Chapter 23: Empathy
From then on, Erya's figure completely disappeared from Hailiang's life, and it was not until 20 years later that he met her again.
At that time, he and Erya were already middle-aged, and their respective lives had changed.
Wang Hailiang was sick for three months, and it was not until February after the Spring Festival that he came out of the house.
Not only did he rush to the heart, but he was also soaked in the icy river water, burned for more than half a month, and never recovered.
At that time, Erya also disappeared for three months, and the whole village thought that the girl had fallen into a cliff and died, and her body was gone.
Maybe he was dragged away by the wild wolf a long time ago, and there was no bone residue left after eating.
Hailiang's spirit was very decadent, his face was much haggard, and his eye sockets collapsed.
After his spirit improved, he erected a tomb for Erya, which was a mound of clothes. There was nothing in the grave, just a few clothes that the girl usually changed and washed.
Erya's grave was built on the hillside opposite Daliangshan Primary School, because that was the girl's favorite place.
When she was alive, she was a teacher at Daliangshan Primary School, and she liked to be with the children, where there was her hard work, her laughter, and the girl's indelible memories.
Hailiang went to see her every year, and every time it was Erya's death day, he always picked up the flute and sat on Erya's grave to play a song.
He once went out of the mountains and exchanged a fine fox skin from an old hunter.
The sound of the flute is very good, like crying, and the man's grievances float out far and wide, echoing in the valley for a long time.
In the spring of that year, he found that a lot of flowers had grown on Erya's grave, red, white, purple, and pink, which were very beautiful, like a girl's bright smiling face.
This is the end of his relationship with Erya.
The first love had not yet blossomed, so it was strangled in the cradle, and since then he has been in a slump.
Next, a new relationship unfolded around him.
found that her son was getting better, and Hai Liangniang and Wang Qingxiang had a new plan.
That is, Hailiang will be twenty years old after the New Year, and he must hurry up to marry a daughter-in-law and go home.
They want their son to break free from this relationship immediately, and the only way is to find him a daughter-in-law.
At night, when the lights are pulled, the nest is drilled, and the men and women are so entangled, he no longer thinks about Erya.
Therefore, it is urgent to say that Hailiang is pro-family.
At night, Hai Liangniang got into the quilt, hugged the thick waist of the man Wang Qingxiang, and pulled her two hands back and forth in front of the man's chest.
The woman said: "His father, the second girl is dead, and his son is older, so he can't be so depressed, hurry up and marry a daughter-in-law for our son, right?" ”
Wang Qingxiang smoked a cigarette pot, hugged the woman's smooth and white shoulders and said: "Er Ya just died, so let Hailiang find a new love, my son will not agree." ”
Hai Liangniang said: "Mao! I don't know you men yet, you all have a new love and forget the old love, find him someone more beautiful than Erya, and put it in his arms, and he won't think about anything. ”
Wang Qingxiang said: "Knowing the son Mo Ruo's father, our Hailiang is not that kind of person, he will think about Erya for the rest of his life." ”
Hai Liang said: "I don't care, anyway, I have to marry a daughter-in-law for my son, Hai Liang is not small, I am still waiting to hold my grandson." If you don't marry again, the good women of Daliangshan will be robbed by others. ”
Wang Qingxiang felt that his daughter-in-law's words were reasonable, so he knocked the cigarette pot on the edge of the kang, blew off the cigarette feces inside, put it on the kang head table, and said: "Just do as you say, tomorrow I will go to Sun Shangxiang and give him a marriage." ”
Hai Liangniang said: "That's right, this is my good husband, kiss the balls......"
Boom, boom, there were a few sounds of uncorks in the room, and men and women were entangled and doing the same thing.
The woman let out a few chuckles, and the laughter could only be heard by her and Wang Qingxiang.
The fire kang became agitated......
The next morning, Wang Qingxiang really started to get busy, preparing to give his son Hailiang a wedding.
He first found Sun Shangxiang, who is a well-known matchmaker in Daliang Mountain, specializing in helping people match marriages.
