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In this incident, the Chen Tianlong family suffered the most. Not only did they have to bear the pain of losing their son, they also had to bear the gossip from their neighbors. Some people regard him as a negative teaching material to teach their children, saying bluntly: You can't be too cowardly or too shabby, let alone too domineering. Once a person is domineering, he will easily become inflated and be shot out of his place.
After experiencing this bloody disaster, Chen Tianlong's family also began to be unlucky. There was a flood in the summer of 1979. In this flood, his stupid son Tiger, who was injured and had dementia, fell into the pond and drowned.
The two sons they are proud of have become white-haired people and black-haired people.
At the same time, his family's side business also began to decline. The chickens he raised always died of inexplicable diseases. The pigs he raised also seemed to be eating iron and could not grow meat. They were always sick and emaciated inexplicably, and they had not gained 200 pounds in two years.
Not only that, the children at home are also getting sick one after another.
All these signs of family decline made Chen Tianlong and his wife live a very depressed and tortured life. During the day, when they worked together with the members of the production team, they pretended to smile and joke. In the dead of night, they lay on the bed and sighed repeatedly: God is pressing on our heads!
There is a saying in rural areas: 10 years of good luck don't matter, but one year of bad luck will make it harder for you to live like a year.
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As the saying goes: If you are sick, you will go to the doctor. In order to find out the reason, he began to ask a Feng Shui master to look at the Feng Shui around his house to see if there was anything unlucky that was affecting the Feng Shui of his home.
There was a Feng Shui master who took a compass and walked around the front and back of his house, and saw his toilet and manure at a glance. He said to him: According to the rules of left, upper and right, the latrine is an unclean tile that is nailed to the upper part of your house. It is the dirt excreted from the human body. It should be at the lower part of your house, but you have turned it upside down. Also, dung is also a vertebrae that holds dirty things. It should be at the bottom of your house, but you have moved it to the top. These two dirty things have pinned you and stink you all the time. Do you think you can live a smooth life?
Finally, Mr. Feng Shui chose a day for him, suggested that he move these two things to the lower part of his house, and told him that harmony is the most important thing when getting along with neighbors.
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After Chen Tianlong listened to Mr. Feng Shui’s words, no matter whether there was scientific basis or not, he still woke up from a dream. He said regretfully: Because of building these two things here, he had a fight with his neighbor Yan Xuecai, which made our two families seem like enemies.
A few days later, Chen Tianlong followed Mr. Feng Shui's instructions and prepared some boiled rice and cinnabar for the shock. He burned a few pages of paper, ripped out the toilet and dung, filled it up, and moved it to the lower part of his house.
Fengjiao said that my parents are soft-hearted people. Seeing that Chen Tianlong’s family had bad luck and accidents one after another, and was looked down upon by some neighbors in the team, they also felt compassion for them and sympathized with them very much. Although they had bullied us and beat my grandfather, my parents believed that his family's troubles were retribution and punishment from God. It seemed that the grudges between our two families could be wiped out and the past grudges could be forgotten.
When parents think this way, they often take the initiative to show kindness to him and talk to them.
Especially after he removed the toilet and manure, his parents were even more moved. My family once gave him a little sow baby without even asking for money. His parents said to Chen Tianlong: Your mistress and mistress are both grown now. Raising a sow will make it easier for you to have a wife in the future.
After experiencing this armed fight, our two families actually resolved the previous hatred, and the relationship between the neighbors has been greatly improved than before.
In the blink of an eye, in the autumn of 1980, we implemented the policy of dividing farmland into households. When
was divided into teams, the production team did not have enough oxen and farm tools for each family, so the production team held a meeting to discuss how the four farmers would share one ox and the corresponding farm tools.
Chen Tianlong took the initiative to find my parents and said that if he didn't dislike them, he would be willing to work with us to share cattle and farm tools. In addition, their family's labor force was excellent and they could also help our family with some farm work.
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Chen Tianlong is the master of the oxen in the production team, and he can plow the fields, harrow the ground, shake columbians and sow seeds, but my father is a disabled person, I am only 17 or 8 years old, and my two younger sisters are still young, so the labor force is very weak. Mother works all the fields for 5 people, and it will definitely be harder if there is no one to pull the fields.
