Sun Shao'an, outside the door, knew nothing about the whole day's events in his home and village. He was kneeling in the simple barn of Mijiazhen Veterinary Station at the moment, busily filling the sick cattle of the production team with soup and medicine.
It's impossible for a man to take medicine for such an incomprehensible behemoth. In the first meal of the afternoon, a veterinarian helped me catch a cow's head and fill it by himself. It was not as hard as it is now. This is even deeper tonight. The veterinarians at the veterinary station, let alone have already finished work, are probably sleeping soundly now.
He knelt in the dirty barn, one arm around the neck of the cow, one hand holding a long iron drum, scooping a drum of medicine soup in the broken basin, then pulling up the lying cow head, prying open the closed cow's teeth with the head of the iron drum, and pouring the medicine down forcefully. Sometimes he choked and the cattle sprayed him all over. He did not care about this, and tried not to let the cattle spoil the medicine. All his strength was on the arm that held the cow's neck, and his legs and knees made two deep pits in the dung of the cowshed. He was so nervous that he was sweating all over.
Their team's best bull is the lifeblood of the whole team. It has a strong mouth, strong trend, and the work is the best of the two teams in the village. The captain of the second team, Jin Junwu, offered to trade his cow for another donkey with two cows of his team the year before last, but he didn't. In peacetime farmland, as long as he is present, other members will not be allowed to serve, often personally holding the plough. He feared that others would not spare him and let the cows work too hard. He also often settled the farmer Tian Wanjiang old man, feeding the cow with grass and eating on the side.
Unexpectedly, the cow became ill just after the farming started this spring. The cow did not eat well for two days, and he did not eat well for two days. The cow is sick. He seems to be sick, too. This morning, he hurried to the veterinary station in Mijia Town with his cattle in person. Fortunately, at the veterinarian's station, there was no serious problem, but the belly of the cow was ignited. The veterinarian said that a few pairs of medicines would be all right. When the medicine was prescribed, a pair was given. The veterinarian said it would be better to have another irrigation at twelve o'clock in the evening. Originally, he wanted to return to Shuangshui Village on the same day, but considering that the cattle were sick, he had to toss and turn around for a day, fearing that the animals could not bear it, so he decided to spend the night in Mijia Town.
Now, he poured the last drum of soup into the mouth of the cow, patted the head of the cow affectionately, then got up tiredly and put the empty basin and drum on the windowsill. When he saw a lively bright color in the cattle's eyes, he felt a lot more solid in his heart.
He went out of the cowshed and saw a black light in the veterinary station. In which cave came a snoring sound, as loud as thunder. It's already late at night. He crossed the courtyard with two long legs, went out of the gate of the veterinary station and onto the road. Not far ahead is the small street in Mijia Town. Now there is no one there, only a few dusk street lights, shining on the empty streets.
Where is he going to spend the night now? He couldn't get out during the day and didn't go to the hotel to register for a bed. It's business. He can pay for a hotel. But I'm afraid we can't stay in the hotel now. There is a small hotel in Mijia Town. There are many people in the past. Usually it is full of people before dark.
He walked blindly down the road towards the town. Alas, if he had some acquaintances and even recognized one or two commune cadres on the Stone Festival, he could make it anywhere for a night. But this Mijia Town has already arrived in other counties. People are not familiar with it. Where will he stay for the night? If it's summer, he can just lie down anywhere in the yard of the veterinary station. Although it is spring now, the cotton-padded clothes have not yet left, the morning and night are strange cold; Mijia Town is also in Dachuan Road, the wind is particularly hard.
He walked aimlessly down the street, not knowing what he could do when he got there.
He suddenly remembered: Uncle Junshan's daughter, Jin Fang, would not marry in this town? I heard that her son-in-law was in the carpenter's shop in this town, and her home was not too far from the street. Can you go to her house and rest for a night?
He shook his head in the dim moonlight and soon dismissed the idea. It's even deeper in the middle of the night. People are already asleep. How can they knock on the door and knock on the window to startle them?
