Every year after the fourth day of the New Year or the fifth day of the New Year, it is my turn to wish my aunt a happy new year. She carried a big bag, containing biscuits, sugar, snacks, and sugar-burning , fruit, after breakfast, I stride out and ran eastward, and went out to pay New Year's greetings to relatives in groups of three or three. My uncle's house ten miles away crossed three villages, waded across a river, and enjoyed the scenery along the way. I didn't feel it was hard, so I arrived. If I had to walk so far again now, it would be a difficult day.
When I arrived at my uncle's house, I shouted loudly: Happy New Year, Happy New Year, my uncle. I would be warmly welcomed into the house by my uncle, holding melon seeds, placing candy pieces, making tea, asking about the warmth, and entertaining them carefully. Then I prepared lunch, and soon I would serve wine and food. It was still the daily Chinese New Year's dishes for the farmers, fried chicken and fish, steamed chicken and cabbage and pig skin frozen. The dishes were all ready-made and the wine was hot. I drank two cups with my uncle. When I was drunk, my uncle would talk about the troubles he encountered when he was young, and he experienced glory, the hardships of the years, and the highlights of life. He was in a hurry when he was passionate, and he felt sad when he was depressed. Let me, the listener, follow him, and his emotions fluctuated.
uncle said: When he was eleven or twelve years old, the village had a big bandit Liu Heiqi. Legend has it that the bandits wanted to attack Weixian City and use the road to travel. Almost all the people in the village fled in the wind and hid in time. In the vegetable cellar, in the sweet potato well, under the millstone, they were afraid that they would be caught by the bandits, and the food and money were lost, and they were afraid that their lives would be lost. A few days later, when they heard the noise and commotion on the street outside, and the people and horses were shouting, they bravely looked out from the eyes of the cracks and windows in the walls and windows. They saw a large number of people passing by. The first row was a white horse, the flag was bright, and the second row was a red horse. He was proud and proud. The third row was a yellow horse, with a knife and a gun, the fourth row was a green mane horse, and the fifth row was a gun cart. After the horse team passed, there were mules, one by one, a pair of teams, and then infantrymen, shouting trumpets, with neat steps, and spectacular. My uncle spoke in a magical way. I was so drunk that I heard it. Sometimes I was curious about asking questions about some confusion, which made my uncle even more excited and full of enthusiasm. He said: After the large army passed, the old, young, women and children followed behind, clamoring, calling their parents, probably the families of the bandits. This form did not look like Liu Heiqi's expansion and plunder, but it was like escaping from the desert. In fact, someone later found out that Han Fuqu, then chairman of the Shandong Provincial Government, wanted to wipe out the bandits and sent planes to bomb. Liu Heiqi could no longer resist it. He was immediately scared and led his troops from Laochao, Fei County, Nannan Lu overnight, trying to capture Weixian City, rob supplies and raise food, and then leave the customs and join Zhang Xueliang .
Uncle said: After the large bandits passed, a single bandit often smashed the door and searched for and robbed. Later, one day, a bandit kicked the door and entered a family in the front street. After searching for a long time, he cleaned half a bag of sorghum rice and left with his back. He was seen by the owner hiding in the corner of the wall and felt a little distressed and started to get angry. That was his own food for half a year. He was jealous and suddenly rushed out of his hiding place and picked up a shoulder pole. He swung the head of the bandit who was about to open the door and left. The bandit fainted. When the owner saw it, he suddenly woke up and became afraid. He ran away. He went out and was worried that the bandit would die. The leader came to find the back account and hurried to a house of a person with knowledge and prestige (Da Mingdi) in the village. He trembled and said the cause and effect. After hearing this, the person who understood and thought about it, comforted him and said: Don't be anxious. Call a few more powerful laborers and go back to your house together. Let's make plans.
gathered three or five people. When they returned home, the bandits had just woken up and were about to run away. The person who understood them shouted: Hold him down quickly and let him run away. I am afraid that our village will be bleeding into a river and razed to the ground. When everyone heard this, they quickly caught him and tied up a rice dumpling. The bandits begged underground: Brother, let me go, I am , Heze people. I shouldn't rob your food, please spare me, right? I will go home and farm well, and I will not be a soldier anymore! Everyone looked at each other, and showed their compassion. They looked at the wise man. The wise man pondered for a while: This man said pitiful in person, but he was afraid that he would report to their boss. He came back to take revenge on us. He just killed him and did not stop. The bandits lying on the ground immediately kowtowed like garlic: Brother, please spare my life, I still have an eighty-year-old mother, and I am a child with milk. I die, and they won’t live long! I understand that when a person waved his hand, he ignored the wail of the bandits, he directed everyone to throw him into the dry well behind the house, and immediately carried the soil and rocks into landing without leaving any trace, making it seamless.
