Odell was startled. He was in love, he explained.
His father smiled and I raised a fool, he said
The next day, Odell’s father rented Lucinda to a family at the other end of the county. They were poor farmers and had no money to buy slaves. They paid odell’s father to hire her to do farm work, milk cows, carry firewood and do everything.
Odell was in despair and often stayed in bed every day or wandered around the county drinking and gambling until he found that Lucinda, the farmer’s wife, would come to town to sell eggs twice a week.
Every these days, odell would get up early and go hunting in high spirits. He saddled a horse with a loaded shotgun in a holster, and a pair of hounds rolled over on the porch. The horse rode for several miles, and the dog followed behind and sneaked into the Woods. He sniffed cheerfully as if he really wanted to hunt. He rode through the city and continued along the road until he saw Lucinda walking barefoot on the road with a basket of eggs in his arm. He would walk beside her and try to find a topic for her. Chatting with her during those months, he never thought of dragging her into the forest. She would beg him not to come back to him so that she could return to the edge of the city. He returned the basket to Lucinda and insisted on her hand. When they parted, they both bowed their heads.
Of course, in the end, odell dragged her into the Woods and lay on the bed in the pine tree shop. After that, he went to Lucinda’s cabin for a few nights every month. He tied his horse’s foot and tied his dog to a tree and then walked into the pine forest. Her cabin was here. She would come to meet him in a thin pajamas. He hugged her and took her back to the house until Li Jiang went to sleep.
The main reason why he didn’t go home was to beat raccoons. Soon, slaves in the vicinity knew that odell would pay a lot of money to buy new raccoons. When odell was driven away, he bought them on his way home to confirm his story of hunting late, otherwise he would bemoan his poor shooting skills to his family and complain that the hounds were inexperienced and the prey was getting less and less.
This situation lasted for about a year, and then one night Lucinda told odell that she was pregnant, so odell couldn’t stand it any longer. The next day, he went to meet his father and his wife in the apartment. Although the only thing my father had read there was the plantation account, they talked about buying Lucinda by the fireplace in odell. He was willing to pay the price and never hesitated. My father sat down and blinked in surprise. I didn’t quite understand you. He said that you bought this nigger to let her do farm work or to give her a hand.
Odell punched his father in the left ear. The old man fell down, got up and fell down again. Blood came from his ear hole and he shouted for help.
The next week, odell was locked in a pickle storage room, and her ribs were covered with bruises. Thanks to her brother and father, the foreman gave her up. The next day, his father came to the door and said through the door that I had sold that bitch to Mississippi.
Odell hit the wooden door again and again. That night, he kept howling like a raccoon dog. For the next few days, his howling was still intermittent and periodic
When he was finally too tired to call his father, he locked the door and odell stumbled. The skylight stung his eyes. I believe you have learned your lesson. Father said that he walked away to the sloping farmland and whipped the grass and wildflowers a little while walking.
Odell went back to his room to pick up a bag of clothes and took it from his father’s office safe. He could find a bag of gold coins with considerable cash and a thick stack of paper money. He went to his mother’s room and took a diamond-encrusted ruby brooch, an emerald ring and several strings of pearl necklaces. odell went outside to prepare a pommel horse and rode towards Mississippi.
In the years before the war, he searched all the cotton-growing States, exhausted three horses and lost all his money, but Lucinda was still missing, and he never set foot on his hometown again.
In a sense, he is still looking for this. When he needs to make money on his own, he chooses a business of roaming around. His business is declining, from driving a carriage to pushing a cart to mending pots and selling goods. He has almost fallen to the bottom of the valley, but it is not long before he will have to pull a sledge or sled or simply carry a bag to sell some gadgets.
After the story, Inman odell found that they had drunk all the wine in the pot, and odell went to his cargo bag and turned over two small bottles of medicine juice. The main ingredient was alcohol. They sat and sipped for a while. odell said that I had seen terrible things, and you couldn’t even think about it. He told me that he had been looking for Lucinda Road in Mississippi, and witnessing the situation made him worry that she had gone to another world. It was terrible and bloody, and some things made him even more afraid that Lucinda was not dead. The slaves were burned alive, saying that they might have their ears cut off because of nothing. He had seen the most terrible torture with a finger. Now he was walking along a lonely road by the river near Nachez when he suddenly heard vultures fluttering and screaming in the distant Woods. He asked him to pick up a shotgun and go into the forest to inspect and found a woman imprisoned in a cage made of beans and sticks and placed in a Virginia oak tree. The cage was full of vultures, and they kept pecking at her eyes and tore off a lot of flesh on her arm and back.
When she saw odell with her left eye, she screamed, "Shoot me quickly, but odell shot both lead bullets at the tree, and the vultures fell to the ground. Others flew away hastily. odell suddenly developed a fear that this woman was Lucinda. Before he left, the butt of the gun smashed the cage and pulled her to the ground to give her a drink. He didn’t know what to do next, but before he made up his mind, the woman was already spitting blood and died. He looked at her and touched her collarbone hair. This woman can’t be Lucinda with different skin color and big joints.
