Hunger for a hundred years

Chapter 51 (8)
After several visits to Mount Mingdo, He Jianshen began to burn incense at home, not only to burn incense, but also to recite scriptures; those scriptures were all taught to memorize by the old monk of Mount Minguo, who thought Jianshen was very He has the roots of wisdom, so he is willing to teach him Buddhist scriptures.He Bi couldn't get used to that smell, couldn't get used to the sound of his chanting sutras after sitting cross-legged, and couldn't get used to his "bad habit" of not eating meat—although Jianshen didn't ask his family not to eat meat, but since he occasionally fried a little Jianshen refused to eat meat, which made He Bi feel uncomfortable—so he often scolded him, but Jianshen remained unmoved and continued to go his own way.

"If you really want to believe in Buddhism, just go and become a monk." One day, He Bi said so.

Jianshen seemed to have been waiting for her words for a long time, and not long after, he really went to Mount Mingdo to become a monk with a bag on his shoulders!

It is said that He Jianshen's mission in Mount Minduo was to collect vegetable oil donated by pilgrims.The things donated by pilgrims, no matter how much, must be recorded in the book, but Jianshen can't write, so he has no choice but to assign him a young monk to help keep the books, and the young monk will become Jianshen's "secretary" "The people of Hejiapo said that Jianshen did not have a secretary when he was a vice captain on the slope, but he did have a secretary when he went to Mount Mingdo as a monk.

Following in the footsteps of He Jianshen is his eldest son Cai Gen.Cai Gen had a bull face, and it was said that He Jianshen had killed too many cows, so his son was reincarnated as the Bull King. Cai Gen also seemed to obey God's will and became a cattle dealer. The livestock are pulled from one mountain to another, and profited from it; sometimes, they can earn five or sixty yuan by buying them from the owner and selling them to the west through a valley.He has an ancestral talent for understanding cattle. He has only been in the cattle business for half a year, and he has become the "rudder master" in this area. No matter how old a cattle dealer is, he always calls the vegetable root "Mr. Nothing to do, if there is a dispute, please ask "Teacher He" to mediate.His words are solid, you have to follow if you are not satisfied, otherwise, don't think about making decisions on Niu in the future.He also brought the occasion to the entrance of Dongba and Qingxi.

It was He Tuanjie who left Hejiapo almost at the same time as Caigen.He Tuanjie has gone further and more thoroughly than Caigen.He basically doesn't call Hejiapo his home anymore.

For the first two years, Hu Mian and his son Jun stayed in Hejiapo, and He Tuanjie ran around, occasionally visiting the slope, staying for one night at most, and then left in a hurry.No one knew what he was doing, and few people on the slope asked about it.After the fields were settled, the ancestral virtue of people on the slopes to inquire about gossip was greatly reduced.If He Tuanjie ran into a villager when he was leaving, the villagers would at most ask: "Are you leaving again?" He Tuanjie replied: "Going away." The dialogue is so concise.They all downplayed the details of life, and they were in no mood to suspect anything.Later, someone said that He Tuanjie was in the counterfeit money business.Later, I heard that He Tuanjie was caught doing counterfeit currency business, and he got away after stuffing a lot of money into a certain manager of the Public Security Bureau. He is not doing that business now, but selling "high donkeys", that is, selling people .Of course it's selling women.It is said that he deceived women from the Qingxi River valley and sold them to Shandong, Gansu or Anhui.People on Poshang were startled when they heard the words, "Damn it! If you say he can't do this, he can't do that, but who on Poshang dares to trick a good girl back to sleep like him? Who dares to lift his head like him?" It is said that He Tuanjie was not the seed of the mason who was bitten to death by the reckless snake, but the seed of He Xingxiao.On this slope, only He Xingxiao's seed dared to work hard.He Donger and his younger brother He Min are desperate characters.Because of this, there were more rumors about He Tuanjie. Some said that he was arrested again, and some said that he was taken to Caoba, the west gate of Yongle City, and shot.

However, when people's discussions were in full swing, He Tuanjie returned to the village, and he bought several clothes for Hu Mianhe Jun. The material was something that no one on the slope had seen before. It shakes round, even in the absence of wind.Hu Mian cut her hair again, and the scars left by the sun and the rain on her face were also wiped away. She still looks so young and beautiful, and "tits are tits, waist is waist, butt is butt"!Her generous appearance makes it impossible for you to see that she has slept with many men on the slope at a low price.As a result, the villagers had to correct them, saying that He Tuanjie was doing legitimate business.Now the country allows legal business.Soon, however, his claims of being a human trafficker were confirmed.He sold He Kuiyuan's daughter!

