Ma Shukui asked Wang Zihe, the leader in charge, and reciprocated his wish to talk about his girlfriend in his hometown and hope to have a class after marriage: Director Wang, isn't there a shortage of teachers in our children's school?

The next day, Xue Xue, the elder of the personnel department, called Pony and asked him about the details of his girlfriend. Knowing that Jiang Lehua's substitute teacher had not yet been regularized, Section Chief Xue shook his head with an "oh": substitute teachers can't be negotiated, so they have to wait for the indicators to rejoin the work.

Since then, the two have passed on the book to each other, and the two simple hearts have become closer and closer.

After finishing work, Jiang Lehua often went to see Grandma Ma. After leaving the podium for more than half a year, the stubborn girl endured hardships and stood hard work and never gave in. Grandma looked at the future granddaughter-in-law's black and red face, stroked her shoulders that were knotted by carrying burdens, and her calloused hands were distressed.

Jiang Qingyu has been bedridden for more than half a year. I didn't have the money to get a streptomycin injection, so I relied on Remifeng pills to maintain it, and I coughed up sputum all day long, with blood in my sputum. I couldn't see a few grains of grain for three meals a day, and I was so hungry and thin that I was out of shape. Unwilling to wait for his father to die in his early fifties, Leyun put his father in a big basket and carried him to the county hospital to take a film. The doctor said that the patient had several large holes in his lungs and was hopeless.

My aunt found a blind man who was said to be very effective in fortune telling. The blind man pinched and calculated: Sun Blind is ruthless in fortune-telling, and this person has a lifespan of three months at most.

Grandma Ma heard that Lehua was repairing a canal and fainted, so she came to visit with her little feet and crutches. Knowing that her future daughter-in-law was soaked in mud and cold water and had menstrual disorders, she was so anxious that she asked someone to write to her grandson overnight, asking Ma Shukui to come back and get married immediately, take Lehua out of the tiger wolf's den, and fall into the hands of Xu Qihu and her life is difficult to protect!

On the farm side, it happened that the provincial department had just issued an increase target, and the assessment and approval at the end of the month were completed. Xue Xue, the elder of the personnel department, informed Ma Shukui that he would have to wait a year if he missed the opportunity, so call your girlfriend to come quickly!

Ma Shukui immediately sent a telegram asking Lehua to hang up the phone at the Jiang'an Post Office at 6 o'clock tomorrow night, and he would wait in the office at that time. It takes seven days to write a letter at the earliest, and only the county post office can make a long-distance call.

A couple of lovers hear each other's voices for the first time.

Ma Shukui asked Lehua to get ready, he left for Jiang'an tomorrow to pick her up, and he would return after only two days at home, and he couldn't miss recruiting workers once a year.

Jiang Lehua is finally looking forward to the opportunity to work again, and he is very excited. Shukui came all the way to pick her up, caring and considerate like a warm current melting the ice in his heart. She resolutely decided, the time is so tight, Brother Shukui doesn't have to come back to pick it up, I'll pack up and go by myself!

When she returned from the post office, she went to her father's bedside. Seeing his father's sallow face and lost his eyes, like a dying fish, tears poured out involuntarily: Father, my daughter is about to leave home, and my daughter is going to work, earn money and send it to you for treatment, so that Lesheng can graduate and enter college.

Jiang Qingyu struggled to sit up, and Lehua rolled the cotton clothes into a roll and stuffed them behind him. My father was out of breath, and beads of sweat rolled down his forehead. After a little subsidence, he said intermittently: Let's go, go as far as possible. Xu Qihu said that he was a Buddha, and I couldn't turn over his palm with one hundred and eight heels...... You're young, and you're earning your own future. I'm a father, I'm sorry for you brothers and sisters! O sin that has brought you into the world to suffer and suffer and be bullied, and to afflict you and harm you! The father couldn't say any more, and covered his face with his hands and cried. Muddy tears flowed down his fingers and hung on his bony elbows.

