Blood Oath

Blood Oath
a Short Story

                           Tan guangron

 Note: Tan guangrong, the national level writer  in literary and artistic creation room of the Political Department of the Guangzhou Military 广州市儿童医院过敏免疫风湿病科曾华松

Region. He is Dr. Zeng Huasong"s countryman and friend from Yichang city , Hubei province , the following is issued on February 17th 2008 , the full text was published by the "Yangcheng Evening News", the copyright belongs to

Tan guangrong, please do not reprint. )

   

HE Changshui led his four children whose necks hanging big thyroid nodule, with the total never-ending saliva stream from their mouths to get rid of the grass of the corn field. Before weeding, he tied his sons and daughters to a

walnut tree in the vicinity  with a Lobata  round the waists , otherwise they would run in different directions or even get lost. People were rare in this corner of the forests of Shennongjia , lao linwan,an area where hundreds of

mountains and trenches, If a child get lost , it is very difficult for persons to find him  .Moreover, his

children are all disabled , even the oldest one of the nine-year-old  can also not even speak

 

He HE Changshui is an exception in this forests Bay among the dozens of families, he who is in good health and always

calculates to write spring couplets, is a unique normal person . Due to the obstruction of the mountains, as

the radius of hundred miles of little populated, his marriage was closed because of the great natural

barrier, he  also can"t find a normal one as his wife. Other people of sixteen or seventeen-year-old become dad, and

he had no choice but to marry with his aunt‘s cross-eye daughter  duxiuzhi until 21 years old.

Consanguineous marriage created a disaster for him, but he did not know why. Because there was no opportunity to

choose a woman , you did not get married with  relatives"children  while  who can be found to marry. Moreover, the old people said, adding the pro-called pro.

Before married with duxiuzhi, HE Changshui and the parents of missing features sitting before two banana thatch roof of the old-fashioned house which is left by ancesters, sighed for several years,  his father was a dumb, only  sighed and can not speak, but his mother was very anxious. She worried that HE Changshui would become into an old bachelor.

However, He changshui and a few acquainted persons perennially moaned and groaned much more than this thing, they were much more worried that if people’s necks continue to hang big thyroid nodule in the forests bay, in the future even three meals a day we will not have Vicia red potato to eat, who can have strength to grow them and dig them out from underground? If this condition continued again for a few decades, people in the world could not find the Bay. It was a problem that People can not find the bay, but as an individual, a greater issue, the most anxiety was that people do not die in the final, the last man who died, even could"t find a person to bury him.

Think of this, they were only wail into mountains. Wind dried their tears, the knots in the eyes like the carcase of a thousand feet insert

On that day, the cannon on the verge of shicao stream set up by HE Changshui clicked, and he only went to see

 after a day, a heavy weight Takin fell on the channel . This is the first they called sumatraensis bristle big

beast sheep,  and the persons in the forests Bay can"t  carried it back, HE Changshui found a dozen of men,

after peeling off the skin ,hacked it into a few dozen and carried it back.

After drinking the antelopes Testicular soup, Du xiuzhi couldn"t fall to sleep at night, she could not help but to

pinch HE Changshui"s testicles , saying that if your two testicles as large as sumatraensis bristle  sheep"s,

it will be strange if not kill people. HE Changshui understood the meaning of the cross-eye woman, but he did not want at all. The testicles reducted like small escargots, and he said that you may do not want to

have a baby as stupid as shian?

By night, a yelp beat mixed with a voice of beating the door made Du xiuzhi awaken .She put on clothes  and opened the door .

After the door had a sound, she just asked who were you, only half of shouting, she was covered a pair of pants from the head, Among messy footsteps, she  did not know  where she will get by the unknown people .

Only hearing Du xiuzhi crying half a voice: mum, HE Changshui got out of bed and ran out of the door

Immediately, but his wife had disappeared without a trace, he understood that the people of wan jiusheng had come.

In response to the dogs" barking, HE Changshui was chasing and crying in order to wake up people in the bay to help him drive bandits away to rescue his wife. However, because of living too scattered, at the middle of the night people did not hear HE Changshui and dogs" alarm.

