Roaming in the dark

Chapter 586

When Sheng Chuncheng was a child, he often followed his parents' minibus to Pailing Town, where the county seat of Chun'an County in the neighboring province is located, which is now Qiandaohu Town.

At that time, he was not yet old enough to go to primary school, and his grandparents didn't want to take him because he was too skinny.His grandparents lived in the countryside, and they belonged to the kind of people who were not diligent. His grandfather’s biggest hobby was gambling. When he was young, his family was poor and had no gambling capital. At that time, he caught gambling very well. His grandfather secretly picked up a load of shredded sweet potatoes from home. Dry, and got into the mountains behind.

A group of people carried burdens and gathered on the mountain to gamble. The bet was the shredded sweet potatoes or old corn that everyone picked. If there was nothing else, it would be good to secretly pick out a piece of wheat bran or distiller's grains that were used as pig feed.

When the police station of the commune got the news, the police brought the militiamen from the commune militia company up the mountain to catch gambling. Everyone threw away their burdens, scattered like birds, ran wildly, and hid in the mountains. The police and militiamen did not catch them. People, carrying a load of loads down the mountain, and then went directly into each house to arrest people.

It was not easy to buy property at that time, not to mention things like baskets and poles, even the bowls at home had engraved characters on the bottom of the bowls, and if the bowls were broken, people would go from village to household to come to mend them.

Red or black paint was used on those baskets and shoulder poles, and the words "purchased in a certain year and month" were written on them. The police and militia could find people directly based on the words above.

Sheng Chuncheng's grandfather was taken away two or three times a year, and after he was taken away, he was asked to work voluntarily, saying that he would receive education and pick rocks from reservoirs or roads.

Therefore, whenever a project starts, it is also the time when the police and militia are most active in catching gambling and hooligans.

When Sheng Chuncheng was born, his grandfather was no longer so absurd, mainly because the younger gamblers no longer looked down on these poor old gamblers and would not play with them.Their own reputation in the village and family has long been rotten, and their prestige has also been ruined. It is taken for granted that their children do not give them money.

These old gamblers, who have no money but still have a gambling spirit, still get together every day, and gamble for such a small amount of ten cents that even the police pass by them, and they don't bother to care about them.

After Sheng Chuncheng's parents drove a minibus, they had money, but they never helped his grandparents renovate the house, because they were afraid that his grandpa might lose the whole house one day after he got a new house.Unexpectedly, this old house that no one wanted finally became a shelter for Sheng Chuncheng's family.

His uncle lamented that when his parents were alive, they complained to their two sons all day long and refused to build a new house for them.The uncle said, if a new house is built, it will still belong to others now. Chuncheng, your family probably won’t even have a place to hide from the rain. This is God’s will.

Grandpa is so out of tune, he is outside all day, and his grandma does all the family affairs by himself.In fact, there are no big things at home. People in the mountains don’t even have to be busy with the fields. Some of them are housework, but housework is like this. If you are diligent, you can finish it in a while, or you can procrastinate and keep yourself busy all day. .

At that time, Chunni had just been weaned, and she was taken by her grandma. Grandma felt that she had to raise two pigs, seven or eight chickens, and take care of her granddaughter. She was already the busiest and hardest person in the world. When her parents go back, she will chatter with them for a long time.How dare Sheng Chuncheng's parents keep Sheng Chuncheng at home?
In addition, after the two of them got into the minibus, they became active and gained a new understanding of the outside world.Sheng Chuncheng was their only son (there was no Chunming at that time), and they had hoped that their son would become a dragon. They kept it at home, and they were worried that they would fail to follow the gambling grandpa, so they took it with them. When they drove out every day, Sheng Chuncheng followed him. sit in the car.

When there are too many guests and there is no room in the car, my mother will ask Sheng Chuncheng to get out of the car, give up the seat to the guest, and tell him not to run around, and wait here for us to come back.

Sheng Chuncheng fully agreed.

