Escape

 Fled the next day my uncle left the maple poplar village. That night rain, they slept soundly, and no one heard his door open. I wake up after the cock crows aunt was beside the bed touch is empty, icy cold. latrine after she shouted toward the house a few times, only to hear the tick tick sound from roof water. sky light blue to squeeze into the south window, on the ground vertically and my uncle came back from the city carry a bag of rice and parcel no. I sat on the quilt aunt began to cry, cry I pulled my hair. My aunt's hair is black, as black as the grass down to the breast. She was so ground-breaking cry, for my grandparents said: Chick is not a show to cover on the breast? Laos and Laos h . My grandfather went outside and saw the mud on the ground were the remains of three wheat footprints. footprints of the three wheat dish like a boat, like the rain. Third went to Michael I do not know where to go.
This is the 1951's autumn. speaking very strange friends. I aunt said to me, you think about the three-day multi-wheat dog will rebel ah. My uncle Jimmy Chan in the rain at night in the three Rush. maple to poplar growing crooked village small, dirt road ran from my home Black Dog, bite the three wheat pants, a few barking sound. my uncle to squat down to touch the dog's wet fur, he said: to me and fishy and smelly it? far from the village looked back sobbing flapping in the wind, the three Mak said: parcels fell in the mud, black dog mouth, it went home. three wheat toward the dog growled, stomp your feet turned away.
leaving my uncle when Jimmy Chen c, empty-handed. take the day night rain pour down, but the sky is not falling. My uncle was walking north. I aunt was chasing the south. my aunt came to Chan Kee wrapped with bamboo bird shop, inquire about the news of the three wheat. bamboo Carpenter said the three wheat is not came home to his wife it? three wheat how they go? are you my aunt said the three victims of wheat, wheat allows the three-hey you set a bad example. Where is he? you do not tell me to set fire to the your shop. These days we all do that! but my uncle is to go north. No one saw the shadow of Michael & Chen. I aunt found a small town in the south for three days almost frantic. Day one was brought to the news that Chen is seen in the customs holding a broken bowl in three wheat beggar. I am aunt to go to customs to get on the train. That was my first time to ride the train, my aunt said. They told me to on the train wait two days to get to off nights, I say you can not run quickly I worried to death, they say that you back up the rope to pull the engine well, and I said if people really use my pull has to pull the top. That is 1951. I aunt said it everywhere in the Korean defend the motherland. Hey, hey la la la la la la la la, dashing high spirits across the Yalu it. railway line were military vehicles, the men wore Bon appetit cake new jacket on the front yet. Dandong train to stop, pull the car door, jumped to the front is all. have a little girl I saw I would wear the flower, I quickly said: where to find the three wheat it? I cried on the platform, and three three-Mak Mak Mak & Chen. who could not hear, Dandong too busy, even I can not hear my voice. have to go to war The young man put his head pointing towards the window I hey a cry, and he said to me: I am a man. said: Chen had been sitting on the platform waiting for the emergence of three wheat. She did not know how to go to a soldier identified Mak & Chen. She would like three wheat must go to the army on the road to ruin. army food to eat, she would like the nerve so the three wheat thin, the three are willing to beg for food wheat how to live? My aunt had been sitting on the platform staring at the scenery in Dandong, it was getting dark, a train slowly pulled out from the platform, my aunt saw a face flash in the transom to post furtive looked at her. I aunt from the warehouse on the bounce Duanhe out: . My aunt said that the three three-Mak Mak you bring me down. Chen hear the three wheat, three wheat my aunt said you are stupid do you give me a word Yeah. Chen said hoarsely three wheat I want to die. My aunt hear the roar of the train hard look, and she could not pull anymore. Her tight two-step run of three wheat shouted: Look forward to the train to the North shouted gone, and she also can not hold on ah. In the past my uncle Jimmy Chen is a cowardly three shy little man. you running away again from his experience can come to this conclusion. My grandfather said, Three wheat dog hybrid sedan chair does not help, you let him eat he fled, he fled to his shower, you grabbed his shoe hit him but also to escape, the three wheat grown up married to his wife he fled. you do not know what the three wheat in addition to bailing also. Three wheat is really a bastard. My uncle married my aunt when nineteen years old. My uncle nineteen vehicles will only tread water. His powerful legs thick as two trees . but his two hands like a child as weak and delicate. I aunt recalled holding the hand of the three wheat holding her son's hand as far as ease. three wheat hands icy cold. I remember her and my aunt the first time in his uncle still lives in bed, tears and laughter. Three wheat that I'm not sleepy I'm not sleepy yet. Three wheat that you sleep for me to go on the latrine, the three new wheat pants wearing new clothes and ran out. can you guess where he is go? him to tread water car. new clothes he took off his pants hanging in the new tree, one dark tread water car. my grandparents find him all mad. how do you think that the three wheat? He said you go back to sleep This way the water did not sink enough of wow. I'm not sleepy. I aunt says three wheat dog days, you have a gold belt is also losing her grip on him. Three wheat is not live peacefully. that fall three wheat to Ukraine Town sell sweet potato vine, met several of the city to collect bamboo bamboo craftsman, he took copper gone with others. I aunt said the city is the place to get his wheat Chen c it? Think of the three infected wheat a return they deserve to heart disease. dog deserved day ah.
