The surname is Zheng, the nickname is Broken Dog, the official name is Jianguo, and he is a native of Zhengsi Village along the river. He and he successively married the eldest girl and the second girl of Zhang Laowu in Zhangjiabao on the north bank of the Xiaohe River, and became a "burden".

The two sisters are only one year apart, they are almost the same in size, they are both handsome, fat and thin, and they look like twins at first glance. If you look closely, my sister is a little more watery than my sister. In comparison, Wu Yushan prefers the boss he marries. He has a feeling, a feeling that is not easy to explain clearly, living at home, the boss is more scheming, and therefore more reliable. Although the water color of the second girl is thick, it seems that her temperament is too strong and it is not easy to caress her.

Xu is sisters are close in age and look like each other, so a situation has formed in which no one is convinced. The eldest girl can spin a handful of fine threads and weave a good cloth, and the flower cloth and the fine threads spun by the second girl are no less than those of the elder sister. The two sisters are competitive and unconvinced, and they are less affectionate between the general sisters. This delicate relationship, with the marriage of the sisters one after another, extends to the relationship between Wu Yushan and Zheng Shagou, two men and two families.

Wu Yushan's family is well-off, and he doesn't have to worry about food and clothing, and Zheng Shagou's family is also a well-off family. Unexpectedly, a year after marriage, the second brother of the broken dog was arrested and sold land to pay, avoiding the disaster, but there was no land. The misfortune is not a single line, the mother died suddenly, and a well-off family suddenly decayed into a poor man who was worried about three meals a day. The old father was powerless to save it, so he separated the three brothers and ran for the future, so as not to suffer from the strong man again.

In addition to being heavily indebted, Zheng Shagou did not have any valuable property, he worked as an apprentice in a shoe shop in Xi'an, learning the art of wiping clothes, just to fill his stomach and have no income. The second girl often came to her sister with a small bag when she couldn't open the pot. The eldest girl sympathizes with her sister, one liter of rice, three liters of noodles, and often has a lot of money. As time went by, I got a little bored, and when I put the rice noodles into my sister's open pocket, I couldn't help but laugh: "The days are long, when will I ask someone to help you?" When my sister heard this, she lifted her pocket, poured out the rice in it, shook her hand and walked away, and since then, she has never climbed the threshold of her sister's house.

Wu Yushan said: "Look at it, this time I offended my sister-in-law and brother-in-law, since I am a good person, I will say unpleasant things, and I can still leave a personal favor." ”

But his wife did not regret it: "When I was at my mother's house, I didn't even call my sister, so I was able to do it! Now I know me as a sister! I still don't appreciate other people's rice and noodles, but I should make amends to her?"

The two sisters broke up in love.

Wu Yushan was actually happy in his heart, and he didn't have to worry about someone coming to ask for rice noodles. She is her own sister-in-law, and if she intervenes, her wife will definitely be unhappy, and her wife herself has come forward to cut off that relationship, which is good. To be honest, the one who "bears the burden" is really a poor pit that is not satisfied......

The stars have shifted, and the world has changed dramatically. Within two years, the whole country was liberated. Zheng Shagou suddenly turned over from a small apprentice and became a public cadre, wearing a blue cloth costume with four pockets, appearing in the gatehouse of his father-in-law's house during the New Year's Festival, and when he called Wu Yushan face to face, Wu Yushan suddenly felt that his face was dull and half shorter. The old man no longer ridiculed the "broken dog long" and "broken dog short", nor was he called "second", and called the name of "Jianguo" after coming out. Wu Yushan quickly understood that Zheng Shagou had taken down an official named Zheng Jianguo.

Zheng Jianguo was proud, and he leaked a string of new terms, so that the old man and the old farmer Wu Yushan seemed to understand it. He said that the newly established city ** had already transferred him to be a cadre.

The second girl naturally raised her eyebrows and spoke loudly, and her hands were always stuffed in her trouser pockets and not taken out, and some new terms that were difficult for country women to understand kept popping up in her words, which surprised the old mother and sister. Naturally, the most embarrassing thing is the big girl, the younger sister seems to have been holding back her heart, just waiting for this day to get revenge, the corner of her eyes always glances at her sister with disdain, making her more and more uncomfortable.

