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Running children

Running children

By Liston FlowersPublished 2 years ago 14 min read
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Time is like a child in the earth kept running, twinkling of an eye, it has run to the spring after three years.

Early spring grass from the soil out of the tender and weak body, the river willow spit light yellow green bud. Snakes, toads and hedgehogs, which hibernate, emerge from burrows in the ground. They wiggle their hips, stretch their backs, and breathe the air that smells like grass.

As an old saying goes, "A year's plan begins in spring." Time in spring is as precious as gold to villagers. They took off their cotton shoes and cotton-padded jacket, wearing thin, neat clothes under the spring rain in the wheat field weeding fertilization.

Those wheat seedlings are like hungry and thirsty little beasts snatching fertilizer and sucking rain. Standing in the wheat fields, it seems that you can see their delicate green limbs growing taller and fatter.

Grandma Zhao and two silly are fertilizing the wheat field, the drizzle on their clothes and hair.

Xue dapan rode his bike very fast, and when they were several blocks away, he shouted, "Hey, er silly, go home quickly!"

Two silly heard Shouting stop the hands of the farm work, looked at him Shouting: "Big climb, what matter? So urgent."

"It is, as you will find out when you get home." He stopped his bike and smiled.

"You don't know! Two silly said.

"What is it, Big Climb? We won't know until you tell us." "Said Grandma Zhao.

"Three winters ago, didn't two fools save a stray girl? One of her family came to propose marriage today, and they're waiting outside your door. I've got to go into town to pick up the film and come back for two stupid wedding drinks." Xue Dapan said he was ready to turn back.

"Why, after all this time they came to propose marriage. Three years have passed and the children in the village are all grown up now." Grandma Zhao looked at two silly said, "I remember that girl -- oh, I remember her name is xiu Juan. She was not ugly, especially her eyes, which were big and dewy. She would be a good girl if she weren't mentally ill."

"I've forgotten what she looked like. I remember that day her face was dirty."

"When she's clean, she's not dirty at all. Some crazy people hit and curse everyone they see. She is very quiet. If we treat her well, her mental illness may be cured. If she were a normal girl, you wouldn't be the girl to do it; the matchmaker would have trashed the prospectuses in her house. Fool, this woman is a bowl for eating, dirty and washed, but still usable."

"Mom, I don't want to get married."

"Oh, silly, you are more than thirty years old and still single. It hurts me to think about your dad and Dumbass. If Big Idiot were still around, he'd be expecting my grandchild to be a teenager. I want you to have a wife. When I die, you'll have someone to keep you company. You won't be alone." Grandma Zhao said with acid tears brimming eyes.

"Mom, I would like to marry Xiujuan." Two silly said with his sleeve to wipe the tears in grandma Zhao's eyes.

"Well, it is a happy event, and we should both be happy." Grandma Zhao said, a smile on her face.

Xiu Juan's parents, uncle and uncle four people sitting in two silly house in the hall. Two fools picked up the thermos and poured water into the white China cup in front of them.

"Big sister, three years ago you and two silly saved show Juan, we have been feeling. At that time someone said let show Juan and two silly marriage, but our family after repeated discussions feel inappropriate. Xiu Juan is a mental patient, two silly but a healthy young man. We can't hold you back. Some days ago, I drove a tractor to handle affairs passing lu Wan, stopping by the way to ask a fellow towner of your situation, just know two silly so far unmarried. Our family after discussion, today a proposed to come. As the saying goes, "Steamed steamed bun is a cage, marriage is a lifetime", steamed steamed bun once miss, just a few days after eating can also be steamed a cage. Marriage is a great event in life, once married, two people will be husband and wife forever." Xiujuan's father said to Grandma Zhao with a smile.

"I worry about my stupid marriage every day. A few years ago, the fortune-teller saw two silly birthday eight character shaking his head said that his marriage is not through, still have to play a few years of bachelor. Last year, at the temple fair, I went to see him for fortune-telling. He said that the marriage between the two idiots was getting close, and they could get married in one or two years. I was so happy that I didn't sleep a wink all night. What kind of parents don't worry about their children? Silly and I have agreed on our way back from the wheat field that we are happy to marry you." Grandma Zhao smiled warmly.

