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Xu Han dragged Old Man Ma to the park, built a tent with a few rags under a tree, and tied his hands and feet with two belts.
During the day, she still went to beg for food. At night, she brought back pancakes stuffed with cabbage, tore them into small pieces, fed them to Old Man Ma, and stuffed them into her mouth. Once Old Man Ma becomes addicted, he will scream and moan strangely, his body will move like an earthworm, and he will raise his head and knock on the stones on the ground, until his face is covered with blood. One time Xu Han came back at night and saw him lying motionless on the ground, with blood on his wrists, blood on his ankles, and a pool of blood under his head. She turned him over and touched his nose, feeling a sticky red hand and his breath.
Xu Han found a rope and tied him to the bottom of the tree trunk. Every morning before going to beg for food, she would stuff a piece of cloth into Old Man Ma's mouth to prevent him from biting her tongue.
Old Man Ma didn¡¯t eat much and gradually lost weight. Xu Han thought that he might be dying. He seemed to think so himself.
One morning, before Xu Han blocked his mouth with the piece of cloth, Old Man Ma said: "If you don't come back, don't stuff this dirty thing into me, at least let me choose a way to die."
Xu Han squatted in front of him, still holding the rag in his hand, and just stared at him without saying a word.
Her eyes were very dark, so dark that the pupils could not be seen clearly. Old Man Ma remembered the day he met her for the first time. She was dying and lying there like a dead fish. Tears flowed from her eyes. He thought she was mute at that time, because she couldn't make a sound when he kicked her, and she didn't make a sound when she cried.
But in less than half a year, he was the one who was about to die.
In the end, Xu Han stuffed the cloth into his mouth. Old Man Ma clenched his teeth to resist, so she reached out to break off his teeth. He bit her hand, biting hard, and the fishy smell hit his nostrils. His Adam's apple clenched and rolled, and he swallowed the fishy smell in his mouth. Xu Han was in pain and hit him hard. She was a big kid with no strength, but old man Ma was already half dead. After being beaten like this by her, he actually coughed and his teeth became loose.
Xu Han quickly reached out and stuffed the crumpled cloth stained with blood and saliva into his half-open mouth.
Old man Ma whined, but she just stood up, picked up the broken iron bowl at her feet, and ran away.
There was scarlet blood on one of her hands, and the blood was swaying, becoming the only color in Old Man Ma's field of vision.
On the first night, Xu Han did not go to the park to find Old Man Ma.
She came to the train station and slept among the people catching the night train. There was a sour smell floating in the air. She put her face close to the newspaper under her body and felt that she was half soaked in the smell of ink and half exposed to the smell of sweat. She had a dream. In the dream, there was the heartbreaking cry of the little girl and the noise of the crowd. She seemed to have returned to the time when she was just picked up by Old Man Ma. The police siren sounded and everyone ran away. They stepped over her, and all she saw was the blue-white sky and the black people.
Later Xu Han started to cry. She slowly woke up from crying, opened her eyes, and saw the beggar sleeping opposite with his back to her. In his sleep, he stretched his hands behind his back, smacking his lips and scratching his back. His back was covered in red rashes that he might never see again.
Early the next morning, she used the money she had collected to buy a cabbage-filled pancake and returned to the park.
Old man Ma sat under the tree trunk with his head hanging, his face turned black, like a dead man.
Seeing Xu Han come back, he didn't say anything.
She tore off a piece of cake and put it to his mouth. He opened his mouth and ate.
A few days later, Old Man Ma regained some energy. Every night when Xu Han comes back, he will talk to her.
"Girl, can you write your name?" He still liked to call her girl, but he asked her to write her name for him.
Xu Han then picked up a sharp stone and scratched it on the hard mud. It was marked out crookedly, and I could barely tell it was "Xu Han". Old Man Ma chuckled. He said: "The writing is quite beautiful."
After a while, he asked her again: "Girl, do you know how to read?"
Xu Han hugged his knees and nodded. Xu Han hadn't said a word for a long time, and now he finally spoke calmly, "What's your full name? I can write it."
"Ma Fugui, the rich one."
Xu Han took a stone and carved it out.
"You really know how to write." Old Man Ma stretched his neck to take a look, and chuckled again, "I only know these three characters."
Raising her eyes to look at him, Xu Han took the initiative to ask him for the first time: "Are you illiterate?"
¡°I don¡¯t know shit.¡± Old Man Ma was very happy to have the energy to curse. There was that strange cry in his throat that she was familiar with. She knew he was going to spit again, but he clickedAfter a while, I finally had no energy left to spit it out. I could only hold it in until my neck turned red, and I gasped for air.
After a while, he stopped breathing and asked her again: "Girl, you have a name and you are not mute. Where did you come from?"
"I don't remember." Xu Han lowered his head again and traced the shape of his feet on the dirt with a stone.
"You really don't remember?"
"I really don't remember."
"You liar little bastard." Old Man Ma grinned, revealing his corn-colored teeth. One of his front teeth was missing because he was beaten by the two men last time. Xu Han searched for it at the train station for a long time that day, but could not find his tooth.
"I recognize a Yazi. Do you know what a Yazi is?"
Xu Han shook his head.
"He's the one who specializes in kidnapping you little butts." Still grinning nervously, Old Man Ma narrowed his one eye. The moon above the treetops was in his eyes, which seemed to be very clean. "He got a girl. Too big. A girl who is too big is not good. She cries every day, clamoring for a mother. She still remembers her name and the village where she comes from. So every time she cries, Yazhi will hit her once. Later, she hits her head against the wall. Go up, she¡¯s not dead, she just can¡¯t remember things. If I ask her where her home is again, she doesn¡¯t know. Even the person who used to be literate no longer recognizes her own name.¡±
The stone that was circled around the foot slipped, and a cut was made on the frostbitten foot. Dark red blood seeped out, but it didn't hurt much. Xu Han stared at the opening silently, as if he didn't hear what Old Man Ma said and was lost in thought.
Old man Ma continued: "That tooth thought this method worked. When the big ones were caught, they all grabbed their heads and banged them against the wall. But guess what? They were all killed - no one survived."
When he said this, he chuckled. As he smiled, his one eye narrowed into a thin slit, with light shining brightly inside the slit.
"The youngest of my family also died like this. I couldn't afford to support him, so I sold the youngest to him." He said, "In exchange for a few dollars, it was all used for burial."
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In the beginning, the relationship between the two of them was just dependence and use.
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