Hit the Water (1)
Editor's recommendation: Based on his own life experience, the author Chen Yingjun co-authored the novel "Hitting the Water" with Li Kecong. From the 1950s to today after the reform and opening up, this novel uses the life experience of an ordinary peasant boy as the weft to describe the life experience of ordinary people after the founding of the Republic. The protagonist lost his mother from a young age, wandered around, and later joined the army as a soldier, became an officer, and after changing careers, in the wave of going to the sea to do business in the 1990s, he threw himself into the business sea and founded the Huaxing Etiquette School, experiencing multiple setbacks and tribulations, until he realized his life ideals. The novel reflects the historical outlook of the past sixty years from one side, which can be said to be a microcosm of the times. The story that happens to the protagonist is both familiar and intimate, both poignant and tragic, and although the novel is written in the story of the master, it seems to be able to see the shadow of each of us who has experienced that era.
This public account will be serialized from today, so stay tuned.
Chapter 1
A Zeli was born
A barren slope not far from the courtyard was reclaimed by Chen Huimin and planted with three ridges of cucumbers, three ridges of bean pods, and three ridges of tomatoes. The autumn wind swept down from the mountain, sweeping the leaves of the vegetables and trembling. Chen Huimin felt cold, walked into the vegetable field, casually touched the stems of the tomatoes, looked at a few tomatoes that were still blue, and felt pity, thinking about whether they could still be red.
"Benefit the people!"
With a roar, Chen Huimin's gaze was dragged to the ramp in front of the door. He looked up and saw that it was the village chief Chen Youqing who had come, and with his mouth answering, "Uncle, you are coming," he went outside the vegetable field.
Chen Youqing put on a black cloth jacket, stood down at his door, and said to Huimin in front of him: "The upper side is urging you to get on the horse, you hurry to prepare to go to the construction site." ”
Hui Min had already known that he was letting the big smelting steel, but he didn't expect to get on the horse so soon, so he let him say, "Uncle, sit in the house." ”
Chen Youqing said, "If you don't go in, just say it here." Ming'er you go up the hill first before you fight, see how our village is paved, and then let Yinju also go. ”
"Yinju she..." Before Huimin could finish speaking, Chen Youqing said, "I know." The body is inconvenient, just let her do a custody of statistics or not? You are all cultural people, inseparable. Oh, I'm gone. Chen Youqing turned and went downhill.
Chen Huimin reached back and brushed his long hair, a pair of glowing eyes looked at the distant Alexandria, and the lush sky was mixed with some fiery yellow leaves, as if they were burning. Yes, there will soon be a battlefield and an unprecedented battle of ten thousand iron-making conferences. Alexandria, a treasure land gifted by nature, is rich in iron ore resources, coal mine resources and forest resources, which have not been disturbed for thousands of years, and now they will awaken from the silence of the long years, and even glorify. Thinking of this, his blood was boiling, and his face was also a little rosy. Seeing that the mayor of Chen Village had turned around and disappeared, he also turned and walked into the courtyard door, walked through the somewhat cracked square bricks on the floor of the courtyard, raised his legs to climb the bluestone steps of the north room, opened the curtain, and entered the hall house.
Yang Yinju, the wife of the house, was making cotton pants and cotton jackets for the baby she was about to give birth, and when she saw Huimin come in, she asked, "Did the village chief let the horse get on?" ”
Huimin said, "Yes." Ming'er will let go. ”
Alexandria is located at the northeast end of Zhongtiao Mountain in southern Jinnan, where the mountains are high, densely forested, fengqi, shimei, shuiqing, dongyou, waterfall and yunwei, which are one of the four peaks in Shanxi. The ground is rich in animal and plant resources, and apes have flourished in ancient times. According to legend, King Shun was born in zhufeng village in this mountain, and when he became an adult, he used to drive an elephant on the mountain to cultivate, and the main peak was ploughed out of thousands of acres of pingping, so it was called Shunwangping. It is also said that King Shun created the Seventy-two Phenological Calendar of the Yellow River Basin here, and called this mountain with a radius of hundreds of square kilometers as Alexander.
Today, in the ten-mile-long valley at the southern foot of Alexandria Mountain, small earthen iron-making blast furnaces are staggered on the terraces and next to the streams, and the billowing smoke drifts up to the mountain, enveloping the red mountain forest in a white fog.
