Lu Yongxin, male, from Chang'an District, Xi'an, is a lover of literature.
Uncle Raiva (novel)
Text/Lu Yongxin
The village is not large, with only two streets, forming a cross in the middle of the village. Uncle Lai Wa's family lives in the east of the village, next door to the Laoye Temple. Uncle Lai Wa is more than seventy years old, and his health has not been good in recent years, and he has nothing to love to sit under the soap horn tree behind the temple and eat dry smoke.
Listening to the old man, in the year of liberation, Uncle Lai Wa was almost forty years old, still a bachelor, and everyone in the village called him "light pole". One day his uncle hurried to come, and as soon as he entered the door, he said, "There is a widow in Nanzhang Village, hurry up and say come over, and everything is suspected of making a family for the baby first." In this way, the widow married into the door, which was Uncle Laiwa's mother, a dowry of three quintals of cotton. The widow had a big belly when she came. It is said that Uncle Lai wa and his father picked up a bargain, did not bother to have a son, uncle Lai Wa and his father happily closed their mouths, walking is always smiling hehehehe. At that time, the wheat shoots were only yellow, and the People's Liberation Army of Nanshan Xiaogutai and Hu Zongnan's troops were fighting, and the sound of gunfire was heard vividly. Uncle Lai Wa was born in May of 49, when the family was too poor to open the pot, thanks to the "North Shore Son" his uncle, he helped Za Yu.
Uncle Lai Wa had a hard life, and when she was nine years old, she had just attended primary school at the old temple at the head of the village. One afternoon someone ran to the temple gate and shouted, 'Laiwa, hurry back, you are not good',' laiva knew that he was not in good health or sick. I have been lying on the kang for almost a year, listening to his mother say that it is ''tuberculosis'',' please ask the old Chinese medicine doctor ''Wang Bold'' to see it, and said: No way. I didn't expect it so fast, when he ran home, people were on the kang, his mother and a few neighbors were there, a room full of people, he only had the gas out of the air and did not enter the gas. The second uncle on the door was busy moving the door panel! Laiva stood in the courtyard in a daze, silently crying! Every family was the same that year, the poor clanging, the bitter days of eating chaff vegetables. After the hastily done, Lai Wa stopped going to school, and Mr. Song from the primary school came several times to say to Lai Wa's mother: 'No matter what, you have to call Lai Wa to go to school, if you don't go to school and have no culture, you can't get anything.'' Lai Wa's mother left tears', 'Good my relatives, this day eating is a problem, Wa Wa went to school'" At that time, Lai Wa's uncle already had a sister and two younger brothers. They all opened their mouths and cried to eat! Those years and months of hard work slowly endured.
The children of the poor have a hard and long life. At the age of fifteen, Laiwa grew a big man, and the second uncle of North Street loved to talk: "The widow and his man are a big man", "the second uncle used to run", "Hulang Burden", "This area is familiar with people, and there are many people who know him." At the age of fifteen, Raiwa was able to work in the fields, and she also became a small member of the society, following the adults to the fields to make crops. The other person's temperament is slow and careful, but the strength is very large, not worse than the adult, the old captain said at the meeting of the evaluation point: "'Lai Wa is willing to work hard, according to the adult labor is counted as a day ten division of labor'", everyone also knows that his family labor is less burdensome, they all say: 'Agree, agree',' Lai Wa has since taken the same level of labor as adults. He worked harder, and Laiwa's mother was particularly happy in her heart, and everyone said, 'I Laiwa can also earn work and support the family.' With my baby I am not afraid of anything'''. Lai Wa's sister Cai Cai is in the second grade, and she also takes two younger brothers to class, watching the baby while attending class, and Mr. Song knows his family situation and does not say anything. At that time, it was free to go to school, and the old captain only said that the family was in difficulty, and Mr. Song waived all the fees. At the end of the Cultural Revolution, the state recovered in all aspects, proposed the comprehensive development of the countryside and the economy, the county demanded the vigorous development of aquaculture, and the village escorted Laiwa to the county to learn veterinary technology. In the future, I will see the pigs, ducks and chickens in the village and engage in epidemic prevention. Lai Wa was timid: "'We have no culture, we are afraid that we will not be able to get it" "The old captain supports: 'Go and study hard, things in the world cannot be learned without learning'" The commune cadres also said: ''Now that we poor people are the masters of the house, the country will rest assured that we are poor and lower-middle peasants'. At the beginning of contact is a little difficult, and then Lai Wa also felt that there is nothing, that is, to give the big cattle and pigs, ducks and chicken injections, that is, some Western medicine names bite the mouth can not remember, fortunately slowly also remember almost, the trainees are young people in neighboring villages are acquainted, communication is also convenient. A few months passed quickly, and Laiwa returned to the village, while working, who was a pig, a chicken, a vaccination to send an anti-inflammatory food and medicine. Gradually, the villagers looked up at Laiwa, can she use it?
