Cao Wenxuan's Novels Reading and Appreciation: The Grass House

Chapter 5 Grass House (3)
All schools are carefully prepared to come to Yau Ma Tei Primary School to have a showdown, one by one, and each family appears to be disciplined and meticulous.Although those children are limited by their conditions, their clothes will inevitably be long and short, or too fat or too short, but they are still neat and tidy.Children in the lower grades, nine out of ten, have trousers drooping, as if they may slip off in public at any time, showing bare buttocks in the cold winter months, but their eyes are wide open, with a serious look.The levels of each are similar, and laymen can hardly see the difference.But those principals quickly wrote the scores in their hearts.

Yau Ma Tei Primary School is the host, the last one to play.

When the fourth elementary school was halfway through, an imperceptible smile appeared on Sancho's face.Because based on the level of the top four schools he saw, Yau Ma Tei Primary School won the first place in this parade, which is almost a bag.Sancho has thoroughly understood Yau Ma Tei Primary School and knows exactly what level it is.He no longer intended to watch other people's performances, but turned his eyes away, looking at the big team of Yau Ma Tei Primary School who were preparing to enter the arena outside the arena, eager to try.Sancho is stingy with honor, even if it is a little bit of honor, he will never let it go easily.

As soon as the performance of the fourth primary school was over, the team of Yau Ma Tei Primary School quickly occupied the huge playground.

Poplar trees are planted around the playground.They stand upright under the blue-gray sky.After the leaves are gone and only the brown trunk is left, the poplar looks more vigorous.

The performance of Yau Ma Tei Primary School started.Everything is working, even super-performing.Sancho's smile could not be restrained.He couldn't sit still anymore and wanted to stand up and applaud the students of Yau Ma Tei Primary School.

When the performance was about two-thirds in, and the whole process had reached its final climax, the bald crane, with a solemn face, suddenly took off its hat and threw it into the distance.It was a black hat, and when flying over the head, it was reminiscent of a shot black crow falling from the sky.This caused a small commotion in the ranks.Immediately afterwards, people outside the arena, as if they suddenly saw a bright light in the darkness for a long time, they were immediately attracted by the bald head of the bald crane.At that time, children went to school, and their ages were uneven. Bald Crane only entered the school at the age of ten, and was already a head taller than ordinary children. At this time, that bald head was particularly prominent.The other kids all wore hats and all had good hair.And he is short of hair, but bald.This dramatic effect is produced very quickly.The laughter outside the venue immediately drowned out the voice of the girl standing on the platform shouting the password. The students of Yau Ma Tei Primary School suddenly lost their command and their movements became chaotic.The laughter outside the arena quickly infected the people in the arena. They also looked at the head of the bald crane while making movements, completely forgetting their important task of fighting for honor for Yau Ma Tei Primary School.First, a few girls laughed so hard that their limbs went limp, and the movements that should have been solid were made out of shape like water floating down from the cornice.Immediately afterwards, a few boys who were usually very dishonest took the opportunity to make their movements completely out of shape.One of the boys even swayed here and there like a drunken fist, knocking several girls away.

Sancho looked embarrassed.

Only Bald Crane acted as if nothing had happened, he was concentrating on doing what he was supposed to do, absolutely impeccable.When he did the jumping action, I saw him bouncing lightly on the ground like a spring.The bald head shrugged in the air.At that time, it was the bright sunlight slanting down from the clouds, like a spotlight on a big stage chasing the actor, and the bald head of the bald crane shone brightly in the air.

Sancho couldn't help laughing, but he quickly put the smile on his face.

In this way, the bald crane retaliated against others' contempt and insult in his unique way.

五

But what Tu He got in return was everyone's indifference, because he caused everyone to lose their honor and made Yau Ma Tei Primary School suffer a "disgrace".The children could not forget the scene of them leaving the arena and returning to the classroom one by one in disgrace after the parade, and Sancho's rage and scolding afterward.

Bald Crane wants to please others.For example, Zhu Miaomiao's paper airplane flew to the roof and couldn't reach it, so the bald crane moved two desks and a bench, climbed to the roof, and took the paper airplane down.But Zhu Miaomiao did not take the paper plane that Tuhe handed over with both hands, and said without looking at it: "I don't want this plane." Tuhe said, "It's a good plane, so I don't want it. "He made a regrettable look, then took the paper airplane and let it fly on the grass.It was originally a good paper airplane, flying high and fluttering, swirling high and low in the air, and never falling.He pretended to be having a good time, and yelled "Aww", but he soon discovered that others didn't pay attention to him.He let it fly a few more times, and then stared blankly at the paper airplane flying slowly into the pond.

