There is a reed beach in the middle of the river. The reeds grow thick on the beach, and the sun shines through the cracks in the reeds like broken gold. There are all kinds of wild waterfowl living here, and occasionally organic sailboats "chug chug" pass by, disturbing the cleanliness of these elves.
Hearing the sound of motorboats in the river, several black heads leaned out of reeds and looked at motorboats. Motorized sailboats full of goods and passengers stagger all the way to the city, which is the place that rural children dream of going most.
With a bang, another head emerged from the middle of the river. Wet hair, like a wisp of water grass, hangs softly on my head. There is obviously a hair missing in the middle, which is bald. He swam quickly with the motorboat and soon got close to the white waves behind the motorboat.
"Are you a debt collector, Fry?" The boss who sailed scolded the river.
Hearing this, he couldn't help but stop, stretched out his black arm and slapped the water with his palm, trying to drive the water to the boat.
A little girl on the boat was soaked through by the water he stirred up. She exclaimed with a clear voice and a sharp tongue, saying, "My skin is covered with fur and sparks, and there is a big mole on my head."
Hearing the little girl's scolding, the people on board and the teenagers among the reeds all laughed.
Frey turned his head bitterly and defiantly said to the reed:
"A group of unintelligent goods! Have the ability to take pictures in the middle of the river? "
Everyone knows that skin swims well, and no one can hold his breath longer and swim faster than him. The water in the middle of the big river is so deep that most people dare not swim easily. Some teenagers refused to accept the challenge of diving in the middle of the river. When he held his breath and dived, he felt the darkness getting deeper and deeper and the water getting colder and colder. There seemed to be many monsters waiting for him at the bottom of the water, and he fled to the surface in horror.
He only swims and dives in the middle of the river at a time. He dived for a long time, and every time he had to wait until he was desperate before he came out from far away. He also touched some mussels in his hand. Touching mussels is also a sideline of these teenagers swimming in the river. Mytilus meat is delicious, and it can also be braised and made into soup. At that time when the material was not rich, it was really an economical and delicious food.
This big river has clear water, not only delicious mussels, but also extremely rich fish and shrimp, so there is a fisherman who specializes in fishing for a living. Most fishing boats are made of wood, and there is a shed propped up with linoleum in the middle for shelter from the wind and rain. The fishermen fishing on this section of the river are a young couple. The man is strong, silent and honest, and the woman is slim and neat. Because I work on water all the year round, my face is rough and dark yellow, and there is water rust. Two people, one with an oar and the other with a net, work at sunrise and rest at sunset. But since I heard the cry of a child on the boat, I only saw the man pull the boat down and close the net alone.
After diving for a long time, the skin surfaced and took a deep breath. When he heard a baby crying, he couldn't help turning his head away. The woman on the fishing boat picked up the baby to nurse, and her skin only saw a glistening piece on her chest, and then she stayed in the water.
The carefree teenager began to have a man's heart on that day.
When he was a child, he had many brothers and sisters at home, and his parents ignored him. Plus, he doesn't like hygiene, so he is sloppy, and he has a rash on his head, resulting in a hair loss. The villagers nicknamed him "Lepidoptera". When the children saw it, they all laughed at him: "Lepidoptera, sparks flying, fire flourishing, bald head."
Lepidoptera has reached marriageable age, but his family is poor and his nickname is notorious. No girl wants to marry him. He still likes to swim in the river and touch mussels, but every time he passes a fishing boat, he has to lean out of the water and stretch his head for a while.
Men work harder than before. Every day before dawn, they go out fishing with paddles. At night, a strong wind blew. He squatted at the bow of the rowing boat, collected the last net and stood up to leave. A gust of wind blew and the boat shook. He was dizzy and plunged into the water.
This river is usually calm and clear, but occasionally when it loses its temper, it becomes rough and the river becomes turbid, showing its fierce side. On the day when Yamato lost his temper, the woman on the fishing boat lost her man.
