Hunger for a hundred years

Chapter 8 (8)
Of course, Yang Guangwu over at Nixi Field couldn't hear him. He was fighting a wild boar weighing three to four hundred catties.Earlier, he fired two shots at the wild boar, and the wild boar sprayed brilliant blood, but it did not fall down. Instead, it stared at Yang Guangwu twice with its broad bean-like eyes, and then swept over like a whirlwind.Yang Guangwu hurriedly threw his gun and ran away, climbing onto an old pine tree.The huge guy caught up and started chewing on the tree.The long cylindrical mouth opens and closes, and the tree dust is scattered.Every time it exerts force, blood spurts out in a more ferocious posture.But it didn't care about it, and fought to the death. After gnawing for a while, it landed on the ground with its front paws, panting tiredly and painfully, then jumped up suddenly, and slammed into the disabled tree trunk with its heavy body.Pine trees as thick as pots fell heavily to the ground.Yang Guangwu fell while sitting, and the sharp pain from his buttocks went straight to his forehead.But he knew that he must get up and run away immediately, because the wild boar was rushing at him with its mouth open.As soon as he stood up half of his body, he was sucked into the bloody vortex.The wild boar bit his left arm.He no longer feels pain.While the wild boar was biting his left arm and tearing wildly, he threw himself on the wild boar's back, yelled loudly, and pushed it to the ground. His right hand pierced the wild boar's wound like a sharp knife, and pulled out a section of bloody internal organs.Immediately, wild boars screamed fiercely in the mountains.The wild boar was dead, and Yang Guangwu's left arm was embedded in its teeth.Fortunately, when the wild boar bit him, the violent force was at the end of its strength, so it didn't break his bones, but the fangs pierced the flesh of his hands to pieces.

In this way, Yang Guangwu has been recuperating at home.In fact, his injury has healed long ago, but this hunting experience cost him his life, but it took his courage. Every time he took a step out of the house, he could smell the smell of wild boars and see That piece of bright red blood.He didn't dare to go out to hunt anymore, so he simply smashed the two guns at home.He does not hunt himself, nor does he let his son hunt.

"Be honest and graze cattle for me!" he said to his son.
When Aunt Zhong, who was watching the Drum Tower, went to find Yang Guangwu again, the jackal went to herd the cattle.After hearing Mrs. Zhong's words, Yang Guangwu was very excited.He has long needed a woman.He paid Mrs. Zhong a matchmaker gift, and said to her: "You go back first, and I will go to Hejiapo to pick up the person with you." Mrs. Zhong said, "You...you have to make some preparations?"
Yang Guangwu said coldly: "What are you going to do? A remarried wife! The day after tomorrow, I'll pick her up the day after tomorrow."
According to the agreed time, Aunt Zhong caught Yang Guangwu at the Dongba field.

Xu Lian hadn't gone uphill since the day before yesterday.Her land has been transferred to He Xiangzhan and others, and she has nothing to do.In order to make herself look better, she combed her hair well and put on a new silk dress.When she combed her hair and dressed, the tears couldn't stop flowing.She is leaving the land, and the tomb of the man she loves
When Yang Guangwu walked up the dike ridge accompanied by Mrs. Zhong, Xu Lian hugged the child, and her heart tightened intermittently.

However, she has no way out.

"Let's go!" Yang Guangwu said to her.

"You don't even eat?" Mrs. Zhong said.

"Don't eat." Yang Guangwu said.

Xu Lian stood up.She was in a trance, and when it came to eating, she really forgot to prepare.Mrs. Zhong's matchmaker money and pig's head meat (thanks to the matchmaker in that area, the man only gave money or food, while the woman gave both money and food, but also pig's head meat, so the matchmaker was also called "the one who gnawed the pig's head"). It has already been paid by her parents, otherwise, she might forget even such an important matter.

Aunt Zhong was very unhappy, she muttered a few times, ignored them, went out of the yard, and went directly to the Drum Tower.

