Home>> Literature>> 乡土风情>> Chen Zhongshi   China   现代中国   (August 3, 1942 ADApril 29, 2016 AD)
Countryside
  Mulberry early morning suburban bus drove into town from the old country town before dawn
  Fast asleep woke up. Song Tao from "bam" sound down inside the door opens automatically,
  Inspired by thick snow, the town went to the outside. He and his ex-wife's son married today.
  He was hurriedly returned to the village down to attend his son's wedding. He learned the news in yesterday
  Day, _set_ to buy something apparently it was too late, waist containing three hundred yuan in cash, so that
  The children go home after buying the items they need, what to buy gifts than he may be more fit
  Almost real.
  Snow covered wilderness. Dawn micro-Xi, the shining expanse of snowy cold white
  Light. Song from the village through the town of Mulberry has already widened the road, the snow on the road a car or drag
  Machine run over the tire tracks. Aspen grow on both sides of the road kegs rough. Like two block walls uniform
  Wall, has been extended to flood in swarthy. Wind cold dawn, ah, fields Jakunen
  Silent BAK Ted (Epiktetos, about 66 -?), Mark Aurelius
  (MarcusAuF, the soft sound of snow issued creak underfoot ......
  Song Tao wearing a robe, wearing a hat, wrapped around a child turns on red silk cap shell, is the former call
  After hugged, go on this road. Behind him is the most advanced ideas, it is
  The formation of a ladder system. But the universe is Hushanhushan Ming played in advancing the suona
  The sedan, the car has not yet met his wife sat.
  Wow ...... wow ...... hum hum melodious Suona a chaotic mind blowing Song Tao
  Tablets, like always asking, is sawed sawed ...... ......
  Aunt and sister-in-law when the neighbors were veiled bride to mix into a new house, he _set_ up
  That jump Shangkang go shave one leg, think about a turn from the bride's head. This is the ancient stream
  Customs handed down, in order to prevent soaring bride marriage, the bride Rocker a door first "Urine
  Show. "Her tall and almost like him, still dare to grow it? Even though he was already
  Is a primary school teacher, and still shave their legs very seriously.
  She seems to been expected, a bayan, put his legs separated to one side. He played
  Stagger, think again heels, and she has hid foot of the wall, stood at a distance.
  He jumped to the kang, a hint in the next Ershen Nuzui, uneasy lift kept in
  Red cloth on her face, and my heart hum it, blood rushes to the face, eyes spent, it is
  What a pretty face ah!
  She shyly look at him, they nodded Goddess, sitting in a chair, his hands resting on the knees
  Room, motionless ......
  Another batch of relatives sat in seats, Tihe cage Stock your child on the road. Night downtown housing
  The boys also departed. All burdensome country last traditional wedding etiquette
  Procedures are newlyweds eat acacia ravioli. Ravioli sons and daughters by her family's sister-in-law who
  Pinch of red paint packed in a wooden box, followed by a sedan mention his brother to come. His Ershen
  Carrying a wooden tray from the kitchen came in, there were two wooden tray Penh fine bowls, two pairs of new
  Chopsticks, he had heard his mother's exhortations, silently swallow anxious anxious to eat, want a bite bird
  Package with a copper coin of ravioli, which is a symbol of good fortune and good luck. She was slow to swallow ponder,
  And do not care look. Seeing a bowl of wonton, leaving only three or four times, Ershen a
  Snatched, again handed her a bowl in his hand.
  Gently trampled teeth slightly loud bang, he saw, from fine between her teeth, tucked a
  Pieces of golden coins. Her face was slightly red, put coins into the hands of Ershen.
  "I baby blessed." Ershen smiled, patted her head, "is the first with a son
  Students, who this blessing! "
  Ershen handed over the coins, very serious hand resting on his heart, eyes and mouth
  Pakistan simultaneously indicate: go into his mouth!
  Golden coins, wet yo, sticking her saliva. He was a little embarrassed,
  One looked up, she was staring at him intently, and looked very serious, her speculation and testing,
  He suspected her mouth was dirty? He one of the coins to fill his mouth, his mouth so that coins
  Lane produced a strange feeling faint, sweet, heart lengthy child neglect in the chest
  Wafted up. A side head, he looked down to see her, float a layer of blush on the cheeks,
  Emerged two shallow dimples.
  "Ershen, I went to the pharynx to the stomach!" He said with mock chagrin.
  Ershen anger smiled, pulled out coins from his mouth, the pressure in the Kangxi, clap your hands, cunning
  Crafty smile, the sound of children down: "I know no two people head to pressing coins ......?" Spin
  That is out of the door, pull the door from the outside.
