I am an old farmer. I am the youngest of five brothers in my family, that is, I am the youngest among the five brothers in my family.
My eldest brother is thirteen years older than me. He was born in 1942, and the rural production team was established in 1958. That is to say, when the production team was established, he worked in the production team.
Our production team is located in a ravine, and there can be forty or fifty families. These families are distributed on both sides of a small river in the middle of our ravine.
Our family lives on the west bank of the creek, in the middle of the ravine. My third aunt's family lives on the east bank of the creek, separated from our house by only a river, about fifty meters away.
What I want to talk about is the magical things between my brother and my third aunt in Hedong, mainly the magic and incredibleness of my third aunt.
If you want to see members of the rural production team hiding and cheating in the production team, you can also read the story below.
This happened one day after lunch in the summer of 1963, the captain of our production team sent my brother and another commune member to go to the ditch in our ravine to collect cow dung from the cow pen.
I have seen the small team cattle pen in the ditch. It is at the foot of the mountain far away from the people's house in the ditch. It is blocked with oak sticks and has a square area of 20 feet.
Anyone who has experienced the countryside at that time knows that the production team raised a lot of cattle at that time, including seven, eight, and ten cattle, large and small. If the cattle were pulling carts across the fields, they were farm cattle, and they were special. As for the treatment, they are kept in the team's livestock pen, and the breeders will feed them with grass and food.
Those who are not selected as draft animals are called "barren cattle". They are herded by the cattle herding members of the small team, that is, they are driven to the hillsides with whips to eat wild wormwood, weeds, leaves, etc.
Because they were driven back and forth up the mountain and passed by the crop fields, they could not be seen at a glance. They could easily tear away the crops, so they were directly trapped in the mountain, that is, on the hillside far away from the team headquarters, and they were clamped with some oak sticks. There was a cattle pen, and they were penned there at night.
No one looked at them at night. It is said that the wild wolves in the mountains did not dare to eat them. The wolves were afraid that if they entered the cattle pen, they would be gored to death by the cattle.
Regardless of whether it is true or false, this is how the wild cow has been kept for many years, and it has never been less.
The captain of the production team sent my eldest brother and another member to go to this cow pen to collect cow dung.
Another member is my third cousin who lives in my third aunt’s house on the east side of the river.
My third cousin is five years older than my eldest brother.
The two of them came to the cattle pen, where the cows had been let out to graze. The cow dung in the cattle pen reeked of stench and were filled with flies.
On this hot day, there was not a breath of wind, and they were already covered in sweat even before they started working.
The weather is really hot, and the captain is not around. My brother said: "Third brother, let's find a shade of a tree to cool off for a while. When the sun is not too hot, we can work quickly. Anyway, these jobs It belongs to both of us."
To be honest, no one wants to work for such an old and hot person, but no one wants to show off and say something that they don't want to do.
Anyone who says he is unwilling to do it will delay his work. If the captain investigates him, he will be punished.
My third cousin is very thoughtful.
So they found a shade and sat down.
may have taken a nap. When my elder brother opened his eyes, the sun was almost setting.
My eldest brother was so frightened that he hurriedly said: "Third brother, let's work quickly!"
My third cousin was unhappy and said, "Are you the captain?"
When my eldest brother heard what he said, he shouted He quietly stared at my third cousin with two eyes.
kept staring, kept staring, staring with good eyes.
My eldest brother's eyes were slanted to both sides when he was born.
That look was very scary. Many children were so frightened that they cried when they saw him.
My third cousin suddenly burst into tears when my eldest brother looked at him. He stood up, raised his feet and ran towards home while crying.
My third aunt was busy making dinner at home. When she saw her third son running home crying, she hurriedly asked, "Guoshan, what's wrong? Who bullied you?"
My third cousin listened to my third cousin. When I asked him, he cried harder, became more sad, and his voice became louder and twitching. But no matter how my third aunt asked, my third cousin just cried and didn't speak.
My third cousin keeps crying, which makes my third aunt very worried. How can I fix this?
It doesn’t look like someone hit me.
wondered if something had happened?
At that time, rural areas were more superstitious about ghosts and gods. Some things that were incomprehensible were what the ghosts and gods were making of you.
Just like the ancestors who died there were short of clothes to wear and money to spend.
At this time, some old ladies in the countryside will use the ancestral magic skill of "standing chopsticks" to ask which ancestor they are or the deceased people who are related to their family.
My third aunt hurriedly took out a rice bowl from the cupboard, filled it with half a bowl of water, and then took out three chopsticks
The old lady in the countryside, who "sets up chopsticks" when her child is sick, really got her right this time.
: I prayed in my heart and asked: "Is it his father? If it's you, just stop."
The chopsticks were not standing.
asked again: "Is it his breast? If it's you, just stop."
asked again, and asked again..., and asked all the ancestors and ancestors that he could think of that he had met and never met, relatives and friends near and far, and neighbors. When people who have passed away are approached and asked, the chopsticks will not stand still.
This has not happened in the past. You can find out who is coming without asking three or five questions. If you know who it is, you can know what he or she needs and make a wish to buy it.
Most of the time, it’s better to hurry up.
I asked everyone one by one today, but this chopstick just won’t stand up. I really can’t think of anyone else who I haven’t asked.
suddenly thought that it could be a small basket? (My eldest brother’s nickname)
A magical scene appeared. The chopsticks stood up in response to the sound, and my third cousin also stopped crying, nodded and said: "Huh!"
At this time, my brother also slowly jumped up, not too nervous. He hurriedly came to my third aunt's house and explained the incident in detail.
was scolded by my third aunt: "You little bastard, you don't know what your third brother is like? Why are you trying to figure him out when you're fine? There are neighbors all around, no matter who bullies him, it's not you. Do you still care about those who bully him? What do you mean by being young? You are already in your twenties. You bullied him and played tricks on him when you were a child. I don’t care about you. You are so old and you are still so ignorant? Those eyes of yours are like those of an evil spirit, which would scare even good people, let alone those like your third brother."
My third cousin is a bit mentally retarded, otherwise my third aunt wouldn’t be able to get so angry at my eldest brother.
As a result, my eldest brother was given the nickname: "Living Ghost".
I am really impressed by my third aunt, she is really amazing.
I concluded from this: "The masters are among the people."
Of course, my eldest brother and my third cousin didn’t earn a penny because they didn’t work that afternoon.
