Chapter VIII
Tian Chengfu exhausted his efforts in the years of giving birth to babies and raising babies, so the already poor jingle family is now poor. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
But no matter how poor you are, you have to live a good life.
The family's one-acre and three-point land, in the year when the mute daughter-in-law entered the door, Tian Chengfu also cultivated, but after burying two children on that land one after another, he never planted it. In the years when Tian Donkey had not yet come to the world, the weeds on the Tian family's land were still the same as the stubble on Tian Chengfu's haggard old face, popping up season after season, and Tian Chengfu, who was limping, was never a good farmer.
But a man cannot be idle with his mouth, nor can he have an empty stomach.
Finally, Tian Chengfu thought about it and found a way to live. At the beginning, it was borrowed, in order to let the dumb man raise his body and continue to give birth to a baby, every household in the village was borrowed by him with a shy old face, and then he really couldn't borrow it after he went outside to borrow, in fact, out of the village, the neighborhood of eight villages, Tian Chengfu couldn't borrow a son, so, after leaving the village, Tian Chengfu began to beg. In Tian Chengfu's view, the Laoshzi who wants to eat in a person is the mouth, and the demand on the mouth is filled by the mouth itself, so it is not an embarrassing thing to open your mouth to beg your grandfather to sue your grandmother for food, at least it is much more noble than those robbers who rob homes and houses, kill people and rob money! But, after all, Tian Chengfu also has a human face, and he can pull down his face to beg outside the village, but in the village, he still has to lie with face, never sell a begging life, and he doesn't want the people in the village to look down on him again, let alone let Tian Donkey be detained as a little Hanako, so he cleverly said that the begging things were borrowed.
In this way, begging for a living every year, it is also difficult to maintain the poor life of a family of three. Tian Chengfu also squatted on the mound outside the courtyard and looked forward to the future, that is, as long as there are people living in the three mountains and five mountains around this grange, then he can continue to beg and live this undignified life. Moreover, people are born, children and grandchildren are born, and those children and grandchildren who are not related to Tian Chengfu and have no reason to do so have become Tian Chengfu's sons, and they will support Tian Chengfu together over and over again! Looking at this grange and the villagers in the grange who only know how to dig grain from the soil, who can come up with such a brilliant idea? Only if he is rich and smart, he will recite such a life scripture and enter this profitable life door!
But on the other side of the door of life, no one knows where it leads.
When God ended Tian Chengfu's life, it was when Tian Donkey was sixteen years old. In the winter of that year, in Tian Donkey's memory, it was dripping into ice and extremely cold weather. At that time, Tian Donkey, who was in the rebellious period of youth, looked down on his father very much, and had been working as a helper in the house of a person who built a new house in the west of the village for more than half a month, and he was reluctant to go home. And Tian Chengfu and the mute, who came back from begging from other places, wanted to see their son, so they instructed the mute to bring Tian Donkey back from the family, but as soon as they entered the house, the father and son quarreled.
Tian Donkey scolded his father when he opened his mouth.
"Why is our family so poor?"
In Tian Chengfu's view, the wealth and poverty of life, the level and hierarchy of society, just like the black holes and galaxies of the universe, are all philosophical problems, and he has never understood or thought about them for most of his life. At this moment, Tian Chengfu didn't expect his son to ask such an esoteric philosophical question, so he was stunned for a moment, but he was also relieved, because his son was better than Lao Tzu! At least, he has begun to be dissatisfied with his current life, and has begun to dislike his poverty, so he will definitely be motivated in the future in order to no longer be poor, will work hard, and will live a prosperous life for the Lao Tian family, so, thinking of this, Tian Chengfu couldn't help but smile and replied easily.
"In this world, if there are rich people, there will be poor people, and if there are no poor people, where will the rich people come from? Moreover, why God makes some people rich and some people poor, I'm afraid only God knows, so why God makes our family poor, I can't say, if you want to ask, you can ask God."
Hearing that his father blamed God for the source of poverty, Tian Donkey was angry, and silently cursed fate in his heart, why did he let himself be such an incompetent and useless father? I don't even dare to admit the fact that I live a poor life because I don't live well, so I am even more depressed and angry, and my father's guilt is not only this, but also irresponsible to myself! Obviously, the three boys who are the same age as themselves in the same village have all gone to study, and only they are in the village to work part-time jobs to earn food, so when he thinks of this, Tian Donkey is even more angry with his father, and he once again stares at the two bulls' eyes and asks his father with his neck.
"Then why don't you let me go to school?"
Hearing his son's strong questioning, Tian Chengfu sighed deeply and replied with emotion.
"Donkey, our Lao Tian family, it's not that the fight was rough from the beginning, your grandfather is a showman, and he has benefited the people for the official side, you and I are also half a showman, and I also studied in private school when I was a child, but is it useful? It's not that the Tian family is almost gone! This has little to do with how much you study, so I didn't want you to go to school to read and write, but to work in the fields, so that you can learn to farm and do farm work a day earlier, and also exercise and exercise. You must know that those of us who rely on the sky to eat, as long as we have the strength, we can live a good life, and we can also make the incense at home too prosperous, and I also know that you will not die of hunger in this world, even if you die sooner or later, you can be blind. Besides, can reading and literacy be used as food? Look at this grange, illiterate people still live well, so why do you have to study? ”
In the face of his father's crooked reasoning, Tian Donkey, who was not deeply involved in the world, had no way to refute it, but without waiting for his father to finish speaking, he kicked half of the wooden stick under his feet and went into the house angrily.
