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FOUR Sorghum Funeral 5
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THE GLOOMY, RAINY autumn of 1939 was followed by a freezing winter. Dogs that had been shotto death or blown up by hand grenades hurled1 by Father, Mother, and their martyred friends layin the soggy marshland, frozen together with fallen stalks of sorghum2. Dogs killed by blasts ofJapanese muskmelon grenades in the Black Water River and those that had struggled to becomepack leaders, only to die cruelly, lay icebound among withered3 water grasses and weeds alongthe banks. Famished5 crows pecked at the frozen corpses6 with their purple beaks7. Like blackclouds they soared in the sky between the riverbank and the marshland.
Granddad, Father, Mother, and the woman Liu hibernated8 in their dilapidated village throughthe endless winter. Father and Mother were already aware of the relationship between Granddadand the woman Liu, but it didn’t bother them. The way she looked after everyone during thesetrying days was something my family remembered even decades later. Her name was formallyadded to our ‘family scroll’, where she is listed just below Passion, who follows Grandma, whois second only to Granddad.
It was the woman Liu who had consoled Granddad after Father lost one of his testicles.
‘Single-stalk garlic is always the hottest,’ she said. With her encouragement, Beauty, who wouldbecome my mother, had aroused Father’s wounded, ugly, strange-looking little pecker, therebyensuring the continuation of our family line.
All this had happened in late autumn, when migrating wild geese often appeared in the sky,and fangs10 of ice were forming in the marshland. With the arrival of blustery northwest winds, oneof the coldest winters in history began.
The shack11
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