In the simple shed, Yang Yinju, who has a big belly, is filling out statistical reports, and a row of beautiful figures extends in the form. Qiu Yang, who had just revealed her face, came in softly through the window, landed on the paper, and also landed on her rosy white face with a red neck. Her husband, Huimin, had attended a brief training in the county and was an iron-making technician, sticking to the construction site day and night, guiding back and forth. She was already very pregnant and didn't want to come, but the mayor of Chen Village said, what can you do, you are both cultural people, very rare, go to all go! In this way, he came and became the statistician and custodian of the iron-making brigade in the village.
Chen Huimin only came back in the middle of the night last night, slept for more than two hours, got up early in the morning, wiped his face and left, and when he left, he said to her: "Yinju, this morning the No. 2 furnace is going to produce molten iron, I hurry to go." Don't run around, be careful of the tire. ”
Yinju Guan'er smiled, "Feel free to go." Refining molten iron is the achievement of our village, don't worry about me. ”
Huimin reached out to touch her stomach, and just as someone outside the shed walked by, Yinju said, "Let's go." "Pushed him away.
At this time, There was a sweetness on Yinju's face, whether this sweetness came from her husband's thoughtfulness or from the satisfaction of being a mother, she said it was not clear, and her eyes couldn't help but turn to the dense iron-making furnace in the ditch outside the window with her turning face.
Suddenly, a loud bang exploded in the ditch, and a small blast furnace spewed out the iron slag like a celestial goddess scattering flowers, and the fiery red and beautiful streamline reflected the entire sky.
The hearth exploded!
Oops, hey... A ghost crying wolf-like cry was swept by a fierce wind, and it burrowed into the small window of the shed, into the eyes of The Silver Chrysanthemum, and into the heart of the Silver Chrysanthemum. She shivered involuntarily, and then realized that something had happened to the iron-making furnace. She saw the people in front of the blast furnace rolling on the ground by the fire, and saw many people running towards the blast furnace where the accident occurred... Is Huimin also there? An electric light shone in her mind, and she withdrew her gaze, and her gaze fell on the washbasin on the wooden pier in front of the shed, which contained half a basin of face wash. She grabbed the thermos, poured the hot water into the basin, lifted it up, and rushed out of the shed and ran to the blast furnace.
A migrant worker's cotton clothes were on fire, running around, and Yinju ran over, threw water at him, snorted, the fire went out, and the migrant worker squatted on the ground and did not move. Yinju turned to look for Huimin, but did not find it, and saw that a migrant worker was still on fire, but there was no water in her basin, as if the barrel of the gun she was holding had no bullets. She hurried downhill to fetch water in the river, but when a stone stumbled, she fell to the ground on her toes. Panting, she felt her stomach being violently tugged, and then it hurt, and she realized that the child in her stomach was going to make trouble!
"Yinju—" A familiar voice came from the top of the slope, and she turned her head to see that it was Chen Huimin who ran down. Her eyes were shrouded in an inexplicable pain and warmth...
In the shed, a baby boy was induced into an accident on the construction site and came to this world early. Chen Huimin did not hear the baby's first cry because of rescuing the wounded, and when he sent all the wounded away, he returned to the shed, and saw two women waiting for Yinju, and his heart was relieved. Dressed in a blue cloth overall, his hands and his face were covered with dirt, his hands were tied together, and he stood in front of the wooden bed looking at the baby, and a smile appeared on his tired face.
The terrified Silver Chrysanthemum said, "Who do you look like to the child?" ”
Huimin tilted his head and looked at it carefully, then said, "I see that my face and nose are like you, red and round." The mouth and ears are like mine, large and thick, and will be blessed in the future. ”
Yinju said, "Give the child a name." ”
Huimin nodded and pondered. At this time, the outdoor tweeter began to play the song "Oriental Red":
Oriental red, the sun rises,
China has a Mao Zedong,
He seeks happiness for the people,
He is the great savior of the people...
The song was majestic and melodious, and suddenly an aura flashed in Huimin's mind. He said, "Let's call it Zeli." In response to Chairman Mao's great call, Ze benefits the people of Li and li and becomes a useful person to society. ”
Yinju smiled heartily, "Good." Listen to you. ”
Chen Zeli, a person was born, a name was born, and a long and distant road was waiting for him to go.
2. My father went to school
Winter in the mountains comes early. When the tenth month of the lunar calendar was running out, a county leader came to the construction site of the large iron and steel smelting, and he solemnly turned around the iron-making furnaces and returned to the headquarters. The heads of the iron-making brigades were almost there, and he sat down at the head of the table and solemnly said, "Comrades, we are about to get off the horse in the great smelting of steel!" As soon as this statement came out, everyone was shocked. Chen Huimin thought to himself, don't you want to be more quick and efficient, why are you going to get off the horse? The leader then said, "Look at what kind of iron we are smelting?" That's iron slag. How does this catch up with the Premier League? Therefore, the central authorities realized this problem and demanded that all of them be dismounted..."
