Why can't the drought last longer than July (lunar calendar)?

The drought will not last until July and a half.

one

There was a great drought that year. In the first half of the year, the land was divided into households. It seems that God deliberately tried to test the will and endurance of those who just left the collective, and did not give a drop of rain for two months. The grass on the roadside and the dry crops in the field have withered in the chirping of cicadas, and the soil left in the rainy season has long been ground into fine dust by people's busy footsteps. It only takes a breeze to sweep them up and fascinate pedestrians' eyes. People anxiously look at the sky, then at the sky, "this day! Oh, my god Why doesn't it rain? When will it rain! " Old people are leafing through their old calendars. "Soon, the drought is only July and a half!" "This is probably the most frequent topic that summer.

One afternoon, just after sunset, Tugen arrived at Changqiaotou Airport. In the shadow of the airport, he lifted the iron rake, put the other end on the culvert, tried it hard, sat down firmly, lit a cigarette and stared at the tractor road leading to the field.

Six years ago, the eight-year-old dog and Sham Shui were both studying in the primary school in the village. Thugan didn't know the argument they caused for a 50-cent bill. He is doing business outside.

When class was over, Sham Shui Po was waving a 50-cent ticket to show off: "My dad gave it to me, buy me popsicles and ice cream ...! "

The dog saw Bill sway in the deep water a few times, and saw that the deep water attracted his friends one by one and cheated them away. Because Sham Shui Po claimed to give them some food. A few days ago, the dog came back from school, and I heard that my father came back after going out for a few days. He went upstairs and ran to see if his father had brought him anything delicious. He made a suggestion to his father, saying that his father in Sham Shui Po is good, and Sham Shui Po's father always buys things to eat with Sham Shui Po banknotes. Dad agreed at that time and said that he would buy it next time.

Now, the "next time" came, and he wanted to verify whether his father kept his word, and happened to bump into his father opening the biscuit box.

He was overjoyed at first, then surprised, and finally pouted. The box is not filled with biscuits, but with banknotes. He held Dad's hand and said, "I only want 20 points, not 50 points. If you don't have 20 cents, a dime will do ... "Dad turned him down. He cursed his father in his heart: "Bitch! Cheap! Abba cheapskate! "

The dog interrupted Sham Shui Po and said, "Isn't it fifty cents? Boring! How much should I be! "

"Ah! What are you talking about? " Sham Shui Po gave the puppy a push and thought there was something wrong with its ears.

The puppy leaned back and stopped. He's a little annoyed. He said, "What are you pushing around for?" Isn't it fifty cents? There is a box in my house! "

"A box?" Like two coins popping out of deep eyes, he stepped forward and touched the dog's forehead. The adult said to the dog like that, "puppy, do you have a fever?" Go and see if you have a fever! If you watch it late, you will get meningitis. "

Ha ha ha ...! Laughing everywhere.

The dog opened his hand angrily in Sham Shui Po and said, "Get your paws off me! Your mother is meningitis! "

Sham Shui Po continued to laugh at the dog: "That's it after talking about meningitis?" I don't know what would happen if I said you were crazy! A box of money? There may not even be such a thing! "He shook his head invoice again.

The student said, "Yes! If you have it, show it to everyone! You said your house has a box, and I said my house has a car and a boat! Cowhide king! "

The puppy was stumped: "I … can't get it out, but I can't get it out … doesn't mean I don't have it!" " I saw the cookie box that Dad opened the other day ... "

At some point, the puppy and Sham Shui twisted together, and the companion made great efforts to separate them.

Then someone said, "Deep water! Your face is bleeding! "

Others said, "Yes! Deep water! Your face is really bleeding! "

Deep water gently touched the pain with your fingertips and it really bled.

"Did you hit me?" He rushed up and grabbed the puppy by the collar and shouted, "You pay for it! You pay! "

They wrestled together again, pulling and pushing each other, and Sham Shui Po's face was scarred and the dog's nose was bleeding. They didn't part until the bell rang. They ran to the classroom hostile to each other.

Tugen stood up, and the iron rake under his ass was like a narrow bridge at the moment. Without piers, the bridge deck is just a wooden stick that only allows insects and ants to pass through. He is very uncomfortable because his blood is blocked. He needs to stand up and move. At that time, he felt a little dizzy. Sunshine is like countless thin ice on my face. Between the light green rice fields on both sides, the dazzling white tractor road is still steaming, like a cake that has not been released for a long time, and like a washboard in a woman's hand rubbing between two stalls of clothes. If the dog hadn't seen the biscuit box that day and blocked him with his body, all this might never have happened. I remember that day he touched his son's head and said, "Puppy! You study hard and don't compare with others. If you eat something, you will lose it!