Odell said that later generations were drunk and sat there wiping tears from their eyes at the cuffs of their shirts.
It’s a crazy world. Inman really has nothing better to say.
Early in the morning, Inman left the burnt-out pub in the middle of the misty fog, and Vicy quickly arrived. His eyes were cut with a razor and his mouth was still bleeding. He kept wiping his big sleeves.
Suffering late, Inman said
She didn’t really want to hurt me. It was all because I asked her to stay with me all night and the price refused to give in. My biggest worry didn’t come true. She didn’t wave my penis away.
Well, I hope this evening is worthwhile.
The charm of an absolutely depraved and unfaithful woman is unanimous, and I admit that I have a special hobby for strange women. When she took off her coat in front of me last night, I was simply shocked. The fact is that the scene was completely shocked. I should keep it in my heart and remember it in my old age to add some happiness to a desperate heart.
Yuangen
They walked to the town in the cold and misty rain. Ida wore a long coat of waxed poplin, while Ruby wore a huge sweater. Her undyed wool and lanolin remained in it. Her point of view was that these oils were waterproof as MacIntosh raincoats. The only failure of this sweater was that it gave off a long hair when it encountered wet environment. Ida Jian wanted to take an umbrella, but after walking for an hour, it would be cloudy the day after tomorrow, so when the leaves stopped dripping, Ruby would roll up all the umbrellas.
The sky is getting clearer and clearer, and the busy migratory birds have to move forward to the south. Wild ducks flying in various formations, black and white geese chirping, swans, nighthawks, blue owls, blue pine ducks, quails, larks, kingfishers, Cooper eagles and red-tailed hawks are not only them. Ruby always has to comment on a bird when she sees it all the way into the city, and find a way to talk about it from its subtlety or to verify its sex. Ruby recognizes that the chirping of birds is as meaningful as her words. She said that especially in spring, birds fly back from the south to report where they have gone and what they have
When walking through a yellow stubble field, Ruby Ida saw five ravens gathered together. Ruby said that it was said that bald-nosed crows can live for hundreds of years. Although how to verify this statement, no one knew that a female crested bird in red flew across the sky with a small birch branch. Ruby was puzzled. She guessed that the bird must be out of her mind. Now is not the time to nest. Why did it bring such a thing? When they passed a small beech tree by the river, Ruby said that this river was called pigeon river because a large number of passing pigeons gathered here to eat. Beech nut: She also mentioned that when she was a child, Stebrod often disappeared for many days in a row. At that time, she made a living by eating pigeons. They were the easiest prey for a child, and they could be knocked from a tree without a gun and a stick, and then twisted their necks before they woke up.
Three crows drove an eagle across the sky. After seeing it, Ruby expressed her deep respect for crows, which are often cursed birds. She said that they have a lot of attitudes towards life and deserve to be imitated. She pointed out that many birds would rather starve to death than eat anything that doesn’t agree with their stomachs, while crows are willing to eat whatever they are. She praised them for their intelligence, no arrogance and cunning in the battle. She thought these were crows’ unique talents. They successfully suppressed their dark feathers and showed a gloomy and irritable nature.
We should all say this to Ruby the crow. This is for Ida. Ida is obviously in a bad mood. It has cleared up long ago, but her face is still cloudy.
Ida has been moping all the time. Why didn’t she just wear a black veil on her sleeve to announce to the world that she was unhappy? Partly because of the hard work of Zhou, they cut grass in the abandoned land, but in the end, there were too many ragweed spurge mixed in the grass. On that day, they were busy sharpening their knives for a few hours. They found a sickle and put it in the tool shed rafter. The first step was to get a big millstone to sharpen the rusty edge. Ida couldn’t say whether Monroe could file and sharpen such tools. She had no idea at all. The sickle was not Monroe, but the former owner of the farm, the Black family, threw Ada Ruby and turned the tool shed upside down. Finally, a rat tail file was found and plunged into a piece of bald corn cob as a handle, but no stone was found in that pile of junk.
My dad never grinds a stone either. Ruby said that he spat on a shale and rubbed the knife back and forth, which is not good for both. That’s what happened. Whether the knife is fast enough to scratch people’s arms, he doesn’t care if he can cut a piece of cigarette, and he is satisfied.
In the end, they gave up looking for a last resort. They found a flat shale by the stream. After grinding for a long time, the light was still bad. No matter how much it was, Ada Ruby went to the field and waved a sickle for a whole afternoon. Then she raked the grass and gathered it to slip away. When it was finished, the last ray of daylight was about to disappear. The day before entering the city, they put the dried grass into a sledge and transported it back to a hay shed. The stubble was sharp and hard, and they stuck people through the soles. They forked the grass into the sledge at both ends of the haystack. Once in a while, Ralph will suddenly shake his head when he meets each other and dozes in front of the sledge. Although the temperature is not particularly high, the work is dirty and dusty. Their hair and clothes are covered with broken grass and sweat, and their arms and faces are everywhere.