My cousin and son-in-law called and said: I'm done, please ask you, and ask me if I want your phone number - can I give it to me?
I was speechless for a moment: He gave me a big and small problem - it's not to give, it's not to give, it's not to give.
The uncle he mentioned is his lover's uncle, my eldest cousin, who has an extraordinary relationship with me -
Just after the Spring Festival in 1968, my father took his mother, third brother and me from a fairy tale-like small mountain village at the junction of Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia province, and returned to the hometown where my father had been thinking about day and night - Mingshazhou, the Weining Plain, which was rich and beautiful, and squeezed into the ear cup room of my cousin's mother, my aunt's house.
At that time, Mingshazhou still had the legacy of the Republic of China that my father often visited: my aunt's house, like other original residents, built a circle of loess walls in an open space in the middle of the sink, with the gate open in the south, opening in the morning and closing in the evening. The three large houses located in the north and south are the main houses where my aunt and my aunt (the man in the second room) live. The ear room on the side turned out to be a utility room, but it became my residence at that time. On the east side are three new houses built by my eldest cousin, and a small house opposite the main house was built by my second cousin. My aunt and her husband had three boys and one girl, and they were all older than us: because of their deafness, they were called "big deafness" and "two deafness" by outsiders. My cousin and my third cousin are smart and talented. After both graduated from Mingsha Middle School, my cousin taught and was a famous beautiful teacher in Mingsha area. Her husband is the eldest of the Liu family’s aunt in Baimatan. She joined the army in Qinghai and became the chief of the department chief . My third cousin is an engineer in the Lanzhou Military Region. He has made many contributions in the process of digging a mountain cave. The front of my aunt's main hall wall is covered with certificates.
A palm-sized courtyard was originally filled with three families. In addition, my cousin gave birth to a daughter (the lover of the caller), and I put it at my parents' home for my aunt to lead me. When my cousin came to my parents' home to live after school. Both cousins also had a man and a woman. The third cousin happened to have returned from the army and stepped into the threshold of a small room separated by the main room. Then they married the partner who had been in love for many years. My father knew that I was not a good-looking lamp since I was a child. He pointed to me and warned me: There are too many people in this yard - the main house is your aunt, your Jia family (the husband of the second wife), your cousin and children, and your third cousin and sister-in-law are 6 people. On the east and south, your eldest cousin and second cousin live with 6 people. In addition, our family is 4 people, and we are 16 people. The tongue and teeth are so good and we still have bites and bleeding. Bumps are indispensable. You can no longer be as suffocated as the Liujia Gaozhuang (formerly a small mountain village) and push up and knock down, and lift the tiles on the house.
But I was not convinced: I wanted to remove the tiles in the house and I couldn’t find any tiles. The houses here were all covered with mud and the roofs were made of mud. In summer, I dried grains and cooled wolfberry. The only fresh thing was that I could lie on the roof at night to count the stars.
The cousin's wife comforted me and said: When the radio rang in the afternoon, she could see the train passing by the Zaoyuan opposite the Yellow River .
I climbed up the roof from the earth wall to the west and saw a row of black things moving like matchboxes at the distant foot of the mountain opposite, and thick smoke came out of my head - that was the train! I was so excited that I danced and danced on the roof, but I was so forgot about it. I ran from the west to the east to the roof, and practiced the martial arts routine "chicken step" that I had learned since I was a child. I also let go of my singing voice from time to time -
I was 12 years old back then, and my voice was as high, bright and sharp as my current grandson's voice. It penetrated my mind and attracted the attention of my neighbors around the wilderness. The roof made of
sorghum stalks was so pounding that I tossed. My father took my third brother to someone else's house to do muddy work, but my mother couldn't control me since she was a child. When my eldest cousin saw him, he hurriedly stamped his feet in the yard and scolded loudly: Come down quickly and get down quickly! Chu Chu (sorghum) pole jumped off the roof and leaked!
Not only did I not listen, I did a "double wind-filling ear" look on him.
The eldest cousin scolded: Why is this son brought back by my uncle, a disobedient thief?
Aunt cursed: Get out of here, your uncle goes out to avoid Ma Hongkui has been arrested for decades. The one who can bring back the Niu Bazi is the only one who has passed on the Yang family through the family line! Why don’t you care about your aunt? If it weren’t for your aunt’s long tongue, how could he know that he could see the train when he got in the room?
