The dust settles

Chapter 33

35. Miracle
I walked around the official village.

Suolang Zelang, Eryi, and Sangji Zhuoma were all surrounded by many servants.Looking at the proud appearance, it seems that they are no longer servants.

The old executioner bowed deeply to me: "Master, my son has followed you."

Solan Zelang's mother put her forehead on the back of my boot and said, with tears, "I mean the same thing, sir." Dirty boots.

In the square, I was warmly cheered by the people.But today, I'm not going to hand out any more candy.At this time, I saw the clerk.After leaving Guanzhai for so long, what I think about the most is not my family, but this tongueless clerk.Now, Weng Boyixi is sitting in the shade of a walnut tree by the square, smiling at me.You could tell from his eyes that he was thinking of me too.He said to me with his eyes: "Good job!"

I walked up to him and asked, "Did they tell you everything about me?"

"There will always be something in the ear."

"Have you written it all down? Written it all down in the notebook?"

He nodded solemnly, and his expression was much better than when he was in prison and when he was just a clerk.

I took a present from the wide lapel of my robe and placed it in front of him.

The gift was a square hard leather bag, which is often worn by Han officers.I have observed carefully, they have notebooks, pens and glasses inside.I asked people in the caravan to get this gift from the Han army. It contained a pair of crystal glasses, a fountain pen, and a stack of beautiful notebooks with rubber covers.

Usually, when lamas see things that are ingenious, they are afraid that there are people in the world who do not use their minds to think about Buddhism and the cause of life.The clerk is no longer a fanatical missionary monk.Two people are facing a bottle of ink and a fountain pen, but they don't know how to pour ink into the pen.The pen cap was unscrewed and then capped, and the cap was unscrewed and then unscrewed, but the ink still couldn't get into the belly of the pen.Facing such an exquisite creation, the wise Weng Boyixi also became a fool.

Weng Boyixi smiled.His eyes said to me: "In the old days, I would have rejected such an overworked thing."

"But now you want to fix it."

He nodded.

It was Mrs. Toast who came out and filled the pen with ink.When I was leaving, my mother gave me a kiss and said to Secretary Gong with a smile: "My son brought back good things for all of us. Write well. What he gave you is an American pen."

The clerk wrote a line of words on the paper with a pen.My God, this line of writing is blue.

In the past, the words we saw were all black.The clerk looked at the line of words that were the same color as the sky, and his mouth moved.

And I heard voices!
Yes, the sound came from the mouth of a man without a tongue!

He didn't just make a sound, he was talking!He spoke!

Although the voice was muffled, it was indeed talking.Not only I heard it, but he also heard it. A very surprised expression appeared on his face. He pointed to his open mouth and asked me with his eyes: "Am I speaking? Did I speak?"

I said, "It's you! It's you! Say it again."

He nodded, and said a sentence word by word, although it was so vague, but I heard it clearly, he said: "The... word... good... look..."

I yelled into his ear: "You speak beautifully!"

The clerk nodded: "...your...pen, my...hand, the writing...is so beautiful."

"My God, you spoke."

"...I, said...something...?"

"You spoke!"

"I... spoke?"

"You spoke!"

"Really?"

"real!"

Weng Boyixi's face was distorted by ecstasy.He tried hard to stick his tongue out to see Chuang.But how could the remaining half of the tongue stick out of the lips?He did not see his tongue.Tears dripped down.Tears streamed from his eyes.I yelled at the crowd: "The man without the tongue has spoken!"

In the square, people quickly spread my words.

"He who has no tongue has spoken!"

"A man without a tongue speaks?"

"He spoke!"

"Speaking!"

"Have you spoken?"

"Have you spoken?"

"Speaking!"

"The clerk has spoken!"

"He who has no tongue has spoken!"

People surrounded the two of us while whispering and quickly conveying the startling news.This is a miracle.The excited crowd also looked like people in a miracle, their faces and eyes sparkling.Living Buddha Jiga also heard the sound.I haven't seen him for a few years, he is old, the red light on his face has disappeared, and he is supported by a beautiful crutch.

