Chapter 2: Home
Back home, his mother. That's right; she will be his Wang Licheng's mother from now on.
Mother asked him to go to the bathroom; she went to the
kitchen to bring in hot water and poured water for him to bathe.
There was only a large brown-red basin in the corner of the
bathroom, which was the first time she had seen this type of basin. Mother
poured hot water into a large basin.
"I'll get the clothes from you, and you'll add the cold
water yourself."
Did I make a mistake? This environment is really not
ordinary.
Fortunately it's not cold now. This empty bathroom; how to
take a shower in winter?
There is no shower gel in the bathroom, just a bar of soap,
not even shampoo. There are also two towels hanging on the cement wall, and I
don't know which one belongs to Wang Licheng. The blackness on the ground
should also be cement. Because of the dampness, some green moss and white salt
grew on the corner of the wall.
Mother found the clothes and put them on the stool she had
just moved in, and helped him close the door when he went out.
He inserted the latch and threw the dirty clothes into the
bamboo basket in the corner. He suspected that it might be the dirty clothes
basket.
Then he took a darker towel to take a bath. In his
impression, men should always use darkened towels.
He also washed his hair with soap. He remembered that in the
country TV series he watched before, someone washed his hair with soap. Anyway,
he is a man now, and his hair is short, so he is not afraid of the quality of
his hair.
I also washed my body with soap. The hospital has a lot of
viruses, and it is estimated that this era will not be disinfected frequently,
and it is necessary to wash my body.
Washed the whole body thoroughly; except for that part. When
rubbing on the body, that part is also taken with a stroke.
This thing he saw in the little movie when he was in
college. At that time, he not only looked at the postures of men and women, but
also more women. At that time, I accidentally watched a video of a woman's love
when I was looking at LES's information on the Internet.
After watching it once, he was out of control, and he also
found a few movies for men, women and men to watch.
But she was absurd for a week. Every time she watched it,
she was worried; for fear that her roommate would suddenly come back and be
discovered.
He came out of the shower and sat in the living room to
watch TV. It might be about a 19-inch color TV, and it was all snowflakes. I
can only adjust the station on the TV, and I don't even have a remote control.
Those who are used to watching LCD screen this kind of TV makes eyes hurt.
I really want to go back to Wang Licheng's room. Although
their house looks small, it also has two floors. Downstairs is a living room, a
room, a kitchen and a bathroom.
What surprised him most was that the stairs leading to the
second floor were outside. Separate the living room and room downstairs from
the kitchen and washroom.
It was only now that he remembered that there was only a
small ditch in the bathroom, not even a toilet. He no longer expects a toilet
upstairs.
Seeing his mother go in and out of the downstairs room
several times, he guessed that the downstairs room should belong to his mother.
"I'm going upstairs." He turned off the TV and
went upstairs to find a room.
In fact, he should have added the word "mom"
before saying this. It seems to take a while to get used to before speaking.
Upstairs, above the kitchen and bathroom are the places to
hang clothes on the balcony. On the other side are two rooms. The room near the
stairs has no bed, only a bed frame.
He didn't have to guess, the room inside should have been
owned by Wang Licheng. His room is larger and has a small balcony.
He didn't have time to carefully look at the room he was
going to live in in the future, and rummaged through the drawers of the room to
see if there was anything similar to a diary.
He possessed Wang Licheng's body and had no memory of him.
The Wang Licheng in the dream should be in his 20s and is
already an adult. He urgently needs to know whether Wang Licheng has a job and
what his job is. There are also some situations in his home that he must know.
With a black eye, the world is dark.
There was no diary in the room, but luckily it wasn't
nothing. There are several mechanic books in the drawer, and several notebooks
also record mechanic knowledge.
He felt that he was going to die. He was a girl in his
previous life, and he didn't know any craftsmanship, much less. Speculation
that Wang Licheng might be a skilled worker discouraged him.
What does it feel like to be disheartened? An hour ago, he
was thinking of using Wang Licheng's body to live well and be filial to his
mother. In the next hour, he didn't even know Wang Licheng's technique to eat,
so how could he settle down.
He lay in bed thinking and fell asleep. The dream started
again, and the dream started when Wang Licheng graduated from high school.
As a bystander, he watched Wang Licheng's events after
graduation, including entering a city knitting factory as an apprentice as a
technical maintenance worker, including his third sister's marriage, and his father's
unexpected death while working.
I dreamed that saving people came to an abrupt end this
morning.
He woke up and recalled the contents of his dream several
times, but fortunately he remembered them all.
This year is Saturday, May 12, 1990. In the private
residence on the second floor, only Wang Licheng and his mother Liu Fengzhen
lived. The three older sisters above him are all married.
He is the only one left in the family, who is 66 years old
and 24 years old.
"Licheng, come down to eat."
Wang Licheng heard the sound coming from under the balcony
outside. He walked to the balcony and saw his mother standing outside the house
calling him.
"Understood, come down immediately."
Liu Fengzhen saw her son walking out of the balcony and knew
that he heard it, and ignored what he said after that, and returned home and
brought the meals to the living room.
A bowl of fried eggplant; a bowl of fried winter melon; a
small bowl of stewed eggs.
There is not a lot of oil in the eggplant, it looks more
like it is cooked, which is more in line with his taste. All his meals have
been eaten out these years. The eggplants he has eaten are all dipped in oil,
and most of the dishes are deep-fried. She was already tired of those heavy-oil
dishes.