But the problem is that it takes at least two hours for the parents to drive back to the village, and then back to Pailing.The road is not very far, mainly because when you arrive in the village, you have to wait for the guests to fill up before starting, and the waiting time is relatively long.

How could Sheng Chuncheng wait honestly for more than two hours at the minibus station? Usually, as soon as his parents' minibus started, he would run away and go to Pailing Street to play.

Sheng Chuncheng's favorite place to go was a watch and lettering shop, one of the few state-owned stores at that time.The store is located on the first floor of the original Pailing Department Store, which has been divided into small stores that are rented out to individual owners and engaged in various operations. There is only this watch and lettering shop, because the engraving of seals belongs to a special industry, and not everyone can operate it. , and was preserved.

The area of ​​the clock and lettering shop is small, about a dozen square meters. After entering the gate, one counter is for engraving seals, and the other counter is for repairing watches.Every time Sheng Chuncheng went there, there were always the same two people inside. The engraved counter was a man in his 30s with a pale face without a trace of blood.

On the other side of the clock counter is a man in his 50s wearing round reading glasses.There is still a chain attached to the frame, and the reading glasses hang on his chest when he stands up to talk to the customers outside the counter.

On the wall inside the clock counter, and inside the glass counter, there are various clocks and clocks, including old-fashioned self-winding clocks and various mechanical clocks later. There will be absolutely no electronic clocks.

Sheng Chuncheng once heard a watchmaker say disdainfully to a customer who came for repair with a battery watch:
"This kind of electronic watch does not need to be repaired, and it does not go away because the battery is dead, and the battery can be replaced."

The customer said: "I have already changed the battery, and I am not leaving yet."

"Then throw it away. Anyway, this kind of electronic goods are worthless." The watchmaker said to the guest, and the guest turned his eyes and walked away.

What attracted Sheng Chuncheng in his childhood to the clock and lettering shop is that there are dozens of clocks hanging on the wall and dozens of watches placed on the counter. The hour and minute hands of different sizes, lengths, colors and materials are all neat and uniform. Pointing to the same direction and scale, they are walking in the same direction, chattering, chirping, clanking, although the voices are different, they are consistent and neat.

Let Sheng Chuncheng, who is not very good at recognizing clocks, feel that time is carried by these different mechanical sounds. They are complex, not single, but at the same time they maintain the same rhythm. Sheng Chuncheng would often get lost in the jungle of time, staring at a certain clock or a certain watch, and at a glance, it would take ten, twenty or ten minutes.

This seems to be inconsistent with his stubborn personality, but it fits well with the temperament of the watch shop.

In the watch and engraving shop, Sheng Chuncheng was most attracted by the watchmaker. To Sheng Chuncheng in his childhood, he was very mysterious, even a little out of this world.

The tone and voice of Chun'an dialect are very offensive. If several Chun'an people talk together, people who don't understand their words will mistakenly think that they are arguing.The watchmaker's voice is always slow, soft and waxy, and soft-spoken. Even if he tells the guest that he can throw away his electronic watch, the guest still can't lose his temper and can only speak in vain. His eyes.

And when he wore a magnifying glass on one eye and began to repair the clock, Sheng Chuncheng felt that at this time, he was like casting a magic spell, and the whole watch shop instantly became quiet, away from the noisy street outside.Nothing could hold his head up, he'd already existed out of this world.

Sheng Chuncheng was lying there, he felt that he was very much like the watchmaker at this moment, and Mr. Lan he was holding was like the watch he was leaning over to her.

Sheng Chuncheng kept stroking and comforting Mr. Lan, and told her, relax a little, don't be nervous, okay, okay, let's go on like this, Sister Lan, if it hurts, just tell me, let's take it easy Slow down, yes, that's it, do you feel it...

Sheng Chuncheng felt like the watchmaker, who was taking his time, soft and waxy, repairing Mr. Lan's broken precision instrument in a soft voice, instead of having sex with her.

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