We'd better save money for the New Year and make some new clothes. The new clothes are warm to wear ... "He closed the biscuit box.

That night, before Tugen stepped into the house, Daan came over with Sham Shui and pointed to the scratch on Sham Shui's face and said, "Tugen, look, what your precious son did!"

Before Tugan could speak, the puppy standing by began to cry. They came to us, and he was afraid that Dad would hit him. Apparently, the deep water pushed him first. He can't figure it out. He was wronged. He said, "I didn't mean to. He also made my nose bleed! " "

Sham Shui Po pointed angrily at the puppy and cried, "Still say it wasn't intentional? The nails are so long! Just to grab my face! "

Jin Kui tugged at the deep water: "Be quiet, son. What are you talking about? "

Tugen slapped the puppy in the face, then pulled the puppy up and continued to spank him, cursing: "You vent, you vent ..."

Daan said, "All right! All right! What are you doing? "

Tugan, stop. The puppy ran into the house. Tugen smiled unnaturally and touched Sham Shui's face. He said, "Sham Shui Po, let the dog cook a bowl of eggs for you later. What do you say? "

Jin Kui laughed and looked at Thugan and said, "I hope I can fight tomorrow! Hey hey! Tugen, I can't see you, a box of money! I remember the last time I borrowed it from you, and you said no! "

Tugan was embarrassed. "Who said that?"

"Your baby son said! Paper money is for people. Everyone is in trouble, and they are neighbors. Helping is also fun. " Daan stared at TuGen.

Tugen took a white look at the room, turned to look at the eye safety, and lowered his eyes. He said, "Can you believe a child? A few packs of cigarettes, the money borrowed to build a house has not been returned! "

two

A few days later, Tugen was taken away by a jeep, and the village was in an uproar.

"Tugen was locked up, I heard it was speculation!"

"Speculation is a what crime? Is it heavy? "

"Ha ha! Who knows! "

"Ji Li hexagrams is Buddha, silent as a thief, a box of money! Have you thought of it? "

"Not good? Take a chartered car, and you have no luck if you want to sit! "

Half a year later, Jin Kui brought back the Tugen.

On the day they came back, the two of them came in from the entrance of the village in tandem. People looked at them strangely and whispered clearly, but when they approached, they smiled or staggered the topic, which was polite and strange.

In the past six months, the original thin soil roots have lost color and turned blue, and the sunken eyes are shining with green light. After dinner, Guizhen burned a big pot of hot water, urged her children to go upstairs, and took a change of clothes from Tugan to come downstairs. She put the bathtub in the backyard, filled it with water, and tried it hot and cold. During the whole process, Tugen sat listlessly on the low bamboo chair, looking at the ground without saying a word, and he slowly stood up until Guizhen urged him to "wash". Guizhen picked up Tugen's clothes, put them aside, looked at Tugen and said, You have lost weight. Tugen is speechless. Out of reach on his back, Guizhen wiped him and vaguely saw some scars. Guizhen stroked it again and again and asked what it was made of.

Tugen said, "Wood."

"Wood? It doesn't look like wood! " Return to the truth and said.

"It's wood!" Thugan said, shaking his body rustling.

Zhenzhen thought he was cold, so she grabbed a dry towel and wiped it for him. She handed him clothes and told him to put them on quickly.

Tugan often thinks Guizhen is a woman who really needs help. How did she get here these days? When he took a shower just now, he felt that the washbasin was more spacious than before, but now his real body makes him look smaller!

Busy farming has begun, but ordinary manual labor can't do it. In the evening, he went to the squad and was at his disposal. To his surprise, Daan sent him as a drainage officer.

Tugen was really touched once. How many people want to do this light work! It takes a long time to run around with an iron rake, but after all, there is no need to carry heavy work!

One night at about ten o'clock, Tugen walked into the gate and just turned around. He heard a noise behind the house. On a busy summer night, in addition to the sudden sound of tractors, a few barks and insects in the distance, tired people have already turned off the lights to sleep, so the sound is particularly abrupt, crisp and loud.

Tugen froze. He opened the back door of the stove and took photos with his flashlight. In the unfathomable night, only the wind goes upstream, and lightning blows slowly towards him.

He found some tiles missing from the eaves of the stove.

A few days later, Tugen went home for lunch, and there was a car behind him. Looking back, it was exactly the same as the minibus that Tugen invited to the police station last time, and Tugen suddenly felt cold behind him. You won't come to me again! I stopped doing business a long time ago. Now, I'm just a farmer.

