Hui Village Rest and Liu Tong are both after 60, Liu Tong is one year older than me, we are the same class, the same primary school in this village. Liu Tong has been dragging a pig's tail since the first grade of primary school, and his academic performance ranked first from the bottom.
At that time, in the countryside of the southern plains of our Hebei Province, very few women were literate. Liu Tongniang went to school. I remember when I was in the first grade, Liu Tongniang went to school to find Liu Tong to go home and string relatives. As soon as Liu Tongniang entered the classroom, she saw chalk words written on the blackboard, and she read: Horses, cattle and sheep, mountains and rivers...
The whole class turned their heads to look at Liu Tongniang standing at the door of the classroom, and they were all very envious, because our mothers were all big sons who didn't know a basket. We primary school students exchanged words: Liu Tongniang can be a teacher, does Liu Tong still use school?
But with the first grade, the second grade, all the way to the fifth grade, Liu Tong's academic performance is getting worse and worse, and he can't recognize a few words with his double eyelids and big eyes, let alone arithmetic problems. In those days, there were no exams or tuition fees for school.
Liu Tong not only had a particularly poor academic performance, but his ability to do the work of a peasant household was also not bad. The boy is still quite handsome, married to a daughter-in-law is not literate, but Liu Tong's daughter-in-law's head is particularly flexible, the reaction is fast, and she opens her mouth to say a colorful word (similar to a paragraph), but this colored word is a bit meaty.
Because Liu Tong was a year older than me, I called him my daughter-in-law and sister-in-law. In the countryside, the little uncle likes to tease his sister-in-law the most, but when he can tease Liu Tong's daughter-in-law, he rarely takes advantage. A few young men felt that Liu Tong's daughter-in-law's meat strips were not far from their mouths, and they wanted to eat her tofu. They were all pushed back by Liu Tong's daughter-in-law. Liu Tong's daughter-in-law belongs to a serious woman with a rotten mouth and a bad heart.
In the countryside, cultural life is to watch TV and stand on the street and talk about the mountains. The Great Wall has become a hobby for several of us. Liu Tong also especially likes to move bricks to build the Great Wall. A few of our fellow villagers, the stake was only one or two dollars, pure entertainment.
Liu Tong's card skills are poor, a circle of cards played down, who wins who a few pieces, who loses a few pieces, he will not calculate the account. But no one has ever coaxed Liu Tong. But Liu Tong's daughter-in-law often muttered when she saw us, saying that a few of us were playing traps to win her old Tong's money.
We simply moved the card field to Liu Tong's house and built the Great Wall in front of Liu Tong's daughter-in-law. But the card field smokers are smoking one after another, at that time Liu Tong had not yet built a building, the house was miasma, eight circles of cards played in one night, and a shovel cigarette butt could be thrown on the ground.
Liu Tong's daughter-in-law loves to be clean, and within a few days, she couldn't stand it, drove us away, didn't let her play cards at her house, said that she was willing to go to whose house she wanted to go to, and played all night without anyone caring about you.
We moved the deck to another player's house. In fact, a few of us who play cards are skilled, and we are not willing to play with Liu Tong, because he does not cut the cards, plays randomly, and may play whose cards are crazy. So we cut Liu Tong's cards.
Once, it was really three lacking, and it was not enough to put together a hand. We then asked the "card leader" to ask Liu Tong, because Liu Tong usually obeyed him. Or when he was in school, he nicknamed Liu Tong "No Key Lock", which means that his head is not open. I said card chief, you go to ask Liu Tong to fill the vacancy? Aren't you holding Liu Tong's key?
The card leader said that playing cards with Liu Tong was not addictive. But there is really no way to lack one out of three. The card commander went to invite Liu Tong. Liu Tong and his daughter-in-law watched TV at home, saying that they would not go to the three deficiencies and one of them, and they were holding on to the two of you. Liu Tong's daughter-in-law said, Lao Tong lost money to you, and you still quarreled with him and did not let Lao Tong play cards.
The card chief said Lao Tong, you are so afraid of your wife? Liu Tong said that she was afraid of her wife today.
The card commander was helpless, and came back sadly: I can't play tonight. Can't call Liu Tong.
I said, it looks like your key is rusty. I went to call, and if I didn't believe it, I couldn't call him Liu Tong. The card captain said, blow it! I can't call him, and you can't call him.
I said bet, I had to call Liu Tong.
Entering the door of Liu Tong's house, I said, Brother Tong, when the real card chief holds your key? He said he couldn't please you, and no one could please move you?
Who says the card master holds the key? Let's go, let's go play cards. Liu Tong's daughter-in-law could not stop it.
Later, the card leader asked me, why did you open the key lock? I recounted calling Liu Tong to play cards. A few of us laughed.
In the liquor field, as long as there is Liu Tong, it is easy to get him drunk.
Liu Tong has two daughters and a son, and his life is also tight.
Later, I became obsessed with the Internet, and then I went out of the village to start a business and rarely returned to the village. Tossing and turning for seven or eight years, failing to start a business, losing money and losing time, and tossing a beautiful life into it for several years.
Liu Tong built the most beautiful two-story small building in our small village, full of new fashion furniture, floor heating, overall kitchen, clean yard, European-style small building, like a villa, which is worth at least one hundred million in Beijing.
It turned out that Liu Tong's two daughters did not go to college to work directly in Beijing, they were like Liu Tong's daughter-in-law, smart and able to speak the Tao, both engaged in marketing in a media company in Beijing, fought for a lot of money, gave the money to the family, let the family build a house, what is missing at home, buy from the Internet. Liu Tong couldn't stop it.
Liu Tong's two daughters are particularly caring for the family, and they also buy various clothes for their father and brother from the Internet, and it is worth buying a box of wine for Liu Tong from the Internet. The days of Liu Tong's family were suddenly booming.
This year's college entrance examination list, met Liu Tong's daughter-in-law on the street, she showed off to me: The boy scored 570 points this year, you have culture, more knowledge, these 570 points can go to what university?
After I listened, I was surprised: 570 points in the college entrance examination? Your boy is not Liu Tong's! Liu Tong always dragged a pig's tail when he went to school!
Liu Tong's daughter-in-law giggled and said, "It's not Liu Tong's boy or your boy!" Liu Tong's little son is his mother's genetic inheritance, and his son is like a mother!
Liu Tong's daughter-in-law told me that after her family built the house and renovated it, there were still 180,000 passbooks left. Liu Tong's daughter-in-law is demonstrating to me: Look, you all say that the old man is stupid, and the fool has a stupid fortune!
Liu Tong's son, who once dragged the pig's tail, grew into a handsome boy and studied very well; the two girls can also do it, and they are also very concerned about the family and considerate of their parents. In our small village of less than a thousand people, Liu Tong's family has become a veritable richest man, which is enviable!