Feng Jicai

one

There is a small tree in your yard. Its trunk is bare. I looked at it long ago, and one day it suddenly tilted.

The more you look at it, the more awkward it is. But after a long time, you look pleasing to the eye, as if it should be like this. If a person

God, suddenly it becomes straight again, and you will feel unspeakable discomfort. It is monotonous, boring and simple, like a root.

Hold on! Actually, it's just the way it was. Why are you uncomfortable again?

Is this a habit? Hey, don't underestimate this habit! It is ubiquitous in everything in the world. no

Seeing the statutory regulations that are not mandatory will still get you into trouble and bad luck. But don't blame it.

It is tightly bound, and sometimes you will unconsciously follow its norms. For example, how dare you make noise in front of your superiors

Speak loudly? Can you express your opinions freely in front of your elders? When taking a group photo, you

You can ask celebrities to step aside, but you just stand in the middle and smile? No, of course not. Don't say that,

When you marry a wife, do you dare to marry someone ten years older, one year older or one head taller than you? Don't take it away yet

Empty words choke the fire, and there is such a pair in front of you-

two

She is taller than him 17 cm.

Her height 1 m 75 stands out among women. Her husband is only 1 m 58, and he is in college.

He was nicknamed "Wu Dalang" at school. He is as red as her earlobe, but it looks as if there are only two racks left!

Let's talk about their looks first: this woman is thin and flat, and her face looks like an unpainted table tennis bat.

The five senses are barely visible, but small and flat, like bas-reliefs; The chest is not convex, and the waist is slender and stiff.

The hips are flat, like a stiff washboard. Her husband is like a stubby rubber roller; Full,

The shaft is solid and shiny; Everything about me-my calf, my mouth, my nose, my fingers and my stomach-seems to be a little.

Small round and elastic meatballs. His skin is soft and smooth, like fine thin leather. Excess grease

Just under this skin, the light shines, and the full blood reveals a delicious reddish color from this skin. His eyes

Like a pair of small light bulbs with sufficient voltage. His wife's eyes are like a pair of blackened glass balls.

When two people are together, there is no harmony, only contrast. But they still seem to be tied together all day, inseparable.

Once, when their neighbor was having a reunion dinner, the old man of this family drank too much wine and put one on the table while he was in a good mood.

A slender empty wine bottle and a can of short pork were put together and asked the whole family, "Guess who this elephant is?"

He announced the answer without waiting for others to guess. "It's the tall woman downstairs and her short dads!" "

The whole family burst into laughter until they chatted after dinner.

How on earth did they become a couple?

This is a long-standing concern of dozens of households in Unity Building. Because they moved into this building when they got married,

The old residents in the building cast curious eyes. However, some people love to leave the question mark in their stomachs, while others endure it.

I just want to say it. People who talk a lot talk a lot. Especially on rainy days, they always go out.

The tall woman is holding an umbrella. If something falls on the ground, it is most convenient for short people to pick it up. Some people in the building

The idle ladies, seeing this ridiculous scene, pointed and drew aside. Hard to stop laughing, hold back.

My throat is growling. The boredom of adults can best prevent children from playing pranks. Some children are coaxed when they see it.

Laughing and shouting: "The pole is long and the board is wide ..." They have never heard of it, and they never get angry because of the noise of their children.

Also ignore. Perhaps for this reason, it has always maintained a rather cold relationship with the people in the building. A few don't love.

Nosy people, when they meet at work, just nod and say hello at most. This makes ...

It is hard for people who are really interested in them to know more. For example, what is their relationship? for

What is a combination? Who will do what? There is no formal answer, so you can only guess.

This is an old apartment building, with a large number of rooms, sunny days and wide and dark walkways. Outside the building

This is a big yard with a small concierge at the entrance. There is also a family living in the concierge, and the head of the household is a tailor. Tailor-made for

People are honest; The tailor's wife, on the other hand, is an energetic and suitable woman, who likes gossiping and stabbing.

Explore other people's private affairs and privacy. The relationship between husband and wife, the dispute between aunt and sister-in-law, the laziness and salary of every household in this building.

