Chapter 2: The Tragic Past
The morning of the incident made Wu Ping's heart like a knife, he couldn't calm down for a long time, the antecedents and ins and outs of the matter surfaced in front of his eyes, the eldest son's move was not a matter of one or two times, but the matter of Xiaojun going to college, although it was not publicized, but the whole village was already known to everyone, and it was impossible to know about the blessing and effect, this was a happy thing, and it should not have happened today. The more you tie it, the more you die, and it's not easy to unravel.
Wu Pingshun has a total of five brothers and sisters, one eldest brother Pingming, two younger sisters Xini and Xiying, the youngest is the third brother Pingchun, 20 years younger than him, his father died in 1972, Pingchun is young, and lives with his mother. The eldest brother Ping Ming is a typical person who has nothing to provoke trouble and steals the music type, because he is the boss of the martial family, his father regards it as the pearl of his palm, and he will be able to support the people of the martial arts family in the future, and try his best to cultivate it, and the family will not let him do it, so that he can study wholeheartedly, and he will be able to make a profit in the future. But the situation is not as expected and imagined by his father, Ping Ming is not attentive to studying, he is full of arrogance, every time he goes home, he is like a guest, he is angry, and he bullies Ping Shun a lot. Later, he dropped out of school, became an accountant in the village, embezzled 300 yuan, and was sentenced to ten years in prison.7 After the events of 13, the state granted amnesty, and after three years in prison, he was released.
Because of Pingming's imprisonment, in that special era, it was a scandal that affected relatives and children and grandchildren, and the family was called "anti-belonging", and the parents, brothers and sisters were too insignificant in the village, and they often walked with their heads down and spoke softly. The village is not allowed to participate in meetings (except for criticism), the second sister cannot join the party, the third brother is not allowed to be a popular soldier, and the father has never been able to raise his head in the village, and has suffered all the cynicism, humiliation and ravage, and finally died of mental depression and stomach cancer. After Pingming was released from prison, he did not learn a lesson, reflected on repentance, and behaved in a down-to-earth manner, still as before, stirring up the east and dividing the west, even his own brothers.
The death of his father gave him the opportunity to support the store alone, first proposed to divide the family property, monopolize the majority of the head, and leave only a little for his mother and third brother, and could not even guarantee a normal livelihood, he was rejected by himself on the spot, and the two fought hard, and finally had a blue nose and swollen face, and bleeding from the head did not succeed; Subsequently, not only did he not ask about the affairs of his mother and third brother, but also spread rumors in advance, and many things were done in a bumpy and rugged situation. Especially the marriage of the third brother, as a family with more influence in the local area for generations, the third brother is white and handsome, which should not be a difficult thing, but due to the influence of his imprisonment and his fan in front of the matchmaker and the woman in advance, the woman refused. Ping Ming gloated about this, and said to everyone, "What ability does Pingshun have, I feel that I can endure a lot all day long, what do I do, what is the daughter-in-law I found for the third child, I really lose the martial artist."
When I was in the agricultural team, due to the large number of children and the high cost, although I often worked overtime to earn work, I still had to pull out money at the end of the year, and my life was very tight. In addition to farming, in order to supplement the family, Wu Pingshun also took Pingchun cautiously, tremblingly, and secretly doing some "speculative" business, seeing some of the market, earning some extra money, and subsidizing a little family. Although some cadres and villagers in the village also know something, because they are peaceful, loyal, honest, upright, and have an extraordinary relationship, they just turn a blind eye and close one eye, and no one is held accountable, and they are still safe.
In the early days of reform and opening up, the brothers did business such as selling timber, livestock, and straw hats, and their lives were getting better day by day, causing Pingming's jealousy and dissatisfaction. In addition to Pingchun's long-term hatred and anger towards Pingming, it is gratitude and dependence on himself, and the relationship between the two has always been very good, and there has never been any dispute or friction. These also aroused the suspicion and dissatisfaction of the eldest son Xiaofu and the second son Xiaotai, who believed that Pingchun played a bad role in the relationship between the father and the children, and he listened to Pingchun as soon as he could, so he tried every means to separate the relationship between the two, so as to achieve the goal that others had opinions on themselves, isolated themselves, and had to act according to their opinions. When there is no other excuse to cause contradictions and conflicts and cause bad effects, the Spring Festival, summer harvest, summer planting, autumn harvest, and autumn planting are the best times to find trouble. They knew in their hearts that they would never let them if they had a dispute with them directly, not to mention that they would be laughed at by the old and young masters of the whole village, so they made themselves angry, they couldn't eat, they couldn't work, they couldn't delay some time, they would spoil some harvests, and they would be powerless and helpless to hand over the farmland to them.
