Chapter 33: Summer Heat to the River
Since the black cat left, our gang quiet for a long time, did not go out again fooling around, even the eel fishing thing, also do not go to do.
At home silently thinking about the whole thing, thinking about the many nasty things we have done, from the inside, deep self-reproach, condemning their conscience.
Because of our youthfulness, because of face, because of some unwarranted fame, we got into trouble for nothing, fought with others, and competed for power. We in order to show their own that hateful face, show how powerful, how to let people afraid, everywhere with people talking on top, unreasonable trickery churn three points, moving then out to hurt people, in order to be fierce enough to be ruthless, ruthless and bold as a glory ……
Our sins, although not considered to be the greatest sins, can be too many in number.
And Liu Bin, he was hit harder than us, occasionally we go home to find him, he is at home on the bed lying smoking, the bed throws a few empty bottles, some peanut shells and melon shells …… Anyway, his mother's disease, is in addition to the root, and will not recur in the future, the family left the money, but also enough for him Liu Bin to marry a daughter-in-law, so now he seems to spend a lot of money does not care, and the family money is all under Liu Bin control. Daughter-in-law, so now he seems to spend money, don't care, and the money at home, surprisingly all under the control of Liu Bin.
Liu Bin's parents in this matter, more depressed a lot, they do not have the face to face their son, because from the inside, they think they are unforgivable sinners, they indirectly killed the parents, in-laws, can peace of mind? Think about if Liu Bin has a daughter-in-law, the same does not take their life and death seriously, they can not heartache?
So they gave all the money to the son, after all, the money is also the son earned, originally belongs to him, and …… they feel that they are not qualified to take the money.
This is how our gang is, muddling through more than half a month.
Summer to the hottest time, into the ambush day.
This afternoon, is really stifling boredom, the house is hot like a steamer general, Chen Jin happened to come to find me, the two of us chatted a few words, feel really boring tight. This period of time because of the Liu Bin family that a little thing, the harm of our brothers and sisters are also listless, the heart has been like eating a fly like nausea and difficult …… This should be the old saying, usually do not do something wrong, half the night is not afraid of ghosts knocking on the door ah! Alas ……
I said: "I did not think that this God is really poisonous, the hand really fucking black, this is a dozen lives, and all are not good death, alas, you say that if this is really retribution, that our brothers and sisters are not, are not good death ah?"
"Hey you don't talk nonsense, you deserve early retribution, you kid did not do good things, don't pull us also involved, we can be playing small has been a good boy, three good students, go to a trip to the city, but also specialize in looking for the old granny to help cross the road ……" Chen Jin immediately laughed and sarcasm me, he then said Chen Jin immediately laughed and sarcastic me, he then said: "But you kid is not the same, you say, usually in the village bully did not? You also seduced a good family girl ……."
I was immediately furious, glared and said: "fart, to say that the old man bully I recognize, the old man did not seduce a good girl, this is purely planted, on this point, also have to be thunderstruck your dog days."
"Yo yo, put on pants on the denial? Liu Ya Wen is not your wife? Your fucking face can be really fast."
"Fuck, I when you say what, Liu Yawen that is not the old man seduced her, is her …… look on us, non-crying to marry me."
"Bah! You don't want to be shameless, not afraid of the wrath of God."
I countered: "You dog day to face, go to the city to help others granny cross the road, the granny simply did not intend to cross the road, you motherfucker dead pull hard tug to get people over, you that is to do a good thing?"
"That also have to blame you, who let you and I bet, said I can not help the old granny over ……"
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In the past, we all like to fight, and the more amusing the more fun, idle time, a few brothers sit together, most of the time is to fight to kill time, cheek to cheek a day on the past.
But today, Chen Jin and I did not fight a few sentences, suddenly a very tacit understanding of the stop, think this is very boring to tease a few words, no meaning at all.
After a moment of silence, Chen Jin said, "Go find Hu Laoshi."
"Find him for what?"
"Ask him if there are still evil things in the village, and if evil things will come."
"What for?"
"If there is no big thing, I want to go out to work …… to stay at home, it is boring."
I froze, yes, can not always stay at home, is really boring, Liu Bin home this time the matter, let us a few young people as if overnight, matured a lot, know a lot.
In this world, there are many things we can not tell, and we came to this world, is to bear some of the trials and tribulations of the world, whether happy or sad, are all trials and tribulations, are life, if really only happy, the whole day is like our young people in general, fighting, happy, purely idle, idle boredom to the disease, so nothing to do.
But really have been living like this, but also gradually feel monotonous, boring, boring through the top. Life, originally should be colorful, even if we go to suffer, but also to make their own life, more rich.
Suffering is a blessing, as long as you can live honestly and openly, is a blessing. The heavens in the underworld, has been silently watching the world, although many times, the heavens are merciless, do not go to pity people, but the heavens go to those who sinned against the most evil people, imposed the most severe punishment, from the matter of Liu Bin's family, can be seen.
