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Uncle Dog bought an old bicycle. He was the first person in the village to buy a bicycle.
Uncle Dog also has a big name. However, usually people in the village call him by his nickname, and even the production team divides the vegetables and red potatoes, and the note is written "Chen Gouqun", and people of my generation naturally call him "Uncle Gouqun". Since people rarely mention his name, I can't remember it for a long time.
Speaking of Uncle Dog Qun's purchase of a bicycle, it was already in 1963.
In 1961, when the large canteens in the countryside had just been disbanded, in order to solve the problem of having enough food for the peasants as soon as possible, the national policy allowed individuals to do some small business, or to weave some baskets, baskets, or grow vegetables by handicraft, and they could be sold in the market for a small amount of money. Uncle Gou knew how to trade as a blacksmith, so he made his own shovels, doors, noses and other small objects, and sold them in the market. (Want to see what the author of this article, Mr. Li Quncheng, wrote last time?) Welcome to click on the following link: I owe my cousin a gourd)
Because Uncle Dog is single, he has been living with his younger brother's family. However, the money he earns is naturally at his own disposal. With a little savings, he went to the thrift market in the city and bought an old bicycle for 40 yuan. At that time, it cost more than 160 yuan to buy a new car, and he naturally couldn't afford it.
In the era when only people in the city could afford to buy bicycles, someone in the countryside suddenly pushed back a bicycle, which was naturally a rarity, just like the first car in our village more than ten years ago, and the whole village had to run to see the excitement. Uncle Dog also treats the bicycle like a baby, wiping it several times a day. However, because it is an old car, the paint on the body has long since fallen off, just like a faded garment, and it is not as good as new if it is washed clean. However, after all, it was a bicycle that he bought with his own money, and it is not surprising that he cherishes a little.
Since Uncle Gou Qun got a bicycle, there are a few people in the village who can ride bicycles to go to the city to run errands, or go to distant places, and they want to borrow them. Because, although the bicycle is old, riding it is always faster than walking, and it saves effort. However, Uncle Dog Pack will not easily lend his bicycle to others.
Yuan Liangye is a very famous chef in the countryside, usually whoever has a happy event, will invite him to take charge, so the people in the village will look down on him. Yuan Liangye is a person who loves face very much, and he will not easily open his mouth to beg for help. However, in daily life, there will always be times when you can't wipe your body, and it is unrealistic not to open your mouth to ask for help.
Once Yuan Liang was in a hurry and wanted to borrow Uncle Gouqun's bicycle, but he also hit a nail.
Yuan Liangye was so angry that he went to the city and pushed back a brand-new permanent brand bicycle. Everyone knows that he "sold his children to buy a cage, and did not steam steamed buns to fight for breath", and he bought a new bicycle because he was angry. The new car looks much more beautiful than Uncle Gou's car.
Yuan Liangye is a very particular person who loves cleanliness, and he naturally loves brand-new bicycles. When it's okay, I always wipe the bike shiny and shiny. He rode over a small ditch and would come down and push through. It's no wonder who buys a new dress to get stained? What's more, it's a new bike that cost more than 160 yuan to buy. If this number is put aside now, it is not worth 8,000 yuan?
After Yuan Liangye bought a new bicycle, soon Uncle Nemu and Uncle Goudiu (name Li Genhai) all bought brand new bicycles one after another. Uncle Goudi bought a flying pigeon brand weighted bicycle, with a person or a hundred pounds of things in the back of the car, all of which were leveraged. My family also bought a half-used bicycle when my brother returned home to visit relatives during the Spring Festival in 1966 after he was transferred from the army.
Uncle Gou has a bicycle, so naturally there is a lot of scenery in the village.
One year, I heard that a half-aged woman in her 40s came from Beixiang (a village in the northern part of our village, which everyone is used to calling "Beixiang"), and she also brought a seven or eight-year-old daughter to live with Uncle Dog Qun. Because the half-old woman walks with one foot a little pulled, people call her "pull" behind their backs.
Although "Lazi" is not very dexterous in her legs and feet, she is very family-oriented, and her work is not worse than ordinary people. If another woman pulls a cart, she can pull a cart as well. When someone else fills the car to the brim, she will never pull a little less. In that era when she relied on earning work and sharing food, she did not earn much less than other women in a year.
This is the case in the countryside, as long as the brothers all marry their daughters-in-law, it is inevitable that they will be separated. It is like a wheat sprout that grows in the field, which always has to be tillered when the season comes. This is an ironclad law of nature. Within a few months of the half-old woman coming to our village, the two brothers and sisters of the dog group broke up and had a lot of trouble fighting over the family property.
Uncle Gou, who has been a single man for half his life, suddenly has a woman at home, and he lives with him, and his heart is naturally sweeter than drinking honey. He is hungry and thirsty, and he is desperate to overdraw his body day and night.
Life is like this, there is nothing wrong with pursuing happiness and longing for happiness. However, when happiness and happiness come, you must not get carried away and do not grasp the proportions yourself. That's what Uncle Dog is like. It's a good thing that the family finally has a woman, but because he can't control himself, he finally turns a good thing into a bad thing. Within a few years of the half-old woman coming to the house, Uncle Dog became thinner and thinner, and finally even walked like his half-old woman.
Since the family is divided, all the property of Uncle Dog Qun naturally belongs to the half-old woman.
The half-old woman originally had a family and a husband, but she didn't know what the reason was, so she came to our village to live with Uncle Gouqun. Uncle Dog is gone, and she can no longer live in the village. She called her former husband to rip the house down, and the timber and everything of value in the house were pulled back to their original home in a rack cart.
Some people say that time is like a galloping horse, and you can't pull it by the tail to make it stop, or make it run a little slower. It's been more than 60 years since Uncle Dog bought a bicycle, and in retrospect, the imprint is still clear.
May 2024 in Zhengzhou, Henan Province
Li Quncheng is a member of the Chinese Calligraphers Association, a member of the Chinese Poetry Society, a member of the Chinese Couplet Society, a member of the Henan Artists Association, and a member of the Henan Writers Association. Calligraphy and art works have been selected for many exhibitions (award-winning) exhibitions of the China Calligraphy Association and the Henan Association. He has published more than 180 essays, art theories, reviews, and essays of more than 400,000 words, and hundreds of poems (couplets) in newspapers, magazines and the Internet. He has published "Li Quncheng's Calligraphy Collection", "The Rise of the Central Plains - Chinese Contemporary Calligraphy Master Li Quncheng", "Spring Recitation and Autumn Yin: Li Quncheng's Poetry Couplet", "Fertile Yizhen - Li Quncheng's Poetry Collection" and "Dusty Years".
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