After He Kuiyuan married Pu Shi, they gave birth to a daughter, who was only fourteen or fifteen years old. She was delicate, her face was like a goose egg, and her skin was naturally rose-colored. She was also shy like He Yue; He and He Tuanjie are the same mother and half father, so He Tuanjie is called brother, and He Tuanjie calls He Kuiyuan brother. The whole family is brothers and sisters.He Tuanjie sold her to a remote place in Gansu.After selling, he explained to He Kuiyuan, and took He Kuiyuan to Gansu for a trip, and brought back some money from his daughter's husband's house.At that time, Pu's family was dead, and He Kuiyuan became a lonely person.This incident made He Tuan notorious.Everyone in Hejiapo is in danger, even if the youngest daughter is only four or five years old, the parents also educate her: "If He Tuanjie gives you candy, you will never eat it!" Some people urged He Kuiyuan to file a lawsuit. Damn it! I think Gansu is better than Hejiapo!"
He Kuiyuan didn't care, but someone still filed a complaint on the slope. Soon, someone from above came to investigate and asked He Kuiyuan: "Did He Tuanjie sell your daughter?" Daughter is willing.

The people above saved the trouble and went back easily.

However, He Tuanjie came back and lived for ten days.Once when Cai Gen returned to the village, he met He Tuanjie by chance, and said to him, "It was He Zhongbao who sued you." Everyone on the slope was waiting to see how He Tuanjie would deal with He Zhongbao, but He Tuanjie remained silent. The reunited relatives greeted each other warmly, and even He Kou, who had a quarrel with him, offered him "Red Plum" cigarettes, and played with everyone in He; After discussing, he contracted his field to Hekou.

When He Tuanjie left, he saw that it was the Spring Festival. People on the slope originally said that He Tuanjie, who had been drifting away for two full years, could finally celebrate the Spring Festival in Hejiapo.To be honest, if there is no unity in Hejiapo's Spring Festival, it will be more than half deserted!With him, no matter how poor or miserable, it would be loud and loud on New Year’s Eve: when the paper horn blared, he went to move the machine into his home early in the morning, and at around ten o’clock in the morning, he yelled into the buzzer: "Let's make New Year's dinner!" The whole slope heard it, and everyone lit a fire to cook.His family was always the first to prepare the New Year's dinner. Before the meal, he shouted: "Dinner is ready!" and asked everyone on the slope one by one if the meal was ready.After the meal, he took a big broom and cleaned the courtyards on several floors. He "touched the bell" on the dam (touching hemp money on the bas is more distant) and kicked the scorpion without dirtying the new clothes and shoes. He also organized basketball games, initially in the village. After he became the commander of the militia, he extended the front to the whole brigade. The venue for the competition was naturally Anzisi Primary School. , getting smaller and smaller, he installed two baskets at both ends of the relatively long Jianshen yard. On the day of the game, people from the whole team flocked to Hejiapo, and it was as lively as a market. He was gone. Without anyone organizing these activities, Hejiapo's Spring Festival would be boring.

When people were expecting him to arrange new tricks to spend a lively Spring Festival, He Tuanjie left again.

He left on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, not alone, but the whole family.

Where did He Unity go?Nobody knows.People on the slope asked He Kuiyuan, but He Kuiyuan didn't know either.Cai Gen said: "Can't you hear voices from dozens of miles away? Why doesn't it work now?"
He Kuiyuan is much more wretched than in previous years. The departure of He Tuanjie and Cai Gen almost completely took away the joy of his life; his daughter was sold thousands of miles away, which left him alone and made him secretly heartbroken.There are two brothers in that family who are as poor as a kennel. I don’t know when He Kuiyuan has been wearing a ragged padded jacket all year round. The smell is unbearable.Cai Gen said that Kui Yuan's lungs had been rotten to shreds.This is not an exaggeration. Once the land was settled, He Kuiyuan was less able to produce crops. After his daughter was sold to Gansu, he simply leased the land to Caigen. Caigen was already a cattle dealer at that time, but he still found time to produce crops. When the crops are mature, [-]% is divided into [-]%: [-]% for vegetable roots, and [-]% for kui yuan.When Cai Gen delivered food to Kui Yuan, he saw him squatting on Huoershi vomiting blood.Later, Cai Gen abandoned the land and started a full-time cattle business, and He Kuiyuan contracted the land to another family.

Every Spring Festival, He Kuiyuan can't find a joker, because no one is willing to get close to him, and today's children are not like we were willing to sit around under the apricot tree and listen to him talk about those things that made people scream Listening to his song "There Is a Star in the Sky", children nowadays would rather gamble with cigarette boxes and marbles.The adults even regarded Kui Yuan as a stinking piece of shit with lung disease.He ran around like a dog in mourning.Even the Xia Yin Dynasty, which he has been passionate about all his life, has never been seen to be performed by him at this time.It was Caigen, Caibang brothers and two other bachelors who took pity on him. After Caigen returned to the village, he played Sichuan cards with him. Just relying on it, forcing him to ask for it, he said: "Come back and help me pay it back after unity." At first some people believed this, but after a long time, no one believed it, and still forced him to ask for it. I vomit blood!" With a slight click, a stream of black blood really gushed out of his mouth!People scattered.He Kuiyuan casually wiped the blood from his mouth, and murmured: "Unity, you must count on what you say."
No one knows what He Tuanjie said to him and what promises he made, because He Tuanjie hasn't been seen for another year.Moreover, since then, Hejiapo people have never seen him again.

