Volume 4 Secret Marriage and Remarriage (1)
Twenty-seven years ago, Youshui Village was not what it is now.
It was 1987, and the reform and opening up had already begun, but it was only in some large coastal cities, such as Youshui Village, that isolated mountain villages were still living the old days of slash-and-burn farming.
"Mother, I'll go to the mountains to pick herbs!" Ah Fang carried the small basket commonly used by mountain people for collecting medicine and chopping wood, and walked towards the courtyard in the sun.
"Ah Fang, you are not allowed to go anywhere!" a middle-aged woman in her fifties chased after her, and the anger on her face was obvious.
"Mother, the herbs at home are almost used, and Grandma Li next door needs to use them for rheumatism!" Ah Fang stomped his feet depressedly, the vicissitudes of life peculiar to mountain people came too anxiously on his face, even though he was only twenty-five or sixteen years old. As soon as he frowned, the sense of vicissitudes became stronger, and with his not very good-looking, even some ugly facial features, it made him look a little hideous and terrifying.
"I can't go if I can't go, you keep me at home honestly!Don't think about going out to find that dead girl!" The old woman pointed at Ah Fang categorically, eager to eat this light and heavy thing.
"Mother, what do you say? Who am I going to look for, I! Grandma Li's medicine is not much left, and if she doesn't collect medicine, Grandma Li ...... "Ah Fang is dying, holding back all day and not going out, how many people can stand it in that era, there were no computers, no televisions, no mobile phones, and even no electricity."
"You don't have to go!" the old woman was already angry, she would rather have no herbs at home, and no longer let her son go out and fool around with the girl. That girl is definitely not a good person, at least not a chaste martyr. The old woman had planted on her son Ah Fang, a symbol similar to a woman's palace sand to test chastity, and not long ago, this symbol disappeared, which meant that her son Ah Fang was no longer a virgin^man. The old woman inquired and observed behind her back, and then learned that her son Ah Fang had recently become very close to a young girl named Luo Miao in the village.
"Naturally, I'll let someone collect the medicine, and you will stay at home for me!" the old woman snorted coldly and went back to the hall.
Ah Fang didn't have a key, so he could only stand dry in the yard, the spring sun was not too strong, and he felt very warm and comfortable after standing for a long time.
Ah Fang reluctantly removed the small basket on his back, dragged a small bench and sat in the middle of the courtyard. Ah Fang was still sulking, the old woman had not let him go out for several days, he did miss Luo Miao, but he couldn't admit it, he was afraid that he would harm Luo Miao. After all, in this kind of closed village, a private life is equivalent to a pair of adulterers**** Even if you don't need to dip in the pig cage, you will be pointed out by thousands of people and live a miserable life. But he Ah Fang is already twenty-five years old, and his old mother, the old woman who is about fifty years old just now, still does not allow him to marry a wife, I really don't know what this old lady is thinking in her head.
The old woman was sitting in the hall, and saw her son Ah Fang sitting depressedly in the courtyard through the crack in the window, she sighed softly, and said in her heart, Ah Fang, how can there be a mother who doesn't want her son to start a family as soon as possible, but you are destined to never get close to a woman before the age of twenty-six, otherwise......
"Alas......" the old woman sighed softly again, whether the son could understand it or not, as long as he could keep his life, it was more important than anything else. However, this destiny is already predestined, and if we forcibly break the rules of heaven and change our destiny against the sky, will we really succeed? Will there be any side effects?
The old woman did not dare to think about it, she had tried to think about it countless times but did not dare to touch it, for fear that if she thought about it, she would lose even the little courage that came from her mother's love.
"Aunt He, someone from Zhangjia Village on the other side of the mountain is here, saying that she wants you to show it!"
The courtyard door was knocked on the ground "dong dong", and the sound outside the door was the famous "little trumpet" in the village who loved to join in the fun.
"Oh, here we are!" replied the old woman, and got up neatly to meet her.