This is probably the simplest wedding in He Jiapo since ancient times.At that time, no matter how poor the family was, the man had to kill at least a rabbit to entertain the guests, and the bride had to kill a chicken to entertain relatives and friends at her mother's house before leaving. But Xu Lian came down to court only by Yang Guangwu, whom she had never met. Someone came and took her and the two dolls away.

No one saw her off. Her mother had said she was coming, but Xu Lian and her father stopped her.

Xu Lian led Yang Guangwu to kowtow in front of He Xingneng and Zhang's brand-new stone graves, and then made a detour to the Yantang.Next to the weir pond is an earthen grave, where He Di sleeps.Xu Lian took the two children and threw them on the grave, weeping bitterly.While crying, she said some miserable farewell words incoherently.From Xu Lian's words, Yang Guangwu knew that her man was buried here.He remained calm and waited for Xu Lian.From the first time she saw Yang Guangwu, Xu Lian had a premonition of her future destiny.This man had leopard-like eyes and a few yellow goatees. His face was so thin that he couldn't even fit his eyes and nose, so his mouth was as small as a bean, but his hands were as slender as the arms of an ape.Look at his wrinkled clothes and trousers, although they are not mended, but there is pus in them, it is far from the wealth that Mrs. Zhong boasted about.When Xu Lian kowtowed to her parents, she thought that Yang Guangwu would also kneel down, but Yang Guangwu looked away, as if he had nothing to do with herself-this is what Aunt Zhong said "sincerity".

Xu Lian cried for half an hour on her husband's grave before she took her two children and followed Yang Guangwu on the road.

More than 100 miles away, the hardships are self-evident.From Hejiapo down the mountain, walk seventy or eighty miles along the river. Although the road is relatively gentle, it is mostly sandy. If you take a step and give up half a step, except for the sandy ground, it is the rocky bone. If you step on it with thin cloth shoes, your feet will hurt. Numbness, if you don't pay attention, you will sprain your feet. There is a section of the road that passes through the reeds, and the sharp blades have drawn blood on the face and hands.After walking on the flat ground, I went up the mountain again.The forest here is very large, much older and more primitive than the forest in Hejiapo. A vague path is covered with rotten leaves, making it slippery to walk on.My grandma Xu Lian's feet were bound before, although the binding was not very careful, but how can she bear the long journey?Besides, she has to take care of two children.No matter if he fell down or couldn't walk, Yang Guangwu would never help take care of the child. As soon as Xu Lian sat down, he would immediately go to a place several feet away and couldn't wait to take out a cigarette to wrap it up.

Regarding this matter, I once asked my father He Da: Since Yang Guangwu looks like that, why didn't grandma take you back to Hejiapo?Father said, they walked for two days for a hundred miles, and stopped in a Yaodianzi near the river.Yang Guangwu wanted to live with them, but Xu Lian scolded him, so Yang Guangwu had to live in another room.As soon as Yang Guangwu left, He Er first said that he was going back to Hejiapo.The voice was thin, obviously, he was afraid of that ghostly man.Then, He Da also wanted to go back to Hejiapo.Xu Lian kept nodding her head, choked up so that light blue blood vessels protruded from her neck.But early the next morning, she took the child and set off with Yang Guangwu.As soon as Yang Guangwu appeared, no matter how much he wanted to go back, He Dahe Er didn't dare to say anything.

Why did my grandma go with Yang Guangwu? My father couldn't figure it out. According to my analysis, there are two reasons. First, my grandma is a person who cares about face. Marriage is like elopement. If she elopes halfway and then returns, she really has no choice but to crawl into the ground; secondly, my grandma has already made up her mind to die, but she wants to get a status and entrust two children.

I think this second point is the most important, because as soon as Xu Lian stepped into the Yang family's threshold, she immediately tried to pull herself together and be a good wife and mother, so as to please Yang Guangwu.For example, when she saw the portraits of Yang Guangwu's parents hanging in the main room, she led her son, and the three of them knelt down together and kowtowed four times for the dead old man.Isn't Yang Guangwu's son's nickname Jackal? Judging from his appearance, he has a sharp chin and deep-set eyes, which is really worthy of the name. Seeing Jackal coming in, Xu Lian immediately walked over to caress his shoulder.