One day, when Bald Crane was walking alone on the way to school, he was bitten severely by a wild dog quietly chasing up from behind. He yelled "Ouch", and when he looked down, his calf was already bleeding profusely.By the time he grabbed a brick, the wild dog had already fled.He sat on the ground, mouth crooked, endured the pain, picked a hemp leaf from the side of the road, and gently stuck it to the wound.Then, he found a wooden stick to lean on, and limped towards the school.When he was almost at school, he made a big limp.He wants to exaggerate.But he saw that no one was paying attention to him.He couldn't change back to the proper action, so he insisted on this exaggerated action in the classroom.Finally, a girl asked him: "What's the matter with you?" He said loudly: "I was bitten by a dog." So, without waiting for the girl to hear the story of being bitten by a dog, he said it vividly : "That's a big dog, I've never seen a big dog, it's so long, good guy! I was thinking about something, it came over quietly, quietly, with a big 'shua', It just bit on my hind calf..." He sat down, crossed the injured leg, and peeled off the hemp leaf: "Come and see this wound..." It was really a big wound, and The dog's teeth marks are clearly shown.At this moment, he saw the wound as a charming flower.A few people came to have a look, then turned around and left.He is still telling this story, but not many people pay attention to him.At this time, Jiang Yuanyuan came to class with his textbooks in his arms. He saw Tuhe, "What are you doing sitting there?" Tuhe said, "I was bitten by a dog." "If you are bitten by a dog, you will be bitten." Bald Crane was very bored, and limped back to his seat.

Another new school year.Some children have grown taller, while others have stayed the same; some children's grades have improved by leaps and bounds, while others' grades have plummeted; Talked, and even wanted to scratch the other person's face... For reasons such as these, at the beginning of the new school year, the whole class was disrupted and regrouped as usual.

Bald Crane thought: "Which group will I be in? Will I be in the same group as Sangsang?" He was not very happy with Sangsang, and often said in his heart: "Aren't you the son of the principal's family?" I don't think Sangsang is bad. "A team with Sangsang is also fine." "Will you be in a team with Xiang Toon?" He thinks Xiang Toon is good, Xiang Toon is the most humane girl in the class, but Xiang Toon's sister has a brain problem and often runs away from home, It made Xiang Toon in a bad mood, and often didn't feel like answering people. "However, what does it matter? Let's be in a group with Xiang Toon, maybe I can help her go out to find her sister."

However, no one thought of being in a group with Bald Crane.Bald Crane is somewhat self-indulgent.

When the preliminary list of each group had been passed around among the students, those students who knew that Tuhe was in their group all went to Jiang Lunlun and said, "We don't want Tuhe."

Jiang Yilun corrected, "Lu He."

A girl said: "It doesn't matter if it's called Lu He or Tu He, we don't want him anyway."

Jiang Lunlun said: "Who told you that he and you are in the same group? What nonsense!"

After Jiang Yilun sent the children away, he circled Tuhe's name with a pencil, drew another line, and inserted him into another group.That bar was like a rope pulling the bald crane, trying to drag him to another place.The students in this group knew that the bald crane was assigned to them again, so they followed the method of the group above, and they all came to Jiang Yuanlun.Just like this, the bald crane became someone who no one wanted.In fact, most people don't mind that the bald crane is in the same group as them, but since some people don't want it, and they want it again, they feel that they have picked up something that they don't want very much, so they don't want it anymore.

Jiang Yuanyuan called Tuhe to the office: "Which group are you going to be in?"

Bald Crane scratched at the desk with his fingers.

"Don't dig the desk."

Bald Crane put his hand down.

"Which group do you want to be in?"

Bald Crane went to dig the desk again.

"If you don't pick your desk, don't pick your desk."

The bald crane put his hand down again.

"You choose."

Bald Crane didn't look up: "I'll do whatever I want." After speaking, he walked out of the office.

Bald Crane did not return to the classroom.He walked out of the campus, then walked aimlessly along the river until he reached the big brick kiln.At that time, the roof of the brick kiln was still pouring water.The bricks in one kiln were fired for 21 days and [-] days, and now they are all cooked.Then slowly pour water for seven days from the top, and a kiln of good green bricks will be produced.After the cooked billets pass through the water, strong heat is released, and the entire kiln roof seems to be filled with thick fog.The wind blowing from the west blew the milky white heat to the east.Facing the heat, Bald Crane walked over step by step.Later, he climbed onto a pile of adobe not far from the kiln.He was completely enveloped in the heat.Occasionally a gust of wind blows away the hot air, revealing his body faintly.No one can see him, and he can't see anyone else.Bald Crane thinks this is very good.He just sat like this, letting the moist heat wrap him and caress him...

六

The Spring Festival is approaching, and Yau Ma Tei Primary School received a notice from above: During the Spring Festival, there will be art performances in 43 primary and secondary schools in the township.This kind of performance is basically once a year.