When they broke up in the evening, the conflict finally became public. The second girl took out a stack of tickets from her trouser pocket, put them on the table in front of her parents, and said to her sister and brother-in-law: "When I suffered in the first two years, I ate two buckets and three liters of noodles and eight liters of millet from my sister's family. ”

Wu Yushan was stunned, waved his hand again and again, and his face was red, like a slap in the face: "Where is this......

The wife's face was pale, and she couldn't bear it anymore, so she grabbed the ticket and threw it out, and the house was full of flying yuan: "Your man is an official, you are an official's wife, I don't blush! Sensei is playing with roasted buns in front of me! My two buckets and three liters of white flour and eight liters of millet have the right to feed the dog! I fed it to a dog who is not familiar with it......

The two sisters scolded in front of them.

Since then, the sisters have never been in contact. When people talk about family morality, Wu Yushan and his wife, no one should mention this burden and his sister, he has only heard about it sporadically, in the more than ten years after the liberation, the official has been rising from childhood to adulthood, and he can't figure out how many grades he has been promoted. He was originally sticky to the official titles of the city's **, and he couldn't tell the difference. He and his wife already have two sons and a daughter, although it is not easy, but they still maintain a well-off state. He is extremely loyal, peaceful, and has a middle peasant component, and he cannot be a cadre in the village. He relied on diligence and loyalty, and his popularity was good. No matter who is a cadre in Wu Village, he is the most reliable member of the society, never makes trouble, people call him "old good Yushan", he gladly accepts it, regardless of praise or disparagement. Some of the most technically strict ways of living, such as sowing seeds, such as cultivating rice seedlings, are none other than him. In addition, there are some dirty and tiring work, and the cadres often assign Wu Yushan to do the poor middle peasants who are not strong and hard-working. He didn't pick or choose, he did it, and he earned a lot of work when he did it. Whether it is highly technical farm work or dirty work that everyone hates, it is the high work score of the production team, and others can't say their opinions, and his life is mixed up strictly. In this way, the two of them held their breath and never begged their sister and brother-in-law for help.

Things change, rivers change, things change—nothing will stay the same forever.

Wu Yushan was awakened by the knock on the door, and when he heard it again, someone did knock on the door, and with a move of his feet, he first woke up his wife who was sleeping on the other side of the kang. In order to prepare for the unexpected, Yushan picked up a wooden stick, walked out of the inner room, walked lightly to the street door, and asked by his wife: "Who?"

A strange and trembling voice came from outside the door: "It's me, sister." ”

"Who are you?" Wu Yushan was puzzled.

"I'm Jianguo, brother-in-law—"

The wife pulled the door latch with a "bang".

The old couple hugged their brother-in-law across the courtyard and into the back room. In the electric light, Wu Yushan and his wife were really surprised, and they couldn't help but exclaim "Mom" in unison. Brother-in-law Zheng Jianguo, with blood boils on his face, one leg lame, unkempt hair, described as haggard, dirty, and sloppy, he really looks like a person three points and a ghost seven points.

"I'm in trouble. The brother-in-law sat down and drank a bowl of water before he spoke, "If I can't escape tonight, they'll beat me to death!"

There is no need to ask anything in detail, the old couple knows that there is a rebellion inside and outside the township, and the brother-in-law is an official in the provincial capital, and most of them can't escape.

The brother-in-law hid in the small room in the backyard where he stored firewood.

He was apprehensive, fully aware of the terrible consequences of such an act, but he could not throw his brother-in-law out and give it to those who were going to clean him up. The wife seems to have ignored the past suspicions, and did everything she could, using fine noodles to recuperate his devastated body. Worry was inevitable, and when those with red armbands on their arms drove down Wu Yushan's gatehouse, he showed an unusual courage.

"Zheng Jianguo, my burden? Yes, I have this broad relative. Wu Yushan said angrily and scolded, "When he was an official and a eunuch, he never stepped on my threshold! I still don't know how thick his waist is and how big an official is! People don't look down on our poor relatives, and we don't want to touch his light." He has become a counter-revolutionary this time, so what does it have to do with me? I am not exposed to light, and I will not be harmed! You should go to the village and inquire about it, and see who in my village has seen my family and Zheng Jianguo have a relationship with each other?"

Zheng Jianguo climbed out of the red cellar under the firewood pile and escaped this level. He moved in, and was then transferred by his brother-in-law and sister to their eldest daughter's house.

The disaster has restored the relationship between sisters and burdens that have been in conflict for nearly 20 years, and it is really a sisterhood of tribulation.