Chapter 16 Acacia love
There is a small shop selling dog meat at the foot of Changbai Mountain. The owner is an old woman. The young people in the village call her Grandma Meng, while some older people call her Meng Ni.
Grandma Meng has no children and no children. In her life, she has two men and three dogs ruled her soul one after another.
She spent the first half of her life with snakes and the second half of her life with dogs. When she was a girl, she was already ugly, but she was not as fat as she is now. At that time, she was in a large glass pool, and there were more than a hundred colorful little snakes in the pool, and she was visited with snakes. The finale of this circus was to launch a small car with a large glass trough, or a glass coffin, an ugly woman sitting inside, her body was covered with snakes. Indeed, this glass box was better than the trick played by clowns. Whenever a dwarf pushed the glass coffin out in a car, the audience would praise him and think that there was no money to watch the circus performance. Onlookers were applauding, but she couldn't hear it, she was a little deaf. Her play was performed in the glass, and the glass coffin was her whole world.
Although she sat still, this kind of performance was very tiring. Sometimes, for example, on a hot summer afternoon in 1982, she fell asleep in the glass coffin, and the snakes curled up and crawled on her body. It was not until the summer of 1983 that she began to get used to it, and she eliminated her fatigue and felt a coolness. It was the coolness brought by the cold-blooded animal of snakes. From then on, she became lazy and even too lazy to walk out of the glass coffin. She only came out when she was peeing and shitting. She yawned and asked Shanya who was smoking outside the tent: "Where is this?" Shanya replied loudly: "Guizhou." Sometimes she replied: "Sichuan." After she urinated, she continued to return to her coffin, kicked the snake into the corner with her feet, and lie down and fell asleep.
Once, she felt a stomachache in her sleep. When she woke up, she went to the bathroom and pulled out a snake.
Meng Ni sat in the glass pool. After a long time, her "rufang" sagged and her body became fat. Once, blood flowed out from her butt, soaked her pants. She didn't feel any panic, nor could she put on toilet paper, because the performance was not over. The snakes smelled the bloody smell and began to bite her. The audience exclaimed, and she was still sitting there with expressionless face because the performance was not over. At this time, an angry dwarf ran out from behind. He stepped on the snakes that attacked her with his feet, and then helped her up, and her butt was still hanging.
With a snake, the dwarf pulled the snake down and threw it towards the audience. From then on, she began to thank him and agreed to him. In an alley, she met several drunks with him. They were walking, he hid in her skirt, and she held up a bicycle on the side of the road to defend herself. Since then, they became husband and wife. No matter how small a man is, he is, he is, a woman. Sometimes, she can't figure out whether the brother or younger brother is coming to sleep, because the twin dwarfs look exactly the same. Neither of these two dwarfs have fertility. She has two husbands.
Later, the circus was disbanded, and Meng Ni brought one of the dwarfs back to her hometown and began to live a lonely rural life. She was not sure if the villain she was holding in her hand was the one who rescued her from the snake kiln. This villain had a bad temper, liked to scold and sometimes beat people, and the whole village hated him. He liked to wrinkle his nose and sniff around in the air. After a drink, he disappeared. When people found him, he was already smelly. People in the village ran to a pond to see the salvaged corpses.
After getting drunk, he cried for his father and laughed for his mother. He died of drunkenness in a pond when he was 40 years old.
He can't do anything, he can't hide in his skirt to perform ventriloquy, he can't hide in the water tank to perform magic, he is a waste.
Another dwarf followed Big Thumb to Yunnan. They sold drugs from abroad and sold them to Shanya. Shanya then sold them to Sanjinqian and Ma Youzhai. After the disbanded circus formed the largest drug trafficking group in China.
There was a tall locust tree in front of the shop. That year, the locust flowers fell late, and the magpies were screaming deep in the branches and leaves.
Under the locust tree, Grandma Meng stepped on an old-fashioned sewing machine. Another dwarf came back. He stood at the intersection and the wind blew from behind, which gave him a spirit of dominating the world.
"Ni, are you doing well?"
She didn't answer, and tears flowed down her face.
Grandma Meng killed a dog to entertain him. She had been raising this dog for six years. The dog snuggled at her feet, raised her head, licked the owner's trouser legs, and she also stroked its head with her hands. After a while, she took out a knife, took its head into her arms, and sent the knife leaf into its neck. The dog howled and quickly jumped into the pile of firewood next to the store. She waved to it, and it ran back and continued to snuggle at the owner's feet, with a little trembling. She touched it again
Touching its head, it seemed as if comforting a wounded child, but this warmth flew in a flash. Her knife pierced into its neck again, no different from the previous time, the same wound. The dog barked, with a knife inserted into the firewood next to the shop. The owner waved to it, and it grinned, and this time it crawled back - it repeated twice before it died on the way to crawl to its master, and its blood was also on the road.
