Volume 3: Essays, Anecdotes, (10) Reminiscences of the Past

(Continued above)

The baby said, "If she wants to leave, I won't live without her?"

"That's a good point, do you know how difficult it is to marry a daughter-in-law now? In our village alone, how many young men in their twenties have not married a daughter-in-law? Fifty or sixty. If you leave us and take this condition, you can marry another one, and you have to spend another hundred thousand yuan, Dad has been fine for a lifetime, is it easy to save two money?

And said that Ruhua went out of the village, happened to meet the village women's federation, and persuaded her a few words, because her purpose was to split the family, not divorce, so she gently persuaded a few words and returned to her mother-in-law's house with the village women's federation.

Dividing the family is actually to divide the stove without separating the house, and just eat separately.

More than ten days later, there was a spicy woman in the house, she was Jin Laosan's mother-in-law, she saw her mother-in-law come, she did not put down the gifts, first turned around in the courtyard, the daughter followed the butt warmly, the mother always ignored it, and only entered the baby's mother's house after the turn, she did not let her daughter enter the mother-in-law's door.

The baby's mother saw her mother-in-law coming, and wanted to sit up and greet her several times, but was stopped by her mother-in-law, "Mother-in-law, you just sleep, I'm sitting, I'm watching you come today, by the way, I want to ask you how you have been sick since you were sick?"

"Okay, okay......" She thought to herself, people are relatives and mothers, and they have to say that they are not good, because everyone in the world can be offended, but the daughter-in-law can't afford to offend!

"Okay, okay, why are there two stoves in the yard, it's obviously not good. "Mom Baby, I didn't dare to say anything!

"Ruhua, come here, come to your mother-in-law's house!" she called her daughter at the door of her in-laws' small house.

Like a flower and a cat, she slipped into her mother-in-law's house.

"I gave birth to two children, your brother married a daughter-in-law, you married the Jin family, at the beginning for you to marry a good family, I inquired about it, I was always afraid of marrying you to an unavoidable in-law, I couldn't find a good mother-in-law, I was so anxious that my mouth was often frothing, and finally married the Jin family, my father-in-law is diligent, my mother-in-law is virtuous, and my son-in-law is obedient, like this good person, where do you go to find it? When your mother-in-law is in good health, you behave well, and when your mother-in-law is sick, you will turn the whip? If a woman treats her in-laws badly, her man will always be speechless in front of the township party...... "The more the old man spoke, the more angry he became, and he drank his saliva and continued: "Why don't you follow your sister-in-law's example, it's really better than your brother in front of me! Your brother sometimes talks in front of me, and every time your brother talks and your sister-in-law criticizes him, a few days ago, your father and your brother went to the city to work and were not at home, I was at home in the middle of the night, even vomiting and pulling, and your sister-in-law pedaled a tricycle to send me to the town health center, registered, took medicine, served the urinal, and was embarrassed to serve me. She is very attentive to me, and the patients and doctors who have sex with me all regard your sister-in-law as my daughter-in-law. Everyone has to have empathy, if your sister-in-law treats me like you, what kind of mood are you, and what is the mood of your father and brother......"

"Mom, you said it, I know I'm wrong!" she went over and took her mother-in-law's hand and said with a crying voice: "Mom, I'm sorry for you, I'll bring the stove over there immediately." ”

"Don't worry, Mom has 200 yuan here, go to the town to buy a barrel of rice wine, cut two catties of meat, bring a few cold dishes, and wait for your father-in-law and baby to come back from the grape field, let's have a reunion dinner!"

"Mom, you put it on, I have it!" After speaking, Ruhua rode an electric motorcycle and happily went to the gathering.

My mother, Lu Shi, left us forever on the lunar day of last year, and has since completed her 85 years of life.

In the days after my mother left, my expression was almost broken, I couldn't sleep at night, I was godless during the day, and I couldn't extricate myself from the pain in my heart, I loved my mother, I missed my mother.

My mother was born in 1936 and married my father at the age of 17. At a young age, she picked up the burden of life early.

The mother's life was hard, raising eight children in her life, at that time, there was no food, less clothing, and the living situation was poor, often eating the last meal but not the next. When the children were able to stagger, the older ones took care of the younger ones, freed her up, and in order for the whole family to have an extra bite to eat, she went to the production team with her father during the day to earn some women's work, and her mother was thin and weak at that time. But in the production team collective work she is never picky, often also do dirty work, tired work, heavy work, just to earn a little more work, I heard my father also said, a few times the mother from the high place of the ditch beam to carry sweet potatoes down due to the weight of the back have fallen, she is so strong, with the mother's physique that is absolutely hard and endured.

