The full text of Mix by Shen Congwen

It is common for country people to play suona to pick up their daughter-in-law in December.

Behind the suona is a sedan chair, which is steadily carried by four masters. The people in the sedan chair were locked in with copper locks. Although they wear decent red and green clothes that they don't usually wear, they still want to cry. In these little women's minds, there will be many new things waiting to happen from now on when they are brides, leaving their mothers and preparing to be other people's mothers. Like a dream, I slept in a bed with a strange man, doing things that inherited my ancestors. Of course, I was a little scared to think of these things, so I wanted to cry as usual and cried.

Some daughters-in-law don't cry. Rustling doesn't cry when he is a daughter-in-law. The little girl has no mother. She was put in foster care in Zhuangzi, where her uncle worked as a farmer and only moved from one home to another when she got married. So that day, the little woman just smiled. She is neither shy nor afraid. She knew nothing, so she became a daughter-in-law.

Xiaoxiao was twelve when she was a daughter-in-law and had a little husband who was less than three years old. Her husband is older than her Xiao Jiu and has just been weaned. This is a local custom. When she passed the door, she called him brother. What she should do every day is to carry her brother down to the willow tree in front of the village and play by the stream. If you are hungry, feed her to cry, and she will coax him, pick pumpkin flowers or green bristlegrass and put it on her husband's head, or kiss her and say, "Brother, come again." Kissed and kissed on that dirty little face, and the child smiled.

When the child is happy and excited and rude, he will grab the rustling hair with his short little hand. That's the fluffy yellow hair on my head that I can't usually pick up. Sometimes the pigtail hanging behind the head is pulled too long, and the red wool knot becomes loose. When he is angry, he scolds his younger brother, who naturally cries out, while Mix pretends to be crying, pointing to his crying face and saying, "What, people are unreasonable, but no!"

The weather is getting better every day. I hold my husband every day and help with housework at home. If I can, I will do it. I often go to the stream to wash clothes, rub diapers and pick up patterned snails for my husband to play with. When I sleep at night, I often have dreams of people of this age, dreaming that I found a lot of copper coins in the corner of the back door or elsewhere, ate good things, climbed up the tree, turned myself into a fish, and slipped around in the water. Or for a moment, it seemed that my body was very small and light, flying among the stars in the sky, and there was no one, just a piece of white and golden light, so I shouted "Mom!" " People wake up in fear. When I wake up, my heart just beats. The noisy people next door couldn't help cursing, "Crazy, what do you think! Play crazy during the day and dream at night! " Rustling didn't say anything, just giggled. I also had a very good and cool dream, crying for my husband. Husband used to sleep beside his mother at night, sometimes he ate too much, or because of other circumstances, it was common to cry in the middle of the night and get up and have diarrhea. The husband cried until his mother-in-law was helpless, so Mix got up gently, walked sleepily to the bed, picked up the man and showed him the moon and stars. Or look at each other, childish "hey, hey, look at the cat", shouting and coaxing, so the husband smiled, played for a while, and slowly closed his eyes. People fell asleep, put them on the bed, stood by and watched on the bed, listening to the crowing of chickens in the distance, and knew it was almost time, so they still curled up in the small bed to sleep. It's dawn. Although I don't dream, I can inadvertently close my eyes and open my eyes, and see the yellow-edged purple heart sunflower changing in front of me for no reason. That's a real enjoyment.

Rustling married the door and became a fist man's kannika nimtragol. Everything is not worse than before, only depending on her physical development in the past six months. Living in the wind and rain is like an unknown castor growing in the corner of the garden, with lush foliage and flourishing day by day. The little woman doesn't think about her husband at all, and she is growing day by day.

Summer nights are like dreams. After dinner, everyone sat in the middle of the yard and rested, waving cattail leaf fans, looking at the stars in the sky and fireflies in the corner, and listening to the spinning sound of the spinning girl in the pumpkin shed. The sound is as dense as rain, and the wind blows on the face, which is the time when people tell jokes in various convenient occasions.

The rustling is so high, a person often climbs to the haystack, holds his sleeping husband in his arms, and sings his own folk songs lightly at will, but he hypnotizes himself and is about to fall asleep.