  Fei Teng her face, and her hands to her on the cheek, bent down to go.
  His face fever, afford to sit out the coarse. Father and mother walked the yard
  Ershen send out home footsteps, street door "bam" sound plug bolt, and parents
  The board also lived in the back room sounded twist squeak sound when closed, a small courtyard resting down.
  He gently closing the door, the heartbeat is worse. Her hands still clutching his cheek,
  Bent over, head down, to suppress the sound of the outlet, more uneven. He stood in the narrow
  The building housing the feet, the two looked at three feet away from his wife, does not seem the first time today
  Meet, but already familiar with. Yes, he was eager in the heart of the night, looking forward,
  Depicting, not that such a person satisfying children do? No, she was more than he imagined
  Shadowy more vivid.
  He did not strangeness, first gently around her real muddy shoulder. Today early in the morning before
  Roll bun, fluffy bangs and hair on the temples of the rope together to comb the hair knot behind
  Years, while for the girl's ears and neck covered with exposed, like just opened sprouts
  Color. Her body, there was a strange odor (not powder) threw his face
  Come. He hugged the TV drama warm shoulders.
  "You say nothing ...... ......" She broke from his arm, and he is to come forward to the end of the ride,
  "I have something to tell you ...... say."
  "Speak! I'm listening." He sat down on the other chair.
  "I ......" She lifted her head, still and looked at him, "I can not read ...... you do not
  Dislike it? "
  "I'll teach you to read, write." He laughed, when what is a serious matter, and
  Then spread a piece of paper, pull the plug on the uniform pocket pen on paper to write,
  "Look, this is your name: Tian - show - Fen"
  "I can learn it?"
  "Can!"
  He put pen stuffed her hands, put her hands together and pen hold in their hands, face
  Close to her hair, a painting on paper to write down her name.
  She CeGuo head, the eyes Jumping ray fog-like things, like early spring creek filled
  Water vapor, Chanzhuo whispered: "help me, write down your name ......"
  She between the two names, painted a botched heart pattern, and then looked at,
  Looked a long while, folded, remove the egg from the seats coins, wrapped in paper folded in, and
  Pressure in the seats.
  He suddenly wake up, this is not the girl in rural culture, has a kind of delicate
  Feelings ah!
  She walked in front of him, still and stared into his eyes, and then fell into his arms flapping
  Lane: "Brother ......"
  A tractor drove up, wheel thrown snow particles flung his face, cool
  Ice. Car sat men and women farmers, women with a scarf wrapped around the cheeks, revealing only
  Eyes, ears fan of the men tied tightly under the chin, face red with cold. In the twelfth lunar month
  Ten days, the traditional Spring Festival is coming, they arrived early in the morning around the town are
  To repairing New Year's.
  Fully lit sky on a snowy vast expanse. Near the village of Big Horn positive
  In the broadcast news of the day, breaking dawn between heaven and earth quiet atmosphere. Blue sky
  Like the vast expanse of blue damask, white wilderness like white silk stretch infinitely. And suddenly
  Drop and suddenly mindful of the heavy snow, the winter drought since the dust bowl washing clean,
  Clean Earth, reaching high altitude, fresh air, it is fruitful to his hometown in northern pastoral.
  Leave the road, snow envelops Xiecha on a trail, he walked up the riverside.
  Snow on the flood seems to be more thick, piles of river gravel, wrapped in snow suits, a trickle
  Bend in the snow to go around, rushing ringing. Both sides of the river from the tall embankment repair, waterfront
  One a face brick with cement slope protection. On the embankment tall poplar and willow branches
  Embroidered on a layer of snow.
  Shelves with Mu Banqiao River, across the river to his village, Song Tao, step by step, and finally
  On the other side came up from the slippery wood-deck bridge. Growing on a large willow, two or three encircle thick,
  Seems to have a hollow in the middle, but still dense branches, close to the water, willow life is very
  Long ......
  "How do you go here!" From his village down the river, along the winding
  Walking down the riverbank, under the willow, saw Xiu-Fen, she crouched by the river washing clothes, rub
  Yeah, hammer Yeah, rinse Yeah, river drift with saponin white foam. "Back to it!"
  "I'll be washing the blanket." Sau Fun turned gently hush tone, charming
  Smile, "finished soon."
  "Go back!" He grabbed hold clothes cage, "Go back, sat in the house with me, what
  Say nothing doing! We two together ...... only three days ...... "
  "You're sitting here." She said, pointing around a stone, "You can not wear dirty
  Clothes walking up! "
  "Rest a while." He said.
