The Tears of a Tiger (novel)

There are many people practicing kung fu in Gangcheng, and in the 1970s and 1980s, street fights were the first in the province. The body is strong and resistant to beating, the temperament is fierce, and the shot is heavy. The north of the city worships five brothers, known as the five tigers of the steel city, and goes to the glacier to fry fish in winter, and the operation is wrong. There was a loud "boom", and the big tigers, two tigers, three tigers, and four tigers fell into the exploded ice cave and did not return. Only the old five who fought the most desperately remained, the people on the south side of the city north of the city, called him the tiger who did not die.

Years later, I went to see Uncle Tiger and walked into a private nursing home deep in the streets and alleys of the north of the city. When he saw Uncle Tiger, he lay in a damp and cold room, his tall body curled up on the old wooden bed panting. Once a body of tendon meat, one-handed raw split plate bricks, now skinny, eyes are confused. I handed over his favorite elbow meat dipped in garlic sauce, and Uncle Tiger reluctantly smiled and said weakly, "The child will come, bring something for the uncle, put it on the shelf to smell it, and relieve the hunger." ”

Once the most capable fighting tiger in the north of the city, one person against five opponents, without fear. Mouth a homemade steel bar, before he began to move, the other party knelt down first. The good teeth that used to bite steel are now few, and even the tender meat cooked in the pressure cooker can't be bitten.

I felt bad in my heart and wanted to cry behind my back. Uncle Tiger pulled the corner of my coat, waved his hand, and said, "The child does not cry, and if you come to see your uncle from the provincial city, you are not allowed to shed tears." ”

Uncle Tiger's children, none of whom were in the steel city, left him and went north to Guangzhou. I heard from the staff that none of them had come to see him, and the phone did not come. They left the sick Uncle Tiger in the north house converted from the nursing home warehouse, leaving him to look at the moldy canopy and wait for the end of his life.

Uncle Tiger has four children, none of whom are biological, and are the cubs of the Big Tiger, the Second Tiger and the Third Tiger. They fried fish and did not come back, the big tiger sister-in-law and the three tiger sister-in-law, are the north of the city social flowers, anxious to remarry, dislike the children to hinder things. The second tiger sister-in-law could not afford to be ill and could not take care of the children. A few babies did not care about wow wow crying, Uncle Tiger all picked up home, personally opened a large bed, the dolls lined up to sleep in a big bunk, all raised.

Uncle Tiger did not marry in order to support those babies. There used to be many gorgeous women seducing him, and there were also good women who really admired him, but they were rejected by Uncle Tiger. He put his mind on the four cubs, and everything else was dropped.

The street people discussed that this Hun man (the north of the city will love to fight street fights as the Hun people), fighting is a good man, raising children is not successful, there is his bitter food. There are also people who whisper: a rogue (Uncle Tiger has fought for his friends, and the people in the north of the city are used to quietly calling the people who have gone in rogues), what kind of goods can be cultivated, and it is not good to grow into four small hooligans.

However, who would have thought that the north of the city would kill the famous Hun people and discipline the children strictly and gently (the most powerful pair of hands, never hitting a child with a finger). The four children are only allowed to learn well, not bad. Uncle Tiger upside down clothes, set up stalls, went to the coal mine, and opened a dumpling restaurant to earn money for his children's schooling. All four children were later admitted to the 211 key universities and also trained a female master's degree.

When children were young, they were like a bunch of small milk dogs, surrounded by tall and warm dads all day long, that home without a mother, never less joyful. Uncle Tiger not only cooks a good meal, but also cuts clothes, and the sewing machine is more skilled than the female workers in the garment factory. Boys and girls all seasons of cotton wear are made by his own hands, in order to dress the children with decent clothes, he soaked in the cinema to watch a series of Hong Kong movies, went home overnight to make fashionable styles, let the children wear new clothes for their birthdays and don't want to be mothers.

Uncle Tiger loves to be clean, and he keeps his four children spotless and gentle. People who don't know the details still think that this parent knows the book, neat and elegant, who knows that it is the Hun people who have squatted in prison to run the family.

Uncle Tiger is the child of my grandmother's children and sisters, who grew up without discipline from his father, killed and killed, and had a reputation on his back. In fact, Uncle Tiger does not steal, does not engage in women, is benevolent to the neighbors, or a big filial piety, but fights do not kill fiercely. Two years in prison, a knife in the ribs of a friend. My cousin's aunt was petite, and his mother was angry, and uncle Tiger, a big man with a length of one meter and eighty-five meters, immediately knelt down in front of many people, and Ren Niang fell.