She knows exactly how many. Anything she doesn't understand, she will try her best to find out; This thirst for knowledge

Will make a fool of yourself. Her ability in this respect is even more extraordinary, not to mention that she can see the people hidden in her heart.

Ideas in the room; The smell alone can tell who often eats meat, from which the income of this family can be calculated. I don't know why.

Yao said that since the 1960s, such people have been absorbed as "street activists" and there are residents living everywhere.

They legalize their desire to interfere with others, and their abilities and interests are also brought into play. It seems that the creator really doesn't

Will waste every talent.

Although the tailor's wife is very capable, she can't understand the extremely disproportionate strange husband who walks around in front of her every day.

The reason why wives combine. This made her very upset. It seems that her talent has met with a strong challenge. But in her experience,

After hard thinking, I finally came to the most convincing truth: one of the husband and wife must have some kind of physical defect.

Otherwise, no one will find someone who is taller than himself. Her basis is very reliable: the couple get married.

I haven't had children for three years! So everyone in the Unity Building believed the clever judgment of the tailor's wife.

Facts never pity anyone. They hit the tailor's wife! The tall woman is pregnant. People's eyes

I kept glancing at the bulging belly of the tall woman. This belly is obvious because it is high from the ground. Regardless of people

The children were surprised, questioned and confused, and the tall woman's child fell to the ground. Whenever it's sunny or rainy.

The weather, the couple went out, the tall woman was holding the child, and the umbrella fell on the short man. People watched him roll.

Round legs, half-supported umbrella, followed closely, very funny. For them, they actually became husband and wife, which is actually

As inseparable as ever, curiosity remains undiminished. There are still all kinds of specious statements, but from this couple,

The wife's identity cannot be confirmed. These statements are like birds with nowhere to land, flying all over the sky. The tailor's wife said:

"The two men must be hiding something. Why else would they refuse to approach others? Sooner or later, pus will flow out,

We'll see! Sure enough, one night, the tailor's wife heard something breaking in Gao's house. she

Hurry up and knock on a woman's door under the pretext of collecting the sweeping fee for the compound. She knew what had been lurking between the couple for a long time.

The hidden trouble finally broke out, and she wanted to see for herself how the couple turned against each other and captured the most vivid details. The door opened,

The tall woman came forward cheerfully, the short husband was smiling in the room, and a plate fell to the ground-

This is all the tailor's wife saw. After she hastily collected the grave sweeping fee, she couldn't figure out what was going on between husband and wife for a long time.

What happened. Breaking a plate, instead of quarreling, is as happy as something happy. Strange!

Later, the tailor's wife became a representative of the street residents in the United Hospital. She is assisting the registered police to go door to door.

Mouth, finally found the answer to this question that has plagued her for many years. A credible and irrefutable answer.

Keith. It turns out that this tall woman and her short husband both work in the Institute of Chemical Technology. The short man is the chief engineer of the institute.

Master Cheng, the working hours are1as many as 80 yuan! Gao Nv is just an ordinary chemist whose income is less than 60.

Yuan, born in a hardworking postman family, has little money. Why else would she marry someone better than herself?

A short man? For status, for money, for a better life, yes! She immediately reported this valuable information.

To the wives who are too idle to be in the mood in the Unity Building. People always interpret the world according to their own way of thinking.

Force everything to be equal to your own understanding. So, the tailor's wife's words were convinced by everyone. Many years.

The mystery that has been left in people's minds was suddenly uncovered. It suddenly dawned on everyone that this short man was born.

A rich man and a tall woman, both poor women, are insatiable in their lives and share happiness. When people talk about this elephant.

When a sea horse is a tall woman with a good life, there is often a breath in her tone. Especially the tailor's wife.

three

A person's fate will not be seen for a while, but we will wait and see.

1966, Unity Building is like a shrinking world. Every disaster comes to the world, and each has its own blessing. Everything in the building

Residents have reached the time of "transshipment". Life is full of great changes and mutations. The short man is the chief engineer, and he is facing this problem.

In the disaster, homes were copied, furniture was moved out, people were beaten and put in the bullpen. The disaster did not end there.

Some people say that for many years, he worked in the institute during the day and went home at night to secretly write a book about his research results, intending to flee the country.

