Same-Lovers (Novella) Zhang Baotong 2017.8.6

My mom felt a bolt in her head and her mind exploded. My mom only loved my dad, he was young and handsome, optimistic and bold, and well-informed and literate. However, the old Yan Tou is stingy, stingy, unsightly, stubborn and strong, and keeps smoking that thick and choking dry cigarette roll all day long. Not to mention this, even in terms of age, he is eight or nine years older than my mother. My mother knows that Lao Yantou is an honest man and a good person, but if this good man is a man and husband for her, this is unacceptable to her no matter what. She immediately shook her head at Chairman Wang, indicating that she was unwilling.

Of course, my mother's statement made Lao Yantou feel very embarrassed and uncomfortable, and it also made him fall into a panic immediately. He knew that at his age, it was impossible to find those unmarried girls, and those unmarried girls would not follow him, although it was not difficult to find a married woman, but the married women were all families and men, so this made him feel very distressed about personal problems. He was already thirty-five or sixteen years old, and if he didn't find a woman, he would be even more unable to find a woman when he was thirty-eight, nineteen, or forty. His parents are long gone, and he grew up with his sister. Therefore, he treated his sister as a parent, and sent all the money he had spent on shrinking clothes and dieting and saving food to his sister over the years. However, my sister also considered that my younger brother was so old that he should become a family, so she said to him, you should also become a family, otherwise, when you are old and can't move, who will give you a pension. At this time, he felt a sense of urgency to get married and start a family.

Not long ago, my sister wrote to me saying that she had found a good partner for him in her hometown, the woman was twenty-seven or eighteen years old, she was still young, and her appearance was reasonable, the man was sick and died, with a five-year-old and an eight-year-old son. As soon as he received the letter, he took a break from family leave and rushed back to his hometown. The woman was indeed twenty-seven or eighteen years old, as the letter said, and she looked young, and when she heard that after marrying him, she could leave the countryside and go outside to enjoy the blessings, so she kept smiling happily. As a single and single man for so many years, he is still happy to find a young and strong woman. However, just when he was about to leave his hometown with the woman and the two children and return to live with the unit, the woman's father-in-law said that when the children grow up, we still have to let them come back.

As soon as Lao Yantou heard this, his face immediately changed, he thought that he could raise these two children as his own children, but when the children were raised, they would ask the children back, so he was not raising the children for nothing. So, he immediately said to the woman, "Go back with the child, our business will not be done." Hearing this, the woman hugged his leg and cried and begged him to take her out of here. However, Lao Yantou shook off the woman and walked out of the village without looking back.

As soon as he returned to the construction site from his hometown, he heard that my father had an accident, and his heart chuckled, and it felt like the sky was falling. My dad used to be the class leader, he was the deputy class leader, and the two have worked together for many years, and the two have always gotten along well. As soon as he was on the night shift that evening, he heard a woman's cry, and he saw that it was my mother who was crying by the river with us. He felt very uncomfortable because he and my dad used to be like brothers. The next day, after he got off the night shift, he found Chairman Wang and told him what he saw yesterday, and asked Chairman Wang to find a way to help our family. However, Chairman Wang couldn't think of any good way, because my father had been transferred out of the unit for more than half a year, so it was difficult to take care of it anymore. Moreover, help can only be temporary, and cannot solve fundamental problems.

When it was time to get off work in the afternoon, Chairman Wang came to the cave where Lao Yantou lived, because Lao Yantou had no family, and the unit built a cave for him not far from the fence where the building materials were stacked as his single dormitory. This cave is to dig a boxy pit with a length of 20 meters and a depth of 20 meters on the top of a high slope, and then dig a cave under the big pit, and then build a path leading to the bottom of the pit on the high slope. The main body of the cave is a large room of 123 square meters, and there is a small cave that serves as a kitchen next to it. The front door is like a small square yard. Lao Yantou's task is to sleep during the day and come out at night to guard the materials. Sometimes I was so bored that I sat on a high slope and smoked dry tobacco while looking towards the end of the Luo River, thinking about when I would have my own home.

Chairman Wang woke him up from the bed and said to him directly, you can marry Lao Gao's daughter-in-law and start a family. Because Lao Yantou had already told him about going back to his hometown to find a woman. Listening to Chairman Wang's words, he smoked his cigarette for a while and said that I am willing, but I don't know if my sister-in-law is willing, because he feels that he can't compare with my father. Chairman Wang said that her family has become like this, what else is she willing or not, so it is decided, you come to my office in the evening, I will go to tell Lao Gao's daughter-in-law that she has to be willing whether she wants or not, this is the decision of the organization.

Of course, my mother was unwilling, but she was an uneducated woman with small feet, and she always obeyed and obeyed the wishes of others. Now that Chairman Wang has issued instructions to her on behalf of the organization, how can she not follow the rules? Moreover, she has no way out. If she doesn't agree, she has to take the child back to her hometown in Anhui. In the past, when she first got married, she was always abused and troubled by her mother-in-law, and now that she has no man, her mother-in-law may not be able to toss her. Therefore, she would rather beg outside than see the domineering and vicious face of her mother-in-law.

When she was hesitant and couldn't make up her mind, Chairman Wang said okay, so decided, you all go back and get ready to get married tomorrow night. Because my mother is not a new daughter-in-law, there is no need to hold any grand ceremonies in broad daylight. In this way, Chairman Wang sent a member of the trade union to move our family's things from the cave to the cave where Lao Yantou lived, and spread my mother's futon on Lao Yantou's bed. In the evening, everyone had a lively time in Lao Yantou's cave, that is, everyone knew that Lao Yantou and my mother were married.