At that time, we grasped the revolution and promoted production. The production team is the main battlefield, and it is necessary to grasp the big things and small things. Lively and lively, every day we have to be busy and organize studies every week, and we must think bitterly about the battle of the Forest Criticism Hole Conference. However, the members of the village are still poor, the material life is tense, and there is a shortage of food. Patch pants new three years old three years sewing patch in three years. Lai Wa is almost 25 years old, and she has not yet said the object, first, the family is really poor, and second, others are not fond of talking, and the personality is very introverted. Lai Wa's mother is a little anxious, and several people of the same age in the village are married and have babies! This morning, the magpies chirped, and something good came. Lai Wa's mother did not feel happy in her heart, and the old Guo of South Street smiled and walked into Lai Wa's door, "Second sister-in-law, there is an elephant to say to us Lai Wa". Lai Wa's mother quickly welcomed Lao Guo into the door, "His uncle you sit first" said Lai Wa's mother went into the kitchen and fried two eggs and brought them up, and took out the long-necked Xifeng wine that Lai Wa had bought at the supply and marketing agency for three yuan the day before yesterday. Lao Guo was also not polite, picking up chopsticks and a large piece of eggs, drinking wine, and talking about the general situation of things. ''I still have to change my relatives', 'Lai Wa's mother was surprised.'" ''Is this the case, is it good to be good,' Old Guo muttered to himself. Changing relatives is a local custom, that is, the children of poor families cannot afford to marry a daughter-in-law, and exchange their sisters for a daughter-in-law. His own sister wants to marry the other's brother, that is to say, kiss and kiss. That's all there is to it be because of poverty. Lai Wa did not understand, the same age has a daughter-in-law, she is also helpless. Only Laiwa's mother is in charge. After a while, in the end, Lai Wa's mother discussed and discussed, or replied to Lao Guo: Give The baby to do things.
Raiva and her sister did everything according to their mother's arrangement. Soon, La Yue took care of Laiwa's marriage. Made two tables of rice, is ''five plates'" is a table of five plates of dishes. Two hot and three cool. The next year, Miao Miao, the daughter-in-law of Lai Wa, gave birth to a big fat boy. Lai Wa's mother happily said to everyone: 'I have eaten and prayed the Buddha's spiritual experience very much, and finally have a grandson'" When Lai Wa was fifty-three years old, she was sick and died, buried in the old grave of the West Slope, and Lai Wa cried very sadly. Time flies by quickly, and in the blink of an eye it is decades. Lai Wa is also old, he often crouches alone under the soap horn tree behind the old temple, sniffing at the dry cigarette bag, bowing his head and not speaking, and the bad temper of the past is gone. 'Alas, it's useless to be old'' he sighed. No one listened to him, only to himself. Looking at the empty old temple, a group of old crows flew overhead, he looked up at the sky, and the dazzling sunlight came over...
Raiva is dead. Last night I went to sleep on the second floor, but I said that I was dizzy, and I was usually not sick. Later, he heard his daughter-in-law say that he went to help him when he got married strongly in South Street, and drank a few more glasses of Xifeng wine in the afternoon. He usually does not like to drink liquor. He doesn't like to sleep late, that morning it was half morning and he didn't get up, his daughter-in-law went upstairs to see, the situation was not good, quickly asked people to break through the door, people have fallen to the ground are stiff! Raiva died, and word spread throughout the village...
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