In the past 20 years, there have been dozens of men and women who have been matched by Sun Shangxiang, if not hundreds, but dozens of couples, and most of them have a good relationship.
Sun Shangxiang's name is Sun Shangxiang, although the are half-old, but the charm still exists.
This woman has a problem, that is, she likes to steal people, and she always sleeps with the scoundrels and idlers in the village, and the village chief Zhang Damao is a frequent visitor on her kang.
There is no way, Sun Shangxiang is widowed at the age of twenty, and there is no man around her, so she is uncomfortable.
Wang Qingxiang walked into Sun Shangxiang's house, and after the man entered the door, he said, "Shangxiang, I have something to do with you." ”
As soon as Wang Qingxiang entered the door, Sun Shangxiang smiled, and a peony flower was displayed on his face.
"Oh, it's Brother Qingxiang, that gust of wind blew you over, sit, sit!"
Sun Shangxiang hurriedly came over to make tea, and took out the cigarette rolls in the drawer for Wang Qingxiang to enjoy.
Wang Qingxiang sat on the kang head of Sun Shangxiang's house, his old face was red, and he said embarrassedly: "Shangxiang, I have something to do with you......"
"What's the matter, just say, what's the relationship between the two of us?"
Sun Shangxiang said as she put it on Wang Qingxiang's body, and put her hand on the man's shoulder.
Sun Shangxiang is very amorous, and has a relationship with the man on the half-street of the pimple slope, and when he sees any man, he rubs it upside down like a wild dog sees a sweet potato skin.
Wang Qingxiang hid to the side and said, "His aunt, my family is bright, and I want to tell the child a daughter-in-law, which girl in Daliang Mountain is suitable?" ”
As soon as Sun Shangxiang heard that Wang Qingxiang was going to talk about his daughter-in-law for Hailiang, she sneered and laughed: "Brother Qingxiang, which girl did Hailiang fall in love with?" ”
Wang Qingxiang said: "No one has taken a fancy to it, don't I have no choice but to ask you?" Whose girl do you think is suitable? ”
Unexpectedly, Sun Shangxiang blurted out: "My girl is suitable, my daughter Yuzhu is just eighteen this year, and she is a natural pair with your family Hailiang." Brother Qingxiang...... Let's be in-laws......"
When Wang Qingxiang heard this, the wrinkles on his old face immediately blossomed, and he said, "Okay, okay, I have this plan." Then let Hailiang marry your family Yuzhu. ”
In fact, Wang Qingxiang came to Miss Yuzhu this time.
Last night in the quilt, after he and Hai Liangniang finished those indiscreet things, he filtered all the hundreds of girls in front of Daliang Mountain, and finally targeted Sun Shangxiang's only daughter.
Today, on the surface, I asked Sun Shangxiang to talk to the matchmaker, but inside I came to propose marriage.
Yuzhu is Sun Shangxiang's only daughter, who looks like a flower and is slim, not worse than Erya.
That's one of the best girls in Daliang Mountain, not only handsome, but also honest and hardworking, just like the night dew on the pear blossoms in spring, the water is bright and white.
The girl just turned 18 years old this year, and it was the beginning of her love, and after graduating from junior high school, she also did not go to high school, and worked as a farmer at home.
The heavy physical labor did not leave any mark on the girl's body, and her skin was very white, with a pair of large eyes, like a moonlit night when crickets chirped.
If Erya's eyes blink can hook the men in the middle of Daliangshan Street, then Yuzhu can make the men in the whole street of Daliangshan faint with a smile in her eyes.
This girl's life is not good, it is a twilight life.
The so-called twilight birth is that the father died before he came out of the mother's womb, and the child who has not met his biological father is the twilight child.
Twenty years ago, Yuzhu's mother and grandson Shangxiang was also a famous village flower in Pimple Slope, and the men of Daliang Mountain kicked through the threshold of her family in order to marry her.
