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

Chapter 7 Grass House (5)
"It's easy to say, I moved all his household registration out, and it's in my pocket."

Erma Qiu cleaned the pot, and cried while cleaning.

At this time, Xi Ma stood at the door of the kitchen, and asked with a Jiangnan accent that Qiu Erye and Qiu Erma couldn't understand: "What kind of tree is in the yard?"

Qiu Erye went to see Qiu Da, had been to Jiangnan several times, could barely understand Jiangnan dialect, and said: "Wu Sapium."

"Is it a bird's nest up there?"

"It's a bird's nest."

"What bird's nest?"

"Magpie."

"There are no magpies in the trees."

"They flew out."

The fine horse looked up at the sky.There are no magpies in the sky, only doves.As he watched, he asked, "Whose pigeons?"

"Sangsang's family."

"Is Sangsang an adult?"

"About your age."

"Is his home far away?"

"There's a bridge ahead, over there."

"I'm going to play with him."

Just as Qiu Erye was about to stop him, the fine horse had already run out of the yard.

Sangsang saw the fine horse.At first Xima was very eager to speak, but when he found it difficult for Sangsang to understand his words, he stopped talking and stood aside watching Sangsang feeding the pigeons strangely.

After the fine horse left, Sangsang said to her mother, "He is a little barbarian from the south of the Yangtze River."

Qiu Erye led the fine horse to Sancho and told him about the transfer of the fine horse.Sancho asked, "What grade are you in?"

Qiu Erye said: "It's time for the fourth grade, just like Sangsang."

Sancho said: "You go to Teacher Jiang Yilun and tell me that I agree."

Jiang Lun wanted to find out the bottom line, so he sent out a few papers for Xima to do.The paper was placed on Jiang Lunlun's desk, and Xi Ma sat on the chair where Jiang Yilun sat, staring at the paper for a long time before starting to answer.Answered for a while, then stopped again, picked his nostrils, or touched his ears, looking very helpless.Jiang Yilun collected the paper, looked at it, and said to Sancho: "A fine horse can only study in the third grade at most."

Qiu's second mother came to Sangsang's house and said to Sangqiao: "Let him go to the fourth grade."

Sancho said, "I'm afraid I won't be able to keep up."

Qiu's second mother said: "I don't think he is a material for studying, so he just followed the gangsters and dragged him down."

Sancho smiled bitterly: "I'll talk to Teacher Jiang again."

Xima became Sangsang's classmate.

When Xima was brought to class by Jiang Lunlun, the children all looked at him with fresh but strange eyes.For he is a little savage from far away.

Xi Ma and Bald Crane share a desk.

Xima looked at Bald Crane's head and smiled, showing a few front teeth.

The bald crane said in a low voice: "Little savage!"

The fine horse can’t understand, look at him, look at you, which means: What is this bald man talking about?
The children just laughed.

Xi Ma didn't know what the children were laughing at, and felt that he should laugh too, so he laughed with the children.

The children laughed.

Bald Crane said again: "Little savage!"

Xima still doesn't know what the bald crane is talking about.

The children yelled together: "Little savage!"

For some reason, the little horse learned to say: "Little savage."

The children immediately burst out laughing.Sangsang laughed so hard that her bottom left the stool, the stool lost its balance, and one end of the stool tilted up, throwing a child sitting on the other end of the bench to the ground.The child's face was ashamed, and he wanted to be annoyed, but Jiang Round, who had been cleaning the blackboard, turned around: "What are you laughing at? Be quiet! Class is on!"

The laughter gradually subsided.

After class for a while, Jiang Lunlun, who had always expressed doubts about Xima's learning level, planned to try Xima again, so he asked him to stand up and read the text.Jiang Yilun said it three times in a row, and only then did Xi Ma understand that the teacher was asking him to read the text.He groaned for a long time, picked up the book, and suddenly began to read aloud with a loud voice.His accent is so different from that of Yau Ma Tei that the children in Yau Ma Tei can't even understand a word, only Ji Li Gua is left.

