Text: Nan Xiang
Pictured: Vulgar photography
Outside the village, the hemp pole master, tall, very thin, thin like a dry sesame pole, so the village people call him "hemp pole master".
According to the villagers, when He was young, he never had a family, because his family was poor, he had four brothers, and he had no father, so no girl in the nearby village was willing to marry him. Coupled with the fact that he is the eldest and the eldest brother is like a father, he wants his brothers to start a family, even if he fights a lifetime of bare sticks.
Hearing that a soldier could eat enough, Grandpa Ma Asked someone to inquire and let his two younger brothers of the right age go to be soldiers, and finally only one of the conditions met, and he went to the army that year.
The remaining two younger brothers have been working in the farm with Ma Guan Ye at home, and there is labor in the family, plus Ma Guan Ye has always run the family, and Ma Guan Ye's two younger brothers have also married daughters-in-law, although they have only started a family in their thirties, they have not played bare sticks.
In the 1990s, the economic development of various places was good, and the number of people who went out to work in the village slowly increased, and Ma Guanye also went to work in the brick kiln factory in Shandong with the people in the village.
In the kiln factory to work on the day, the ma rod master work is particularly real, never hesitate, the kiln factory owner to see him real, he introduced him to a distant relative, the woman is more than thirty years old, divorced, with a child in the belly, do not know whether it is a man or a woman, at that time has been forty-six years old ma rod grandpa, in the face of suddenly someone to introduce him to the daughter-in-law, he was actually a little flustered, he told the situation of the family truthfully to the kiln factory owner, he was afraid that people would regret marrying the past!
When the owner of the kiln factory brought his distant relatives over, Ma Guan Ye met with the co-workers, and the woman expressed her willingness to follow Ma Guan Ye, because the woman was already seven months pregnant, so Ma Guan Ye took the woman back to the village at that time, and three months later, the woman gave birth to a girl at home.
Some people in the village say that Ma Guan Ye is stupid, marrying a daughter-in-law is still pregnant with other people's children, and I don't know how many men this woman has followed before, and some people say that Ma Wan Ye is blessed, marrying a daughter-in-law and sending a child, but Ma Wan Ye does not care about these, for this daughter, he is doubly loved, named Daying.
Half a year later, the woman did not quit, and the child was also thrown to the ma guan ye, who found the kiln factory owner with the child waiting to be fed, and found the woman's hometown, but the woman did not go home, and finally did not hear a little news from the woman.
Someone advised Ma Rod Grandpa to give the child away, and it is not your own birth, Ma Ma Grandpa is reluctant to do it, there is no way, he learns to mix the white noodles into a paste and feed the child bite by bite.
When the child was four years old, someone in the neighboring village asked ma guanye if he would like to pull a gang, and there was a woman in the neighboring village whose husband fell ill and died, and there were three children in the family, two girls, a boy, the boy was the eldest, fifteen, and the woman wanted to find a man, but she had to come to the door.
Ma Guan Ye usually takes a child alone, it is also very hard, although the door-to-door pull gang set is not good to hear, but at least there is a home, just like this, Ma Po Ye took Daying to live in a neighboring village.
After living in a neighboring village for about two years, the woman of the family also died of illness, leaving three small and small children, and before the woman died, she begged Ma Guanye not to abandon his children, and she would definitely repay Ma Guanye in her next life!
After the woman's death, Ma Guan Ye returned to the village with his four children, relying on the family's two acres of land, and sometimes his stomach was not full.
The changes in life, never discussed with anyone, there was a summer of heavy water, the second brother of Ma Guanye, fell into the puddle and drowned, that year, the second brother was more than fifty years old, Ma Guanye was nearly sixty, the second brother's family had three children, two girls, a son, the son was old and young, just in junior high school!
Grandpa Ma asked the second brother's daughter-in-law what her plans were, and the second brother's daughter-in-law said that she had no plans, and that she would guard her children! As the uncle, he once again took on the responsibility of father, saying that he is now the "father" of seven children, and he wants to do his best to make them all start a family.
Fortunately, the children are also older, but also very contentious, several children have also successively gone out to work, help each other, Ma Guan Ye also went to the city to work in the construction site, Ma Guan Ye saved money, sometimes a meal to eat a steamed bun, the clothes on the body are torn with patches, but Ma Guan Ye built two tall buildings for his stepson and nephew, built side by side, the matchmaker worried about helping the children to start a family, the villagers said, if there is no Ma Wan Grandpa to support this home, this group of children are afraid that there is no place to live!
Throughout his life, Grandpa Ma was suffering and raising other people's children, but good people have good rewards, and the children he raised were particularly filial and sensible, and when Grandpa Ma Was bedridden in his later years, it was also these children who took turns to take care of them day and night.
In November last year, Ma Guan Ye died, and his children worked together to send Ma Guan Ye away in a beautiful scenery, and everyone in the village said that Ma Guan Ye had a good life and a good death.