But Xu Lian's wish fell apart in an instant.

When she touched Jackal's shoulder, Jackal glared at her.Meeting his eagle-like eyes, Xu Lian shrank back in fright.As soon as he shrank, his hand touched Jackal's face, Jackal screamed, raised his fist, and rushed towards He Dahe Er.Before Xu Lian could stop him, He Dahe Er's nosebleed had already flowed out.He Er burst into tears, but He Da didn't say a word, just wiped away the blood from his nose and stared at his mother pitifully.Xu Lian pulled up her skirt to wipe the child's nosebleed, while looking at Yang Guangwu not far away.Yang Guangwu turned a blind eye.Xu Lian had no choice but to turn her head, and said to the jackal as softly as possible: "You baby, why did you hit someone?" Out of the hall.

Xu Lian suddenly felt dizzy, and there was a bang in her abdomen, as if her internal organs and six lungs were shattered.

At night, Yang Guangwu arranged for Jackal and He Dahe to sleep in the same bunk, but He Dahe refused to do so, and Xu Lian never agreed to such an arrangement, so she made a bed in the alley next to the pigsty, so that He Dahe Er went to live.

From this, it can be seen that Yang Guangwu's family is "rich".

The bed where Yang Guangwu slept had a stench like old salted vegetables, and the white-faced quilt was a black cake, covered with gloomy lice and flea blood.Xu Lian walked to the bed and almost vomited, but she warned herself: everything must be patient.She asked in a gentle tone: "Are there any quilts left? Tomorrow, I'll take them down and wash them." Yang Guangwu didn't answer, and as soon as he sat on the stool in the corner of the room, he took out a cigarette to smoke.The smell of smoke came out, and there was a strange smell; Xu Lian could smell this strange smell when Yang Guangwu was smoking on the road. She didn't understand why the dry smoke had such a smell at that time, but now she suddenly realized: it is opium!

Xu Lian had no choice but to take off her coat and go to bed.After half an hour, Yang Guangwu was addicted to cigarettes, stood on the ground, and took off his naked body slowly.Xu Lian secretly opened her eyes and took a deep breath.Yang Guangwu's body was covered with black lumps, and the object between his legs looked like an angry snake.Instead of blowing on the lamp, he went straight to the bed, picked up Xu Lian's legs, and stripped her naked.Before that, Xu Lian felt pain in the air for a while, and panicked for a while. At this moment, her heart was completely dead, and she was at Yang Guangwu's mercy.Yang Guangwu has been busy for a long time, but there is no effect at all, and he makes a nasty noise from his small mouth.An hour or two passed, and the rooster crowed twice. Xu Lian found Yang Guangwu jumping out of bed, and she was mad like a mad dog.Xu Lian saw that if Yang Guangwu did not succeed again, she and her child would suffer even greater hardships, so she closed her eyes, thinking about where she was, and about her first night with him, in order to arouse her lust.After a while, Xu Lian's lower body felt tearing pain.

After that night, Xu Lian completely lost her sexual desire, but Yang Guangwu forced her to come here regardless of day or night.It is said that opium smokers have weak libido, but Yang Guangwu is a special case.The reason why his former women ran away was firstly because Yang Guangwu smoked opium, and secondly because he couldn't stand his sexual brutality.

In less than half a month, Xu Lianhua's face turned pale.

Her heart aches for the two children.Every time the jackal had a chance, he would slap He Dahe Er a few times, so that when they saw the jackal, it was like a mouse seeing a cat; when the jackal coughed, He Dahe would slap him I dare not move my chopsticks.

Due to the extremely depressed spirit and the frequent smell of Yang Guangwu's smoke, Xu Lian also smoked opium after coming to Yang's house for less than a month.