Ma Shukui made a wire transfer of 200 yuan for the travel expenses. Lehua gave his father 50 yuan for immediate treatment and nutritional emergency. Although the doctor said that there was no cure for her father, she still wanted to do her daughter's filial piety. Give my younger brother 30 yuan, the last semester of high school is about to start, and the tuition and miscellaneous fees are at least this amount of book review materials.

Mother Qu Ming is very swollen, her face, legs and feet are swollen like rotten winter melons, and she presses a pit. There was originally her in the list of doctors in the brigade to report the rehabilitation class, and Xu Qihu scolded the rich peasant elements for recovering a fart! The doctor said that Secretary Ma spoke at the meeting, and all critically ill patients were treated equally. Human life is at stake, and I can't afford to take responsibility. I'll report it to you, and it's up to you whether you let you in or not. Secretary Ma checked again and learned that a small number of critically ill patients could not enter the rehabilitation class due to poor composition, and ordered immediate correction, and Qu Ming was able to save his life. The third daughter, Lehua, was about to travel far away, and her mother's heart hurt like a knife, and she quietly cooked dinner while crying.

Jiang Lesheng rushed home to see off the third sister. Three catties of rice mixed with thirty catties of chopped carrots, a bowl of rice can't pick out a few grains of rice, and it still exudes an attractive fragrance. If it weren't for the dissolution of the canteen and the distribution of some food, this meal would not have been able to be cooked. The oil pot has not been covered with dust for a long time, so I have made two small spoons of cottonseed oil, steamed a pot of pickles and a bowl of bean paste on the rice pot, and then burned a pot of green vegetable soup. Mother, Lehua, Lesheng, Letian, Lemei and Legu sat around. His father leaned on the bed, he couldn't swallow the dry rice, and scooped the porridge that Le Sheng brought back to the pot. Today, there is no substitute food such as vegetables and gangs in the porridge, and my father eats it very fragrantly, and fine beads of sweat appear on his forehead.

As the family ate a parting dinner, the air froze. The kerosene flame glowed yellowish, casting a few blurred shadows onto the walls. Mother took the lead in breaking the silence, picked up the bowl that Lehua had not eaten yet, took it to the full bowl and said: I heard that there is no rice in the Northeast, so the girl should eat some more. The younger brothers and sisters also persuaded the third sister to eat more. Legu knelt on the stool and used a small spoon to skim the oil flowers floating on the sauce to the third sister, and Lehua hurriedly dialed it into her mother's bowl: Mom, let's give you a taste!

After dinner, Lemei washed the dishes, and the rest of the people sat around her father's bed. Lehua said father, you can recuperate with peace of mind, don't be anxious. Shukui said that I will be in class as soon as I go, and I will send you to the hospital when my salary is paid.

A wry smile appeared on the corner of Jiang Qingyu's mouth: I don't need to be hospitalized. The most reassuring thing is that your mother has never seen the world, and your younger brothers and sisters are still young, so you have to write more and take care of them often in the future, and bring them to adulthood. A mouthful of phlegm was held in his throat, and his father coughed and sweated profusely, and finally spit out with blood. He turned his head to his son: Lesheng, as soon as the third sister leaves, this family will depend on you in the future.

The next day, the family got up early, looked at each other speechlessly, and all the words of comfort and blessing were superfluous. was about to step out of the threshold, Lehua suddenly turned around, knelt down in front of his father, and said with a crying voice Father, I'm leaving, take care! Jiang Qingyu raised his hand with difficulty, and said calmly, Let's go, don't worry about me!

Both father and daughter know in their hearts that today's parting is the eternal secret of this life!

Lesheng helped the third sister to rush to the bus station with her luggage, take a long-distance bus to Shanghai, and then take a two-day and two-night train to Harbin, when Ma Shukui will pick up the station.

The car started, and puffs of blue smoke came out of the exhaust pipe. The third sister burst into tears, poked her head out of the car window and said: Lesheng, good brother, sister is looking forward to the good news of your admission to university!

