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Legend has it that Shun was a filial man, and his father and stepmother wanted to murder him. Once, he was asked to repair the roof of the warehouse. After Shun got up to the roof, his father set fire below and wanted to burn Shun to death. At this time, Shun jumped down and escaped like a skydiving. Another time, his father asked Shun to dig a well. After Shun went down to the bottom of the well, his father and brother filled the soil from above and tried to bury Shun alive. Finally, Shun dug another tunnel and escaped. After these two things, Shun did not resent or resent his father and younger brother at all, and was still respectful to his parents and kind to his younger brother. His filial piety moved Emperor Yao, married his two daughters, Ehuang and Niaoying, and chose Shun as his heirs. Although the legend of
cannot be verified, it can be circulated for more than 4,000 years, and I am willing to believe it is true. What can prove this story is a family in our village. It may not be as shallow as me. Let me just act as a short story to chat after dinner. Let me tell you.
Xiaogang was three years older than me. When I was in the third grade, he had already dropped out of school. He didn't have a vicious stepmother like Shun, but his mother died very early. In my impression, when he was a child, Xiaogang always wore a ragged shirt and tried hard to follow his father with his big nose. He had to walk quickly or jog very hard to keep up with his father's footsteps, so he looked as exaggerated and funny as a duck trying to master balance. Their family is not in good condition, and with three bachelors, the family without women seems to have less vitality, so no children are willing to play at his house, and Xiaogang's father does not allow him to play at other people's houses, so Xiaogang had almost no friends when he was a child. When we were playing games with children from all over the world, Xiao Gang was not seen. Sometimes he would watch us play from a distance, but when we asked him to attend, he turned his head and went home.
Sometimes I hear adults sympathize with each other. The child without a mother is so miserable. Xiaogang doesn’t know when he will grow up. At that time, a song "Only Mom in the World" was popular. Because of this song, I felt particularly sympathetic to Xiaogang and always paid attention to him silently. Even if I went to work later, I would always ask him whenever I went back to my hometown.
In the 1980s, material life was not rich. Xiaogang's father knew masonry. It was popular to build red brick houses at that time. Compared with blue brick houses, the houses that left the building in front of red bricks looked fashionable. At that time, unlike now, even if my sister-in-law helped my brother-in-law do a day's work, my sister-in-law would symbolically get the money from her daily work. This is a kind of politeness. After all, if my sister-in-law went out to work, she would earn so much money. The sister-in-law will symbolically collect half or less, which has shown the value of family affection. In the early 1980s, the people in our village had no place to work. They guarded the land all day long, and the most deficit seemed to be time. At that time, when building a house, he would pull the soil and lay the foundation, buy bricks and tiles by himself, and when he arrived at the house, he would take two bottles of wine or a few kilograms of eggs to hire a master a few days in advance. He would generally agree to the friendship between his fellow villagers. Although the bricklayers worked very hard, the house that built the house would serve him delicious food and drink, and even let the children eat together. I think that was the happiest period of Xiaogang.
Later, someone gathered bricklayers, carpenters, etc. to form a contract team. The price was set at how much it cost to build a house. The house that built the house no longer cared about food. In this way, there was a lot of trouble left in both places, which had a little bit of reform and opening up the economy and society. Xiaogang's father Lao Kun participated in such a contract team, and was no longer limited to building only houses in our village.
Because Lao Kun can make money and his financial conditions are better, he also built his own large tile house that took him out of the Xiamen. He also carefully organized a marriage for Xiaogang's brother Xiaoqiang. On the day Xiaoqiang got married, everyone in our village felt happy and felt that the Santiao Bachelor married a new wife to do housework, and that in the future, they would prosper.So, even if the adults are busy in and out, even if they don’t visit their families, they will take advantage of this happy event to take a closer look at the family and outside, and remind you not to forget the details like your own happy event. The children started playing in front of their doors in the shocking loudspeaker music for two days. It can be said that it was the most lively wedding in our village. People hoped from the bottom of their hearts that this kind of excitement could transform the decay of this family.
