Chapter 9: Li Ersao Remarries

Now, the quilt that Li Dafa is covered with is made by Sichuan women who picked cotton. Occasionally, there are some cotton fields left after picking. It is hard to imagine how many acres of cotton fields that petite figure had to go through to collect enough cotton for two quilts. Almost ten years later, cotton has almost become a cover and is not very warm. He is still covered with a military coat, and he has also entered the glorious aging stage.

One day, the second sister suddenly asked him if the military coat was heavy on him. The big man in the past is now just a skeleton. The second sister was afraid that the military coat would crush the skeleton.

Li Dafa nodded. It was not the military coat, but a piece of grass that would crush the strong camel, because the camel was old and sick.

The second sister found the smallest key from a bunch of keys and opened a black lacquered elm box. Inside, mandarin ducks were playing in the water, and the red and green were full of joy. A new quilt, the cotton wool was soft and the back was gorgeous.

She took out a blanket to cover Li Dafa. When Li Dafa saw the mandarin ducks coming out of the box, he suddenly made a long series of chattering sounds. Because of his excitement, he obviously spoke too fast, and others could not hear what he said clearly. His military coat rose and fell.

The second sister was a smart person. She said, "If you don't cover yourself now, when will you wait? You can't bring it with you when you die. You still thought that little girl came to serve you. When you were well, she left without saying a word. Now she is like this, even if she knows, she will hide away like dog shit."

As she said that, she shook open the blanket that the Sichuan woman had covered her with, and a colorful cloud came over. Li Dafa's body was like an undulating hill, and he coughed violently. The large tumors on his face and neck were a scary liver color.

The second sister didn't dare to provoke him, so she had to remove the blanket, fold it, and the two mandarin ducks returned to the box. As she put the quilt away, she said, "With such a stubborn temper, no wonder the wife ran away. Wait, take it away! Anyway, no one wants it if it stays, and we think that rat is coquettish."

Li Dafa saw the quilt returned to its original place, and the hills on his body became plains again. Perhaps in Li Dafa's heart, he hoped that one day, the Sichuan woman would suddenly stand in front of him, grinning like a wild flower with her buck teeth.

On the evening when Li Dafa received the letter from a foreigner, some people in the village spread the rumor that he was crazy.

A villager who came back from work said that Li Dafa was singing a big opera on the mountain facing the setting sun, with a hoarse throat and loud voice, dancing and waving his hands, and scared the birds away from returning to their nests.

The villager stood with his hoe and listened for a long time. He could hear that Li Dafa sang the familiar Li Ersao's remarriage: "I have similar personalities with the fifth brother. It seems that he can be my lifelong partner. But it is not easy to remarry. I have to think carefully and be more careful. I am afraid that the old woman will block me and my mother will not let me remarry someone else. Although the fifth brother treats me well, it is terrible that I am interested but he is not..."

People corrected Li Dafa's mistake in the discussion. The person Li Ersao wanted to remarry was not the fifth brother but the sixth brother.

After the Sichuan woman left, Li Dafa's two sisters agreed that he was deceived.

The eldest sister always sighed: "Alas, honest heart, honest heart is not popular in this society now..."

The second sister gritted her teeth: "That rat..." She finally didn't have to call her a hen, and she was not afraid of insulting the title of scholar's wife.

Li Dafa didn't think so: "What can I cheat? I can't cheat the house or the people. The money is not much. It's just a little food and drink. People are busy in the fields and at home all day. Even if you hire a long-term worker, you have to pay him." He always felt that when they were together, the man was in love with the woman. The Sichuan woman was Li Ersao in his heart. But from then on, Li Dafa gave up the idea of ​​looking for a woman. He lived a life of light and dark with a little stupid dog. When he bought a fire cake, he threw one to the little stupid dog. When he bought a steamed bun, he threw one to the little stupid dog. The little stupid dog always happily took the fire cake and steamed bun and chewed it slowly. The little stupid dog slowly grew into a big stupid dog among these fire cakes and steamed buns. He had four big northern rooms. He was not bad looking, could work and didn't gamble. In the eyes of women who had been divorced for many years and widowed, he was a bachelor. Someone introduced him to several widows. He was the fat meat in the eyes of the widows, and the widows were the chicken ribs in his eyes. When the fat meat met the chicken ribs, they could not be stewed in the same pot, so the fat meat ran away first.

He felt that it was difficult to find a woman with a similar temperament, and he didn't want to raise a son for others, so he simply lived a life of one person eating enough for the whole family.