  She passionately stare at him, smiled meekly, wipe the water on the handle on the skirts,
  And he was sitting under a willow by the shoulder. Surrounded by high over the head of reeds, called quack sound of birds
  Into one, where they Weicong chase, play, love, and the title partner nest made of grass,
  Spawning, feeding chicks.
  Warm evening wind off the river reeds, temples scattered whisk her into his face,
  Her eyes closed, leaning on his shoulder.
  "North Korea is very far away?"
  "Very far."
  "You ...... do not ...... not it?"
  "I was young members."
  "I always feel ...... scared."
  "Do not be afraid."
  "I think you going to do?"
  "......"
  He can not answer, and saw her face, tears rolling down grunt.
  "Do not cry." He said, his throat also choked.
  "I did not cry." She pursed his lips, "face the tears streaming finished, save before you go
  Stream. "
  "I go, everyone was assured under. Dad and mom Age is not large, there is his brother according to
  Look. "He said," Only one person ...... you ...... "
  "Do not miss me." She saw him uncomfortable, actually a body, giving him a wide heart,
  "I have eaten a child suffering what is now well into the heavens. Parents who are old and good, until I
  Or, as I told the front biological mother ...... "
  More good wife ah!
  "North Korea where?" She asked.
  "Over there." He pointed to the eastern sky. Willow and woven into a dense aspen
  Forest. In May, the blue sky eagle wings leisurely. Qinling peaks hidden in faint
  The fog inside.
  "We're too far away." He said.
  "Far." She said, "You're always in front of me."
  She pulled out from their wedding night lingerie pockets first, he kept on holding her hand, write
  Under the name of two people that piece of paper, the paper has painted a picture of her heart. Rocket was the couple
  Together sucking off coins, soon fall on local stones.
  "You are in my heart day and night."
  Distant footsteps rang, Song Tao release arm around the shoulder Xiu-Fen hand. Weicong weeds
  On the ground, leaving one person flashed grass cage figure. He looked out, it was his father, got the message
  Hid Weicong go ......
  Winter, snow covered everything straitly with, tell Reed Park, rice and wheat
  , The sorts of birds had to fly back south for the winter. He stood quietly under a large willow, which
  A river stone, is Xiufen waving his wooden club to scrub clothes come from?
  Late winter sun exposed face from the top of the roof to Dongshan peaks, reflecting Yukino
  Numerous accolades, snow changing the color, which is very bright and spectacular sight.
  Onto the riverbank, there is a stampede out of the snow at any sidewalk, through Song
  Village.
  His glorious return from North Korea, to a factory in the city when the propaganda chief. Each star
  Saturday, riding a bike back, and parents gathered his wife one day, leaving most of the wage
  Sunday night to go to the factory to work in town, a man the United States to live, neighbors who do not
  They boast a man ah! Grandpa is the best father, the mother is the top wise mother, daughter
  Virtuous woman is a wife, and he is the Southern Song Dynasty Village was the top showing great promise, as dry as a major event in the Wei
  People! Who can expect, but two years in Korea just met a woman working paper
  Members assigned to the publicity department, here is a new construction boom is _set_ off ancient city
  City, the two get to know from the war comrades, comrades from the relationship and on the lower level, will soon send
  Exhibition to ...... he married her.
  Re-marriage is a joy, but divorce is painful and Xiu-Fen, no art troupe member
  To his joy for comfort, he was unable to endure the pain of divorce. Father was a biography
  Loyal defender of traditional morality, the mother is too fond of Sau Fan. His years in Korea,
  And the family is somewhat strange, but Xiufen but flesh and the family formed a cross-cast
  Relationship ...... father and mother, actually determined to get rid of the rebellious son, willing to continue
  And a surname wife had their life on the farm.
  "Go! Death, you say nothing into my house!" Said the father.
  "You enjoy your wealth, I had I a farmer sun and the moon, I and Sun Sun starvation,
  Does not seek to worship you Wazi! "Mother" bam "sound, the street door.
  He shut tight street door, walked the village, looked back wall of compassion hidden in a tree watching
  The lively village, is a kind of rejecting the eyes! He walked out heavily village, over the wood
  Itabashi, into the city ......
  He and his wife after the family is happy. She looks intelligent than Sau Fun, ogle,
  Look delicate, delicate skin, speak kindly, well-educated ceremony, for his thoughtful care of ......
