Fifty-eight, hard years

This world is like this, there are always people who sit back and enjoy their achievements, there are always people who get something for nothing, and there are always people who have to be wronged and suffer.

Perhaps this is also the cause and effect of the third life, and no one can change anything.

The old lady of a distant relative, Shandan, is called the third aunt and grandmother, who is from a village called Wulan Hudong on the east side of the river, and the next generation is her nephew, who is the second in the family, because the brothers are poor and the eldest has not yet found a daughter-in-law.

The third aunt walked with a pair of little feet twisting and pinching, and her speech was also twisted and hypocritical. praised this posterity called locking up flawlessly, he really looked better than Pan An, he was only eight buckets taller, he wanted to be literate and martial, but his family was poor and he didn't find a suitable daughter-in-law.

After listening to the third aunt's show-off, Tie Dan'er's mother was very tempted, she and Tie Dan'er discussed going to the house to have a look, one to see the people, the other to see the family background, and also to see how to behave in the village.

So, on the tenth day of the lunar month, Tie Dan'er drove a four-wheeled car to take his mother and Erlian to the third aunt's house.

The third aunt and grandmother warmly received Tiedan's mother, and sent the child to inform the lock house, saying that the girl arrived at his aunt's house, and the lock parents sent lock directly to invite.

Locked up at her aunt's house, Tie Dan'er's mother saw a person who was less than five feet tall, whose face was not much whiter than carbon, who was neatly dressed, but who looked so shabby, and who couldn't hear what he was saying in a daze.

The mother and daughter glanced at each other, and they had retreated, and Tie Dan'er also felt that she couldn't get in front of anyone.

But the enthusiasm of the third aunt and grandmother made Tie Dan'er's mother unable to wipe her face, so she had to reluctantly take Erlian and Tie Dan'er to lock up the house and sit.

The home is a mud house for many years, the walls are still paneled walls, the doors and windows are so dark that you can hardly see the outside, and the locked parents are old people with vicissitudes of life, and the house exudes a unique smell of the elderly.

Erlian didn't enter the door, and when she saw the dilapidated yard, she knew that this was a lazy and poor family. She only stood in the doorway and looked at it for a moment, then turned and walked out.

Tie Dan'er's mother is not too ruthless, so she went into the house and sat down slightly, and the brick tea poured was very strong, but Tie Dan'er's mother thought to herself: What year and month is this cup?

She took the water to her mouth and drank it, but the cup was put down without even touching her mouth.

locked up the mother to keep them to cook and eat, but Tie Dan'er's mother insisted on refusing.

A few people walked out with the third aunt and grandmother, locked the mother and came out, pointed to a few rafters in the yard and said to the iron egg mother, as soon as the daughter-in-law said that the daughter-in-law would build a house to lock it, three brick houses, and the materials had been prepared.

Tie Dan'er's mother looked at the crooked rafters in the courtyard, and secretly laughed! These rafters couldn't even build a good sheepfold! There were three brick houses? Was that easy?

She knew exactly what kind of materials and what kind of labor she had spent on the three brick houses she built for Tie Dan'er, and it was not so easy to get her.

Locked up and followed to the third aunt's house, the third aunt said: "The kid is a good boy, but the family is not good." When you go to school until you are in the seventh or eighth grade, you can be regarded as a literate person in the village. The big and small banquets are kept on behalf of the east and the accounts. ”

The third aunt looked at her nephew with admiration and adoration.

Erlian thought to herself: Such a person keeps accounts on behalf of Dong? It can be seen that there are few decent people in this village.

The third aunt and grandmother left Tie Dan'er mother to eat, and Tie Dan'er's mother said: "The New Year is approaching, come back another day, let's go back first." It's not good for the car to catch fire when it's late. Let's go back and discuss it with our family, and tell us to lock up the letter. ”

The three of them returned before noon, laughing all the way.

"Lock Mom's gown, the front of the gown is so oily, maybe I haven't been in the water for a few years!" Erlian said with a smile.

"I haven't taken it off again since I saw that I put it on, and I have been in the water?" Tie Dan'er responded.

Tie Dan'er's mother said: "I don't think that the third aunt and grandmother are so unreliable, and they talk nonsense, I think it's really good." It turned out that no one asked for money and no money! It was a day of delay in vain, which consumed fuel and made the fire hot. ”

"And we said that we would build three brick houses! Those rafters can't even cover our sheepfold!" Tie Dan'er continued to say as he drove.

Erlian said: "Next time, ask clearly and look again, and delay the work!"

Look at the arrival of the New Year, and the matter of finding a blind date will be put aside. But Tie Dan'er's mother thinks about what to do with Shandan's tuition day and night?

Shandan herself is also worried, although she does not have to pay the tuition fee at the beginning of the semester, and she has already paid the tuition fee for one year last semester, but how to solve the living expenses? She decided to go back to school earlier to find something to do to earn some living expenses.

