The story begins in the spring of 1979.

The land of southern Guangdong, which is one step ahead of the reform and opening up, is a small mountain village on the south bank of the Yangtze River.

In the open space in front of the house, a group of girls are playing a game of "jumping rubber bands". They used dozens of rubber bands tied to their hair, changing endless patterns on a rope full of toughness and elasticity, jumping and jumping. While playing, I shouted a nursery rhyme that I don't know where I learned it in unison:

"Little leather ball, little come, Ma Lian blossoms twenty-one, twenty-five, six, twenty-five, seven, two-eight-two-nine-thirty-one......"

The girls who jump rubber bands are beautiful and delicate, because of the large amount of exercise, there are many jumps and jumps, and the arms have to swing homeopathically to maintain body balance. The graceful and slender eighteen-year-old girl Qin Yin, who is beautiful and moving, plays games with a group of girls who are five, six, or seven years old and have not yet entered elementary school. At that time, the children who had not yet gone to school in the countryside did not go to kindergarten, and the game of Qin Yin and a group of children seemed quite trendy.

Finally, when I was tired of playing, I don't know who shouted "stop playing", and the girls scattered like a flock of ducks, gathered under the eaves to rest, sweating profusely and tired. Qin Yin was reluctant to stop, chasing and begging the other girls to continue to play with her for a while.

This girl, named Kotone, has an older brother, a twin sister, and a younger sister. She and her twin sister Qinmi used to go to school together, work together, rest together, and even sleep together. However, two years ago, Qin Mi was admitted to university in the first year of resuming the college entrance examination, but she failed to be admitted and worked as a farmer at home.

Qin Mi finally left her hometown to go to college, and Qin Yin was as silent as a person who had lost her soul. It is only with these children that Qin Yin can find temporary happiness. Qin Yin taught the girls many nursery rhymes and games, and the girls liked her and were willing to play with her. So I changed to a nursery rhyme and continued to dance rubber bands:

"Ma Lanhua, Ma Lanhua, I am not afraid of wind and rain, hard-working people are talking, please bloom immediately. ”

It wasn't until the adults in the village came back and called for the children to go home that the girls laughed and scattered.

Qinyin's parents had just returned from work on the production team and were very annoyed. In the past, when the twin sisters were at home, Qin Mi and Qin Yin would consciously wash clothes, feed pigs, light fires, boil water, and clean before their parents came home, which were all the duties of rural girls. Ever since Qinmi went to college, Qinyin seems to have changed her personality, ignoring housework, and playing with a group of girls ten years younger than her for so long like she is today.

At that time, the farm work of the production team was dispatched by the team leader, and the farm work was arranged to do whatever farm work, and the cadres of the production team called the members to get up and cook and go to work before dawn every morning. At that time, farm work was basically calculated by centimeters, and at the end of the year, everyone's income was calculated according to the amount of work. The peasants set off en masse and went home en masse.

Qin Yin was scolded, and she talked back, crazy and crazy to say that girls are still children at the age of eighteen. You don't have to go to the production team to work, soon the fields will be divided, and each family will have to work alone.

When the people in the village heard what Ah Qin said, they felt that these words had been spoken in their hearts, but they were all very taboo and unrealistic nonsense at that time.

The village where Qinyin is located is the Qin family, which lives together. It is said that in ancient times, there was an unknown hermit, who lived in seclusion in a small mountain village, married as a home, took the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting as fun, and was especially good at playing the piano, attracting beautiful fairies to marry him, and his descendants simply surnamed Qin. Legends are legends, but it is true that there is a Qin family living here.

The descendants of the Qin family continued to multiply and expand, and by 1979, there were dozens of people in the same family of three generations, from the grandfather, father to the generation of A Qin. According to the rules of the old man, Grandpa Qin had the final say on everything big and small at that time. It has been a custom since ancient times that the elders have the right to speak, and no one can say anything.

Although the Qin clan lives on the outskirts of the county, in this mountainous county, in addition to a few shops selling herbal tea, noodles and Chinese herbal medicines, there is also a theater that is rarely used, and there is almost nothing, which is not as good as a corner of the plain county, and it cannot be compared with the old city. The outskirts of the county where the Qin clan is located are actually a small mountain village about four or five miles away from the county seat, which is desolate and poor.

Most of the Qin family are honest farmers, working day and night, hard to bring up their children.