  Over a short period of fanaticism, but I still can not feel his Xiufen those specific things,
  He often secretly miss her, there is a feeling of guilt. If you like your parents Xiufen
  Spiteful curse him, curse him, maybe she'll give him the happiness of the initial good impression punch
  Brush. However, in addition to her cry, is painstakingly persuade, persuade high, she assumed he went,
  Nothing to say ......
  Occasionally met in the city Xiangdang Song village, he asked them to bring some money and clothing to children
  Son, to my surprise, after the village into the city of the Southern Song Dynasty and was wrapped Xiangdang brought back with it, and
  Mother or father passes him the words: "yellow face bun, thick rice soup, can raise Song Tao, also
  Can raise Sun Sun! "
  He began to hate his father and mother. In particular, that he can not tolerate that, Xiu-Fen has been
  Widowed forward. New society, there are so stubborn grandfather and mother, Xiu-Fen bitter. If
  She can find a satisfying husband, for his heart was a comfort. But over many years
  Gone, she still did not her husband's grandmothers and grandfathers had lived at home, so that the sun and moon,
  How she had ah ......
  Calculate the age of twenty adult son had enough, he had promoted the expansion of personnel and equipment
  The deputy director of a medium-sized factories several times. Coincides with the factory job, exceptionally, a number of strokes
  Closed places rural youth. He thought of his son, is the last and the first time to make his father
  Responsibility, he wrote urgent letter to his son to come to him.
  His son did not come, did not come to anyone, but received a letter, saying that he in rural
  Life is still good, his elderly grandfather and grandmother, the mother is also close to old age, rural production team,
  No one man is not enough labor, draft are difficult ......
  _Set_ foot on the field Leng, a gatehouse saw his home soil walls. Door, apparently,
  A person is not. Kanawha Laozhuang base east of the row, the past is a barren tree garden,
  He and partners dig eggs, playing slingshot paradise, now is a neat row of new residential areas,
  Always a brick wall enclosure, spacious new windows, emerged a big red tile mechanism, village
  Front room, large and small, jagged trees, marking the completion of the house sooner or later, that
  Children hugged a bunch of people, he vaguely informed that his son has a new house was built a hospital, certainly in the
  There.
  Young man and his wife who did not know him, he does not know them. Until
  In front of the crowded places, only one woman crowded blinked: "This is not Tao Wazi
  It? "He also recognized that this is Ershen, forcing him to put his mouth to fill Acacia coins of two
  Aunt Yeah, too old to rickets waist, on crutches, his hair white, like snow fields.
  She marveled that he is old!
  A lot of the older old man surrounded him, fuss, and there are not unpopular with him,
  They then tolerate his mood now forgotten, and he graciously spoke, envy
  Mu he got a promotion, made a fortune in town people.
  Ershen instigate a middle-aged wife, called Xiufen out to greet the guests. She knew he was this
  Moment of difficulty, how rashly in? Ershen Ershen really good, old people still know.
  The wife immediately came out in Ershen ears quietly saying something. He guessed, his ex-wife show
  Finland does not come to meet him. Ershen pretended nothing, like: "go with Ershen into!."
  He told Ershen walked behind me Xiangdang who secretly talk:
  "At present, look, when people get married in the city, it touches on!"
  "Food and clothing is not the feeling of sadness, children have a job! See things that intellectuals have far ......"
  "Farmer vision than we stupid mile wide!"
  Is that right? Now look at things this way a farmer. Xiangdang their comments on him
  A. He was thinking, if you did not leave Sau Fan, now in his hometown in rural Shuichi
  Hospital room, after retirement, to help his son to various plots, responsibility farmland, raising some flowers in front yard,
  Some raise backyard chickens in the evening to a small river fishing, is it better to change it twenty-three Xiaoge
  Floor it? He more to old age, the more rustic feel cordial. However, the village people now favor
  He was a visionary move ......
  Door decorated with black paint brush, a new, Gouzhuo red edge, close to the red couplets on the door frame. Hospital
  Sub-pitched reed mat hanging over, blocking the wind, stood under rows Zhuodeng mat huts, backyard Pro
  When _set_tling the kitchen, came boiling oil Baoxiang.
  Through the yard, the back room door, senile mother and temples gray silk Xiufen,
  Greet him.
  "Mom -" He came to it, with a sincere repentance tone, voice choked,
  Dayton meal, he turned, "Sau Fan -"
  Mother of wrinkled lips twitched convulsively, did not answer.
  "You ...... back!" Sau Fun greet him, eyebrows emerged two fold, "Sit
  House. "
  Twenty years did not hear the familiar voice. Obviously, sound and her face
  Like the old, rich, and secretly buried the sad charm.