When the villagers heard that Ran Pitou was going to marry a woman on a fishing boat, there was a big storm. Although the folk customs in the village are simple, the farming culture has created a deep gap between them and the fishermen who have been engaged in fishing since ancient times, and they look down on the life of fishermen driving boats around rivers, lakes and seas. Women in the village will be ridiculed as "people on fishing boats" or "fishermen's women" if they don't properly decorate their heads and tidy up their housework.
His parents strongly opposed it. Although his son has poor conditions, he is at least an old farmer on the shore and a yellow flower boy. The woman not only lost her husband, but also dragged a small oil bottle. Everyone in the village accused leprosy of giving birth to lepers and damaging their heads.
Pitou is an adult, and no one can change his mind. Skin finally came to the fishing boat to propose to a woman. He cleaned himself and put on a hat. He stepped on the deck of a small fishing boat and swayed under his feet, as if swimming on the water and shaking with the waves.
The woman glanced at the firm and honest skin, then at the timid child behind her, sighed and nodded.
On the wedding day, Mao Tou wore a straight khaki tunic suit, and with short hair, the scar on his head was not obvious, and the whole person looked very energetic. The woman wore a red wedding dress with a faint makeup on her face. Under the foundation, a woman's face looks bright and white.
At the wedding, two good boys insisted on telling the reason why they like women. The skin was pulled in front of everyone and twisted for a while before blushing and saying, "She, she, she is very white!" " "Everyone burst into laughter. The shyness on a woman's face turns red through the foundation.
Women are still somewhat beautiful, and many people think so. Unfortunately, it's a fishing girl! But soon, the fisherman surprised the farmers in the village.
According to the custom in the village, the girl brought by the woman should take her husband's surname. The man said to the woman, "the man's surname and the shadow of the tree are useless!" Besides, this girl is the only root left by your ex-husband in the world, and I can't let the underground people have no peace. " The woman is very moved. I didn't expect this seemingly simple and straightforward man to be soft and delicate inside.
Not only did Frey not ask a woman's child to change her surname, but she also regarded her as her own child. Even after having another son with a woman, she still cares about her.
This woman has a rich savings, with which she opened the first grocery store in the village. This move made the villagers look at her with new eyes. The village lives on agriculture, and she earns barely enough money every year. This humble fisherman has the money to open a small shop, which really amazes the villagers. So someone said to Pitou, "I didn't expect your boy to be so lucky." Married a wife not only earned a girl, but also earned a small shop out of thin air. " The tone is full of acid.
She rides a tricycle to the city to wholesale goods every day, and the business in the store is taken care of by the woman. Soon, Pitou's small shop became the center of the village. Everyone came here to stroll, chat and buy some oil, salt, sauce and vinegar.
The woman has studied for several years and is good at accounting. She took the goods one by one and muttered something. After reading them, she casually reported, "It's * * * 5.68 cents. If you give me 10, you get 4.32 cents." People often don't feel at ease, so they "beep" on the computer for a while with their hands, and it really is 5: 00, 6: 00 and 8: 00. Sometimes, villagers don't have enough money, or they don't have money on them. The women generously gave them credit and took out their daughter's math book, which recorded that "on a certain day, the Zhang family took two bags of salt, a bottle of soy sauce and a bottle of vinegar; On a certain day, Liu Laosi took two packs of Pegasus cigarettes. " In a few days, Zhang San's family and Mr. Liu Laosi came to clear the debts in the small account book.
When a woman is the boss's wife, she is carefree, the dark yellow rust on her face has long faded, and her skin has become white, tender and delicate. Although she gave birth to another child, her waist is still soft and tight, just like their heyday, women have lived their best.
There are bold boys in the village who sometimes make fun of her face: "Such a white and tender face is almost ready to come out of the water. Why is there anything whiter than your face? "
The woman sat on the counter coldly, pale.
There are also bold daredevils who take things from a woman and take the opportunity to touch her hand. What's more, they quietly pinch her wrist. The woman is silent, but the next time a man comes to buy something, she just throws it on the counter. The guilty man had to put the money on the stage, pick up his things and leave despondently.