However, Tugen couldn't help but recall what happened at the police station. He just saw the director sitting in the car. That day, the director personally brought him down to interrogate him.

The director has a loud voice. The director said, "Tugen! The policy is written on the wall and you can see it. I will repeat them here ... If you don't tell the truth, the nature will be different when our survey results come out! "

"yes! You'd better be honest! " The director's men echoed and knocked on the short stick in their hands. The short stick is short, but it is thick. At this time, the director opened his notebook and prepared to take notes.

Tugen glanced at the stick and began to tremble. "I ... just sold wood a few times ..."

"Wood? Do you think wood will be all right? I'm telling you, this is just speculation. Say it! Where did you sell the wood? " The director knocked on the book.

"Lake ... east, lake ... west!" Tu Gen said timidly.

"What else? What else did you do? " The director knocked on the book again.

"Just-wooden head-ah!" Tugen burst into tears.

The weight of wood is not light either. It hurts when you knock on your head, shoulders and back. In retrospect, Tugen's back still hurts faintly.

Thugan became flustered. He stopped at a corner near the side of the road and peeped out to see where the car was going.

The car stopped at Da 'anjia, and the director got off the bus, stretched himself, shook hands with Da 'an who came out of the house, and talked and laughed at the door.

It turns out that the director is a friend of Daan. No wonder Daan helped me with the formalities that day. However, only my son knows about my cookie box, even the truth. The son later told Da 'an's son that Tugen remembered what Da 'an said that day, a biscuit box with money. The more Tugen thinks about it, the more suspicious he feels.

three

A few days later, at eight o'clock in the evening, Tugen, who was hiding in the bamboo garden behind the house, heard the front door "Ga …". After a while, from the lights on and off, he saw Guizhen and Daan coming in through the window.

He tried to stop them, but before he got to the window, his hands and feet shook first, and something seemed to be bumping and kicking in his chest. Tugen said to himself, don't be afraid. What are you afraid of? Because he has a sense of justice. Even if I kill him now, he will not be wronged. Tugan gripped the iron rake. He was imagining what it would be like to aim at Daan and knock it down. However, Thugan suddenly remembered Daan's strong chest, loud voice and majesty when he was captain. Tugen felt weak all over, so he squatted in his corner and held his head in his hands. And it's already straight to the point, and there are some voices from time to time.

Daan said: "Live-do it well! Do-comfortable! Either-don't do it! "

Return to the truth and say, "Be gentle! Easy! "

When Daan moved to the truth, he said, "Think-pour-edge, pour-angle! Tugen used to be a carpenter, didn't you know? Down, down, down! "

To be honest, "let's ... let's not meet again!" "

Daan asked, "Well, how can I say this?"

Return to nature said, "this is not good. I'm afraid he knows. "

Daan said, "Who dares to do anything to you with me?"

"Tugan asked about the money," he said. He said that someone must have reported it to the police station. Daan, our money is hard-won. Tugan suffered a lot for this. I doubt it, too. How can the police station know my cookie box? "

"Why do you ask this? There are so many people up and down, which one is not hot in the face and cold in the ass? You don't need a few dollars to go anywhere. A few days ago, the director came and said that the matter of Tugen has not been completely solved! I'm not sure if anything will happen to Tugen. Moreover, without a closed wall, your biscuit box will be exposed. "

Hearing this, Tugen softened, leaned forward and knocked on the window door.

When he heard the voice, he became nervous and urged Daan to go quickly.

Tugen didn't want them to find out, so he let out a cry and hurried away. He was afraid that Jin Kui Congress would come out the back door and be caught by him.

"Mama of, mouse! Listen to the noise! " Daan put on his clothes, glanced at the window, and then walked to the front door.

Tugan is very lonely. He went to drain the water, and the dog he had kept for three years came to Fu and followed.

Tugen walked, ran to the rich, flirted, licked, ran from the back to the front, and ran from the front to the back, fast and slow, back and forth, very cheerful, for fear that Tugen would leave without it, and occasionally lifted his leg to take a piss and make a mark.

Thugan stopped, people sniffed and scratched around before Frye stopped, and then he ran to the front and looked at him with his tongue curled up, as if exploring his thoughts.

He passed by the private plot of Da 'anjia, and the vegetables in the private plot of Da 'anjia were green enough to add bowls to the table. He looked around and there was no one around except him and Frye.

Let you eat! Beast! He swept sideways, waving an iron rake that kept him all day. Cha-! The voice is crisp and pleasant, and it also relieves hatred! Cha-! There he goes again, cha-! There he goes again ... he simply folds the rake. Suddenly, the green vegetables with dirt fluctuated with his movements. In Frye's curious eyes, the cluster flew to the cesspit next to the grave. ...