  ...... I can not read, you do not mind it?
  ...... You ...... forever in my heart!
  He sat down in a chair, then eagerly lit a cigarette, asked his mother: "I
  Dad do? "
  "The cows went." The mother said, "and everyone Song old partner kept a cow."
  The seventy sixty-seven father, still cows, but his son's office in accordance with state regulations
  Workers labor regulations, over a few years in relation to retire.
  A young man came in carrying a wooden tray placed in front of him, is the hometown of bashfulness
  Sub-surface, when the Chinese New Year holidays, weddings and funerals, farmer's breakfast is always Sào face.
  Diced tofu, braised yellow and fungus smell of urine, that taste left in the childhood memories,
  So far forget. After the city, did not eat these noodles can taste and mother do it
  Far worse. He morning hurry, empty belly, that bowl of flavor, what a tease
  His appetite to play.
  He pinched off the smoke, grabbed red lacquered chopsticks, stirring mechanism from long noodles. This is when
  Children, Xiu-Fen was the first step, the bowl end up from under his chopsticks. He surprised a moment, raised head,
  She wants to punish him, revenge him?
  "I went to take about boiling water." Sau Fan said.
  Song Tao mind Om slamming, a full half a minute numb, like a sudden electric shock
  General ......
  She and he married that summer, burning hot popular mesh mess, she gave him to play with the new
  Well water a bowl of ice cold noodles, mix the sesame oil, sesame salt tune, he ate incense. However,
  To Houshang, made his Duteng disease, pain kang roll.
  Her anxious scratching their heads caught cheek, hand foot panic disorder, tears DC.
  Mother came in, and asked: "noon meal to eat anything I do not?."
  "Noodles." She replied nervously.
  "He is not good from the lower abdomen, can not eat cold food. Had a cold face, go to the boiling water
  Lane then take it. "Mother said, and did not blame mean," I forgot told you. "
  "But he ...... Why do not you say?" She wept, blame yourself blame him, blame
  What a sound in his mouth, deep feeling ah.
  "He gluttonous!" Mother love watching daughter, for her liberation. Then sitting
  Kang, extending his hand, lifted the skirt on stroking his belly rub. He was quiet and the
  Canals of water, he picking up other people's sour apricots peaches, again depriving the time stomach ache
  Waiting, the mother fell asleep so he was rubbing his mother that his hands ah!
  Mother knead for a while, said she has done, he went out.
  He and she are clear: mother to daughter in the demonstration.
  According to her mother, seated posture on the kang, reached into his belly, gently
  Pressing, rubbing ...... that is different from the mother of a pair of gentle hands ......
  ...... I went to take it.
  She also remembers that he can not eat cold rice illnesses, and he himself have forgotten even that.
  In the Korean War the War, the harsh natural environment, that he had a workout
  Consumers iron fossils gastrointestinal ...... but she still remember!
  ...... I went to take it!
  Sau Fan, carrying a bowl of noodles came in, handed his hands with both hands, then turned,
  Head down, sat on a stool next to his mother, head bowed.
  He looked at the steaming bowl, could not hold back my heart aches, and two rows of heat
  Tears welling, a drop in the bowl.
  Mother's mouth twitching and trembling, crutches, a long hey boo loudly, out
  Went to the door.
  He raised his head, stared at him Xiufen. The house is very quiet, noisy yard laughing
  Noises, laughter, but also bring out the small room in a quiet atmosphere. He finally endure
  Live, Genggengyanyan said: "You ...... by ...... bitter ......"
  She a covered my mouth, do not cry, tears never nose on both sides
  Surge down from the back of the hand rolled, dropped on the breast of the ...... After a long silence,
  She shakes up there, said: "It passed, and then ...... then say nothing ...... mention that
  The! "
  If she derided him a few words, he could get psychological balance. She did not scold,
  No divorce, after the divorce did not, and today he and her face, she still did not. She
  For he was too lenient, and this tolerance guilt arising from psychological, growing in the years
  The passage of the load getting deep.
  "I was wrong the first step, the second step the wrong parents." He finally put the plot in the heart of
  Words come out, "Only you ......"
  Her eyes were wrought into an awe-inspiring look and said: "Do not blame the parents, they told me
  Which way to go ...... is that I do not want to. "
  "Why?" He asked, "Why should you be suffering from one?"
  "My heart ...... ...... then someone blanket does not fit ...... ......"
  She has a covered my mouth.
  He sat down in a chair, alas ...... slamming, speechless. And it was so!
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