To a rich distant relative. Dedicating national scientific and technological information to foreign capitalists-this absurd statement lives in

However, many people believe. At that time, the world was crazy and everyone lost their normal state. They would rather be ignorant and heartless, still

There are many strange delusions. I wish I could find Hitler from my side. People in the institute stick to the master plan.

The teacher insisted on scaring him, beating him, exerting all kinds of pressure, and at the same time forcing Gao girl to hand over the book that no one had read.

Draft, but useless. Someone came up with an idea to have an interrogation meeting in the courtyard of the Unity Building. Everyone is afraid.

Losing face in front of relatives and acquaintances is also a kind of pressure. When all kinds of pressures are exhausted and ineffective, this practice,

Give it a try. It might help.

On that day, the Unity Building was as lively as ever-

In the afternoon, a group of people came to the institute and pulled a horizontal sign with thick hemp rope between two trees in the courtyard, which read "Yes".

Put a cross on the short man's name; Both inside and outside the courtyard are covered with offensive slogans, which are used on the courtyard walls.

Eighteen pieces of paper published the short man's "crime". The meeting was planned to be held after dinner, and the institute also sent electricity.

Workers pulled wires in the yard and installed four large light bulbs with 500 candles. At this time, the tailor's wife has been replaced by people in the street.

Biao was promoted to director of health care. He was powerful and ambitious, and he gained a lot of weight. It was a busy day for her,

She led several women in the building, busy outside, helped brush slogans and poured tea and water for revolutionaries in the institute.

The lighting electricity is still pulled from her home! Just like her wedding!

After dinner, all the residents in the building were summoned to the yard by the tailor's wife. Turn on the four headlights and turn them up.

The courtyard is as bright as a night stadium. Many graphics, as if magnified dozens of times, are projected on the building wall.

This man is so motionless that even children dare not move casually. The tailor's wife took some people with her on her left arm.

He also wore a red armband, which was the most imposing at that time. They stand guard at the door, and outsiders are not allowed to enter. different

After a while, a large group of people from the Institute of Chemical Technology, also wearing armbands, were pulling a tall woman and her short husband, shouting slogans all the way.

Here comes the strong man. The short man hung a sign on his chest, but the tall woman didn't. They walked onto the stage side by side.

Stand with your head down. The tailor's wife ran over and said, "This guy is too short for the revolutionary masses behind him to see. I gave it to him.

Do something! "On an impulse, he twisted two pieces of meat on his shoulder and brought a soap box from home.

Son, turn it upside down and tell the short man to stand up. In this way, he is only as tall as his wife, but at this time,

At that time, few people were interested in the disproportionate height of the troubled couple.

The meeting was held in a popular form. Announce the meeting and shout slogans, followed by the critics who entered the role.

An impassioned speech is another slogan. The pressure was enough, and I began to extort a confession from a tall woman. So, people

The children gathered around the manuscript and attacked the tall woman angrily. You ask, I ask, he asks; scream

Call, rough roar, dumb roar; Drink loudly, push hard, chase hard ... The tall woman just shook her head. Sincere and earnest

Shake your head quietly. But sincerity is the cheapest; To believe in sincerity is to deny everything in this world.

Whether a grumpy man jumped on her, threatened her with his fist, or some people with considerable calculation,

Come up with a few clever and trap words to ask her, and everyone gave her this sincere and clear shake of the head and refused. At this rate,

There will be no results, no achievements, and even no conclusions. People at the institute are embarrassed. They're worried about this.

The meeting will be anticlimactic; On impulse, I came back disappointed.

The tailor's wife stood by and listened for a long time, and the more she listened, the more boring she became. She can't read and doesn't know what a "manuscript" is.

Not interested, but the people in the Institute of Sensation are not Japanese. She suddenly ran to the front of the stage and raised her left hand with a red armband.

Arm, pointing to the tall woman angrily asked:

"Why did you marry him?"

This sudden question surprised people in the institute. I don't know the surgeon general and their problems.

What's the wonderful connection between the things you care about?

The tall woman was also shocked. She doesn't know why the tailor's wife asks this question. That's not the problem.

What the world cares about. She raised her thin face, which had been tortured like a wrinkled dead leaf for months, and her face was full of surprises.