Since Sancho became the principal of Yau Ma Tei Primary School, it has achieved good rankings in the annual general performance.Today, the largest grass house used as the office is full of awards won in the conference performance.Every time there is a performance, Yau Ma Tei Primary School is not at peace.Children with performance talents in each class were drawn out, and they often rehearsed day and night in another thatched house that was temporarily used as a rehearsal venue.Sometimes those children were too tired to open their eyes, and Sancho would beat the drums violently on the edge of the drum, shouting loudly: "Wake up! Wake up!" So the children rubbed their sleepy eyes while being dazed again. Going on stage slowly, it is common to forget the lines or say the wrong lines.When the lips of the donkey are not right with the mouth of the horse, everyone will burst into laughter, and amidst the burst of laughter, the child who has not yet woken up will wake up.In addition to yelling loudly, in most cases, Sancho carefully cared for these children who could win honor for Yau Ma Tei Primary School.Other students have to participate in school labor frequently, but these children do not need to participate.Every semester, these children will always get some cheap because they participated in the literary and artistic propaganda team of Yau Ma Tei Primary School.After the rehearsal at night, he would send out all the teachers to escort the children home one by one.It is not uncommon for him to carry his child on his back through a muddy country path or over a single-plank bridge covered in snow and ice.

Sangsang and Zhiyue are both members of the literature and art propaganda team.

Because it is a good ranking every year, it is more and more difficult for Yau Ma Tei Primary School to win a good ranking.

"We must win No. 1 in the primary school group this year!" Sancho called Jiang Yilun and other teachers in charge of the literary and art propaganda team to his office, saying without negotiating.

"There is no good book." Jiang Lun said.

"If you don't have a good book, go find a good one. If you can't find a good book, write a good one yourself," Sancho said.

Jiang Lun went to the county seat, found the county cultural center, and brought back some notebooks from his old classmates.The strategy of Yau Ma Tei Primary School is: play by adults, children will perform, and the effect will be unexpected.Sancho said: "Think about it, a little boy of eight or nine years old, wearing an old man's hat, holding a cigarette pouch, walking on the stage with a bent body, and a little girl of eight or nine years old, wearing an old man's hat Aunt’s blue cloth jacket, carrying a bamboo basket, and walking on the stage with her hands clasped together, this is a show in itself.” He told Jiang Luanlun to stick to this strategy this year.Therefore, what Jiang Lun brought back from the county cultural center was all grown-up plays.After he had read these books, he gave them to Sancho.After Sancho watched it, he had another round of discussion with Jiang and selected two small plays from them.One of them, the one that Sancho likes the most, is called "Bridge Slaughter".Tuqiao is a place name.The plot is actually very ordinary: a company of puppet troops came to Tuqiao one day, they did all kinds of evil here, oppressed the people, and the New Fourth Army came that night and trapped them all under the covers.The reason why Sancho fell in love with this book is because there are many scenes in this book that make people have to laugh.Several main roles were quickly assigned. The commander of the New Fourth Army was played by Du Xiaokang, the young girl was played by Zhiyue, and the company commander of the puppet army was played by Liu Sanxia.

Jiang Lun engraved the steel plate and printed more than a dozen copies of the book, all of which were distributed.The following links are nothing more than memorizing lines, matching lines, rehearsals, rehearsals, and until the official performance.

Everything is going smooth.Du Xiaokang is the coolest and most handsome boy among the boys, and he is just right to play the heroic commander of the New Fourth Army.Zhiyue played that beautiful and cute little girl, which made people speechless, as if this Zhiyue really grew up to be a girl in the future, she would be that kind of girl.Liu Sanxia's acting was also good, and he acted like a bastard.

It wasn't until the rehearsal that Jiang Yuan found out that he hadn't considered one thing: the puppet company commander was a big bald man in the script.He must be a bald man, because many of the lyrics and confessions in it involve bald men, and even the plot is related to bald men.If he wasn't bald, the script wouldn't work.Conversely, the reason why this script was established is precisely because this company commander is not an ordinary company commander, but a bald company commander.

Only then did Sancho discover that the comical effect of the book he was optimistic about at that time was all due to the fact that the company commander was a big bald man.

"What should I do?" Jiang Lun asked.

"It's not easy."

"Just treat Liu Sanxia as a bald man."

"Pull it down, his good hair is as lush as weeds. When he comes on stage, people don't look at his face, they just look at his hair." Sancho imagined, "He went to the stage After such a stop, he flicked his cap and said, "I, Yang Dabaipiao, will walk to Tuqiao...'"

Jiang rounded "puchi" and laughed.

Sancho said: "The old way, go find a pig urine foam cover."

"Where can I find pig urine bubbles?"

"Look for the butcher Ding Si."

"Ding Si is not good at talking."

"I'll go talk to him."

The next day, Sancho got a pig urine bubble from Ding Si.

Liu Sanxia sniffed it, and frowned: "Sao!"

Sancho said: "If you don't flirt, you won't be called a pig urine bubble." He took the pig urine bubble, and slowly put the pig urine bubble on like a senior officer put a military cap on one of his meritorious subordinates. It landed on Liu Sanxia's head.

Liu Sanxia suddenly became a bald man.

So, everyone suddenly felt that the book "Slaughter Bridge" was shining brightly there.

The rehearsal began, and at the critical moment, the pig urine burst, and a lock of Liu Sanxia's black hair was exposed.That image made everyone laugh.

(End of this chapter)