The cousin's wife smiled and said to me: Brothers sing so well - come down and sing it to us.
It seems that since I went to the room, my eldest cousin has a gap with our family. But he didn't aim at me at first, but instead made trouble for my third brother repeatedly - my third brother and I are one mother and two fathers, and my eldest cousin always keeps talking. My father found an empty room outside in time. On the day of the moving, the homeowner Gu Qingyun brought a few bundles of dried sorghum stalks and asked our whole family to burn the kang: Don’t care, we came from Mingshazhou from Tongxin Dingjia Ergou, and this is how we came here. Others on the team also came to send this and that.
Father Yang Baozhu is a famous ancestral carpenter of the Yang family. While he was making fire drills for the mountain area of Tongxin Saoer Mountain (today's Hongsibao), the team's house had to press a shovel handle, clean a bellows, make chopping boards and other housework utensils. His father immediately put down his work and did it for the other party for free as soon as possible. Some households still use the wooden furniture made by his father back then. What’s strange is: the better outsiders treat our family, the more my eldest cousin loves to cause trouble for our family. Once, when I worked in the team, I had to deal with my third brother in order to load the wreath of wheat on the carriage. The third brother was very angry, and his father advised the third brother: If the stone is big, you can go to the army and no longer get tired of these deaf ears. Since then, the third brother has become a "public family member" who earns wages and eats commercial food.
The eldest cousin's envy, jealousy and hatred for our family has developed to a point where it is difficult to withstand: the fourth cousin of Baimatan got married, and the eldest cousin held a big bowl of white wine for his father who was sitting on the "shangjiao" - asking his uncle to drink three bowls in a row, otherwise he would not be qualified to sit on theshangjiao. The festive wedding banquet at a relative's house evolved into a battlefield where nephews and uncles fought. Our family dug a new house to build a new house. The entrance of the canal was dug up overnight, and all the canals were soaked in water. Although they were not caught on the spot, a neighbor said to his father: The deaf man walked past the canal dam with a shovel.
The relationship between my father and my aunt's family has made it worse: when we meet, we have to criticize each other, and it has become the target of people in the village who often persuade them to fight. Because I was in school, I never turned my face with my aunt's family from beginning to end. How to improve the relationship with my aunt's family became a major concern back then.
One night in high school in 1973, I suddenly smelled the smell of fried oil cakes at my aunt's house - if anyone had fried oil cakes in a pot, the whole alley could smell them - at this time, my aunt and my family planned to settle down.
I opened the curtain of my aunt’s house: Wow! Why is it so fragrant?
Aunt picked up a big hot oil cake with chopsticks, handed it to me and scolded with a smile: "Bitch is raised - you are a dog's nose, how did you smell my aunt keeps you oil cake ?"
I took the oil cake and took a bite, and said: I also know that my aunt also kept the oil cake for her brother.
Aunt smiled and scolded: Bitch - are you a worm that got into my aunt's stomach - why do you know everything?
Aunt put a few oil cakes into a small basket made of red willows and sighed and said: Broken bones and tendons are connected - I am your father, my daughter, and your father is just me, my sister... I choked up as I said.
I said to my aunt: My father and I thought exactly the same way, but I just couldn't exaggerate my face.
Since then, my father and aunt have been in love as before.
When my father was hospitalized in Zhongning County Hospital, my aunt specially washed gluten and fried my father's favorite noodles and eggs - also called egg sprinkles, which is a unique local snack on the Weining Plain.
After the uncle and uncle returned to normal, at the critical moment of his father's death, my eldest cousin's actions completely exceeded the imagination of normal people -
When my father suddenly passed away in 1980, I was teaching students in the county middle school. After hearing the news, I rushed back to my hometown in Mingsha. My mother told me: My father could never find the stone glasses that he had worn for his whole life. The glasses were placed on the underground cabinet, and only my cousin and aunt came to my family.