Different expressions.

"good! You dare not answer, I will speak for you! Did you marry this guy because he was rich? no

Money, who wants such a dwarf! "The tailor's wife said loudly. There was something smug in her tone, as if she knew best.

This tall woman is deeply rooted.

The tall woman did not nod or shake her head. She seems to suddenly understand everything about the tailor's wife. A flash in the eye

A lamp of pride, ridicule and stubbornness.

"Good, good, you defy spirit! This guy is finished now, let's see if you can count on him! What's on your mind?

Yes, I know! "The tailor's wife clap breast, waving, several wives beside cheering. She really ...

The meaning reaches the extreme.

The people in the institute listened in a fog. It is better to be at a loss for such a thing that you can't understand. Don't look here

Some women digress a thousand miles, but instead make the meeting lively at once. Without this atmosphere, how can there be criticism?

Happy ending? So the people in the institute didn't stop them and let the women go into battle. Listen to these women call way:

"How much does he always give you? What good things did he buy you? Say! "

"You don't have enough 200 yuan a month, and you still want to go abroad. Beautiful you! "

"Is Deng Tuo his backstage?"

"One day you call Beijing, who do you call, or' Sancun'?"

The success of the meeting depends on the atmosphere. The person in charge of the criticism meeting in the hospital should seize the opportunity and make good use of the venue.

Lively, led the people shouted a serial number, and then quickly ended the meeting. Then, the people in the institute came again.

I searched Ms. Gao's house, pried open the floor and crushed the wall, but found nothing. Finally, I left with the short man.

Leave that tall woman.

The tall woman stayed in the house all the time and went out alone at night. She didn't expect that the tailor's home was in the concierge of the building.

Although the light was off, the tailor's wife kept staring at her from the window. Seeing her go out, she followed closely.

Side, out of the gate, walked two blocks to the west, I saw a tall woman stopped in front of a house across the street and tapped a few times.

Lower door panel. The tailor's wife hid behind the telephone pole in the street, held her breath and stared as if waiting for a hole.

Dear rabbit. She wants to catch someone, but she is more nervous than the person she wants to catch.

Click, the door is open. An old woman sent a child away. Listen to the old woman said:

"finished?"

I didn't hear what the tall woman said.

The old woman's voice rang again:

"The child is full and has slept. Go back quickly! "

It suddenly occurred to the tailor's wife that the old woman's house turned out to be a nursery for a tall woman, and all her interests suddenly disappeared.

At this moment, the tall woman turned around and came back with the child. There was nothing to say all the way, only NianLia's footsteps. The tailor's wife hid in the house.

They dared not move behind the telephone pole until they walked out of a distance and went home alone.

The next morning, when Mrs. Gao led the children out of the building, her eyes were obviously red, and no one in the building dared to talk to her.

When I spoke, I saw her swollen eyelids. Especially those who attended the hearing last night, they all felt slightly in their hearts.

Strange and ungrateful feelings came from her eyes.

four

The short man hasn't been put back since he was taken away on the day of the criticism meeting. Since then, according to the well-informed tailor's wife,

What's wrong with the short man? He went to prison. The tall woman became the prisoner's wife and fell into life.

On the ground floor, I naturally don't deserve to live in the spacious room of Unity Building, so I was forced to switch with the tailor's wife's house.

Housing. She moved to a lonely hut more than ten meters away from the building. That's not bad. You don't have to live in a building often.

It's embarrassing that every household is afraid to talk when they meet for the first time. But the whole building can see the orphan through the window.

The single cabin and her lonely figure. I don't know where she sent the children, but occasionally she took them home for a few days.

Jesus Christ. She lives a lonely and heavy life in silence. From the appearance of a person in her thirties, it is hard to say that she is still young.

The tailor's wife made a judgment:

"I think this bitch can wait another year at most. If the dwarf doesn't come out again, she will remarry. If it were me—

Now divorce and remarry. Are you waiting for the dwarf? He has just been released. He is not human, and his money is gone! "

A year has passed, and the short man still hasn't been released. The tall woman still lives quietly and leaves after work.

When I went in and out, I lit the stove and carried a big yellow straw basket to buy food. 365 days a year, days.

