"Mother-in-law"

Nostalgia for old age, nostalgia unforgettable. After twenty years of retirement, I actually returned to Shuangfeng, Hunan To build a new house and relive the farm. Nowadays, in the countryside, it is really a farmhouse: there is plenty of food and clothing, and everything is available. It is only on the spiritual level that it is "slightly inferior", but my wife and I are very timely, enjoying the customs of rich countryside and thick soil, and integrating the beautiful city and the city with humanities. I read books and practiced cooking small dishes, and she played chess and cards with her strong body. The piano is harmonious and harmonious. Children filial piety, a video a day, booing cold greetings and warmth, and enjoying harmony.

However, only they know about their own family affairs, and outsiders do not know about them. Some people praised me and praised me as a model husband; some people criticized my wife and played the name of "Hedong Lion Roar". Some people even say "wife and mother". As an old party member and cadre, I feel a heavy responsibility. Therefore, it is necessary for me to tell the origin of "my wife and mother" and the story of her nine deaths.

I think of the blood stains, and I cry. One after another unforgettable past events, at this moment on my brain screen through the shadows...

A life of misery had worn her down

The two of us were introduced to marriage. She took a fancy to me as a 19-year-old agricultural middle school teacher, and I took a liking to her with love at first sight. The wedding was simple, a letter of gunfire, a few tables of water and wine. In addition to the four fours (cloth, socks, towels, sugar), there are also fashionable sandals, woolen thread, and a brand-new 16 pieces of ma dawu (five yuan bills). It's just that life after marriage is bitter, and there is no food and no housing. However, the limits of human survival are very large. There is no food, many things in the paddy fields and mountains can fill the hunger, and the government has also tried every means to help borrow reserve grain to save the emergency. The whole family huddled on a bed like chopsticks. Three brothers, three generations, and nine people share a palm-sized kitchen, three stoves, cooking utensils, water tanks, and washbasins—not even a place to stand.

The most painful thing was when she gave birth to a child. When she was about to give birth, her wife was still holding her stomach to bear the square soil. Squat in pain; can't hold back, lie down for a while. I teach at Red Star Middle School a few kilometers away, as the graduating class teacher, more than a dozen classes a week, but also the director of teaching, the vice principal, to take the lead in living in the school, only Saturday afternoon can go home, so the care for her is really limited. The first child was difficult to give birth, and there was nothing to eat, and it was hard for two days and three nights. The midwives use the old-fashioned brutal method. As soon as it appeared, it frequently urged: hold your breath, hold your breath. People's anger is gone, and they are still called force, force. If the internal force is insufficient, the external force will be added. Squeeze above, pull down, pull like a radish. No wonder there was a massive postpartum hemorrhage, and even two towels could not be blocked... After the full moon, the group workers were surprised and pitied by her "thinner than yellow flowers": "You can blow the wind down, and you still work?!" ”

At that time, she was only 19 years old, and she was supposed to be cardamom years old, with a flower and moon appearance.

People often masturbate with "bitter children's care", and she did not even seek medical treatment and medicine if she was pregnant with three children. Although people are thin, milk is sufficient, and the baby is raised to be white and fat. People say that she is a pig woman, and the hair cub does not make a mother. Someone even called her "Black Pig Lady", and she just laughed.

When I was pregnant with my second child, I bought a chicken to supplement my body, but because of my ignorance and the mistake of the pharmacist, I should not have put an appendage. In the afternoon, I also carried the mud of the pond, and I was born prematurely at night. She said she didn't expect it to be so fast, quickly got up, brought her own boiling water, scissors, wanted to cut her own navel, do not alarm others. But suddenly the attack, the brain dizzy...

"Make a sin! It's been seven months, and it's a life! With tears in her eyes, she said, "We killed us!" ”

The heavy labor made her harvest miracles

In addition to having children, she also has to take on heavy field work.

In 1981, the rural areas implemented a responsibility system. My family smoked the sky and the whole family cried. The four men divided into five acres of hilltop fields, fourteen large and fourteen mounds, and forty-nine pieces of soil distributed over six hills. The difficulty of working is unimaginable!