At that time, Sun Shangxiang was arrogant, and he didn't marry if he wasn't a hero.
Three of the men like him the most, one is Yuzhu's father Zhang Xilai, one is the son of the old village chief Zhang Damao, and the other is Wang Hailiang's father Wang Qingxiang.
These three men took great pains and worked hard to get Sun Shangxiang.
After careful selection, Sun Shangxiang fell in love with Wang Qingxiang, because Wang Qingxiang was very handsome when he was young, and he was still a famous little miracle doctor, and they fell in love.
The two of them were about to talk about marriage, but at this time, they killed a Cheng biting gold, and that woman was Hailiang Niang.
Hai Liangniang has also liked Wang Qingxiang for a long time, and found that Wang Qingxiang hooked up with Sun Shangxiang all day long, and the woman was furious.
Finally one day, she used half a jar of old wine to get Wang Qingxiang drunk, and then dragged the man into the sorghum field.
Hailiang Niang is the most famous fierce woman in ten miles and eight towns, with a strong physique, and her ancestors left the skill of killing pigs.
A 200-pound pig, she can press down with one hand, and a pig-killing knife dances impervious, dragging Wang Qingxiang into the sorghum field with almost no effort, similar to dragging a piglet.
After the incident, Wang Qingxiang regretted not falling, but it was too late to regret it, because Hai Liangniang found him with a big belly, patted his belly and said, "I have ......"
Wang Qingxiang never imagined that he would sow a seed for a woman in the sorghum field, and that seed quickly took root and sprouted, and broke out of the womb, and Wang Hailiang was born in this way.
Wang Qingxiang had no choice but to marry his current wife with helplessness and humiliation, and threw Sun Shangxiang aside.
Sun Shangxiang found out that men were empathetic, she secretly cried for a long time, and finally married Zhang Xilai in anger.
On the first night of the wedding, when Zhang Xilai wrapped Sun Shangxiang in his arms, Sun Shangxiang also let out a terrible scream.
Sun Shangxiang likes to sing mountain songs, his voice is very good, high-pitched and loud, and when he shouted like this, the people on the whole street of Daliangshan were scared awake.
The pigs in the pigsty were frightened and scurryed back and forth, and the chickens on the chicken rack were so frightened that they fell to the ground. The old white cat was so frightened that it meowed. The dogs in the yard also followed and barked all night long.
Sun Shangxiang exerted his voice as much as possible, and the sound passed through the window of his house, and floated onto the earthen kang of Wang Qingxiang and Hailiangniang.
After Wang Qingxiang heard this, he started smoking, and his brows twisted into a big pimple.
He was heartbroken, knowing that the woman was taking revenge on him, because love turned into hate.
The reason why Sun Shangxiang wants to shout Kang is to sue Wang Qingxiang that he will marry without your mother, and his life is no worse than yours.
The woman's voice was long and long, and Wang Qingxiang's heart was like a knife.
But Sun Shangxiang didn't scream on the kang for long, and he stopped screaming, because he and Zhang Xilai were married for less than half a year, and his stomach bulged and he was pregnant with Yuzhu.
When a woman becomes pregnant, she can no longer have intercourse, and the husband and wife must live separately. Otherwise, the fetus will be affected.
Zhang Xilai couldn't stand it, so he said: "Shangxiang, we have a baby, and the future will be very sad, why don't I go out of the mountain and do some small business, so as to earn some money to support your mother and son." ”
The reason why Zhang Xilai wanted to leave home was to avoid the entanglement of women, and also to save the fetus in Sun Shangxiang's belly. When you go like this, you can't see or touch it, and you don't think about it.
The days in the mountains are hard, and nutrition is needed after childbirth, Sun Shangxiang also wants to have a better life, so he said to Zhang Xi: "You go, you come back in half a year, and the child should be full moon." ”
In this way, Zhang Xilai carried a basket of walnuts on his back and stepped on the mountain road, ready to go out for a while.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he left, he never came back, and he disappeared for eighteen years.