Hunger for a hundred years

Chapter 37 (17)
As soon as he walked out of the house, He Kou was in a hurry, with a smile all over his face, saying hello to everyone he saw, and when he got home, he would write his resentment on his face.In the past, he was only fierce to us, but to his father He Da, although he was not respectful, he was polite.Now, he seldom talks to He Da. As a last resort, he blows his nose a few times, then bends his thin and dark face, and talks to He Da with squinted eyes. Stone, smelly and hard.He Da pitifully responded to his words, but no matter what He Da answered, He Kou replied with a bang.He Da felt the most distressed about his son, He Ben. Several years later, he was still tearfully talking about the scene of our mother, Chen Yuexiang, who was only four years old at that time, wearing mourning clothes around the coffin.He Da felt sorry for him the most, and He Kou hated him. One day, He Ju was cooking and just threw a piece of lard the size of a finger into the pot. He Ben, who was playing in the yard on the other floor, intuitively knew that there was oil After eating the seeds (actually, it was not intuition, no matter which family put lard in the pot at that time, even if it was only as big as a grain of rice, the fragrance would waft to the whole village), ran back, squatted by the fire pond, stared at Looking at the smoldering lard in the pan, he said, "I want to eat oil seeds." He didn't notice He Kou who was sitting in the dark.

He Ju didn't dare to answer him, so he begged again: "Sister, I want to eat oil seeds." He Ju boiled the oil, picked up the oil seeds as thin as silk with an iron ladle, and poured them into He Ben, who had already picked them up. In the dark little palm of my hand.He Ben was so hot that he jumped up, but he sucked his mouth quickly, trying to hold it in his mouth. The moment his tongue touched the oil seed, the oil seed flew away. As soon as it flew out, it was caught by a chicken. He snatched it away; He Ben didn't understand what was going on, so he was slapped on his thin face with veins.When he finally saw He Kou, he trembled with fright and dared not cry.His face was so thin and dark, but his blood was bright red, flowing from his nostrils.As soon as he saw the blood, He Ben couldn't hold it back anymore, he grinned and let out a faint cry.He Kou just waited for him to cry.He grabbed He Ben's thin, burnt-yellow hair, shook it vigorously a few times, and then pulled it aside.He Ben fell down and bumped against the bench. Hearing a clang, another mouth grew out of his chin.No matter how frightened He Ben was, he couldn't stop crying.He Koufei kicked his ass that was as thin as a button.He Ju hid aside, tears streaming down her cheeks, but she didn't dare to stop her.He Kou ran to Chai Yilao, pulled out a masang stick, put it on He Ben's head, and shouted: "If you dare to cry again, I will bury you alive!" He Ben stopped crying suddenly, let the nose bleed And the blood on the chin dripped down.

There is already a big puddle on the ground.

He went out angrily.

When the sound of He Kou's footsteps disappeared in the alleyway, He Ju ran over and picked up He Ben who was on the ground, crying, "My brother!" and quickly ran to the house of Kuan Huan, who was in charge.

Kuan Huan said: "It may take a few stitches." When He Ben heard that stitches were needed, he turned around and ran away in fright, but was grabbed by He Ju.He Ben cried.It was frightening when he cried, with his mouth opened wide, and all his strength was used in his abdomen, tearing his voice out; besides, every time he cried now, the blood was squeezed out.Seeing this, Kuan Huan said that there was no need for stitches, just put some medicine on it and wrap it with gauze.When taking the medicine, He Ben cried again.

On the way back, He Ju held He Ben by the hand, and the two siblings wept silently.Under the Jue tree, He Ben suddenly shouted: "Mom! Mom! Mom!" When he called "Mom", he was always so straight-forward, without arousal or ending sound.

When they got to the dam, a burning smell reminded He Ju that the fire was still burning, and all the boiled oil must have been burned dry!She threw her brother and ran home.However, what awaited her was a heavy slap in the face and unbearable curses.

When He Ju took He Ben to find Kuan Huan, He Kou killed him again.

After a while, He Da came back with a bundle of firewood drenched in sweat. He Ben, who was looking for a chicken under the orange tree (he was looking for the chicken that robbed him of oil seeds), saw his father and immediately burst into tears. tears.He Da poured the firewood on the eaves of the street, saw the gauze on He Ben's chin, and hurriedly asked what was going on, and He Ben explained everything.He Da didn't say anything, stepped over the threshold, and saw He Kou sitting by the stove, looking provocative.

"I'm exhausted to death, just to let you relax and refresh yourself to beat people?" He Da said.

"It's time to recite!" He Kou said.

After a few blunt sentences like this, the two started arguing.He Da didn't know how to quarrel, he couldn't say a word for a long time, and he could only whirl in his stomach when he was sullen, and when he couldn't hold it in his stomach, he would scold and beat himself.