how far away the village of Poplar Feng, 1951 Sentimental humid air is still filled with the breath of rotting bamboo shoots. who do not know how well the Korean War to play the. our family men and women yelling mu to a cow farm. people have to work to food and clothing, a good Sinong mu land, not worthwhile for Chen you worrying about the three wheat. township government in my old cedar door on the rate posted ZHANG, says Operators glory die. I touched the red pieces of Grandpa said, dead on the go die, nothing can be sad. hungry enough to eat to die than to light more than farming.
it was in 1951 that it has been very strange friends. I aunt said. I'm Shenzi in the kerosene lamp at night to do every day, cotton shoes, made to the rural women on the model. my aunt sturdy cotton-padded shoes made and shipped to North Korea popular. my aunt is sewing hand grind the blood scab. so many cotton-padded shoes will always have a pair of feet to wear to my uncle. my aunt said she was well prepared to sacrifice the three wheat, and she desperately padded to the front to do is to the expense of preparing the three wheat. I say dead aunt can not chilled feet, feet should be warm and and dress. My uncle Jimmy Chen three days after the first exodus is the way of. The second winter I Uncle Feng poplar in time with two feet. than my aunt hardest hit. She knelt down and rubbed his dirty feet three wheat the cracking, said: walking toward the house, all the way to the front swear never to do a cotton-padded shoes.
Mak & Chen returned home my uncle brought a peace medal when. Chen's lower abdomen three wheat by North Korean artillery shells on the moment a purple worm, I see that is an honorable medal. Way back in 1952 my uncle, Michael & Chen beloved how much high-spirited. Feng Chen poplar village chickens sheep Menting meet the hero. I Grandpa Chen at the three-day celebration wheat bowl of drinking eight sorghum wine, laughing more than a smile to sleep in the past, sleep in the past to not wake up. my grandfather was the first maple poplar old died because of joy, until now it still remember my grandfather dying before the general's wild laughter Jingzhe mine, I remember the red side Pa relaxation under his lively face. you think about the old man lived in a village Sixty-one years old, and what death is more fun than what my grandfather ? My uncle Jimmy Chen returned home after the three were dedicated to my aunt and my grandma up. two women support a man who is anti-conventional things. but this relates to our freedom of family members. who have no right to my uncle Chen San Mai irresponsible remarks. you walk in front of my house and saw three Jimmy Chen dirty, dressed in khaki uniforms against the wall in the sunshine. Chen thin face like the three monkeys wheat, like a piece of metal scraps rust mottled, & Chen wheat frown and bloodshot eyes had a poor helpless look. A lot of people have heard of Michael Chan's right hand, three broken and could not do farm work out. Chen used the three wheat right hand on the left hand stroked said: , and the dry things do not become dry.
gentle spring schedule to the Maple Poplar Village. My uncle & Chen began his love of kites produced wheat. In the season of spring wheat Chen c mu to escape my family's obsession with kite making. wall beam on a bed covered with a variety of kites. kites dotted the sky maple poplar quiet, so that the ancient village became lively stiff up. Chen San wheat around the village with several children flying kites, color of the divine bird linger in the heads of villagers, that is the beauty of the heavenly messenger of good luck, it comes from distant unknown piece of paradise is also from my uncle's arm broken by war. CHEN three kites in the wild wheat Fengpao holding time His face became lazy macho, Ming miles to the cry of wisdom and magic. Chen kite with the three wheat and wind. I really see that Mak and Chan kite with the three wind drift, he was about to be vacated and the take-off Rights of people head off spring.
comedown if the happiness is never a good thing. I said from the start her aunt to feel uneasy. She saw three kites flying high wheat, she felt the souls of the three wheat from her more and more away. I aunt said she was convinced that the dog three days what wheat and without telling her things. Guyu day in front of my aunt saw three pick when the seed bolted wheat came toward the house, grabbed the eagle-shaped three wheat Kite bolted stumbled over, pushed her into the house. Three wheat planted the door leaning against the door loudly panting, face turned purple by.
Luan Fengang see them on the fly a kite from the grave and stood up. up. I know they sure make me collapse. They were arrested a deserter in North Korea on the special catch to collapse the shot. Jiang Li collar and shook his body, not want to die before fleeing home. millet in a dustpan, she began to cry grabbed handfuls of millet wheat toward the face to play the past three Chen & Chen leaning against the door motionless wheat. He remained motionless with his left hand over his face. I did not see the three wheat aunt flow muddy tears that drop. about two minutes too long, my uncle Jimmy Chen quickly opened three rushed out bolt. I found his aunt out to recover relying on the eagle-shaped kite go. He ran like a gazelle, as the village get, given the way the dumb roar weak sound: escape mm Mak & Chen escaped my uncle is such the irreplaceable.
