The few days before I checked in to the military academy, my cousin Wang Honglun, who was a foreigner in our village, suddenly passed away due to liver cancer and , surprised and sad! Hong Lun's cousin is less than forty years old, but he is a father with 6 children. His parents are alive, so he is really a white-haired man who gives birth to a black-haired man!
Although Uncle Hong Lun is an ordinary farmer in our village and there is no legendary story, he is very impressed by me. Compared with other ordinary villagers, I always feel that he is extraordinary and has a unique side in terms of appearance, personality, background, experience, etc.!
Uncle Hong Lun was not born in our village, but a foreigner. Originally, he was not surnamed Wang, and he was from Chenlou Village, more than ten kilometers away from our village. His original name was Chen Mianlun. In Chenlou Village, he has four brothers and he is the third. Uncle Hong Lun is very handsome. If you hadn't met him in the countryside, you would definitely think he was from the city! She is over 1.76 meters tall, with fair skin, and especially her facial features. In the local dialect that rural elderly people often praise people: "This man has a nose and his eyes!", which means that his face is handsome, his facial features are delicate and distinct, and very beautiful! We have never heard of " Andy Lau " before, but now looking back, Uncle Hong Lun is simply a "replica" of Andy Lau!
Not only is he beautiful, but he also has a distinct personality, speaks smartly, is flexible in his mind, does things quickly, smiles when he meets people, and his every move gives people a fresh, lively, healthy, sunny, brave and upward spiritual strength and feeling. Since I was a child, I thought he was very special, not like the "very rustic" people in the past! I thought he might have been a young man who came to the border from Shanghai or a large southern city to the countryside!
I heard from the old man in the village that the other brothers of Hong Lun's cousin are all surprisingly handsome, but what is surprising is that the brothers have been living in the countryside, and no one can go out to see the world! From this we can see that in that era, we did not make a living by relying on our faces. Being good-looking does not necessarily lead to success. If it were now, it would be a different matter.
Hong Lun's cousin went from Chenlou Village to our village to be a son-in-law for someone else's family. Because it was "in-the-way", the name between him and his parents-in-law has always been the relationship between his parents and his son! The family member who was in the back of the family was named Wang, and the next generation named the word "Hong", so his name was basically changed. "Chen Mianlun" was changed to "Wang Honglun". These rules are very particular for rural people!
Since Uncle Hong Lun is so outstanding, why is he still in the door? The Wang family, who was involved in the door, was a big family. They were indeed quite famous in the rural areas at that time, otherwise he would not have been so stupid. He even ran out of the house with such good conditions.
backwards and into the door to be his son for others!
Although Wang's family is not a wealthy and high-ranking expert, it is quite good in the local rural families. The parents of Hong Lun's cousin joined the family, had a great family. Although hundreds of privately owned land were confiscated after liberation, their ancestors still had some of the family business converted into gold and silver, and they could still secretly keep some of them and pass them on to their current parents. I heard that one year when his parents were digging up an old house, the silver dollar hiding secretly in the thick soil mezzanine wall of the old house was dug out three big jars and thousands of pieces, which were priceless! His parents had no idea that there were only so many treasures hidden by their ancestors!
Nowadays, after parents gave birth to a daughter named Wang Honglan, they never gave birth to a child for some reason. Sister Honglan (I always call him sister by rural generation) is not only beautiful, but also smart and capable, especially at that time, he was the only skillful hand in a few nearby villages who could use sewing machines to make clothes for others.
In the past, rural areas were poor, and few families could afford finished clothes. Most of them bought fabrics or their own woven and dyed cloth and hand-cut, and hand-made needlework to make clothes. Sewing machines are foreign things, and later, rural living conditions gradually improved. Only when a newlywed gets married can you afford sewing machines.
I bought the sewing machine from Sister Hong Lan’s house early and was one of the first batch of "Flying People" brands in Shanghai. At that time, few people could afford to buy or could use machines to sew clothes, and her clothes making skills were good. I remember that in nearby villages, many people take fabrics to her house to make clothes. They can be worn with sewing machines. At that time, it seemed very novel and luxurious! Only when you need to make new clothes in rural areas, you have the opportunity to use a sewing machine.
Buy good fabric and send it to her for clothes. Generally, you have to make an appointment in advance to queue up. If you need to rush to do it, you have to say good things to her or give her some gifts to have the chance to make it first, but manual money is not exempt. Sister Honglan basically doesn’t rely on working in the fields to earn work points all year round, and she can earn a lot of money by just making clothes!