After repeated discussions with his parents, he agreed to share a farm cow and farm tools with Chen Tianlong and two other neighbors.
After that disaster, Chen Tianlong's family became very low-key and no longer competed with others. When the four of us used cattle, we discussed using them in pairs, and the cattle were fed in turns every few days.
My father’s legs are prosthetic and cannot plow or harrow, so my mother and I learned how to handle oxen. When my mother and I started learning to rake in the paddy fields, we fell off the rake many times and our legs were broken several times by raking.
After Chen Tianlong saw it, he helped us tidy up the field.
In order to thank them for their help to us, my mother and I would also help him with work, such as plucking and planting rice seedlings for him, just like a job-for-work job. Sometimes, our two families do the work together, and no one cares about whose meal, each eats his own meal.
However, the person who does the most farm work for me is my father, Xuede. Every time before the busy farming season, my father will drive his old buffalo and carry the plow to tidy up my fields in advance. He said that there are people in each house and he should try not to owe too many favors to outsiders.
Just as my father expected, my parents gradually heard the rumors in the village. They said: The old wooden legs and the couple are really good at coaxing their former enemies around and working like cows and horses for them. They just want to use them to marry their children. The daughter-in-law's mentality is very appetizing...
People often say that where there are people, there are rivers and lakes. This is true at all. No matter where you are, others will not see you well. It is something very pure in the first place, but he has to think about it in other places.
After hearing these rumors, my parents were very sad: their labor force was weak, production was difficult, and their work-for-work method was complementary to that of their neighbors. Some people interpreted it as if they were deceiving their daughter.
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Once, I said to Chen Shaobing: Don’t ask your family to do work for us in the future. It makes our family seem like a liar. I can’t afford to lose that reputation.
Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Chen Shaobing blushed and stammered: "Fengjiao, you are beautiful, kind and capable. I want to fall in love with you. My parents are also planning to ask someone to propose marriage to you. I am also willing to be your son-in-law. I wonder if you like me?"
I looked at Chen Shaobing in surprise and thought: It turns out that it is your Chen family who has impure motives and has been interested in me for a long time.
Chen Shaobing and I were born on the same day, so we can be considered childhood sweethearts. He has more personality than his two brothers. He is over 1.7 meters tall and has an attractive face, which gives people a good impression.
However, I have never thought about Chen Shaobing in this regard. I have always regarded him as a friend in the same village and a neighbor at the front and back doors. That fight in particular left a big shadow on me. Although his mother's face can be covered up by a temporary smile, it will make people feel difficult to get along with her after the smile.
Besides, although his father has also become low-key, who knows whether it is due to helpless pressure or a real change in nature. If one day goes well and his personality rebounds, will he be able to live a peaceful life in such a family.
Of course, I couldn't tell him what I was thinking, so I tactfully said to him: "Young soldier, you also know the situation of my family. My father is a disabled person, the family is weak and has no money. Whoever marries me can only be a burden. Go back and tell your parents that they can find you a girl with better conditions than me. It is impossible for the two of us."
After hearing this, Chen Shaobing said unwillingly: "Fengjiao, I know you still hold grudges about the fight more than 10 years ago. I will apologize for them and treat you well for the rest of my life. I will do what I say. Please believe me." "
To be honest, at that time, there were neighbors in the village who wanted to introduce me to their family as their daughter-in-law, and some introduced me to their relatives.
In the 1980s, people like me This kind of girl from a disabled family is not only sweet-looking, well-educated, but also hard-working and capable, and can do all kinds of farm work, such as plowing fields and raking fields. Many men are vying to marry her as their wife, because life requires such a woman who can run the house.
In order to make Chen Shaobing give up this idea and fall in love with me, we actively distanced ourselves from him from now on and stopped working with their family. In 1983, our family also separated the cattle and farm tools.
However, in the face of my rejection, Chen Shaobing still had a deep love for me and helped my family with work.
Faced with Chen Shaobing’s infatuation, I told him many times: Stop being like this. The two of us are destined to be inseparable. There are many girls who are better than me out there. If you do this, you will not only hurt yourself. It will harm yourself and make me feel guilty and uneasy. Relationships do not rely on one party's infatuation to make you happy.
Chen Shaobing’s labor stick, the farm at home could not use that many people to work, so his third brother followed a relative to dig coal in a small coal mine in the northwest in 1982.
