Chapter 37: Tomb Sweeping

Ma Yonggui asked the child, "What's your father's name?"

Luo Xiaoyu was ecstatic, but he still looked at Ma Yonggui blankly, and finally pouted and said, "Why should I tell your father's name, my father won't let others say it." Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"Hahaha, where does your dad work? ”

"Xiao Yu, this is our leader, why are you walking so fast?" Li Yuehua, who was following behind, spoke.

Ma Yonggui frowned, Luo Xiaoyu looked at Ma Yonggui again, and said reluctantly: "My father's surname is Luo, well, well, in the security department of the substation" After speaking, he carried the basket and soaked it.

Ma Yonggui is clear.

Ma Yonggui didn't help Li Yuehua in the end, but the relationship between Li Yuehua and Tang Xiangxiang was not as stiff as before.

Tang Manlou once went to Luo Xiaoyu's house to play, and really brought a lantern to Luo Xiaoyu, Luo Jingquan and his wife couldn't cry or laugh, Luo Xiaoyu put it up like a baby, Tang Manlou patted his chest and said:

"Later, my uncle will buy you lanterns. ”

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"It rained a lot during the Qingming Festival", but there was no rain on April 5, 1975, and the sun was shining warmly on the body, so that the people who swept the tomb also had a trace of warmth.

Luo Xiaoyu and his mother went to the hillside opposite the Weihe Railway Bridge, where the deceased grandmother was buried.

In recent years, due to the response to the call of "Daqing Agricultural Dazhai of Industrial Science", this hillside should be transformed into terraced fields, and the layers of soil on the high places should be pushed down, and all the graves here were buried under the loess.

There is no tombstone, there is no grave Tang Xiangxiang found the approximate location with his memory, then placed the steamed buns, lit the incense, and finally kowtowed three times with a solemn expression. Luo Xiaoyu also kowtowed like her mother.

Tang Xiangxiang picked up the paper and burned it, and said babblingly: "Mom, my daughter and granddaughter have come to see you, I will burn some money for you and send it over, please don't worry, we are all fine here.........." said with tears streaming down his face.

After the memorial, Tang Xiangxiang and Luo Xiaoyu were not in a hurry to go back, and sat on the hillside staring at the Weihe River opposite, Tang Xiangxiang told Luo Xiaoyu the story of his grandmother.

Grandma is very beautiful, she has a pair of good-looking and big eyes. The high bridge of the nose looks good on the face of the melon seeds, but he is a little short, but in those days, the southerners were short.

Grandma's name is Wu Youhua, and my uncle's name is Wu Youhua, with different pronunciations, which was given by their father.

Grandma's father, Luo Xiaoyu, should be called Grandpa, Grandpa is educated, and he often doesn't go home to participate in the revolution in Hunan City C, but often sends money back.

My grandmother and my uncle and grandfather both went to school and learned knowledge. But the good times didn't last long, and Grandpa Tai was killed by the enemy on the way home. Before the whole family knew about this nightmare, another disaster had struck.

A group of people broke into the house and beat my uncle and grandfather to death with blood and fainting, when my grandmother was beating pigweed in the field to avoid being poisoned, but my uncle and grandfather saved a life after a long period of treatment, but left sequelae, speaking before and after, often drooling.

In order to save the life of the Wu family, Grandma Tai decided to flee to Changsha City with her uncle and grandfather to hide.

With the help of my grandfather's friends, I left my hometown and lived near the Shuifeng Forest in City C, which is now CE North Road.

But the grandmother stayed in the countryside and was sent to a distant relative's house as a child daughter-in-law. Poor grandma was only seven years old that year, and a miserable life began.

Grandma got up every day before dawn, and had to boil the washing water of ten people in a large family, boil the rice and empty it into a basket, and then go to the vegetable garden to pick vegetables and go to the pond to wash vegetables. After everything was done, the whole family got up.

After the whole family finished breakfast, Grandma had to wash the dishes and prepare the lunch meal.

Then go to the pond to wash the clothes that the whole family has changed, soap is rarely used at that time, the straw is burned to ashes and soaked in water, the clear water contains alkali, and it is used to wash dark clothes, and if you wash white clothes, you have to beat them with a mallet.

After lunch, I went to feed the pigs, and in the afternoon I had to weave linen, embroider, and tear down clothes to make shoe soles. was so busy that she had to boil the bath water of ten people at night, and it was not until late at night that Grandma dragged her tired body into the quilt.

The hostess of this house is called Jia Niang in Hunan dialect, and Jia Niang is very powerful and has a very bad temper. If you are not satisfied with the work, you will pick up something and hit it.

One day, my mother was stir-frying, and she thought that her grandmother was burning the fire too much, so she picked up the spatula and knocked it on her grandmother's head. The painful grandmother squatted on the ground with her head in her arms and cried, blood flowed down her face, but her mother still scolded "the girl who was on her back".

Another time, my mother thought that my grandmother's clothes were not clean, so she picked up one and took it off my grandmother's body. After smoking for a long time, the wet mother on my grandmother's body still didn't stop, and let my grandmother stand in the yard until dark.

In the late autumn season, there is a large temperature difference between morning and evening, and my grandmother's thin body is shivering with cold, but my mother doesn't speak, and no one dares to care.

One summer, the weather was very hot, and I cried out for my life. There was millet drying in the yard, and my grandmother sat in the yard and watched the grain, dismantling her old clothes, and fell asleep.

At this time, the mother walked out of the door, and when she saw this, she immediately became angry, and without thinking about it, she picked up the scissors on the ground and poked them in the face of her grandmother.

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Before liberation, child daughters-in-law all wrote life and death documents, and their status was low, regardless of life or death.

There was a kind grandmother at home who asked her grandmother to go to the town to see the injury, but Lang Zhong in the town was helpless.

At this critical moment, Langzhong's surgeon's son came back from the city, and the family said that good people have good rewards, and their lives should not be extinguished.

The surgeon prescribed Chinese and Western medicines, cleaned the wound, and applied herbal mashes to the wound.

But after a few days, it was still inflamed, her face was swollen and deformed, and the lymph nodes in her neck were swollen, but my grandmother still survived with tenacious perseverance. However, the swollen lymph nodes left her with fatal injuries later.

In this way, I slowly survived year after year, my grandmother grew to the age of fourteen, and my mother's son grew up, but my mother disliked my grandmother for not having a dowry, so she had the idea of marrying the daughter of a local rich man.

I can't let my grandmother become the daughter-in-law of my own family, so I have to marry off as a daughter, and my mother doesn't want to give a dowry, so a man with a dead wife and a lame leg comes to the door to marry my grandmother.

Hiding from her grandmother, the two hit it off, and her mother asked her to stop doing heavy work, just embroidering and preparing to get married.

The grandmother at home couldn't look at it, and one night the grandmother gave her two silver dollars, two rice balls, and a bamboo tube filled with water for her to run away quickly.