strange that no one has seen the two people who track & Chen wheat. that the two whether the individual appeared in the Maple Village of Poplar? This is our family's old topic. My uncle fled after a long period of time, you can always ditch the wild side of the chimney on the premises that Chen made the three major wheat Great little kite. that are being blown off the line of kites, the vagaries of fate as my uncle. I found myself pregnant aunt. That was my uncle disappeared one month after the thing. I aunt Yuku free tears. She wanted to tell the news Mak & Chen did not know where he is. you think a woman pregnant with a child does not know where she was a man, this is how my aunt Pathetique. I catch you hacked in pieces to the horizon, we should also throw the dog eat your heart out to put the pot fry your skin. my aunt: her. My grandmother rushed fight, easily picked up the broken bamboo strainer Gracilaria hook clothes my aunt, my aunt's breasts exposed, my aunt froze a moment, then Liebo like crying, her hands over her breasts down on the grass heap, motionless hunger strike for three days and three nights. It is said that her unborn baby is starving to death, later found to be a stillbirth was my aunt die of hunger. in 1952 my aunt who had been struck by lightning the top five, she During the year the beauty and hair loss, premature aging from the hump into a ugly woman. I remarried aunt said she wanted to marry but also not a good man. She just wanted to find Chen jump with him holding the three wheat how are hanging rock plunge line, you talk about how I can do? my aunt unlock the plate in the head on the gray hair, hair, hand-holding to those old posters, you can tell me how to do ? In the long fifty years, the maple poplar and the outside world as a vigorous revolution occurred. I aunt holding a cow dog, with a rocket Chen medals and three wheat land certificate to participate in the cooperative. She later became the a maple poplar female mayor illustrious reputation. This is a suffering creature. It pointed female mayor Chen said that the three wheat woman, that is, the woman dropped Mak & Chen. You can see my aunt and my uncle continued relationship between the exploited, even though my uncle fled to the horizon, dead or alive, he and my aunt the spirit of the relationship is still exploited constantly.
I have seen my aunt in a land certificate, it is After her participation in women's literacy classes to write the first word, her crooked, so my surprise, she did not write his name before it was my uncle's name.
land certificate
head of the household: three-Mai Chen Land: mu family members: Mr Mak I
three children (dead)
but there are three who can tell me aunt Mai Chen fled to learn? Why does not he come home? received my uncle The letter is a good many years later, in fact, believe that can not be considered. I aunt said that the fall of nineteen years, rural postman brought the ChenDian file envelope. Department of the envelope ; words, she was open to have a look inside a stack of Heilongjiang Province, food stamps, nothing else. I aunt said she came to the smell from the food stamps on the hands of three wheat taste. She said she really smell the three wheat taste. Chen San wheat food shortages that trouble, he sent two hundred pounds of Heilongjiang coupons ah. my aunt's trembling of the hands that I should not stop what is the use of Heilongjiang food stamps I & Chen Mak ah your heart. I aunt laughing and crying to identify the postmark on the envelope, postmark is a complete stranger engraved names: Yichun.
my aunt is the second train north to the Yichun to go. She is described Yichun Ganchangcunduan trip, I sometimes doubt its truth and would prefer that my aunt made a dream. I will never believe that a distant uncle of my lifetime Yichun end, covered in forest and snow, not maple poplar suitable living environment for people, but to say according to my aunt, my uncle died in Yichun forest is, and I aunt said is true.
my aunt arrived Yichun When there in the snow.
in Chen Yichun no one knows the names of three wheat, it was my aunt to go north, south to the people that are dry in the woods, you see the loggers have to recognize you carefully considered man. I am aunt to go north, and walk half a foot of snow, while eating dry food while asking the name of Michael & Chen, evening and aunt when I met a group of workers handling logs. They looked at my aunt, suddenly said, : ghost place? Kite desperately ran smell the smell of wheat & Chen Yichun the wind whisk in the swing. Mr Mak made three kites like a banner hanging in the trees, you may wish to call the kite as the soul. I went to aunt tall wooden house had misty eyes, she saw a man lying on the kang, the body buried in a dirty blanket, the shining white of the head side window. impossible to remove. , though his hair gray, and the young face has become clear. Even in dying, when his eyes still black light radiance, full of strong vitality. My uncle tried break aunt's arms, head side of the window. My aunt said, Three wheat in the end you have to who he is. My uncle shook his head, pointing out the window. Yichun the snow outside the window, covered with endless forests of silver, chain saw, tree felling and logs the birth of the voice from the silence, as if outer came poetry, a row of birch trees outside the window broken kite hanging from those eight silent in the snow among the kites, paper tape fluttering in the yo. My uncle gazed at eight kites. you said he was waiting for Who? Maybe he is waiting for eight kite from a tree down. I attended my aunt in Yichun Chen uncle's funeral three wheat. She custom Pimadaixiao accordance with maple poplar back toward the mountains in the coffin away, carrying the coffin was four loggers strangers. They go on a snow road, along the way someone in the burning flame burning in the slopes of heaven and down the snow. that is burning snow scene, the world is white and the fire is golden , the funeral of the man is black. I aunt crying by the custom of Poplar Ave Maple miles. But she said the time had no tears to cry. She saw the snow fall on the fire feathers, and saw the fire burning in the snow is really amazing beautiful. She thought of Chen's three-day wheat dead dog, and my heart no longer care to clean out.