Old Ben and Lao Si
Wang Rentian
Old Ben and Lao Si are husband and wife, from Heiyudong Village. Speaking of which, these two people are really a match made in heaven. They are both stupid and dumb. They can think of things that others cannot think of and can do things that others cannot do. For example, the old fool can sleep while walking, but in the end he still blames his drowsiness.
Once, Old Ben was driving an ox cart back from the mountains to pull grain. He fell asleep while walking. You could hear snoring as he passed by. But the way he sleeps is really special. While he is sleeping, his feet are walking. From time to time, he raises the whip to hit the cattle, and his mouth occasionally makes the sound of "walking, walking". If you look at it from a distance and hear his voice, you would think that he is driving the cattle. However, just because he was sleeping like this while driving the cattle, he didn't even know that the beam rope on the cow's head had come off. As he walked, the carriage shaft slipped from the cow's shoulder, but he still didn't know it. When he got home, his family asked him where the oxcart was and where was the food. He stretched, yawned, and woke up as if from a dream. He kept cursing, "Dead cow, plague cow, I don't even know if the chariot pulls off."
The old fool knew that he had the habit of sleeping while walking, so he said: Old fool, it’s the cow’s fault. If not, it’s your sleepyhead. Yes, "I'm so sleepy that I don't go to bed early in the morning or late at night. I sleep when the carriage shaft is taken off."
Haha, what a treasure.
The old fool is also a living treasure, but she is also very serious about her work. Every day she grows melons and beans at home, she has to count them every day. Once she counted the melons in the field behind her house and felt they were inconsistent, so she opened her mouth and cursed. No matter how you scold her, she is like this. "You who are carrying your sons, steal my melons to swell your neck. I counted seventeen in the morning, and only eight pairs in the evening. I know how many you stole, and I know the ones that were beheaded. You stole nothing else, but you, the stupid me, are bullying others." Listen, it's really a treasure. She thinks that if the number is less, the melons will be less. She doesn't know that the counting method is different, but she tells others: She is stupid enough, and she doesn't have a brain.
Another time she lent someone eggs. When they came to return them, she said the eggs were different. People asked her, "Why is it different?" She said, "Huh, don't bully me, old fool. I don't recognize anything. Everyone says that the whip spins like a spinning top. The hens lay white eggs. The legs are sore when going uphill, and the legs are bent when going downhill. My domestic roosters don't lay eggs. How do you think I recognize them?" No." When she heard this, she realized that she couldn't explain it clearly to her, so she simply said, "I'll get more, and you can pick and choose which ones are the same as yours." As a result, she got a big deal, and she picked the bigger ones and took more of them, which made people laugh and cry.
From this, the old fool and the old fool live like this, having fun every day, and making some jokes from time to time, but some of them are still admirable. For example, during the Chinese New Year, every family has to post Spring Festival couplets. The old fool was illiterate and pasted the couplets upside down, with the tail facing up and the head facing down. People said, "Idiot, the couplets are pasted upside down." Without thinking, he said, "I put these couplets on the lookout board upstairs and read it." The lookout board is the corridor in front of the screen wall upstairs. People can look far away when they stand on it. In this way, the speaker was left speechless by him, and he truly understood the helplessness of Ah Q and the troubles of smart people. There are some things in the world that smart people are worse than fools. What is even more annoying is that he is obviously stupid enough, but he still treats others as fools. If Lu Xun were alive, I don’t know what kind of essays he would produce.
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