Now he has come to the street. Although the street is also dilapidated, it has many more shops than the stone festival. It looks like a street in a town. Shao An stood sadly under a pole and did not know what to do. The dusk street lamp shone on his tall body. His face and figure were very similar to his younger brother Shaoping's, but for the sake of labor, he seemed stronger. Straight nose, like the Greeks. The clear lines on the face and two slightly downward curved lips show the rigidity of the young man. From the eyes, we can see that this is already a person with some life experience. Although he is only twenty-three years old, dealing with such young people, even if you are old and sophisticated, must be seriously dealt with.
Sun Shaoan stood under the street lamp, took a small note from his jacket pocket, pinched a pinch of tobacco leaves from his cigarette bag, and skillfully rolled a cigarette stick. He smokes, but he doesn't use a cigarette pot. He thought the cigarette pot was too small to smoke two mouthfuls. It was too troublesome. He often rolled up his dry cigarettes with paper. He can't afford to smoke cigarettes. He seldom buys cigarettes except for important business. He still has half a pack of "golden monkey" cigarettes in his pocket, but he is reluctant to smoke. It costs a lot of paper to smoke cigarettes all year round. The newspaper is too thick, so he often takes old homework books written by Shaoping and Lanxiang.
After Shao An rolled up a cigarette, he found that he had no fire. When I was too busy to leave, the lighter was left in the Kang of my home; when I arrived in Mijia Town, I was too busy to buy a box of matches. How he wants to smoke now!
It seemed that he could vaguely hear a tinkling sound coming from a distance. He listened carefully and recognized that it was the sound of beating iron. Where is it? It seems to be on the other side of the street. Okay, there's a fire in the subway. Go there and light a fire and smoke.
He pulled open his long legs, held the cigarette stick in his finger, and went to the side where the hammer came. He walked all the way through the short street and out the other side of the street, only to find the blacksmith's shop under a small slope.
One door of the blacksmith's shop was closed, the other opened a crack and saw the red light shining inside. The hammer and hammer sounded like fried popcorn.
Shao An hesitated for a moment and pushed open the concealed door. He saw the old and the young who beat the iron. The old man was apparently the master, with a pincers in one hand and a red-hot iron on the anvil, and a hammer in the other hand. Wherever the master hit, the disciple who hurled the hammer smashed it there. Dingding and clapping, sparks splashed. Both men had a canvas apron with holes all around their waists.
When Shao An came in, the two men were hitting while the iron was hot, and nobody looked at him. The two men looked at him in surprise until the iron faded red and the old man put it back in the oven.
Shao An said quickly, "Teacher, borrow a fire to light your cigarette."
"OK!" The blacksmith clipped a piece of red charcoal fire with a pair of iron forceps and extended it to him. Shao An hurried up and lit the cigarette stick. He listened to his accent and knew that the blacksmith was from Henan. Almost all blacksmiths on the Loess Plateau are from Henan Province. Henan people are Gypsies in China, and they can be seen everywhere in the country, regardless of their living conditions. Imagine that if going abroad is as easy as going to the province, then the whole world will be full of Henan people's footprints. They are different from gypsies. Gypsies only love wandering, not working. But Henan people, apart from individual non-professional workers, use their labor skills in exchange for remuneration wherever they go.
After Sun Shaoan lit his cigarette, he felt a chill all over because he was close to the stove fire. So he stamped by the fireside and stretched out his hands to make a fire. "So late, you still don't sleep? Where are you from?" Henan teacher asked him as he pulled the bellows.
Shao An said to him, "I am from Shuangshui Village. I see the cows in the team. It's getting late. I haven't found a place to live yet..."
The young apprentice said, "I'm afraid the hotel is full."
"Yes..." Shao An continued to figure out where he would spend the night. "I don't think you can find a place tonight... Are there any acquaintances in this town? The teacher asked him.
"No." Shao An said to him.
