Yue Qiangyun's father sells baked cakes. In the famine year, he fled to ask for food, carrying a pair of flat burdens, the front basket was loaded with Yue Qiangyun, and the back basket was loaded with Yue Qiangyun's two sisters, begging for food and drink, and dragging the family to the city.

The city was full of dirt roads built high up, and the slopes were covered with pigs' seedlings, marantou, and dandelions......

After Yue Qiangyun and his father entered the city, he built a thatched hut and settled the family. There is a stove at the door of the house, and the cakes are baked and sold every day. The baking oven has become the food and clothing of the whole family.

Yue Qiangyun is the only son in the family, although his parents stepped up production and worked hard after giving birth to him, they gave birth to all daughters, and never gave birth to a second son.

His father died young. Yue Qiangyun took over the baked cake stove and shouldered the heavy responsibility of supporting his family. Get up early every day and be greedy for darkness, knead dough, cut green onions, fry sesame seeds, and collapse baked cakes.

He didn't have time to study and dropped out of school early. Although there is little ink in the stomach, the self-esteem is high. Sometimes I get up early to make baked cakes, and I often stand at the door of the thatched hut and look up at the deep night sky, my eyes are full of stars, and the chickens are crowing, and I often can't help but ask the sky: "Could it be that the green smoke coming out of the ancestral grave of my old Yue's family is all circles?" Round pancakes? ”

Although God was speechless, he made Yue Qiang Yunsheng send out the pride and ambition of "there will be a time when the wind and waves will be long, and the clouds and sails will help the sea". At first, he despised the neighbors around him who sharpened scissors and kitchen knives and sold tofu to pull big carts, and then hated his own baked cake stove. Finally one day, he ran away from home. The family lost its breadwinner, and the baking stove was taken over by his sister.

After a lot of wandering, he made some money and came back. The family felt that his money was coming from an unknown source. He declared that he had not stolen, robbed, or committed anything illegal. The younger sisters were given to their in-laws at a young age, and he took his wife alone.

In those days, there were no self-employed people, and doing business was called speculation and taking the capitalist road. Yue Qiangyun's neighbor didn't sharpen his scissors and kitchen knives when he was young, and sold tofu to pull the cart. The government arranged jobs and became employees of the unit. The aunts and aunts of the neighborhood committee visited Yue's house again and again, and they wanted to arrange work for Yue Qiangyun. Although Yue Qiangyun has no ink on his chest, there is a sound when he swayes, and he doesn't know where he learned the famous sentence of Wen Crepe: "Filth is out of Qinglian, and the thatched house is famous", compared to Zhuge Liang, the score is bigger than Kong Ming, and he resolutely refuses to go out of the mountain, wants to be the prime minister of his own thatched house, and refuses to accept the job bowl given by the Communist Party. Although he hated selling flatbread, he admired merchants in his bones. I feel that the Chinese taxis, farmers, industrialists, and merchants are misplaced, there are no merchants circulating, and workers use weaving cloth for fart! There are no merchants, the rice grown by the peasants can only be fed to the pigs, everyone lacks food and clothing, and the taxi is just a pile of waste. The correct ranking should be business, agriculture, industry, and scholars.

After that, the city gained scale, and dirt roads became roads. Vast expanses of farmland under dirt roads have been built with high-rise buildings. Yue Qiangyun's thatched hut is located in the center of the city, and he lives in a prime location in the city, like Beijingers living in Wangfujing and Shanghainese living in Nanjing Road.

Yue Qiangyun took the money he earned, demolished the thatched hut and built a tiled house, a two-story building, opened a grocery store at the bottom, and lived with his wife on the second floor.

Yue Qiangyun has a good life, and it is better than that of his neighbors. Some of them were arranged to go to the barber shop to shave their heads, some went into the bathhouse to rub their backs and pedicures, and some went to the veterinary station to breed animals, all of which became the lower ninth rate in Yue Qiangyun's eyes. They pay him a few small sums of money every month, and they don't see him. He compares himself to a noble lord from a famous family, has a unique vision, forgets his ancestors, and forgets how he entered the city through the basket.