After the Chinese New Year, when everyone was still immersed in the leisure and joy of the New Year, Shandan and his mother discussed that she would embark on the road back to school on the eighth day of the first lunar month, and she would go back to school early to find a place to work and earn the expenses of the next semester.

When Shandan spoke his mind, the family had just woken up. While her mother was tidying up the bedding, she lowered her head and endured her grief, Shandan could see her mother's reluctance, but she also knew her mother's powerlessness.

The father crouched on the ground and rejected Shandan's idea in one gulp.

The mother looked at her father and said, "Tell me what to do?" Shandan was sad to add such a burden to his parents.

Faced with the contempt and anger of Shandan's mother, the father lowered his head. What can he do to get the money?

Fortunately, this year's harvest is good, so I will pay off my debts, so I don't have to worry about three meals a day.

Father's eyes suddenly lit up: "Tie Dan'er and I went to the back mountain to hunt a fox, and Shandan took fox skins to sell, and it is estimated that the living expenses for one semester are enough." ”

The mother looked at him with an expression that seemed to be excited and did not speak.

She also understands that this weak man actually has a kind and loving heart. She also knew that he was reluctant to suffer his daughter, Da Zhengyue.

Shandan knew that his father's health was just better, and his skinny body couldn't stand the cold. If her father was sick again for the sake of her living expenses, how would she deal with it? She would rather suffer herself than let her sick father work harder.

Tie Dan'er looked at everyone's sad faces and said, "Let's think of a way first, the restaurants in the New Year are all open, where do you go to work to make money? Besides, how can we rest assured that you go alone during the school holidays?"

Shandan looked at her brother's young face full of vicissitudes of life, and it was difficult for her to make up her mind to return to school, and it was difficult to find a place to work at this time. And during the school holidays, the heating in the dormitory was stopped, and it was hard to live in an ice cellar every day when I went back to school. She kept her head down and didn't say a word - she was saddened by the burden she had placed on her family.

She also secretly made up her mind that when she had a chance, she would let the family live a good life and never break her promise!

Tie Dan'er thought for a while and said, "I heard that my third uncle's house has a pair of big cymbals, which can clamp hares and foxes, I will borrow them to see if I can clamp a fox on this snowy day?"

Saying that, Tie Dan'er went out, and before he had time to eat breakfast, he had to go to his grandmother's house on the beach to find the third uncle to borrow a cymbal.

Tie Dan'er's mother has always thought that fighting is a lack of morality, and animals are also a life, so how can people take their lives casually? So every winter, almost every family will hunt rabbits, roe deer, pheasants, foxes or something, but Tie Dan'er's family has never beaten them.

Now for Shandan's living expenses, Tie Dan'er's mother did not stop Tie Dan'er.

Tie Dan'er's mother shouted Tie Dan'er: "Come back, how can anyone leave relatives without eating in the New Year?" I will cook dumplings immediately, and I will go after eating." I'm going to get some food and drink for your grandmother. How can you go empty-handed when you go out in the New Year?"

Tie Dan'er, who had walked to the middle of the courtyard, turned around and sat on the edge of the kang.

Tie Dan'er's mother hurriedly took out the ashes, made fire, and boiled water.

There is no other food pattern in the first month of the Mongolian plateau, every morning is to cook dumplings, whether you are dumplings with meat filling or dumplings with whole vegetable filling, with a bag of dough, every household is dumplings, until the fifteenth day of the first month.

Tie Dan'er's mother has always been diligent and thrifty, and every year during the Chinese New Year, she only eats a meal of clean meat stuffed dumplings on the first day of the first month, and there are more vegetables than meat on other days.

When Shandan was a child, she was greedy when she watched people eat big fish and meat, but she never asked for anything. She was born to understand her mother's hardships, and she has a lofty ideal to repay her parents' kindness.

The dumplings were wrapped the night before, and after boiling water, Tie Dan'er's mother first laid a plate of dumplings for Tie Dan'er to eat, and when Fan'e and her grandson Xiaoyu got up, the family had breakfast again.

Tie Dan'er put down the bowl and rode a bicycle to his grandmother's house to borrow a cymbal, and came back after a while.

A one-foot-wide semicircle made of iron bars with two halves of a cymbal, in the middle is a mechanism, open the two semicircles, put a piece of meat on it, bury it in the soil, there are wild things smelling the smell of meat, they will dig the soil and eat meat, and they will be caught by the two cymbals and halves and can't run.

Tie Dan'er was going to bury the cymbal near the fox hole in the back mountain, and Shandan followed, she watched her brother throw the snow off the ground, dig up the soil with a shovel, and put the cymbal away. He sprinkled the earth and snow again and faked it, and then went home and waited.

The next day, Tie Dan'er got up early in the morning, and before Shandan got up, he heard the excited voice in Tie Dan'er's courtyard: "Come and see! The fiery fox! It's so big! It's still hot!"