In 1983, his family bought the first walking tractor in the village and built three red brick houses.
However, not long after, another bad news came from Chen Shaobing’s house. Consumption: His third brother was buried underground due to a mining accident...
The night after burying his brother, he asked me to accompany him to sit under the old locust tree at the entrance of the village for a while. This was the first time we went out alone for a date in more than 20 years. He said that he would go to work on a construction site tomorrow and wanted to say goodbye to me.
That night he cried and said to me: "Fengjiao, I don't know in which lifetime our family has done evil things. God has put the blame on our brothers, causing our family to suffer such a big disaster. "
I was also moved by his crying, so I comforted him softly and said, "Maybe all of this is destined and is a family variable. Don't blame yourself, just have a clear conscience." "
Hearing my gentle voice, he stopped crying, suddenly stretched out his hands, grabbed my hand tightly and said, "Fengjiao, I really love you. Although I don't have the ability to make you rich, I can give you my heart. Will you agree to marry me? "
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I was stunned by his sudden move. I quickly broke away from his hands and said to him a little angrily: "Young soldier, if you really like me, don't make things difficult for me, okay? You're also hurting me by doing this, you know?
Chen Shaobing hurriedly let go of his hands and said quickly: "I'm sorry, Fengjiao, I love you too much. Please forgive me for my offense." "
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Fengjiao said to me: Guoyong, on the first day of our marriage in the twelfth lunar month of 1984, Chen Shaobing came to my house as a neighbor to help with the banquet. I thought his enthusiasm to help was genuine, but the smile on his face was forced, because his beloved girl Mom is going to be someone else’s bride tomorrow.
I saw from his eyes that he was full of nostalgia and reluctance to let me go. I found an opportunity to call him aside and said softly to him: "A man should not be troubled by these affections between children. He should be able to take up and let go and do his own thing. In the future, I will pay attention and introduce you to a suitable girl. "
I lay on the bicycle and listened to my wife Fengjiao telling about the disputes between their Dayanwan and Xiaoyanwan, as well as the grievances and grievances of the Chen family. I glanced at Chen Shaobing's back and said to my wife: "Fengjiao, no wonder he is so obsessed with you. You have to be impressed by your charm and heart. I have fallen in love with you wholeheartedly in my life. You have no regrets for being a bully and a horse."
Fengjiao smiled and poked my brow with her hand, and said with an angry smile: "On the contrary, Guoyong, I am the one who works as a cow and horse for your Lao Yu family, and gives birth to children without any regrets, you know? fool. Let's go and buy a pig baby quickly, otherwise, we won't be able to make it back from Xinnan at night. "
We laughed and rode our bicycles to Dabai Village to buy pig babies.
This farmer has a total of 12 pig babies, averaging 27 or 8 pounds each. He said that someone else gave him 300 yuan the day before yesterday and he didn't sell any. If we want them, we can sell them at this price. We.
The pig babies for sale
My wife and I took a fancy to the pig babies at first glance, so we made the deal without any effort. My wife still asked us to take them equally, each of us
Fengjiao. She is always so considerate and doesn't want me to do too much more than her.
That day, when we came back from selling pig babies in Xinnan, it was already dark. Mom and dad would go to the door and look west from time to time, worried that we hadn't come back yet.
At this time, my mother had made some fried buns and was waiting for us to come back. Because she knew that I like to eat fried buns, so our family would make a meal of fried buns almost every day.
This time when my second sister Fengling went out to look at us, she happened to meet me face to face. She complained: "Brother, eldest sister, why are you back so late this time? My parents have been out to see us several times. "
said and was about to take the bicycle from my hand.
I asked her to push her sister's bicycle and said to her: The inner belt of the bicycle was broken and there was a delay in repairing it on the road.
The whole family was very happy to see that we had returned safely, and then we ate happily.
At this time, I heard someone knocking on the door.
I quickly got up and opened the door.
Under the moonlight, I saw Chen Shaobing's 20-year-old sister, Chen Shaoyu, who was saying to me with an apologetic smile: "Brother Guoyong, it's so late, I want to ask you something, okay?" "
At this time, Fengjiao also walked out of the room. When she saw it was Chen Shaoyu, she said she had something to ask them for help, so she enthusiastically invited her into the room...
To be continued...
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