Yue Qiangyun combed his big back every day, rubbed the thick Vaseline, the flies flew up and couldn't stop, sitting behind the counter, looking at the beauties coming and going on the street.

As he grew older, there was a problem that bothered him more and more, like a moat blocking the way, he was poor in water and could not swim into the besieged city. Although he often comforts himself with the knowledge he sees, he does not know which book he sees: "A happy life must be mediocre, and a great life must be painful." "The days are still going downhill, and it is three or nine days of ice and snow and frost - one layer is colder than the other.

Yue Qiangyun's image can be taken and brought out. Rhinoplasty with big eyes, tall body and straight strokes, elegant appearance, and gentlemanly demeanor, make up for the lack of inventory in his stomach. It was the little clay figure that Nuwa personally kneaded with her hands, not that Nuwa was annoyed by pinching the clay figure, and the mud ideas sprinkled everywhere with a mud brush became ugly. However, he was thirty years old and had not yet started a family. He was very faceless in front of his peers. Most of them are already fathers of children. In order to prove that he did not lose at the starting line, he often wrote, directed, and acted by himself, saying that there is a woman dating today, and a woman asking him to drink tea tomorrow, none of which he can see. Many years later, Yue Qiangyun's daughter will play soy sauce, he watched a Hong Kong movie, in which two stupid geese shook their heads and sang: "No son and grandson!" Wang Liben. What's out, stand at thirty, stand at thirty, and stand at thirty, no topic! He was also shocked into a cold sweat, recalling that he was thirty and couldn't stand up.

It's not that he doesn't want women, it's that women don't want him. Yue Qiangyun's mother saw that everyone who wore open crotch pants with her son had children and daughters. The little six sons who sell roasted sweet potatoes next door went into the veterinary station after the oven went out, and they were busy breeding animals during working hours, and they were busy planting their own seeds after work. Not only did a wife give birth to children at home for his rotten yam that looked like he couldn't sell back then, but also had confidantes who accompanied him to watch movies after work, and casually found a place to have a tryst and plant. Mrs. Yue was envious and jealous, and she hated to beg him to find a woman to be his son's wife.

Mrs. Yue was so anxious that she couldn't sleep at night, and she was going to get schizophrenia. The son is the only seedling of the Yue family, and he shoulders the heavy responsibility of passing on the torch. The son can't get a wife, and the incense of the Yue family is about to be broken. Mrs. Yue is like Mother Jia in the Grand View Garden, with an order, she ordered all the girls to go home, gave a rigid task, and all of them went out to protect her brother and pull fiber, and strive to take off her brother's old virgin hat as soon as possible.

Yue Qiangyun is not meticulous, and he will eventually accumulate great virtue.

I want to refuse to participate in the work at the beginning, but now the women who have jobs are very proud, and their heads are like penguins. If you don't have a job, you don't have public medical care, what should I do if I get sick? If you don't have a job, you can't retire, so what do you rely on to provide for the elderly? It was as if Yue Qiangyun had been suffering from disasters all his life, and he was about to grow old soon.

Yue Qiangyun's sisters spent a lot of money, bought generous gifts, and invited the well-known matchmaker. The matchmaker has the ability, and Yue Qiangyun finally ushered in the peach blossom luck, and they frequently kissed each other. The woman is not young, and her courtship is also very urgent, so is what the matchmaker said.

The first blind date was an hour later than Yue Qiangyun. The lady's face was like a full moon, her face was freckled, and she looked like she had been hit by a steel ball shotgun. Yue Qiangyun felt that he was facing a piece of sesame baked cake that he had baked for many years. The lady of the baked cake has Lin Daiyufan, and her hands are not holding it, and the ceramic cup in the antique tea house seems to be slipping from between the fat hands. Talking like a pepper noodle with a strong luck:

"I heard that the conditions of men in the city are poor, and they can't find a wife, so they are looking for a country woman who has no job, where will there be a woman in the city who has a job and a man who has no job?"

