The fourteenth time, the floating life is like a dream
Last time, my grandmother, who had always been enlightened in everything, actually intervened in my mother's marriage affairs in a categorical manner, and even forced my mother to complete the marriage before she died, despite my mother's strong opposition, which was extremely unreasonable in the eyes of ordinary people, but judging from the political situation and the complicated and changeable situation at that time, the choices and arrangements made by my grandmother for her daughter were extremely rational, and they were beyond ordinary people's foresight and foresight.
Judging from the era when my mother grew up, it was a time of change at home and abroad. In the turbulent situation of domestic politics, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out on July 7, 1937, and Japan surrendered unconditionally in 1945, a total of 8 years. In 1946, the civil war broke out again, and it was not until 1949 that the four-year Liberation War ended in victory, and it took another four years. When the parents got married, the mother was 22 years old and the father was 23 years old, just in this turbulent time period, the situation was unstable, people's hearts were changeable, and no one could see their future.
But my grandmother seemed to be aware of the future changes and trends early on, and she silently arranged a lifelong destination for her only daughter, and despite anyone's persuasion, she decided that my father was the most reliable support for my mother's life. The trust and trust for my grandmother also left an unforgettable gratitude in my father's heart. In the heart of the father, the grandmother is not only like a mother, but also like a reverence for God, which is also an emotion that is difficult for our children to understand.
At the time of my parents' marriage, Lan, the eldest daughter of my mother's eldest daughter, was also married, and she married into a rich family under the arrangement of the eldest bride. The different choices of the mother and the half-sister in marriage between the two mothers also determine the different fates of the sisters' lives. And the adopted sons adopted by the eldest mother and grandmother each also embarked on their own life paths.
Lin Guoxian, who was adopted by his grandmother, was mentioned earlier to embark on the road of revolution. However, the adopted son of the eldest bride has been teaching in the middle school, because he is dissatisfied with the marriage arranged by the eldest bride for him, he has been living in the school since marriage, and fell in love with a female teacher, in that era of war and chaos, the adopted son of the eldest bride left his original wife and two sons, and escaped from marriage with the female teacher who fell in love to settle in Taiwan, and later gave birth to many children in Taiwan. The original wife, on the other hand, had been guarding her two sons and had died early in her depression.
After the end of the Liberation War, New China was founded, but a series of "three antis" and "five antis" movements followed, the struggle against the rightists and its serious expansion, especially the later Cultural Revolution, made everyone's fate change suddenly in an instant. No one can predict their future. During this period, the husband's family of the eldest daughter Lan was also classified into the black five categories because of her wealth, and the property was confiscated overnight, the whole family was arrested, and the family was not allowed to take all the clothes, so they were forcibly evacuated and emigrated to the mountains of Meixian County, and finally Lan failed to send her mother to the end when the eldest bride died. (Note: The anti-evil right of the rich is a collective name for the five categories of landlords, rich peasants, counter-revolutionaries, bad elements and rightists, that is, the "black five categories". ）
What made the mother cry was that in the ranks of the evacuated immigrants at that time, there were also the mother's original lovers and many relatives of the ethnic group, and the once noble family became prisoners overnight, became the public enemy of the people, and farewell was not allowed. The mother could not think straight, nor could she accept this reality, but the truth was in front of her, and the tears became the catharsis that the mother did not understand every day.
Fortunately, the father's family is only a small business family, the father in the economic difficult period, although his own economy is also tense, but still charity, whether it is neighbors and friends, or people who do not know, who encounter difficulties he will take the initiative to help, the father's kind nature also helped himself. In the eyes of many people, the father is a great good man. Therefore, when these great movements came, our family was not troubled by politics, and my father and mother worked together to keep the family safe and sound, smoothly through various difficulties and disasters, and at this point, my mother seemed to realize my grandmother's good intentions. (Please wait for the next decomposition)
Author: Suyan Hanjiang Xue
Pictured: Wu Wenhua
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