"Oh..." The master touched the iron block in the charcoal fire with a pair of iron forceps and said, "If you really have nowhere to go, don't dislike my place, you can make do with it, but it hasn't been covered. But the place is still warm... Henan people have a sympathy for anyone who goes out because they often wander around; they are willing to help passers-by who are in trouble.
Shao An stood up with joy and said, "OK! Teacher, this will give you a lot of trouble..."
Indeed, he was very grateful to the Henan teacher. What's the matter with no bedding? It's better for him to stamp around the fire till daybreak than to squat in the field and freeze overnight.
Shao An asked the teacher, "Are you still working so late?"
The disciple answered him and said, "This work will be picked up in the morning. No overtime will do."
Looking at the red iron in the stove, Shao An took out two "golden monkey" cigarettes from his pocket and went to the young apprentice and said, "Master, you stop smoking first, let me add a few hammers for you!"
When the disciple saw how solid he was, he gladly took the cigarette and gave Shao An the hammer in his hand.
Shao An put another cigarette in his ear respectfully, clipping it to the teacher who was holding the pliers and hammer. Now, the teacher is not only not free to smoke, but also unable to pick up the cigarette.
After the teacher put the red-hot iron on the anvil, Shao An started to fight with the old man with a hammer. Because he often went out to repair damaged farm tools for the team, he used to pick up this fellow in the iron shop of a Henan man in Shiwei Festival, so he was not a layman. Besides, it's energetic, and there's no too high technical requirement.
When he finished the hammer, the blacksmith and his apprentices both praised him for his work. Shao An smiled and said, "It warms up after a burst of strength."
Shao'an twisted the hammer twice again. Seeing that the shackle was fast forming, he handed the hammer back to the young apprentice.
After all the bosses were finished, the two masters and apprentices cleaned up the earthen platform in the corner where tools were laid, laid a broken canvas on the earthen platform, and said to Shao An, "Just lie down for a night." After that, they went to sleep in a small kiln inside.
Shao An moved a scrap anvil on the ground and took off his overcoat and put it on the anvil, even if it was a pillow. He pulled out the lamp, lay down tired in the dark, and soon fell asleep... The next morning, Sun Shaoan ate and drank a little in the restaurant. He went to the veterinary station to call his cow and got up and went back to Shuangshui Village.
Along the way, he walked by the nature of the cattle, not urging it, so slowly, 30 miles away for nearly a morning.
When approaching the city people for lunch, Shao An shouted his cattle and went to the village north of Shuangshui Village.
He saw Tian Er bending down in the ditch beside the road looking for something worn out on the road ahead. When he came to Tian Er, the old man was shocked for a while and probably recognized him as an "acquaintance".
Shao An said to him, "Uncle two, go back to eat!"
Tian Er smiled at him mysteriously and muttered, "Things are going to change..." After that, he bowed his head and stirred it up in the shredded wood and grass in the ditch.
Shao An shouted the cow past him, and thought with a sigh in his heart: If I survived like this, I would have hanged myself! Then he laughed again and thought, "The problem is that when you live like him, you often don't even know how to die..." Tian Er and his son are members of his team. He sympathized with the two unconscious people. Whenever naughty village children were seen bullying them on the road, he would drive them away. Tian Er's naive boy simply sent him to the brigade's infrastructure team, where the workers were concentrated to take care of him.
Now, Shao'an has entered the village with his cattle.
He was about to take Niu Dao to Tianjiaduo's feeding room. He saw Jin Junwu, the second captain, carrying a load of manure, coming over the rocks of the Dongla River and greeting him, "Shao'an, wait a minute..."