Yue Qiangyun originally wanted to accept the lady of the baked cake, and comforted himself with the ancients, he heard that Zhuge Liang also married an ugly wife. Listening to her tone, even if she is willing to compromise and seek perfection, she may not be willing to wronged herself for perfection, so she asked curiously:

"You know I'm a vagrant, so why waste your precious time running to see me?"

The lady said, "I'm full." ”

Yue Qiangyun felt that the matchmaker was not arranging a blind date, but simply letting him act in a farce.

The second lady couldn't see her true face clearly, and wiped a lot on her face. Yue Qiangyun joked with her: "You seem to be a famous painting I have seen." ”

The famous painting felt that Yue Qiangyun treated her as a Mona Lisa, and said modestly:

"Am I that beautiful?"

"Yes, it's just too much paint."

The two had lunch and dinner, after which they watched a movie. In the black light, the famous painter inserted his hand into Yue Qiangyun's crotch. How can a man sneak attack, he will kill his grandfather! Yue Qiangyun screamed hysterically, and there was a "boo" around him. On that day, it was a foreign film, there was a kiss scene, and the famous painting touched the scene, without Yue Qiangyun's consent, the red blood basin gnawed on Yue Qiangyun's cheeks. Yue Qiangyun fled from the theater in a panic, and his men subconsciously protected his crotch. He concluded that this woman was not an idle person, although the brothel had not yet opened, Yue Qiangyun guessed that she might be a secret prostitute, and she had no brains, so she would definitely not be able to touch it. Listen to her full of nonsense: "If you marry someone, you have to marry Zhu Bajie, and if you kill and cook and eat in a famine year, you can save the life of the old lady." ”

Yue Qiangyun guessed that she wanted to marry Tang Seng more, and she wouldn't die if she ate her husband. He couldn't figure out where the matchmaker had found this goblin? What is it in "Journey to the West"?

Let Yue Qiangyun go on a blind date again, he kowtowed and refused the good intentions. How can the old lady force each other to die, Yue Qiangyun is a filial son, how dare he take the old lady's life? Bite the bullet and go up again.

The third blind date finally weighed Yue Qiang's luck. The meeting place is at the house of the matchmaker. When Yue Qiang arrived, the woman was already sitting on the seat facing the door. What Yue Qiangyun saw was her side, the left side of her face; The nose is very straight, the eyes are pure, the complexion is like jade, and the hanging heart falls to the ground. My Fair Lady, the gentleman is good, you have to marry her home quickly, I wonder if the beauty agrees?

Changing positions at dinner, Yue Qiangyun was so frightened that his butt rose from his seat. The woman had a yin and yang face, an angel from the left, and a devil from the right. The entire right half of the face is sauce-colored, and several slices of meat are turned up, like braised pig's trotters. I don't know if it has been splashed with sulfuric acid or burned by fire.

Yue Qiangyun has a story about the yin and yang faces. Although he was suspicious, he was very sympathetic in his heart. It is a man's nature to pity the fragrance and cherish the jade. Yue Qiangyun guessed that the person she talked about was a thug. She asked to break up, and the thug laid down on her façade!

Say goodbye to the matchmaker, and the two wander on the road. The breeze is blowing, and the night is filled with the scent of unknown flowers. The woman didn't say much, she was all in response, not "Lord is dead!" It's just "I'm on!" Yue Qiangyun was half-hung and couldn't understand the unfathomable profundity of the woman's conversation, and he was embarrassed to break the sand pot and ask the end, and after breaking up, he turned back to the matchmaker's house. Seeing that Yue Qiangyun was like a fool, Qiu Qiangyun smiled and bent over, and pointed out that Yue Qiangyun's woman was studying English in her spare time, and her "grandpa died" and "I opened" were not her grandfather dead, nor that she was very happy, but the meaning of "good" in foreign language.