Chen Huimin returned to the ancient city village with Yinju and Zeli, as well as her mother-in-law who was waiting for Yinju. Located on the north bank of the Yellow River, Gucheng Village was originally the place where shangtang jiandu herdsmen lived, and it has a history of more than 3,000 years, so it is called an ancient city. Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, it had always been the seat of the county seat of Shunyuan County, backed by Alexandria, south of the Yellow River, and from east to west, a road from jinnan to the central plains of Henan, during which tens of miles of fertile fields nurtured a limin people. Historically, there were two vertical, three horizontal and five main streets in the city, and the streets were lined with shops and merchants, making the market boiling and bustling. A few years ago, due to the peace of the world and the rapid increase in population, the location of this county town appeared to be a bit narrow, and it moved west, and the remaining city was degraded to an ancient city village. But the skinny camel is bigger than the horse, and the comings and goings of more than three thousand people, eating and drinking Lasa, still can afford a big village atmosphere, compared to the surrounding small mountain villages, that is the qualification of the grandfather and the style of the rich family.
Chen Huimin's family lives in the west of the village. The courtyard was originally the landlord's house, but now it lacks two, the south room and the west room have turned into large smoke bubbles in the owner's mouth as early as before the land reform, the foundation of the bluestone strip is vividly remembered, and the house is empty. During the land reform, the Chen family was assigned to this courtyard, and a few years ago, when his father died, he left it to Huimin. Huimin placed her daughter-in-law on the earthen kang in the east of the north house, let her mother-in-law accompany her, and lived in the west room herself.
Two days later, the neighbor Uncle Yao Bingzhang let his son support him and carried twenty eggs in his hand to visit Yinju. Uncle Yao shouted under the steps of the hall: "Is Huimin at home?" Huimin came out in response, busied himself down the steps to pick up people, and said while pulling his arm: "Uncle Yao, you have difficulty walking, and you have so much heart." It turned out that Yao Bingzhang's right leg was pierced by a bullet before the liberation of Shunyuan Zhi, and he crippled one leg, he said: "Yinju is a good person, and usually takes care of my family." This time the confinement is over, the family adds Ding ding to increase the mouth, do not look at which line? "Huimin knew that this Yao family was a martyr of the Hu Army, and Yao's son had originally served in Liu Deng's army, but unfortunately died gloriously in the battle to liberate the southwest. After liberation, Uncle Yao's wife fell ill and died again, and although the second son, Yao Yumin, was also in his twenties, his family was poor, and he had not yet gotten a daughter-in-law. The distance between the two families is also about a hundred and ten steps, Yinju is kind,Ten and a half days always have to go to the old man's home to help wash clothes, pick up and clean the house, father and son are very grateful.
Entering the house, Huimin beckoned the old man to sit down, and Uncle Yao said, "Yinju, I heard that I gave birth to a fat boy, but I am beautiful." I don't have anything to take, send you a few eggs, and take good care of your body. ”
Yinju hurriedly said, "Uncle Yao, you are bothered." Your family is not easy, and it is still so polite. ”
Uncle Yao looked at Yumin sitting on the kangtou, sighed and said, "Alas, it should be, it should be." If you don't usually take care of my family..." The old man's eye circles were a little moist, he wiped his eye sockets, and continued, "Don't say it, don't say it." Just look at you. I went back. Saying that, he stood up, and Yumin hurried over to help him and pulled him out of the door.
During the winter leisure season, the village chief Chen Youqing came to his home to discuss with Huimin about running a night school to eliminate illiteracy for the peasants, and asked Huimin to become a teacher. Huimin said, "This is a good thing." Then I'll go. Subsequently, huimin, in accordance with the arrangement of the village chief, cleaned up the box room in the Qiaoze Temple in the north of the village, got seven or eight tables, a dozen benches, and then used white ash on the wall to make a rectangular white board, and after drying, brushed with black powder at the bottom of the pot, it became a blackboard. During the day, the young descendants of the village build canals and dams, scrape the ground, and at night, they come here with oil lamps to learn literature and literacy. Huimin poured little by little knowledge into the hearts of young people and blossomed into a rich and joyful flower.
