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TWO Sorghum Wine 8
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8
FOURTEEN YEARS EARLIER, Yu Zhan’ao, a bedroll over his back, and dressed in clean, freshlystarched white pants and jacket, stood in the yard of our home and shouted: ‘Mistress, are youhiring?’
With a hundred thoughts running through her mind, Grandma’s natural instincts deserted1 her.
Her scissors dropped to the kang, and she fell backward onto the brand-new purple comforter.
His nostrils2 filled with the odour of fresh whitewash3 and a delicate feminine fragrance4, YuZhan’ao’s courage mounted. He barged into the room.
‘Mistress, are you hiring?’
Grandma lay face up and blurry-eyed on the comforter.
Yu Zhan’ao threw down his bedroll and slowly approached the kang. At that moment his heartwas like a warm pond in which toads6 frolicked while swifts skimmed the surface. When his darkchin was only about the thickness of a piece of paper from Grandma’s face, she slapped him onhis dark, shiny scalp, then sat up quickly, picked up her scissors, and screamed, ‘Who are you?
What do you think you’re doing? How dare you barge5 into a strange woman’s room!’
Startled, he backed up and said, ‘You?.?.?. you really don’t know me?’
‘How dare you talk like that! I lived a cloistered7 life at home until my wedding day, less thantwo weeks ago. How would I know you?’
‘Okay, if that’s the way you want it,’ he said with a smile. ‘I hear you’re shorthanded at thedistillery, and I need work to put food in my belly8!’
‘All right, as long as you don’t mind hard work. What’s your name? How old are you?’
‘My name’s Yu Zhan’ao. I’m twenty-four.’
‘Take your bedroll outside,’ she said.
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