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There are many unsatisfactory things in life! Uncle Wang did not see his father when he was born, he grew up under the care of his uncle, married a wife 5 years older than him at the age of 12, asked for his life in the name of 38 years old, quarreled with the leader and was framed, was removed from his post and locked up in a dark house for a month, raised 7 children, the old man liked to live alone in a dark room, leisurely weaving bamboo baskets, spring festival stalls to write couplets... At the age of 85, I can eat two bowls of corn rice per meal, looking back on my life, uncle only said: "The brain is not confused, I can eat and do, I live more beautiful than the gods ..."
In the western part of Henan Province, In The village of Mashi in Bailigou, most of the two-story courtyards near the village square are single-family courtyards, but in the corner of the square, there are three tile houses standing alone, and an old man is hunched over his back and is roasting a fire in the courtyard for warmth.
Rural people often say: Bake the fire on the side of the hot side. In fact, as long as it is not rain and snow weather, rural old people prefer to build a fire in the yard, and when they see pedestrians passing by, whether they know it or not, they will shout a voice: "Where to go?" Let's roast the fire..."
In this way, we were shouted to the fire by the uncle.
The eldest uncle's name was Wang Tongyun, and he was actually a "capable person" in the village. It is said that people do not learn art after 50 years old, but Uncle Wang went to the village to weave bamboo utensils at the age of 50, subsidized 7 children, and just 3 days ago, he also received a deposit for two large bamboo baskets.
Uncle Wang is very talkative, perhaps because of the snow around the Spring Festival, no one has come to his small courtyard for a long time to chat, open the conversation box, and tell the author about the bumpy experience of his life.
Uncle Wang was born in October 1938, two brothers of the father's generation, when the Nationalist army and the Japanese invaders fought, need to frequently replenish troops, Uncle Wang's father was arrested by the local armor commander in August of that year, zhuangding, forcibly taken away. "If I had been born two months earlier, I would have seen my father." After my father went out, until now, there is no whereabouts, whether he is alive or dead, no one knows..."
Under the care of the great uncle of the family, the orphans and widows barely survived. The eldest uncle has no children and no daughters, and Wang Tongyun in his childhood is the only treasure in the palm of the family. Uncle Wang said, "At that time, my mother took me with me, and if she dared to make me fall, and my body was bruised and broken, my mother would not dare to go home." My uncle finished beating my mother's day pout [counting down] She, two families on my one, all of them are jiaoli..."
Uncle Wang read until the 6th grade of primary school, because the family really could not get the food to live in the school, so he had to drop out of school. Uncle told the author: "I have been writing well since I was a child, and I have not gone to school, so the teacher came to the house and shouted twice." The first time, my uncle managed to get 2 pounds of Shu Huang [corn] grits, gave me to hold, and after eating, there was no more. Our family usually eats bark wild vegetables, and I went to school to get corn grits. Later, when I finished eating, I couldn't get any food [referring to processed grains such as corn and wheat], and the teacher shouted at me again, and I would not go anymore. I said: There are so many illiterate people in this world, not all of them are alive, and they have not seen anyone who is stupid and dies without reading. The teacher couldn't see and persuade me, so he didn't care anymore. Since then, whoever asked me what I studied, I said that I graduated from Xibailigou Agricultural University, haha..."
After dropping out of school, he had nothing to do at home, as the only seedling in the family, the uncle did not let him work in the farmland, fortunately, at that time, there was a father and son from Ruzhou, who took a fancy to Wang Tongyun's Congmin and planned to teach him to learn to weave reed mats. However, the uncle was worried that the smith would abduct his nephew, studied for 2 months, found an excuse to go home and become a relative, and ended his apprenticeship.
At that time, on the eve of liberation, the remnants of the Kuomintang gathered the local hooligans and mountain bandits to form a "guerrilla group" to steal grain and rob women, and did nothing wrong, and an 18-year-old yellow flower girl in a nearby village was forcibly wrapped up in the mountain by the "guerrillas", lived with more than a dozen bandits for more than 2 months, and was buried alive in a dry well after becoming pregnant. The local families with daughters were panicked and tried to marry their daughters off as soon as possible.
In this case, Wang Tongyun, who was only 12 years old, got married, and the bride was 5 years older than him. The uncle said, "At that time, I was still a baby egg, playing outside, dozing off and lying on the haystack and falling asleep, and my daughter-in-law had to carry me into the house." The two of them have lived their whole lives, never quarreled or blushed. She left 7 years ago and gave birth to 4 sons, 3 daughters, and the eldest is also over 60 this year..."
In 1966, the 28-year-old Wang Tongyun and his uncle split up the family, went up the mountain to cut rafters, built 3 tile houses, and built two more houses the following year. At that time, Wang Tongyun, who talked about "ingredients" and did not have a father since childhood, and who did not have half a grass house in his family, was an "excellent poor peasant" in the village, plus he had attended school for several years and was elected by the villagers to serve as the accountant of the brigade.
In order to increase the economic income of the brigade, in the early 70s, they opened a fluorite mine on the hill behind the village, and the profit of that year exceeded 50,000 yuan, and Wang Tongyun, as an accountant, received commendations from the county, and later the fluorite mine was taken into public ownership. Wang Tongyun and 23 villagers reopened a mine in another ravine, and after only a month of drying, they were stopped by cadres stationed in the village, saying that they should be taken over to the public.