At the end of the year, a notice from the superior flew to the ancient city village, saying that it was necessary to select people with a certain level of education to go to the normal school and train cultural teachers. The village chief Chen Youqing took this notice, striding meteors to find Huimin, and as soon as he entered the courtyard, he shouted loudly: "Huimin, Huimin!" ”
Huimin came out of the house in response and asked, "Uncle, what's the matter?" ”
Chen Youqing raised a piece of paper in his hand and said, "Good things, good things." With that, he went up the steps.
Huimin took a look at the paper, and it turned out that in order to comprehensively eliminate illiteracy, the superiors decided to set up a normal school in the Jinnan area and select those with junior high school education or above to go to school. After Reading it, Huimin was overjoyed, and his eyes turned to The Chief of Chen Village: "Uncle, this..."
Chen Youqing said, "You go." When people send notices, I recommend you. ”
"That's great, thank you uncle."
The snow at the roots of the south wall turned into water in the rising temperature, pouring into the soil and wetting half of the road. The festivities after the Spring Festival are still overflowing, and Huimin will go to Hedong to go to normal school.
He held Ze Li in his arms, and the silver chrysanthemum beside him carried a Langege bag on his shoulder, and the couple followed the road south of the village.
Huimin said, "When I leave, you and you will suffer at home." ”
Yinju threw off her long braids: "Feel free to go, seize the opportunity to read a good book." I'll take the baby with me. ”
Huimin leaned close to Yinju's ear and whispered, "What do you want to do with you and baby?" ”
Yinju smiled, and a red color flew out of her cheeks: "Then write me a letter." ”
When we reached the intersection of the south side of the village, there were already some people waiting for the bus. They greeted acquaintances and waited a little longer, and a ticket bus buzzed along. Huimin handed the child to Yinju, took the baggage, let the others get on first, and then boarded the car. With a click, the car door closed and hummed away.
Yinju's eyes were hot, and she looked at the glass on the ticket car, and in the shadow of tears, she saw Huimin waving at her in the glass window, and a bean-sized tear fell on the child's face. He and Huimin are junior high school classmates, married for two years, husband and wife love, never separated. Now that Huimin is going out to study, she is a hundred happy and a hundred supportive, but her heart is hard to bear the pain of parting.
Thousands of miles to send the king, must eventually be parted. The ticket car turned, and her mind was lost in a cloud of dust behind the car.
Three branches out of the section
Ozawa Li learned to walk, and Yinju held his two arms in the courtyard and followed the steps, and the shaky posture was like the broken steps of a goose.
A figure at the entrance of the courtyard walked in, and Yinju turned her head to see that it was yao Yumin, a neighbor, who saw that he had a porcelain basin in his hand, and remembered that he was going to go to dinner.
Yumin spoke first, "Yinju, you see Baby, I'll make you rice." ”
"Oh..." Yinju didn't think about it for a moment, but The Little Ze li in his hand fell to the ground. She hurriedly hugged the child, slapped the soil on the child's body, and said, "That's okay." It's bothering you again. ”
Yumin said, "It's okay, it's okay, it's not troublesome." ”
Yinju took the rice bowl to Yumin and left, thinking that this people's commune had been established, but it had been eaten by the year, and the family had not eaten, so the village set up a large canteen, although it was said that the soup was not enough to eat, and it was finally hungry. I don't know how many people have left their homes and fled the famine to ask for food.
After a while, Yao Yumin came back with two pots of rice, put them in front of Yinju and said, "This pot is a little thicker, you and the child eat it." ”
Yinju pushed back, "Me and the child eat less, or you and Uncle Yao eat thick." ”
Yumin said, "I'm in good health and can withstand it, and the child is growing up." He said, took the slightly thinner pot of rice and left.
At an hour after dark, Yao Yumin came to the house, took a few sweet potatoes and put them down, and said: "You and the baby subsidy point." Don't dare let outsiders know. ”
Yinju was a little nervous, so she asked, "Where did you get it from?" ”
Yumin said, "Leave it alone." I'll go back. "Said and went.
Yinju's heart was like fifteen buckets of water, and it was difficult to calm down seven times and eight down. This uneasiness finally broke out in full swing one afternoon. The captain came to call Yinju to the brigade for a criticism meeting, and Yinju asked, Who is to criticize? The captain said that he would know it when he went. Yinju carried the child to the brigade. The brigade was in the ancient temple, there was a stage on the south side, and as soon as Yinju entered, she saw Yao Yumin standing on the stage, with her head bowed, and a few sweet potatoes hanging from a rope on her chest. She immediately understood that the sweet potatoes that Yumin gave her were originally secretly dug up by the production team, and she was also an accomplice! She felt like a thief and her face burned. Some of the people in the audience scolded Yao Yumin for having three hands, and some shouted that they wanted to send him to squat prison. Yinju felt landless. After staying for a while, she twisted on the baby's ass, and Ozawa cried out, and while pretending to coax the baby, she walked outside the temple gate, out of the gate, and trotted home.
