Author: Wang Hongliang
Ill-fated fate
Li Zhongqiu's village is located in a mountainous area, Zhuangzi is not large, the population is not large, hundreds of families, thousands of people. In the village, most of the young people have gone out to work, and the left-behind elderly, women, and children add up to six or seven hundred people.
In this village, only these people are using practical actions to exert their due strength, watching over the countryside, building the countryside, taking the countryside as the foundation, never abandoning each other, and staying together for a long time. This is the current state of this small village.
In the eyes of the villagers in the same village, Li Zhongqiu was born at the wrong time, had a bad fate, and experienced hardships and pains that ordinary people had not experienced, he was too difficult!
He had a bad life in his life, he lost his father at a young age, he got married when he was thirty years old, and his wife died at the age of forty-five. Of the three major misfortunes in life, he has two of them, what kind of fate is this, he is really unlucky!
In those years, Li Zhongqiu looked at his two underage sons, wanting to cry without tears, so sad that he couldn't say a word.
It seemed that overnight, he turned white.
It's embarrassing.
He often frowns alone, sighs, and even sheds tears.
In those nights when I couldn't sleep alone, Li Zhongqiu always thought to himself: Why is it so difficult in my life, why did God leave me in the world!
However, no matter what he thinks, how he does, how sad he is, or how sad he is, he has to lead the two children, grit his teeth, and live his life.
There is also the need to provide for his mother's retirement.
In the eyes of everyone, this is a rigid standard, a condition that must be adhered to and obeyed.
To each his own, he takes what he needs
Although Li Zhongqiu lost his wife in middle age, there was no woman by his side, an adult led two children, and the restaurant he ran in his hometown did not stop, and there were incomes every day, every month, and every year. This is one aspect of him that is gratifying. In this way, his life is less tense and depressed.
After the death of Li Zhongqiu's wife, someone introduced him to women more than once. He also lived with these women for a while, but because of this or that trivial incident, he could not last long, and went his separate ways, living his own life.
At that time, he was a wounded man, and the women who had not been with him for a long time had hurt him a lot.
Later, Li Zhongqiu simply chose to be single, no longer thinking about women, no longer looking for women, no longer living with women, and leading two children to live alone.
However, a man is a man, a man is a man after all, a man needs a woman, and a man is incomplete or perfect without a woman by his side, just as a woman needs a man. A woman is a woman, a woman is a woman after all, a woman needs a man, and a woman is incomplete or perfect without a man by her side, and it is a deficiency. Some women need men to take the initiative to find her. Experience a brief encounter in the style of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. That's what grown-ups think, think, want, and do, and hormones are driving these men and women to do it.
After a period of time, Li Zhongqiu couldn't bear the loneliness, and in the local countryside, he secretly searched for divorced stubbles or widowed women to solve the physical and psychological needs of normal men. Of course, he did this for a fee. To put it bluntly, some middle-aged women at that time also needed men like Li Zhongqiu. These people, in doing so, can just take what they need and fill the needs of a normal person.
Many times, Li Zhongqiu is thinking alone: begging, don't you just spend some money! As long as you spend money, you can solve your psychological and physical needs. What man in the world doesn't need a woman? What woman in the world doesn't need a man? As for people, most of them are confused, especially men like me, who are even more confused! And those women, those women are also fools!
In order to have a better life, Li Zhongqiu is busy alone, running his restaurant, cold and summer, spring, summer, autumn and winter, and so on, never stopping.
He had secretly sworn that this would be his life, and the profession he was engaged in would not be easily changed.
In this way, the ordinary Li Zhongqiu, with his ordinary two sons, lived an ordinary life.
Do you want to make a table or order food?
One morning, Guan Meixia, a cousin from a neighboring village, rode an electric car and came to Li Zhongqiu's hotel in a hurry, and said quickly: "Cousin, today is your cousin's birthday, and now he is working at a construction site in the county seat. After discussion, in the evening, my family got together for a meal to celebrate his birthday. Your cousin is sixty years old this year, and I happen to be sixty years old this year. Brother, at six o'clock tonight, you prepare a table of wine, and we will come over for dinner. After eating, you will be billed. ”
Li Zhongqiu said with a smile: "The matter of money, it's easy to say, why don't you get it all, let's talk about it when the time comes." ”
Li Zhongqiu then asked: "Sister-in-law, will you book a table or order food at that time?" ”
Guan Meixia said: "Let me look at the recipe first. ”
Li Zhongqiu introduced: "The price of a private table is 7505, 905, 705 and 905, the dishes, types, and quality are different, and the ordering is different. ”
After Guan Meixia read the recipe, she said confidently: "Cousin, let's make a table, it saves effort, and it can also make time for you to cook." ”
Li Zhongqiu still smiled and said: "Sister-in-law, not only does it save effort to book a table, but also does not delay things, you can come directly into a single room to eat, when the time comes, it will be ready-made meals, not cold, how beautiful!" ”
Guan Meixia said: "I want a table of 950 yuan, and when the time comes, I can make the dishes ready." My family has a large population, more than a dozen people, and I am afraid that it will not be enough to eat if I order a table of 705. ”
Li Zhongqiu said: "That's okay, it's decided." ”
After Guan Meixia finished speaking, she walked out of Li Zhongqiu's hotel.
Li Zhongqiu sent Guan Meixia outside the hotel and said goodbye to each other.
She rode an electric car and walked away in a hurry.
This matter was finalized.
It didn't take much effort to get it
At six o'clock in the evening, Guan Meixia and her husband, Lao Cao, walked into the hotel opened by Li Zhongqiu on time with their family.
