短篇小说 》 Partridge   》 Partridge      Fei Ming


     鹧鸪
　　Woke up to hear Jiang Sheng, head out from the tent where I looked. Oriental has the original white, forty-five willow hut surrounded by two stand in front of the quays.
　　There are fifteen in the home of the dry process, I follow with the field in the chamber behind the porters to go, both sides of the scattering of paddy fields to pick the seedlings overnight tied, farmers are also come from the village down the field, - suddenly shocked me , is far from the sound coming from a partridge! I will be a place to live for nearly a decade, every country farming season, they help but miss partridge.
　　I have not the time to leave, received a letter from his brother, said the age of harvest in recent years, the tournament held in the county, the last sentence is, "representatives of the relatives to come home." Home, first greet my mother with his younger brother, I sat down Zhuta, the mother took ballet fan standing beside me, my brother sitting in my living correction before:
　　"How a representative can not see it?"
　　Brother made gas-like: "back near mile!" Then a few long list, not a sister of the call is not, and some I only know the name, or that some of my opponents with my Bounce shuttlecock, it is said to large pink flowers look like Fu. His brother, who told me is how well the excitement of the race, I secretly laugh, and read like a poetic territory is envy: "It's all I was ever seen!" But I seem to find what the memory can not afford to, feel a little empty, suddenly asked:
　　"Grapefruit sister to or not?"
　　"Grapefruit sister - the bride is doing miles!"
　　I remained silent. Brother inexplicably staring eyes I see. Mother urged me to his bedroom to lay to rest.
　　I just cross the threshold, Qin has been a long standing next to a few of my eyes smile, I smile, and I prepared the road, but one could not say many words came. Qin let her do the needle just under the low bamboo chair told me to sit, I also took her hand sitting, then accidentally glimpse a Fenbi my own paintings hanging on the four painted screen:
　　"This is where talking about!"
　　Repeatedly touched by the Qin ask, I know I was in tears, followed by white Juanpa a brush to my face.
　　"Oh wife, his brother told me that grapefruit sister just doing the bride."
　　"Yes, uh, do the bride, Why the sudden daze you do?"
　　"You remember!" I finger the wall.
　　"I'm better than you remember many! - Always start this way, to say more than a mile!"
　　Qin charming mouth drum body bent forward, I looked up Xiangqu, knew her lips fell on me - and I smiled:
　　"'Happy happy!" I had just been on the road ... "
　　I suddenly felt his heart hurt, the mother went to call the celery I had prepared breakfast.
　　Last winter I had to go home, my mother wanted me to see the countryside to the aunt, and I think it would for a real grapefruit my sister; aunt is with host of others in his family, I walked into the main room, look around for a while, hear inside the car WoWo spinning ring, the left and turned the corner and down a four-year-old's mother, I went up, "Will we aunt ..." I do not know that this mother stare right, and I saw from the right corner of the plate has been stuck up a door head! I suddenly an energetic, main room also immediately broke the silence:
　　"Yan child! Yan original is my child!"
　　"Ha ha! Mother early in the morning sneezing, I know that when guests come!" Grapefruit sister out of laughter.
　　"Car? - Ai Ai, this is your mother can not afford to worry for my car to open the foot, loss of my children, how to go!"
　　Yarn is my aunt, spinning wheel at the foot of a short stool, stools are girls with wicker boxes, covered with a red veil. Aunt side of laughter, they use clothes wipe tears - this is my temper by learning to see; but grapefruit seems to be crying soon enough: the still child-like innocent smile, but very uncomfortable when I have no intention of catch a glimpse of her eyes.
　　My aunt says I am more just, living thousands of miles, the return is not easy to do, but his weak body is also precarious. Said, grapefruit usually always read the Qin ... ...
　　"So, how can one take to the streets go?" I suddenly asked.
　　Aunt pointing wicker box:
　　"She does not eat food miles too busy!"
　　Grapefruit Duanle Yi chair I sat, the site next to the aunt, one hand supporting the waist, one hand stroking his aunt's shoulder, then turned the box picked up a low stool to sit down and muttered:
　　"You do not disturb, long embroidered over miles!"