The year He Ji was dismissed from the township central school, I was admitted to university.At that time, college students were relatively common in the city, but they were rare in remote mountainous areas. On the day I got the admission letter, almost all the surrounding villages knew about it. Not only people knew about it, but even dogs knew about it. They all chirped towards the sky, as if congratulating me.Some people say that it seems that He Kuiyuan and others have done a good thing for this area by opening Luo Siju's grave, because Master Luo, the "Wu Bang Chui" who was born here and buried here, suppressed the literary atmosphere here. When the qi dissipates, the literary qi will flourish.At the same time, people brought up the topic of Xinglangtan, where the old bachelor who raped my great-grandmother Li Gao lived.Didn’t Yanghou Mountain on Xinglang Beach collapsed? Didn’t the collapsed mountain form two boots for a man and a woman? Those two boots trampled on the chest of a giant in the middle of the river. In the past, it was said that it belonged to He Jiapo. Cuihua and her family's private school teacher stepped on Cuihua's eldest brother, and now, it is said that the mountain god has suppressed the big figures in the Qingxi River Basin.Now, the Qingxi River has become deeper, and the heels of those two boots can no longer be seen. People in the Qingxi River Basin should be born one by one.

In fact, it was because Yongle County built a national second-class hydropower station named "Datan", and the gate was closed, causing the Qingxi River to rise sharply and submerge the "boot heel".

Before I went to university, He Ju and He Yue were already married, and after only half a year of my university studies, He Kou and He Ji also got married successively!The woman of Hekou lives in Wanggulou, not far from the courtyard where Xu Lian lived when she was a girl.Of course she had heard of Xu Lian's family, but it was just because the descendants of that family had never seen mountains and dews in the Drum Tower, so it was unknown who the descendants of the Xu family were.Those who watched the Drum Tower did not remember Xu Lian's beauty, but only remembered her hard life. To be more precise, they remembered the experience of "beating people to death". When they wanted to express a long-standing story, they often used one sentence: "The year when people were beaten to death in Lijiagou." It doesn't matter whether that year is 30 years or [-] years away from the time they want to describe.He Ji's woman is naturally Tang Yu.Both women are capable, especially the woman from Hekou. Liang said that the woman from Hekou is almost as capable as Xu Lian and Chen Yuexiang, but she is not as beautiful as Xu Lian, and she is not as provocative as Xu Lian. ; She is of few words, loyal to her husband and family.Although she doesn't like to talk, but once she entered He's house, she took the lead in most of the "outside the master" affairs, and the light of Hekou was also dimmed.
He Da handled this series of things so intensively that he boiled all his oil dry.On the day I returned to my hometown from university during the winter vacation, He Da wanted to cook the meat hanging in the wooden warehouse. When I stood on the stool, I pulled him over and said I would come to pick it up, but he refused, saying that meat feeds people, but dirty hands.I was afraid that he would slip and fall off the stool, so I held him steady.After taking the meat, I hugged him down.I used a lot of strength to grab his waist, but he was surprisingly light, like a feather!His voice became thinner and thinner, before the end of his voice was completely spit out, it was lost.I asked him how he was, and he said everything was fine, except for shoulder pain and low back pain. He said: "Shoulder pain and low back pain are also good things. It makes me never dare to forget the past." Recalling bitterness is not enough, but thinking about sweetness is also necessary, so that life can be enjoyable."
Many people left on the slope, including Cai Gen's brother Cai Bang, who went out to work.The number of people has decreased so much that it suddenly looks empty. Fortunately, because of the closure of the Datan Power Station, all the inhabited places in Yongle have been lit with electric lights. At night, it is no longer as dark as before.This has changed the scene of Hejiapo at night, but it can't avoid the loneliness in the countryside at all.

During the winter vacation, I went to Chaishan several times with He Da.I have never done firewood chopping since I was a child, and I am just pretending to hold a machete. A cage of red thorn vines is enough for me to chop for half an hour.The last time I went with him, He Da didn't chop firewood, and sat down when we got close, and let me sit next to him.It seemed that he was a little excited, but also a little nervous. He put his hand into his chest to touch the cigarette several times, but he didn't get it out.

"He Zao, there is something I want to ask you." He Da stopped his hand touching the cigarette, and said seriously.

I look at him.

"Tell me, is it a bad thing or a good thing for so many people to leave Tuba to go out to work?"
I said, "Don't you let us study too? What is the purpose of studying? Isn't it to get out of Hejiapo?"
He Da pondered, and said slowly: "That's different. As a farmer, you can study without farming, and cultivate without studying. If you are a farmer, you should honestly farm soil in your hometown."
I said, "Have you agreed with Zhongbao's father?"
He Da was startled, and took two mouthfuls of saliva: "I'm getting old."
He slowly wrapped up the cigarette, took a deep breath, the breeze blew, and the light blue smoke drifted into my nostrils.A scent of earth.He Da took a few more puffs of cigarettes before he said solemnly, "Aren't you doing folklore surveys? Why don't you go to the ancient village?"
"The ancient village is gone."
(End of this chapter)