In the courtyard dam, parents-in-law, grandparents and two helpers are sitting on a small bench in disorder, learning the ancient times in the dragon gate array and taking turns to pass the midnight.

There is a tobacco pouch beside grandpa, shining in the dark. This cigarette case made of mugwort is a powerful thing to drive away long-legged mosquitoes. It curled up at my grandfather's feet like a Zaocys. Sometimes pick it up and shake it a few times.

Thinking about what happened on the playground during the day, my grandfather began to speak:

"Listen to Sanjin, another female student passed away the day before yesterday."

Everyone laughed their heads off.

What does this smile mean? It's just because we all know that female students have no pigtails and a quail tail, like a nun, but not entirely. Wearing clothes like foreigners and not like foreigners, eating and using ... in short, everything is different, and it is ridiculous to think about it!

Rustling doesn't quite understand, she doesn't laugh. So the old grandfather spoke again. He said, "Xiaoxiao, you will be a female student when you grow up!" " "

Everyone laughed even harder.

Xiaoxiao is not stupid. He thinks it must be something against him, so the interface says, "Grandpa, I won't be a female student!" " "

"You look like a female student. You can't do it without doing it. "

"I won't do it."

Everyone deliberately teased and said in unison, "Xiaoxiao, grandpa is right, you can't be a female student!" " "

Mix was in a hurry. "Just do it, I'm not afraid." In fact, what's wrong with being a female student, rustling all don't know.

This girl student thing is really an anecdote in my hometown forever. Every year from January to June, it is said that when the "water holiday" comes, as usual, 3355 female students come from a deserted and lively place to another distant place and pass by. In the eyes of rural people, these people are very close to those who have lived in another world, with strange clothes and even more incredible behavior. The girl student is dead, so the whole village can tell jokes all day.

Grandpa is a local, because he remembered what he knew about the life of female students in big cities, so he joked that Xiaoxiao should be a female student, too. On the one hand, I feel a pleasure when I hear this, and on the other hand, I feel a fear when I hear rustling, so it is meaningless to say this.

What female students know from their grandfather is such a person: whether it is hot or cold, they wear clothes, don't ask if they are hungry, don't go to bed until they hand it in at night, do nothing serious during the day, and only sing, play ball and read foreign documents. They all spend money. One year's money can buy sixteen buffaloes. When they want to go somewhere in the provincial capital, they don't have to walk, just get into a big box and take her to the ground. At school, they have classes in the same school. After they get to know each other, they sleep with the man at will. There is no matchmaker and no bride price. This is called "freedom". They are also state and county officials, bringing their families to their posts. Men still call them grandfathers, and children call them grandfathers.

They don't feed cows themselves, but they eat milk and goat's milk, such as calves and lambs: they buy milk in tin cans. If you have nothing to do, just go to a singing place, which is completely like a big temple. They took out a foreign currency from their pockets (that foreign currency can buy five hens in the country), bought a small piece of paper, took it in, and sat down to watch foreigners play shadow play. They were wronged, didn't curse or cry. Some are too old to marry at the age of 24, and some are too old to marry at the age of 340. They are not afraid of men, and men can't let them be wronged. When they were wronged, they went to the yamen to file a lawsuit and asked the official to punish the man's money. Sometimes she takes the money for herself, and sometimes she shares it with officials. They don't wash clothes or cook, and they don't raise pigs or feed chickens. With children, I only spend five yuan or ten yuan a month to hire someone to take care of the children. I still watch plays and cards all day and read those useless idle books ... In short, everything is strange, different from farmers, and some of them can be said to be outrageous. At this time, after being explained by grandpa, Xiao Xiao suddenly had a vague wish in his heart, thinking that if she was also a female student, would she do those things as grandpa said?

For better or worse, being a female student is not terrible, so I have realized it for country girls.

I laughed alone for a long time because I heard grandpa talk about the character of female students. Laughing enough, she said, "Grandpa, a girl student will pass by tomorrow. Please call me, I want to have a look. "

"Look, they treat you like a maid."

"I am not afraid of them."