Five years ago during the autumn harvest, the eldest daughter Xiaoyun came to work, and met Xiaofu at the entrance of the village, when the two of them got married because of Xiaoyun, on the issue of their father's dowry, Xiaofu and his daughter-in-law were extremely dissatisfied, and they were extremely dissatisfied, and they made noise in the village for more than ten days, and their father became more and more energetic for this, the more you don't let me do anything, the more I have to do something, and in the end it didn't work, but the father was angry and added an extra 500 yuan to the dowry, for this reason, the two of them had a deep holiday, and Xiaoyun didn't pay attention to Xiaofu.
After the two passed by, Xiaofu spoke angrily: "Hmph, what kind of people are they, two little girls, Xiaomei is more sensible (second daughter), the daughter who goes out, in the busy season, she doesn't work hard at home, she runs blindly, she doesn't do her job, she plants other people's fields and panics about her own land, I really don't know what to do."
Xiaoyun looked at the front and back of no one, he said this, he came at himself, and he also spoke loudly to himself: "The longer people go, the less they look like people, they are not people, but they also want others to be not people, even their parents don't recognize, they don't pity, they don't know what to take care of, they don't know the old and young, they don't know the distance, they don't know the shame, they don't know how to be afraid of other people's jokes, it's really not as good as a child." ”
When Xiaofu heard it, he felt that Xiaoyun's words were thorny, and he came directly at himself, and returned: "I don't want you to, sooner or later, you will feel better, let's see." Xiaoyun's fire also came up, "What's the big deal, see what you can do with me, I'm determined to do the work for my father and mother today, not only do it today, do it tomorrow, continue to do it next year, and do it the year after tomorrow, I'm angry with you." ”
Xiaofu was already blushing and his neck was thick at this time, and he was annoyed and angry, "You girl, you dare to talk back to me, do right for me everywhere, watch me break your leg today!" As he spoke, he picked up the hammer in his hand and hit Xiaoyun's left leg, Xiaoyun saw that things were not good, and dodged sideways, and the hammer smashed to the ground with a click. Due to the force being too strong, the hammer handle was broken, and Xiaofu fell to the ground with a thud.
Coincidentally, the place where the two quarreled was relatively close to the place where Wu Pingshun worked, and when the two were arguing, they basically didn't move in place, Wu Pingshun didn't care at first, and then saw that the two stopped, and the more they argued, the more fierce they became, so they hurried over with a grappling hook, and just in time for Xiaofu to hit people with a hammer, he knocked his buttocks behind Xiaofu with a grappling hook, causing Xiaofu to fall to the ground. Seeing that the situation was not good, Xiaofu hurriedly got up and ran to the side of the road.
Wu Pingshun panted and chased after him, "You don't know how old and young, you have fed you for decades, it's not as good as raising a cat or dog, I have to kill you today, it's a big deal I'll give you your life"
"You know that you will fight this today, tomorrow you will fight that, I don't know how far or near you are, listen to this person today, listen to that person tomorrow, you don't have any opinions, look at what you have become of your family" Xiaofu said as he ran.
"The whole family is in a mess, it's not all caused by you, no one in the whole village knows, you don't have a face at all, what's the use of you" Wu Pingshun became more and more angry the more he said.
Xiaoyun stepped forward quickly and grabbed Wu Pingshun, "Dad, forget it, forget it, don't chase him, dissipate your anger, he's like this, it's useless for you to be angry."
"Such a man would have been buried alive long ago." Wu Pingshun saw that Xiaofu had gone away, so he stopped chasing, stopped, took a breath, calmed down, smoked a cigarette, and went home with his belongings.