Jiang Lun could barely understand a sentence.He tried to understand, and his expression seemed very focused.But to no avail.Hearing it later, he found it funny at first, and then got a little annoyed.

The fine horse was so straight that there were blue veins on his forehead, and the blue veins on his neck bulged out as if he had blown enough air, his face was flushed, and there were beads of sweat on his nose.

Jiang Lun wanted to wave his hand to make him stop, which showed that he was reading very hard, but he couldn't bear to let him stop.

The children were laughing at the bottom, and without knowing why, someone occasionally imitated the fine horse and said something, which made everyone laugh, and saw Jiang Lunlun's displeased face in a blink of an eye, and swallowed the laughter .

Although Jiang Yilun couldn't understand, he could tell from Xi Ma's pauses, babbles, and repetitions that it was very difficult for Xi Ma to read this text.

The children were either secretly laughing or talking in whispers, and the classroom was a mess.

Jiang Yilun finally waved his hand, telling Xi Ma to stop and stop reading.

The fine horse clearly saw disappointment on Jiang Roundup's face.He didn't know what he wanted to express, so he repeated a sentence to Jiang Yilun over and over again.Jiang Yilun couldn't understand, shook his head for a while, and looked at the children, meaning: Do you understand?The children below all shook their heads.Xi Ma finally understood: he was thrown into a world where he could not communicate with language.He looked anxiously at dozens of blank eyes, lowered his head, and felt the depression and loneliness that only a mute can have.

Jiang Yuan waved his hand and told Xi Ma to sit down.

In the later time, Xi Ma stared blankly at the blackboard.

After class, the children felt that they had been holding back for 45 minutes and finally had a chance to talk, either screaming loudly, or using a kind of "puff puff" with each other like a pot of water boiling, and the lid of the pot was bouncing. Talking at a high speed, the entire campus was so noisy that no human voice could be heard.

Xima leaned against a plane tree alone, thinking about the small town in the south of the Yangtze River, the elementary school, and the children who spoke the same accent as him in a state of speechlessness.

The next class was arithmetic class, and Xi Ma couldn't understand a sentence of what others said.

The next day, when Xi Ma thought of going to class, he felt a little bit scared and didn't want to go to school.But Qiu Erye didn't allow it, so he had no choice but to come to the school reluctantly.He became more and more afraid of speaking, and became withdrawn day by day.After about seven or eight days, he said nothing and refused to go to school.Qiu Erye thought, it's nothing to delay for a day or two, so he will go.But after three or four days, I didn't see that he wanted to go to school, so I refused and dragged him to school.When he was forced to the door of the classroom by Qiu Erye and saw a room full of children looking at him in a strange silence, he felt a deeper strangeness, put his feet against the threshold, and refused After entering, he was slapped on the back of the head by Qiu Erye, and Jiang Yilun stretched out his hand to pull him, so he sat back beside Tuhe.

For fear of embarrassing Xima, Jiang Roundabout and all the other teachers were careful not to let Xima stand up to read or speak in class.The children also stopped laughing at him, just watched him quietly when he wasn't looking, and didn't talk to him.Such a situation only further strengthened Xi Ma's loneliness.

The fine horse is always standing outside the group of children, either watching the children doing things, or looking for another fun thing by himself.

That day, Sangsang came back and said to her mother: "The fine horses are always on the field, playing with the flock of sheep."

Mother and Sangsang came to the gate of the courtyard together, looked towards the field, and saw a fine horse sitting on the field ridge, and those sheep were grazing peacefully beside him.Those sheep seemed to be very familiar with the fine horses, and none of them walked away from him.

Mother said: "Go and play with the fine horse."

Sangsang stood still.Because, he felt that when he was with Xima, he always felt very strange.There is nothing to say, it is a very uncomfortable thing.However, he still walked towards the fine horse.