"Aren't you afraid of them reading foreign books and chanting scriptures?"

"I'm not afraid to read Guanyin Bodhisattva's disaster relief sutra and spell."

"They bite people, just like officials. They only eat country people, but they don't vomit when they eat bones. Aren't you afraid? "

Mix replied affirmatively, "I'm not afraid either."

However, at this moment, Xiaoxiao's husband began to cry in his sleep for some reason. His daughter-in-law took it as her mother's momentum and said half coaxed and half scared, "Brother, brother, don't cry, don't cry, that female student is biting."

My husband was still crying, so I had to pick him up and walk around. Rustling left grandpa with her husband in her arms, and grandpa said another old saying.

Since then, Xiao Xiao has had a "female student" in her heart. Even in my dreams, I often dream of female students and walk side by side with these people. It seems that she has been in a box that she can walk, and she feels that this box is not faster than running. In my dream, the box is shaped like a barn. There is a little gray mouse in it, with red eyes, running around, sometimes drilling into the crack of the door, revealing a small tail.

Because of this passage, grandpa called Xiaoxiao not a "little girl" or "Xiaoxiao", but a "female student". Inadvertently rustling promised well.

Days in the country are different from time to time, just like ordinary days in the world. People in the world waste their time, just as people such as Xiao Xiao waste their time, and each has his own income and belongs to him. Civilized people in many cities spend a summer on soft silk clothes, fine drinks and all kinds of good things. The Shasha family, because of a summer's work, got more than ten kilograms of fine hemp and twenty or thirty loads of melons.

Mix, a little daughter-in-law, took care of her husband one summer and made four pounds of fine linen at the same time. In autumn and August, workers pick melons, play among them and watch giant pumpkins covered with gray powder, which are placed on the ground in rows and piles. This is very interesting. It's time to pick melons. Autumn is really here. The yard is full of red rhubarb leaves blowing from trees in the Woods behind the house. Standing by the melon, rustling, holding a bunch of leaves, knitting a small hat for her husband to play with.

One of the workers is named Hua Gou, 23 years old. He carried his rustling husband to play dates under the jujube tree. The small bamboo pole hit the jujube tree and the jujube fell all over the floor.

"Flower dog is big, don't fight, eat too much."

Although I heard the cry, I didn't stop. After arriving, it seems that the dog is not obedient because her husband wants to date. Mix then shouted to his little husband, "Brother, brother, come on, don't pick it up. Eating raw food has a stomachache! "

The husband obeyed and came to Xiaoxiao with a bunch of dates and invited Xiaoxiao to eat dates.

"Sister eats, this is big."

"I don't eat."

"Eat one!"

Where is her hand? It's free! The konoha hat is being trimmed. It's urgent and needs someone's help!

"Brother, feed the dates into my mouth."

The husband did as she told him, and he was amused and smiled when he finished.

She asked him to put down the dates and help tighten the brim so that new leaves could be added.

The husband did as she said, but he always shook his hand and sang jokingly. The child used to be like a cat, always making trouble when he was happy.

"Brother, what are you singing?"

"I sing the folk songs that Flower Dog told me."

"Sing me a good song."

The husband then sang, singing and recalling:

There are flowers in the sky,

Planting pods in the valley forest,

Pods wrap around corn trees,

Beauty pesters the younger generation's family.

There are so many dark clouds in the sky,

Bury a grave underground,

Beautiful dishes and heavy bowls,

Beauty is more important in bed.

My husband doesn't understand the meaning of the song at all, and it's not easy to say hello after singing. Rustling said yes and asked him who he learned it from. She knew that Hua Gou taught her, but she deliberately questioned him.

"Flower dog told me that there are still good songs. Teach me to sing when I grow up. "

Heard that dogs can sing, rustling said:

"Flower dog is big, flower dog is big, you sing a nice song and I'll listen."

Flower dog, with a sincere face, is not very straight. Knowing that Xiaoxiao wanted to listen to music, and people were approaching the age of listening to music, she sang "Ten-year-old Miss, One-year-old Husband" to her. The story tells that when the wife is old, she can go outside and do something unruly. When her husband was young, she only knew how to nurse and let him nurse. My husband doesn't understand this song at all, but what he knows a little is rustling. After listening to this song, Mix pretended that "I understand everything". She said angrily to the Chinese dog: "The Chinese dog is big, which is not good. This is a curse song!" "

Flower dog argued: "It's not a curse song."

