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Our Ma family ancestors were originally the largest family in the south of this mountain, with more than 200 clansmen, and the family business was also very prosperous. But Ma Yunde, who was the eleventh generation of his ancestors, got into a lawsuit and was raided, and the Ma family collapsed. In my grandfather's generation, the lawsuit for the seizure of the heir and property was overturned, and most of the family business was already stretched thin. My father's generation was quite disabled, and their ability to have children was much worse than before, and the number of people in my clan plummeted to seventy or eighty. With such a large family, no one in my generation was able to go to university and make a living by farming and small business.
I relied on hard work to get into the best middle school in the county, and then went to the Normal College. No one in the 18 generations of my ancestors has ever been a college student, and the fact that I relied on a mere faculty member was really the biggest event for the Ma family in more than 100 years.
When my father died of illness, I vowed to restore some glory to the Ma family. Relying on my determination to move forward and the promotion and recommendation of others, I rose step by step, and finally became a deputy director of the county government. Although he is not like a provincial and ministerial-level official, he is also one of the most successful people in his hometown.
Last year, when I entered the year of the sixtieth year, I stepped down from the firing line and concentrated on writing the history of my hometown. So he began to collect the old things of his ancestors, so as to make up a complete family tree for the Ma family. It's a bit ridiculous that we have such a big family in the Ma family, but we have not had an official family tree since my grandfather's generation. I plan to spend three years sorting out the historical evolution of the Ma family and the blood relationship of the clansmen, and show the lintel.
Most of the clansmen in the village didn't pay much attention to me when they saw me like this, and many people laughed at me for being too "pedantic". But I know that this is my responsibility to my people, and I have to do it myself. So I went around collecting information, interrogating elders, and concentrating on sorting out the history of the Ma family. My wife, who came from a humble background, took care of the household chores for me and supported me in this move.
Finally, on the 26th of December last year, I completed the manuscript, handed it over to the county and township history office publishing house, paid a deposit of 5,000 yuan, and signed a contract to typeset and print 1,000 copies of the family tree. This huge sum of 5,000 yuan made me, a retired cadre, tighten my belt like a big family. But I am very relieved that I have finally completed a big thing for the Ma family.
According to the Xi of the village, this kind of big event of donating money to publish a family tree was originally to celebrate the success of the banquet. But I thought that I was not as wealthy as a few families in the village, and I had worked hard to write books in the past three years, so it was really not appropriate to spend a lot of money on a banquet. So I just posted a group photo in the group of relatives to inform them that I had completed the task of compiling the family tree, and hoped that they would come together and receive the horse family tree for the rest of their lives.
I was shocked by the reaction of my relatives!
I was stunned, I didn't understand why Ma Lizhong said this about me. I explained: "Lizhong, you also know that my pension is like that, and I spent a lot of money on writing books, and now I can't make ends meet. Besides, publishing a family tree is filial piety, not for the sake of showing a façade. ”
Ma Lizhong snorted and ignored me. Several of my cousins were also dismissive. I'm very depressed, and my heart says I'm better than you, why do you have such a face?
At this moment, my niece Ma Lili sent a voice message: "Uncle, I heard that you only paid 5,000 yuan and wanted to fool us? Our Ma family has been famous for you for decades, how can you be careless in editing a family tree?"
I was furious and blocked her directly. This little girl, I am your uncle! What do you mean by "fooling" you? A typical new generation who doesn't know what to do!
I was so angry that I posted a long WeChat message in the group, explaining my painstaking efforts in compiling my family tree and the current situation of making ends meet with my pension, hoping that they would understand my difficulties and provide more support.
Who knows, my eldest brother Ma Cunzhong replied directly: "Da Yuan, you have been wronged! If you want me to say, your family tree is just to find something to do after retirement, and you are in a hurry to do this." If you have the time, energy, and money, it is better to help your son find a job and earn money to support his wife and children, and everyone in the village says so. ”
I was stunned for a long time and almost threw away my phone. I thought to myself, my eldest brother, you are the son of a Ma family, but you don't even have a grandson, and you can't raise your own wife and children, why do you say that I am mentally ill?
I was so angry that I couldn't sleep, tossing and turning until dawn. At this time, my neighbor Uncle Zhang knocked on the door and said that the old gentleman calligrapher in the county town asked me to pay another 5,000 yuan for printing.
As soon as I heard this, I became angry: "Pay for your big-headed ghost's printing fee! I paid the full amount, and people insist that I pay another 5,000 and not print? What kind of scam is this!"
Uncle Zhang hurriedly persuaded me: "Oh, Ma Dayuan, you are not satisfied with the price offered by other manufacturers? You can't blame people for this, people say that the price of paper has risen!"
I pointed at Uncle Zhang's nose and roared: "I'll tell you Zhang, don't think I don't understand the market! How can there be any price increase in the printing industry? It is clear that you have trapped me in righteousness and colluded with those uneducated guys to deceive me!"
Uncle Zhang didn't speak, his face turned red and turned around and left. My chest was tight and my temples were pounding. These white-eyed wolves of the Ma family! One by one, they think that I have not done enough, and they want me to put on a feast after compiling a booklet! There is nothing they can do about me, and no matter how capable I am, I am a poor bastard who has just retired!