The old woman's mother-in-law's surname is He, and the "He" of "He Harmony" is the same "He" word, in the mountain village, the chicken marries the chicken and the dog follows the dog, and after marrying the He family, the old woman forgot her real surname, and followed her husband with the surname He. Because her husband had a high prestige in the village during his lifetime, and the old woman would have good medical skills, and she could also divinate and watch incense and feng shui, so the people in the village used to call her "Aunt He", not because she was old, but because everyone was more or less in awe of her.
At that time, the information was very closed, things were not circulating, and the medical conditions were also very poor. When ordinary village doctors can't make do with it, this Aunt He comes in handy, in popular terms, Aunt He is the kind of Tulangzhong who specializes in treating incurable diseases.
When Aunt He passed by Ah Fang, she glared at him fiercely, Ah Fang did something that he shouldn't have done behind his back, so he was a little weak-hearted, and was glared at by Aunt He, muttered dissatisfiedly and turned his back, and continued to sulk at him.
"Wow! Squeak ......"
Aunt He took out the key from her trouser pocket, unlocked the door, opened the old and dull wooden door, and squinted to look outside.
"Aunt He, this is a girl from Zhangjia Village, come to see your mother!" The one who spoke was the famous "little trumpet" in the village, a hairy boy of eighteen or nineteen years old, he was interested in the gossip of the entire Youshui Village and even the eight towns of ten miles and eight towns, and when it came to the trivial matters of the east and west families, there was nothing he didn't know. Putting it aside until now, if this kid is an entertainer, he can do it well.
Mrs. He crossed the head of the "little trumpet" and looked behind her.
Behind the "little trumpet", there was a pale little girl, about eighteen ~ nineteen years old, Wen Wen quietly hung her head in the back, looking weak and docile, from time to time with her spare eyes to look at Aunt He, she was very timid and nervous.
Aunt He nodded, she had a good impression of this little girl's face, however, Aunt He also saw that this girl's life was not very good.
Aunt He sighed, planning to let this girl go into the courtyard first. As soon as Aunt He flashed, the "little trumpet" came in first, and he saw Ah Fang, who was sitting in the middle of the courtyard with his back and silent, and asked with a smile: "Brother Ah Fang, what are you doing here? Why don't you go out to play?"
Ah Fangzheng was angry, and when he heard the sound of a "little trumpet", he turned around and said, "No way, don't let you out!"
"Little Trumpet" stepped forward a few steps and talked nonsense with Ah Fang. Aunt He shook her head, and then looked back at the girl outside the door, but she was greatly surprised. Unexpectedly, this girl seems to be weak, but in fact she is also a strong little girl, standing outside the door, she still looks so cowardly, but it makes Aunt He look at her with admiration.
I saw that this girl's body, from the shoulders to the waist, tied a few thick hemp ropes horizontally and vertically, and the hemp rope was wrapped in several layers of rags, in order to prevent the hemp rope from roughening and damaging the body.
"Girl, did you pull this?" Aunt He's lips twitched, in disbelief.
The little girl nodded shyly and replied with a "hmm".
Aunt He burst into tears in an instant, turned around and said angrily: "Little trumpet, little trumpet, you said that you are a young man, and it is just outside the village, how can you enter the village and let the girl pull the car by herself? Look at her little body! Look at your ...... again."
Aunt He hated the cheeky "little trumpet" and ran over distressed to help the girl untie the rope.
was muttered by Aunt He, "Little Trumpet" rubbed his head embarrassedly, said goodbye to Ah Fang with interest, and made a face with Aunt He, and cleverly slipped away from the crack in the door.
Ah Fang lost a chat partner, and heard his mother chattering outside the door, so he couldn't help but stand up and come to the door to watch the excitement.
"Ho!" This look didn't matter, Ah Fangzhi felt that his internal organs were as comfortable as a spring breeze.
The girl standing outside the door, how can she look so good-looking, the skin is so fair and watery that she doesn't look like a mortal, as the saying goes, a white covers a hundred ugliness, and this layer of white alone is what those girls who are exposed to the wind and sun all day long in the big mountain nest do not have......
"Mother, mother, I'll come, I'll come!" Ah Fang immediately became diligent, even when his own mother was sick, he had never been so diligent.