HE Chang Shui caught up to the old rock house on the edge of shicao river, when days broke. Eastern sun  can"t shine  his wife, only shining five  men"s light buttocks , they pressed  Du xiuzhi"s hands and feet, one person"s buttock like chicken perk rice. His two eyes Sparkled light, running like split and gave the man of light buttock a kick. Four bandits who were pressing Du xiuzhi"s hands and feet turned about and threw him

under the rock.

Bandits are really not human! HE Changshui was in coma for most of the day and finally woke up. When climbed up the rock ,  he saw his wife was tied by  two ropes among the weeds in the sun, and the lower part of the body is naked ,around which was dancing with a large suction Tilletia Green head flies.

HE Changshu carried his wife whose legs can"t fold , he had to have a rest  after he went back a few steps away, although his body was overdraft and wound pain, however, he  didn"t feel, but the blood and the fire of his heart  is able to melt iron. He decided to go bankrupt to make a good gun. As long as Wan jiusheng"s people turn

up in the forest bay ,he would use the gun to  kill them all.

In his days waiting for revenge , more than nine months have passed,  just on a Seasonal snow day ,Du xiuzhi big with child gave birth to a son. The son cried loudly , and his crying can Penetrating HE Changshui"s two inches thick old walls, and even the people as far as  the shicao river can be heard. HE Changshui understand that

this is not his son,because his sons and daughters did not have loud crying and  strong limbs as the bandit"s son.

With long, this little bastard showed  many difference  with local children.  He never got sick and had correct shape, symmetric limbs. He ate and sleep regularly, when six months he was be able to sit , seven months to climb ,eleven months can go and full-year-old can speak. For a time he was recognized a child prodigy by people in the forests Bay.

Tuksaka, but not a decent human’s tuksaka , he is a tuksaka of bandit! HE Changshui originally planned to put him at the roadside to let people take him away or muts carry him away , but he is so smart and healthy that everyone loves him .He was somewhat reluctant to do that , and then, he realized that in any case he had raised four sick children .As the saying goes, one sheep is to graze ,a flock of sheep is also to graze, he also is not afraid of one more mouth to eat .

One night after the son turned one year old, HE Changshui who dug Radix Puerariae a whole day came back and the waist is tired to fall apart .The son whose name he did not even bother to give, suddenly called dad, but also fed him with a spoonful of polenta he was drinking . HE Changshui immediately was shocked,.This kid is so smart, and will honor those who fostered him, maybe he will not only support and bury them in the future , but also will take good care of his four half-brothers and sisters .

In order to recognize the son, HE Chang-water re-named him HE wanzhong.

Everyone in the forests bay was not compared with the child"s fine quality and high IQ, and he was interested in anything what he saw. His memory is surprisingly good, He can remember what you just said. One day his mother Du xiuzhi took him to a pharmacy to buy medicine. He saw the words written on the drawer of the medicine cabinet ,  pointed to them and asked what they were, the old Mr. Wu said that this was Chinese medicine  Duhuo, that was dangshen ,this was Danpi ,and that was Heshouwuwa  and so on.

Mr. Wu also wanted to confirm that this child is a prodigy as the people said, and he intended to test him. As a result the child recognized the 18 herbs Mr. Wu said.

As long as kids are pretty and smart, who does not like? who does not love? Everyone said that this child was an elegant, maybe forests Bay depends on him to bring a blessing in the future. Thus, people in the bay sent their good things to HE Changshui couples to make food for wanzhong to eat and sew clothes for wanzhong to wear .

Wang said that we together helped HE Changshui foster the child , according to the head from the beginning of this year,  every person per year sent He changshui 100 jin corn as alimony.

Of course, the one who should be proud of is his parents

HE Changhui who was pleased had a new way of thinking, and burst of new ideas: I should have a few sons as good as the son . Let them get married with peers of the Bay when they are sixteen years old so that children and grandchildren are like my HE wanzhong smart and useful, By then , people beyond the mountain will dare not to look down on our forests Bay? It is not true to marry their daughters to the Bay?