He Kou ignored his self-abuse at all, and didn't give in at all. Seeing He Ben hiding beside He Da, he raised his hand to hit him again. He Da pulled He Ben back, leaned his head forward, and shouted : "Hit it, you hit me!"
He Kou raised his fist and really wanted to hit He Da in the face.At that time, He Da's beard was disheveled, and the tip of the beard was covered with sweat from exhaustion.When a person is poor, his hair becomes mean; when he is tired, his beard will sweat.

Fortunately, He Ji came back in time, otherwise He Kou might really beat He Da.With a dark face, He Ji pushed He Da to the side, and He Da and He Ben sat on the bench. He Kou's fist stopped in the air for a while, and then slowly lowered it down.

If He Kou really hit He Da, what would be the consequences?Hejiapo once had children beating their parents: a guy named Nuozhu stayed at the poker table for three days and two nights. He didn't care about his wife who gave birth less than a week ago. I asked for more than a dozen times, but I couldn't come back. When I went again, without saying a word, I tore several pieces of the blood-red Chuanye card.The sow stood up and gave the old woman a slap, and shouted: "I have met some people, but I have never seen an adult like you who can't be taught!" After this happened, it was like He Da buried the beef. It was the same as next to the ancestor's grave, and it spread quickly. The mother's wife felt that marrying such a man was a shame. Regardless of whether her immature son needed her to feed her or not, she put a rope on her back to the beam of the main room. Take it, hang it.A similar thing happened to Cai Gen later, when he played cards with He Kuiyuan and his friends, when a guest came, He Bi went to call him. , He Bi stood aside, putting his hands into his bosom, his mouth kept wriggling because he thought that a guest would come to eat a good meal, and he just urged the vegetable root, and the vegetable root slapped He Bi's face with one hand, the one that grew on the thumb The sixth finger on his finger just hit He Bi's eye, but luckily it didn't blind him.After that, He Bi divided the vegetable roots.Of course, this kind of thing also happened to He Tuanjie. He beat his mother Pu Shi, but who is He Tuanjie?He Tuanjie is like Brother He Donger in the early years, can you compare with him?
He Kou's behavior made He Ji have a different view of him.In the past, with the mind of a junior high school student, he tried his best to understand He Kou, thinking that it was not easy for him in this family. One person to deal with.But now, He Kou actually wants to beat his father!Like some children who have been poor since childhood, He Ji does not know how to love.He can't say he loves his father, nor can he say he loves our brothers and sisters, but he knows that beating his father is treasonous.When her mother, Chen Yuexiang, was alive, she booked a family for He Ji on Laojun Mountain. He Ji thought, if He Kou really hit He Da, the family's reputation would be ruined!Not only would the entire family members be ashamed to see others, but even the doll marriage he had ordered would fall through.That woman lived on a high mountain, much taller than the Wanggu Tower where Xu Lian lived in the past. Her surname was Tang, and her single name was the character Yu.It is very strange that a woman living in a deep mountain and old forest, whose parents do not know big characters, is named after the character "Yu".Tang Yu is small but very sensible. Although she is one year older than He Ji, she was only fifteen or sixteen years old when my mother died. When she heard about it in the afternoon, she immediately set out to sit at night. The alley was crowded with villagers, sparks and smoke from firecrackers. She passed through the crowd, sparks and smoke, and threw herself in front of Chen Yuexiang's body, knelt down and wept in a formal manner.Even the daughter-in-law who has been married for several years in Hejiapo can't do that kind of crying!He Ji can't say that he loves Tang Yu, but he likes her name and the reputation she left for He Jiapo.

After He Ji graduated from junior high school, He Kou usually didn't hit him, at most he yelled fiercely.He Ji usually doesn't bother with him, and when he yells at him, he just listens.But now, as soon as He Kou yelled at him, he yelled at him, louder than He Kou's.

This surprised He Kou.

How could He Kou swallow this breath!He Ji yelling at him made him feel a deep crisis.One day, when He Ji yelled at him, he rushed over and punched He Ji.

He Ji immediately hugged him, and the two of them started fighting.

He Ji was much taller than He Kou, and He Kou never noticed that his strength was no match for He Ji at all.He Ji was pressed to the ground, his legs were bouncing like cramp.

I saw them fight with my own eyes, and when He Kou got up from the ground with a frustrated face, I wanted to cry.I don't know if I'm sympathizing with my older brother, but there's something that shocks and saddens me: How can a person, who was so fierce just a few minutes ago, suddenly become weak?
Except for He Da, everyone in the family gathered around He Ji. ——He Da has never been idle all day long. Even if he sits down to smoke a pipe alone on the slope, his time is occupied by sad tears.The mental pressure he endured is incomparable and unimaginable to any of us.His eldest son is not yet engaged.In the countryside, He Ju is also at the age of engagement, but there is not even a matchmaker.His third son He Zao (that is, me) has such good grades, can he have the ability to let him continue to read the book?He Ben was still so young, and Yao's daughter, He Qing, hadn't visited her since she took her out.This is all his fault!He was originally a person who seldom talked, but now, he was as silent as a stone.He didn't have the energy to pay attention to the changing atmosphere in the house.

