Short Story｜Caixia's Story (3)

On the day of Ma Zhiqiang's wedding, Xie Jiafang didn't see anything pleasing at home, seeing dogs kicking dogs and cats kicking cats, even the pigs in the pen. She stepped over the small fence and stepped into the pigsty. The two little pigs thought it was dinner, and one of them arched her feet with his mouth. She kicked it on the bridge of its nose, and the pig ran away with a scream.

When the family heard the pig cry, they ran out in a hurry and saw her abnormal behavior, thinking she was suddenly crazy. She kept saying in her mouth, I kicked you to death, I kicked you to death.

No one knows the reason. In the end, Xie Jiafang told his family the answer. She said over and over again, pig, Ma Zhiqiang is a pig; pig, Ma Zhiqiang is a pig...

All the family members immediately understood.

It turns out that before Ma Zhiqiang became a soldier, Xie Jiafang once asked a matchmaker to go to Ma's family to propose marriage, and wanted to marry his sister Xie Jiazhi to Ma Zhiqiang. Xie Jiafang's approach was unexpected, but Ma Zhiqiang's rejection was reasonable.

Ma Zhiqiang said, I will soon be engaged to Liu Caixia , and I have not had time to tell the folks.

As expected, within half a month, Ma Zhiqiang and Liu Caixia held an engagement ceremony.

Xie Jiafang is greatly embarrassed, but what about Xie Jiazhi? She seemed to be a girl who couldn't get married, and she felt resentment towards her sister from now on, but she just dared not speak.

Ma Zhiqiang's wedding was held at the end of the year, and it happened to be in time when I returned to the village for winter vacation.

The bride, Liu Caixia, has long since emerged from the shadow of grief, she is generous, her gestures are very ladylike, her face is full of jubilation, and she is full of indescribable happiness. She looked at Ma Zhiqiang's eyes full of tenderness, rippling like water.

The bridegroom Ma Zhiqiang is also smiling, but people can still feel his eyes are a little blurry and trance, maybe that is the shadow that Yang Liping left in his heart.

Ma Zhiqiang has been living a peaceful life after getting married. Longer time, especially after the birth of the daughter, the family has added a lot of lively atmosphere. A little longer, people have forgotten everything that happened in the past. Liu Caixia respects her in-laws and unites her neighbors,He handled things decently and won the respect of most people in the village.

Suddenly one day, the peaceful days seemed to come to an end, and there was a sudden wave of waves. In the year when Yang Liping was released after serving her sentence, Liu Caixia resolutely refused to stay in the village anymore. She wanted to go out to work.

Ma Zhiqiang disagreed. She calmly said that I don't want to see this person again. You agree that I want to go out. If you disagree, I want to go out too.

In this way, after the Spring Festival that year, Liu Caixia embarked on a journey of migrant work. She knew that Yang Liping would return to the village in a few months, and she couldn't afford to hide. She suddenly decided to go out to work, first because Yang Liping was about to be released after serving her sentence, and second because she was encouraged by her cousin Yanzi.

Yanzi once said to her, Sister Caixia, come with me, enter the factory, three thousand two a month. I heard that a month was three thousand two, and that year was not more than thirty thousand. She was immediately tempted. Staying at home, if you want to earn more than 30,000, and be a woman by yourself, I'm afraid it will take several years. She promised Yanzi to go out to work, and then told Ma Zhiqiang of her decision to go out.

Liu Caixia and Yanzi went together and went to Zhuhai, where Yanzi worked.

Ma Zhiqiang staying at home is busy with farm work in the field while taking care of his daughter. In fact, his main focus is on farm work, and his daughter is basically taken care of by his parents.

Liu Caixia went out to work, but Yang Liping did not return to the village that summer. Xie Jiafang calculated the time, but still did not see her son returning as scheduled. She stood at the entrance of the village at dusk, looking at the road leading to Ta Town, and muttered to herself again and again, why didn't she come back? Why not come back?

This woman under fifty has long lost her former charm and lost her original ease of talking and laughing. In the past five years, a series of changes have taken place in the courtyard of the Xie family. Xie Jiafang's elder brother and sister-in-law separated their families, and younger sister Xie Jiazhi married into the village of Jieling, 60 miles away from home, which is the village of Liu Caixia's cousin, Yanzi. And her daughter married farther, married five hundred miles away.

waited for a year, but Yang Liping did not come back; waited another year,Yang Liping still didn't come back. Xie Jiafang and his wife moved to their daughter. (to be continued)