I asked Uncle Tiger, "Brother Qing and Sister Juan, why don't they come to see you?" Uncle Tiger drank some water and said weakly: "Your sister Juan graduated with a master's degree and married an Englishman, forgetting my good." Those British people pay attention to origin, I am a muddy person, how to be her father! Your brother Qing is a cadre of a state-owned enterprise, married to the daughter of the district chief, and he said that he would not allow me to go to see my relatives. This child just let me go to see, I can't go, we are a thing, to shame the child. ”

Uncle Tiger was coughing violently and his body was even weaker, and the staff came in to give him some medicine and did not let him talk more. Uncle Tiger smiled bitterly and said, "Usually, there are words to say to the wall, today the nephew does not say it, is it dead to dream?" "People know that he is muddy, come up and beat people, don't care about him, shrug his shoulders and turn away.

Uncle Tiger then said, "Your little brother Hui is also married, and the target family opens a decent factory, and they have not told anyone that they have my father." In the future, several babies will give birth to babies, and there is no need to mention us. The children have grown up and forgotten that I am clean. It is that Xiao Ru is still young, just work has no object, I am worried about this baby. Look at me like this, no more than before, can't help the child. ”

Uncle Tiger laboriously took off the old watch on his wrist and handed it to me and said, "Your cousin and aunt left it, and you are not allowed to stop for a long time. Don't come to see me again, take this watch away, I have nothing, dead they tube to send, finish burning without leaving ashes. This watch was not taken away, counted as property, and when I died, people here would call them (the four children). This is good, there is no need to call without a watch. ”

When I was about to leave the nursing home, Uncle Tiger, who could no longer get off the ground, pulled on the corner of my clothes again, with tears in his eyes. Uncle Tiger, a group of men with a shovel almost shot into meat sauce, did not shed a tear, at this moment pulled the corner of my clothes, burst into tears: "Baby, this old watch stopped and no longer go, the old uncle must be dead, you secretly burn a few pieces of paper for the uncle, just don't tell you Xiao Juan sister and Xiao Qing brother them!" ”

Uncle Tiger turned around, his face against the wall, refusing to watch me walk out of the dilapidated door. Before leaving the door, I asked Uncle Tiger, "Uncle, do you want them?" Uncle Tiger turned his back on me and said, "Let's go, catch the train." Baby, don't use it, listen to the uncle, don't come! ”

Coming out of the room, I met the dean here and she asked, "Are you a relative of the tiger"? I said, "That's it." The middle-aged female dean shook her head and said with a bitter smile: "Friends can't do it, they have to be related." You came but you didn't, that Number 2 (Uncle Tiger's room number), there really are no relatives." I said, "Doesn't he still have four adoptive children?"?

The dean said: "The four of them said that they did not go through the adoption procedures that year, and they were not considered to have children in law." "But, this is a fact, is the formality more important than the fact"?

The dean saw that I was a little angry, made a quiet gesture, and whispered: "The tiger has completed the formalities, donated the body, and does not need to raise children to do anything." But they listened to the call from the nursing home, and before they could clarify the situation, they simply shut down. ”

The dean said: "At that time, the relevant personnel will hold a ceremony, and one of the links is to salute the relatives of the deceased. If the tiger doesn't have a relative around him, who is that salute to? ”

I called the second brother Qing: Sister Juan is abroad, you are the boss, why can't you come back to spend a few days with your father? Brother Qing said: It's not that I don't want to go back, but she doesn't allow it, her family doesn't allow it. I live in people's homes, and there are also unspeakable secrets. I'm not an emotionless person, Kobayashi, can you understand me? If you don't come alive, will you be able to receive that salute from the person concerned as a relative on that day? Xiao Qingge was silent for a long time and hung up the phone.

I called the third Xiaohui: Your brother is not coming, can you come back when the time comes? Although he was not your father, you fell from the second floor that year, and he saved you with a blood transfusion. You have his blood on you, and you can't ignore Uncle Tiger. Xiao Hui gasped and said: I can't go, really. The factory is going to close, saving the factory is a big thing, and the factory is the life of the whole family. Don't talk about the adoptive father, it's the mother-in-law, I can't take care of it!

I wanted to call Old Mo Xiaoru, but she was only working, and she didn't have a partner yet, so it must be difficult. I hesitated for half a day and didn't make this call. It was raining, and I walked out of the nursing home gate, and across the road was a girl with a red umbrella, very familiar. I ran excitedly into the rain, came to the girl and said: Xiaoru, you are coming, Uncle Tiger may not be very happy!

The girl with the red umbrella looked back at me and screamed: Who is Xiao Ru, neurotic. I stood in the rain and watched the girl walk toward the nightclub in the opposite direction of the nursing home. The rain was getting heavier, and I was worried that the old watch that Uncle Tiger had handed me was wet and carried it into his arms. This watch is very old, but each step is not small. It was in my chest, "tick-tock," and after less than a hundred strokes, it stopped. I hurried to find the eaves to shelter from the rain, pulled out my old watch, and tapped the winding, but the hands never moved again.

I looked toward Uncle Tiger's Room 2, the black grunt lights were out, and the nursing home in the rain was quiet!

The Tears of a Tiger (novel)

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