These days, she doesn't want to go out, but she can't help but go to dinner. When she was eating, she listened to people talking about it, saying that Yao Yumin's family would have been sent to prison long ago if it were not for the military martyrs; some people gathered to look at her and whispered, and she felt that the glance was like a needle stuck in her body. Her heart was even more uneasy.
One night, Chen Xiuying, the sister of Chen Huimin, who was married to the east end of the village, suddenly came to the house. Sister Chen's face was like a bulging purple balloon, and as soon as she opened her mouth, the purple balloon spewed out an aggressive momentum: "Yinju you said, did Yao Yumin send you sweet potatoes?" Is your relationship with Yao Yumin abnormal? A single stick, a husband outside, dry firewood, is it not a shameful thing? ”
Yinju was horrified, but it was difficult to argue for a while. When Sister Chen finished asking about the crime, she said, "Sister, don't listen to other people's nonsense." Yumin sent sweet potatoes to our family, but when I asked him where he got them, he only said you don't care... They are all neighbors, Uncle Yao is disabled, I help his family wash clothes, Yumin also wants to help our family, where there is an abnormal relationship. ”
Chen Xiuying pointed at Yinju and said, "It's all over the place, you're still hard-mouthed, see how Huimin will come back and clean you up!" A hard word struck a pestle and turned away.
After class in the afternoon, Chen Huimin wanted to go to the playground outside the school gate to do activities, and when he left the school gate, the old master Zhang of the concierge called him: "Chen Huimin, your letter." ”
Huimin thought that it was Yinju who had written again, and hurriedly pasted it to the window to get the letter, but from the envelope handed out by Master Zhang, he saw that it was not the beautiful font of Yinju. Whose faith is it? He thanked Master Zhang, tore open the envelope as he walked, and read it—
Brother:
At school well.
This time I wrote for nothing else, I want to tell you about Yinju. You may not know, Yinju is cooking for Yao Yumin's family at home, washing clothes for others, Yumin helps her take care of her children, and also steals sweet potatoes from the production team to give to Yinju, and as a result, she is caught and criticized. The people in the ancient city village were talking about it, saying that Yinju must be on good terms with Yao Yumin, which made our family's face rest. If it is not tight to study, you hurry back, divorce her from the marriage, and wash away the dirty water on our family.
After you graduate from normal school, you are a public family, and if you can't say that you can still go to the city, how will you live after dragging a rural wife? Please think twice, be sure to take this opportunity to divorce the marriage.
Don't say more, wait for you to come back.
Sister Xiuying
Reading the letter, Chen Huimin's head was like a fuse burning, burning his brain and burning a miasma of black smoke in his brain hole. He ran to the playground, his breathing a little tight, and his face was feverish.
"Impossible!"
He yelled loudly, startling a classmate next to him. He immediately realized that he was out of shape, so he smiled at the classmate and walked alone toward the edge of the playground. He loved Yinju deeply, and he believed that Yinju also loved himself deeply, and it was impossible for him to do such a thing. Because of this love, he studied hard in school, thinking of giving Yinju and his children a good future. Unexpectedly, my sister actually came with such a letter wrapped in a bomb, and had to blow him and Yinju apart.
No, no, he wouldn't believe it was true. But it's not true, and my sister won't be so manipulative. As the saying goes, there is no wind and no waves. Is it going to come out of nowhere? Even if it is empty, it is so vicious that it is unbearable.
Huimin's stomach was like a snake swimming, stirring him extremely uncomfortable. He looked up at the bloody sun in the west, sighed, and thought that there would be a winter vacation in less than a month, so it was better to reply to his sister with a letter first, and then go back after the holiday.
4. The mother committed suicide
What Chen Huimin did not expect was that he had just got off the bus, and his sister Chen Xiuying was waiting for him at the intersection.
"Benefit the people!" Chen Xiuying called him.
"Sister, why are you here?"
Chen Xiuying said, "Sister is waiting for you." "With that, I took the satchel from my brother's back." Go, go to my sister's house. ”
Huimin was a little surprised: "When I get to the door, I'll go home first." ”
Sister Chen squeezed his eyes, grabbed him by the arm, and said, "Let's go to my house first." ”
Huimin had no choice but to follow his sister.
