Speaking of Albania, you will think of the Popular Albanian films "Coastal Wind and Thunder", "The Eighth is a Bronze Statue", "I'd Rather Die Than Yield" that swept the country in the 1960s and 1970s... Or the once-familiar song "Albanian European Light..."
Albanian film coastal wind and thunder stills
Albanian movies would rather die than stills
Today, we are not talking about this country, but an ordinary person who looks like an "Albanian", that is, a foreigner, when he was a child, we all called him nian's uncle, and the children in the alleys called him: Albania (because he has a high nose, thick eyebrows, big eyes, and deep eye sockets, and he is very much like a foreigner, so he got another name).
At that time, Albania was our ally in Europe, and the few foreign imported feature films we saw, almost mostly from the former Soviet Union (and after the rupture) Albania and North Korea.
Nian'er's uncle looked like a foreigner, and in today's parlance, he was "handsome."
"Albanian" is a distant relative of my mother's family. It is said that he was the only child in the family, and at that time, let alone the countryside or the city, only child families were extremely rare.
"Albania" came out of the countryside of Hebei with his family very early, went to school, and was assigned to a good unit in Tianjin. Unfortunately, his parents died early, and he was alone. Fortunately, I later became a family and had a cute son, remembering the nickname "Little Red".
His daughter-in-law was clearly not worthy of him by ordinary standards: small, tall stork bones, thick lips, and sparse hair. Even so, everyone was still happy for Nian'er's uncle, glad that he finally had his own nest.
However, the good days did not last long, during the Cultural Revolution, because the young uncle had culture, and wrote a good brush, once, was ordered to copy a large character newspaper, unfortunately fired a wrong word, so, by some people to hold on, must he admit that he is deliberate, batch to criticize, fight around, the uncle who is timid and afraid of things ~ "Albania" crazy.
The daughter-in-law naturally distanced herself from him and divorced, taking her son to marry someone else (this is also an unfortunate woman, and the men who remarry are also in a bad situation, and pity their young son).
At that time, in the winter, the weather was unusually cold, the snow drifted, and the windows of every house froze, and when the sun came out, the fire was lit in the house, and then it slowly melted away.
"Albanian", wearing a coarse cloth black cardigan with his hands in his cuffs, occasionally came to my house to visit the door. His mother sometimes teased him: "Why buy me a piece of pork liver?" "Albanian" had a rare, washed, clean face, and a smile, double eyelids, large eyes, and deep eye sockets, and the corners of his eyes were covered with wrinkles that were not commensurate with his age (at that time, he should have been in his 30s), and at the same time, he was even more kind and kind at that time.
Not to mention, when he was sober, he actually occasionally came to see her cousin with a dark yellow oil paper holding fresh cooked pork liver (which was a rarity). However, most of the time, he occasionally came to sit at home, his eyes were dark and expressionless, and he did not know when, when he turned his head, the person had disappeared without a trace.
At that time, in my young heart, I formed such a cognition: good people are still good when they suffer from mental illness. For example, Nian'er uncle ~ "Albania", when he was ill, he was just dirty and wandering around (the unit had sent him to the hospital for hospitalization), occasionally rummaging through the dirt boxes on the side of the road, never hitting people, and not ruining the people around him. Instead, some naughty children, instead, threw him with small pebbles behind him.
After growing up, with some knowledge, I also saw the mental patients in reality, knowing that when they became ill, several big men could not hold back, and even hit people to damage things, completely unable to control themselves, no way, this is the result of the disease, patients and their families will also be very painful. However, the conclusion reached when I was a child that "a kind person is also kind when he has a mental illness" has never changed, and these two cognitions are like two parallel lines, in my heart, there is never a fight, let alone contradiction, and I am gladly accepted and placed by myself.
After a few years, probably before I graduated from elementary school, I heard that my uncle ~ "Albania" had passed away. Because his son was still young and his daughter-in-law had remarried with the child, the unit took away the cottage and seemed to have been redistributed later.
"Albania" has no immediate family, no one knows how he died, perhaps adding other diseases?
Spring and autumn come, and such little people, like an autumn leaf, are swept up by the wind, fluttering, and finally blowing into wells, rivers, seas, alpine valleys or deep pit corners... And tomorrow – the sun will rise as usual.
A side food shop in the 60s and 70s
A grocery store clerk who is as beautiful as a star
But isn't it? Children will still clutch a few cents of soy sauce given by their parents, go to the "Big Red Gate" food store opposite the "Albanian" home to buy meat, vinegar or soy sauce, and occasionally have a few cents left to buy themselves a "radish candy" (which looks like a radish) to treat themselves.
"Big Red Gate" vice food store has a salesman miss sister, is simply Wang Luobin's "Dabancheng girl", two thick black shoulder-length pigtails, round small face a pair of large and deep eyes, speaking voice is slightly hoarse (more recognizable), let people never forget, there is no non-staple restaurant counter high small we, like to look more, who knows the young man of the year?
Only then will everyone remember the crazy "Albania" who once lived across the street. Occasionally, mischievous friends play a game of hide-and-seek, play a noisy head from the outside, or stand outside the door and take a look, just like "Albania" once did when it was alive...
(Image from the Internet)