Ah Fang rushed to the front of the girl outside the door, pulled off the lasso on the girl's body a few times, and put the ground row car on his body. Ah Fang's overly enthusiastic close contact made the girl blush, and she dodged to the side, burying her face even lower.
Aunt He gave Ah Fang a few blank eyes, but the kid pretended not to see it, and happily pulled the car into the row.
The girl stood there and didn't dare to move, just secretly looked at Aunt He.
"Okay girl, come in, see your mother first, and then I'll arrange a place for you to stay." Aunt He was reluctant to give up this girl, but she was afraid that Ah Fang's kid would do something out of the ordinary, so she had an idea at that time, first to see what the problem of this girl's mother was, and then let this girl go to the village chief's house to live, far away, she would rather trouble herself than have problems with her son Ah Fang.
The girl got Mrs. He's answer, and her face finally got better, these ten miles and eight villages all know, there is no disease that Mrs. He can't cure, as long as Mrs. He says that she can accept it, this matter will not be far from ten.
"Ah Fang, carry the person to the east guest room!" Mrs. He pointed to the old woman lying on the car.
Ah Fang responded simply, no matter how dirty and smelly the old woman was, she carried it on her body and went to the east house.
"Big brother, slow down!" The girl was afraid that Ah Fang would hurt her mother rudely, so she hurriedly stepped forward to help.
Several people put the girl's mother on the bed and lay down, settled her, covered the quilt, and the girl looked at Aunt He with a hopeful face.
Aunt He knew that she was worried that her mother wanted her to heal her as soon as possible, so she also sat on the edge of the bed, put one hand on the girl's mother's pulse, and secretly opened the eyes of heaven and looked at the middle-aged woman lying on the bed with spiritual power.
After a while, Aunt He withdrew her hand and asked the girl, "What are the symptoms of your mother?
The girl frowned slightly, and replied seriously: "My mother goes crazy every day in the middle of the night, sits in the house and cries and makes trouble, and doesn't go out, just crying, and no one shouts and ignores it, so it will take a month......"
As she spoke, the girl couldn't help crying, and the sound of crying made Ah Fang feel distressed for a while, this girl cried pear blossoms with rain and looked very good, more than 10,000 times better than the so-called "village flower" Luo Miao in the village!
"Okay, okay, don't cry yet, I haven't finished asking yet!" Aunt He was also helpless, eight out of ten people who came to her to see a doctor were crying, and those who didn't know thought that her yard was a righteous village (that is, a morgue).
"That'...... Then you can continue to ask......" The girl couldn't help but cry, and looked at Aunt He with tears in her eyes.
"When she cries, can she hear others, or can't she hear them?"
"I can't hear it, I sit on the edge of the bed and cry, it's useless for anyone to call her. ”
"Do you have a fever?"
"Fever, when I cry at night. ”
"Have you taken her to the doctor?"
"I went, and there were those who said that they were evil, those who said they were scared, and those who said that they were in a hurry, but none of them could be optimistic. ”
"You should have come earlier!" Aunt He finished asking and got up from the edge of the bed.
The girl was stunned, so frightened that she knelt on the ground, howled and cried, grabbed Aunt He's trouser leg and begged: "Auntie, please save my mother......! Died early...... It's just me and my mother...... I can't live without her...... Please...... You can do whatever you want me to do...... Save my mother......"
The doctor is benevolent, this girl cried a handful of snot and tears, how could Aunt He not be moved in her heart, she quickly picked up the girl who was kneeling on the ground, and said with a ashamed face: "Oh, it's all because I didn't make it clear, I mean, it's you who came late, and you would have been cured early! Oh, get up quickly, girl!"
The girl was stunned, and when she reacted to what Aunt He said, she immediately broke into tears and stood up with laughter, like a chicken pecking rice, bowing and thanking.
"Okay, okay, girl, you're tired, go to the west guest room to rest, you can rest assured that your mother is here!" Aunt He smiled, took the girl's hand, and pulled her out, the girl put her mind at ease, and felt very warm when she was held in the palm of her hand by Aunt He.
Ah Fang closed the door of the east house and followed behind Aunt He and the girl, how happy he was.