Walking into her sister's house to the east of the village, as soon as she entered the door, Sister Chen said: "Huimin, you sit down and listen to me, your daughter-in-law is raising a man at home, the village is full of quarrels, even my face is feverish, I can't see anyone when I go out." I'm not going to pick you for divorce, but she Yinju did this unseemly thing, can you blame us? ”
Huimin's face couldn't be stopped, and he said, "I don't believe that Yinju is that person..."
Sister Chen snatched the stubble and said, "Those who still study for you are dead-headed." Don't you want to think about it, after you eat the supply of grain, why don't you drag a rural oil bottle? ”
Huimin retorted: "So many cadres, their wives are in the countryside, the life is not the same? "Say, stand up and lift your satchel to go." Sister, I went back. ”
Sister Chen hurriedly said, "Sister cooks for you to eat." ”
Huimin stubbornly said, "No." I'll go back and eat. ”
"Look at you..." Sister Chen couldn't stop it, so she followed it out.
Huimin walked to the west of the village and saw Yinju leading Ozawa Li to play in front of his home. He took a big step in his heart, and then saw Ze li swaying down the slope, shouting "Daddy, Daddy..." He quickly rushed forward and hugged Zeli. When she came to the door, Yinju greeted her and took her satchel and said, "Why did you come back?" ”
Huimin said: "I met my sister and went to sit at her house for a while." ”
Yinju chuckled in her heart and said, "Go home quickly, the food is ready for you." ”
Huimin said, "Oh. ”
Yinju brought Huimin a mixture of yellow noodles, white noodles, potatoes, and cabbage, and placed Zeli on the kang to play, and said to Huimin: "Have you heard other people making up stories?" ”
Huimin put down his chopsticks, looked at Yinju and said, "I don't believe it at all." ”
Yinju said, "I won't do anything to be sorry for you." I helped the Yumin family wash clothes you know, these two years have not eaten, Yumin also wanted to help our family some, the result was caught. When people stink, others will throw dirty water on him..."
"Don't say it. I can understand. Huimin ate again.
Around the New Year, Huimin went to captain Chen Youqing's house and several other classmates, but did not go to the neighbor Yao Yumin's house. Occasionally, when I met Yumin at the door, I only said hello politely and went my separate ways with each other. During this time, he heard some gossip about Yinju, and of course, there were also good things about Yinju. His heart was like a shadow that fluttered, and this shadow resisted Yinju and also confronted himself, making him depressed and unable to rise up in enthusiasm for Yinju.
After the New Year, he and Yinju took Zeli to his sister's house together, and Sister Chen was very cold to Yinju, and when she carried Yinju, she quietly said to Huimin: "Spit can also drown people." If not, I will leave her. Are we afraid that we will not be able to find a good family in the future? ”
"Don't be fooled." Huimin said firmly.
Silver Chrysanthemum came back from outside with the child, and they said nothing.
The whole New Year was over in a cold shadow. The holidays are over, and Huimin is going to school. Before leaving, Zeli hugged his neck and asked, "When will Daddy come back?" He put the child down and said, "Listen to Mommy, Daddy will be back soon." ”
Ze Li narrowed his eyes and said, "Talk counts, pull the hook -"
Huimin held out his hand and gave Ozawa a tick.
But he reneged on his word, not only did he not come back for a semester, but now he has not returned after half a month of summer vacation. During this period, Huimin only wrote two letters to Yinju, to the effect that they were all about taking good care of their children, which was lackluster, and did not have the temperature that should be between husband and wife.
Yinju was very depressed in her heart, but who could tell this kind of thing that could not be washed away by jumping into the Yellow River? She replied to Huimin, which was both an explanation and a guarantee, but Huimin was always lukewarm and lukewarm, which made her feel sad to death. Alas, this is yellow mud in the crotch of our pants – not but. Zeli asked her, when will Daddy come back? She replied vaguely, "August fifteen is round, and your father will be back."
However, just the day before the Mid-Autumn Festival, Chen Xiuying came to the house and said that he had taken Zeli to eat mooncakes with him, and had taken the child away, and had not returned at night. The next day, Yinju bought a pound of mooncakes and went to Sister Chen's house to bring Ze Li back. Sister Chen's nose is not a nose eye is not an eye, said: "Let the baby keep up with you, can you still learn well?" I'll take care of it first. ”
The mother lost the right to manage the child, and Yinju's heart was like a kite breaking the line, and it suddenly seemed to be floating. She originally wanted to snatch Ze Li back, but where she was Sister Chen's opponent, and it was even more humiliating to make a big fuss. She ran home helplessly with tears in her eyes, closed the door and cried. When the tears dried up, she found a pen and paper and told Chen Huimin the sorrows that had accumulated in her heart that could not be explained and were still chaotic:
Huimin, my dear husband:
We are playmates since childhood, which can be described as green plum bamboo horses. For more than a decade, I have turned my affection for you into love, and I have turned love into an inseparable consideration for you. But I can't understand, why does my unchanging love not warm your heart?