Wang Tongyun and the cadres stationed in the village argued on the basis of reason, but the cadre said that he could not do it, turned around and ran to the commune to report, framed and said: "Wang Tongyun engaged in bourgeois tails, disobeyed the leadership, not only insulted the cadres stationed in the villages, but also started beating people..."
Uncle Wang said: "They are all doing work, they are all serving the people, it is normal for disputes to occur, will I dare to beat people with my hands?" Heck, it just happened to be on the spot and grabbed the typical mile. The first day I came back, the next day I was locked in a room and didn't call out. ”
Many years later, Uncle Wang learned that at that time, the cadres of the brigade of the whole commune were holding a meeting, and the cadre stationed in the village raised his hand and said that he had been beaten, and although the other cadres of the village brigade who were familiar with him shook their heads in disbelief, the leaders of the commune were very angry and immediately arranged for people to bring ropes, and they wanted to tie Wang Tongyun to the streets to criticize the fight. Under the persuasion of many acquaintances, he was locked up in the "little black room" the next day.
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"It was the production team's warehouse, 3 tile houses, which were woven and nailed to the door frame with bamboo poles, and did not call me out. There was a kerosene lamp, white cotton paper, and a brush, and I was asked to write a review. Our family really has nothing, saying that I am an upstart, five types of molecules, can not write out just close. Later, it also organized all the members of the commune to visit, which is the fate of the upstarts, hahaha... My beard is old and evil, how long it is without shaving for two or three days, how long it is without washing my hair for a month, and how long my beard is. A man came to see: Is this a savage, what an upstart? Alas, it is not good to say this, and it has to be criticized. Oops, that's playing with the living. Later, the captain of the production team said: Tongyun, I know that it is not your fault, and I dare not speak for you, otherwise, you herd the sheep, drill up the slope, they will not find you. ”
Uncle Wang then drove the sheep of the production team, went up the mountain to herd sheep during the day, and learned to weave bamboo baskets at home at night, but he did not expect that the craftsmanship of the mat smith was not learned, but it was applied to the bamboo weaving.
"After 7 years of sheep, then the land was lowered, and the production was contracted to the household, and no one said anything about my five types of elements." Uncle Wang said that because of the strong fighting at that time, for several years, no matter what kind of craftsmen there were, the family needed a bamboo basket for grain and could not find craftsmen. So taking advantage of the gap between sheep herding, Uncle Wang cut back the bamboo pole and tried to weave a few small baskets.
"I just started to make it up, I wanted to throw it into the ditch myself, and then I made up more, and slowly I looked like that." As long as the bamboo basket is split, it will be straight..." At the beginning of the weaving of small bamboo baskets, later weaving large bamboo baskets, bamboo baskets, even people in nearby villages invited him to their homes to weave agricultural tools.
Uncle Wang said: Mature craftsmen usually weave a basket that can hold 50 pounds in two days, and he is anxious and must be finished in one day. The manual fee slowly rose from 2 yuan a day to more than 20 yuan. The delicate bamboo basket and the non-leaking fort basket have all been woven by Uncle Wang.
In 2016, Uncle Wang went to a nearby mountain village and found that most of the local villagers had left the mountain village and moved to the town to live, turning 5 small villages a day, and none of them needed to weave bamboo. When the eldest uncle returned home, he said to his eldest son, "No, it seems that my bamboo craftsman is also retiring..."
The son advised him: "Now the woven bags and plastic baskets made of plastic are light and durable, and the bamboo family uses less, do not weave us to rest, you are patient with writing, and you will write two couplets in the New Year." ”
When it comes to writing couplets, Uncle Wang laughs again.
He said: I have been writing couplets and selling couplets myself for almost 50 years. Since he was "visited" in 1975, Uncle Wang gambled with the cadres stationed in the village, he said: "I was 38 years old at that time, grumpy, unable to swallow this breath, thinking in my heart, don't you mean that I am an upstart, call the whole commune to visit, then I will write a couplet for the New Year, specifically to go to a place where there are many people, and let everyone see whether I Wang Tongyun is a dead nobleman or a good person." ”
Before the Spring Festival in 2022, because of the epidemic and snow, there was no one in the town to rush to the market, and Uncle Wang's stall selling couplets was set up for two days and he went home.
The bamboo garden is more than three miles away from his home, Uncle Wang has visited the bamboo garden several times, there is still snow on the bamboo forest, he plans to cut some bamboo poles in a few days, and come back to weave a few large bamboo baskets.
"People have to count, and the letter of planting medicinal herbs in Heyu asked me to weave a few large bamboo baskets, and I agreed, so I had to give them to others." In my life, I have lived for more than 80 years, we do not take advantage of the public, do not take advantage of others, there is nothing at home, I want to do it myself. Everything is done, not thought out, you say yes? ”
"The dolls are weird, they all went out, here and there, one by one, they know that I am a person who can't stay idle, and I will be hit when I come back to see me every New Year's Festival." I'm eating now, and I'm following the boss, two miles from here. This side of the scene is big, there is a place to weave bamboo, and I will go back when it is time to eat. On the sixth day of the first year, the granddaughter of the light granddaughter came back more than a dozen times, and all came back to see me, which was strange. I can still drink two bowls of corn grits rice at a meal, I can't die for the time being, and the weaving work is not old and tired, and it is okay to do it for a few more years. When people are alive, they have to do something, and if they are full and do not work, what is the meaning of living? ”
When he left, Uncle Wang repeatedly instructed: "Come again, come to me to shoot words, I am at home all day." I didn't even drink the saliva today, I'm sorry people..."