Fried winter melon was his first time eating. The wax gourd
is cut into cubes of three or four centimeters square, and three or four
incisions are made horizontally and vertically on the side near the skin, and small
squares appear one by one. It looks appetizing, tastes great, and isn't greasy
at all.
The stewed egg was eaten when I was a child. At that time,
my grandmother would stew an egg every meal and let him eat it with the meal.
It will be very fast and delicious.
After dinner, he went back to his room to look at the
original owner's notes and mechanic book. There is another day tomorrow, and he
will go to work the day after.
In the dream, Wang Licheng's work is relatively easy, that
is, when the machine tool is faulty, he goes to see the repair. Usually when I
have nothing to do, a few mechanics chat together. Sometimes the old mechanic
also takes lessons with them.
He is no longer an apprentice. He joined the factory in 1985
and worked as an apprentice for 3 years. He was promoted to full-time worker in
1988. Now he's a mechanic on his own.
Wang Licheng was afraid that his ideas were low. If he
encountered a machine tool failure, he would not be the original owner. How
much can I learn in two days!
The next morning, it may not be until eight o'clock. Wang
Licheng heard his mother shouting downstairs.
"Licheng is up; Mom is going to cook noodles."
Wang Licheng didn't sleep until he read a book last night.
He thought he would not be able to read this boring knowledge, but he was
fascinated by it. Seeing that he couldn't open his eyes, he went to bed.
He felt that it might have been influenced by the original
owner, who should have liked the job quite a bit. He made three lecture notes.
I had another dream last night, only one thing; ejaculation
in his childhood.
After being woken up by his mother, he found that the guy
had changed, and recalled the scene in his dream, which should be Chen and Bo!
It's so embarrassing, his face is red, is this forcing him
to adapt to a man's body as soon as possible?
Going to the bathroom and facing the small ditch of the
water solved the trumpet problem. It was hot and a little hot. It doesn't feel
the same as last night's trumpet.
In this era, only people with better family conditions can
repair toilets at home, and ordinary people go to public toilets to solve the
problem of size.
He found that men and children in this era are all looking
for a hidden place to solve the trumpet, only adult women are more troublesome,
and the trumpet has to go to the public toilet to solve it.
The toothpaste is in an aluminum tube, the toothbrush is
rough, and the gums hurt when brushing. The washbasin is made of the same
material as the water cup in the hospital yesterday, ceramic. It rests on an
iron shelf, and the towel is also hung on the shelf.
Without using a towel, he turned on the faucet and washed
his face with cold water. The towel used to wash his face didn't look very
clean, and besides, he was used to washing his face without a towel in college.
After coming out, he went to the kitchen and saw his mother
picking noodles from a bowl. Liu Fengzhen inserted the chopsticks into the bowl
and handed the bowl to her son.
"You eat first."
Wang Licheng saw what was still in the pot, picked up the
bowl of noodles and squatted on the stairs to eat. In a dream, he saw that Wang
Licheng usually eats noodles like this. In order not to reveal the filling, he
also imitated Wang Licheng to eat noodles like this.
The bowl in which the noodles were placed was the one in
which the vegetables were placed yesterday. It was a rough ceramic
large-caliber bowl with a thicker rim at the bottom, so he wouldn't feel very
hot when he was eating it.
The noodles are clear water noodles with a few green cabbage
leaves in them.
After Liu Fengzhen picked out her noodles, she washed the
pot and heated up a little eggplant left over from last night. Put the hot
eggplant into the son's bowl.
Wang Licheng looked at the eggplants that were all in his
bowl. He didn't say anything, his mother didn't like eggplant and he knew it in
a dream yesterday afternoon.
The mother does not like to eat, but the son likes to eat.
In this way, Liu Fengzhen buys eggplants for her son twice a week.
His mother was really kind to him, and everything in the
past can explain it. He thought, it may be related to the idea of
patriarchal!
Their mother, Liu Fengzhen, gave birth to four siblings.
There were originally five, and the second sister was originally the third
brother. The third brother has been very sick since he was born. Later, the
sick could not eat, and starved to death.
This incident was told to her by the eldest sister two years
ago, and she remembered it very clearly.
She said that she was six years old that year, three or
three years old. At that time, it was only a few years after the team resumed
production. Every household ate coarse grains. Even children, after one year of
age, mainly ate coarse grains. The fine rice was mixed with a little and boiled
to a rotten, thick consistency. My father was paid, but he couldn't buy
polished rice and noodles without food stamps.
He was just born that year, and the family was already
difficult, and he had to rely on his mother's nutrition first. When I was
young, my body was weak if I didn't breastfeed well. Grandma said that San'er
was an example.
One time, the third brother was not in good health, so he
could pull whatever he ate, and he thought the coarse grains were too rough to
swallow.
Grandma said that San'er might not get better. After a few
days San'er started to be unable to eat, and even the water he drank was pulled
out and then he slowly starved to death.
The third brother died, and the mother cried for a long
time, and almost even returned the milk. Or grandma forced mother to eat, and
told her that the third child is gone, do you think that the fifth child is not
good?
Later, grandma arranged them in order, the fourth sister
became the third sister, and he became the fourth. The third brother is also
not mentioned.
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ReplyDeleteI like the story tho, so good job in finding this and for doing the translation.
DeleteCan you give more specific example of what the problem you're seeing is? Maybe it's the tense or are the sentence feeling incomplete or something?
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The grammar
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