The days when his skin was raw were very comfortable. The only thing that kept his heart from falling straight was that the woman forbade him to go into the river again. That river is a woman's nightmare, and she doesn't want her man to touch that nightmare again.
After the flood of policies, villagers went out to work and do business, and many people came back with bulging pockets. The woman changed her three buildings into mahjong parlors, set up a shed outside the building, and the shop is here. Maotou store seems to have become a small market. Every day is a sea of people, very lively. The fly in the ointment is that Kuaipi and other women are not clean people. Women are good at accounting, but not at housework, so both mahjong halls and small shops are in a mess.
The person who came to play cards glanced at the table and said to Leather Head, "It seems that the table is not clean." Picking up a rag of unknown color, blowing "poof, poof" into the table with your mouth and pulling it quickly on the table, is really diligent. The poker player saw the cards tied with cowhide tendons and frowned and said, "It's time for you to change the cards?" Pippi looked at the cards carefully and said, "I've only been playing for two days, and it still works." Say that finish politely on the stainless steel cup. The guest glanced at the rim of the cup and asked suspiciously, "Is the cup clean?" Maotou put out his head and looked at the cup. He scratched the scar on his head with his hand. With a smiling face, he replied confidently, "It seems clean!" " "Fortunately, the villagers didn't pay attention to it, didn't care too much, and had a good time in the store.
Guapitao's small shops and mahjong parlors have been doing very well. After he tasted the sweetness, he quickly rented three shops along the street outside the community and didn't even have time to decorate it properly. He continued to open a mahjong room with cement.
The villagers who lost their villages, like birds who lost their base areas, gathered in the mahjong hall again with their skins on after a short panic. Although the Pitou Mahjong Hall is simple, the villagers still linger here. But gradually, with more and more communities, there are more and more people in the communities, and almost every community has opened several mahjong halls. These newly-opened mahjong halls are decorated with high-grade luxury, bright and clean, and have air conditioning. So people who come to Pipitou Mahjong Hall to play mahjong are like weasels dragging chickens-they are getting thinner and thinner.
When the ignorant man scratched his head to know where everyone was going, his woman called the decoration team and began to make a makeover of the humble mahjong hall. The woman announced to the guests who came to the new mahjong room to play cards: "Anyone who comes to the mahjong room to play cards can get two eggs a day, and those who come 20 times a month can get a bucket of salad oil." The woman went to the supermarket and bought a leather notebook, which recorded the number of times the guests came to play cards and distributed the number of eggs and salad oil.
The woman's move really worked, and the mahjong hall was soon crowded with people. The husband and wife's clothes and appearance have also changed from their sloppy appearance before, and they have learned to entertain guests like city people. Looking at the mahjong room full of customers, my skin smiled from ear to ear.
But gradually, Pippi was unhappy. Although the mahjong room was still full of people, Pippi had an idea and felt that he was blocked.
I don't know when several young boys came to the mahjong room. They saw people smiling modestly and handing out cigarettes to everyone politely. After finding out the details of mahjong players, these people will deliberately find those relocated households to play mahjong, because relocated households have considerable cash in their hands. Deliberately lost to the relocated people when playing mahjong. After several times, they deliberately said that winning or losing was too small and suggested playing a bigger mahjong. Slowly, the relocated households took the bait, winning and losing more and more mahjong, and the relocated households lost more and more, and the more they lost, the more they wanted to turn over their losses. Unconsciously, their demolition money fell into these hands.
These people exist in other mahjong parlors in the community, not just covered mahjong parlors. Although these people laugh at everyone, they have a cruel smile. Almost all of them have an unspeakable force behind them, and their skins can't afford to offend them. So every time I see these people in his mahjong room, my skin feels blocked. After a long time, I feel as if there is something wrong with my body. I went to the hospital for an examination and found that I had high blood pressure and arrhythmia.