I don't know whether Weng Boyixi is happy or scared, his body is shaking and his forehead is dripping with sweat.Yes, miracles have occurred on the Maggie's territory.The man without the tongue speaks!The chieftain's family was also standing in the crowd. They didn't know whether such a situation was a blessing or a curse, so they all showed nervous expressions.Whenever something unusual happened, someone would come out to explain it, and everyone waited silently, waiting for the explainer.

Living Buddha Jiga stood up from the crowd, walked in front of me, and said loudly to chieftain Maiqi and everyone: "This is God's favor! It was brought by the second young master. Wherever he goes, God will let him go." Where is the miracle!"

According to him, it seems that I lost my tongue and spoke again.

As soon as the Living Buddha's words came out, the tense faces of the chieftain's family immediately relaxed.It seemed that, except for my brother, the whole family wanted to say something to me, the creator of miracles, and followed my father to me.The expression on my father's face was very solemn, and his pace was very slow, which made me a little impatient.

But before he came to me, two strong people suddenly carried me on their shoulders.Suddenly, I was on top of a large crowd of surging heads.Deafening cheers erupted from the crowd.I am high above, on a sea of ​​human heads, on the rough waves of sound.The two men with my shoulders started to run, and faces flashed under me.Among them were the faces of Mai Qi's family, which only flashed for a moment, and then drifted away from the eyes like leaves, and disappeared into the middle of the waves again.Even so, I could clearly see my father's bewilderment, my mother's tears and my wife's bright smile.I saw the man who could speak without a tongue, standing alone outside the steep whirlwind, blending in with the thick shade of the walnut tree.

The excited crowd circled me around the square a few times, and finally rushed towards the flat wheat field in the wilderness like a flood breaking through an embankment.The wheat is ripe.The sun rolled on it, wave after wave.The crowd rolled me into this golden ocean.

I'm not scared, but I don't know why they are so ecstatic.

Ripe grains of wheat splattered at people's feet and hurt my face.I cried out in pain.They still ran all the way.The grains of wheat jumped up and hit me in the face. They were no longer grains of wheat but scorching sparks.Of course, the wheat field of Maiqi Toast is not so wide that it has no boundaries.Finally, the crowd rushed out of the wheat field and reached the steep mountain, with a large rhododendron forest lying in front of it. The tide surged a few times unwillingly, and finally stopped, with a loud crash, exhausting all its energy.

Looking back, the large tracts of wheat are gone. Across the trampled open land is the official village, the majestic official village of chieftain Maiqi.It looks lonely from here, with a hint of bewilderment.An inexplicable sadness welled up in my heart.The people called the people, the flood of people called the people swept me away and left the rest of the Maggie family there.Looking from here, I saw them still standing in the square.They must have not figured out what happened, so they stood there blankly.I don't know how this happened either.But I know something serious has happened.This matter has opened up such a long distance between me and them.It is very fast when you pull it away, and you don't even have to think about it, but it is difficult to get close.Right now, these people were all tired from running, and they all collapsed on the grass.I don't think they know what they are doing.Even if there are miracles in this world, they are never the miracles of the common people.This kind of madness is like sleeping with a woman. The arrival of the orgasm is the end.Excited, high, running wildly, finally, paralyzed there, like a ball of mud wet by rain.

The two boys were also drenched with sweat, with their stupid mouths open like fish jumping on the shore, but they had the stupid smile that I often have on my face.

The sun in the sky was getting more and more fierce, and people got up from the ground and scattered in twos and threes.At noon, there were only me, Suolang Zelang, and Xiao Eryi left here. We set off to return to Guanzhai.

That wheat field is so wide, I was sweating a lot.

The square was empty.Only Weng Boyixi is still sitting there.Sitting where the two of us met in the morning.It was very quiet in the official village.I wish someone would come out and take a look, wish they'd make some noise.The autumn sun is so strong that it illuminates the thick stone wall white, like an iron wall.The sun is at the top, and the shadow lies at the feet like a thief, refusing to stretch its body a little.