But no one expected that Xiaoqiang's wife who came in did not play a good role in the gentleness of women among the three men. Instead, she had a big fight every three days and a small fight every five days. At first, she could only hear her crying noises like firecrackers. Her rapid voice seemed to have ten thousand kinds of injustice and ten million reasons: Who would do this? . . . . . . I married into your family to be bullied, there is nothing like this or that. . . . . . . Later, it was accompanied by the clanging sound of the copper basin falling to the ground and the rattle of the chickens and ducks being kicked into the sky.
People in our village were shocked. After all, this small village has been quiet for many years. Although there are conflicts sometimes, everyone is very restrained. If you don’t talk to each other when you meet, it is the most serious conflict. After three to five years, maybe after thinking about it, maybe it will be as good as before after being matched by others. Everyone has really not experienced much in this kind of yelling and chasing. No sister-in-law or sister-in-law can learn about the situation. Gradually, the new wife became familiar with everyone and knew that the village did not have such a shrew style. Later, there were fewer noisy noises. However, when she chatted with her aunt, aunt, sister-in-law, sister-in-law, and sister-in-law, she would grit her teeth and talk about Xiaogang's many problems, such as not washing her clothes when she was dirty, throwing her shoes everywhere, being greedy and lazy without any glance, not buying anything if she spent money, looking down on her sister-in-law, fighting with her sister-in-law, etc. Finally, she came to her conclusion: she couldn't pass it without separating her family!
split? How to distinguish? The villagers were also confused. Lao Kuntou has only been able to make some money with his craftsmanship in recent years. He built a house and married a wife. He probably even bought a coffin. At this time, he split the family. What can Xiaoqiang’s wife share with his brother-in-law Xiaogang? Xiaoqiang's wife will not give anything to Xiaogang. In less than two years after marriage, after experiencing several threats of returning to her parents' home and even having to divorce during confinement, Xiaogang set up a shack at the door of his house and began to live alone. It was actually Xiaogang who was kicked out of the house because he said it was the separation. At that time, Xiaogang was only fourteen or fifteen years old. What kind of life is the most important thing about pots, pans, food, clothing, housing and transportation? Where can a child who has no mother since childhood learn to take care of himself?
My grandma is a kind-hearted person, and she lives close to Xiaogang's house. Seeing Xiaogang being kicked out, she muttered, "There is such a cruel person, and there is such a cruel person..." She cried all night. The next day, I had red eyes and found a few of them from the Chinese New Year and gave them to Xiaogang.
Aunt Nianzi is straightforward and doesn't talk to Xiaoqiang's wife, but she pulls Lao Kun's head and points at Lao Kun's nose and asks: How many sons do you have? The one in the family is a son, but this one is not a son? If you build a house for your eldest son and marry a wife, the younger son will have to be the same. You let a half-old child live here, and your heart is eaten by the dog? How could you be cruel? Lao Kun lowered his head and did not dare to look at Xiaogang, nor did he dare to refute. He broke free from Aunt Nianzi's entanglement with red eyes, and hid at home and did not dare to come out.
Xiaoqiang's wife did not buy it. She said that Xiaogang set up a shack in front of her door, publicly challenged her, deliberately fouling her reputation, not allowing her to live, and then smashing his shack. Xiaogang had to live in two abandoned silkworm houses in the village south yard.
is said to be a silkworm house, but it is actually a mud shed piled up in the 1970s. Because it has long been abandoned, half of it is still exposed. But here is far away from home, and neither side is worried. Fortunately, in the 1980s, the land that was tilled from burial to cremation was deeper than that of the pout. Therefore, many of the old tombs that used to bury were abandoned, and there were many large blue bricks thrown away in the fields. Those who are interested will teach Xiaogang to pick up such bricks.There is an abandoned tree garden in the village, with several collapsed and broken houses inside. It is said that it was a house of a landlord's family in the past, but now there is no heir to this house, so it is no owner. I heard that people in this house were hanged before, and the villagers were afraid that the things in this house were unlucky. They would rather save money by themselves than use such bad luck on their new house. Given Xiaogang's situation, we didn't care too much, so we spontaneously went to the garden to find useful purlins, beams, bricks and tiles, and pressed Xiaogang's earthen shed on the roof before the beginning of winter. It’s just that among so many people who help build houses, there is no father of Xiaogang, who knows masonry.
