Chapter 37 Tridacna Clams (Next)

Uncle Ming said while preparing home style, this “man-eating mussels” is the seabed several thousand years of life, several thousand years is what concept? Even if the Qin Emperor and Han Wu did not die, have been living until now, do not see this old mussel age, before slaughter is naturally to worship the fisherman, this is the sea wolf fishermen from generation to generation of rules, not according to the statute, no one can not go down, it is said that will be loss of life.

Fatty lost no time to discourage Uncle Ming, he said the boat boss Ruan Hei in the mussel shells to see someone, but not necessarily a mermaid, this sea looks like a human thing more to go, the domestic near the lake and sea places have to talk about the clam spirit of the old play, most of the old mussels into the essence of a woman, and then seduced the Hanzi, and then there is an old fisherman splash water play mussels, will be subdued and captured, a great joy, so this cannibalism mussels eighty percent of the mermaid, but rather the scratching scourge of that mermaid, the mermaid, and the mermaid, the mermaid, the mermaid. Rather, the mussel spirit that scratch the trouble to hide in it, who pry open her, she popped out to kiss who a mouthful, Ming uncle your old face can wipe clean point, waiting to be kissed it you on.

Uncle Ming kneeling in front of the copper duck incense burner prayer, he did not care about the incense shares were drenched out by the rain, there are still devoutly read the words, heard the fat man babbling, turned his head to blame: “You a dead fat boy and blowing water, we robbed the tomb and dug up the body of the hook has not been doing less, it is not true that you do not believe in these gods and ghosts? You are not to say what this is a superstition …… superstition?” Said he ignored the fat man, raised ready to slaughter cannibalistic mussels hook blade scimitar, in the sea out of thin air to the fisherman respectfully kowtow and recite incantations.

Fatty see Uncle Ming do not believe, let me and Shirley Yang for him to prove, I said I have never seen that kind of old fisherman catching mussels Jing young woman obscene opera, this kind of theater on the stage, are fishing villages by the sea to rest fish to raise the sea time to play, the actors and actresses are mostly grass-roots team, the face of the actor wiped with flowers in the flower forks, an arm set a side of powdered cloth masking the lid of the pot, with the wings of the chicken like a bladder, even if it is to play the mussels Jing! The audience is also full of children and teenagers. ……

Shirley Yang had never heard of the clam spirit and asked me curiously, “How do you know so much about it if you haven’t seen it? Even the children in the audience know, how can a clam spirit change into a woman?”

I said that not having seen it does not mean that I do not understand it, I know too much about the countryside. Before I joined the army, I had a sacred ideal, that is, to go to the countryside to study the law of class struggle in the countryside, so as to provide a sufficient strategic basis for the plan of encircling the countryside with the cities to be implemented in the future when the world revolution is being carried out, why does the world revolution take the route of encircling the countryside with the cities? Because in our eyes, North America and Western Europe is the biggest city, Asia, Africa and Latin America those deep water areas is the countryside …… But this is a bit far away, or why the clam spirit will turn into a woman, in the past in the dongting lake there is a snail girl’s legend, said there is a silly boy penniless, so poor that only a body of stupid strength left, relying on fishing He relied on fishing to support his blind mother, and was often unable to make ends meet because he was so poor.

Later, this silly boy caught a big snail in Dongting Lake, it will be raised in the water tank at home, the results of this big snail into a fine, into a thousand charming big beautiful girl, and give this silly boy food and give him money, but also to help him clean up housework, care for his mother, snail essence and clam essence is probably all the way, the clam essence of the silly boy fishermen, think he is simple, kind, hard-working, brave, and so on, anyway, the whole body is the tradition of the working people, and so on. The whole body is the traditional virtues of the working people, and finally married him with the promise of his body, this good thing even fools know that willing, so the two people really Wang Baji glare green beans on the eye, from which later on to a piece of life, I do not know whether the children born of this family is not a freak.

Shirley Yang laughed: “This seems to be a very beautiful folklore, but I also really strange, listen to you say out how do not feel good, on the contrary, it is a feeling of some ridiculous, you are not particularly like to ridicule the good things?”

I said that you can wrong me again, the legend of the snail girl beautiful? Beautiful is only the appearance, but the essence of things? Isn’t the essence behind the beautiful legend worth pondering? There are too many such beautiful legends like the girl with the snail, and before the liberation of the common people loved to listen to them, why did they love to listen to them? Because the toiling masses did not black and white blood and sweat, in the end to create wealth are others, they are generation after generation of hard work, hunger and cold busy, in the end, but always have to live frugally and scrimp on food and clothing, a headache, headache, fever, illnesses and small calamities, but also do not dare to delay the work, the slightest slack the next day to be starved, the life of the people who do not look forward to the sky fell a good daughter-in-law, but also beautiful and virtuous, the best with the mussels! Jing like not only can change out of rice, change out of money, change out of the country food stamps, want to eat what you change, and the key is that this beautiful daughter-in-law has no mother’s home, determined to live in poverty with the bitter people, with a broom can not be driven away.

So they are willing to believe that these beautiful legends are true, in fact, this is all a lie, barefaced lies, the ancient kings and grandchildren of the aristocracy is to want to pass these lies, to give the working people a seemingly incomparably brighter future, do a good job, spit out the blood also don’t yell tired, the poor life slowly endure, the bitter life slowly simmering, but you have to be honest, can’t steal, can’t steal, even more not allowed to rebel, and don’t just suspect that the God has arranged for you to live and family origin, you according to this kind of tired life, in the future there must be a clam shell out of a beautiful daughter-in-law, waiting for you in the front, you ask her how to look like? The emperor’s woman is good enough, right? But the three palaces of the six houses of the red powder beautiful people bundled together, but not compared to others this conch girl’s a thigh, the conch girl is not only a small appearance of good-looking, but also the family’s wealth, the treasure in the dragon’s palace she wanted to come out to come out of the rich and love the poor, and would like to fly with you silly boy stinking drudgery, lying to the mother of fools it?

Fatty listened to some of my theory, could not help but praise: “said too good Hu Commander, hit the nail on the head ah, foreign fairy tales in addition to the princess is a prince, but also most of the principles of a family, but this story of the girl with the snail is really too toxic, Chairman Mao said that dung when the ten thousand households, I said that lai toad can also eat swan meat, we are to deceive the masses with lies those old zongzi are from the earth, the old zongzi are from the earth to lie to deceive the masses. The old dumplings from the earth, let them know know, took my Hu Hansan, sooner or later still have to give me spit out!”

Shirley Yang has long been my temper, listen to the fat man and have the heart to levy me to do the hook of the gold touching lieutenant, had to remind me that the gold touching talisman are taken off, how to do the gold touching lieutenant again? Will come to the United States to do business is.