And what made Tian Donkey regret and regret the most was this quarrel with his father, because that winter, his father and his mute mother went out to work for a short time and never came back.
Although Tian Chengfu, who loves his son, carefully uses his own lies to protect Tian Donkey's stubborn and self-respecting young heart, so he has always said that going out to beg is a short-term job, but Tian Donkey has long known the fact that his parents are old Huazi who lives by begging all year round from the whispers of the people in the good village, but he is more ashamed to say this fact than others, and he is also afraid to reveal this cruel truth in person, and seems to be more willing than his father to maintain the lie or directly regard the lie as the truth. If blood affection will have empathy, then he is very much like his father in lies.
Tian Chengfu and the dumb man will never come back, the people of the grange agreed that it was the two of them who died outside, but Tian Donkey didn't believe it, he didn't want to believe it, because he didn't want to become the male head of this poor family too early, so in his heart, he hoped that his father and mother were still alive. However, time is more cruel than life, and waiting day after day is as calm and desperate as a stone sinking into the sea. Finally, Tian Donkey acquiesced, at least, he was unwilling to wait any longer, and in the days to come, he would live alone.
But how do you live your life? At his age, in fact, he won't live at all, but the young and vigorous Tian Donkey swore in his heart that no matter what happens in the future, he will be better than his father! He must live like a person, at least not be looked down upon by the people in the village like his father! Then, he planted the abandoned field at home and lived a good life. However, capital is also needed to live, a person with empty hands and an empty mouth is not able to live, at least, if you want to plant the land this year, at least you need a hoe? Heads and rakes also need fertilizers, pesticides and seeds, and these, he does not have. So, he's going to earn, to the big world outside the Grange to earn! He believes that as long as he goes out, he will definitely be able to earn the cost of living a good life.
After looking forward to a better life in the future, Tian Donkey plans to leave home. Tian Donkey originally wanted to dig two graves for his parents before leaving, but he felt unlucky, as if as long as the grave was erected, people would definitely die, so he was unwilling, in a corner of his heart, he still stubbornly believed that they were still alive, although he never saw his parents again for the rest of his life. Tian Donkey went out to work, and there was no money for travel expenses. As the saying goes, "a thousand days at home is good, and everything is difficult to go out", although it is a poor home that is about to stay in, but at least you don't spend money to sleep at home, but if you go out, no money is equal to no road under your feet, so Tian Donkey also learned the ancestral secret book of their Tian family - borrowing money. However, Tian Donkey borrowed all over the Grange and did not borrow a penny, so he thought of the family that had been helping him recently, and he hoped to borrow money from that family.
However, when he stepped into the door of the family with his front foot, the pock-faced woman of the family began to point at Sang and scold Huai, pointing to the pig in the yard and scolding it for only eating and not working, which means that Tian Donkey could only eat and not work in their house. On the other hand, the man in charge of the family said to Tian Donkey with a cold face that the wages of the previous helpers were offset by the money that his son Tian Chengfu borrowed from their family more than ten years ago in order to give birth to Tian Donkey, even if there was a surplus, it was also interest, so he didn't give Tian Donkey anything, not a penny. When his father Tian Chengfu was alive, no, it should be said that when he was still in the village, people would take care of Tian Donkey, but now, even if Tian Donkey knelt down to the people in the village and begged someone to lend him some money, it was useless, no one dared to borrow money from Tian Donkey, everyone knew that Tian Chengfu and the mute left, and lent Tian Donkey money, it would be tantamount to a waste, if the mute and the two were still alive, at least there would be two living people as a guarantee and mortgage, at least someone would borrow money.
Tian Donkey, who got nothing, returned home, for the first time in his life, he experienced the heat of the world, it turned out that no matter how poor his own home was, it was also a home, with the warmth of home, and other people's gold and silver palaces, other people's wealth, were all other people's families, and had nothing to do with themselves. At the moment, he is inferior to his father! The father at least has a wife and children, and he is only poor.
Poverty is probably like this, it is destined to make the people trapped in it endure poverty itself and at the same time endure the humiliation, anger and helplessness brought by poverty, but Tian Donkey is not convinced! At least, at this time, he was unwilling to admit defeat to life, let alone bow to poverty, so he raised his right foot and kicked a clay pot in a corner of the house, venting his anger at life and extreme poverty, and he really didn't expect to kick out a brilliant tomorrow!
What surprised and delighted Tian Donkey was that when he got under his feet, the clay pot was of course shattered, but poverty was also shaken, that is, there was a bag of money hidden in the clay pot. Tian Donkey hurriedly held the bag of money in the palm of his hand, although it was all some dime money, but it was enough, for him, it was enough for him to support him to get out of this door of poverty. Thank God for my father, thank you for the amiable and respectable clay pot, when I think about it, it is my father's most cherished furniture on weekdays, and it is also a treasure that is forbidden to let me get close. Now that I think about it, it was all my father's good intentions, but I didn't expect that the destitute father, at the critical moment when his son's life path was restarted, still gave him his deep fatherly love and left a little family wealth. So, Tian Donkey took the money, locked the door, and left the small mountain village where he had lived for 17 years without looking back.