After walking for a while, Tugan found a place to sit down, hooked his feet and said to Frye, "Frye, my feet are a little itchy." Rub it for me, I'll smoke a cigarette. "

Frye is nearby, rubbing around.

Tugan felt something was wrong. Looking down, Frye's genitals are sticking out.

"damn it! As slutty as Daan. " He flicked off the cigarette butt, grasped Frye's neck tightly with both hands and pressed it against the dam. ...

four

Tugen is always insomnia. He thought about it when he was insomnia, and one night he suddenly had the idea of hitting the wall. He hates their flirting. Although they are not as frequent as before, it is not better for him to return to the truth. It seems that they are a bowl of clear water and let him see the end.

At that time, Daan and some team members picked up a reservoir in a rock ridge dozens of miles away. One day, he came back and thought he was in the wrong house. A pile of half-man-high new walls stood dozens of paces away from the door, with a pair of strong wallboard on the top. On the other side of the wall, a dustpan is held up and down on the soil root to pour mud into the wallboard, and the wall is still heightening.

Daan is getting more and more uncomfortable, and his chest is gloomy, as if the wall were pushed down by everyone. Go to the fence and say to Tugen, "Tugen, you are blocking the light in my house!" " "

He thought, "Yes, blocking the light, blocking the light of you two dogs and men, is to ask you to watch less, even once or twice." I want to think about it, but I still have no confidence. I said, "You ... saw it, just ... one meter away from the fence. I ran into it in my own field. "

Daan's throat rang:

"Your own land? Where did you get the land? You are a mountain man, you must have a conscience! "

Tugen whispered, "People have a conscience-dogs don't eat shit!" " "

"Dogs don't eat shit? You climbed on top of me and shit on my head! You have forgotten how you got here. You want a foundation and an account. The dog followed me like a dog. It's all right now. The monk in the temple-drove away the benefactor? "

That year, Tugen and his wife went to Da 'an and Da 'anzheng for dinner, looking up at the truth and Tugen again. Chopsticks point twenty or thirty paces away from the door, where Tugen's house is built.

Tugen ignored it and continued to pour mud into the wallboard, but he hesitated.

This is a different kind of provocation, and Daan is very angry. "Hit the wall? I see how you fight? " He sneered twice, grabbed a stick sticking out of the wall, squatted down and carried it ... The new wall shook a few times and fell down with a bang.

Tugen hurried back and was almost pinned down. Seeing that the new wall he had worked so hard to hire people to eat suddenly turned into a pile of mud, new hatred and old hatred came to mind together. He raised a pole and roared and jumped from the gap-

"You beast, I will chop you to death!"

"come on You come! See how capable you are! " Daan twitched, waiting for the pole to fall, unhurriedly dodged sideways, his left hand tightly clamped ... Thugan didn't react, and his body sat firmly under Daan's ass.

Jin Kui laughed and said, "It's no use! They say it was killed on tofu. I don't think you should buy tofu, just kill it on my penis! "

There are two pumps in the airport at Changqiaotou, which are in charge of hundreds of acres of farmland. A special route from the variable pressure machine to the airport was paved in the trip. When planting rice in the surrounding farmland, use cables with different lengths to pull to the airport to get electricity. If the distance is close, a cable will be solved; Far away, two or three. When wiring and connecting electricity, it is easy to make mistakes if you have no experience or do not follow the rules and regulations.

And this mistake can't be made, which is a matter of life and death.

Thugan decided to make a mistake and electrocuted Daan. Trees live by skin, while people live by face. He thought, if Daan doesn't give me face, he won't let me live, and you can't live without me.

He became talkative and liked being with Daan! Things like rice and electricity are urgent.

He doesn't want to hurt innocent people, he is looking for opportunities.

The opportunity finally came, and he lifted the cable tied to the head of the stick. ...

"Dad, it's time to eat!" At the critical moment, the eldest daughter came and brought the meal.

"Such an early meal!" He was depressed because his daughter ruined his plan.

The daughter said, "I'm going to cut rice and bring it with me." My brother and sister can't cook. With so many people working, it's good that I can earn a few points! "

Hearing this, his heart thumped and he began to sigh with emotion. He waited until someone urged him to hang up the cable.

When eating, Tugen thought, am I too selfish? When I hang this thread, Daan's life is gone, but what about the children? Who will feed them and provide them with education? Not only that, they will also bear the stigma of "murderer" children. How do they face all this? How to bear it?

