Hunger for a hundred years

Chapter 11 (11)
He didn't know that this was the beginning of another bad luck for him.After knowing that she was pregnant, Liu Shi no longer bothered to screw He Da secretly, but beat him blatantly.The tool she used was a thin and soft yellow thorn stick, and she whipped it one by one.At first, Yang Guangwu was a little heartbroken. When Liu Shi smoked He Da, he stood aside, and although he did not stop Liu Shi, he said to He Da: "Admit your mistake, tell Mom not to hit you, you are so loud and shouting!" Crying, who cares about you?" He Da didn't know what was wrong, he just cried, but after Yang Guangwu said that, Liu couldn't do it anymore.A few months later, Mrs. Liu's stomach visibly stood up, and she felt that beating He Da was justifiable, so she no longer used the yellow wattle stick—it was troublesome to use the yellow wattle stick, because the branches and leaves had to be picked off to make the beating painful. Sometimes, if you are not careful, you will break your hand--use a bamboo torch or iron tongs to beat He Da.As Liu's belly swelled, Yang Guangwu's thoughts of love had quietly shifted, saying that what Liu's belly contained was his own flesh and blood.Therefore, no matter whether Mrs. Liu used a bamboo torch or an iron tongs, Yang Guangwu didn't say a word.Not long after, Yang Guangwu simply fanned the wind and ignited the fire. He squatted on the threshold and wrapped himself in dry smoke, and said viciously: "It's time to fight! I will fight again!" Liu was encouraged and swung his arms very round.Later, as long as Mrs. Liu had an expression of dissatisfaction with He Da, Yang Guangwu would go to Chai Yilao or the eaves of the street to find the murder weapon.

One day, Mrs. Liu strolled to Xu Lian's grave with a big belly.At this moment, she happened to see He Da, carrying a large bundle of firewood on his back, grabbing the cracks in the stone with his back bowed, his legs trembling slightly, climbing up.The corner of Liu's mouth curled up into a smile, and she stood in front of the grave and waited for He Da.He Da lowered his head and didn't see her at all. He walked up to her and felt that something was blocking his way, so he raised his head with difficulty to look.As if there was something to do, the moment He Day raised his head, a stick of firewood scraped Liu Shi's face, Liu cursed angrily, and threw the firewood tip down, and slapped He Da's face with a "swish", He Da's face There was a bloody strand as thick as a finger, which was fleshy.He Da burst into tears.He didn't dare to cry, but he was in too much pain.Mrs. Liu liked hearing He Da's cry, but hated his cry to the bone.

She held He Da's hair condescendingly, and twirled it back and forth, then left and right, and a lock of bloodshot yellow hair passed into Liu's hands.He Da fell on his mother's low grave, being held down by the pile of firewood.Unhappy, Mrs. Liu bent down to pick up a stone, and yelled at He Da's head, "Fucking wild dick, if you dare to piss again, I'll smash your head to the ground!" He Da saw the stone in her hand, I didn't dare to cry anymore, I wanted to support myself and get up.Live firewood weighing dozens of catties weighed on a child like a stone slab.He Da's limbs were thrashing about on his mother's grave, and the blood streak on his face had been scratched long ago, and the profuse blood was mixed with the black soil, making his nose not a nose, and his eyes not eyes.The stone in Liu's hand was still held high.The desire to survive made He Da dare not neglect in the slightest, and finally got up.

Xu Lian's grave was just a mound of dirt, and at this moment, it was almost planed flat by her son's limbs.

He Da was about to start walking, when Liu grabbed his hair again: "Don't you know how to urinate, you have to urinate here for me to get off!" She asked He Da to take off his pants and stand on his mother's grave. Pee on.He Da stood still.It wasn't until a few streaks of blood welled up on his face that he took off his pants.A long time passed, but there was no movement. He Da was so frightened that he trembled all over, and said pitifully to Mrs. Liu: "Mom, I can't come out." When will you come out, and when will you go back and poke rice!" After a while, He Dacai finally spilled a few drops of yellow urine on his mother's grave.
Mrs. Liu gave birth to a boy named Yang Cai.After Yang Cai was born, He Da became a complete superfluous person.