Four months later, at dawn the day after the Dragon Boat Festival, my father died. With the help of my cousin, who knew how to carpentry, he took off the door and put together a few partitions to nail it into a box-like coffin, which sounded better than a straw mat shrouded corpse. This year, each person in the province was issued a one-foot-six-inch cloth ticket, and the family cloth ticket was not enough to buy a set of shrouds, so the mother had to choose old clothes with fewer patches, put them on for her husband, and put them into the funeral hastily with broken hats and old shoes.

The cousin was going to nail the lid and seal the coffin. In the sound of the family's cry, Jiang Qingyu's eyes that were rubbed and closed after he lost his breath gradually opened, and the wider he opened, he actually revealed half of his eyeballs. This industrious and thrifty peasant died at the age of 53 because he was better at farming, more able to endure hardships, more reasonable in his conduct and more observant of his duties, and his fate was more troubled. Leave four thatched huts for children that are leaky from the wind and rain, and rich peasant elements that cannot be shaken off.

Wang Xiaosi crossed his hands and waist to inform: The team leader said that the dead were buried in the bushes of the small river outside the village, and they were not allowed to leave graves!

In the summer, the river is rising, and the muddy water is only a foot above the surface. The pit where the coffin was buried seeped water as it was dug, and the coffin was soaked in water. The cousin raised a small pile of earth above the coffin, saying that it would come out of the pond in a few days. A bamboo pole with a paper banner was stuck on the mound, and the orphans and widows lay in front of the mound and wept.

The only close relative who came to the funeral was my aunt. The father asked her to take care of his wife and children more, saying that it was no pity for him to die, only caring about his four children and not reaching adulthood, and he couldn't take a step on the Huangquan Road! Faced with the staring dead and a group of orphans and widows, my aunt beat her chest and was heartbroken.

The sun was setting, and the sky was dyed blood red. Two crows croaked and circled the treetops, and mosquitoes buzzed in the faces. The night envelops the dead and the living. I don't know how long it has been, Jiang Lesheng helped his mother go home.

The four thatched huts where I lived for 18 years were stormy. The sturdy earthen wall was torn down and smashed the year before, and the rammed wall cracked several palm-wide cracks; The back wall is tilted outward, supported on the outside by a tree trunk; The thatch on the roof has collapsed into many sieve-sized pits, and the stars can be seen at night.

In the early years, the east room was used as a cowshed, where old Wangfa and his old buffalo lived, and now they are stacked with sundries and firewood; When the two-eyed stove was making steel, a pot was handed in, and now there is only one left, and the black hole of the stove is like a one-eyed monster. Mother and Lemei's bunk were next to the stove, and it was a little hot in winter. There are two bunks in the west room, one is sleeping in Letian Legu, and the other is that my father slept, and my father died and the bunk was empty.

In the Mingjian Hall, the old strip with a broken leg is almost tied with a wire hoop, which is the only piece of furniture that has not been divided in the land reform. The Bodhisattva statue ancestor was smashed when the card was "moved", and now there is a red couplet for the leader statue and soaked in tung oil, and the production team received two yuan to send it, which is the only remaining color and vitality of this dilapidated house. On both sides of the couplet, there are more than 20 certificates of merit won by Jiang Lesheng in the past ten years, old and new, and his father asked one to be posted before his death.

One of the two clay jars for grain was empty, and the other was filled with a small amount of pre-divided new wheat, a thin layer covering the bottom of the jar. Yesterday, Letian Legu grinded a few catties, reluctant to use a sieve, and cooked a pot of porridge without food with bran, a grain porridge that I haven't eaten for a long time, and the house is full of fragrant food porridge! My father only drank half a bowl, and he tasted the taste of new grain, and he swallowed at dawn.

The kerosene lamp flickered, reflecting the sad faces of a family of five. It turned out that the thin board separating the bright room and the room was nailed to the coffin, and the four dilapidated houses were unobstructed at a glance, and the walls of the real family were destitute!

This home is like a broken ship in the vast fog, and it is in danger of sinking at any time. Lesheng remembered his father's entrustment and felt that the burden on his shoulders was heavy! In order to change his fate and save this family, he must win the upcoming college entrance examination. The lonely and helpless boy prayed silently: God opens his eyes and gives me a way to live!