The implementation of the production responsibility system in agriculture has greatly aroused the production enthusiasm of the vast number of peasants and also challenged the energy limit of a rural woman. Crying is useless, only grit your teeth and dry! In addition to Chinese New Year's Eve and the first day of the first year, every day is a three-point and one-line movement in the field, in the soil, and at home. From dawn to night, from night to dawn, hardworking people! Hard work day and night! Because at night, two large pots of pigs are boiled, and four large pigs are produced every year, "Pigs are fatter and more grainy!" "There are also a pair of well-behaved children, who pack pig grass and bag housework after school." When grabbing doubles, holding grass with bare chests, pulling seedlings, planting fields, flying and jumping, like muddy water.

Heaven rewards diligence, and repays it with Qiong. In the first year after the division, my family's income doubled more than that. More than 5,000 catties of rice, more than 400 catties of soybeans, and dozens of cartons of sweet potatoes were harvested. The villagers exclaimed: Miracle!

This is a miracle created by an ordinary peasant woman!

In addition to the miracles created by labor, my wife also experienced two fabulous miracles: thunder does not die, electric shock does not die.

The fourteen heavens and the fields all depend on the rain falling from the sky in the two large and small mountain ponds. "The mountains and rivers are as expensive as sugar, and the rain is quick to irrigate the pond." Late one night, she braved a thunderstorm and climbed to the top of the rocky mountain by lightning, and hurriedly hoeed the ditch to divert water to the pond. Suddenly, the heavens and the earth lit up, and the electric light shone brightly. A thunderclap made her whole body tingle, and her brain shell fainted... Lightning knocked down the telephone pole beside her, shattering the small pond base below her, and stuning her numb. She was washed down the pond along with the collapsing mud and billowing water, but was fortunately blocked by the thorn bushes under the pit and survived.

In the year of the electric shock accident, it was the fourth national census, and I transferred to the county to do coding and summarizing, and only afterwards did I know that she was electrocuted and almost died.

It turned out that she had asked her nephew, the bare man, to help, and borrowed a water pump to fetch water at night. Because they did not know that the leather line was leaking electricity, the two were suddenly bounced into the mudflat by the well. She exclaimed, and in her panic, she did not shake the wire away, but instead clenched it tighter and tighter. I just felt that Venus was bubbling in my eyes, my head was buzzing and expanding, and my body was like soaking in running water, purring and bubbling. In the illusion, the hand seemed to grasp the branch and struggled to climb up, snapping, the branch broke, and fell into the abyss... Later, how she got out of the mudflat and how she got home, she didn't know like a dream. Even those whose hands were burned to pieces and whose heads were hit bloodied did not know the pain.

"Thanks to the light boy, he saved my life!" She sighed.

Thin fame and fortune, loss is a blessing

Creation makes man! The god of fate had also given her three chances: they all came by encounter and passed by.

Contemporary class teachers did not go up, I love to write, occasionally doodle. Unexpectedly, an article "Zhu Jianlai, who works as a farmer with an iron heart" was published in Hunan Daily. Both Hunan Tuanxun and China Youth Daily made excerpts. At the time when the "National New Long March Commando Conference" was imminent, the preparatory group of the congress and the four leaders of the Provincial Youth League Committee sat in Shuangfeng and asked their "initiators" to assist in writing the manuscript, and yu (Shouquan) county governor and secretary Cao (Hailian) came forward: they were seconded immediately. Due to my heavy workload, the school offered to hire a substitute teacher. So she substituted the class, but then did not turn positive... "Such a good opportunity did not go to school, do not know how to use!" "Even others feel sorry for her."

When the civil teachers and the production team did not allow me to transfer to the public office after graduating from the first high letter, it was the time when the education was carried out in a big way to recruit the people's teachers. At a sorority for teachers' families, her clear voice won praise for her beautiful piano. Zhu Yizhang, secretary of the school's party branch and principal, asked her to go out of the mountain, but the production team was not allowed.

In 1989, Shuangfeng County was withdrawn from the district and merged with the township, and there was a shortage of people in the town to write materials, so I was seconded to the town. In 1994, he completed the transfer formalities and became a publicity officer. She also came with me to town to do some chores. The family members of the colleagues who came at the same time as her have successively changed from farming to non-farming, but she is still surnamed nong. The problem is not in her, but in her husband's "slingshot returns to eat no fish", in vain. I feel sorry for her. She was very calm, but instead advised me: Fame and fortune, why should we ask for luxury! Good health is bliss.

She's in really good shape. Before the age of fifty, he was as strong as an ox and had no sickness. Only after the car accident in Changsha, the body completely collapsed.