Pitou privately advised the relocated households not to play cards. After the news was known by those people, someone said to the head of Pi: "Old things, don't stand in our way to get rich, or your home will look good!" Scared by them, my blood pressure rose again, and I took medicine for several days before I came down.
These people wander around the mahjong room like leeches, frantically squeezing the money of the relocated households. Finally, Liu Shuanzhu, who grew up with the skin of the village, lost all the money for the demolition. After being scolded by his son and daughter-in-law, he found a short-sighted view.
After hearing the news, my skin seemed to burn. I sat quietly in a chair and waited for a while. I felt chest tightness and finally recovered.
"sin!" I can't help crying.
Fur, who has never blushed with a woman, had a big fight with his wife for the first time. Fury insisted on closing the mahjong room, but his wife wouldn't close it even if she put down her money-fighting business that day.
"I don't earn this kind of money! I earn this money to be struck by lightning! " He shouted at his woman with his head held high.
"People can open a mahjong room, why can't you?"
"Making this money is killing people! I am under 60 years old. It is better to open a mahjong room as a security guard. "
"You have high blood pressure, who wants you? Don't make a fuss, old man! "
That woman used to be stubborn, but she really closed the mahjong room and went to a shopping mall as a security guard. When I became a security guard, I worked hard and earned less money, but my heart was not blocked and I fell straight.
There is a fitness center on the top floor of the mall, which has a large swimming pool with constant temperature. As the welfare of the shopping mall, the shopping mall issued a swimming card to each employee, and they can exercise for free. For many years, my skin was overjoyed. I went to the swimming pool for a while whenever I had time. He goes swimming every time there are few people. Although I am old, I can't breathe after diving for a while, but it feels good to be in the water!
He is on duty in the mall for 8 hours every day, and he has to punch in at every duty point continuously, so it's really a bit hard for him to be 60 years old next year.
"I'm getting old so soon?" He laughed at himself. In the past, the dragon-like momentum in the river stopped so soon? He is a little unwilling. He set himself a small goal, which is to swim 3000 meters every day. "Maybe after a while, I will become a hero again." He was secretly happy, thinking.
Mahjong hall, with so much money and good business, it's really a bit unwilling to say no to it! During the period when mahjong was just closed, women looked at the booming business in mahjong parlors and were really angry with pimps for a while. However, when I saw how happy I was as a security guard, I slowly let go. Whoever is blessed will not enjoy it! Plus the previous savings and pension insurance, it is enough for them to spend their old age. The women who have figured it out and a group of women in the community listen to opera and dance square dance every day and begin to enjoy life.
The woman learned that the skin was swimming in the water again, so she stopped discouraging it. Isn't it fun to be old? Every day, a woman puts a few biscuits and sweets in her skin to let him eat something before going into the water to buffer his hunger.
After work in the evening, Pi Tou dragged his tired body to the fitness center. I caught a cold these days, and I was a little tired after a day on duty. I sat by the pool and had a rest. I ate two biscuits. When your physical strength is restored, you can simply expand your chest with leg press, even if it is warm. As soon as he slipped into the water, the warm water made him feel comfortable and excited.
He began to sprint to the goal of 3000 meters a day. At first, he waved his arm vigorously, and the rhythm was smooth. But after swimming 1000 meters, my skin felt my arms getting heavier and heavier, and my legs seemed to be tied with heavy objects. He felt chest tightness and tried to open his mouth to inhale, but he couldn't recover. He tried to swim to the shore, but his limbs were weak and he could not move.
In a daze, he saw a wide water surface suddenly appearing in front of him, and the water surface was sparkling. He returned to the big river. He tried to look up and vaguely saw a boat floating on the river. The woman on the boat was so white that he couldn't help closing his eyes.
Brief introduction of the author
Tang Yunxiang, People's Police, member of Jiangsu Writers Association and Jiangsu Prose Society. When walking on the road, I will also stop and look up at the stars; When we describe life in words, we are also observing our hearts in words. Recently, novels have been used to describe villages and people, record history and reality, express opinions and express emotions.