The production team poured dirty water on my head, and you said I could stand on the street and explain it to everyone? I'm hard to argue with. You know that our two families are close neighbors, Uncle Yao is disabled, when you are at home, I will help his family wash clothes, you are not at home, I also help his family wash clothes, is this not normal? Yao Yumin sent sweet potatoes to our family, but I didn't know that he stole the production team. This year, the family did not eat, and the child was still clamoring to eat in the middle of the night, but what did I cook for him? Yumin saw that my mother and son were worried, and they also thanked us for helping his family's kindness, and always wanted to repay it. But this has become evidence of our "hooking up and committing adultery"!
Three people become tigers, and people are fearful. I knew that the spit star could drown people, so I had to go out without going out, and even Uncle Yao's death and burial, I didn't dare to help, how inhumane it was.
I believe you love me and will not believe any rumors that are flying all over the place. With your love, I live with humiliation and burden, thinking that I will definitely cultivate Zeli as a person with a good reputation like you. However, I feel that your love is like this more and more strong autumn wind, constantly sweeping away the leaves on my body and sweeping away the hope in my heart. Summer vacation, you only said that the school to arrange internships, now the Mid-Autumn Moon is round, the family is reunited, how do you should go back home, but you... What I couldn't bear in particular was that the eldest sister actually took Zeli with her and didn't let me take care of it. Mother and child are separated, isn't this a knife in my heart? I don't know if this is what you mean, or what the eldest sister means, this is my life!
At this point, my heart was cold, and it was useless to say anything. In the future, you will graduate and become a public family, I hope you can find a good girl to live happily. If you live well, forget me; if you have troubles, come to my grave and tell me that I will help you to be liberated even if I dream. Ze li handed it over to you, I hope you will cultivate him into an adult, and I have also fulfilled my wish.
It's uncomfortable in your heart, don't say more. I'll wait for you on the Bridge, see you in the afterlife.
Yang Yinju is brilliant
Mid-Autumn Festival in 1961
As soon as Chen Huimin received the telegram from Chen Youqing, he was immediately blinded. He packed up some things in a daze and rushed to the station, and when he arrived at the station, he realized that the ticket car had left early. How can this be done? He carried his bag and walked in the direction of the east of the city to go home, walked to the intersection outside the city, looked at the sky, the sun shadow was already west, and thought, more than two hundred miles away from the ancient city village, even if he walked to tomorrow morning, I am afraid that I will not be able to get home. By the way, the road to Henan is not from Shunyuan, let's wait for a car, any car can do. He looked blankly at the west side of the road, and on the gravel road, there was not even a shadow of a car.
He waited anxiously, and then took out the telegram from Chen Youqing to see, a line of large characters filled in the square, each word like a dagger stabbed into his eyes:
Silver Chrysanthemum drank the medicine and committed suicide, quickly return!
Yinju, how can you do this? Chen Huimin's eyes were pierced with tears. No matter what others say about you, I remain silent, even if my eldest sister asked me to divorce, I will not leave. Summer vacation did not go back, is with classmates to Shaanxi - here also have their own selfishness, I just want to avoid our ancient city village spit star ah, wait for the dry no smell, I will also graduate, go back to be good to you. But why can't you wait? Zeli is still young, who will feed him in the future...
Suddenly——
A burst of motor sounds came, drawing Chen Huimin's tearful eyes to the past. Ah, a car is coming, and it has to stop it. He quickly put away the newspaper, wiped a handful of tears, and waved as he walked toward the middle of the road, and the Gass had to stop. He ran a few steps, walked to the driver and said, "Master, where are you going, there is an emergency in my family, let's take your car all the way." ”
The driver looked out from the rocking glass of the car, saw that he was a Sven, and asked, "Where are you going?" ”
Huimin said: "Ancient city village." ”
The driver touched his neck and said, "Oops." I went to Alexandria to pull wood, but I couldn't get to the ancient city, and there was still more than twenty miles left. ”
"It's okay, it's okay, it's okay."
The driver glanced at the other two people in the driving building and said to Chen Huimin, "Then sit on the top." ”
"Thank you Master." Chen Huimin said as he climbed onto the back compartment.