Du xiuzhi is good, but he does not seed, only let bandits to seed, according to "re-start" the order of names, first called her give birth to four sons. As long as she can give birth , she can have more than  10 or 20 babies. As long as they are useful, they are the forests Bay”s blessing,.It does not matter that they are not   their own children.

HE Changshui come down to do that at once.He was convinced that his wife can give birth to a prodigy  which has a great relationship with the sumatraensis bristle sheep testicles soup she drank that day,. So he created  eight guns ,every day and he go to the mountain to elect Paths to  branch dangerous artillery from spring to autumn from summer to winter , he set up a gun at the crossing in the  forests Bay within a radius of hundred miles where sumatraensis bristle sheep can track through , . In order not to miss the opportunity of the bandits coming to forests Bay ,  he sticked to come back at the same night on matter how far away such as yazhikou area.

One year has passed, two years have passed, bandits did not come. He has killed 17 sumatraensis bristle sheep, and Duxiuzhi has a  fair complexion, and all  had been ready for bandits who still did not come.

HE Changshui really can not wait , every day he took his wife to  the old rock house on the edge of the shicao river to look for bandits. In order to achieve their early arrival of bandits, he burned a stick of high incense on the ground of weeds where bandits had gang-raped his wife.

Nevertheless, more than a year passed, banditry did not come. Thus, HE Changshui carrying incense and paper money and firecrackers, walked to and from 16 days to mountain wudang to seek the Buddha worship, and blessed bandits come back to the forests Bay at an early date.

Work pays off! At the beginning of winter when He wanzhong was full five-year-old, the bandits of wan jiusheng finally came again.

HE Changshui pleased 7or 8 bandits to go home like please Buddha , he let bandits take away what they were willing to ,and eat anything what they were willing to eat, they only seek to live with Du xiuzhi.

However, no one was willing to go to bed with Du xiuzhi because they can take turns to sleep with the three beautiful girls , who is willing to sleep with Du xiuzhi whose neck was hanging a large gall?

HE Changshui flopped down on his knees , and he was kneeling before the bandit  that is called Erye  whose head was wrapped with black headscarf . The Erye is somewhat sorry for HE Changshui’s incredible and ridiculous request and hospitality , only  perfunctorily saying that  next time I will definitely bring more people to sleep with your wife .

Bandits were grown to robuste by He changshui couples and people of the entire Bay. They took three girls to shaigu Ping . HE Changshui again entered into endless waiting . waiting for bandit’s a promise . The "next time" is actually when , even the bandits did not believe themselves. However, HE Changshui believed, not a generally believe, but firmly believed that.

He wanzhong have been eight-year-old, and knows things more than ordinary people in the forests Bay. He understands the expectation of the father and mother, and advises them that we can not believe what the bandits said, if you go on believe that ,I will be very embarrassed in front of my classmates.

 HE Changshui who never hit He wanzhong was very angry , and for the first time he played a slap in the face of He wanzhong : "how can I achieve my expectation ? when will people attach importance to the forests Bay?"

"Dad, please do not worry, we can achieve it slowly, you still have me when you are old ." He wanzhong kneeled on the floor to beg for mercy.

However, waiting too long , HE Changshui like a diversifolious poplar which died a hundred years ago before falling in the desert, still brought his wife of wrinkled face to observe between their old house and the old rock house.

One day ,Du xiuzhi and he told He wanzhong who is 13-year-old at home to take care of his four half brothers and sisters who could not take care of themselves.They went to the Lao yanwu to wait for the arrival of bandits.

Bandits really came.

Bandits were running while shooting backward. The shots straightly infixed to the soil, and hit the rocks scattering with sparks.  The smokes of guns are floating among the branches.

On hearing gunfire ,HE Changshui with Du xiuzhi quickly started to pave hay on the floor,  preparing for the bandits to give seeds to Du xiuzhi.

However, the bandits did not come to the old rock house, but run to the HE Changshui"s house like the wind. HE Changshui pulling Duxiuzhi quickly ran to the home, they would like to ask bandits to put Du xiuzhi in the family way again as soon as possible because they waited for too long.