These people are going to eat here.
Lao Cao smiled and asked Li Zhongqiu: "Cousin, are the dishes we want ready?" ”
Li Zhongqiu said with a smiling face: "Cousin, you are not early or late, just come to Qi, you can eat." ”
Lao Cao said: "That's okay, let's go, let's eat." Cousin, come over for dinner too. ”
Guan Meixia said, "Let's go, let's eat together." ”
Li Zhongqiu said: "No, you can eat, I still have to do business!" ”
So, Lao Cao and Guan Meixia took the family into the private room and went to eat.
During this period, Li Zhongqiu's hotel had a few more tables of guests, and Li Zhongqiu was busy sweating profusely.
At half past seven in the evening, Guan Meixia walked out of the private room quickly, urging for longevity noodles. She saw that Li Zhongqiu was very busy, so she said, "Cousin, it's not easy for you to open a restaurant by yourself!" ”
Li Zhongqiu said: "It's okay, I'm used to it." ”
Lao Cao and Guan Meixia's family had dinner.
Guan Meixia specially took her family away, and then mysteriously called Li Zhongqiu to the kitchen and said, "Cousin, I have a cousin who is about the same age as you and is from our neighboring village." Some time ago, her husband died, and it was not easy to live alone with her children. I think so, I see that your restaurant is busy with you alone, it's very hard, and you can't be busy, if you agree, I'll introduce my cousin to you to work, and every month, you can pay her more or less a little salary. She used to work as a cook in the county seat. It was because her husband was sick and later died that she came back to rest and has been resting. ”
Li Zhongqiu agreed very neatly, and he still said with a smile: "Zhong, you bring her over tomorrow and let me see her, and then decide whether to keep her." ”
Guan Meixia said: "Medium, no problem. ”
The next morning, Guan Meixia really brought her cousin from the neighboring village, Zhang Xiaoli, to Li Zhongqiu's hotel. Guan Meixia gave Li Zhongqiu an explanation, then rode the electric car with a smile and left in a hurry. To tell the truth, Guan Meixia, a woman, is still quite good at doing things.
Zhang Xiaoli's face is not outstanding, but she is also smart and has a bit of a look. Judging from the first feeling, Li Zhongqiu still recognizes Zhang Xiaoli.
Zhang Xiaoli also recognized Li Zhongqiu's appearance.
Immediately afterwards, Li Zhongqiu asked Zhang Xiaoli about some basic common sense about opening a restaurant, and Zhang Xiaoli was neither humble nor arrogant, and the answer was fluent.
She got his approval.
In this way, Li Zhongqiu agreed to Zhang Xiaoli to work as a cook in his restaurant, and gave her 1,500 yuan a month as a salary.
In the following days, it was not so much that Li Zhongqiu was the owner of the hotel, but that this hotel was a partnership between Li Zhongqiu and Zhang Xiaoli.
For such a tacit cooperation between Li Zhongqiu and Zhang Xiaoli, a clear-eyed person can see it at a glance. What is the relationship between these two people?
The days passed like this, both plain as water, and silent, day by day, month by month, year by year, forming an annual ring worth writing.
Just fall in love, don't get married
Time is the thief who steals the years, and the years are quietly strung into annual rings.
Time is nostalgic for no one, and time is merciless.
The annual rings make people grow, grow old, and disappear in the long river of history, becoming the enduring memory of future generations, and the aftertaste of a lifetime.
Time is passing quickly, time is slipping away silently, inadvertently, disappearing between fingers.
Spring, summer, autumn and winter, cold comes and goes, and in the long run, it continues uninterruptedly.
Li Zhongqiu and Zhang Xiaoli ran the restaurant together for one year, two years, three years, four years, five years......
It is said: There is a shih h h in the eyes of a lover.
Zhang Xiaoli and Li Zhongqiu are in this way, and they have maintained this way for a long time.
Occasionally, Zhang Xiaoli will be temperamental and temperant in front of Li Zhongqiu, and Li Zhongqiu always takes care of her in an understanding and tolerant way, smiling and taking care of her.
Of course, when Li Zhongqiu is upset, he will also lose his temper in front of Zhang Xiaoli, and Zhang Xiaoli will tolerate him. It's like he takes care of her.
It is said: the head of the rooster, the head of the hen, the river flows from west to east, and the two do not hold grudges when they fight.
Li Zhongqiu and Zhang Xiaoli were angry, Zhang Xiaoli and Li Zhongqiu were angry, never more than two days, and they were as good as ever.
A few years later, Li Zhongqiu's sons all grew up, got married and had children.
Zhang Xiaoli's daughter is also married, a daughter-in-law, a wife, and a mother, and lives an ideal adult life.
Each other's children persuaded Li Zhongqiu and Zhang Xiaoli to get married as soon as possible in their lifetimes, accompany each other to old age, and not leave regrets in life.
Li Zhongqiu and Zhang Xiaoli's answers are almost identical, even their expressions and movements are the same. The two people said emotionally: "Wait, wait, the time is not yet ripe, wait until the time is ripe!" ”
At that time, in the eyes of his children, Zhang Xiaoli and Li Zhongqiuguang were in love and did not get married, which seemed to be bound to carry out such a process to the end.
These days, the children of Li Zhongqiu and Zhang Xiaoli are not without a kind of worry, is the reality of these two old people not getting married to become a pity! No, we have to promote Li Zhongqiu and Zhang Xiaoli to get married as soon as possible, but the wish of the two families for many years has been fulfilled! But these two people's wish for many years!
The work was completed on September 7, 2024