Is sympathy valuable? Sympathy is worthless! But love is priceless! At that time, I was just in junior high school and came up with this feeling when I passed by Xiaogang's earthen house. I have never seen Xiaogang cry. It may be because he is a few years older than us, or it may be because boys are not used to crying.
As long as I go to work in Nanpo, I will deliberately pass by the yard where Xiaogang lives. I am very curious about how he lives. He had a room that looked like a kitchen, with a three-legged earth stove, but it didn't look like it was often fired. Xiaogang doesn't like to say hello to others, either lowers his head to work or hides in the house. I didn't dare to say hello to him even if he had a gloomy face. Only once did he sit on the threshold in front of the house door, leaning against the door frame, pedaling on the other side of the door frame, and a very thick 16-open book on his knees, which made him fascinated. Although I don’t study well, I like books by nature and especially respect those who love reading. I couldn't help but go up and ask: Brother Xiaogang, what book are you reading? I don’t know if he saw that he didn’t hear or didn’t want to talk to me, but he ignored me. I walked out for more than fifty meters in disappointment, because there was the book that still couldn't move, so I could only turn back and stand beside him and peep. Repeat my question just now. This time he couldn't ignore me and said it was "People's Literature". I hurriedly asked: Can you lend me a look? When I was in junior high school, it was the late 1980s. At that time, I didn’t even have a guide to this composition. Although I knew the title of "How Iron and Steel in ", I have never even seen the cover. The four great classics know the names. Apart from the storytelling that is regularly listened from that radio, 17-inch TVs have just emerged. Because I have watched the TV series "Dream of Red Mansions", my desire for books is no less popular than the TV series "Desire".
Xiaogang frowned when he heard that I was going to borrow a book, and I quickly said that I would not break it. My textbook didn’t even fold the corners of the book, so I read the book carefully. He may have been moved by my sincerity and said that it is OK, but there are three people in front of you, Dazhuang, Xiaoyong, and Patriotic. You will be able to read it after Patriotic is finished. When I heard this, I almost cried and thought to myself that it wasn't until the New Year. Because he was unwilling to give up, he asked him: Where did you buy this book? He frowned again and said, "This is "People's Literature". How can we sell such top books and magazines in small places like ours?" I was even more puzzled. Where did Xiaogang, who was kicked out of the house and felt sorry for my grandmother who cried all night, get such a high-end book? When I was a teenager, I broke the casserole and asked to the end: "Then how did you get it?" Xiaogang's face darkened, his brows frowned again and he closed his mouth. I thought he wouldn't tell me anymore, but he didn't expect that he closed the book and stood up and said: I collected the rag. Then I walked into the house, maybe I was afraid that I would follow in, so I closed the door. I still remember the plot of
, because at that moment I suddenly realized that the world is very big, and the big reference is the book "People's Literature".
Xiao Gang started to make a living by collecting junk. At that time, you could buy an can for 8 cents per, and a beer bottle of 20 cents per, but these are all treasures of each family, and few people were willing to throw them away. The most common one is plastic cloth, especially the popular plastic film , which can only be used for one season, so the fields are filled with plastic cloth fluttering in the wind. The discarded plastic sheet stack in front of Xiaogang's house is like a hill.
days are in a regular cycle between growth and decay, trauma and healing. I was admitted to the technical secondary school and finally arrived at the big world outside. Although I haven’t left the province yet, I already feel that the world is big and can only be reached by train. The school has a very large library, and I can see many world famous works, just like the feeling that the book "People's Literature" brings me, the world is magical like a fairy tale.