Our brothers and sisters also privately discussed the existence or otherwise of the heavens, ultimately, whether or not the existence is still an unsolved mystery, can not be confirmed. This reminds me of the "book of foreign lands" in the beginning of the words: but all village temples, mostly for the evil spirit of foreigners living, eating people's beliefs, take people's spirit, to survive; by the name of the gods and immortals hope that for the harm and people, so that the local aura, so that all things are difficult; although there are occasional good, but also not much. However, the gods and spirits in heaven are long, and there are few controls, are they gods? Immortal? No leisure also ……
What is Heaven? And what is the Heavenly Way of Nature …… If the gods and immortals dominate the so-called Heavenly Way of Nature, then, according to what is written in the Book of Different Lands, God? Immortals? No leisure also …… they simply do not have the time or lazy to manage many of the world's inequalities, or, this is the way of heaven, the world's inequalities, is the natural way of heaven.
So it is necessary for us to live a little more exciting in our lifetime, so that we can be more colorful in our lives.
Chen Jin said: "If there are evil things, let's do a few fights with the evil things, destroy a few evil things, it is not a wasted life, at least a bit of excitement, a bit of excitement, in the future, with the people say, our brothers and sisters with the demons and monsters to do a few fights, but also killed it a few, that more face …… Besides, if it is really with the evil things to do a few fights, but also killed it a few, that more face. If you really do with the evil, how to say is also considered to be the elimination of the devil to defend the road, defend the road, should be the way of heaven, right? This God it is no longer good, in the future, if we do something out of the ordinary things, not conscience, God remembered our good, always have to work for a little bit, you say is not it?"
"Then you still want to go out to work?" I said doubtfully, this kid said these words, is not self-contradictory?
"Alas, if there are no evil things in the village, I don't want to stay in the village." Chen Jin sighed and said, "As you know, our buddy's reputation in the village is really bad, since I learned about Liu Bin's family, my heart has not been comfortable, always feel that we owe the village a lot of people, usually walking on the street, I feel that someone is behind us pointing at us, alas… …"
"Are you scared?" I said with a forced smile.
"Well, really a bit scared." Chen Jin this person is very frank, live a very real, not at all hypocritical, he said: "To say the heart, I think we are really enough before the grandchildren, live a little bit of meaning is not, alas, think about it, we have grown up so big, what has done nothing serious? No, oh no no, from last winter, we stole the meat from the grandmother's temple, and the evil consumption, dry up, this one after another, caused so many things, now think about it, this is a positive thing, how to say that we are also in addition to the devil to defend the way, but also to maintain the peace in the village is not?"
I nodded with a bitter smile and said, "But how many people in the village say we are right?"
"Why don't they say we are right?" Chen Jin asked.
I was stunned, in fact, these things have been rumored in the village, but why the village people still do not say we are good?
Chen Jin sighed and said, "Isn't it because we have a bad reputation? We are notorious, unless we correct ourselves completely and persist for a few years or even for the rest of our lives, we will be able to erase the bad impression that we have left behind among the villagers."
The room was quiet, after a while, I said: "So you decided to go out to work?"
"Well, do a good job, never fool around again, there's no point in living." Chen Jin nodded.
"Then let's go look for Hu Laoshi, alas, listening to you say so, I also think about going out, but then think about the old woman, we have to let the village peace and quiet, there is no more evil things to come, before we can go out ah, leaving Hu Laoshi himself, I do not feel at ease." I got up and walked outside.
Chen Jin followed me and said, "If the village stays unsettled, are we going to stay in the village?"
I was stunned, shook my head with a bitter smile, and didn't say anything, but I knew in my heart that this was simply impossible.
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The poisonous sun hanging high in the air, dazzling people lowered their heads to feel blurred, the sunshine of the dirt road surface hot hot hot, floating up more than two feet high gray dust, the air in mid-air, are sunburned as if the substance, the naked eye can see the flow of the air, layer by layer like the ripples of the water flow.
Chen Jin and I walked in the alley, although the two are bare-chested, wearing big pants and shoes, can walk to the mouth of the alley, is still hot and sweaty.
At the mouth of the alley, next to the edge of the canal, there was a thick willow tree with many branches and leaves that blocked the sunlight, and there was a huge shade under the tree.
We both walked to the shade of the tree, a butt crooked in a few bricks to sit down, this is the usual place for others to sit in the cool, has long been neatly arranged. Chen Jin took out his cigarettes, handed me one, the two of us lit up and smoked, frowned and tilted his face up, looking through the shade of the dappled sunlight, the dog days of the weather, really hot ah! Walked such a small section, we are both a little lazy to walk to Hu Laoshi's home. To Hu Laoshi's house, you have to walk up a long way without shade, to face the direct sunlight, boy, my bladder are sunburned pain.
When we were sitting under the tree in a bit of a daze, Liu Bin and his younger brother Liu Min came out from the alley of their house.
As soon as Liu Bin saw us, he revealed a somewhat far-fetched smile and said, "Yo, what are you two doing here?"
"Cooling off, this shit weather is killing people." I said with a smile.