"I see, it's a curse song."

It's rare to spend a lot of time talking. The song has been sung, and the wrong gift has to be stopped. Seeing that she was a little sensible, he was afraid that she would be scolded if she told her grandfather later, so he changed the subject and blamed it on the "female student". He asked Mix if she had ever seen female students practice gymnastics and sing foreign songs.

If it weren't for the dog, rustling almost forgot about it. At this time, I mentioned female students again. She asked if there were any female classmates passing by recently after the flower. She wants to see them.

The flower dog held the pumpkin from the edge of the scaffolding to the corner and told her about the singing of female students, which originated from Grandpa Sasha. He said a big thing in front of rustling, saying that he had met four female students on the official road. They all carried flags and sang after a long walk, sweating and panting, just like the soldiers sang. Needless to say, this is naturally a completely spun joke. But that story ruined Xiaoxiao Coke. Because Flower Dog says it's called "freedom".

Flower dog is a person who can talk and laugh by raising his eyes and moving his eyebrows.

Listen to Mix's admiration: "Flower dog is big, your arms are really big." He said, "My arms are bigger than mine."

"You are old, too."

"I'm not big anywhere."

After Xiaoxiao left with her husband in her arms, she picked melons with the queen, named dumb, and came with her mouth open. He said, "After the flower, you are not so bad. She is a 13-year-old yellow flower prostitute, and it will take ten years to consummate her marriage! "

Flower dog kept silent, slapped the guy and went to pick up the fallen dates under the jujube tree.

In the autumn of picking melons, Xiaoxiao has lived in her husband's family for a year.

After several frosts and snows and the Qingming Festival in Grain Rain, the whole family said that rustling was an adult. God bless you, drink cold water and eat rough rice, and you are disease-free all the year round, but you are developing so fast. Although her mother-in-law was born like a pair of scissors, which cut off all opportunities for Mix's sudden growth, the sunshine and air in the country helped people grow up, but it was not torture that could prevent Mix from growing as tall as an adult at the age of fifteen, but her heart was still a confused heart.

People are a little older, and there are a little more things at home. Besides finishing hemp, spinning, washing clothes and taking care of her husband, there are still some things to do, such as beating pig grass and grinding, as well as sizing and weaving. Learn everything, and you will learn. It is the custom in rural areas that anyone who has spare capacity can save some private houses from work. In these two or three years, just distributing the collected coarse linen and spun yarn was enough for Xiaoxiao to sit on the bulldozer and throw the shuttle for three months.

My husband was weaned. The mother-in-law has a new son, and this five-year-old son seems to be unique to Xiaoxiao. No matter what you do and where you go, your husband always follows you.

Her husband is afraid of her in some ways, and when she is like her mother, she dares not mind her own business. They are "on good terms".

The place has made a little progress, and my grandfather's joke has become something like "You are so free to cut your braid when rustling". Hearing this, Mix also met a female student once in a summer. Although she didn't take Grandpa's joke seriously, every time after Grandpa finished this joke, she went to the water's edge, clutching pigtails with her hands, and imagining the demeanor and interest of people without pigtails.

Because weeding and taking her husband to the hillside of Luosi Mountain is a common occurrence.

The child doesn't know what to do, but listens to others singing. As soon as I sang, I attracted the dog.

Flower dog gave birth to another kind of heart to rustling, rustling a little understand, often feel afraid. However, dogs are human beings, and men have good and evil. They have strong labor force, diligent hands and feet, and can play and talk. Therefore, while making Xiaoxiao's husband happy to play with him, he always pesters Xiaoxiao whenever he has the opportunity, and always tries his best to reduce Xiaoxiao's little fear.

The mountain is small and there are trees everywhere. Usually I don't know where Xiaoxiao is, so the dog stands on a high place and sings around Xiaoxiao to tease her husband. As soon as the husband spoke, the dog went over the mountains and came to Sasha.