The dwarf brought a lot of gifts, gold jewelry, perfume, a bundle of money, and a few poppy shells. Grandma Meng threw everything out the window, and she said, I don't want it.
"Then what do you want?"
"Don't want you to leave."
"I'll be back."
"When will you come back?"
"winter."
“When is winter?”
“When it snows.”
In the evening, they ate dog meat and drank soju and spent a carnival night.
He left early the next morning. This little dwarf was more like a man than a man and never looked back when he was about to leave.
It is a great happiness for two men to love her like a man, although the heights of these two men are less than her ears. In addition to killing dogs, her only hobby is to sleep and rarely go out because she looks so ugly, and her obesity is better than her ugliness. When she was 26 years old, her weight was over 300 kilograms. Excessive obesity even made her unable to tie her shoelaces by herself, so she wore slippers all day and dresses all year round. In summer, she wore a skirt; in winter, she wore four skirts. Her skirt was specially made by a tailor in the village. She never wore "xiongzao". It should be said that there is no "xiongzao" that can accommodate her big "rufang".
Her ugliness has nothing to do with her face. At the age of 40, her weight was close to 400 kilograms, and any movement was slow. For example, she walked slowly, turned around like a boat, stirring the hot air. This fat woman is extremely powerful and can shake off the ripe dates from the tree with one palm. When she kills a dog, she only needs one knife and pull off the entire dog skin with one force.
The poppy thrown outside the window sprouted and grew quietly. In summer, it bloomed gorgeous flowers and soon spherical fruits were born. Grandma Meng harvested the poppy, threw it into the pot, and put it in star anise, pepper, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, angelica, angelica, angelica, meat meme and other seasonings. She cooked a pot of dog meat and picked it up to the market to sell it. She sold it halfway through the way. The fragrance was so tempting that many passers-by stopped swallowing their saliva.
What does not matter, what matters is who to eat with and where to eat. Eating dog meat is not just a dog's problem, what matters is the atmosphere. /~Half♣Floating*sheng:.*No pop-up window++
There are a few messy tables in front of the store, and ice cones with arms are hung on the branches beside the old fence. At noon, the ice cones dripped with water. Changbai Mountain serves as the background of the whole picture. The north wind whistled, and the heroes of Guandong drank big bowls of wine, tore the dog meat with their hands, and patted their chests. In the snowy weather, there is the fragrance of plum blossoms behind each snowflake. After eating the dog meat, they disappeared in the wind and snow, and appeared again in a dimly lit house. These men who exuded alcoholics had tough personalities. Every year in the village, there were men who died of alcoholism, and they fought with each other every disagreement. The person who helped the neighbors put out fire yesterday turned into arsonists in a blink of an eye. The person who gave money to the widowed old woman blocked the road and robbed the road because of gambling.
The ginseng digging people had already entered the mountains, and the hunters at night were still talking around the bonfire. They roasted a brick red and used an iron rake to put the red bricks on the frozen river surface. The bricks thrust and slowly melted the ice. The bricks were located, which was also the place where the sleds passed a day ago, and where the fish swam by several months ago, it has now become a hole, and the fish stuffed under the ice swim to breathe. Several people were holding cigarettes in their mouths, and buckets of water from the ice holes. Several fish were churning in each bucket of water.
Grandma Meng stood by the river. She remembered that in summer, her husband, the little dwarf, threw a wooden bed into the river, and tied the wooden bed to the water plants so that the wooden bed would no longer drift with the waves. He stood on the bed to cast a net and fished. He scraped off the scales with a dagger, washed the fish clean, put it on the wire, and hung it in the backyard.
Snowflakes in the sky were rising, Grandma Meng raised her face and looked at the sky. A heavy snow made her hair look gray in an instant. This poor fat woman talked to herself to the sky:
"He didn't come..."
In the summer of 1998, Grandma Meng finally got impatient. She had a wine bottle on her dining table, with plastic flowers in it. She bought it in the late 1980s. She stood up from the table, closed the door, and walked on the white rural road. It was just dawn. At that time, two things happened - a hornet flew towards the haystack and a cauliflower snake plated into a ball. She turned a corner and went to Shenyang to find Ma Youzhai. What was she looking for Ma Youzhai for? The best answer was not to say it, because the word "Loves" had been written.
Chapter completed!