Before liberation, there was a "Blind Girl Lane" in Xinan Town, Sanshui City (Guangdong people call female blind girls blind girls, this alley is located behind the county granary, which is now located in the alley). Several blind girls lived in the alley, and ten or eight other residents.
Because there are such "special characters" living in the alley, it may be considered "transmitted by people". People call it "Blind Girl Lane", but the original name of the alley was lost.
The total number of blind girls in these families is only more than ten.
The old blind girls in each household raise one or two little blind girls. They have no blood relationship, but the same fate connects them together.
When they come to the world, they are regarded as a heavy "burden" by poor parents, and are sent to the "Blind Girl Alley" with a cruel heart, and they are worshipped as parents or masters, and the old blind girl is responsible for raising her. When the little blind girl grows up, she will turn around and fulfill her obligation to give birth, raising, burying her master.
It’s like this, they have been able to continue from generation to generation. This is the origin of every blind family member of the “Blind Sister Lane”.
These little blind girls walked into the "Blind Girl Alley" and seemed to have a home. In fact, the cruel life journey is waiting for them.
It is extremely difficult for a blind man to find a way out of life, because they cannot do it with their strength and cannot do it with fine skills. Therefore, the only way they rely on to make a living is to play music and sing butterfly.
The little blind girl has taught them to play the piano and sing music since she was sensible, and she learned the ability to play and sing by herself. When she was fifteen or sixteen, she came out to sing and rely on her to travel around the world to support her master and herself.
This is their "mantle" passed down from generation to generation.
Nature their playing and singing skills are not clever, even rough or clumsy, and in short, it is difficult to enter the "graceful hall".
Therefore, their activity time is generally at night, and the scope of activity is limited to boats along the river and hotels in the town to attract merchants.
At that time, no matter whether it was windy or rainy, or the ground was cracked and the sky was cold, in the densely packed place of boats on the banks of the Yijiang River, you could see a small boat swimming along the river, occasionally one or two cold and silent calls from the water surface. It turned out that this sound came from the small boat, and it was their secret code to recruit the owner.
If people who are familiar with the inside story are "elegant", some of them will ask them to sing Cantonese songs to relieve their boredom. This unexpected "care" of
has made them lucky.
or the night is quieter. Under the dark street lights in the streets and alleys, you may see a little boy or an old man, twitching money strings with one hand and supporting a tired figure with the other hand, staggering like a ghost. This is the time for them to run around to take on business. However, this kind of career that relies on luck often makes them go back sadly with a desperate mood.
Nightlife is just a paradise for the broad, but for those blind singers who struggle for life, it has become a sinful trap.
Fortunately, they took on a business. If they met those gentle and gentle customers, they would not do anything.
If you unfortunately meet those bad-hearted customers, it will be unimaginable.
Because they "drunk man's intention is not wine", they come to find some stimulation.
will encounter various difficulties and even be humiliated.
The most unlucky thing is to meet those hooligans. They hide in the dark corners of secluded streets in the dark corners of the quiet streets, waiting for the blind girl who returns home unexpectedly, and not only snatch all her money and clothes, but also the danger of being raped.
At the time, near the "Blind Girl Alley", you can often hear shrill cry for help such as "Snatching things", "Improper" and "Help".
As a result, except for a little cheap sympathy, who can truly extend a just rescue hand?
So the injustice in the world, the torture in life, and the physical and mental destruction all fell on them, and they could only bear it silently and endure it.
During the Anti-Japanese War, the southwest fell, and the occupied areas became a world of ghosts and people were in dire straits.
The shui merchants (traders) who traveled to and from the occupied areas developed abnormally.
The blind girls' singing style is no longer fashionable. In order to cater to the needs of those shuigu, they had to change to slack bones (that is, some simple techniques in massage, which Guangdong people call "slack bones"). This slack bone craft is more "waiting" than singing.
When you meet some guests with ulterior motives, you take the opportunity to lure them to prostitutes, and shamelessly give the bad things you have done, called "王雨花" (meaning:王雨花博, but tastes odor).
People often say the word "hell on earth", and sometimes it is difficult to find appropriate examples to illustrate it.
But if you look at the life of the blind girls in the southwest before liberation, can you find some footnotes to this word?
The old society, those gang forces in the underworld had their own gang swear words, some industries had industry words, and blind girls also had their own "blind girl words", also called "swallow words".
I heard that they met similar people, so they must talk in their own jargon to show their intimacy.
words like this sound like outsiders only squeaking, which is indeed very similar to the whispering of Yanyu.
For example: "drinking tea", blind girls' words are called "lin Ying, gimmick". Later, people finally figured out that such words are not a mystery, they are just a backlash of the pronunciation of the characters.
But it is different from the ticking and anorectile entries in old dictionaries or dictionaries. For example, "tea" is formed from the backcut of the four sounds of "Zhili Tea Gimmick". Taking the anorectile entries of the fourth sound and the first sound, the pronunciation of the third sound can be obtained, so "gimmick" is "tea".
can say all swear words and jargons are nothing more than bad habits that influence each other, and are negative factors that affect unity (except for people from their small groups).
As for blind girls creating their own language, it is unknown whether there are other hidden stories.
After the liberation, the Party and the people's government rescued blind girls from hell, allowing them to live a real human life.
can help them organize their families by starting a family. The civil affairs department set up a "civil affairs factory" to recruit blind people and other disabled people to work, so that they can master production skills while doing and learning.
If you cannot enter the factory, you will issue a certificate to the vendor to make a living independently.
During the period when grain and oil products are still strictly controlled, they are specially allowed to sell southern milk peanuts , which is really an abnormal discount.
The blind people who grew up under the Red Flag are happier. The country has a blind and mute school to train them. Most of the towns have set up factories for the disabled, and some have become talents with professional expertise.
The ideal of "making all disabled people have something to support" that people have long longed for has finally come true today. I have been moved by the past and have a lot of feelings, so I wrote down the above words.
Author: Huang Shanying
Edited by: Qingyun