Weng Boyixi looked at me with an ever-changing expression on his face.

Since losing his tongue, his face has become more and more expressive.In just a short moment, the four seasons of the year, wind, rain, thunder and lightning appeared on his face.

He didn't speak again, still talking to me with his eyes.

"The young master is back like this?"

"I just came back like this." I wanted to say that those people swept me far away like a flood, and then disappeared from the vast wilderness.But I didn't say that.Because I can't tell the meaning behind it, I can't tell what I really want to say.The Flood is a parable, but what is the meaning of a parable?A metaphor means nothing if it is merely a metaphor.

"Don't you know that a miracle really happened?"

"You spoke."

"You are such a fool, master."

"Sometimes."

"You washed away like miracle water."

"They were like a flood."

"You feel power?"

"Great power, uncontrollable."

"Because there is no direction."

"direction?"

"You didn't give them directions."

"My feet were off the ground and my mind was in a daze."

"You are at a high place, and they rely on people at a high place to point out the direction."

I think I kind of get it: "What am I missing?"

"You really don't want to be a toast?"

"Let me think about it, do I want to be a toast?"

"I mean Maiqi Toast."

The second young master of Maiqi's family stood under the poisonous sun, thinking and thinking, but there was still no movement in the Guanzhai. Finally, I said loudly to the Guanzhai: "I want to!"

The sound quickly disappeared in the white sunlight.

Weng Boyixi stood up and said, "...miracle...wouldn't...happen...happen...twice!"

Now, I understand that at that time, as long as I waved my hand, the flood would sweep away everything that prevented me from becoming a toast.Even if the official stronghold in front of me blocks me, as long as I wave my hand, the flood will sweep away this fortress.But I was a fool, I didn't point out the direction for them, and let them consume a huge amount of energy in the wide wheat field, and the last wave crashed into the rhododendron forest belt in front of the mountain.

I shuffled back to my room, but still no one came out to see me.

Not even my wife showed up.I lay down on the bed and heard one boot hit the floor, another boot hit the floor, and the sound shook the depths of my ears and my heart.I asked myself: "A miracle or a flood?" Then, the sound of the flood echoed in my ears: I fell asleep slowly.

When he woke up, there was already dim light in front of him.

I said, "Where am I?"

"I don't know where you are either." It was Tana's voice.

"who am I?"

"You're a fool, a complete fool." It was my mother's voice.

Two women stood by my bed, their heads lowered, refusing to look me in the eye.I can't even look them in the eye.My heart filled with infinite sadness.

Still, Tana understood my question and said, "Now do you know where you are?"

"At home." I said.

"Do you know who you are?"

"I'm a fool, the fool of Maiqi's family." After saying this, my tears came down.Tears fell quickly on my face, I heard the sound of falling, and I heard my own voice of justification, "Take it slow, I knew I had to take it slow, but things are getting faster."

The mother said: "You two should go back to the border, it seems that there is your place." The mother also said that after the current chieftain "is gone", she will also go to her son.Mother knew that it would be a sleepless night waiting for me. When she left, she filled up the lamp oil for us.My wife burst into tears.It is not that I have never heard a woman cry, but it has never made me so uncomfortable.This night, the time really flies.For the first time, time was clearly felt.Tana cried herself to sleep and sobbed in her sleep.Her sad appearance made me impulsive, but I still sat in the shadow of the lamp, and the heat on my body passed away in a while.Later, I felt cold again.Tana woke up. At first, her eyes were very gentle, and she said, "You idiot, are you just sitting like that?"

"I just sat there."

"are not you cold?"

"cold."

At this time, she really woke up, recalled what happened during the day, and retreated into the bed again, and tears flowed from her cold eyes again.After a while, she fell asleep again.I don't want to go to bed.I couldn't fall asleep when I went to bed, so I went out for a walk.I saw a light in my father's window.There was no sound at all in the official village, but there must be something going on.During the day, there is a time when I can decide everything.

It's night now, not daytime conditions anymore.Now, someone else decides everything.