At home, apart from hearing He Da's cry, he couldn't make any other noises, and he didn't even dare to chew his food, because when he heard his chewing sound, Liu Shi and Yang Guangwu felt that this bastard was wasting their food. If there is no grain, he will not be allowed to eat, and he will be beaten to work on the slope immediately.

The sun rises in the east and sets in the west as usual.The days seem to flow away quietly in peace.

But some things were unexpected. During this period, a major event that had never happened in Lijiagou occurred in history.

The planner of this big event was Wang Weizhou, commander of the East Sichuan Guerrilla Army.Wang Weizhou was originally from the lower reaches of the Qingxi River, and he lived in Wangjiaba near the entrance of Qingxi Changkou. Because the Kuomintang army offered a reward of [-] yuan for his arrest, he couldn't stay in Yongle any longer, so he traveled long distances on a dark and windy night , quietly pulled the team to Wanyuan.After arriving in Wanyuan, Wang Weizhou planned a series of riots, captured many key points, alarmed Chiang Kai-shek, and secretly ordered the Sichuan warlords several times to "pay attention to precautions".The local armed forces couldn't fight Wang Weizhou head-on, so they called up militia groups and traveled around, saying that Wang Weizhou was the reincarnation of Luo Siju, a bloodthirsty demon. Wherever he went, he would rape women and eat the hearts of children.At that time, it happened that Wang Weizhou captured Luowen Town. He personally acted as a matchmaker and told his subordinate He Donger a woman. Bloodshed; attack the district office and create new citizens." The common people couldn't understand the pun in this couplet, and thought that Wang Weizhou was going to kill everyone and recreate people.In this way, the people in that area trembled, thinking only of running for their lives.

Judging from the scope of Wang Weizhou's activities, Lijiagou was a "severe disaster area". Since the great escape in 1914, in the autumn of 16, after 1930 years, the people of Lijiagou once again helped the old and the young, and left their hometown.

The fleeing this time is very different from the famine fleeing 16 years ago. Last time, they went wherever they could find food. This time, they went wherever it was safe.The peasants in the mountains also knew some basic military knowledge, and fled to the lower reaches of the Qingxi River one after another.Downstream is Wang Weizhou's hometown, and the national army naturally keeps a close eye on it, and the "king bandits" dare not attack easily.All of a sudden, outsiders flocked into Yongle, Dongba, Qingxi, Qingping and other places in the lower reaches of the Qingxi River.

The Xuding government ordered the township regiments to strictly check the migrants, and not to miss a "communist bandit".In this way, the responsibilities of "prohibiting theft and investigating traitors" are refined, forming a situation where the regiment general, township covenant, security chief, and armor chief all work together.If these migrants have relatives in the local area, they can apply to live in their relatives' homes or the villages where their relatives live.

Yang Guangwu and Mrs. Liu have no relatives here, so they are temporarily housed in Dongbachang Town, and they can't help frowning. Those who really have no choice but to be housed for a while, are mostly arranged in Huangjiaba and Zhongjiaba.The two dams of Huang and Zhong are both facing the Dongbachang River. In addition to Qingxi River, there are also Qianhe River and Houhe River flowing around the dam, forming a peninsula with flat and open terrain, fertile land, but few households.The reason for this is that both Huangjiaba and Zhongjiaba are well-known xenophobic families. Although they were born in Pingba, they have extremely fierce temperaments. There is no unity, there is no fighting with weapons for three days, the food is not delicious, and sex is not fun.