The second captain, Jin Junwu, is in his forties. He has a round waist and thick shoulders. He has a pair of bright copper cast eyes. This man is very aggressive: his brain is crooked and crooked, and he is a good man in the Jin family. His father was the famous scholar of Shuangshui Village in the old society, Mr. Jin, who died in 52. However, the Jin brothers are not at all literary. Jin Junwu ranked second among the three brothers. Kim Jun-wen, the eldest, is in his fifties and is not weak in temper. It's just that they don't show up. This man is skillful in killing pigs, mud kilns, pots and stoves. Craftsmen can come twice. His two sons, Jinfu and Jinqiang, are as brutal as bandits. Junwu's younger brother, Jin Junbin, is different from his two brothers. He is honest and has become a fool. But all the members of this big family, because of the shrewd and tough Jin Junwu, are not angry with anyone in the village. Although Jin Junwu is a strong man, he never does things by brute force. He mainly uses his intelligence. He is very polite to his elders, does things on a broad face, does not care about minor losses in personal contacts, and, like Shao An, never bullies the weak in the village, so he has some prestige among the ordinary people of Jin and Tian nationalities. Among the strong men in the village, including Tian Futang, Junwu was somewhat dissatisfied, but he respected and admired Shao An, who was much younger than himself. Like him, the younger generation is so smart that nobody can coax them. Moreover, they are so masculine that they can take the lead at a young age and make the first team better than his second team. Although he had a good relationship with Shao'an, the two men were always trying to find out who could do a good job in their production team. Over the past year, he has often been defeated by Shao'an.
Shao An listened to Junwu and asked him to wait a minute. He pulled the reins and stood by the road, waiting for Junwu to come up from the river.
Jin Junwu put the dung burden on the roadside, wiped the towel on his head and wiped the sweat, and asked, "I heard you went to Mijia Town?" Cattle don't matter, do they? If the cow doesn't work, let's change it! Even if I use it for two days and die, I won't regret it! " Jin Junwu laughed and joked at Shao'an.
"Even a dead cow, I will not change your three living treasures... Why? What can I say to you?" Shao An asked Jin Junwu.
"You don't know?" Junwu looked at him and asked.
"What's the matter?" Shao An really knows nothing.
"Jar Village, your brother-in-law asked the commune to come to our village, where he was working on the construction site behind your house. Yesterday evening, she criticized it in the school yard! ____________ "Why?" Shao An gave a buzz in his mind.
"I heard that several packages of rat poison were sold..."
Junwu was embarrassed to look at Shao'an's face. He took up the dung and said, "Go home and have a look! I heard that your sister came to your house with two dolls. Shao An looked indifferent and said to Junwu, "You are busy going. I'll take the cattle to the feeding room. This is a shit! How many days can we suffer in vain, but we can still make a counter-revolution?
Jin Junwu nodded and carried the dung away.
Shao An rushed the cattle to the feeding room, handed over the medicine to Tian Wanjiang, the breeder, and turned around to drive home.
Sun Shao'an was unwilling to express any confusion in front of Jin Junwu and told the strong man to laugh at him. But now his heart is full of anxiety and uneasiness. For families like them, who are vulnerable in all respects, a trifle can lead to catastrophic chaos or even paralysis. What is happening right now is not a trivial matter. Not only did his brother-in-law humiliate the family, but the worse his family's life in the can village, the quicker his family was going to get rid of his sister and two children because he and his father could never leave them alone. He knows better that such a big event happened at home, and the whole family relied on him to solve it. He not only needs to solve the problem itself, but also needs to calm the family's mood... He was now walking home, and his mind was already racing to judge the situation. Yes, this is what the commune did; if it was our village, he would immediately go to interpersonal relationships, first to find Junshan uncle, then to find Jin Junwu, then to find his second father, and finally to find Tian Futang... Of course, there are many others. Moreover, he will not all come out directly, and the power of various interlaced constraints may solve the problem. In the world of Shuangshui Village, he still has some ability. But my brother-in-law was from Canzi Village, and this was done by the commune, which had nothing to do with Shuangshui Village. His current abilities do not seem to be able to solve the problem.
What should I do? When he went to the slopes of his yard, he still had no idea. Only one thing is clear: to solve this problem, we must go through the Shiwei Festival Commune. But in the commune, except Liu Genmin, who was a classmate of his primary school, was able to speak, the other leaders recognized him, but they did not have much more friendship...