After a quiz, the little horse doesn't come to school again.Because he couldn't understand the teacher's explanation, his Chinese and arithmetic scores were almost zero.That day, after school, he didn't go home, but went directly to the field and into the flock of sheep.After he sat down, he didn't move again.

Qiu Erye asked him to go back to eat, but he didn't return.

Qiu's second mother came to the school and asked Jiang Yilun if Xi Ma made a mistake at school or was bullied, Jiang Yilun told her the result of the quiz.Qiu's second mother said: "I think it's almost the same whether you read this book or not."

Qiu Erye didn't drag the fine horse back to school.He knew that Xi Ma was not a child who liked reading when he was in Jiangnan.Since he refuses to study, forget it.

Qiu's second mother said to Qiu Erye: "You have to ask him clearly whether he still wants to study or not, and don't say that we don't let him study in the future."

Qiu Erye walked to the field, came to Xi Ma, and asked, "You really don't want to study anymore?"

Xi Ma said, "I don't want to."

"Have you thought about it?"

"Think it over." Xi Ma hugged a sheep, without looking at Qiu Erye, and replied.

That day, Erma Qiu saw a big boat selling goats parked by the river, so she bought ten young goats and said to the fine horse, "Go and herd the goats."

two

Every morning, when Sangsang and the others went to school with their schoolbags on their backs, the fine horse drove the ten goats to the field to herd them.

Xima seems to be quite happy.The ten young goats were alive and kicking, one by one like elves, running, jumping, and fighting with each other, which brought a lot of happiness to the fine horse.While controlling them with a branch, the fine horse kept talking to them: "Let's go, let's go, we're grazing. . . . What a fine grass, eat it, eat it, eat it quickly, If you don’t eat it, the sheep will come to eat it....Stop making trouble, lie on the grass for a while, basking in the sun!...If you steal grass from other people’s gardens like this, you will be beaten by them, I swear , I don’t care about you anymore..." Xi Ma felt that the sheep could understand his words, and only the sheep could understand his words.Whenever he thinks of this, Xi Ma has a grudge against the students of Yau Ma Tei Primary School: They can't even understand my words; they don't know how ugly their words are!He secretly laughed at their tone of voice when they read the text: what are they talking about, all of them have big tongues, and each of them seems to have their nostrils blocked with snot!

The fine horse seems to like the world here very much.So big, so wide, the Great Plains.There are crops and vegetation everywhere, birds and hares everywhere.There are so many rivers, big and small, and boats, big and small.He likes watching ospreys fishing, listening to cows "mooing" in the distance, watching hunters with long-legged and slender hounds chasing rabbits in wheat fields or cotton fields, and listening to reeds There is a kind of waterfowl that sings sadly without a sound, and likes to watch the windmill spin wildly in the wild wind... He is in this field, taking his sheep, or simply leaving them alone for a while, everywhere. Walk.Everything is fun.He is willing to do many things: chasing a dog, catching some fish in a small pond, finding a weasel's hole, and digging deep into the hole with bamboo chips...

After some days like this, Xima suddenly felt that all this was no longer interesting.When he heard the sound of reading and noise coming from Yau Ma Tei Primary School, he would stand on the field and look at Yau Ma Tei Primary School for a long time.However, he did not want to go back to school to study.

Winter is here, and because the plains are unobstructed, the north wind always drives straight in, swirling wildly in the wilderness.Although the fine horse does not have to drive the sheep to the fields every day, he often has to take a small scythe to the river slopes and field ridges to cut the withered grass or missed bean straw, and then carry it back to feed the sheep.The north wind scratched his hands and his face sharply like icicles.Within a few days, his hand was split open, revealing bright red flesh.In the evening, Qiu Erma boiled a pot of hot water, and Qiu Erye brought the fine horse over, asked him to soak his hands in the hot water for a long time, then wiped them dry, and then asked him to apply clam oil.But even so, the fine horse's hand still produced a kind of cutting pain from time to time in the north wind.At this time, he felt a kind of jealousy and hostility towards the children who sat reading in the classrooms with thick straw curtains hanging on the door.