Even at night, my mother had to be busy for the coarse cloth clothes on our bodies, often until the third watch, and in order to earn some more work during the day, she had to barely sleep for one or two hours. Especially in the autumn and winter seasons, my mother had to work night and day in order to dress us. Autumn jackets, trousers. She has to prepare cotton jackets and cotton pants for each person in winter. The fabric of these clothes is also the thread and weaving of the thread that she spun in the morning, and she cut and tailored, and sewed and sewed until it was done, one by one. At that time, there was no electric light, and she could only be busy under the weak kerosene lamp, so that her mother contracted an eye disease in her later years, and her eye sockets were often red and swollen, and there were tears in the corners of her eyes. These are things that our sons and daughters see in their eyes and remember in their hearts, and they will never be forgotten for a lifetime.

The mother was kind, helpful, and of high moral character. She has never blushed with her neighbors, and she would rather suffer more losses than take advantage of others. Mother often told us children: Suffering is a blessing, and being a kind person. In this regard, she has done a very comprehensive job. As long as she can help in the neighborhood, she will do her best to help, and her mother is not only good at needlework, but also embroidery and cut flowers. In order to make the clothes look better and more beautiful, she embroidered some patterns on the corners of our trousers, sleeves, and uppers, and added more embellishments of flowers and plants, which made it beautiful and creative to wear. She often helps the children in the neighborhood to do that, both with her own materials and with kung fu, she has no complaints, as long as the neighbors speak up, she never refuses. The neighbors and children all praised her.

I remember one time, it was all a year or twenty years ago when I got married, someone told me about it, but my mother never told me, on the third day after my marriage, a woman from my village came to my house to chat, she and my mother are the same age, I called her aunt, and my sister-in-law and my daughter-in-law also talked about the heat, chatting and chatting about my mother, she said that my mother was good, kind and angry, and then my aunt said that a few years ago my mother tried to help her some things. The aunt said: In the past, the women washed their clothes in the spring below the high ridge of the stream, and early that morning, the aunt and the mother and the other two women went to wash the clothes, during which everyone washed their own clothes, talking and laughing, but not long after, the aunt's neighbor's child yelled at the high place of the stream and said: Your fourth child beat the baby at school, and his head was beaten with a bloody hole. The aunt hurriedly jumped on the cliff to go to school, and at noon, before the aunt came back, the mother picked up a load of cages (that is, a pair of cages) that had been washed to the door of the aunt's house, and after a long time, the aunt came back, she was very grateful to her mother, and left her mother to eat at her house, and the mother just looked at the child's injuries with concern and said casually: I have made all the meals, and the family is still waiting for me to go back. A few days later, the sister-in-law heard from the other two women that her mother's basket of clothes had only been washed halfway that day, and she had washed the clothes of her sister-in-law's house before she went to the spring to wash the other half. After my aunt said this at that time, I admired my mother's kindness and nobility even more.

The loss of my mother makes us heartbroken, my mother's life is hard-working, hard-working, great, my parents are here, there is still a place to come in life, my parents are gone, and there is only a way back in life.

Due to my family's difficult circumstances, I was forced to drop out of school when I was only in my first year of high school. Since then, in order to support his family, he has been running around and working outside the home to make a living. I started writing this book when I was working on a construction site in Changji City, Xinjiang.

At that time, I had to work part-time during the day. I can only write in the dead of night after everyone else has rested. At that time, there were no electric lights, no desks, not even a single bed board on the construction site.

However, all these difficult conditions did not frighten me. In order to finish writing, I bought a candle and sat on the head of the bed to finish the first draft of the book.

At that time, I had been out of school for 10 years. Some of the text is already a little rusty. In order not to delay the writing work. So, I left the words I had forgotten empty and secretly wrote them on a piece of paper.

Later, when my friends and I were wandering the streets, we saw a dictionary in a bookstore. Only then did the forgotten words be filled.

Due to the tiredness of the day, I really can't support it. So, I took a nap when I went to work during the day. For this, he almost fell off the roof truss.

Not only that, but at that time, I may have been a little anxious for quick success and quick success. As a result, not only a lot of money was spent on this, but also a lot of effort was spent.

When the manuscript was finished, I took the manuscript and went around submitting it. Later, he repeatedly hit a wall and suffered rejection. Later, on a trip to a publishing house in Xinjiang to submit articles, I met two scammers. He was cheated out of all his money by these two scammers.

In addition, due to the difficulties of my family and the prejudice of the world (they thought that I was only a beginner in Chinese, and I was a farmer, and I was not a writer), I had been fighting alone in obscurity, and the pressure and difficulties I suffered were even more unbearable.

In fact, these hardships are only part of the difficulties I have suffered for this work. The ordeal I have endured for this work is much more than that.

After the book was changed to an electronic version, it has been submitted to several websites, but because this book is not a popular novel genre on the Internet today, the novel has not been approved.