Text: Li Dongping
Picture: From the Internet
Carrying a three or four-year-old child.
She is wearing a big red dress, walking like a square dance mother, very funny. When I approached, she suddenly called to me: "Ah, it was you?"
I was even more surprised, because the vicissitudes of middle-aged man before my eyes right now Woman, it turned out to be my childhood playmate. She is a cousin one year older than me, and her name is Xiangxiang.
When I was young, I had many playmates, Meifang, Meixiang, Xiaorong, Xiangxiang, and many more.
Xiangxiang’s father and my father are uncles. According to generation, I should call Guixiang the second sister.
At this point,I still habitually yelled, "Xiangxiang, is that you?"
Xiangxiang handed the child, half angrily said: "You are still not big or small, you still call me Xiangxiang, how old are you?"
I smiled and watched her carry the baby. Xiangxiang pushed the little boy forward and said, "This is my grandson Jiedou, my grandma!"
I immediately laughed, this kid’s name is really funny, jelly beans small eyes Squinted, round face, Bai Shengsheng is tender and really like a bean bag.
This reminds me of this scene twenty years ago, which is also the entrance of the village. At that time, the young Cinnamon was also carrying a child who looked exactly like a bean bag. At that time, Xiangxiang was wearing gold and silver, and a chicken coop. She also pushed the shy child out, "Hey! My son." At that time, I was still in my boudoir, dreaming of literature.
At that time, Xiangxiang looked at me with envy, and there was no sense of happiness for young women.
"Sister,That’s it for me. Don’t learn from your second sister from now on.” Before leaving, she turned her head back and forth one step at a time. When she was eight years old, she was promised by her father to a shaved Wang San Mazi from a family in a neighboring town. I heard that his father asked for a lot of gifts and said that the family had money.
At that time, Xiangxiang secretly ran to me and told me that her wealthy dad had sold her, and the family had shaved their heads. The subjects looked very ugly. She and I had just graduated from junior high school and we were still ignorant. The little girl in the world.
I said, find her mother-in-law’s house, so early? No one wants it anymore.
Guixiang’s sister Aifang, when she was fifteen or sixteen years old, followed her father in the science and technology team near the mining area to feed pigs, and talked with the unscrupulous young people in the mine. She was eighteen. When she was unmarried, she gave birth to a boy. Her father always thought that the man was rich, and every time he saw that man, he kept saying that he was short of money. The man was also responsive.
I heard that the man is doing an unfair job.One year, the society severely cracked down on it. The man was sentenced to fifteen years and was later sent to Xinjiang to serve his sentence.
Aifang lives with her unmarried child and lives in her natal family. No one wants or dares to propose marriage. Later, I heard that she ran away with a married man. A few years later, I found a big boss, and soon broke up. Later, Aifang married an old man, and she opened a beauty salon in the county.
Every time Aifang comes home, she will bring her father many bottles of good wine. Don't mention her father's happiness. Don't ask where the girl's things come from, but show off her daughter's abilities when she meets people.
is such a dad, who uses her daughter as a cash cow.
Unsurprisingly, now the second daughter Xiangxiang is regarded as a commodity for sale by her father.
Xiangxiang looks handsome and honest, since we were young, we went to school to play pigweed together. When she was fifteen or sixteen, she went to play in the town, but she was spotted by the owner of the photo studio, and wanted to take a photo of her window star. Her father heard about it and squinted his drunken eyes and said, "My Erni is Guizi of the Moon, Chang'e , she is blessed, and she must find a rich family for her."
On the day of the engagement of Xiangxiang,I didn't go. I heard the aunts and aunts who saw me close to the door and said that when they arrived at the man's house, they set off firecrackers for nearly an hour, and there were happy characters posted at the door, and it was as lively as a wedding.
The man was two years younger than Xiangxiang. He squinted his eyes and saw that he was a child who has not grown up yet. The boy seemed a bit silly.
The fragrant father-in-law has a shrewd face and can speak well. His mouth does not stop from beginning to end, and he looks like a very slick person.
Xiangxiang wanted to come back with her family. Her father persuaded her that she would be someone from the family sooner or later, and she would not marry later.
The folks who went with us all poked their lips. People like Xiangxiang's father are really rare.
Fragrant after marriage is no less troublesome, I heard that her mother-in-law's family spoils her very much, there is a shortage of people in the barber shop, and Fragrant is too busy, so the number of times she goes back to her parents' house is increasing. The less.
After Xiang Xiang became pregnant, she went back to her family. She told me that at that house, she washes her hair all day long. Some people don’t care about hygiene and it’s so dirty.
I said,You brought so many good wines to your father, then your family must be very rich, right?
Xiangxiang smiled and did not answer my question, her eyes full of sadness.
When Xiangxiang's son was three years old, we met again. Although she looks particularly glamorous on the outside, her lonely look is unobstructed.
She said to me that there are too many barbershops open now, and she’s just getting a haircut now. Accompany a mother-in-law who has a little dementia. My husband is a bit mentally retarded, like a naive child, and now the whole family is supported by her.
I smiled and looked at Xiangxiang, weighing a hundred catties, and I was so-so in junior high school, courageous, and not aggressive. Now in the face of reality, I have to worry so much.
Xiangxiang looked at me suspiciously, smiled bitterly and said, "Whoever reaches this point has to hold on, otherwise I will count on whom?" Xiangxiang’s father is nearly 60 years old, and he still forces Aifang and Xiangxiang to give them money to support them.The first thing her father had when he had money was to buy wine and drink. Her sisters became a bank he couldn't finish mentioning. The eldest and second brothers built new houses to marry each other, and they did not lose the money.
Later, I heard from the villagers intermittently that Xiangxiang’s barber shop was closed, she opened a restaurant, worked in a game hall for a few years, and gave birth to two sons. The pressure of the family can be imagined.
Compared with her friends back then, Xiangxiang is much older than our peers, too old to be recognized. I think she must have experienced pain and suffering that we can’t appreciate over the years. struggle.
In a flash, twenty years later, the 40-year-old Xiangxiang became a mother-in-law and was promoted as a grandmother in advance, as if everything was a big step faster than people.
Xiangxiang's father is getting older and older. After he has cancer, he still doesn't care about asking for wine and money from his girls.
Xiangxiang sighed: "Oh, what can you say about span3, who would call him _span3!"
