Text: Apricot altar idler
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In our village, there is a "Mazi" with the surname Gao, who fell on a marijuana face because he had smallpox when he was a child. Coupled with the poverty of the family, until he was in his forties, he was still a bare stick. Fortunately, he has carpentry skills, "one trick fresh, eat all day", perennially outside as a blind stream, do carpentry work, rarely go home. Therefore, when I was a teenager, I still didn't know how big the hemp on his face was, whether it was fat or thin or tall or short.
I didn't know cannabis, but I first met his daughter-in-law and the three children she brought with her. One day in the fall, at noon, I was home from school and saw my mother sending a woman in her thirties and two women, a man, and three children out of the house. They came to borrow my family's stone-ground noodles.
Of the two girls, the eldest was thirteen or fourteen years old, the younger one was eleven or twelve years old, the sisters carried a basket with flour in it, the woman carried the rest of the grits with a dustpan, and the boys of eight or nine years followed. The common feature of the three children is that they are short, have a bulging belly, and a thin face. The woman is not tall, and her face is not white, not white, yellow, not yellow.
At lunch, my mother told me, "This woman is the daughter-in-law of your uncle, and the three children are the children she brought." Your uncle beat a single stick for half a lifetime, saying that his daughter-in-law also came with a big son, children and daughters, and he was really a blessing cultivated in the previous life! ”
"The blessing of Xiu lai? This year, four bowls of pots are added to the table, where does the rice come from? The father gave his mother a blank look and continued: "The day after the cannabis children took them into the door, they left again, leaving the ticket money when they left, and the rest of the money was given to this daughter-in-law." I don't know how many days they can last? ”
This was the difficult period of three years of natural disasters, and the family's life was difficult. The original man of the cannabis daughter-in-law died of liver disease due to difficulties in life.
In order to find a way for the children to live, she married Gao Cannabis under the introduction of others; and Gao Cannabis resolutely and resolutely took up the burden of the lives of the four of them under such a difficult situation, hoping that this woman could give birth to another male and a half son for him and continue the incense of the Gao family.
Gao Cannabis still goes to the field as a blind stream, going to the countryside to work for others, mainly working on wood, and doing other odd jobs, in short, as long as there is work to do, you can earn money. In order to feed the four people in the family who were not related to him by blood, he never dared to worry about the good food with the patron, and he did not dare to ask for more than the price. Therefore, there are still many people who come to him for work.
There are rural farmers, there are businessmen on the street, and there are also public units. After each job is done, count the banknotes in your hand, count the date of the money sent home last time and the amount of money sent, and calculate whether you should send money again. How much to send?
The three children are exactly the age of the long body, and the more they are short of food, the more they appear to have a large amount of food. At that time, private grain was also difficult to buy, so the four mothers were often hungry and full. Fortunately, although the money sent by the cannabis seeds is not too much, it is never stopped, although they are still inevitably sometimes not full, but they have not reached the point of breaking the cooking.
Cannabis's wish to let his daughter-in-law give him a son has not yet come true, and for him, it is a big heart disease. Pulling the children of others to help pull up, thinking about it, deciding to end the wandering life, throwing away the hat of "blind stream", returning home, leading his wife and children to enjoy the taste of home.
The production captain saw that it was not easy for him to start a family halfway, and in order to let him continue to build this patchwork home, the team contributed funds to build two houses for him, and let him lead three young people in the team as apprentices and open a wood club for the team. Since then, the life of the cannabis family has become normal, and they have enjoyed the warmth of home after work every day.
The next year, the woman actually bore her a white and fat son. The old man's face blossomed with a smile, and he named his son "Quanxi." ”
Just when he was doubling his spirits and feeling that the days were running out, bad luck was coming at him one after another like a bad wave.
"If you want a child to be on the ground, you will end up growing up", this is an old rural saying. In this regard, the cannabis seeds had long been mentally prepared, but they did not expect this breath to come out so quickly. When Quanxi was not yet one year old, the daughter-in-law proposed that the two daughters were older and it was almost time to say that the in-laws were gone. Here the reputation is not good, is it "with the calf", or recognize the surname and return to the sect. In this way, both daughters returned to their original homes.
"There is no child in fate, don't ask for a son", I didn't expect that this sentence was also fulfilled on the cannabis seed. Shortly after Quanxi was one year old, he suddenly had a high fever one night, and he quickly picked up the child and ran to the township health center. Went to the hospital and was diagnosed with acute encephalitis by a doctor. At that time, the medical conditions of the township health center were poor, although the doctors went all out to rescue them, and the child had no breath at dawn.
After experiencing the grief of losing his son, under the persuasion of his neighbors, "stay in the green mountains, not afraid of no firewood", the hope of life was ignited in his heart. I hope that after the daughter-in-law recovers, she will have another child for him, boys and girls, after all, she has also passed the best fertility period.
However, half a year after the child's death, his daughter-in-law was half dead. It's really a disaster! The hopes that had just been lit up by the seeds of marijuana were shattered again.
Two years later, Mazi's daughter-in-law died, leaving only the father and son who were not related by blood. Hemp seed poured all his love into this adopted son. Considering that the child is not small, it is almost the age of the daughter-in-law, so it is difficult to find even a daughter-in-law with me. It is better to let him join the army, break into the army, and become a family in the future. So they found the branch secretary of the brigade, and the branch secretary also sympathized with them, and under the recommendation of the branch secretary, the adopted son successfully enlisted in the army.
It should be said that the rewards of so many years of efforts by the four of them are the military family treatment enjoyed by the adopted son after enlistment. At that time, the cannabis seeds were not very old, they worked and ate themselves, and they did not take care of the production team, and the so-called military family treatment was also a condolence product to the military family every Spring Festival. One piece of pork and two pounds of dim sum.
As the number of years the adopted son enlisted in the army increased, there were fewer and fewer letters from the adopted son, and then there were no letters at all. I heard a person who joined the army in the same village say that he now recognizes his surname and returns to the sect, where he has married his daughter-in-law and settled down. Later, I heard that he had changed careers and arranged to work as a driver for a transportation company in the county.
Cannabis is back to the days when he was single.
The production team pitied the ups and downs of his life, and now that he was old and physically weak, he applied for five insurance households for him and enjoyed the treatment of five guarantees.
Three years later, he died of illness. Enthusiastic people in the village found out about his adopted son's work unit, specifically found him, informed him of the death of the cannabis seed, and told him clearly that they hoped he would come back to the funeral of the cannabis seed.
The "adopted son" said very well on the spot: "I will go to ask for leave immediately, and when I take a leave, I will go back." ”
However, the people in the village have never seen the "adopted son" in sight. Seeing that the time for the scheduled burial had arrived, people were also completely disappointed in this negative "adopted son", and in the crowd of people, in a scolding of the "adopted son", the marijuana seeds were buried.
If he could hear the scolding of his "adopted son" by the people in heaven, how would he feel in his heart?