Seeing the dog, the child knows nothing but happiness. He wants to spend time letting the dog weave grass worms and make bamboo flutes to play for him. The dog wanted to send him far away to find material, so he sat down beside Xiaoxiao and asked him to sing the song that made him happy and blush. She sometimes feels scared and won't let her husband go away; Sometimes it's better to send her husband away than to have a dog around. Finally, one day, Mix sang her obsession to Flower Dog and became a woman.

At that time, my husband went to the foot of the mountain to pick thorn berries, and Huahou sang many songs, but when he arrived, he sang: There is a heavy slope in front of Jiaojia, others are walking less and less, and the iron sandals are worn out, which is not suitable for you.

Finally, he said to Mix, "I can't sleep for you." He also said that he swore not to tell anyone about it. After listening to these words, Mix still didn't understand anything. His eyes only noticed his thick arms, and his ears only noticed his last sentence.

Finally, the dog poops and sings to her. Her mind is a mess. She made him seriously swear to heaven that she had done everything for him when everything seemed to be guaranteed. When my husband came back, his hand was stung and swollen by a caterpillar, and he walked beside Xiaoxiao. Rustling squeezed this little hand and sucked it with his mouth, remembering his confusion just now, and he seemed to understand that he had done something not so good.

Flower dog lured her to do bad things. April is wheat yellow. In June, when the plums are ripe, she is happy to eat raw plums. She felt a little special. She met Flower Dog on the mountain, so she told him about it and asked him what to do.

How long has it been discussed? Flower dog doesn't know. Although I swore that day, I still have no clue. This guy is so big that he has the courage to do something wrong. If he has the courage to do something wrong, he can't think of anything.

When he arrived, Xiaoxiao held his big braid like a Zaocys and thought of the city. She said, "When the dog grows up, shall we go to the city to help people live for free?"

"That how line? What are you doing in town? "

"I am pregnant."

"Let's go find medicine. There are doctors selling medicine on the field. "

"You hurry to find medicine, I think ..."

"You want to escape to the city to be free, no .. You are a stranger, begging has rules, and you can't just do it!"

"You have no conscience, you hurt me, I want to die!"

"I swear to live up to you."

What's the use of "negative is not me? Do me a favor and get the meat out of your stomach. I am afraid! "

Flower dog stopped making trouble, and after a while, he walked away. Shortly after her husband came back from other places, he found Mix sitting on the grass crying and his eyes were red. The husband was surprised, looked at it for a while and asked Xiaoxiao, "Sister, why are you crying?"

"Somehow, the dust fell into my eyes and it hurt."

"I'll blow."

"Stop blowing."

"Look at me, I have these."

He displayed the mussels and stones picked up from the stream in front of Xiaoxiao, who looked at them tearfully for a while and said with a forced smile, "Brother, we are fine. If I cry, don't tell your family. I will be angry if I sue. " When I got there, no one in my family really knew about it.

Half a month later, Hua Gou left without saying goodbye and took all his clothes and pants. Grandfather asked the mute who lived with him if he knew why he was walking and where he was going. The mute just shook his head and said that Hua Gou still owed him 200 yuan. You didn't leave a word when you left. It was a bit of a conscience. The mute said what he said, but he didn't give a reason to take the dog away. So the family wondered and talked for a day. However, the worker didn't steal anything or take anything else, so he naturally forgot him soon after this happened.

The rustle is still the rustle of the past. I hope she can forget the dog. But her stomach is really different. The things in her stomach are always moving, which makes her often worry alone and have strange dreams.

She has a bad temper, only her husband knows, because she seems to be a little harsh on her husband.

She is still with her husband every day, and she doesn't quite understand what she thinks. She often thinks that now that I'm dead, everything will be fine. But why did you die? She is still very happy and willing to live.

No matter who inadvertently mentioned anything about her husband and brother, a child and a flower dog in the family, it was like punching this sentence on Mix's chest like a fist.

In August, she worried that people would know more, so she took her husband to the temple to play, made a private wish and ate a handful of incense ashes. The incense ash was seen by her husband, who asked what it was for, and smiled and said that she had a stomachache and wanted to eat it. Although she made the Bodhisattva make a wish, of course, the Bodhisattva didn't have her hope, and what grew up in her stomach was still growing up slowly.

