Dictation: Wen Nana
Finishing: Say goodbye to the old days
Figure: From the network
In Grandma's village, the uncle's shrewdness is well known, whether it is planting crops or acting as a person, in the eyes of everyone, there is a good reputation.
Before I went to junior high school, I spent almost every summer vacation at my grandmother's house, so I was particularly familiar with my uncle. He knows his personality inside out.
At the age of 16, my uncle, who had graduated from junior high school, returned home and became a farmer, and his shrewdness was reflected in the process of planting crops, and in the countryside, when planting wheat after the autumn harvest, the uncle was able to accurately calculate the number of wheat seeds. If there are too many or too few wheat seeds, it will cause the yield of crops to decrease.
To this end, the uncle began to shake at a young age, just when he was on the ground, and controlled the output of the wheat seed by the frequency of shaking. In fact, in the countryside, the shaker is basically served by the elderly and experienced elderly, so the uncle has become the youngest shaker in the village. His approach has become the focus of everyone's attention in the village.
At the age of 19, my uncle decided to learn carpentry, and the apprentices at that time were only three years old, but the shrewd uncle was able to do it alone in only one year. For this reason, his master saw that his uncle was more intelligent, so he gave his daughter Xu to his uncle and became my aunt.
After marriage, uncles, and grandmothers and grandfathers have not been separated from the family, usually uncles and aunts are busy outside, and grandmothers are responsible for taking care of the family. One of the main reasons why I like to go to my grandmother's house is that my uncle loves me.
At that time, my uncle was doing carpentry work, basically in the surrounding villages, because of his good skills and low wages, sometimes a village had to work for more than half a year.
At the same time, the uncle is still a more enthusiastic person, the village big and small things, he has to go home to participate, because he has a clear thinking, work principled, therefore, in his 32-year-old year, was recommended by everyone as the village's chief executive, and in the countryside, like the uncle at a young age to assume this responsibility, there are really very few people.
Uncle's village, there are nearly 600 people, is a relatively large village, well-informed and able to speak the Tao, but uncle can become a big boss, it is really a miracle.
The role of the big boss cannot be underestimated in the countryside. He was able to make the two sides shake hands and make peace, so that the situation of crisis was turned into calm and calm, so that the main family could handle things well without spending money or even with less money, and the ability of the uncle who was in charge of the boss was also greatly exercised.
My uncle is also a man of active minds. In July 1986, the brick factory in the village was close to closure due to poor management, but my uncle took the initiative to ask for help and contracted the brick factory. Because he knew that at that time, the opportunity to build houses in the countryside had come, and there was a brick factory in the surrounding ten miles, and the business would definitely be hot in the future.
As his uncle expected, after 1987, the workers in his brick factory were busy every day, and later, the villagers who built the house even placed orders half a year in advance in order to buy bricks.
At that time, the brick factory was profitable, but the uncle's behavior as a person showed his distinctive pattern, he distributed the vast majority of the profits to the workers who worked, according to the uncle's words, the people who came there to work were basically the old and young masters of the nearby villages, making money was important, but it was equally important to be a person, not to be ignorant of conscience, to bring everyone to get rich together, is the root of being a person.
This kind of life lasted for 12 years, the uncle who got rich, thinking of danger in peace, with the advancement of the tide of work, the uncle speculated that it would become a trend to come to the town to buy a house. So he decisively gave up the booming brick factory business and turned to another field.
At that time, the cultivation of fruit trees, in our hometown, most of them were apples and pear trees, due to the restrictions of sales channels, the prices were particularly cheap, and the uncle after a period of investigation, ingenious, planted a better variety of winter dates and pomegranates.
In 2005, winter dates and pomegranates have entered the full fruit period, mainly supplied to some urban supermarkets, although the business is not as prosperous as expected, but it is enough to maintain the family's life.
Later, my uncle's three children graduated from college one by one, and then bought houses and settled in the city, and all of his uncle's burdens were unloaded, he stayed in the countryside, and together with his aunt, planted half an acre of vegetable gardens and raised them for a long time.
At the beginning of last year, my uncle felt unwell, went to the hospital for examination, learned that he had stomach cancer, and in March, he had surgery, and the hospital said that the operation was very successful, and when my mother told me, I was very happy, thinking, my uncle has been a bright and honest person all his life, and good people have good rewards.
The uncle's life is also a busy life, although his family is well-off, but because of his righteousness, and to fund a few children to buy a house, in fact, the family does not have much savings.
But who knows that after about seven months, bad news came, and my mother told me that my uncle had died of drinking pesticides.
I was so saddened when I heard it that I couldn't believe it was true. No one knows what the uncle was thinking when he made this decision, the mother said, the uncle's stomach cancer has recurred, before he died, he deliberately separated the aunt, saying that it was the New Year soon, let her go to change some better quality flour, then the child came, wrapped dumplings to eat.
The place where his uncle died was a side room where his family was parking miscellaneous things, and next to his uncle's body, there were three things, the same as a wine bottle, so that everyone could feel the hesitation and wandering in his heart before he died. The first is a suicide note, which contains an apology to the family and an exhortation for the three children to be filial to their mother and live in harmony with each other in the future. The third thing was his four passbooks, a total of more than 30,000 yuan, which were all his savings, and the code was written on them.
Everyone knows that the reason why the uncle made such a choice was that he did not want his illness to drag down his children and family. The uncle who has been strong all his life has retained his self-esteem in this way, or in this extreme way, he has made a decision on his life.
On the day of the funeral, everyone in my grandmother's village sent off my uncle. The villagers were tearful and praised their uncle as a good person, which was undoubtedly the highest courtesy to their uncle.
In his uncle's life, he basically did not go out of this village, and most of his youth was dedicated to his hometown, to that era, which only talked about dedication and did not expect to return.
From my uncle's body, I saw a country man with an iron skeleton.