The prediction he interpreted from the serious face of the announcer on the black and white TV was almost the same. In ten years, his black and white TV was replaced by an 18-inch color TV. I don't know when the TV station stopped taking a break on Tuesdays. After adding a set-top box, it was still busy with meetings, but there were more and more TV series. He also bought a DVD player and several Lv Operas that he had not listened to enough in the past. In addition to the classics "Li Ersao's Remarriage" and "Wall Story", there are also "Borrowing the Year", "Xiao Gu Xian", "Wang Xiao Gan Jiao", etc. When he was not busy in winter, the voice of the evil mother-in-law in Li Ersao's Remarriage was often heard from Li Dafa's house: "I have the chickens on credit, I raise the ducks, I am reluctant to eat the eggs, I sell the money to weigh cotton..." On this day, the eldest nephew came, and he was free, so he asked the doctor Guo Gai to issue a certificate and go to the hospital to get Du Leng Ding. He said: "Guo Gai, that kid, even the certificate is so slow, I am afraid that if something happens in the hospital in the future, he will be found and his medical license will be revoked. Is it that serious?" Guo Gai's head is still desertified, but Guo Gai has changed a little. At first, when Guo Gai came to give Li Dafa nutritional injections, he was like a detective, struggling to find small branches in a long piece of bark every day. Two bottles of nutrient solution every day, water drips through stones, and it is difficult to wear through stones. The injection was supposed to be given in the morning, but Guogai has been late lately. Sometimes he is still not seen until noon, so my second sister always has to ask him to come. He always says, "I just went to so-and-so's house for acupuncture, I just went to so-and-so's house for cupping, I just went to so-and-so's house..." In short, he is always very busy, too busy to do anything, as if everyone in the village is sick and he is the only savior.

Once my second sister went to find a doctor again. The doctor was wearing glasses, and his fat hands grabbed a handful of Chinese medicine from the densely packed medicine boxes. As if it was not enough, he pinched out a few more, looked at them with his eyes, looked at them for a long time like looking at gold, and then carefully poured them on straw paper. His movements were slower than an old cow eating grass. My second sister looked at the dozen or so straw papers spread out on the table. He couldn't finish his work in the morning.

At the door, Guogai's wife was threshing corn cobs, commonly known as threshing cobs. In the middle of a pile of golden corn cobs, the small machine for peeling corn is like a dough press. Put the round corns in from above, shake the handle a few times, and the corn cobs look like naked chickens with hair removed. The pot-covered wife sat on the bench, her belly was like a drum, and she always panted when she bent down and shook the handle.

Seeing this, the second sister came over and said, "Sister-in-law, take a rest, let me do it. I am the best at this job. I can finish the corn cobs of my three acres of land in one day."

The pot-covered wife moved her fat body and left the revolutionary position that made her suffer. The second sister went into battle, and her corn cob peeling skills were really demonstrated again. She held a corn cob in her left hand and shook the handle with her right hand a few times, and the naked chickens were like coming off an assembly line.

Guo Gai's wife yelled at the slow doctor in the house: "You dead thing, why don't you go and give Li Dafa an injection..."

When Guo Gai came back after the injection, it was already noon. There were a lot of corn bones and corn kernels all over the ground. The second sister looked up from the harvested fruits and said: "The sun is setting. I have to go home to cook. I'll come back in the afternoon."

In the afternoon, after Li Dafa had the injection, she really came again and stripped the doctor's corn like a naked chicken.

Later, Guo Gai started to be late again.

The eldest sister said: "How much money can I make from these injections? I'm tired of it and don't want to come. Besides, I didn't get a share of the land and trees last time. How can I be willing? Don't we have a bag of black fungus? Bring it with you next time when you invite the doctor."

The black fungus was a gift brought by the eldest brother Jiamusi. The two sisters used some when making dumplings.

The second sister said, "Such a big bag of black fungus, authentic from the Northeast forest, must be worth dozens of dollars. It's a waste to give it to this bald man." She kept saying it was a waste, but she still took the black fungus to Guo Gai's house. When Guo Gai saw the black fungus, a cloud of joy passed over his head, and he pretended to treat the things as dirt, and said with his eyelids drooling, "Oh, what are you doing? It's the doctor's job to save the dying and the wounded. How can you accept things? Those doctors in big hospitals who accept red envelopes have no medical ethics. We are from the same village, so don't be polite." After saying that, Lightning glanced at the black fungus and asked worriedly, "Did the eldest brother really bring it from the Northeast?" The second sister said, "Yes, the last time the eldest brother brought these things, it took a lot of trouble, and he took a train and a car. It's authentic from the Northeast forest. My fifth brother cut trees there when he was young, and he knew that the black fungus there is delicious. It is many times more delicious than the ones sold in supermarkets that claim to be from the Northeast. The ones sold in supermarkets may be fake. I am giving a rare gift to my benefactor. No matter how many days my fifth child has to live, as long as he has one day left, we have to give him an injection to save him. I will have to trouble you again in the future. "

Guo Gai pretended to refuse for a while, then happily accepted it. He said happily: "I am not as respectful as you are. I will also try some authentic Northeastern black fungus. This black fungus has many benefits. It is commonly known as a blood vessel cleaner. It has many benefits for the elderly. You, my second sister, should eat it more often."

