There is a small mountain village at the foot of Xiaoxing'an Ridge, just Liuzhuang. It was also the early eighties, just disbanded. Liuzhuang is not large, with more than fifty families, and is a particularly poor mountain village. It is more than 100 kilometers away from the city, and the people in the village have hardly ever entered the city.
Like the villagers in other places, they worked with their faces facing the loess and their backs to the sky. There is not a single motor vehicle here, it is all manual labor. The arable land depends on cattle and horses, and the harvest depends on labor. Father Liu had three children, the first two of whom died prematurely, leaving only his daughter Xiaohua. Daddy Liu is in his 50s this year, and his hair has white silk. Her mother, Yue'e, has been taking traditional Chinese medicine since she gave birth to Xiaohua's gynecological disease, which has made the family who is not rich even worse.
(In front of Yanagisho Village)
Yue'e was ill and had no ability to work, so Xiaohua dropped out of school to serve her mother when she finished the third grade of primary school. The small flowers are particularly filial and long water spirits. In addition to making three meals a day, feeding pigs, feeding chickens, ducks and geese, you also have to boil medicine for your mother. Old Father Liu went to the early morning to serve those acres of land in the morning and barely made ends meet. Old Father Liu didn't say much, and after eating at night, he sat in his doorway, took out his cigarette bag and smoked, smoking while looking at the sunset of the western sky.
Old Father Liu was also worried, Yue'e was sick, and the woman rushed to become a big girl at the age of nineteen. If the daughter gets married, how can this family be maintained, and who will take care of Yue'e? Thinking of this, Old Father Liu slammed the soot on the upper of his shoe and returned to the house with a long sigh.
(Small flowers carry water to cook)
Xiaohua is nineteen years old and already has a crush. There was a young man in the village named Dacheng, who was handsome and very good to xiaohua. The two men often poured out their hearts at the foot of the mountain. Xiaohua works in the field every day, and after he finishes the family work, he goes on a date with Dacheng. Dacheng took small flowers to play by the mountain stream, and went to the mountains to pick dingzi and eat red in the mountains. Dacheng climbed trees to buckle bird eggs and caught fish and shrimp in the stream. Race through the grass to catch hares. The two seem to live in a fairytale world. With Dacheng, the little flower is sweet and sweet no matter how bitter and tired she is.
By the end of the year, snow covered the small hills. People in the village have begun to prepare for the New Year. At this time, the people who kept pulling fibers kept coming to Father Liu's house. Every time he was rejected by Xiaohua, Dacheng's parents entrusted a matchmaker to propose to him, and Liu Laoda said that he did not agree to this marriage. The Dacheng family is also very poor, with four brothers and three sisters. Seven children and nine people. Father Liu is afraid that Xiaohua will be poor after marrying, and no matter how Much Xiaohua begs her father, Father Liu just does not agree. Xiaohua didn't know how many times she had secretly cried.
(Little Flower and Big Flower in Love)
One morning, just after dinner, the matchmaker came to the door. The person who came was Zhang Carpenter from the village, who was in his 30s and limped due to his childhood philism. He earns some money every year by making boxes and cabinets for the people in the village, and belongs to the rich family in the village. It's just that I haven't married my daughter-in-law since I was a child. The matchmaker said: Zhang Carpenter is willing to pay 500 yuan to marry Xiaohua, and said that he can come in and serve Yue'e with Xiaohua.
The 500 yuan dowry was not a small amount in that year. Old Father Liu and Yue'e agreed to this family affair. Xiaohua saw that Zhang Carpenter wanted to become his groom's official, and the head of the eight did not agree. Although one cry, two troubles and three hangings were exhausted, in the end, he still couldn't help Old Father Liu.
At the end of the year, Xiaohua was dressed in red and green as a bride ready to marry. Xiaohua cried no more tears, and could only obey the mercy of fate. Xiaohua also thought that if she married Zhang Carpenter, she would not be worried about her mother's money for taking medicine in the future. It's just that Zhang Carpenter is still a disabled person when he is older after all, and Dachengzi has waited for himself for three years. Thinking about this, Xiaohua's heart was broken.
After entering the cave room, Xiaohua sat on the kang all night without closing her eyes. Zhang Carpenter is an honest person, and he does not dare to easily move the small flower. Xiaohua said to Zhang Carpenter, "My heart has already been given to Dacheng, if you touch me, I will stab myself with scissors!" ”
"Uh-uh, little flower, I understand you, I know I don't deserve you, but we are husband and wife after all?" Zhang Carpenter said cautiously.
"Who is married to you?" When did I promise you? Xiaohua stared at Zhang Carpenter and said, her eyes full of grievances.
"All right, all right, little flower, I'll listen to you!" Zhang Carpenter snorted. In this way, Zhang Carpenter entered Liu Laopa's house, and from then on, Zhang Carpenter served Yue'e at home, and also helped Xiaohua cook and feed pigs and chickens and ducks. As soon as I have free time, I go out and make boxes and cabinets for others. A year has passed. The living conditions of Old Father Liu's family have gradually improved. (To be continued)
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(Small flowers into the cave room)