I saw the scene of their fighting with weapons in the 80s of the 1999th century when I was a junior high school student at Zhongjiaba's Xuri Middle School: swords, lights, blood and shadows, mixed together, people's ears and noses flying around, and broken hands and feet scattered on the side of the ditch Over the years, foreigners have entered Huangba and Zhongerba intermittently, and after a few years or more than ten years, all of them will be exterminated.How the villagers of Liangba formed such a character, even the gentleman who studies folklore in the county can't answer it, only saying that it is a mystery.This mystery was not revealed until [-] AD.This year, the provincial archaeological team peeled off the ancient civilization that had been dusty for thousands of years on the peninsula.It turns out that this is the kingdom of the Ba people recognized as "mysteriously missing" by the historians.The Ba people are martial and warlike, because they are weak, and every member of the tribe needs to use their own flesh and blood to fight for the life and death of the tribe; Between the canyons, the romantic elves who can defeat rivals by singing and dancing finally planted the seeds of tragic fate for themselves
At that time, people talked about Huang and Zhong Erba, but if they didn't take the initiative to declare a suitable place, Yang Guangwu's family would be assigned to that dam!At this critical juncture, Mrs. Liu suddenly had a flash of inspiration and said to Yang Guangwu: "Where do we have no relatives? Isn't the hometown of our eldest son Hejiapo!" Due to lack of milk, the baby in Liu's arms was crying like a sick cat. with.In fact, Yang Guangwu had thought of this earlier, so He Da, who was dozing off, remained silent.What he was worried about was that when the brothers of the Xu family took people to Lijiagou to kill them, he went too far.Mrs. Liu had already known about the feat of Lijiagou from Yang Guangwu, understood what he was thinking, pointed to He Daqu's dark neck, and whispered: "As long as we treat this bastard well, I think they won't." What will happen to us." Yang Guangwu pondered for a moment, then nodded hesitantly, "That's the only way," he said.

Then, Yang Guangwu woke up He Dayao, and Mrs. Liu said first, "My dear, we are going to live in Hejiapo. Do you remember Hejiapo?"
When he heard that he was going to live in Hejiapo, He Dawa burst into tears.He was born there, his father was buried there, he lived a very happy life in Hejiapo, of course he wanted to go back to Hejiapo!
Mrs. Liu said: "Don't cry, my dear. We will go back to Hejiapo when Dad goes to finish the formalities."
Yang Guangwu went alone to find the township group that handled the matter, while Liu embraced Yang Cai with one arm and He Da with the other.He Da's shoulders trembled instinctively, and Liu Shi just patted him lightly: "Baby, Mom won't hit you, what are you afraid of? We are going back to your hometown, and when we get there, Mom won't hit you." You are gone, mom will never hit you from now on."
This sudden warmth made He Da resemble a snake waking up from hibernation.He hugged Liu Shi and cried, "Mom!"
Liu Shi hugged He Da's fingers tightly, and slowly, a string of tears rolled out of her eyes.

Yang Guangwu went through the formalities smoothly. After returning, they took He Da to the stall and bought him a new suit.

Along the way, Yang Guangwu and Mrs. Liu were worried about whether the people of Hejiapo would accommodate them, but this worry was completely superfluous, and they lived in an empty room next to Yang Guangda's house smoothly.The Hejiapo people showed unprecedented indifference towards their arrival, they neither welcomed them nor made trouble for them, as if the beating and humiliation never happened.There were discussions, but the center of the topic was not Yang Guangwu and his wife, but He Xingxiao.In Hejiapo, only He Xingxiao had a direct relationship with Yang Guangwu. If he didn't come out to ask for an explanation, who would be troublesome?But He Xingxiao prefers to be calm and calm, not moving at all.He has already occupied Xu Lian's property, and He Da has become Yang Guangwu's son, and Yang Guangwu does not call He Da He Da, but Yang Da, and his surname has been changed. It is impossible for He Da to get the property back , since this is the case, if he meddles in other people's business, doesn't that mean catching lice?Besides, his eldest son, He Dong'er, followed the "red bandit" Wang Weizhou, and word spread in Hejiapo, so he had to behave with his tail between his legs.He was so indifferent that he never called He Da.

Only He Huaqiang was on guard, but he didn't say anything, just watching the changes.

