On the afternoon of the fourth day, I heard the people of my hometown say that Zhou Rangzi died two years ago.
I was surprised, I thought he had died a long Time ago, did not expect to live so long.
People call him Zhou Rangzi, because his last name is Zhou, nickname Er Rangzi. There are also many people call him stupid and dumb.
Although his nickname is called Errongzi, but he was not stupid as a child, except for a little naive, the same as normal people. Most people with mental retardation, are like this, grow up and get better. But Zhou Rangzi, but did not grow well.
I don’t know if it is a fool, rashly shouted more, in his twelve years old, in order to save a lamb that fell into the river, muddy river water from the nostrils choked into the brain cavity, a fever, really became a fool.
The most enjoyable thing is that the lamb is still someone else’s.
From then on, he became even more stupid. The child, who was still considered clean, became dirty. Two slugs also emerged from his nose, one in and one out, never distinguishing the occasion. Before people dare not call him stupid to his face, because he will also swear when he gets angry, but now people always like to call him to his face, whether he calls him stupid or stupid, he always looks over with a smile.
His father was away for many years working and rarely came back, and then never came back. His mother is an ordinary Family, but very kind, when the harvest is good also helped the village homeless, I heard people say also believe in Buddhism, I do not know if it is true, because his mother scolded people, is also unforgiving. But after Zhou Rangzi really stupid, his mother suddenly died of illness. As for the cause of the disease, people said it was the death of anger, but the village’s older people said that the soul of Zhou Rangzi took his mother’s soul away.
Zhou Rangzi also has a second uncle, in the neighboring village. On the day of his mother’s burial, his second uncle tied him to a tree, afraid he would cause trouble on the way to the funeral. He has been there asking people passing by, asking if they can take him down, his mother is asleep, he wants to cover his mother, or he will get sick. The passers-by all scolded him for being stupid and laughed. Some children gathered around Zhou Rangzi, the mother of the child came and pulled the child away without saying a word, and lectured to stay away from the fool, otherwise they would be infected with silly diseases.
The burial was done, the funeral banquet was finished, and the sky was dark. Zhou Rangzi’s second uncle was drunk and went back to Zhou Rangzi’s house and fell asleep. When he woke up the next day, he remembered that Zhou Rangzi was still tied up in the tree. He rushed to take a look, people are gone, looking for a long time, and finally found in his mother’s grave. His second uncle did not know how he came down from the tree, let alone, how he touched his mother’s grave. Anyway, when he was found, he was sleeping on the ground. The grave had been bulldozed, and a large hole was dug downward, and his hands were covered with mud marks. It looked like he was trying to dig his mother out of the grave.
His second uncle carried him Home. When he woke up, he seemed to have forgotten that his mother was dead and buried, and never said anything about looking for her, covering her with a quilt, still smiling. People say that a fool is a fool.
There are also people who say that his second uncle found a lot of money in Zhou Rangzi’s house, because his second uncle bought three piglets after he returned from his mother’s burial, and also the courtyard wall was repaired and built up. I don’t know if it’s because of this, when Zhou Rangzi was alone, his second uncle helped him a lot. In the season to what seeds, how to plant, how to weed, his second uncle watched Zhou Rangzi dry. Although sometimes, talk about a rough, people left, Zhou Rangzi confused dry, but always a little harvest, Zhou Rangzi can always lump a stomach, not to starve to death.
These things, in fact, I do not count clear, are three or two to hear others speak. I have the deepest impression once, I went back home to pay respect to the New Year. At that time, I was thirteen years old, Zhou Rangzi has been stupid for three years. Just as soon as we entered the village, Zhou Rangzi from where to turn out, stop us, to pay our respects. He was wearing a dirty unshaped red jacket, hair like two months without washing, there are horizontal and vertical, only the middle of the face clean, next to a circle are black, grinning, while holding out his hand to us, while the mouth also shouted: “New Year’s good fortune, red envelopes.
“Happy New Year, red envelope bring.”
I do not know if it is silly are like this, the speech is vague, each word is not clear, only together to hear, to guess a general meaning.
We were picked up by the relatives who rushed to pick us up, Zhou Rangzi repeatedly shouted behind, followed for a while, and then disappeared.
It was later learned that a mischievous child had the idea to let Zhou Rangzi pay respects to people at the entrance of the village, and to share the red packets equally between the two, and to return a stone Bodhisattva left by Zhou Rangzi’s mother to him.
It seems that Zhou Rangzi did not ask for the red packet, and perhaps the child went back on his word, because I went in the second year, Zhou Rangzi was still there to pay respects to people. But by the third year, I did not see him. Asking people to know, was arrested to the police station, because there is a disturbance of the peace. The day before I returned home, Zhou Rongzi stopped a fashionable lady from the city and scared her so much that she called the police and was then arrested.
In the police station for a few days of Education, came out no longer stop people to pay their respects. Also was washed, shaved head, the whole person cleaned up a lot. But I don’t know if the shaving master shaved the habit, others said Zhou Rangzi shaved a labor reform head, is a labor reformer, is a bad element. People in the village began to alienate him intentionally or unintentionally, even his second uncle in that year also did not help him to the ground.
Zhou Rangzi had nothing to eat, so he had to ask people in the village for a little Food, but if he couldn’t, he had to wait for the leftovers to be poured at the door of other people’s houses.
Zhou Rangzi became a vagrant, everyone is not surprised, as if the fool should be beggars and vagrants. Heard people say, his house also collapsed half of the side, the left to borrow a brick, the right to borrow a beam, the last trace is not left.
This said, are almost 15 or 16 years, now suddenly heard the news of Zhou Rangzi died, still can not help but sigh in the heart. The relatives said, was found in a cave, the whole body is smelly, crawling with maggots, it is impossible to see who is, is in the left hand saw a stone Bodhisattva, only to know is Zhou Rangzi. Originally no one wanted to care, one of the village elders said, after all, is the village, or pull him back to bury it. Finally, Zhou Rangzi’s body was dragged back with a rope and buried in the nearest place to his mother.
His mother’s grave there, has been rebuilt into the road, both sides covered with factories and entertainment venues. So the nearest place to his mother, and can be buried, in the village at the eastern end of the abandoned marsh pond next to.
The relative also said that Zhou Rangzi second uncle is now rich, pig farming, in that area, the number of his second uncle is the richest, these years have been sold pigs to the provinces.
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