Uncle said: When he was carrying the bandit into the well, he saw it in the crack of the door. He was so scared that he covered his mouth and didn't dare to scream.
I asked: What happened later? My uncle said: It's not like that. Later, a half-blind old woman led a thin daughter-in-law who was sucking in her arms to the village to find a man with an Caoxian accent. She asked if anyone had seen it. Everyone dared not speak. She shook her head together. Seeing that there was no news of the man, the mother and son went to the next village to inquire. Later, they never saw them again. I don't know whether they were going to the outside of the gate with a large number of bandits, or returning to their hometown in Heze, or whether they were lonely and helpless, and died halfway.
I heard my uncle chatting and telling stories, recalling his childhood of bandits, the traitor era, and the years of hunger for 58 years, I felt shocked, surprised, and shocked, which also led my thoughts into the years he could not bear to look back on. I felt that he could survive safely, and support my aunt and live together until old age. It was really not easy to create miracles!
In fact, every year, I go to my aunt's house to visit and pay New Year's greetings, and there are many lively events. I remember when I was very young, my brother took me to my aunt's house to pay New Year's greetings. My aunt tried her best to ask my brothers to have lunch and stay for the night to go home the next day. My second cousin also grabbed us and said that he hadn't had enough fun and continued to be crazy. So he put it in half and half. When he went to bed at night, there were few quilts, so he had to cover three of them with a quilt. They were one end and I was on the other end. They hadn't had enough fun during the day, and they chatted until midnight at night, and their feet were sweating. It was really stinking. I fell asleep in a hazy state until midnight, but an accident happened. Because I was sleeping too heavily, I wet the bed. When it was cold and the water flooded the seven armies, I realized that it was already a swamp. At that time, the child was simple in thinking. He thought that I was lying still and drying the urine stains with his body. No one noticed it. He laughed at me, so he lay down and stayed in bed and stopped eating breakfast. After a while, my brother informed me that I was going home. He was so angry that he rolled my cousin's quilt and hurriedly ran home with my brother as if he was running away. I was also afraid that my cousin would find me wet the bedding for him and he humiliated me after finding the debt, but my cousin didn't mention this matter until many years ago. I don't know if he gave me face but didn't reveal it, or if he was careless and didn't notice it. Hehe, I made a lucky chance!
Later one year, I rode a newly bought motorcycle and took my third brother to greet them. When I was at home, I discussed not to have lunch at my aunt's house, because there were guests coming to my house that day, so I had to go home early to entertain guests, go to my aunt's house to sit, make some politeness, throw away the gift and go home.
arrived at my aunt's house and followed the originally planned routine. She was about to say goodbye. My aunt was unwilling to do so. She felt that her two nephews came to the house and had no food or drink. She owe us so much that she owed us tears and pulled our sleeves and refused to let her go. My uncle saw it and knew that we still had guests to go home to accompany her immediately. So he smoothed out and said: Since you two brothers don't have lunch, take the wine home and drink it. Just think that you have had dinner at my house, so you don't want to. If you two leave, you will make a fuss with me.As he said that, he took out a bottle of wine and stuffed it to me. When he saw that it was an orange wine marked with foreign language. After careful examination, he found that it was a bottle of ( whiskey ) foreign wine. He knew that the price was very expensive, and he didn't know who gave it to him. He hurriedly put it down and refused to accept it. My uncle saw that there was no way, so he took out a tea bowl, unscrewed the bottle cap, poured half a glass of wine and handed it to me: Then you drink it, taste it, how about tasting this foreign wine? I saw that my uncle was unable to refuse his affection, and his tea bowl was covered with gray stains. I quickly held it in both hands and drank it dry. I quickly put the tea bowl aside, afraid that he would let me drink it again, so my uncle wanted to pour wine for my third brother again. My third brother waved his hand and refused, and my uncle no longer forced him.
So, they reluctantly sent them out to the door. I took my third brother home on a motorcycle. After crossing the west river of the village, I felt drunk and stopped. I said to my third brother: My eldest brother is too anxious to drink, so I am drunk. You can ride it! The third brother agreed, and I went into the back seat. I didn't walk much farther. I felt drunken and my eyes were blurred. I hurriedly hugged my third brother's waist. Seeing this, my third brother quickly lowered the speed, but after driving for a while, I couldn't hold my seat anymore and kept walking down from the motorcycle seat. The third brother at least carefully brought me home, exhausted and sweated, teasing me: Wu Song was drinking, and eighteen bowls of tigers beat Jingyanggang. You just treat the bear as a bowl!
Nowadays, my aunt and uncle have passed away for many years. I can never hear him talk about strange things again, nor can I see me touching my hair with tears in my eyes.
Alas, once the spring is over, the beauty is old, the flowers fall and people don’t know!
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