The second sister thought to herself, where can I go to eat it if I give it all to you, but she said: "That's right. We have relatives living next to the big forest. It's easy to eat Northeastern black fungus!" The pot cover began to sigh again: "In recent years, people's living standards have improved. Do you know why more and more people get cancer? Diseases enter through the mouth. It's all because the food people eat is too bad. What about fake fertilizers and pesticides? The Chinese are harming themselves. Last time I bought black fungus from the supermarket in town, I spent dozens of dollars. When I came back and soaked it, there was a pot of ink. It was all dyed and pretended to be Northeast black fungus. It really hurt people. Cheating, deceiving, people's hearts are not as good as before, this world is finished." The second sister didn't care which world was going to end, she only cared that her fifth child was about to end. A bag of Northeast black fungus temporarily dealt with the old doctor. When the eldest nephew came, it was already long past noon. The sunlight at three or four in the afternoon shone into the room very sparingly. A fly lay on the glass motionless. The sunlight outside was still lively, but the fly in the house seemed to have no way out. The nutritional injection was finished. At the end, it seemed that not a drop of it could enter for a long time, which made Li Dafa feel uncomfortable. He simply stretched out his other hand and pulled out the needle by accident.

Because of the pain, Li Dafa's body shifted a little in the quilt, his shoulders were exposed, and the collar of his torn autumn clothes was stretched wide because of the deformation, and the two bones of his shoulders were exposed, like an empty swing frame.

Seeing this, the eldest nephew pulled his autumn clothes up, and the thin gravity of the autumn clothes almost broke the skeleton in the quilt. Li Dafa screamed in pain: "What are you doing? Are you going to kill me?"

The eldest nephew understood what he said and knew that he had caused trouble, and hurriedly said: "I'm not afraid that you will be cold?"

Li Dafa felt a little regretful after he got angry. His eldest nephew was only a dozen years younger than him, and he had been a revolutionary comrade with him. The farthest they went was to Inner Mongolia to sell watermelons. Of course, they didn't have the ability to be watermelon vendors, so they relied on their strength to work as loaders.

Li Dafa made amends and said, "Take the TV on the table away."

On the table opposite the bed, there was a color TV from Shibacun, which was bought with the money earned when he went to Inner Mongolia to work. The eldest and second sisters sometimes turned on the TV and randomly changed channels to relieve Li Dafa's boredom and distract his attention from the pain. Many times, the TV screens were either about selling medicinal herbs, which always claimed to cure all diseases and bring people back to life. Or they were about women losing weight, and the women with swimming rings tied their belts around their bellies, and the swimming rings shrank. The men and women who hosted these programs had rapid and loud voices, like the monkeys beating gongs and drums at mountain fairs. After the DVD player was taken away by the scholar, the Lü opera could no longer be played, and Li Ersao's fearless mother-in-law also took a break for the time being. Li Dafa was afraid that the scholar would come to steal the TV again one day, so he wanted to move the TV safely.

The eldest nephew had a 29-inch color TV at home, and he was not interested in this broken TV at all. He was interested in the set-top box, but he felt that it was not right to take the things away while the person was still there. He wanted to say: I will take it after you leave. But he felt that it was not appropriate, so he said: "Now the TV is playing Zhen Huan. That woman is very cunning. She beats the bewitches around the emperor one by one. Wait for me to tune it to the stage for you, and you can take a look."

As he said, the eldest nephew turned on the TV, took the channel selector, and selected the TV stations one by one. Sure enough, Zhen Huan appeared on Heilongjiang Satellite TV.

Li Dafa liked Heilongjiang Satellite TV when he saw it. There was a Jiamusi in Heilongjiang, and his eldest brother lived in Jiamusi. There was a forest farm next to his eldest brother's city, and his youth lived in the forest farm. Now, Heilongjiang TV is playing a woman who is more bewitchy than a bewitch.

He heard Zhen Huan say, "If the wind understands my feelings, don't destroy me easily." He looked at the charming eyes of this woman and felt that she looked very familiar. He searched with the rope of his memory and seemed to touch the lost bucket, but it was far away again.

He fell asleep in Zhen Huan's bright eyes.

In Li Dafa's dream, there was a woman like Zhen Huan running, running in the flowering wheat field, running in the willow forest by the river, and running to a long railway station. Suddenly, the woman disappeared. Li Dafa searched in each carriage, and there was an old man in the carriage staring at him with murderous eyes. There were people in the whole car, but the woman was missing.

Every train means separation.

The train clanged forward, and he ran and ran, and suddenly fell into the dark abyss...

In the middle of the night, Liu You's wife, with her bat ears, heard a noise in Li Dafa's house. This noise was not the usual sound of Li Dafa's pain, but the sound of his second sister's high-pitched voice, the eldest sister's low voice, the sound of the door bolt, the sound of someone jogging, and the sound of the big stupid dog barking.

The water surface that she was accustomed to every night was slightly rippled, and the bottom of the water seemed to be surging.

She suddenly sat up, and Liu You beside her snored like an old sow in a pen.

She was stunned for a long time and pushed Liu You: "Is Li Dafa dead?"