"That would be great." Xiu Juan's father was beaming and drank a hot cup of tea from a white porcelain cup, looking at two silly eyes.

Two silly sitting on the stool said with a simple smile: "I also hope to marry xiu Juan. When she comes to our house, we will treat her well. If one day there will be a famine and we run away to beg for food, I will let her eat even though I am hungry. I'd rather starve than let her live."

"Oh, there won't be any more famine at all, and our days will get better and better. Xiu Juan married into your home, you sincerely treat her, do not abandon her, good to her, we will be satisfied." Xiujuan's mother spoke earnestly.

There was an air of gaiety in the room.

Grandma Zhao called Wang Shouxin to guarantee media. Wang Shouxin brought two bottles of shenhe grain liquid, he said in the wine, "Since you are both very happy, let's look at the old calendar and find a good day to marry two silly and Xiujuan."

He took out a thin copy of the old calendar from his coat pocket, stared at it with his head down and said with a smile: "February 20 is the vernal equinox. It is appropriate to get married, pin, collect money, meet relatives and friends, avoid opening markets, building houses and treating diseases."

After hearing this, Xiujuan's mother shook her head and said: "No, the vernal equinox is not a good term -- it reminds people of breaking up in spring, which is not auspicious."

After hearing this, the public felt reasonable and asked him to pick a better day.

He looked at the old calendar for a while and said, "February twenty-six is a good day to marry." Everyone nodded and said yes.

"It's been a very short time. Two people have been preparing for marriage. When in Rome, do as the Romans do. Ask about the rules there." His face turned to Xiujuan's parents.

Show Juan's parents thought for a moment, said let two silly to prepare fifty boxes of fried fruit and twenty bags of sugar as a bride gift, in addition to the wedding room need to buy a few new bedding and furniture, the wedding day and the groom and the bride phase of the people should not come to the wedding. Grandma zhao and two silly listen to repeated promise.

"Well, then, let's have another drink, and wait for our wedding." With a big smile on his face, Wang Shouxin picked up his glass.

At this moment, I think of a city as a place where there is no concept of neighbors. People live in the same city but have no chance to know each other. People live in the same building for years but feel like strangers. A city is a place where you shout and no one listens, whereas a village is a place where secrets are impossible to keep, and where family matters are everyone's business.

As the saying goes "a distant relative is better than a close neighbor", the neighbors of the two silly marriage is very enthusiastic, have out of people out of things, or to help him paint the wall, or to help him do furniture, or to help him do bedding. His father told him that the winery's van would serve as a wedding car to meet the bride on their wedding day, and several boxes of Shenhe grain liquor would be provided for free as a wedding wine. Xue dapan told him that he would play a movie for free on their wedding night.

The wedding day of two fools was very lively. His yard was crowded with people. Firecrackers went off as his bride, wearing a red padded jacket and red-headed flowers, was carried from his van. They were showered with scraps of confetti, and all praised her beauty and her whiteness, and said that she was a fool.

An old bachelor in the village named Ma Baocai pestered him, asking him about some privacy between husband and wife.

Ma Baocai was jailed many years ago for molesting women, but after his release no women would marry him. He said to two silly: "two silly, when going to the toilet, I also saw your cock cock is short and small, you and eunuch about the same, you certainly can't. I don't believe you can plug it in. Tell me how you stuck it in the wedding night!"

Two silly in his instigate told the wedding that night how to pull off the bride's pants, how to have sex.

After hearing this, he took a deep breath, which seemed to be more satisfying than smoking a big cigarette. He said to himself, "Alas, I am over forty years old and still an old virgin. I have never tasted the taste of a woman."

One day two silly dinner took xiu Juan's hand to visit my house. Mother in the kitchen washing dishes, father standing at the door smoking, birch and I are cheerfully watching the cartoon "The Lion King", TV simba and coyotes are fighting fiercely.

"Look, two silly and show Juan conjured love!" Mother watched from the kitchen window as they walked hand in hand into the yard, took off their flowered cloth aprons and came out.

"This is Sister-in-law Flay." Two silly to show yun said, show yun smile.

'Come and sit in the house! Mother said with a smile.

"Look at you newlyweds, hand in hand, so sweet." Father threw the cigarette on the ground and stamped it out with his right foot.

"This is Big Brother Fred." Two silly to show yun said.