After the winter, Xi Ma can basically understand the "unpleasant" words of Yau Ma Tei people.However, Xi Ma still did not go to school.One is because Qiu's second mother didn't ask him to go to school again, and the other is that Xi Ma felt that if he missed a semester of classes, it would be impossible to keep up with him, unless he repeated a grade, and Xi Ma didn't want to be ashamed like this.Xi Ma still tends his sheep, although Xi Ma doesn't like herding sheep in his heart.

The fine horses are more and more fond of driving the flocks closer to Yau Ma Tei Primary School.Now, he doesn't care that the children of Yau Ma Tei Primary School look at him strangely.He even likes to challenge those eyes to meet those eyes with his own pair of eyes, until those eyes suddenly feel a little weak and no longer look at him.The first thing he learned in Yau Ma Tei was swear words, and some unsavory swear words.He knew that these cursing words were the most insulting to the other party, as well as the most hurtful and irritating to the other party.When a child threw dirt at his sheep, or came over to tease his sheep, he would scold them.The reason why he scolded them was to show that he hated them, and that he could speak Yau Ma Tei dialect now.The children in Yau Ma Tei have already felt that this little savage from the south of the Yangtze River is a very barbaric child.Knowing this, there will not be too many children to provoke him.This disappointed Xima.He hoped that someone would provoke him so that he could scold them.He even longed in his heart to have a fierce fight with a certain kid from Yau Ma Tei Primary School.

The children saw this, and avoided him more carefully.

The fine horse drove the flock to the intersection where the children of Yau Ma Tei Primary School had to go to school.He made his sheep shit and pee on the road.The girls were afraid of both the sheep and him, so they had to walk out of the field.The boys are not afraid, they just want to come over.At this time, if his sheep are disturbed, he will curse.If the boy being scolded refuses to agree with his unreasonableness and wants to fight with him, he will feel very excited, and immediately go up to meet him, tilt his body to the other side, and hold his head up: "Do you want to fight?" If you are intimidated by his provocative aura, you will appear a little cringe.He would say to the boy: "If you have the guts, give me a punch!" A few boys did it, but they all found that Xima was a very powerful kid, and with his fighting spirit He was fierce and entangled for a while, seeing the opportunity, he quickly got rid of him and escaped.In the sixth grade, there was a boy who deliberately came over and kicked a sheep's ass, relying on his strength and strength and not being afraid of his fierce appearance.The fine horse cursed and rushed over.The boy grabbed his clothes and swung him in two circles. Then, as soon as he let go of his hands, the pony fell backwards and finally sat on the ground.The fine horse picked up two bricks.The two children were in a hurry to fight, and there were many people who grabbed bricks from the ground to hit people, but nine out of ten they used bricks to scare people.Brick held onto it tightly, but he didn't dare to smash it out.The bold opponent knew that this side did not dare to attack, so he waited there for him to come over.This party ran over grabbing the brick and lifted it up.The other party was also a little scared, but still said loudly: "You dare to hit me! You dare to hit me!" The one who grabbed the brick said, "I'll hit you!" He was stubborn, but in the end he didn't dare to hit me.The other party was also a little timid, afraid that if it really hit him, he walked away.But the fine horse is for real.He aimed at the tall boy and chopped out a brick.As soon as the tall boy dodged, he heard Brick flying past his ear.Seeing the fine horse rushing over with a brick, looking absolutely serious, he was so frightened that he turned around and ran straight to the campus.The fine horse picked up another brick from the ground, carried one brick in each hand, and walked into the campus gritted his teeth without chasing it fiercely.The tall boy ran around in fright, and finally hid in the women's toilet, scaring the girls who came to use the toilet to scream.Xima didn't find the tall boy, so he carried the bricks to the outside of the campus, sat on the road, and stayed there until school was over.The tall boy couldn't go home, so he had to run to the edge of the small river and let an old man with ducks take him across in a boat.

(End of this chapter)