She often goes to the stream to drink cold water. When her husband saw her, he asked her. She said she was thirsty.

Nothing she can think of can separate her from what she doesn't like. Only the husband knows about the big belly, but he is afraid to tell his parents about it. Because of the long time and different ages, husbands sometimes have more respect and love for Xiaoxiao than their parents.

She remembers the day when Hua Gou swore, just as she remembers other things. In autumn, the caterpillars in front of and behind the house cocoon and become all kinds of beautiful butterfly moths. As if her husband tortured her on purpose, he often mentioned the old saying that she was stung by a caterpillar a few months ago, which made Mix feel sad. She hates caterpillars so much that she wants to kick them when she sees them.

One day, I heard that many female students passed by. Hearing this, Mix had a dream with his eyes open, and waited for a while and was troubled by the source of the sun for a long time.

Rustling followed in the footsteps of Flower Dog and wanted to escape, so he packed up his things and prepared to go to the city with his female classmates. But I didn't leave, and my family found out.

The family investigated the root cause of this escape, only to understand that Xiaoxiao's belly, which is going to have a son ten years later, has been planted by others first. This is really a big deal. The quiet life of this family was completely disrupted by this incident. Angry, angry, tearful, swearing, doing their job. Hanging the beam, splashing water, eating poison, and being caught in a rustling, all things were aimlessly thought of, but I was too young and dead, but I didn't do it. So my grandfather came up with a clever idea from reality. He locked Xiaoxiao in his room, sent someone to watch it carefully, and invited Xiaoxiao's own people to talk to see if it was "sinking the pool" or "selling the pool". The Sasha Vujacic family wanted to save face, so they drowned her in the pond and could not bear to sell her. There is only one uncle who works for people in the nearby Zhuangzi. When I invited him, I thought it was wine. I didn't know it was such a shameful thing until I arrived, which made this honest parent feel at a loss.

Belly witness, there is nothing to say. Uncle couldn't bear to sink into the pool. Of course rustling should get married.

This punishment seems to be extremely natural. Traditionally, the husband's family will suffer losses, but remarriage can recover a sum of money as compensation for the losses. Uncle told Mix about it and was about to leave. Rustling tugged at uncle's skirt, just crying lightly. Uncle shook his head for a while and left without saying a word.

Not many people came to Mix at that time, so I stayed at my husband's house for the time being. This matter has been made clear, but according to the rules of the country, it seems that there is nothing wrong, just waiting for punishment, but everyone is relieved. First, my husband can't be with Xiaoxiao anymore, but after that, as a month ago, the two brothers and sisters usually talk and laugh.

The husband knows that Xiaoxiao has a son in his belly and that Xiaoxiao is going to marry far away. But her husband doesn't want to go to Xiaoxiao, and Xiaoxiao himself doesn't want to go. Everyone was puzzled, but they were forced to follow the rules and had to do it.

Waiting for customers to come to see people, until1February, no one came, so Xiaoxiao had to spend the New Year in this family.

In February of the following year, Mix gave birth to a son in October, with a big head and big eyes and a loud voice. Everyone took good care of the mother and son, ate steamed chicken and rice wine from Tongjiang to enrich blood and burned paper to thank God. The whole family is satisfied with that son.

Since she gave birth to a son, Xiaoxiao won't marry anywhere else.

By the time Xiaoxiao officially married her husband, his son was already ten years old, and he could watch cows mow grass and became a producer at home. Mix's husband is usually called uncle. Uncle agrees and never gets angry.

The son's name is Niu Er. Niu got married at the age of 22, and her daughter-in-law is six years older than her. Daughter-in-law is old, so she can do anything to help her family. The suona blew to the door, and the bride sobbed in the sedan chair, keeping her great-grandfather busy.

On this day, Xiao Xiao was holding his crescent moon Mao Mao, but watching the excitement in front of the fence of elm wax tree, just like holding her husband ten years ago.

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① "Big" is the abbreviation of "Big Brother".