"Lights in the Street" Chapter 1 In the prehistoric era (42-45)
Wei Huqing returned from Xi'an and opened a clinic, setting three family rules for future generations: 1. Do not join the army and serve as a military officer, and do not join the government as an official; 2. Learn the ability to support oneself; 3. Help others and cultivate morality and benefit neighbors. He did not invest in the industry and sent the children to school. The eldest granddaughter Wei Sujie carried her schoolbag at a young age and followed her uncles and aunts to school.
She is talented and crawls into the sea of ink-scented books all day long, so she doesn't even have to eat. She went out to flee and was wandering around, but she did not give up studying. Anti-Japanese War returned victoriously. I heard that Luopu Middle School was recruiting students, so she wanted to apply for the exam, so she told her mother.
My mother is illiterate and has no choice but to talk to anyone in the Wei family, a scholarly family. She can only do some rough work such as cooking, cutting medicine and sweeping the floor every day. She can't raise her head all day and suffer all the hardships. She knew that reading was good, she knew the words and understood the truth. But now his family is so poor that he can't afford to take care of the doctor. He takes vegetables to villages and villages every day to earn pocket money. At the age of 34 or 5, Jie carries groceries in Beiyuan and Xishan Chuan Township, and exchanges some broken copper and iron, and sells them in Fengji. The child is young.
She really couldn't bear it, but there was nothing she could do about making a living for the family. Today she heard that her daughter was going to take the exam, and she really couldn't tell whether it was joy or sorrow.
She said, "It's not that my mother doesn't let you go to school. The family is really difficult. You see, our family often has no meals after eating. How can we go to school? Be good and obedient, we won't go to school."
Suzhi said, "You ask me to try it. It's not certain if you can't get into the exam. You can't get into the exam."
Mother couldn't resist and reluctantly agreed. Unexpectedly, she passed the exam. She gave the notice to her mother. My mother had no choice but to say, "Go and ask your uncle."
Wei Chao said, "Go, let's talk about it, I don't believe that we can be poor all our lives."
Suzhi said, "I have two meals a day, one meal is fine, I'm not afraid of hardship."
Mother said, "I have to live in the school, I don't have a quilt yet. I'll go to your aunt tomorrow to see if I can get a bedding."
school started, Luopu Middle School recruited 80 students in two classes, only two girls. The girl was named Mei Shu'e, with short hair and cherry face, smart and lively. The two of them are in the same class and at the same table, and their relationship is very harmonious. Mei Shu'e is the only daughter of Mei Kejian, the shopkeeper of the pickle shop in the city. After she knew about Wessue's embarrassment, she asked her to live in her house and often eat at her house. After a long time, Wei Suyao felt embarrassed. After school in the morning, she used the excuse to go out and pick wild vegetables in the field, and then go back to school in the afternoon...
That morning, because my grandmother wanted to eat noodles , Jie Sanyi went to the noodle shop to make a can of slurry water, and bought half a basket of tofu scraps. In the morning, my mother rubbed a white radish, added salt, pepper noodles, and five-spice powder, and was baking tofu and burning...
Naiwen, who was thin, had a long neck and had a hat-like black hair, moved the bag full of firewood to the edge of the ground, carried it hard, and a green hydrangea like a hill rolled on the downhill sausage path. When he arrived at the door of the house, he lifted the bag sideways, dragged his sore legs, covered his stomach that was pressed against his back, and staggered into the door: "Mom, I'm back!"
He saw the on the pot burning , grabbed it and filled it into his mouth, choking and stretching his neck to stare at him, and then he got drunk one in a while. When he reached out to grab the second one, his mother said, "Be good, eat a cushion first, and send this to your elder sister quickly. She hasn't come back for a few days."
Mom said, wrapping seven or eight tofu and shit in a coarse square handkerchief and handing it to him, and let him send it to school for his elder sister to eat. The elder sister hasn't come back for five days. Mogou Village is five or six miles away from the county town. Naiwen ran there in a while and arrived at the school gate, and the school gate was closed. He went to Mei Shu'e's house, and she was having a meal, and she was also a noodles. He asked his elder sister, and she said that she often went outside the North City Gate after school in the morning, so you can go there and look for it. Naiwen went outside the north gate, where there was a wheat field. It is the season for wheat to bloom and barley to bloom. The breeze blows, the wheat waves rise and fall, and a faint fragrance floats in the sky. As soon as he left the city gate, he saw his elder sister appearing and disappearing in the wheat waves. The eldest sister held a handful of moldy wheat ears in one hand, and was pumping moldy wheat ears in the other hand, with black foam at the corner of her mouth.He understood at the sight and ran over, "Sister, mom asked me to bring fire to you."
Wei Suori came to the field, took the handkerchief, opened it and saw that there was a half-pull on it. Naiwen hurriedly said that the wind would blow away. The eldest sister said: The wind blew away?"
He felt that he could not hide it and cried.
The eldest sister also understood and said, "Don't cry, don't cry!"
hurriedly took out one for him. He choked and said, "I won't eat it, I've eaten it at home. "
said, and went to her to eat moldy wheat. The eldest sister said, "You have eaten it, don't eat it!"
This is her next meal, but she still doesn't think it's delicious. In short, she won't let him eat it. Naiwen said, "I often eat it. The ones that are not broken are delicious. The ones that are fried are all black and gray, which choked the throat and had bad taste. "
She nodded, with tears in her eyes. He saw her swallowing with fire and choking her neck, and said, "Go back and drink a bite of water. "
After swallowing the steamed bun, the elder sister said, "Go back and tell our mother that she should not give her food in the future, I will not be hungry.
They were talking, and only two gunshots were heard. Several people holding dirt guns chased a mountain muddy (wolf). The mountain muddy held a pig's ear and kept hitting the pig's butt with his tail. He ran to the hillside on the path not far from them...
to be continued...
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Author profile: Wei Guanwu, male, Han nationality, born in January 1943, from the eighth group of Dongguan Village, lives in front of the Zushi Pavilion, behind Danshuitang. After graduating from Xi'an Metallurgical College in 1969, he was assigned to China No. 17 Metallurgical Construction Company in Ma'anshan City, Anhui Province, where he served as deputy manager of the engineering company and deputy department. Later, he was transferred to the Labor and Management Department of the General Company, and served as deputy director, director for more than ten years and senior engineer. Retired from the Labor and Management Office in 2003.
