Chapter 177: Life in a Mountain Village
I also like this kind of life very contentment, because I have my daughter by my side, and my colleagues get along very happily, which makes me very happy, and there is nothing that makes me feel sad or sad.
But in the middle of this, I found out that there are some unknown places and unknown things in this small mountain village.
Because the traffic here is not very convenient, and there is no direct bus, even the most basic means of transportation, to get to our place, there is basically no car, basically have to walk dozens of miles to get here, so the traffic here is very inconvenient.
Usually, when people go to the city or something, they have to ride motorcycles and walk on mountain roads, and they walk a lot of mountain roads, which is very hard anyway, and the traffic is particularly blocked.
But I didn't care, because I didn't go down the mountain much, and I was basically self-sufficient here, we could grow our own vegetables, and we could buy food from other people's homes, and everything went very well.
And the things in the commissary at the entrance of the village, although a little more expensive, but there is everything, at least those necessities of life are also available, I am very satisfied with this life, I don't think there is any hardship.
Life is relatively turbulent compared to what I once was, and I am quite satisfied, because I have experienced so many difficulties, emotional torture, the pain of losing children, and the betrayal of Xiaoyu's sisterhood, which make me feel extremely painful and uncomfortable.
But now that I'm basically getting used to the happy life here, I still prefer a more comfortable life.
When I was young, I think about it now, I really feel that I feel really strange, when I was young, I didn't understand anything, I just thought about earning money, using my health and my body to exchange money, just because my family needed money, my father's illness needed money, I felt that money could buy everything.
But what about the result? As a result, I lost all my youth, although sometimes I felt that my values were very incorrect, and sometimes I was really deceived by those temptations, thinking that money is everything, but in fact I didn't.
Or is it the happiest inner contentment and peace and tranquility, if you think about it now, if you really get sick, how much money will be enough?
Money is simply not enough to spend, so cherish the present, cherish every minute and every second of the present life, don't look forward to tomorrow, remember how you want to live in the future, or start from now, do it bit by bit from now, so that it is a happy beginning, and there will be a happy future.
It can be the same in the future, this is life, as I get older, I have slowly understood a lot of truths, and I have begun to warn myself to cherish the present.
Because I used to think when I was on Xiaoxue, today is already like this, so let's give up on myself, and tomorrow I want to be a better version of myself, but I am a little dissatisfied, unsatisfactory, and I am self-defeating again today.
So I think it's very bad to do this, always pursue perfection, but there is no real perfection in this world, after so many things, go through so many detours, these truths are all figured out by myself, because I used to see so many truths in books, I always feel uncertain, always feel that it is deceiving, always feel unrealistic, but the truth is really for you to experience with your heart, you will slowly discover, time will tell you.
I've come to understand that life may give us some hardships, but it's more important to be strong.
One day on the weekend, are there any students? Let's go, because on the weekend? The students all go home and help their parents with their work, so they can go with this tassel and go too, I'm bored and have nothing to do.
Xiaoxue went to the neighbor's house, went to play with her friends, I was bored, there was nothing to do, and the sun was very good, so I came to the school gate, and saw an old lady at the school gate.
To be honest, the old ladies who usually bask in the sun, chat, and gossip here are basically in their eighties.
But this old man, I think she is only in her sixties, because she looks so energetic, and she is in a very good state of mind, and her whole person does not look wrinkled.
I walked over and asked, "Old man, what are you doing here?"
The old man looked at me and said, "Why haven't I seen you?"
"I'm a teacher," I said.
The old man, a happy look appeared on her face, "You are the teacher here?"
Then the old man continued to ask, "I will sneak here if I have nothing to do, and then sit here and listen for a while, and I think it is very interesting to listen to your lecture that time, and I think it is very interesting to listen to the lecture here, I know that your lecture is very good, very good, really, to educate our children well, let them go out of the mountains one by one, to the unknown world, let them feel the outside world." ”
I am very happy because this is the value of a human engineer, and this teaching job makes me feel the meaning of my life.
In the past, to be honest, I worked as an account sales manager, and I had only one purpose, which was to make money, and I was satisfied with making a lot of money.
But today, with the old man's words, I realized that in fact, many times earning money is not the only thing, it is more about cherishing the value of my work, especially when I see these children, if they can really go out of the mountains and go to the world in the future, my heart is very happy.
The children go out of the mountains and let them get rid of their ignorance, unlike their parents, who become farmers and work hard to feed the land, and as a result, they live a poor life, which is very difficult, so I hope they will have a good life.
At this point, the old man continued, and asked me, "Girl, I want to ask you a question, your accent sounds familiar to me, where are you from?"
"I'm from Congjiang County. ”
Speaking of this, the old man was surprised, her mouth opened so wide, he was stunned for a long time, and finally asked: "Are you from Jiang County?"
Isn't meeting someone in another country one of the three joys of life?
Thinking of this, I held the old man's hand tightly, oh my God, "What you said, what you said, I really didn't think about it, how could you be here!"
I know that this place is thousands of kilometers away from our Congjiang County!
I don't know this, why did the old man marry here when he was young, to be honest, it is indeed very poor here, and life is very poor, if you can live, the quality will definitely not be high.
I held the old man's hand, and the old man looked at me and said, "Oh, I'm married here, and there's no way, why did you come here?"
The old man asked me, "I'm here to teach and be a teacher," I said lightly.
Because I don't want others to know that I've been through so many things, which are too painful memories to look back on, it might be better to say that.
In fact, I don't have such a noble volunteer, I can't do it yet, but now the work is very fulfilling, don't we also experience the value and meaning of dedication?