Bandits who were chased seemed to have only a Half-Life, tired and hungry. They planed to go to HE Changshui’ s house to grab something to eat . The group of hungry ghosts lifted the lids of zhenzi and knocked on the cabinets as soon as they entered into the house .They looked things everywhere which can fill their belly. They found little food ,then they robbed of a half of Tortillas which was bited by wanzhong’s old brother shian, who can not speak only clinged stubbornly to his pancake. Bandits were urgent, and chopped at shian with axe, whose head dropped to the ground. At that moment, above shian’s shoulder, there was just left a real white scar as big as bowl.

Seeing the bandits kill his brother, He wanzhong picked up a piece of firewood from fire pit and knocked at the bandit who killed his old brother and whose head is wrapped with black head scarves . However, HE wanzhong did not move as quickly as bullets and the middle of his forehead was penetrated through by the bandits’ bullet

Younger brother and older brother had been killed , then the next three sick children whose necks hanging large gall disease package clasped with the killer’s legs and bited, grabbing his pants to tear. The bandits chopped them all . Then the bandit whose head is wrapped with black scarves shouted a cry: burning all. The bandits ignited the two cottages, which was left by He changshui’s great-grandfather in the forests Bay on the land for centuries, 

HE Changshui in the flames carried a bunch of hay, urging his wife Du xiuzhi to run quickly. He said we should quickly catch up with them, and then give birth to a son.

Black turban with dozens of individuals run to Ya zhikou , He changshui lay on the corpses of five children, whose whole body was covered with a thick layer blood of sons and daughters . He raised his a pair of blood Purple"s hands to the sky and swore : Wan jiusheng you Listen, I would also like to have more sons and kill you altogether!

HE Changshui was kneeling beside the ruins of smoking, at this moment, there is a group of the People"s Liberation Army run by .

Distant gunshots stopped at night. When the oriental sun lit up the earth, black turban and several other heads of bandits were tied and brought back .Before HE Changshui’s old wall , the People"s Liberation Army company commander Yan issued an order, and the remnants of Wan jiusheng were killed by bullets.

After that, Mr. Wu in the herbal medicine shop said that He wanzhong and his brothers and sisters were reborn again because where they died was sacrificed by killing people  

After Wang baozhang with other persons dragged the corpses of bandits to a big pit and buried them, HE Changshui came to restore consciousness. He saw each of the PLA officers and kneeled  down and express his gratitude to them and asked the People"s Liberation Army to help him.

However, every officer he asked were scared to back three steps:  no matter how we love people, even the Edmonton world championships, they can not help you seed it!

The more People"s Liberation Army refused, the more he had the People"s Liberation Army help him give birth to a son. In the condition that he can not understand the truth, the company commander yan only called Wang baozhang and Mr. Wu to discuss ways to persuade HE Changshuir. However, the attitude of Wang baozhang and Mr wu to help their host give birth to children is even more resolute than HE Changshui.

In desperation, the company commander yan with his series of people quietly said goodbye to the forests Bay.

Troops left, HE Changshui knelt toward their transferring direction of Xingshan County for three days and three nights, and roared at the direction of the People"s Liberation Army : I have to give birth to a son and sent him to you as a solider to repay your kindness!

In the subsequent 10 days, the dangerous artillery ser up by He changshui hit three big bristle sumatraensis sheep, and they were all male.! He stew testicles for soup , it is necessary to drink a bowl every meal for Du xiiuzhi. Du xiuzhi really did not want to drink that soup, one is that the soup is fishy, on drinking it ,you want to vomit, two is cessation of menstruation . It is no use to drink more. But she did not persuade his husband, and had to go to find Mr. Wu to help her persuade HE Changshui so that he can not understand the dead wood can not sprout.

Your wife is old and her old things that had been dry, and how can you dream of giving birth to a son ? Perish the thought . HE Changshui accepted what Mr. Wu"s advise. He liked a wounded snake, feebly stood at the edge of the road, allowing ants to bite and flies to sting blindly.

 

Du xiuzhi iwas afraid that his husband get mad, so she asked Mr. Wu to treat his husband. Mr. Wu said: I had seen his disease, no medicine, but only rely on himself .As long as he think it through, he will get better day by day, and his doctor is himself, he is his own medicine.

