On a Sunday afternoon in April 1983, a 10-year-old baby and a few friends from the village led their cattle to the slope of the big pond on the north side of the village to herd cattle.
There was not a lot of water in the big pond, and the bottom of the pond exposed a large pond beach, which was full of grass buds that had just emerged.
After a few children lead the cattle to the pond slope, they put the cow rope on the cow's back or coil it on the cow's head, leaving them to graze on the pond slope, and then the children catch frogs and small tadpoles on the edge of the pond to play.
Those children also forgot about their cattle herding when they were having fun.
At this time, I only heard a little friend named Tie to shout loudly: "Baby, your cow was taken away by Lu Fang's father and ploughed the ground." ”
Bao Wa looked in the direction of the iron head, and her own female buffalo with a big belly was being plowed by Lu Fang's father Lu Minghui with a plow.
He hurriedly ran there.
In the 1970s, the commune set up a agricultural university here, which was a learning and experimental base for training middle and high school students and agricultural technicians, and requisitioned more than 200 acres of land for their two production teams.
On the eve of the division of the land, the school disintegrated, and later, the more than 200 acres of land were contracted out.
Lu Minghui contracted 100 acres of land, and these 100 acres of fields are around this big pond.
The 12- and 3-year-old baby ran to Lu Minghui breathlessly and asked breathlessly, "Cousin, how do you use my old buffalo to plow the land?" ”
Lu Minghui "called" a sound, stopped the cow and pointed to the piece of wheat and said: "Baby, your cow ate a large piece of my wheat seedlings, I don't ask you to lose money, just use your cow to finish this piece of two buckets of pears, it is two clear, if you don't believe it, you can go to the wheat field to see, people put yellow cattle or small buffalo, as far as your big cow is concerned, the cow's hoof prints are still there." ”
Baowa is a child and a little timid, he ran on the way to see the large piece of wheat seedlings that were eaten by cattle, he also knew that he was wrong, and he did not dare to argue, he was also afraid that because the cattle ate crops and lost money, his parents would know that they would scold him.
So he walked away unhappily.
The sun was about to set, and the boy who had come out with him to herd the cattle was ready to lead the cattle home, but his cattle were still plowing the ground, and the cattle had not eaten grass all afternoon, and they came home with a stomach full, and his father would beat him.
Worried, he walked over to Lu Minghui and said nonchalantly: My cousin is getting dark, and I have to herd cattle and go home.
Lu Minghui slammed the old buffalo's two whips, gasped and said: Don't worry, there will be two more circles to finish the plow.
Baby felt the pain of the two whips as if they were being pumped on him.
After Lu Minghui unloaded the cow cover, Baowa led the tired old buffalo to his home.
On the way, he felt that the big-bellied old buffalo was a little different from before: always cocking its tail, and his ass was still bleeding down.
Back at home, his father Wang Guochao saw that the cow was hungry and debilitating, so he took the wild oats and weeds that he and his wife had been planting in the wheat field this afternoon and gave them to the cows to eat.
The strange thing is that the cow does not eat a bite, always cocked its tail, and the ass is still bleeding down, and with his experience of feeding the cow, the cow seems to be about to miscarry, and he asks the baby cow how it is done.
BaoWa did not dare to say at first, afraid of being beaten, but he saw that his father was very distressed about the cow, and he still told the truth.
After his father listened, he angrily gritted his teeth and scolded Lu Minghui, and he also started to beat the baby.
At this time, the baby's mother heard the noise outside and came out to see that the cow looked like that, and she eagerly urged him to go to the veterinarian standing to get some medicine and come back to protect the fetus.
"Bao a fart, in another month or so, I will be born, Lu Minghui, the cow baby is really aborted, I am not finished with you."
Wang Guochao roared angrily and looked at the old buffalo in pain.
Fortunately, Wang Guochao knew a little delivery technology, and the calf was born smoothly, but unfortunately, the calf whistled a few times after landing on the ground, and moved its legs a few times to die.
Wang Guochao saw that it was a cow calf, his heart was dripping blood, he couldn't take care of much, and asked his wife to find a broken shoe to tie to the tire coat behind the cow's ass and drop the placenta out.
He hurriedly found a broken sack in the house, wrapped around the dead calf, and went to Lu Minghui to ask for an explanation.
Bao wa knew that his father's temper was not good, and he was afraid that he and Lu Minghui would fight and follow his father.
Besides, when Lu Minghui returned home after ploughing, after his wife learned that he used Wang Guochao's cattle to plow, she complained that he said that the neighbors in a village should not be so ruthless in doing things, and the cattle eating crops was not intentional, and they wanted to use other people's cattle to say a word to other people's adults, so why use this method of inferiority.
Lu Fang, who is more than 10 years old, is also counting down her father's wrongs, although Lu Fang's brother does not know how to be right and wrong, he listens to his mother and sister are talking about his father, and knows that his father must be doing something wrong.
At this moment, Wang Guochao, sweating heavily, walked to Lu Minghui's door, put the calf on the ground, and angrily roared: Lu Minghui, you have tired of my cow doll, you say what to do.
Lu Minghui was thinking about how to explain this matter to Wang Guochao tomorrow, but he didn't expect that the cow doll had miscarried.
Both he and his wife came out with shame.