I was not talking, the old man continued, "Hey, when I was young, I was here, this is really very poor, the children here can't afford to go to school, so their generation has been delayed, and now there are finally good teachers, of course, I have to think that they will get better and better, and the country's policy support in the past two years has also been a lot, they have nutritious meals every time at noon, and my grandson said that his nutritious meals here are also very good!"
"Does your grandson go to school here?" I said excitedly.
The old man nodded happily, "By the way, why are you here?" I continued.
The old man sighed and said, "You are my fellow countryman, then I will tell you the truth, I was abducted and trafficked here!"
Unbelievable, these two words shocked me for a moment, I don't believe that such a thing can happen between this beautiful village in this paradise, being trafficked, impossible, isn't this society very strict with trafficking?
The old man shook his head and stopped talking, and I fell into deep memories.
Yes, abduction, I feel very scared when I think of this, I didn't expect that such a thing happened in this small mountain village, maybe it is also because there are many older men and young people in this society, because there is no money, after the age, their parents are in a hurry, so they will buy them a few women, let them come over as a tool for childbearing.
Women, really, it's exactly like this and let others slaughter them, if they are really abducted and trafficked here, can they still escape?
I continued to ask, "Auntie, why didn't you go out when you were young? Why is life here so hard?" The old man shook his head and continued, "I escaped once, but I was able to escape, several people in their whole village were abducted and sold, and we foreign women were extremely guarded, and the exit still depends on how we get out, plus I have no money, how can I run? It is the little beauty next door to me who escaped once, but was broken by her husband, and is still a lame person!"
The old man said that he would not speak again.
"And what about you?" I continued.
The old man continued: "Later, I gave birth to two children here, and I could not bear to leave, and the children were pitiful without a mother, and I wanted to bring them to make them happy, so I sacrificed myself." ”
I fell into deep contemplation, yes, the word trafficking is really terrible, I didn't expect that there was such an old man in front of me.
She seems to be so simple, so stoic, it's not that nothing has experienced such a miserable experience, God, this society, how can she live with a person who abducts her for the rest of her life? What kind of life does she live, doesn't she miss home?
But what can she do now? What kind of life is she living?
I continued, "Didn't you go home and have a look?"
The old man shook his head and said, "Why are you going home? There is no one at home, you must know that my younger brothers and sisters are not there for a long time, and the parents of my hometown are no longer alive, maybe it's just one, this is just some nephews, I don't know me well, and there is nothing to go back to, there are grandchildren here, and I have to take care of my grandchildren, so I will stay here, and I am used to living here, and that's it, people, this life is nothing more than that," the old man said lightly.
My heart is unusually painful, oh my God, this life is over, I don't dare to think about it, just now I was still thinking about these lives, but when fate pushes you to another place, what should you do?
I think of my past, when I was robbed and kidnapped, I know the pain, I know the feeling of helplessness, because at this time, there is no one to help you.
I looked at the old man sympathetically.
The old man went to see me, she was so optimistic, like a sunflower in the sun, the old man looked at me and said, "Alas, in fact, how to say it, where life is a lifetime, as long as you take life seriously, and there is no way to do it, you always can't escape your life, it's a woman," she said.
I didn't agree with it that way, and I remembered one of my relatives, and I thought I had a cousin before, and that was me, and that was my father's relative.
When she was sixteen or seventeen years old, she looked very nervous, because she may be a little mentally retarded, but there was nothing wrong with the whole person, especially because she was also very tall, and the whole person was not ugly, when she was sixteen or seventeen years old, he was abducted and sold by his neighbor to a woman who was doing business at his door, and abducted and sold to a small mountain village to be a daughter-in-law.
My aunt, my aunt, she searched for a long time, looked for a lot of places, but did not find him, spent a lot of money, the family was so anxious that their hair turned white, but there was no result for many years, but the family did not give up hope, after all, it is their own flesh and blood, their own daughter, they must want to see their daughter, at least they know if they are dead or alive.
After searching for a long time, I finally found it, and later, in the initial care of the clues provided by the police, when I saw my daughter in that small mountain village in the case of abduction and trafficking of women, my daughter was very happy.
The man she was given in the original small mountain village was also very good to her, although she was used as a tool to give birth to children, but she was not allowed to work in the fields, and let her cook at home with the children or something, so the family was still polite to her.
But my cousin's parents didn't want to, after all, this was the daughter who was abducted and sold, she was very angry with the child, after coming back, she was going to take her grandson away, but the family was unwilling, they were willing to fight to the death and fight for their lives, then forget it, anyway, it is not good for a woman to get married if she has a child.
In this case, my old sister-in-law also forgot about it, he took his daughter home, at that time her daughter was in her thirties, she was seventeen or eighteen years old when she was trafficked, and now she is in her forties, and more than ten years have passed.
Especially in rural areas, it is not easy for a woman to get married, but she is always married and married into a family.
I don't know about that man's family background, and it's said that it's not very good, but there's no way, after all, is a woman like this!
Hey, there is no way to say it in a word, but she is not in that house, but she is not very good, often quarrel with the man in the family, that man often beats her, and has a very painful life, and several times I went to my aunt's house and saw my cousin, hers, I can see my cousin, her expression is very painful, and her face is full of all kinds of scars.
My aunt only wiped her tears, and said that she couldn't wait to say that she knew that she had taken her daughter over in the first place, and that my cousin was at least very happy in that family, and she also had children.
Now that they are separated from their children, the deceased herself is very uncomfortable, and she misses her grandson very much, oh my God, what a sin this is done!