It is worth mentioning that Sister Honglan's family is not only very rich, but also her ancestors left some property. The key is whether her parents and Wang Honglun are good at farming. Their family is very careful in living and can make money and make a living. This is something that ordinary families cannot compare with them! Around the 1970s, the state opposed doing business and "cutting the tail of capitalism". At that time, her parents had an extraordinary business acumen. His parents rarely participated in the labor of the production team and went out to secretly sell tobacco leaves and rural local specialties all year round.
After the rural area implements the land co-production contract responsibility system, the land assigned by other families basically grows grain crops, and they can't make much grain all year round, while most of their families plant vegetables, watermelons and melons. In terms of growing economic crops, and knowing technology and knowing how to take care of them, the vegetables and fruits grow well every year, and they earn a lot of money. His family became the earliest household in our village of 20,000 yuan. It's cold in winter, others have no work to do, so her parents use their skills and go to villages to "forge" them (similar to sharpening knives, and use chisels to drill deep grooves in rural areas) to make money.
Cousin Hong Lun learned the old man’s skills very well. He is a good at farming and doing business, and his life is getting richer and richer!
But he has a fatal weakness, which is that he is too frugal. Others say he is too stingy, which I think is a bit inappropriate because he is never wronged and stingy about his children's expenses. His eldest daughter has been in the same class as me from elementary school to junior high school, and her food, food, clothing, and clothes are a hundred times better than me! To be frugal or stingy can only be said that he is very harsh on himself.
Although his family is rich, he is too frugal! He only knows that he works hard all day long to earn money, but he is very saving himself and is reluctant to eat and wear better. Others smoke cigarettes for a few cents, but they only smoke cheap local cigarettes, which hurts their lungs and body. Even if they buy cigarettes occasionally, they are still a "Alliance" card of 70% or 80%. The production team assigned the task of "piercing the big river" to each household (diging river silt every year, digging river silt, expanding the riverbed, and preventing river silt). His family has a large population and heavy tasks, but he never wanted to spend some money to hire machinery to help with everyone. Every year, one person works one winter one after another, and is exhausted!
Hong Lun's cousin's family is also like our poor rural families in northern Jiangsu, who value boys over girls! He longed to have a son early, but he gave birth to five daughters in a row. It was not until his sixth fetus that he finally achieved his true results! It is said that on the day he gave birth to a boy, Xiaoliu, he almost got excited and ran to his own ancestral grave in Chenlou Village and cried for the whole afternoon! During the period when Sister Hong Lan gave birth to so many children, the whole country was in full swing to carry out the family planning campaign. I don’t know how much extra birth payment his family was fined to survive. Ordinary families really can’t afford it.
But what makes him proud is that his five daughters are all like flowers and jade, which really inherited the excellent genes of their parents, especially his genes!
Just as the children were growing up, he unfortunately got liver cancer. I heard that it was not considered cancer at all when the examination was first tested. If you can pay attention to it in the early stage and go to a regular hospital for treatment in time, you can definitely be optimistic.But because he was too afraid of spending money and was unwilling to go to a regular hospital to see a doctor, he found some rural quack doctors to deal with it with traditional Chinese medicine, which made the condition worse and worse, and in the later stages he was unable to recover! It is said that even when the pain of his liver disease was unbearable, he refused to go to the hospital. Several times he secretly climbed to the Dawang Pond near the village to commit suicide. Fortunately, he was discovered in time and pulled back.
After cousin Hong Lun passed away, his family was very superstitious and believed a fortune teller who said that there was something wrong with the feng shui of his house and his ancestral forest. He also said that the fortune teller's predictions were too accurate! The fortune teller calculated that Uncle Hong Lun got sick because one day before dawn, he took a cow to Beihu (a field in the north of the village) to plow the land, and accidentally scratched out the coffin board in a low grave. Hearing that this cemetery was the cemetery of a descendant of a rich man in the past, Uncle Hong Lun was curious, so he dug out some copper coins from a stolen grave hole and took it home to sell it for some money. When he dug into the entrance of another grave, he suddenly pulled out a pink woman's dress. It was as thin as paper and as bright as blood! Before I could take out the red dress from the tomb, a cold wind blew over, and the red dress instantly turned into a puff of smoke and floated from the tomb into the air...
The fortune teller said that the daughter of a wealthy family who suddenly fell ill and died before she was married was buried in this grave. Who would dig her grave? She will entangle someone in the tomb and drag him to the underworld to get married...
This thing sounds so scary. No one with a little knowledge and thought will believe this superstitious statement, but then again, even if everything is false, how does the fortune teller know what day and time Uncle Hong Lun went to Beihu to plow the fields? When have you ever taken money and clothes from a grave? Do you think it is evil or not?
Not long after that, his eldest daughter graduated from college and married a wealthy businessman in Qinhuangdao . The whole family, together with Uncle Hong Lun’s body, moved to Qinhuangdao. No one in the village had ever seen Sister Hong Lan and her family again...
