One
These days, Uncle Zhou in the village is sullen and sleepy all day. His son Zhou Bin called him and sent him an ultimatum: If on the day of the Chongyang Festival, he and his wife and children did not go to Lin Hui's house to meet Lin Hui's parents, he and Lin Hui would marry lin Hui's family on New Year's Day, and never return to this home.
It is reasonable to say that the son can marry back to the Zhou family a smart and beautiful, satisfactory good daughter-in-law, Uncle Zhou and his wife are really happy, I am afraid that even sleep to wake up laughing, but Uncle Zhou is not happy, the heart is even blocked badly, the son Zhou Binming is obviously a problem for Uncle Zhou, who loves face all his life?
At dinner, his wife was still chattering and comforting him.
"I said his father, you don't have to fight for the child anymore, as long as the children look at the right eyes, they can live happily in the future, why do you still mention the rotten sesame seeds of Chen Guzi?" Isn't it just that you and Lin Hui and her father are fighting for a booth! No matter who is right and who is wrong, it has been more than ten years, is it interesting to go through the old accounts again? Do you think it's easy for the average family to find a daughter-in-law now? I tell you, if you don't go then, I'll go, and I'll go alone! ”
"You dare!" Uncle Zhou raised his right hand high, and then helplessly put it down, smashing it the table, and the plate containing the dish made several rotations and slowly stopped.
Uncle Zhou paced back and forth in the courtyard with his hands behind his back, and he walked back to the east end of the village, where Lin Hui's family lived nearby. Uncle Zhou sat down on a stone pier, casually dragged a small grass next to him and put it in his hand to examine it repeatedly, wasn't his son Zhou Bin like this little grass at the beginning? He spoiled him, he loved him, it can be said that he was afraid to melt in his mouth, he was afraid of flying in his hands, and his son was indeed obedient, and he did not let him and his wife and children his heart and get angry from childhood to adulthood. I remember when my son graduated from graduate school, he repeatedly told him that it was time to find a girlfriend, but there was a condition that the girl he was looking for must be approved by him and his wife. The son patted his chest and promised to come down, who knew that Uncle Zhou was not happy for a few days, a bombshell blew him to his toes, and for a week he almost did not leave the house.
The moon slipped into the clouds, and Uncle Zhou had a glimmer of hope thinking that his son would persuade him when he returned from vacation, but who knew that after Zhou Bin returned, he actually told him that everything was good to discuss, but this matter did not have to be discussed, so angry that Uncle Zhou took off a shoe on his foot and pointed at Zhou Bin and said hatefully: "You are going to the Shaolin Temple to be a monk, and I do not agree with you marrying the daughter of the old Lin family!" ”
"Father, you always thought that the monk was so easy to become, and your son's conditions are estimated to be far from enough!" If you don't agree with my marriage to Lin Hui, then I'll just say it! Either get married at Lin Hui's house or get married on a trip, you can be absent, but I can't help but get married! ”
Listening to his son's words, Uncle Zhou threw out the shoe he had taken off, of course, he was reluctant to hit his son's body, only to hear the old hen that was laying eggs "clucking, clucking" and running out of the door with flapping its wings...
Two
To say that Uncle Zhou's love of face is well known. When he was young, his father, Zhou Bin's grandfather, went to the town to sell tofu brain, at that time, he was ready at home and then picked up to the market town to sell, Uncle Zhou got up early every morning, and picked the tofu brain to the market town before dawn, although there was not even a person in the market town at that time, because Uncle Zhou was afraid of meeting people from the same village.
After getting married, Uncle Zhou obviously hurt Aunt Zhou very much, and he was obviously very afraid of Aunt Zhou, but in front of everyone, Uncle Zhou always pretended to be the head of the family, and Aunt Zhou was also quite smart, often in front of everyone, he always gave Uncle Zhou's face, but how about at home? This time, zhou bin and Lin Hui's marriage can be a duel.
Three days later, it was the Chongyang Festival, and Uncle Zhou counted the days with his fingers. He also constantly made ideological struggles for himself, if he did not go this time, if his son really married Lin Hui in the old Lin family, or really went on a trip to get married, no matter what the situation was not what he wanted to see. If he goes, then his old face will be completely gone, I really don't know how he will stand in the village without face?
The sun has set, heralding the end of the day. Uncle Zhou looked at the red halo that had not yet dissipated in the sky and sighed softly. I looked again at the big tree in the distance. Perhaps when people get old, they will be in this situation where the leaves fall back to their roots. Besides, there is nothing bad about Lin Hui, to look like a look, to have a head, the same 3 years of research, the same is a rare talent in the factory! But the blame is that she is the daughter of Old Lin. A flower-like girl has mistakenly cast a fetus, how can Lin Hui, who is loved by everyone, be the daughter of the old Lin Tou? However, Zhou Bin, who is handsome and handsome and has both talents, is partial to girls who should not be liked. Moreover, if he did not take his words as a father to heart, or even ignore his words, why did he feel bad?
