Chapter 26 twenty-three

We slept until noon the next day, both of us sweated from sleep, got up, took a cold shower, put on clean clothes, and went out.Xiaoyu first went to Today's Department Store in Ximending to buy a lot of Shiseido cosmetics for his mother.He said that although his mother is getting older, she still likes to put on makeup and powder, so every time he goes back, he always brings some to her. He wraps the cosmetics in a cloth with green pine and white cranes printed on it. Zhang Bao was the one he ran out of, and his mother used it to wrap his clothes for him, and he kept it all the time.Xiaoyu's mother lived in an alley full of stalls and crowded behind the Rooftop Theater in Sanchong Town.We arrived at the gate of Xiaoyu's mother's house, but Xiaoyu didn't dare to go in. She took me quietly to the kitchen at the back door, looked around for a long time, then turned her tongue to me and said:

The Shandong guy really left. He told my mother: I grabbed that little rabbit and split his dog's head off! Xiaoyu cleared her throat before shouting loudly: Mom, Yuzai is back. Xiaoyu's mother ran out from the back door. When she saw Xiaoyu, she touched her head and face for a while, then squeezed Xiaoyu's arm firmly, and said: Why did you lose weight again?What do you eat every day?Is that bitch Li Yue mean to you?It must be outside every day, not eating well, right?She looked at Xiaoyu again, and said: The hair was cut short. Xiaoyu's mother is about forty-seven or eighty years old, but she dresses very brightly.His face was really covered with a thick layer of makeup, his eyebrows were shaved off, but the two false eyebrows were drawn domineeringly, and the lipstick on his mouth was brightly painted.She was wearing a burgundy silk dress covered with flying purple butterflies, with plump hoops all over her body, revealing a large white breast in front.In the past, Xiaoyu's mother was probably a very charming red wine girl. Although her bubble eyes had two traces of crow's feet, when she smiled, they were still full of peach blossoms.Xiaoyu's eyes were borrowed from his mother.

Mom, I'll bring Ah Qing to eat and say goodbye.Xiaoyu led me to meet his mother. Great, Xiaoyu's mother put her arms around Xiaoyu's arms, walked inside, and smiled at me, "Our old neighbor Huo Wangbo's house next door slaughtered a big pig male weighing more than two hundred catties. Tonight we It's all over. Mom, what kind of perfume are you wearing?It stinks to death.Xiaoyu leaned close to his mother's neck, pointed her nose and sniffed.His mother slapped him on the buttocks, and laughed and cursed: What kind of perfume does grandma wear, and what's up with you?

Entering the inner hall, Xiaoyu untied the bundle on her hands with a smile, and shook out several bottles of cosmetics on the table: a bottle of perfume, a bottle of cream, a tube of lipstick, and a brush for eyebrow tracing. This is Nocturna, it smells like mint, it is best to apply in summer, you can smell it.Xiaoyu opened the bottle of perfume in the jade green glass bottle and put it under his mother's nose. Not too bad, Xiaoyu's mother curled her lips and smiled, but she opened the can of cream and smelled it, but this bottle of cream is not bad, my bottle is finished, and I'm going to buy it.

Xiaoyu poured a few drops of the perfume on the palm of her hand, dipped it in with her fingers, and dabbed twice under his mother's ears, and then wiped the rest on her hair. This is enough to look like your dead dad!Xiaoyu's mother looked at him, nodded and sighed, "Your father used to like to make these rouge powders. He left nothing but you, the root of the trouble, and left twenty or thirty boxes of Shiseido foundations."I can't use it and take it away.Ah Qing, Xiaoyu's mother stroked Xiaoyu's cheeks and turned to me with a smile, "I was born wrong, and I made him a chapulang. In the past, Yuzai drew my eyebrows for me. I always said: Yuzai is a chapboy." Just check it out!Also lest you be naughty and cause trouble everywhere

Ah Qing, you don't know, Xiaoyu said with a smile, when my mother was pregnant with me, she ran to the temple to worship Mazu, and she begged Mazu: Mazu, let me give birth to Zha.Who would have thought that Mazu had a cold and her ears were not working well that day, so she mistook Cha as Chapu, so she gave my mother a boy Dead boy, dead boy Xiaoyu's mother trembled with laughter, gave Xiaoyu a slap on the cheek, and ran in while wiping her eyes with a handkerchief. After a while, she brought out a large plate of watermelon and put it on the greasy bed. On the blackened dining table, she handed Xiaoyu and me a large piece of bright red watermelon. We were all thirsty, and we gnawed.Xiaoyu's mother sat down next to Xiaoyu, holding a big cattail fan in her hand, while fanning Xiaoyu.The living room of Xiaoyu’s mother was dark and narrow, without a single window. There were two candles and a large stick of incense on the desk, offering sacrifices to Emperor Baosheng. Stop bleeding.