Immediately afterwards, my cousin came up with the opposite way - someone died between my aunt and uncle. The rule in the countryside is that my uncle's family is to cause trouble for my aunt's family. My cousin instead caused problems for my family -
I want to ask a familiar carpenter to do the cousin of my father. They repeatedly insisted on "his own people" to do it, and kept emphasizing: There are so many carpenters in the Yang family, there are so many people. The son-in-law of the three families - the Zhu family, the Huang family and the Zhong family, are not the famous successor of the Yang Carpenter - how can someone ask others to make coffins for the Yang Carpenter's family? Among them, the Zhu family refers to the eldest cousin's family.
coffin board was selected by my father when he was alive. He made two pictures, one of them each. My eldest cousin shouted to everyone who came to help: My uncle has been wandering all his life, and he has not enjoyed a few days of blessing when he returned to his hometown. He left at the age of 70, and must be "lifted high and buried deep". He made a big, stupid and heavy thick coffin for his father. During the process of carrying the two coffins and carrying them to the Nanshan outside the Qixing Canal, they were all grinning and complaining.
The eldest cousin presided over the coffin. On the way to make the coffin, my father's complete set of carpenter tools became less and less, and in the end he was only a small nail hammer - I kept it until today, as the only souvenir of "Polka-Carpenter".
discusses with Cao Yinyang - send it to my father in 5 days.
The eldest cousin pointed at my nose and shouted: I have suffered for you for the rest of my life, and if you leave it for a few more days, you will feel sorry for the money!
He insisted on keeping it for 9 days.
Cao Yin and Yang have a compromise - let it go for 7 days.
The eldest cousin is still unwilling to give in.
Cao Yinyang persuaded him: the deceased will not speak, eat a bucket a day. Dozens of people in front and behind the village come to help with the meal. How much does it cost?
The eldest cousin shouted again: My uncle gave him (referring to me) a college student. He is now sitting in a shady tile house. He has a salary of "Wheat Yellow" every month. The other twelve people are earning shiny, and he is not as much as his salary for two or three months in a year.
There is no way, I can only arrange for my friends to buy meat and vegetables, and also buy grain and bowls and chopsticks. But no matter how much you buy, it is not enough. The neighbor who helped me told me many times: If the deaf man catches, he will turn to his house.
In order not to have an accident during my father's funeral, I had to swallow my anger. My mother was so angry that she could only cry loudly in front of her father's mourning hall.
Send my father greeted everyone on the same day. The dishes and chopsticks that the family bought twice were not enough...
Neighbor took out his belongings and said: Brother, don’t worry, human eyes are closed, the eyes of the sky are open!
I also comforted myself: my father is gone, no one is becoming a carpenter anymore, I brought my mother to serve me, such as carpenter tools, rice flour, jars and jars, take them as much as you want, and steal them if you want!
Even so, an intolerable scene still happened -
The next morning my father sent it, my eldest cousin dug out three thick elm boards that my father wanted to use for his legs, and passed by my doorstep and ran into me with me.
The neighbor chased out and waved his hand to his cousin and said: It was him who hid it secretly - my family didn't know at all.
The eldest cousin was so angry that a bad guy came to take action first: he grabbed my collar and shouted: This is my uncle's thing, why can't I take it?
I pressed my left arm to hold my collar, twisted his fingers with his right hand upwards, and as soon as he exerted force, he screamed in pain, and his legs knelt in front of me: Oh, you know how to fist! I was about to let go, my fingers were about to break...
I let go of my hands, and fists on his left and right to look at his two ears. It was like the "double wind-filling ears" that I showed him on the roof. When I saw his fierce eyes just now, he showed a pitiful begging gaze, so I let go of my hand and pushed it back. He tripped the sky, pulled his hands and feet at the same time, struggled to get up, picked up three elm boards and ran towards his home.
Since then, I have never met my eldest cousin again. Every year when I go back to Mingshazhou to visit my father's grave during the Qingming Festival, I often visit other elderly people in the village, but I can't meet my eldest cousin. A few years ago, my last cousin passed away. I met my eldest cousin at the accompanying scene and touched his thin old face with both hands.
He bared his mouth, revealing a few remaining black teeth, and murmured: I heard that your brother is getting more famous as he gets...
Suddenly received a call from my cousin's son-in-law, and I really don't know how to answer... I've been silent for a long time. Finally, I said on my phone: Tell me and tell me-but I can’t go, I will transfer you 500 yuan on WeChat, as gift money, and you can transfer it to your family.
2022-07-12 in Yinchuan Yuehai New World
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