Home birch hurriedly ran out, Shouting: "two silly uncle, show aunt beautiful."

"You'll be beautiful when you grow up, too, Mybirch -- as beautiful as a movie star. You got a bunch of boys chasing you. The ugly girl worries about getting married every day. Jia Hua worries every day. Should she marry Zhang SAN or Li Si or Wang Wu?" Two silly tone humorous, made us laugh.

Father and mother are sitting in front of the TV chatting with two fools. Xiujuan looked at the TV and giggled.

"I plan to go to Zhengzhou to work with Xue Changshun. Now many people from the village have gone to the city." Two silly said.

"Oh, just married, before the honeymoon is over, can you have the heart to go?" The father said.

"Farming is busy all year round, but I don't earn much money. Changshun said that if he worked on the construction site for a month, he could harvest more than two mu of land in a year. Life is easy when you have plenty of money." Two silly said.

When he left, two silly took out some money from his pocket and put it on the table and said, "Fred, I haven't given you the money for my wedding day."

The father quickly picked up the notes and stuffed them into two silly pants pocket, said with a smile: "Silly, I told you, those cases of wine is for you, also a wedding gift for you. Our neighbors have been like brothers for decades. It's just a gesture. In the early years, I didn't stop eating at your house, and you never asked me for money."

Two silly and show Juan left, my father shouted to me: "Tree, you don't watch cartoons, hurry to write math homework. I met Mr. Wu this morning. He said you were terrible at math and failed every time. You'll have to work hard to catch up in math."

"Well, Tree, listen to your father and do your homework." Mother urged me.

Mother and father are always on the same page when it comes to urging me to do my homework.

I got angry and went to my room to do my homework.

"Jia Hua, do your homework, too." Father's face turned to the birch.

"Dad, MY homework is done after school." Birch said.

"Jia Hua is really a good student. My daughter will be a female doctor in the future." "The father praised.

Jia Hua has been in grade two primary school, is the class commissary in charge of studies. When her teachers met my parents, they always praised her for being smart and studious, excelling in academic performance and helping the poor students in the class.

A child is like a magic mirror, reflecting what you say to him. You turn to him and say, "You are so smart!" He's gonna get smarter and smarter, and he's gonna reach out to his extraordinary potential. When you say to him, "You are so stupid! He'll just get dumber and dumber.

My birch and I are each a mirror. People always say to me, "You are a fool!" "You're a little fool! I'm acting more and more like a fool, more and more like a fool. People in front of her always praised her smart and studious, smart and beautiful. She grew wiser and prettier.

Once AFTER school I lay on my desk doing my homework, scratching my head at a math problem. Jia Hua saw the problem after a giggle, picked up a pencil three five in addition to two to help me out. I was ashamed of myself. In the future, I would think of my sister, who was one grade lower than me, and she might be able to do it.

Her mother sits in a chair and squints at the TV, laughing as Her son laughs at the plot of the cartoon. The father drew a cigarette from the case, held it to his mouth, and picked up the lighter on the table to light it.

"You go to the door and smoke. Don't smell the children!" Mother exclaimed.

"Ok, I'll go outside and smoke. I don't have any freedom at home." Father's face lit up with anger.

"Sun Fulai, no one is controlling you. You've got arms and legs and you can go anywhere you want. You play as much as you like, and you drink as much as you like, and no one restricts your freedom." There was a hint of scorn in my mother's voice.

My father had been on a bad streak during that period, losing badly at cards, and the business of the distillery gradually declined due to the fierce competition in the market. He was very depressed and very sensitive. Hearing the needle in his mother's words, he was as angry as if a powder magazine had caught fire and exploded.

"You laugh at me, mother, because you have lost some money in gambling! I have earned all our money, so I am in the best position to spend it." He had a stern face and a loud voice.

"Hey, you have a few stinky money start to burn bags, burn chicken. Look at you!"

"I love gambling money, I will go gambling now, gambling all the money I sell my wife and children."

"Git, git, git!" Mother roared and smashed the glass ashtray on the table.

"Stop arguing, or I'll run away from home." "I shouted.

His father went to talk to his mother, stomped his foot, gave his mother a stern look and said, "Look how frightened the children are!" 'He said, slamming the door sadly and leaving.

"It's not you who did this, it's me!"

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