He Kou was isolated.He has completely changed.

Few at home spoke to him.In fact, this situation has already been formed, but in the past, we, and he himself, did not feel it, because we did not have the guts and qualifications to talk to him, he stood in front of us, even if there was no exchange of words between us, The relationship between the two sides controlling and being controlled has been established.Now, he doesn't reprimand us.In addition to group work, he does much less work at home than before.No one cares about him, not even He Da.He spends less and less time going home, and sometimes he can’t be found even when he’s eating; He Ben and I usually complete the task of calling him to eat. I ran to Yanjiapo, Suanlishupo, Zhushiban, Anzisi, and the farthest time I ran to Leichao Bay to call for people, but I didn't see him.He often returned home with a gloomy face after we had eaten for a long time.We put the rice for him in a snow-white jar cover, and then covered it with a big earthen bowl. When he came back, he took it out of the cupboard without making a sound, took off the earthen bowl, and ate it happily.I don't know when, he also had the habit of snorting when eating, chewing loudly, and when he swallowed it, he made a gurgling sound in his throat.This whetted our appetites a great deal, for we were never full, and there was always enough for him.But he didn't think so. After eating, he always threw the bowl heavily on the stove to express his anger that he was not full.

In less than half a month, we discovered that the house had turned into an ancient tomb without any swearing.We poured more attachment and love into He Ji. When we were around him, we talked about He Kou most of the time. The evil looks when we were together, including the way his feet flicked when He Ji pushed him to the ground.Saying this, sometimes we also laugh out our tears.After laughing, my heart was full of bitterness.
Soon, word came out from Poshang that He Kou, He Tuanjie and He Kuiyuan got together.

As long as the children of any family are wrapped up with Kui Yuan and Tuanjie, it means that they have embarked on an evil path.

The first person to hear this was He Da, who was transplanting rice seedlings in the field of Xia'anzi Temple. During the break, He Da sat alone on a round stone and smoked. He just lit the fire with his hands covered, when He Zhongbao came over and asked with concern: " Why didn't He Kou go to work?"
He Da raised his head and looked at He Zhongbao.The older He Da is, the thinner his eyelids are, so thin that they can't cover his eyes, so he can clearly observe the changes in his psychology.The match between his fingers has been burning, burning his flesh without realizing it. "Didn't He Kou go downhill to pick up the seedlings? Why didn't he go to work?" He Da said.

"It was arranged like this, but he didn't go." He Zhongbao said.

"Who else was with him?"
"Unity, Kui Yuan, and He Yuan, Wu Sheng, and Niao Sow."
He Da lowered his head, the pain in his heart was engraved on his forehead.He Zhongbao ignored him and plunged into the crowd with his short legs dangling.

After he was convinced that He Zhongbao had left, He Da raised his head slightly. At this moment, all the sadness gathered in his eyes, and his eyes were red, not red when he was about to cry, but red because of sadness. .He looked ahead, and there was a long slope on top of a ridge. The slope went straight to the pine forest bend. In the large piece of land in Shangbao Valley, he left the footprints of his wife Chen Yuexiang's last work. He completely relied on intuition. He took out a match and struck it lightly, but still did not light the cigarette. The match burned his finger again, and there was a circle of black spots on the index finger and thumb of his right hand, and the match was in the gap between the black spots. automatically turned off.

Why did you arrange He Kou and He Tuanjie together? ——He Da thinks this is a trap set by He Zhongbao long ago.

He looked at the crowd here and there, he wanted to get support from the crowd, and heard from their mouths that his son He Kou and He Kuiyuan brothers were not the same at all.When he looked at the crowd, many people in the crowd were also looking at him, and when their eyes met, those people dodged away.He saw their heads close together, talking mysteriously, and he thought, what they must be talking about.In order to prove it, he walked over, and no one noticed at first, but when he got closer, someone finally saw him. First, he elbowed the person next to him, and then shouted loudly: "Daddy, sit here." Got it, said no answer, and walked elsewhere like sleepwalking.

Even if He Zhongbao put you and He Tuanjie together, He Da thought, you should know the rules yourself, if they don't work, maybe you won't work either?Who is not working?Isn't that a libertine?
He Da wants to talk to He Kou.

That day for dinner (although it was lunch, it was already dark), and he couldn't find Hekou anywhere, He Da said: "Today, no matter what happens, we have to wait for him." He specially prepared a catty of wine, intending to go Talk to He Kou while drinking, so that his speech will be much sharper and more layered.

As the moon rose, it first shone on the roof of He Zhongbao, and then slowly poured down from the roof to the eaves of the street. milky.When the moonlight divided the pair of dikes into black and white, the rooster crowed for the first time.By the firepit, everyone except He Da fell asleep, or flung themselves on the small square table, or curled up in the chai yi lao, or put their backs against the dark wooden wall.Everyone went to sleep with hunger, and their hearts were full of resentment towards He Kou, mixed with faint worries.

(End of this chapter)