What happened to that bitch Li Yue?Do you still hang out with those American men every day?Xiaoyu's mother asked. Sister Liyue's business is booming, and she is the most popular in New York bars.Sometimes there are too many guests, and she is too busy.She often complained of low back pain and asked me to massage her.Xiaoyu giggled. Bah, Xiaoyu's mother spat, that bitch!A few years ago, she came to see me, crying, saying that her American soldier had left her and slipped away.At that time I pulled the string for her.Well, Yuzai, that's Uncle Huowang, that big boy, Chunfa, and that bitch, Liyue, who still thinks they are ugly, cross-eyed, and pockmarked.Brother Afa's leather shoe business is now growing!Huowangbo's family has become rich.Liyue refused to listen to me, she refused to tell her to get rid of that little bastard, and now she is dragging something that is neither yellow nor white, exhausting her for the rest of her life!

Aunt, why didn't you knock me out at that time, and gave birth to me, a little bastard, who exhausted you all your life and made me suffer.Xiaoyu looked up and asked his mother with a smile. He had two drops of red watermelon water on the tip of his nose. Xiaoyu's mother patted the big cattail fan a few times, Mo Ke helplessly sighed: Isn't it your damn father, Lin Zhengxiong, who is so pissed?That Yelang, I fell for him!He said that he would pick me up within a month after returning to Japan. Look, you are so old now. Mom, Xiaoyu suddenly tilted her head and called his mother, I almost found Lin Zhengxiong, your card is so numb!

What?Xiaoyu's mother exclaimed. I said it was close, Xiaoyu patted his mother on the shoulder, this person is also surnamed Lin, named Lin Maoxiong, one word short!When he told me his name that night, my heart almost jumped out.I asked him if he had a Japanese surname, was it Nakajima?He said no.Mom, do you think it's a pity? Who is this? He is also an overseas Chinese from Japan, who came from Tokyo and came to Taiwan to open a pharmaceutical factory. Oh, Xiaoyu's mother shook her head and sighed, you are going to worship the overseas Chinese godfather again. This Lin Maoxiong is different, he treats me very well.He gave me a place in the Taipei office, and he also provided for me to study in the evening.

Really?Xiaoyu's mother said in surprise, it's your luck now.Yuzai, it's not your mother talking about you, you've been messing around in Taipei, how can you make a name for yourself?Now that you meet such a kind-hearted person, you should follow him well and learn something, so that you won’t be hungry in the future! But he had already gone back to Tokyo, Xiaoyu shrugged, and didn't know when he would come back. Ai Xiaoyu's mother became a little disappointed and sighed. Mother, Xiaoyu approached his mother, raised her face and asked, tell me the truth. tell you what?