Most of the news about Xiaogang in those three years was heard from the villagers during the holidays. One winter, Xiaogang went out far away and did not return to the village during the Chinese New Year. At the end of March, Xiaogang brought back a woman. She is not tall and has freckles on her face, but she loves to smile and is cheerful. She said that her name is Aiqing. One night, Xiaogang took his wife to his brother, sister-in-law and father's house. He didn't know what he had been talking about, but the two families still didn't interact. Xiaogang did not hold a wedding, and the next spring his wife gave birth to a fat boy for him, named Chunsheng.
Aiqing farms at home to take care of her children, and Xiaogang collects junk everywhere. Later he also bought a small motorcycle in Jialing. The trailer was often like a hill, and he also hung a bundle here and tied a bundle there. But it can be seen that you make a lot of money.
When summer slack season, women like to gossip in the shade of alleys. The most common thing I talk about is Xiaogang's family. Aiqing has a good temper and often cooks some foods, including one bowl and one bowl of the other. Xiaoqiang gave birth to a son. Lao Kuntou had to go out to build a house to make money, but also depended on his grandson and worked in the fields. He was so busy that he couldn't make any money. Many bricklayers went to the construction site in the city, but Lao Kuntou couldn't go far because of so many things, and he couldn't even build a house in another village, so his range of activities was reduced back to the village. Xiaoqiang's wife doesn't like to go to the fields to work, so she likes to go to the market, and she has to buy things when she goes to the market.
What impressed me most about these gossips is the discount Chunsheng called grandpa. There are many versions, one more exciting than the other. The main plot is: Chunsheng met Lao Kuntou at the convenience store. He took the initiative to call grandpa. Lao Kuntou rubbed his hands with his clothes, looked back at the shelves of the convenience store, looked down at his grandson, who was only four or five years old, and wanted to agree, but did not make a sound. Someone next to him started to cheer, "Chunsheng, is this your grandfather? Is it your grandfather he won't buy you candy?" Chunsheng said angrily, "My mother said this is grandfather, I don't want candy." Lao Kun ran away as if he ran away with a flushed face. Chunsheng met Lao Kuntou with his mother for the second time, and happened to meet Lao Kuntou, and this time there was no one around. Chunsheng timidly called grandpa under the hint of Aiqing. Lao Kun looked at the two of them, and lowered his eyelids without expression and walked over. Ai Qing blushed. Chunsheng looked at Lao Kuntou who was leaving quickly and asked his mother, "Why didn't grandpa agree?" Aiqing could only say that your voice was too small and grandpa didn't hear it. Chunsheng deliberately raised his voice when he called his grandfather for the third time. At that time, Lao Kun pointed his head at Xiaoqiang's second son. He bought a biscuit and squatted on the ground to take it for the child to eat. Chunsheng's voice scared Lao Kun and turned to see that it was Chunsheng. I wonder if he had hesitated for a moment. I only heard that he picked up Xiaoqiang's son and said to Chunsheng viciously: I am not your grandfather, don't call me grandfather in the future! Chunsheng was at the age of not understanding, but he seemed to know that he was sad. After returning home, he complained to Xiaogang, saying that his grandfather would not let me call him grandfather. After Xiaogang asked the whole story clearly, he became silent and silently held his son in his arms: If you don’t shout, don’t shout, let’s not shout, let’s not shout, if grandpa doesn’t let you shout.
The countryside after 2000 is like the fields passing by the spring breeze, and the changes can be said to be changing with each passing day. Some people have the cold of winter in their hearts, but they are trying to absorb the warmth of spring and strive to grow their own spring. Some people stick to their closed minds and stare at the shadows under their feet, thinking that the shadows can decorate the magnificent future. I moved to the county town because of work. Everyone got used to Xiaogang's family. Everyone was busy with their own affairs. Whether it was good or bad, life was always full of different excitement in spring, summer, autumn and winter. No matter how big a stone is, it cannot cause any ripples in other people's lives. Those heart-wrenching people are called Kan'er to you and stories to others.