The wife exists in name only, and the children can't ignore it! Your own flesh and blood!

five

Unconsciously, Tugen has been sitting by the airport for two or three hours. The shadow of the airport is longer, bigger and thicker than before, and his waist is sore and his legs are numb. He stood up, patted the dust on his body, stretched himself, sat down again, lit a cigarette, and stared at the ploughed road leading to the field.

One evening a few days ago, the dog and Sham Shui were on the road in front of his house, playing a game called Besieged City with a knife made of broken hacksaw bars.

He waved to his son and shouted, "puppy, come here!" " He has been sitting on the threshold watching them for a long time.

The dog ChengChengRan to his eyes, wiped the sweat from his forehead and asked:

"Dad, what's the matter?"

He looked at the deep water standing over there, turned to look dignified and asked his son:

"Can you ... play deep water?"

"If you can beat it, one hand is enough." This puppy has a high chest.

He just saw that this 14-year-old puppy was half a head taller than Sham Shui Po. As soon as he felt warm, he quickly turned his head and waved and said, "Go and play!" " "

Yes! Endure for six years! This tone!

His family's field is next to this tractor road. After a few days of topdressing, the late rice has begun to turn green, and it can be put aside in a few days. Thankfully, the eldest daughter is twenty years old. She is not only beautiful, but also has a good eye. Young people who come to help each other during the busy farming season are tall and big, and there is a kind of majesty, self-confidence and masculinity everywhere.

Speaking of my daughter, I think of that dream again. During this time, he was in a trance, always having nightmares and often having similar dreams. In the dream, what he was most worried about happened-Daan entered the eldest daughter's room and began to pester her. ...

He dare not think about it any more. He can't wait, and there is no need to wait.

When Tugen smoked his seventh cigarette, the sun was about to set. He saw Daan coming 100 meters away along the tractor road with a burden on his back.

Five, four, three steps ...

Daan grinned, which made him shudder!

..... The eldest daughter dug, pulled and bit Daan hysterically, and Daan suddenly became a palm-sized meatball. Tugen rushed to her daughter and said, "I'll come, I'll come." I will chop it up and feed it to the ducks. " "Yes, come on!

"Meat ball talked, meat ball head let out a whoop of giant mouth, biting the root of the soil, screaming in pain. When I looked at it again, it was a bloody doll with no limbs and no figure, only one mouth, Daan's mouth, calling her daughter and mother. ...

His brain was about to explode, and he swung the iron rake on his shoulder at Daan's back. ...

six

Tugan was awakened by a bubble of old urine. I woke up in the middle of the night, and my head ached a little, as if it were much bigger. When I stumbled towards the pigsty, I was knocked down by something, and I felt like a person. In a panic, my eyes suddenly lit up.

Look, Daan!

What's going on here? He flew with a whoosh and made a noise.

Daan motionless, hands on the ground, prone, he painted a face next to an irregular picture. At this time, Tugen saw his iron rake next to him, a bloody iron rake.

Dead? Da 'an is dead?

He's shaking! My face is white! Who ... who killed him? Me ... me? Did you just break it? But ... it's clearly on the tractor road! I was smashed on the tractor road! Deception ... I just ... went back to bed. He's not dead? To settle accounts? But ... what does he need a cable for?

At the entrance of the pigsty, the newly bought cables are piled up in a mess.

Daan is finally dead! Looking at Daan's back, Tougan realized that in his heart, there was always a deep fear of Daan, an unspeakable weakness. In Tugen's view, even if it is safe now, it is still so powerful, as majestic and inviolable as when it is a battalion chief! Now, Daan finally collapsed, just like Tugen's new wall, with a bang, but the sound made Tugen panic.

Daan is dead, so I can't live! Tugen stumbled through the sky with one foot deep and one foot shallow. He ran faster and faster, fell down several times and got up again. In his panic, he looked back at the village where he had lived for twenty years and thought he would never come back. Two clear tears fell silently.

The next day, it rained for the first time in two months. The third day is July and a half.

A year later, the public security organ caught a habitual thief on the Internet. According to him, he killed Daan. That night, he went to Tugan's house to steal cables. Jin Kui Dagang came out of the room where he came back to the truth, and he was stuck in the pigsty by Daan. In desperation, he lifted the iron rake placed at the door of the pigsty. He just wanted to scare Daan, but Daan, like a cadre, opened his voice and said something. He also said that his friend was at the police station, and during the dispute, the iron rake hit Daan on the forehead.

Tugan never came back. At first, the police station checked him, but later his family looked for him and there was no information. Someone in the village said, "Hey! One is dead, two are missing, and the village is suddenly deserted! "