Chen Jin took out a cigarette and threw it to Liu Bin and asked, "Hey, what are you doing with Minzi?"
"Hey, this kid is too hot to handle, he wants to go to the river to take a bath, no, I'm a bit uneasy about him going on his own, and followed him here." Liu Bin lovingly touched his brother's head.
"Bullshit, what's there to be uneasy about? Minzi is thirteen this year, right?" I smiled and beckoned Liu Min to come to the front, patted the kid's butt and said to Liu Bin: "Don't mind too much, when we were eight or nine years old, we secretly went to the river to bathe behind our parents' backs, and people are such big kids, do we still need to be in charge?"
"That's right, our gang goes to the river to bathe together all day long, but you, you won't let me go!" Liu Min glared and huffed .
Chen Jin and I both furrowed our brows, thinking, isn't this nonsense? When did Liu Bin have such a wide control?
"What do you know? What if something happens? What do you want me to do as a brother?" Liu Bin roared angrily.
Little Liu Min was stunned, his eyes were on the verge of tears, helplessly looking at Chen Jin and I, hoping that the two of us would help him say something.
"Alright, alright, what's the point of being fierce?" I got up and pushed Liu Bin, dragged little Liu Min behind me and said, "Don't bullshit ah, when they are what good children like, come on, it just so happens that the two of us can't stand the heat, walk, take a bath."
Chen Jin also said: "Yes, yes, take a bath to go, grandmother's hot dead old me, look at this weather, quasi downpour not."
Liu Bin helplessly smiled bitterly and followed us towards the river.
In fact, Chen Jin and I both saw, now Liu Bin's family, Liu Bin do the Lord, his father and his mother two people, now basically equivalent to the general waste, has not come out from the shadow of that thing, no matter who, can not accept that fact in a short time.
And Liu Bin since the master, we have to look after the home, he is still young, after all, do not know how to manage a good home, how to take care of their own families, so the care of his brother, it is natural that a little bit of paranoia.
Behind the village is the downriver, then there are not so many chemical plants ah what mess, no pollution, so the river is clear, some sections of the river, even sludge are not, the bottom of the river is all clean sand, the village in the summer, will go to the river to bathe. Children bathing more, day and night, as long as the heat, jumped into the river to cool off, some of the day are several times bath. Adults are different, usually in the evening to the river to bathe.
The bathing place is divided into male and female bathing, which is a natural position formed over a long period of time, as if it was divided into male and female bathhouses.
After a hundred meters upstream of the bridge, next to the several large willow and elm trees, the river turned a corner, the corner of the trees luxuriant sky, there, is the female compatriots bathing place.
Less than a hundred meters downstream of the bridge, there is also a bend in the river, where the men bathe.
The place where the men bathe, further down past the river bend, is the deep water area, swimming skills, and playful boys, often go to the deep water to play in the water, showing their swimming skills and courage.
There were more young people and small children bathing in the late afternoon, but very few adults. When we arrived there, there were already a dozen children and several young people bathing in the river, and the sound of fluttering inside the river was endless.
Unexpectedly, Chang Yunliang and Xue Zhigang are also inside the river is bathing it, we a few greetings, immediately stripped naked and jumped into the river.
Cool river water immersed body, immediately a comfortable feeling let himself can not help but moan out, alas, really these days the heart has been bored, so comfortable enjoyment are forgotten, has not been out of the bath.
A few of us do not surge back and forth, all standing inside the river to gather together, chatting, small Liu Min and his partners to the side to swim and play.
Liu Bin shouted: "Hey, do not go to the deep water to swim ah, be careful to drown!"
"Hey, got it!"
A group of small children agreed, they play a very enjoyable, tie fierce, mallard, play with each other to chase and catch the game, play a lot of fun.
Just jumped into the river has not been much time, the western sky rises a mass of dark clouds, rumbling thunder from the west far away, not long ago, the clouds covered half of the sky, it is about to rain, the weather is more sultry.
A group of small children play and jostle to the shore, and then put on the clothes to run to the home.
Chen Jin and I just jumped down, feel comfortable some, naturally not willing to go, a few buddies a discussion, looking at the weather should be a thunderstorm, come fast go fast, we have to soak in the river, or go up, then, even hotter, just punch the weather, alas, the house may not be hot into what kind of it, we go back to sit in the house, quasi will have to be to steam us cooked.
So, a few brothers think also yes, if the rain is really big, we then go back is not too late, anyway, next to the village, if it does not rain much, we will cool here, better than going home ah, as for whether it will be wet in the grass on the shore of the clothes …… does not matter, anyway, those big pants in the body, but also have to let the sweat to soak through. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that.
A look at us a few big children do not go, small Liu Min and his two small friends also do not go, they took off their pants here, jumped into the river to play up.
And a few of us, but also gradually can not hold down that young heart, so Chen Jin and I take the lead, began to swim in the river swim up, and to the deep water to swim, there, it is our young people such as twenty years of age, water play place, in this kind of shallow water bathing place, how boring ah!