The story of Xiaogang's family continues. Xiaogang's career of collecting scraps is getting bigger and bigger. He set up the scrap purchase station , bought truck , and built a new house, a two-story villa similar to a villa. Spring is coming when building houses in rural areas. The front-end houses are out of date, and most of them are bungalows. Although Lao Kuntou can do bricklayers, he can only fight for a daily worker because he is not a contractor. Every day, I wear mud-covered clothes and go out early and come back late. Xiaoqiang and his wife were still digging for food in the land, but because they were too lazy, their lives did not improve much. The two sons dropped out of school early because of poor academic performance. The older one is in their twenties and the younger one is sixteen or seventeen years old. Three more lights appeared in their family, but there was one more woman. The Chunsheng was admitted to the university and was a very good architectural university in our province. Later, he started working and worked as a design team at a certain Luqiao Group. I found a daughter-in-law from the provincial capital. The scene was very grand when I got married. Xiaogang, as Xi's father-in-law, was even more excited than the groom. He thanked everyone in the village and said that he owed his wife a wedding. Everyone present was moved to tears. Unfortunately, Lao Kuntou and Xiaoqiang's family did not participate.
It is said that in the early stage of the wedding, Xiaogang was restless and restless. Chunsheng saw his father's thoughts. Before dinner in the evening, he sat in front of his father and pretended to be relaxed and said, "I bought two bottles of wine and a box of tea." We will go to my uncle's house to ask my grandfather if he attends the wedding. If he is happy, he will not mention the past. If we don’t participate, we have asked, and we will not regret it if we work hard. The two men walked into the old house. They had once been so grand that they left the house, but now they became dilapidated and low. Against the backdrop of the two-story building around them, they were dark and humid, like an octogenarian. Xiaogang stuttered a little: The child sets a date to get married. . . . . . Before he finished speaking, his sister-in-law spoke first, "Your son is working and earning more money, what have you bought for grandpa over the years?" I'm going to get married and I'm going to ask for money, right? Xiaogang's face turned pale with anger, and his son even pulled his father up and walked out, helplessly saying: If we were short of money, we would not enter your house.
Xiaogang's heart was completely dead, and he felt that it would be impossible for him to make up with his father in his whole life. Xiaogang bought a building for his son in the provincial capital. Because he also had a grandson, he lived in the city most of his time and would return to the village every time he was busy with farming. Most of the young people in the village bought houses in the county town. The villagers wanted to open up and refused to build rural houses. They all saved money to buy houses in the city. The industry of building houses has almost disappeared, of course, even if there are, Lao Kun, who is in his 70s, can no longer do it.
The reversal that our villagers did not expect was in 2018. Xiaogang, who came back from the city, opened the door and Lao Kuntou followed him in. He walked into Xiaogang's home for the first time. He had been strangers for nearly 50 years. He almost didn't know his son anymore. Now Xiaogang has become the gray-haired Lao Gang. "Your sister-in-law said I have lived in her house for 47 years, so I will come to your house for a few years." Lao Kun's head was still like a bell, and there was no sign of shyness on Lao Xie's haggard face. We don’t know what kind of ideological struggle Xiaogang went through to let Lao Kuntou live in his home. I think everyone remembers the past, and he will never forget it. So what power made him choose to be tolerant, accept and reconcile?
Love is a kind of ability, some people have, some people don’t. Why and why not, I haven't found the answer yet. Life is always more exciting and unexpected than any script. The second year when Lao Kuntou lived in Xiaogang's house, Xiaoqiang's 30-year-old eldest son got married at his house. Xiaoqiang's wife couldn't help but brag about herself: I'll get a house in vain if I use a little trick.
But last week I heard that Xiaoqiang's son had a car accident and his life and death are still unknown. His youngest son has not been home for several years when he went out to work. . . . . . .