That's true ... but one day, the short man appeared again. It's autumn season. He wears thin clothes and has a short beard.

Head, the National People's Congress has changed, the whole body seems a little smaller, and the skin has lost its luster and blood color. He came straight back.

I ran to my own door in the building, but I was sent to the door by the new head of household and the honest tailor. The tall woman squatted at the door chopping wood.

Chai stood up and stared at him. Couples who haven't seen each other for two years are all for each other.

I was shocked by the obvious change. One is haggard and the other is haggard; One looks taller and the other looks shorter. Two people, each other

After watching it for a while, she quickly turned and left. The tall woman leaned down and ran into the house, but she didn't come out for a long time. He squatted on the ground and picked it up.

Chop the firewood into two baskets of wood blocks with an axe and cut them into thin strips. As if it were about to erupt at another moment.

Yao's strength and unbearable things. Then go to work together and go home from work together.

Everything is the same. People in the building can't find anything unusual from them, and their interest is gradually decreasing. With or without it

There are two, both of which have nothing to do with others.

What happened to that tall woman this morning? I saw the short man panic and ran out of the house. No, come on

An ambulance was called to take the tall woman away. For several days, the concierge was always empty and the lights were dim at night. twenty

Many days later, the short man and a stranger came back with a stretcher. The tall woman was lying on the stretcher and walked into the small concierge.

The tall woman hasn't left the house since then. Short men go to work as usual, and always come back at night to make a small stove.

Go shopping with a straw basket. This straw basket was used by tall women every day a year or two ago. Now he has it.

It's so big that my ass is rubbing the floor.

When the weather turned warmer the next year, the tall woman walked out of the house. Her face, which has not seen the sun for a long time, is as white as a layer of powder.

Ugly. The body that just stood up is left or right. Her right hand is leaning on a bamboo pole, her left arm is bent over her chest, and her left leg is stiff.

It is difficult to walk, and it can be seen at a glance that her illness is cerebral thrombosis. From this day on, the short man came to help him every morning and evening.

The tall woman walked in the yard twice. They walked slowly and painfully. The short man grasped his wife's bent arm with both hands.

Shout loudly. He is too short. When lifting her arm, he must lift his shoulder. He is struggling, but there is nothing he can do.

Smile to encourage your wife. The tall woman couldn't lift her left foot, so he wrapped a hemp rope around her left foot.

On your feet, the other end of the rope is in your hand. Every time a tall woman lifts her left foot, he tries to lift the rope. this

The scene was strange, pitiful and spectacular, which moved everyone in Unity Building. these people

When I met them again, I couldn't help nodding to them in a friendly way. ...

five

Tall women have no more blessings and stay with their short beloved husbands for a long time. Death is as ruthless as life.

Life crushed her and death dragged her away. Now there are only short people left.

It happened that after the tall woman left, she kissed the short man on the forehead again, which was very lucky. He carried out this policy and was copied away.

Give him back the things and the deducted wages. Only the tailor's wife's house has not been adjusted.

Switch back. Someone in the Unity Building is staring at him again, waiting to see the news in his life. It is said that many people in the institute

They all came to help him to be his second wife, but he declined. The tailor's wife said:

"I know what he wants. Look at me! "

The tailor's wife has passed her heyday and is much more modest now. When you are deprived of power, you will smile.

You have to wear it on your face. Holding a photo of a beautiful young woman, she went to the concierge to find a short man. This one in the photo

A woman is her niece.

She sat in the short man's house, looked around at the furniture and proposed to the short rich man.

She is still talking about it with a big smile on her face. Suddenly, she found that the short man was silent and melancholy, hanging behind him.

In 2008, the tailor's wife dared not take out the photo of her niece, so she excused herself.

A few years later, the short man is still single and widowed. He only picks up children from outside on Sundays.

He is a companion. People in the building looked at his short and lonely figure and remembered his events in the past ten years.

I gradually realized that he insisted on this single life ... when it rained, when the short man went to work with an umbrella,

Probably because of habit, I still hold an umbrella on the way. At this time, people have a wonderful feeling, as if they had a long umbrella.

A long space is empty, and nothing in the world can fill it.