Quincy's Quiet Contemplation Chapter 12

After Caspian followed Li Desheng into the mountains, the security team went to Qingfengyi to search Caspian's home for ten and a half months. They threatened and intimidated Caspian. Caspian's father and mother died. Without her father and mother, Brielle cut off her pigtails and deliberately made her face ugly. To discredit her, she came to beg me to take her away, and she wanted to go from village to village singing shady songs. But she has a bad memory and can't remember the lyrics at all. What's even worse is that I just taught her four or five lines of "Song of Regret" and she burst into tears first. I said: Baby, your father and mother just passed away, so you can’t sing. She said: If you refuse to accept me, I will have nowhere to go and die in front of you. He took out a pair of scissors from his pocket and stabbed his neck. I didn't realize that she was still so strong in her bones, so I left her to be the crying mother. A weeping mother is someone whose family has a funeral and has few filial sons, so she needs to cry on her behalf in the mourning hall. Whenever the Tennyson Family comes to invite me to sing Yin songs, I always ask if they want to cry mother. If so, I bring Brielle with me. Brielle is really a good cryer. She really cries with tears in her eyes and can make her throat hoarse from crying. That time someone died in Wangwu Village. Brielle and I went there and sang all night. The next day, relatives and friends came to express their condolences. Suddenly, the wind blew and broke the two poplar trees in front of the door. The water in the pond in the village was blown into the air and fell into the yard, and a fish fell down. I started to sing: What's so good about life is that there is only one piece of grass on the wall, but it is killed by the frost in the cold winter months. What's so good about life? An old walnut tree has fallen with its leaves. What good thing is there in life? There are two mandarin ducks in the river. The eagle snatched one away. What good thing is there in life? If you just say you are dead, you will die. Your relatives and friends will not know about it, but your relatives and friends will know about it. The dead person has already crossed the Naihe Bridge. Brielle's tears were streaming down her cheeks again, and her parents were shouting at each other. The people next to me shouted: I am the one who died, please cry! Brielle was still crying. I kept beating the flat drum and sang around the coffin with my eyes closed. That night I was always in a panic, and I was not immersed in singing. I felt like a cow pushing a mill, wearing dark eyes, spinning endlessly. I heard the filial sons scolding Brielle, thinking that she was crying wrong. Suddenly there was a sound of footsteps, and then a snap, the crying stopped, and there was a scream in the room, thinking that the filial sons were beating Brielle. , when I hurriedly opened my eyes, what I saw was Caspian carrying Brielle on his shoulders from under the mourning hall and walking out of the house.

While Caspian was cutting down trees, a woman met Caspian and said that she went back to her parents' home in Wangwu Village last night and saw Brielle mourning for others in the village. After hearing this, Caspian looked up at the sky and said: Dad! mother! After being bored for a long time, I finally took a donkey to Wangwu Village. Caspian carried Brielle out of the mourning hall, but the family refused to let Brielle go. Caspian fired a shot at the ground, and the bullet splashed and hit the incense burner on the mourning hall. No one dared to stop him, watching the donkey Carrying Brielle on his back, he walked away in the wind and dust.

It was that shot that knocked over the incense burner and cracked the coffin lid. The coffin lid was made of thoroughly dried pine wood and should not have cracked at all. I knew that the sound of the gunshot had frightened the soul, and that it would never be able to enter the divine or human way again. Sure enough, a sow from another family in the village became pregnant and gave birth to eight piglets in the middle of the night, one of which looked like a human face.

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Caspian took Brielle to Huangfu Street and told Li Desheng that he was the only girl and he couldn't let her suffer outside. Li Desheng thought that since the guerrillas were not ready to take care of their families, they should settle down in a remote village first, so he said to Rowan Lao: How about getting married to you? ! Rowan Lao agreed, and Brielle also agreed. When Rowan Lao saw Easton Kuang carrying an earthen pot over, he happily slapped Easton Kuang on the shoulder. Easton Kuang was startled. The earthen pot fell and the vegetables fell down. One place. Rowan Lao raised his gun, searched for his new house in the village, and pried open the door of a wealthy owner's house. This wealthy owner had a shop in the county. The furnishings in the house were novel, with a curtain on the nanmu bed and a printed quilt. There are also enamel basins and rhombus mirrors. Rowan Lao thought that if he succeeded, he would be married, so he asked Brielle to go see the chosen new house, and they would get married at that time, but Brielle would not let Rowan Lao get involved, and there had to be a ceremony on the third day. In the past two days, Rowan Lao took a bath in the river, using soap locust. He washed it over and over again, but the flesh on his body was still not white. Easton Kuang found a jar of grain wine hidden in the cellar of another house. When he brought it up, Rebu killed a rich family's pig. When killing the pig, I stabbed it with a knife and put a basin of blood into it. I had already started to soak it in a pot of hot water to shave it off, but the pig jumped out of the pot and ran out of the village. It only fell to death after jumping into a ditch. The meat was cooked in the yard next door. After it was cooked, a cage of bones was picked out. Lei Bu and Easton Kuang gnawed a bunch of them. They also found two women to talk to Brielle. The two women also gnawed a piece of bone each.