerrilla, so she married Zhang Xiaosi, a noodle seller in Jihou Village. Why are you hiding in the water jar? Why do you move again after hiding? She said that she had a dream one month ago. She dreamed of a group of dogs and pigs talking in her yard. They were all castrated by you. Then she would cry, laugh, or stop and say she needed to pee. But the people from the security team beat me with tree sticks and said: Pee, pee in your crotch! There was blood and urine leaking from the trousers. Just behind Brielle was a donkey carrying five seriously injured guerrillas. They were pressed one by one and blocked. The escorting security guard stopped and sat under an elm tree to rest. The donkey stood at first, then knelt down with all four hooves, and couldn't pull it up again. Someone said: With such a serious injury, he would have died before he reached the county seat, and the donkey was still tired. What are you doing? Just dig a hole and bury it! Then a leader hit the five wounded with a stick. One of them didn't move, then another one didn't move, and three more. One of them groaned, and two of them didn't move. He ordered it to be buried. To bury them, they had to dig pits. The security chief asked the villagers to dig the pits, but no one carried the dead bodies into the pits, so they took one leg or arm of the corpses and threw them into the pit. I said: Be calm! The villagers said: Then go and calm down! I went down into the pit and laid the four corpses in a row with their heads facing west and their feet facing east. One of them dropped a shoe while pulling. I said, "Look, is the shoe on the donkey?" Sure enough, the shoe was left behind by the donkey, who was kicked into the pit and thrown into the last corpse. But when I was moving this body, the body said: You put me face down. Only then did I know that he was not dead, so I said to the leader: This man is still alive. The leader said: Are you the only one who is troublesome? ! Come up here and fill in the soil! The man kept talking with his mouth open, but I couldn't hear clearly and leaned down. He was saying: Don't hit your face by filling the soil with your face down. I said: Oh. Turn him over. He added: If someone comes later, you think Wang Lang will be buried here. As soon as I put his face down, the pit began to be filled with soil. I climbed out in a hurry, and the pit was filled up in a while.

In the next four or five days, whenever I was alone in the drug store, the wind blew loudly, and I always felt that it was Wang Lang talking in my ears. One night, I was already asleep, and suddenly I heard the door ringing, swish, swish, swish, and I complained in my heart: Who would come to buy medicinal materials so late? After putting on my clothes and getting off the kang, I looked out from the crack of the door and saw that it was a wolf! The wolf was covered in gray fur and had green eyes. It scratched the door with its front paws for a while, then lay down and whined softly. Then it turned around and dug up the dirt with its hind paws. The dirt was scattered on the door, and it whined again. It seems to be letting the door open. I knew that there were many wolves in Jianzizhai area, so of course I didn't open the door and added a horizontal bar behind the door. Seeing that the door could not be opened, the wolf put something in its mouth on the steps, then sat under the steps and whined again. After three times, the wolf turned around and left. I didn't dare to go out to pee that night until the next day when the sun turned red and Boss Xu came and opened the door. There was a silver collar at the door. It was obvious that the wolf had eaten or robbed someone's child and gave me the silver collar the child was wearing. But why did the wolf give me the silver collar? I was puzzled until noon when I suddenly realized that I had buried the guerrilla named Wang Lang face down so that the rocks and rocks would hit his face. Perhaps I had misheard him. Instead of calling him Wang Lang, I suddenly realized that he was called Wang Lang. The ghost possessed him. This wolf came to thank me? ! So I made lunch and took a bowl to the grave to commemorate those dead ghosts, when I met Easton Kuang.