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When I returned to my hometown two days ago, my mother said to me: "On the sixth day of next month, your cousin Zhao Zan is getting married." After hearing the news, I was quite surprised: "He is almost fifty, and there is still someone to marry him?"
The mother said: "The woman suffers from infertility and has been divorced several times. A woman cannot die in her parents' home, so someone introduced her to Zhao Great. Zhao Zan has been lonely for half his life. He can have someone to talk to at night, and he can have ready-made meals when he comes home from working in the fields. The two poor people have settled on their marriage after just a few meetings. "
" Poor, that woman may be pitiful, but Zhao Zan responded to the saying, 'Poor people must be hateful.' I don't think anyone in China can do anything worse than a beast," I said.
Zhao Zan is not only my aunt’s cousin, but also my childhood playmate, because our two families are not far apart and have a close relationship. When we were young, the two of us were almost inseparable, but as we grew older, Because of the difference in temperament and temperament, the two of us rarely spend time together.
Now that I think about it, Zhao Zan has shown violent tendencies since he was a child. When I was six years old, a few of us children were herding sheep in the wild fields to the west of the village. We happened to encounter a snake crawling from the east to the west of the road. There is a proverb in our hometown: " A long worm (snake) crosses the aisle, which is a sign of rain."
In our eyes, snakes are very scary and even spiritual animals. We have always been afraid of them, but Zhao Zan was not. After seeing the snake, he was very excited and picked up a brick and threw it at the snake. on the snake's body, and then used a sheep's whip to beat its flesh and blood until it was bloody.
When an old lady in her sixties passed us with a basket on her back, she pointed at Zhao Zan's nose and said, "You are doing something sinful!"
The thing that made Zhao Zan famous in the village happened when he was eighteen years old. When I was 20 years old, it was a summer afternoon. Many people were enjoying the shade and chatting under the willow tree by the pond. Suddenly, they heard an old man shouting at the top of his lungs: "Help! Help!"
People stood up from under the tree and ran. Heading towards the scene of the accident, they saw Zhao Zan's grandfather, whose clothes were torn and one of his shoes was missing. He was running towards him in panic. Behind him, 18-year-old Zhao Zan was carrying a wooden stick as thick as an egg. , swearing and shouting: "If I don't break your legs today, my surname will not be Zhao!"
Everyone swarmed up, stopped the crazy Zhao Zan, and took the stick from his hand. As the saying goes, "poor and hungry make quarrels." The rural economy at that time was underdeveloped, and life was difficult for any family. An egg or a few ears of corn could cause two families to have conflicts.
But after all, the Chinese nation is a country of etiquette and values forbearance. Xiang Zhao Zan, holding a stick and preparing to break his grandfather's leg, is an unprecedented feat in our village, because no one has come since. His record has not been broken yet.
Zhao Zan’s grandfather has two sons, and Zhao Zan’s father is the second son. His grandfather was an honest farmer. After raising his two sons, he tried every possible means to give them a family and completed the most important task in his life. After he turned sixty, the old man distributed his land to He has two sons, who provide him with food and pocket money.
html One day something unexpected happened. When Uncle Zhao Zan was fifty years old, he suffered a sudden cerebral hemorrhage. Although there was no danger of his life after treatment, he lost his ability to work and could only limp around the village pushing a tricycle all day long. Do rehabilitation training on the road.
Zhao Zan’s cousin was eighteen years old at that time. Because her father was ill and the family was in difficulty, the girl dropped out of school and went home to help her poor mother maintain the family’s life. It’s not that I favor boys over girls. At that time, whether it was cutting wheat or harvesting corn, it all required manpower. It was indeed difficult for an 18-year-old girl to take on such a big task, let alone the extremely difficult task of driving an animal to plow the fields. of work. After all, there are only a few "iron girls" like Xing Yanzi during the Cultural Revolution.
Seeing that the life of his eldest son and his family was difficult, Zhao Zan’s grandfather often went to the fields to help clean up. In fact, for a seventy-year-old man, the help he could do was very limited due to his old age and frailty. It was more of a spiritual thing. encourage.
Even so, Zhao Zan's father was not happy anymore. He went to his father and said: "You eat from two families, you can't just work for one family."
"Your eldest brother has become like that. You are brothers, not only me." You have to help him. If you can spare time, you have to help him. We can't watch your brother's jokes," his father said to him. "We have separated, and we have to live our own lives. I don't care about his affairs, and you can't. If you only help him and not me, I will not give you any more food and money every year." Zhao Zan Father said arrogantly.
Although the second son blocked it, the old man could not let the old man live in ruins. He also thought that what the second son said was just angry words.
Unexpectedly, not long after, there were rumors in the village. It was said that the reason why the old man cared so much for his eldest son was because his son had become a cripple and he had fallen in love with his daughter-in-law. Some people with noses and eyes said that someone saw him in an autumn After harvesting the corn, he helped his daughter-in-law wipe her back while she was taking a bath.
And the source of these words is actually the second daughter-in-law. Once he talked about this with his second son and asked him: "Do you think it's shameful to do it to your father and your sister-in-law?" "Don't do it if you think it's shameful. If you do it, you're afraid of being criticized!" The father and son got up at that time. conflict.
After the conflict intensified, Zhao Zan's father fulfilled his promise and decisively cut off the old man's supply. In fact, the old man's request is very limited, just a few hundred kilograms of grain per year and 150 yuan.
Because of the unfilial piety of the second child, the old man was going to go to the village committee to deal with it. The boss comforted him and said: "Maybe the second child is angry, and it will get better after a while. The whole city is in trouble because of a little sesame and mung bean incident. In the end, he is the one who is embarrassed." ." Following the boss's advice, Grandpa Zhao Zan took a breath for the time being.
Zhao Zan’s family stopped paying money for two years. At noon on the day of the accident, Grandpa Zhao Zan passed by his house and accidentally saw his family of three eating. He suddenly became very angry. He broke into Zhao Zan's house and sat at the dining table and said, "Is there something for you to eat?" You have to have something for me to eat!" After saying that, he picked up the steamed buns and ate them.
Zhao Zan’s mother on the side took the steamed bun from his hand and said, "Have you done your work to eat? Besides, my sister-in-law is so delicious!" With one sentence, the old man's ignorance was so angry that he cursed and cursed. Zhao Zan's table was turned over. Eighteen-year-old Zhao Zan was in his prime. He pushed his grandfather to the ground, rode underneath him and punched him.
Zhao Zan's father saw his 70-year-old father being beaten by his son, and his filial piety burst out of him. He grabbed his son and shouted to his father: "Why did you say you came to my house to make trouble for nothing? If he wants to beat you up, who will serve you?" !" The old man got up from the ground and ran away, and Zhao Zan, who had escaped from his father's shackles, was chasing after him.
The old man died in depression the second year after being beaten by Zhao Zan. What Zhao Zan didn't expect was that the impact of his beating on his grandfather did not disappear with his grandfather's death.
When he reaches the age of marriage, when a matchmaker comes to the woman's house to propose marriage, he will often be asked: "Are you talking about Zhao Zan who dared to beat his grandfather?" Then there is no more, beating the grandfather and other misdeeds , allowing Zhao Zan to thrive on the road of being a bachelor until today.
Bless Zhao Zan, he will finally get married, and what’s more, I want to bless him that when he gets old, he will not be chased and beaten by his grandson, because he will never have a son!