The moon moves slowly in the sky, things go slowly, and time passes slowly.Who says I'm a fool, I feel the time.How can a fool feel time?
The oil in the lamp burned out.Moonlight shines in through the window.

Later, the moon also went down.I sat in the dark trying to get something in my head, like what should I do when another day comes.But can't think of anything.The lame housekeeper once said that to think about things is to whisper to yourself.But it's not easy for me to keep silent.How can you speak without making a sound.I say this as if I never thought about the problem.I thought about it.But at that time, I didn't specifically think about what I wanted.When I think about it, thinking about things is like whispering to myself, so I can't think about anything.I sat in the dark, listening to Tana sobbing once or twice between her deep breathing in her dream.Later, the darkness thinned out.

For the first time in my life, I saw how the day came.

Tana woke up, but she pretended to be asleep.I am still sitting.Later, my mother came in, her face was gray and black, and she also looked like she hadn't slept all night.She said again: "Son, go back to the border, or if you can't, go to Tana's house and take all your things there."

As long as someone talks to me, I can think, and I say, "I don't want that stuff."

Tana left the bed, her breasts were not attached to her body, they were made of bronze.There were several bronze doves in a closet in the Maggie's dining room that shone like her breasts.She put on her satin gown, and the morning light streamed down on her.There is no such scene in other women.The light will only shine on them, not flow on them.Even the preoccupied Mrs. Tusi said: "There is no woman more beautiful than your wife in the world."

Tana didn't answer directly, but looked at herself in the mirror and said, "My husband looks like this, maybe even his wife will be snatched away."

Mrs. Toast sighed.

Tana smiled: "At that time, you will be pitiful, fool."

36. Chieftain abdicates
In the Maggie's house, many things are settled at breakfast.Today, the atmosphere in the dining room is quite depressing, and everyone keeps filling their mouths with food.Everyone seems to be having an appetite competition.

Only my brother, looking at this and that with bright eyes.I found that the ones he saw the most were Tusi's father and my beautiful wife.Breakfast was about to be over, and Mrs. Toast made a timely call: "Well..." The toast said, "You can talk about it if you have anything to say." Mrs. Tosi sat up straight and said, "Well, the fool and his The wife is ready to go back."

"Go back? Isn't this their home? Of course, of course, I understand what you mean." The chieftain said, "But he should know that the place on the border is not their place. My territory is not divided into two, The chieftain is the real king of this land."

I said, "Let me take charge of the business there for the king."

My brother, the heir to the throne of the Maiqi family, the wise man of the Maiqi family spoke.

When he spoke, he said, not to me, but to my wife: "What are you doing there? Is that place particularly interesting?"

Tana smiled coldly and said to my brother: "So everything you do is just for fun?"

My brother said: "Sometimes, I am very funny."

These words are simply provocative.

Father looked at me, but I didn't say anything.The chieftain then turned to Tana and asked, "You want to leave here too?"

Tana looked at my brother, thought for a while, and said two words: "Whatever."

The chieftain said to his wife, "Tell the two children to stay a little longer."

Everyone was still sitting there, showing no intention of leaving.The chieftain started to cough, coughed for a while, raised his head, and said, "Let's go."

Everyone dispersed.

I asked Tana if she wanted to go for a walk.She said: "Do you think anything good will happen? You were very good at dealing with my mother. What's the matter now?"

I said, "Yeah, what's going on now?"

She smiled coldly and said, "Now you are finished."

When I came out of the official village, there was no one in the square.Usually, there are always people here.Right now, it seems that everything has been swept away by a strong wind.

I met the old executioner, and I didn't say anything to him, but he knelt down in front of me and said, "Master, please let my son go, and don't ask him to follow you anymore. He will be your brother's executioner in the future , not yours." I wanted to kick him in the face.But he walked away without kicking.After walking not far, I met his son, and I said, "Your father told me not to order you around."

"Everyone says you can't make toast anymore."

I said, "Go away."

He didn't roll, and stood by the side of the road with Eryi's long hands hanging down, watching me slap the bushes and cows on the side of the road with a wooden stick, and slowly walked away.

(End of this chapter)