Yang Guangwu did have some land in the past, and he had been an armor chief for several years, but all the land that could grow crops was turned into smoke by him.Now, not to mention surpassing the He family, even ordinary families who can afford food live better than him.It's just that his several chests stored a lot of opium, enough for them to go overboard for several years.

But there were already three smokers in the house!Apart from Yang Guangwu and Xu Lian, the third one is Jackal.Jackal never went to school for a day, he started herding cattle at the age of six, and started smoking at the age of eight.Before Xu Lian came, Yang Guangwu thought that he was the only one smoking opium, but he didn't know that his son had already been addicted to smoking.It was one day not long after his mother ran away, before going up the mountain to herd cattle, he cocked his buttocks and tied straw ropes to the soles of his shoes (to prevent slippery mountain roads), and saw his father taking cigarettes from a box in the back room from between his legs. I couldn't wait to stuff it into my mouth, and lit the match with trembling hands, and the smoke came out.Before Yang Guangwu smoked, he would wait for his son to go up the mountain, and then he would go out of the house at night to smoke. Today, his addiction to cigarettes has risen, and he really can't bear it.Jackal smelled the smoke and felt light and wanted to fly!When his father left the back room, he sneaked in and took some out, smoking while grazing the cows.I can't take it off without thinking about it, because the smell of the smoke is not only fragrant, but also relieves hunger, sleepiness and sorrow.Now, his smoking addiction is no less than that of Yang Guangwu.
One day, the jackal fell ill, and Yang Guangwu went up to the mountain to cut firewood, and He Daheer followed him. Although Yang Guangwu had a vicious face, he was not as ferocious as his son, and He Daheer was no longer afraid of him.Xu Lian took the place of Jackal to herd the cattle.It was a sturdy yellow cornstarch. At first, the yellow cornstarch ate grass with relish. Xu Lian sat on the ground covered with a thick layer of green ganglia leaves, looking at the clouds in the light blue sky, her heart had already flown to Hejiapo , flew to her husband's grave.She never thought that Yang Guangwu was her man, there was only one man, and that was He Di.Even if she was having sex with Yang Guangwu, there was only so much in her mind.

This is the first time she has worked alone, and she can think and cry as much as she wants.

At noon, Huang Guzi stopped suddenly, and the two pits in his stomach proved that he was not full.Xu Lian greeted: "Huang'er, why don't you eat?" Huang Guzi didn't listen to her greeting, his shoulders tightened, his eyes as big as copper bells were so bulging that they would pop out.Maybe it's sick?Xu Lian stood up and walked to Huang Guzi's side.As soon as her hand touched the bull's horn, Huang Guzi raised her head violently, pried Xu Lian far away, and then galloped away, ran across several mountains and villages, and finally fell to her death under the cliff.

It turned out that Huang Guzi had already become addicted to cigarettes from jackals. For several years, every noon, that is, when jackals were smoking, he would not eat grass and only smell the smoke.

When it shrank its shoulders and stared, the addiction to cigarettes had already broken out, and Xu Lian didn't know it, so it was severely injured.

Xu Lian broke a rib, but in Yang Guangwu's view, it didn't matter, what mattered was the death of the Huang Guzi they depended on for their lives. (Xu Lian thought so too.) Yang Guangwu took Xu Lian back and kicked and beat her violently.When Jackal lying on the hospital bed heard that Huang Guzi fell to his death, he scolded "smelly woman" repeatedly, struggled up, and slapped Xu Lian who was lying on the ground moaning countless times.

After his mother ran away, Huang Guzi was Jackal's only reliable partner.

Even He Dahe Er was severely beaten by Yang Guangwu and jackals.

When Yang Guangwu led people to carry Huang Guzi's body back and put it on the eaves of the street, Yang Guangwu threw himself on Huang Guzi again, weeping bitterly as if in mourning, while Jackal crawled out to touch Huang Guzi's broken horn and uttered Screaming like a wolf.

Xu Lian was still lying on the ground moaning.She has been lying on the ground for a long time.However, at this moment, she struggled to get up from the ground, tightly guarding the two children.

This incident sealed the fate of my grandma.

(End of this chapter)