When he got to the yard, he cut off all these thoughts temporarily. Because he had to deal with the family's emotions first.
He stood at the door, calmed himself down, and then pushed the door open as easily as possible.
His mother, his sister, his sister, his grandmother, and four women, old and young, were surprised and delighted when they saw him coming home. They grinned with joy and burst into tears as if the long-awaited great savior had suddenly fallen from the sky.
Shao An stood on his feet and was touched by the scene with a sour nose. Yes, these loved ones regard him as the backing of the whole family. They all pinned their hopes on him for any misfortune at home. How can he live up to the expectations of his relatives?
Suddenly, a strong male heroism surged up in the body of this 23-year-old youth!
He calmly asked his mother, "Has my father gone out of the mountains?"
The mother said "Hmm" and then pulled up her apron to dry the tears on her face. The mother realized that she could not cry any more, so as not to increase her son's mental burden. Then he asked his sister on the ground, "Has your second brother come back yet?"
Lanxiang said, "Come back, just went out to Jinbo's house to find something..."
At this time, his sister orchid head fell on his brother's shoulder and cried again. Shao An comforted her and said, "Sister, don't be impatient. I'm always in charge of things!" You see your eyes are swollen. Never dare to hurt your body. You still have to pull cat's eggs and dog's eggs. Those two dolls?"
The orchid stopped crying and said, "Shaoping led him outside..."
For a while, Granny Shao Anta was sitting on the back Kang with her toothless mouth open and smiling. She did not die when she saw her Ann. No, it's back safe and sound!
Shao An took out a bag of cake from Mijia Town and put it next to Grandma's quilt from a small cloth bag sewn from a towel. He picked up a piece of soft spot from it and handed it to Grandma. He said, "Grandma, you eat this!" Soft, can bite! _____________ The old grandmother took the cake and pointed to the rest beside her and said, "Call the cat and the dog and the egg to eat..."
When Shao An saw the family's mood ease down, he came out of the kiln alone and turned to the courtyard. Up to now, he has no idea about his brother-in-law.
Alas, he is an ordinary farmer, how many abilities can he have? If somewhere some crop work has stumped people, Sun Shao'an would not take it seriously at all; he is confident that he can do the work that others can't do surprisingly well. But this kind of thing is different!
He walked impatiently up and down the yard.
He saw that the apricot tree at the eastern end of the courtyard with a thick bowl mouth had blossomed a tree of white powder flowers. The tree was planted by their family when they moved here. It's about the age of Lanxiang. In previous years, when wheat was harvested, one or two baskets of golden sweet apricots could always be picked from this tree. In addition to having a big family meal, a kind mother has to share some of the village's dolls. But these two years are not going to work, and his two greedy nephews have long since ended. Shao An loves his two lively nephews very much. Because his brother-in-law is incompetent, he is responsible for the two children. He thought that just for these two children, he would also have a peaceful solution to his brother-in-law's affairs.
He saw his younger brother Shaoping come up from the slopes with an egg in one hand and a pocket in the other. The old cat's eggs followed him. Shaoping also saw him and hurried up excitedly.
Shao An asked Shao Ping, "What do you carry in your hand?"
"More than a dozen kilos of white flour." Shaoping said.
"White noodles? Where did it come from?" Shao An asked in surprise. A dozen kilograms of white flour is not a small number for their family.
"Brother Runye gave it..." Shaoping said.
"Moistening leaves?"
"Well." Shaoping then asked Runye to go to her second father's house and told her brother about it. Finally, Shaoping repeatedly stressed to his brother, "She told you to come these days!"
"Didn't she say anything?" Shao An asked.
"Don't say, just ask you to come for a minute..." After Shaoping finished, he led the two children home.
Sun Shaoan was stunned for a long time. He walked sadly to the apricot tree at the east end of the yard, picked the bark gently, looked up at the snow-white apricot blossoms, and fell into the past.
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