Du xiuzhi brought HE Changshui home at last has at least , and then took off-the-shelf sumatraensis bristle sheep testicles soup  to feed HE Changshui .HE Changshui in his wife’s arms slowly started to have positive response. After HE Changshui’s body getting better, Du xiuzhi inquired a good way to test men’s functionon from Ms.wu.

Husband and wife sharing weal and wox will be tolerant and generous with each other about trifles, Du xiuzhi gathered up a pile of ash, and called HE Changshui to pee. HE Chang-water peed, and the urine was still a rope-like, like screws rotated washed the ash a yellowish pit. Thus, Du xiuzhi stared at the thing of He changshui and said: keep up your courage , and sometimes the old thing is a good thing, there is no reason for good things to come up a son!

She said she had to go to xiannv  mountain in Yunmeng to seek a woman to give birth to a son for He changshui, and called HE Changshui to drink the soup of sheep testicles.

After half a month, on the 17-year-old Xiaochun of 17-year-old was weeping with Du xiuzhi who coax even threatened to get to the forests Bay.

Xiaochun lived in their home, Du xiu zhi cooked all the sumatraensis  bristle sheep testicles , forcing HE Changshui and xiaochun to drink, every meal they should drink a large bowl. When xiaochun’s body was sturdy, Du xiuzhi requested Mr. Wu to take xiaochun’s pulse and projected a day.

At night on that day, she tied Xiao chun’s hands and feet to the four corners of the bed so that HE Changshui’s bulging body  pressed up.

Life got along slowly, days were flying. Hardly more than one year, Xiao chun gave birth to two sons, HE Changshui named them He wanyi and He wanqian.
Du xiuzhi fullfilled her commitment , when wanyi and wanqian got full moon, she gave a piece of jade which was unearthed with He shibi in Chu dynasty and two Musks which were more than yi liang to Xiaochun and sent her back to the doorgate in yunmeng.

In the blue-violet dress of several years, HE Changshui’s twin sons grew to 18  years old. HE Chang-water did not listen to people in the Bay who wanted him to marry his sons as soon as possible, but he decided to send them to areas to applicate to join the army.

Like their brother He wanzhong who was killed by bandits, He wanyi and He wanqian were all intelligent ,fillal ,literate and in good physical condition.The two brothers ‘medical examination and political examination are qualified. However, people"s armed forces departments said that their elderly parents were frail at home and there was no one to take care of them, so only promise one of you to become a soldier. Brothers both want to defend the motherland and fight to join the army .HE Changshui had no choice but to throw a coin to decide, at last HE wanqian joined the army.

HE Changshui’s son He wanqian is the first person to become soilder in the radius of hundreds of thousands of Shennongjia in the forests iBay .

When HE Changshui and Du xiuzhi looked at troop crawler carried his son many kilometers away,,they found the County Public Security Bureau and requested to surrender, saying that they raped a female secondary school students called Xiaochun eighteen years old. Public Security Bureau said that there was no criminal record, coupled with another prosecution period, not on file. They requested  the Public Security Bureau to help them look for xiaochun. The police in the reception was tired and drove them away, saying that they were a pair of neuropathy.

Helplessly, HE Changshui and Du xiuzhi had to go to xian nv mountain in Yunmeng to find xiaochun , but the people there said that since that year after she returned from the Shennongjia , their home seems to be moved to the county or somewhere else to live  .

HE Changshui and Du xiuzhi had to waded and climbed more than 100 years to return to the county to continue to look for Xiao chun.

Among the vast human sea, Where is xiaochun? Later, HE Changshui bought a few hundred sheets of paper under the guidance of a person who looks like a cadre, and wrote a notice of missing person, posted on the county and district, township streets, utility poles, the notice reads:xiaochun: 1 .Wanqian became of a soldier, you are dependent; 2.Please look for two daughters-in-law for your two sons in the distance.

  (2008.1.16 the third draft in Guangzhou )

 
Contact to: guangzhou City , Canton Road on the 18th military

region auditorium  Tan  guangrong Zip: 510600
Tel: [phone]