Yang Guangwu and Mrs. Liu are also very well-behaved. Although they lived in Hejiapo smoothly, which made them feel that the clothes they bought for He Da were a waste of money, they dared not offend anyone in Hejiapo. Everyone he saw would call him brother, uncle, aunt, and sister, and within a week, he became familiar with most of the people on the slope.Especially for Yang Guangda and his wife, they are even more filial to their parents.He Xingxiao ignored them, and they recognized Yang Guangda, who was of the same generation, as a relative, calling Yang Guangda brother and Gou's sister-in-law.The vacant house they lived in was said to belong to Yang Guangda, but Yang Guangda had no descendants, and the house was spacious and unattended. Over time, the property rights became blurred, but Yang Guangwu and his wife thought it was not vague at all, and they felt that it belonged to Yang Guangda. They feel at ease in the houses of relatives with the same surname.Now, both Yang Guangda and the Gou family are quite old. Yang Guangwu fetches water for them every day, and also collects firewood for them.This greatly moved Yang Guangda, and for the first time ever, he gave Yang Guangwu a few picks of grain fields from his family.

A month later, Yang Guangwu and Liu Shi saw that they had gained a firm foothold, and gradually revealed their true colors.He Da, who lived a quiet month in January, had a fever in his buttocks again.At first they were apprehensive, they just slapped He slap across the face, and since no one in He Jiapo farted, they became unscrupulous.On the Dongba field, the "Mom" He Da yelled suddenly awakened Liu's maternal tenderness, but its disappearance, like its arrival, was in a flash.

From then on, He Jiapo had a strange voice: He Da's miserable cry.

For this, many people in Hejiapo were still aggrieved. Anyway, He Da is a descendant of the He family. The reason why they didn't speak up was still to focus on He Xingxiao.Once, He Xingxiao saw with his own eyes that Yang Guangwu twisted He Da's ear and pulled him in front of Liu Shi. Liu Shi was picking up Yang Cai's excrement, and Yang Guangwu asked He Da to lick Yang Cai's excrement clean.He Da's crying made He Jiapo's dog bark wildly.Seeing that He Da dared to be stubborn, Mrs. Liu said angrily, "I kicked you into the Taizi and buried you alive!" The people standing in the distance thought He Xingxiao was about to speak, but He Xingxiao turned a blind eye and walked away. up.

But Yang Guangwu and Liu finally pissed off one person, and he is He Heng's son He Jianxiang.He Jianxiang said to his father: "Father, a foreigner came to Hejiapo and beat the descendants of the He family without hesitation. This is the face of He Jiapo!" At that time, He Jianxiang was only thirteen or fourteen years old.He Heng thinks so.He Jianxiang's mother, Mrs. Chen, also felt that her son was right.Especially the Chen family, who have long been displeased with Yang Guangwu and the Liu family.One day, Mrs. Liu was beating He Da again. Mrs. Chen stood under the Jue tree and raised her voice and said, "Guangwu's family, that doll is a big man, just kill him like that! Even if he violated the king's law, A small child should not be subjected to such a severe punishment!" Beating He Da has become Liu's hobby, and she has never seen anyone take care of it. After listening to Chen's words, she replied: "I educate my family. The person with the head didn't trip over other people's ball hair, so there is no need for outsiders to worry about it." How has Mrs. Chen ever suffered from such idleness?She put her feet on the ground and scolded away: "Guangwu's family, I think you are suffering from epilepsy, I don't know what the man's ball hair looks like! You don't go back to see yourself, you are so stupid What the hell does that one look like? Sharp-mouthed monkey cheeks, can it be compared with this doll? You mean to say that this doll belongs to your roof? You don’t even have to look at your hips, you can give birth to it with your rotten * Such a good guy? He is from the He family!" Throwing the stick in her hand, Liu Shi kicked her foot, and cursed back: "Your old X is a dog with epilepsy! He was not born by me, it may not be you raw?"
Hearing scolding under the Jue tree, many people on the slope went to watch.He Jianxiang ran to his mother, his face flushed, holding a sharp stone in both hands, and glaring at Liu.

It was still Yang Guangwu who was smart enough to run out and scold Mrs. Liu back, apologizing to Mrs. Chen non-stop.

Since then, although Liu Shi and Yang Guangwu were very angry with the nosy Chen Shi, they did not dare to beat He Da blatantly. They only pulled He Da out of bed in the dead of night, locked him in the red sweet potato pit, and beat him.

(End of this chapter)