Chen Huimin got into the car, crouched down, and the car started. The wind blew the parts of the people, like a black flame stirring. All the way bumpy, shaking his body was about to fall apart. However, Huimin could not care about these things, and he returned to his heart like an arrow, hoping to get home as soon as possible. He looked out at the setting sun to the west, and a large red ball jumped in his eyes, and had jumped up the mountain, just like the mountain after the mountain.
Squeaked—a screeching brake, and the car stopped.
The driver leaned out and said, "Hey, it's time for you to get out of the car." ”
As soon as Chen Huimin saw a fork in the road, the north was the road to Alexandria. He jumped down, thanked the master, and the car turned north. He continued to walk forward, and after about an hour, the round moon had risen high, and he returned home.
Chen Youqing is a distant uncle of his own clan, who takes care of the funeral at home, and when he saw Huimin return, he split his head and said, "You see, what is this doing?"
Huimin hung his face, did not say a word, saw the kang covered with a quilt with silver chrysanthemum, he pounced on it, lifted the quilt head, hugged the head of the silver chrysanthemum and cried, the cry shook the dust on the beams, and shook the hearts of a room of people.
Chen Youqing asked someone to pull up Huimin and said, "Let's get up and talk about things." Yinju wrote you a suicide note on her deathbed, you should look at it first. What a good daughter-in-law, she was bent to death. ”
Huimin took the suicide note and sat down on the chair that others had let go of, looking at the kerosene lamp on the table. The white paper and blue characters seemed to be a puddle of water, pouring into the brain of Huimin, and flowing out of the eyes, and two lines of hot tears shone in the light. Suddenly, he cried out again, and his mouth said, I am not good, I hurt Yinju... Whining......
Chen Youqing said, "It's not all about you, and those tongue-chewing women." Eat salty and dry, do the fucking right and wrong! ”
Chen Xiuying came with Ze Li. As soon as Huimin saw his sister, he said, "You did a good job!" ”
Sister Chen picked up the corner of her eyes and said, "I..." I don't know what she wanted to say, when he saw Chen Youqing, he stubbornly held back his words.
Huimin took Zeli, and Zeli said, "Daddy, why did you come back?" ”
Huimin touched his son's head, speechless, but the tears in his eyes were churning.
Zeli said, "Daddy, what happened to my mother?" Is it asleep? When do you wake up? ”
Huimin took his son in his arms and began to cry. Ze Li saw his father crying, and he also cried, and his mouth shouted, I want my mother, I want my mother——
The day before yang Yinju was buried, Chen Huimin personally copied the suicide note left by his wife with a brush on three white pieces of paper and pasted it on the gate, and he wanted to let people know that Yinju was innocent, Yinju was innocent, and Yinju was drowned by the spitting stars of some tongue-chewing women. He also wrote a pair of elegies for Yinju:
The turbid wind is merciless to break my beloved wife Yinju
The Moon Palace intends to welcome the soul of Er Pangui
On the night of the burial, a sudden torrential rain fell in Shunwang Township, and the Yellow River roared, like a galloping wild horse, rushing up to the embankment and destroying a piece of houses south of the ancient city...
(To be continued)
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About author:Chen Yingjun, a native of Gucheng Town, Yuanqu County. Growing up in the rural areas of Yuanqu, the young man joined the army and joined the army to work in the political department of the Yuncheng Military Subdistrict, and later transferred to the Yuncheng City Committee to engage in party building work in organs. During his tenure, he wrote many news reports, published in newspapers and magazines such as "People's Liberation Army Daily", "Comrades-in-Arms Daily", "Shanxi Daily", "Yuncheng Daily", "Zhongzhi Party Building", etc., and also published some small literary creations in "Hedong Literature" and other publications, and took the lead in editing books such as "Party Flag Flying". Retired in old age, pen cultivation, carry forward the spirit of Yugong moving mountains, write life study, work experience, and collect "Fool's Friend Experience".
About author:Li Kecong, a native of Yicheng County, Shanxi Province, is a member of the Chinese Folk Writers Association, a member of the Shanxi Writers Association, and the chairman of the Yicheng County Writers Association. In the early 1980s, he published more than 2 million words of various works in Shanxi Literature, Shanxi Daily, Shandong Literature, Shanxi Legal Daily, Shanxi Youth Daily, Shanxi Family Daily, China Countryside, Taiyuan Evening News, Pingyang Literature and Art, and local newspapers and periodicals; he is the author of the essay collection "Distant Search", the biography "Yang Kaiyuan", and the novel "Snail".