After years of poverty, some people finally can't hold on. It is said that a young man in the village was an extrovert and a flexible man, who often engaged in business and the like, and later envied the city life and fled to Hong Kong, but of course he did not succeed in escaping and was repatriated. The people in the mountain village didn't know what to say, but after all, Qin Yin was a person who had gone to high school, and walked over and shouted: "Don't flee to Hong Kong in the future, Hong Kong will return in many years." In addition, in the future, our lives will be on a par with Hong Kong. ”

You know, there are still five years before the signing of the joint declaration between China and the UK. Who knew that Hong Kong was going to return to the motherland? At that time, the sound of the piano was just nonsense based on the knowledge gained by his own reading, and the unfortunate words were purely accidental and accidental. But the people in the village didn't know that Qin Yin was deliberately talking nonsense, and they accused Qin Yin of talking nonsense, did there be something wrong with his brain and went crazy?

The parents discussed how to have another boy, and Qin Yin said that it doesn't matter if you have a boy or a girl, you will have social security when you are old in the future, and you don't have to have another boy to support the elderly. The parents said, "Will you take care of your parents in the future?" Parents are still feudal, and they are half angry.

Qin's father and mother felt that Qinyin's speech was abnormal, and after discussion, they invited an old gentleman who could read physiognomy and feng shui to tell Aqin's fortune. It is said that many people look for this fortune teller.

The fortune teller is counting the "eight characters" again, and he is looking at the face, and he is very busy. Qin Yin walked over, wanted to pick up the fortune teller's ear, and asked angrily: "My life is not simple, right? "Hehe, at this time, there is probably no such term entrepreneur, this is Qin Yin when learning a foreign language, it is unfortunate, it is purely accidental.

The fortune teller was at a loss: "What is an entrepreneur?

Ah Qin became angry and said, "The fortune teller will soon have no market." ”

The fortune teller was not convinced: "Now many people are looking for me to tell fortunes, how can there be no market?"

Ah Qin told him: The reason why people like fortune-telling now is because they are dissatisfied with the status quo of life, and because they are looking forward to the future, and the society will develop rapidly in the future, and no one wants to tell fortunes. Don't believe so much in this thing of fate, whether it's good or not. If your life is good, you don't work to support yourself, but if your life is bad, who is not necessarily worse than the old society?

The fortune teller was still unconvinced, and said that Ah Qin was born with wealth and was born rich. In order to curry favor with Ah Qin.

Ah Qin didn't buy his account, and said: The fortune of the country is greater than the fortune of the people. In the old society where the country is ruined, the mountains and rivers are shattered, and the people are uprooted, no matter how good the fate of the individual is, it will not help; in the new China where the country develops, the society stabilizes, and the life improves, whose fate will be so miserable? Moreover, the country will soon develop and the national fortune will prosper, and the people's fortune will certainly not go anywhere.

Finally, one more sentence: "You don't even know the name of entrepreneur, I advise you not to mess around in the fortune telling industry!"

The fortune teller listened to Ah Qin's words, and was incoherent for a while, not knowing how to answer. had to hurriedly pack up and flee.

The story of the eighteen-year-old Qin Yin blasting away the fortune teller soon spread in the village.

Qin Yin felt that he should explain to the people in the village that he was purely relying on the knowledge he had learned, making bold predictions and talking nonsense.

Unexpectedly, when she said her predictions and nonsense, it would cause everyone to burst into laughter. No one believed her, and said that the girl was "crazy!"

Since then, the crazy gesture of piano sound's gibberish has been remembered. The naughty children spread the word of mouth, and later made it up as a slip of the tongue:

The sound of the piano is stupid, he doesn't grow rice, he doesn't pick tea, he doesn't have to work to get money.

The sound of the piano is stupid, I don't know my father, I don't know my mother, I don't know that I've always been a crazy baby.

Kotoin wasn't angry, and she knew that others wouldn't believe her. If you don't tell the truth, it's your own fault, and if you tell the truth, others don't believe it, it's someone else's business, and you just have a clear conscience. It's not necessarily a good thing that people think they're crazy, but they happen to be crazy, and no one has given them more work to do, and by the way, they have gained more freedom.

The superstitious parents felt that the sound of the piano had changed and become unreasonable, which was a misfortune for the family. During the Spring Festival of this year, Qin's father made a couplet. Uplink: "Lucky Star Shines on the Family Portrait", Downlink: "Spring Shines Full of Spring", Banner: "The Future is Bright". Spring, blessing, future, between the lines, it seems that everyone feels that life has to go on, and the unfortunate things at home can no longer be tormented like this, and there must be a new look.