　　"Barbara is childish! You ask Yan brother I said no, just have to ..."
　　I see grapefruit opened the box, so to know about grapefruit married; for the aunt, "there do not need these decorative stuff, this money is used to sew a few pieces of the cloth clothes," then, is against that nagging aunt too, added to the group of a grapefruit.
　　Finally, my aunt says:
　　"Qin sister what painting hanging children room, always said yes."
　　"That's easy, I have to paint a better sister."
　　Come home, I was like, to the top of the paint, paper, do not use silk, but unfortunately have to be foreign only, or frozen at the moment Oh write it not good morning my sister's heart? I - told the celery, celery grapefruit I see injustice, smiling, "you were laughing my miles - in fact I do have many of grapefruit out of tricks, such as that on the two persimmon pillow with wishful . ① "then added," This painting is lovely - it was reed goose Chende particularly good-looking, that bloom, then under the fence of chicken, ... and then paint is fresh and natural and satisfactory end. "
　　① Original Note: "ideal" foot one kind of jade. Mei vulgar, married some girl in the pillow embroidered pattern, meaning take the pun: the same wishful two persimmon, is that "all the best."
　　I lay in bed, all of these are floating on the heart. My back to go home, of course, is not designed for grapefruit sister painting, with the painting the way it makes me feel more happy, and who knows even by a sister, aunt Bingdu to witness the marriage and grapefruit marry earlier period. "It sent not? Although only six months apart, or that fear of not holding a wicker box with spinning wheel at the foot of the girl's mother Zhengnao mood strike?" I had dinner check back to open the basket clear things think so.
　　"Our first conversation, you remember?"
　　"You comes in less than us girls!"
　　"Grapefruit ..."
　　"Talk about this strike."
　　Remember is this summer, I lived in the same grapefruit grandmother's home. Crops busy adults go. Grapefruit, celery sitting in the back room to do on the embroidery needle, each of the assembly line of the box also placed a "daughters", the _select_ion of each recitation. Liqiang around the room in front is empty, but the party, but it is a dam, where we came back from Osaka, always along the dam towards the progress here. Eat breakfast, I told my grandmother to see the planting, - in the middle of a dam under the maple, the hoe handle cushioned ride the shovel manure, planting of tea from time to time have come up with a mud canned tea thirty-four cans are put himself to the grandmother, went back to drinking a mention.
　　Dam there is a cake shop at the end, is specifically sold to passers-by to eat, and occasionally also sent to her grandmother's village - that is the grandmother of the village, in fact, nothing grandmother. I sat in the dam, gradually lost the initial pleasure, one by one, the black ants crawling in the legs are brought dead outlet, grandmother also saw it, and laughed, "You see, over there!" I turned away , selling cake basket cake's mother wore came up! I just woke up sleepy in general, turned up open watching the TV drama Old Woman walking direction. Seedling in also laugh: "Today is the reward of our grandmother, brothers no points!" But I know this is teasing me, they do not eat this, - not on the cake is also stuffed their mouths.
　　I eat around the cake basket, take the other two handed my grandmother: "You give grapefruit sister ..." Then stopped, but I already know, and then to run home. River Gudonggudong, migraine look, a team of ducks in the swim, - approached Liqiang Qin was standing in the doorway only to see, Curan said, "This is yours," Qin laugh Then I flushed the face. Grapefruit also holds the needle embroidery ha ha laughing to the door.
　　I really looked up embarrassed grapefruit, grapefruit is not immediately laughed, put the needle through the gown, and took over the cake, the - when the celery into her mother went over there, leaning against Liqiang eat grapefruit cake, I lift some small stones thrown toward the river, the far shore of the partridge call, I've learned to call:
　　"'Happy happy!'"
　　Grapefruit smiles:
　　"Is a call brother Yan miles! Hear: 'Yan brother happy!'"
　　I seem to not be in this non-retaliation:
　　"Is a call grapefruit: 'sleeves happy!'"
　　After the gallery came from the mother's cough, our temporary silence that she stirred. I reached the top of celery together in each other a little chill, still quietly walked into the door, the light reflected on our face, think why is divided into two, but I do not know the world outside than we have people.
　　For September 1924.



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