I was so angry that I picked up the teacup and smashed it against the wall, and the teacup shattered with a "tom", and the tea splashed far away. My hysterical appearance alarmed my wife, she ran over to pull me, and said distressedly: "Dayuan, don't be angry, it's all my fault, I shouldn't let you take over the family tree." Why do we have to do it?"
I came to my senses, and I felt a tightness in my chest and a heavy head. My wife helped me to lie down on the kang and called my sister-in-law. My sister-in-law Ma's family immediately poured me a few packets of boiling water and massaged my acupuncture points.
I was getting more comfortable when I suddenly received a strange call. The caller, who claimed to be Ma Dexin from the village cultural and historical committee, said that the county archives had just sorted out a batch of ancient books and found that there were materials on the life of Ma Yunde, my ancestor 18 generations ago, and asked me to go and claim them immediately.
I was overjoyed when I heard this, and happily informed my wife and sister-in-law of the phone. I said in my heart that the family tree I had worked so hard to compile had finally been proven, and now look at who would dare to say anything about me!
So I immediately got up and went out and went to the county archives. Na Ma Dexin was really waiting for me at the door and led me to the attic to look through the ancient books. However, I looked closely, and it was not at all the material of my ancestor Ma Yunde, it was clearly some folk tales collected fifty years ago!
I asked Ma Dexin suspiciously: "Hey, what does this have to do with my Ma Yunde? Are you lying to me?" Ma Dexin sneered: "Oh, Ma Dayuan, I don't have the Ma Yunde you said here." But aren't these stories interesting, so you might as well take them back and see them. ”
I stared at him for a long time, thinking to myself that there was definitely something wrong. At this time, a thought suddenly flashed in my mind: Could it be that the people of the Ma family are deliberately manipulating me?
It turned out that they were deliberately trying to fix me! In order to make me bad when I was happy to complete my family tree, so that I thought that everyone looked down on me, and I was so angry that I had a stroke and died suddenly!
I questioned my wife in disbelief, and she finally confessed. It turned out that she teamed up with my sister-in-law and others to set up this bureau in order to avenge me for writing books and not having time to take care of my family for all these years. I was so angry that I immediately turned around and left, and ran to find Ma Lizhong to settle the account.
As soon as I opened the door, I saw all the people in the village standing in front of my house. My eldest brother, Ma Cunzhong, suddenly knelt down on his knees and knelt down to me to plead guilty! It turned out that everyone had colluded to trick me just to test my character and see that I was really a person who was truly knowledgeable and did not care about personal gains and losses. Now my performance has completely impressed them, and everything in the Ma family will be up to me from now on!
I will take it into account, pretend to accept their apologies, and express my determination to continue to serve the Ma family. The tribesmen then left.
I sat alone in the courtyard and thought about it, and then I realized that everything was so unreal. How could my wife and relatives turn against me for no reason? Their behavior just now was clearly too unnatural and full of flaws.
It occurred to me that there must be something wrong with this, and I decided to investigate and find out the truth.
My heart is like a knife, and my relationship and trust for more than 30 years have been ruined in one fell swoop. I'm going crazy. At this time, it suddenly occurred to me that I also have a minor daughter, Ma Nannan, and her life will also be ruined by this bastard couple!
That night, the whole village smelled a burning smell. Mader's new house was burned to the ground! I was secretly glad that this bastard deserved it.
I fell to my knees, my body limp in a puddle of mud. My eldest brother and sister-in-law helped me up and looked at me with tears in their eyes, like they were looking at a madman.
My eyes widened, and I couldn't figure out what was going on. Was all this just a hallucination, or was it a long nightmare of life?
At this moment, the village doctor came over in a hurry and said that he would take me to the county hospital for a check-up. It dawned on me that I might be suffering from a disease, and that's when I hallucinated.
The doctor told me that I had mild Alzheimer's disease and that my memory and cognitive skills were gradually deteriorating. This may cause me to experience symptoms such as hallucinations, memory loss, etc. My eldest brother and the village chief frowned, because it meant that my health was deteriorating day by day, and I was no longer able to do anything about the family business.
One rainy evening, I sat alone in front of the door, watching the puddle at the entrance of the village. A little girl suddenly ran up to me with an umbrella in hand. I looked at it, and it turned out to be Ma Lili, the young daughter of Ma De's new family!
I hugged Ma Lili and cried for a long time. When I finally stopped my tears and looked up, I found that Ma Lili was long gone.
I was the only one here, sitting in the empty courtyard. It was already dark, the rain had stopped, and there was only a sea on the ground.
At this moment, I finally realized that everything just now was just another illusion of mine. My condition is deteriorating and has severely affected my connection to reality.
Hearing this, I just nodded numbly and didn't have much sadness. Because I know that my life has been shattered by the erosion of the disease. I can never go back to the old days, and I can no longer give the Ma family any help.
I ran away from home aimlessly and ended up in an unfamiliar county hundreds of kilometers away. I rented a cheap rental house and planned to spend the last days of my life like this.
In this way, in loneliness and hallucinations, my life came to an end day by day. Finally, in the early hours of the morning, I took my last breath and passed away.