Because she wanted to take her granddaughter, she went to Changsha in 2000. The daughter married and gave birth to a daughter in 1998, with a small name. Daughter son-in-law teaches, son in the news media. After I retired, I also lived in Changsha, and every holiday, our family gathered together and laughed.

One day, after we sent a small shanghualong kindergarten, we visited the Lotus Pond Shop Farmers' Market. When I returned to the downhill section of the Red Star Reservoir, I only felt a heat behind me, a huge wave of air, rolling us both up and throwing them into the sky, spinning, and another bucket swooped down. In the dark of the moment, I thought: It's over, it's all over, who will deliver food to Xiao Xiao at noon? In the midst of anxiety, there was a bang, and the purr was full of blankness in his mind...

The next day, when I woke up, I heard the doctor at the ** hospital say, "Male skin trauma, concussion" and "Female tail vertebrae crush fracture, quickly transfer to orthopedic hospital"

Later, I learned that a unit bought a new car, and the driver tested the car. Something happened when it went downhill. In order to protect himself, the driver who caused the accident used a crooked mind: asked for help from the relevant personnel, changed the car, and changed the position. He falsely claimed that he was the leader of the unit that caused the accident, had full authority to deal with the aftermath, and promised us: full responsibility, all costs. When we were transferred to the ** Orthopedic Hospital, and voluntarily paid the admission fee of 3,000 yuan. At that time, my children were not deeply involved in the world, and they mistakenly fell into the serial set of this "brother". At that time, he was still very touched, and at noon he took the initiative to invite him to dinner. Around 3 p.m., they came to the ward. Call us out of the hospital. He and the leaders of the hospital cooperated with tacit understanding, and the fishing song answered each other, which meant that the small injury was fine. As soon as I heard it, I refused to know that they had written the agreement at the dinner table. Give six thousand dollars in cash, two clear. In the future, the two sides shall not repent and make trouble. At my strong request, the other party added one thousand, seven thousand transactions, and was immediately discharged from the hospital. Although I was slightly injured, I was bloody and was too reluctant to be discharged from the hospital immediately. The wife was still in a coma, and when she moved slightly, she was pale with pain and sweating. So I had to go through the admission procedures again. When we were asked to pay a 10,000 yuan admission fee, we learned that the 3,000 yuan admission fee we had paid in the morning had been taken away.

The "big injury" was only seven thousand yuan, too much loss! "Even the medical staff in the hospital couldn't see it, and they couldn't hold us well."

Yes, the loss is great. More than four months of hospitalization, more than a year of rigid sleep (sleeping on a hard bed), pain, fatigue, grievances, accompaniment not to say, spend more than 100,000 yuan do not say, the heartache is left with a lifelong hunchback and a lifetime of chronic disease: "three highs" and "three highs" caused by varicose veins, heart disease, myocardial infarction ...

When the reporter's son is indignant and wants to be exposed in the media, the daughter and son-in-law must also defend their rights according to law. But his wife repeatedly dissuaded him, and also defended the driver who caused the accident: "In life, who does not make mistakes?" It was just then. Is it your own signature, can you repent? If he wants to escape, then my life will be gone. It is a blessing to suffer. You have attached yourself to me. Cultivating virtue and accumulating blessings will naturally be good in the future. ”

What a kind heart, what a broad heart! Heaven for its virtue, Buddha blessed its goodness. In the more than ten years after the car accident, she once fainted in the kitchen, once in a coma in the bathroom, once fainted in Xiangzhang Hospital, and once went into shock in the emergency room of Changsha Central Hospital. It's really nine deaths, a miracle of life!

Because of this, her children were particularly kind to her, calling her "Lafayette." Respect her love her and pamper her so that she is afraid. I also changed my bad habit of not doing housework, took care of the kitchen, and persevered, and enjoyed it – no wonder some people joke about "wife and mother".

Because when I think of the above past, I burst into tears and can't help myself. If not, why? Why? Why is the heart at peace?

On the occasion of her seventy-year-old family banquet, I wrote four testimonials to express the heart of fist and fist, yin yin meaning:

Nine deaths have mercy on my wife, and the peasant bitter daughter is also legendary.

It is not reminiscent of first love, and it is not a spring mud that can be hated.

Author: Zhu Dazan

Propaganda officer of the former town government of Gantang Town, Shuangfeng County, Loudi City