How many men surnamed Lin have you slept with? Young life!Xiaoyu's mother slapped Xiaoyu on the head and scolded with a smile, can you say such things to your mother?Still in front of outsiders, not afraid of being struck by thunder? Ah Qing, Xiaoyu pointed at his mother and smiled, her mother used to be very popular in Dongyun Pavilion, many men chased her, she was even more popular than Sister Liyue. What is Liyue?Comparing her to your mother, are you not afraid of ruining your mother's reputation?Xiaoyu's mother pursed her lips, her face was full of disdain, I used to be in Dongyun Pavilion, and I didn't even look at the casual guests!How can it be as cheap as Li Yue?Pull the black and white to the bed. But you told me that there were three or four people surnamed Lin who chased you back then! cough.Xiaoyu's mother sighed ambiguously. Aunt, how many men named Lin have you slept with? Damn boy, Xiaoyu's mother said with a downcast face, your mother has slept with several men named Lin, what does it matter to you? You have slept with so many men surnamed Lin, how do you know that Lin Zhengxiong from Shiseido must be my father? Silly boy, Xiaoyu's mother touched Xiaoyu's head, looked at him, and said quietly after a while, "Your mother doesn't know, who else knows?" Grandmother Xiaoyu suddenly grabbed his mother's chest with both hands, crashed into his mother's arms, and burst into tears.His head, like a rolling grapefruit, was beating back and forth on his mother's plump breasts, and his hands were scratching and tearing, tearing his mother's green silk dress hissingly and making a cracking sound. Come.His shoulders twitched violently, sounding again and again, as if there was a severe pain somewhere, but he couldn't tell, only a dry cry.Xiaoyu's mother was swayed left and right by Xiaoyu, and she could hardly hug her anymore.The snot, tears, and watermelon water on her chest had been smeared with wet marks by Xiaoyu, and the sweat dripped from her forehead and face, washing her thickly painted face into red and white.She kept patting Xiaoyu's back in a hurry. After a while, when Xiaoyu stopped for a while, she took off a handkerchief tied in her hair, wiped Xiaoyu's face, and blew his nose for him, coaxing: Yuzai, listen to my mother.When I got up early, I went to Uncle Huowang and said to him: Uncle Huowang, our Yuzi is coming back to visit grandpa tonight, so you must leave those pig ears to him!Huo Wangbo and the others did a good job last year, and this year they are willing to pay for their farewell. Huo Wangbo smiled at Mimi and said: Sister Xiu, your little boy is willing to come back to see Grandpa, and I will leave ten pairs of pig ears for him!I went to see that the ears of the pig male are fat and big, and they are delicious when they are soaked in marinade! Xiaoyu's eyes were swollen and red, and his nose was still dripping with snot. When his mother said something to him, he nodded his head, breathed out, sucked in the snot again, and his shoulders twitched freely. . At six o'clock in the evening, the streets and alleys of Sanchong Town were already full of people.People flocking to eat worship from all over the place.People who are praying, the wine and food are crowded outside the house, under the arcade, in the alley, one table after another, large pieces of fat pork, trembling, piled up into small meat mountains, shiny and yellow pigs The skin seemed to be sweating from the heat.In some families, the sacred pig that was sacrificed in the temple has just been carried back and rests at the door. A fat male pig weighing several hundred catties is lying comfortably on the rack, with a red cloth on his body and his mouth open. Holding a bright red tangerine in his mouth, his head was shaved clean, his eyes were squinted, and he seemed to be smiling very complacently.Most of the dishes and wine were prepared the day before, and they were placed on the table. There were large plates of rotten meat, mixed with the strong smell of incense candles, and smoky.There was no wind at all, and the layer of soot over Sanchong Town was densely covered, and a faint layer of black smoke was smeared on the oily and sweaty faces, but people's appetites were wide open, and they gnawed. After chewing, bowls of rice wine were poured down, and the whole Sanchong town was shouting and jubilant. Huowang Bo’s family’s obeisance is really rich, a table full of sixteen pots, and a lot of seafood: roasted flower branches, cold salad with nine holes, and three whole fish, red red, yellow yellow, lying in the pot with mouth open and eyes upright. .Uncle Huo Wang carried a large piece of braised pig's ear that was so yellowish and oily, put it on a small jade plate, opened his bald mouth that lacked front teeth, and said with a wrinkled smile: Yuzai, eat quickly, you will grow two pig ears as big as a male pig! Xiaoyu laughed wildly, grabbed the pig's ear and stuffed it into her mouth, stuffing her mouth full, her cheeks were bulging, and there were still a few bristling pig hairs on the tip of the pig's ear , Xiaoyu also swallowed it.Uncle Huowang pulled the thigh of an angelica duck and put it in my bowl, and put a bottle of Fushou wine in front of us. He patted the heads of Xiaoyu and me, asking us to drink the wine.Xiaoyu's mother had been drunk for a long time, her face turned red, her hair was tied up with a handkerchief, and across the table, she met Huo Wangbo's eldest son, cross-eyed Chunfa, and the Eight Immortals started guessing fists.Three punches and two victories, Xiaoyu's mother lost, three glasses full of Fushou wine, each of which was filled to the brim, and after drinking, she turned the glasses upside down and lit them up for everyone to see. They all cheered.Huowangbo was so happy that his bald mouth opened wide, shaking his head and calling: hehe Xiaoyu and Uncle Huowang's youngest son, Chunfu, who was full of acne, also met.They punched a glass of Fushou wine.Xiaoyu asked me to supervise the wine, he said that Ah Fu is the