Besides, now even the old partner is on the side of the son, the old partner has not been in good health for two years, and he can't sleep all night, if he insists on going his own way this time, once the old partner's condition is aggravated, it is not a joke.
Hey, people are really too difficult, thinking that their son can work hard, who knows that the old suffering has not gone to the new suffering, and it is bitter and bitter, unbearable...
Three
Uncle Zhou didn't want to go home so early, he thought of a day more than ten years ago. The village gave each family more than an acre of water land, everyone either planted vegetables or planted their favorite cash crops, Uncle Zhou clearly remembered that his family's land and Lin Hui's family's land were next to each other, and the relationship between the two families was still very good at that time. Uncle Zhou is a farmer, can't help Lin Hui's praise and praise from his father, uncle Zhou, who has always loved face, is eager to use all his martial arts. Therefore, at that time, no matter what the two families planted, the growth of crops was the same, of course, there was a lot of hard work poured into Uncle Zhou.
When Uncle Zhou thought of this, he kicked a small stone under his feet far and wide, and watched sheepishly as the small stone swirled around on the road in front of him. Just because when he went to the market to sell vegetables, for the sake of the stall and for the sake of being less than two feet away, Uncle Zhou and Lin Hui's father quarreled with each other without giving in, and that time because they were far away in the market town and there were no people from the same village, Uncle Zhou ignored his face for the first time, and quarreled with Old Lin with red ears and quarreled freely. In the end, it was his peers who let him two each take half of it, and the two talents buried their heads and got busy.
That is, from that time on, Uncle Zhou tirelessly taught his son Zhou Bin to stay away from the old Lin family, and even if he went to school, he wanted his son to take a detour, in order not to go to the door of Lin Hui's house. Later, although Uncle Zhou became the captain, it was no longer a few years ago, and the captain also had supreme power; now the villagers are all doing their own thing, basically do not hold any meetings, there are no instructions, and occasionally a meeting is even noticed by the captain from house to house. Because everyone is busy running to the well-off, sometimes it is noon when there is no one at home!
Every time they walked on the road, Uncle Zhou and Lin Hui's father just happened to meet, and they also looked at each other and turned their heads away. At that time, Uncle Zhou thought that Old Lin did not take the opportunity to find a step for himself, it was really too much not to take the captain as a cadre, that is, at that time, Uncle Zhou swore that he and Lin Hui's father would not interact with each other until his death, and he also had to tell his children and grandchildren that they were in the same village and the same street as the old Lin family, but they were never saying a word and singing the same song.
When his son was just born, Uncle Zhou gave his son such a name with painstaking thoughts, he hoped that his son would be a polite literati in the future, what he did not expect was that his son who had worked hard to raise an adult had to fight with himself, to wipe out his face...
Four
Uncle Zhou walked home sullenly, his wife was ironing the clothes of two people, he did not want to see, his heart was blocked badly, he returned to the back room and quickly slept, he was afraid that his wife would let him wear and try on clothes, he would snore when his wife came in, even if there was no slightest sleepiness.
For Uncle Zhou, this kind of life is the most torturous, and it also makes him miserable. In the past, he also swore to tell his neighbors that his son Zhou Bin was the best child to listen to his father, and that his child was the pride of his life. Now Uncle Zhou can only laugh bitterly, the original oath is the most untrustworthy, parents are the child's weakness, in front of the child's own face will no longer exist.
Today is the Chongyang Festival, Uncle Zhou had to put on the ironed clothes, had to follow his wife out of the house.
Uncle Zhou felt that as the head of the family, he still had to walk in front, even if he was very faceless.
"Uncle Zhou, where is this going?" Wouldn't it be going to Lin Hui's house? Little Zhao next door teased.
"Uncle, will this be very faceless?"
"Bastard boy, roll aside, this is not a problem of facelessness at all, I have not heard of it, can be powerful and small is a real dragon, only big is not small is a worm, you know what? Stay on the side and cool off! Uncle Zhou scratched the back of his head and said quietly.
"Well, compared with Zhou Bin's happiness, face is a world apart, worthless!" I just came back from the east and saw Lin Hui's parents standing in the doorway looking west! ”
When it was almost time to reach Lin Hui's house, Aunt Zhou quietly asked Uncle Zhou.
"Daddy, is it really faceless this time?"
"Che, how do you say that?" I also thought clearly, I want to die to face the guilt, for the happiness of my two children, I still decided not to face, and from then on, my face will not be related to me! ”
Uncle Zhou straightened his chest and walked in front, he saw Lin Hui's father striding towards him, and Lao Yuan held out his hand to him...