Now that something bad has happened, it's enough to negotiate a solution.
Things that can be done on the gas head tend to develop in the opposite direction.
Lu Minghui's wife said: "His cousin, since the cow doll has fallen, it is too late to say anything, you see how much money you want, we will pay you." ”
"You pay me 2,000," wang Guochao thought of on the road.
Lu Minghui was a little angry when he heard the price, and he asked with a bit of a rushing tone: "Wang Guochao, you are also a little too outrageous, now the best female buffalo is not more than 2,000 yuan, you a dead cow baby wants so much money, the price of up to one hundred and twenty or eighty yuan, you have to have so much money, if you die when you are born full-term, who do you want a penny for, count it as your back." ”
Lu Minghui's words completely angered Wang Guochao, and he took two steps in front of Lu Minghui and asked in a sharp voice: You say it again.
Lu Minghui saw that the situation was not good, and grabbed a shovel on the edge of the door and prepared to fight.
Wang Guochao shot out a light from inside the house, and when he saw a half-cut brick in the doorway, he quickly grabbed it and smashed it on Lu Minghui's head.
At the same time, Lu Minghui's shovel was also photographed towards Wang Guochao.
Only to see Lu Fang crying and hugging his father's waist at once, afraid that her father would break people. Fortunately, her embrace made Lu Minghui's body shift and evaded the attack of the entire half-cut brick, but the back of his head was still smashed by the brick and bleeding, and he stumbled two steps before falling to the ground, and the shovel landed on Wang Guochao's back.
Fortunately, the shovel fell freely and did not cause much damage to Wang Guochao.
When Wang Guochao saw that the people had been knocked down, and there was a blood on the ground, he was also frightened.
When Baowa saw that his father had broken people, he knew that his father had run into a big disaster, so he quickly covered Lu Minghui's wound with his small arm and said in a childish voice, Quickly send his cousin to the hospital.
At this time, everyone carried Lu Minghui to the shelf car with all hands and feet, lu Minghui's wife wrapped his wounds tightly with a scarf, spread the quilt, and Wang Guochao pulled the frame car and flew to the hospital.
After the crowd ran for more than a mile, they sent Lu Minghui to the township hospital, and after the hospital did not accept the emergency bandaging, they were transferred to the county big hospital.
After more than two months of treatment, the person was saved, but Lu Minghui fell into the sequelae of a concussion and his legs were a little lame.
Afterwards, the two families went private under the mediation of the village cadres, and Wang Guochao paid lu Minghui all his medical expenses, and did not pursue any responsibility for him, but Wang Guochao had to help Lu Minghui do some farm work when the farm work was busy.
Within two years, the township government took back the more than 200 acres of land and subcontracted it to a big boss in a foreign country, and Lu Minghui returned to the village.
Also in this year, Lu Minghui's son and several boys from the farm were drowned in the bath in the big pond.
Lu Minghui completely collapsed after this blow, he almost lost the ability to work, and his family's field work was basically done by Wang Guochao for them.
In the blink of an eye, seven or eight years have passed, and Baowa and Lufang have grown to 1 or 20 years old. After graduating from junior high school, Baowa learned to sell meat with her uncle who sold pork in the county town, and she also rented a stall to do it, and Lu Fang also went out to work.
In the Spring Festival of 1992, Baowa heard that Lufang had returned from a part-time job, so he shut down his business for a day and came back from the county to visit Lufang.
This time he was going to propose to Lu Fang in front of Lu Fang's parents, and after he bought a lot of gifts that day and returned to the village, he went to Lu Fang's house first.
After seeing Lu Fang, Bao Wa said: "I have been secretly in love with you all these years, but I don't have the courage to say it, we are also real green plum bamboo horses, I want to marry you as a wife to take care of you for a lifetime, please promise me okay." ”
Lu Fang said, "You know, my parents have a hard life, just one of my daughters, I want to give them a pension and send them to the end." ”
"I've thought about it all, we all live in a village, and I have a younger brother who can take care of my parents." I can also join your family, take your parents to live with us, in short, I promise that I will not let you be wronged in this life. ”
Bao wa sincerely confessed her true thoughts to Lu Fang.
Lu Minghui and his wife grew up watching the baby baby, and when Lu Fang and Hai Wa were in their 10s, they longed in their hearts that when they grew up, Hai Wa could become their son-in-law.
This time after listening to Haiwa's confession, they were very happy, and the old two said to Lu Fang: Baowa is very busy doing business in the city alone, you don't have to go out to work next year, go to help him take care of the business.
Lu Fang's face was red when her parents said.
Now Haiwa and Lufang are also in their 50s, they have grandchildren, they have also bought houses and cars in the county, and they have repeatedly brought their 70-year-old father-in-law and mother-in-law to the county town to live with them, but they are not used to living.
Since the old man does not come to the city, Baowa and Lufang will give 4 old people every month, each of them 400 yuan of living expenses, plus their pension, these money is basically enough for them to consume.
Now my father-in-law and mother-in-law often wear reading glasses to brush vibrato to watch videos, and they are happy to say that the village is built with cement roads, as well as the Internet, and it is very convenient to ride a battery car to catch the store. The two of them and some other elderly people, who were left behind in the village, were very happy and happy to take care of each other.