most repugnant.With a punch to the head, Chunfu swallowed Xiaoyu with a Quan Fushou, and Chunfu was so excited that he picked up the cup and wanted to drink it. Don't worry, wait for me to eat a piece of pig's ear first. Xiaoyu grabbed a piece of pig ear and chewed it for a long time.Chunfu couldn't wait any longer, and grabbed Xiaoyu's neck to pour him down. Xiaoyu pushed him away and said with a smile: Drinking is not drinking, what are you afraid of? In the second round, Xiaoyu's name was Sijicai, and she gave out two fingers. Chunfa's name was Wujingui, and she also gave out two fingers. Seeing that she lost, she hurriedly added another one, still screaming. Xiaoyu lost again!Xiaoyu lost again! Yi Niang, Xiaoyu flushed with anxiety, you are a big man, you are so good at lying! Talking about pouring a glass of wine and going to drink Chunfu, the two of them were twisting into a ball, inseparable, but Chunfu suddenly raised his head and shouted: Look, Xiaoyu, the Shantung guy is here! Where?Xiaoyu suddenly stood up, the glass in her hand fell to the table with a bang, splashing all the wine on the table, she looked around wildly, with a panicked expression on her face.Xiaoyu's mother rushed over, pushed Chunfu violently, and shouted: Shi Lang, what did you lie to us, Yuzai? She turned around and patted Xiaoyu on the back and said: Don't be afraid, Yuzi, what if he's here?He is not Hades?If he dares to touch a single hair of yours, Grandma will fight him desperately! Don't matter, don't matter, Uncle Huo Wang smacked his lips and shouted, "Yuzai, drink some wine, and grandpa will give you another piece of pig's ear." Xiaoyu sat down and gnawed on the pig's ear without saying a word.Chunfu kept winking and smiling at him.Xiaoyu pretended not to see it, poured a full cup of Fushou wine, and gulped it down. Bye bye after eating, Xiaoyu's mother was almost drunk.Holding Xiaoyu's shoulders, she staggered home.As soon as she entered the door, she kicked off a pair of lacquered gold sandals from her feet, and also took off her vegetable blue silk skirt, and she only wore a translucent black petticoat underneath, with two knots at the belly band.The handkerchief that tied her hair was loose, and a few strands of messy hair fell to her neck, soaked in sweat, hanging in strands, and the powder on her face had long since melted into red and white.She sat on a bench, spread her legs, and slapped her face twice with her hands.She dragged Xiaoyu over and pressed her to her side, staring at Xiaoyu with her bubbly peach eyes, sleepy. He took a deep breath and said inarticulately: Yuzai, you know, your mother wants you to come back. I know.Xiaoyu lowered her head and answered. That Shandong guy has a hot temper, and he is pretty good to your mother.If you have two coins, you will take them home, and there are no women outside.Yuzai, you have to understand that your mother is not as old as before, she is old and useless Xiaoyu kept her head down, her hands propped on the stool, her shoulders arched high. In fact, the Shandong guy was kind to you.No wonder he, you do that kind of thing Mom, I'm leaving.Xiaoyu stood up and said. Aren't you spending the night here?Xiaoyu's mother also stood up. No, I still have an appointment in Taipei. Xiaoyu picked up the burden on the table and was about to go to the gate, but Xiaoyu's mother snatched the burden away. She ran to the confession side and took the two plates of red turtle cakes on the case, a total of eight pieces, and poured them down. In the bundle, I tied two knots before taking it to Xiaoyu and hanging it on his arm.When we walked out of the gate, Xiaoyu's mother took two more steps barefoot and said: On the 7th of next month, he will go to Taichung for two days, I will bring you a letter again.Ah Qing, you also come to play together. We got on the bus back to Taipei, and I asked Xiaoyu: Are you going to report to the old den tonight? No, I'm going to Tianxing to find Boss Wu. You go to eat grass again.I laughed. Boss Wu opened the Tianxing auction house in Ximending. He was Xiaoyu's old friend. After being courteous to Xiaoyu for a while, Xiaoyu thought that Old Wu had rotten teeth and bad breath, so he ignored him. What does it matter if you eat grass?Xiaoyu sneered, I am not a good horse anyway.Old Wu promised to give me a watch before, and I went to ask him for it this time. You know how to beat the old man.I said. But Xiaoyu stretched out his left hand, and the stem was bare. He used to wear the Seiko watch that Lao Zhou gave him, and he often raised his hand to show others, saying: Lao Zhou gave it to me. I remember that when I was in the sixth grade of primary school, Uncle Huo Wang bought a Seiko watch for Chunfu. Chunfu brought it to class, threw his hand in my face all day long and said: My father bought it for me.One day in physical education class, he took off his watch in the classroom. I stole it and kept it with me all night. The next day, I threw the watch into the gutter and let the water wash it away.Since then, I have always wanted a Seiko watch. The bus walked to the Taipei Bridge, because there were so many people returning to Taipei, the bridge was full of vehicles, and the bus went very slowly.I stretched my head out of the car window and looked back. The lights in Sanchong Town were dim, and there were little lights flickering in the Danshui River.A crimson moon in the sky hung over the dark sky of Sanchong Town, blurry.I suddenly remembered that time when I took my younger brother to Sanchong Meihua to watch the performance of the Xiaodongbao Song and Dance Troupe, my mother was kicking her legs on the stage, her face covered with makeup was so hard to smile , so painful.That night, my brother and I took the bus back to Taipei. When we walked to the Taipei Bridge, my brother stuck his head out of the bus window and looked towards Sanchong frequently.I held his hand, and his palm was sweating coldly. What are you looking at, Ah Qing?Xiaoyu asked me. look at the moon.I said.