Chapter 17 Poor Mountains and Bad Waters

I don't know how you define the term poor mountains and bad waters, the poor mountains and bad waters in martial arts TV series must have some evil sects hidden by poisonous miasma beasts, and most of the poor mountains and bad waters in Xianxia novels are infested with monsters. This book update address t/rzsvxvv But for ordinary people, there is no food to grow in the mountains, the water source is not enough to irrigate the crops, and there is no way to make a living.

My family lives on such a hill that the only well in the village is in danger of drying up as long as it doesn't rain for a month in the summer. Eating and bathing are still small problems, endure and endure to boil can always pass, once the corn in the field falls seedlings, the rice in the field can not be filled, and the life of the year is a problem!

Because the environment is so bad, the people on the mountain have moved away, some are building new houses at the bottom of the mountain, some have simply bought them in the city, and now except for some old people, only my family is still there. Although many people go out to work, the fields can be planted with a few acres, and some good fields can be selected, but the living conditions at home have not changed!

Every time I go home, I am terrified and don't know how to face this qiē!

I went to the vegetable market and bought two catties of half-fat and half-lean pork, and bought a large box of headache powder for my grandfather. When he was young, he roamed the rivers and lakes, and his grandfather was indeed majestic for many years, but in the end he didn't know what was going on, his leg was lame and his lungs were injured, and he had a very strict headache!

Now I have no money to treat it, so I can only rely on the cheapest medicine such as headache powder, and I can eat one or two packs at first, and now I can eat at least five packs a day!

Although I know that this medicine has strong dependence and side effects, the economic conditions of the family can only be like this!

Leaving the town, walking on the winding machine farming road, watching the familiar mountains and rivers appear in front of me, my heart was more nervous. When I was in junior high school, I was very scared to go home every week to get my living expenses, afraid to see my father's sad eyes, and afraid that I wouldn't be able to get enough money to buy a week's food!

When my father sent me money on Wednesday or Thursday, I was afraid that my classmates would see him, and the feeling of expecting him and being scared would make me remember it for a lifetime!

But now, that kind of fear is gone, relying on brute force to ensure life is not a problem, and it can also be used to supplement the family. When I was very young, I also had a big quarrel with my father, why do other people's children have so much pocket money, and our family is so poor?

At first, my father beat me, but after the beating, I was silent, and my mother and grandfather stood aside and didn't speak, and the atmosphere was very weird!

I now realize how ignorant I was at that time. A lot of things are innate, I can't change my background, I can only rely on myself to change my fate, not against my father's temper!

It was already afternoon when I got home, and my father was working in the mountains. Now that the whole village has moved away from a lot of wasteland, my father wants to plant some trees, and when he grows up in a decade, it will also be a lot of money to sell timber. The day-to-day work had made him feel hopeless about the land, otherwise he would not have found another way!

My mother, who was doing the laundry, was pleasantly surprised to see me coming back and handed her the meat she bought: "I'll go see grandpa!" "Grandpa's legs and feet are inconvenient, living in a tiled house next to him, as soon as he opened the door, there was a strong smell of medicine pouring out, there was a smell of Chinese medicine and Western medicine, and even the smell of urine from the bucket, mixed together is very smelly!

After standing in front of the door for a while and getting used to the smell inside, I put a big bag of headache powder on the table and walked into the cabin inside!

"Xiao Ming!" Seeing that I was back, my grandfather got up from the bed and said happily, "Give me the crutches, I'm going out for a walk!" Hearing my grandfather's words, I picked up a wooden cane next to me and handed it to him. Although his grandfather was lame, he never let people help him when he walked, which was the only bit of stubbornness he had!

My grandfather, who has been paralyzed for decades, has long been smoothed out, and only when he has a temper can I vaguely see the demeanor of Wang Sandao back then. However, as his health has deteriorated over the years, he no longer has the strength to temper!

Grandpa has three daughters and two sons, the eldest daughter married into a neighboring town and the living conditions are worse than my family, one of the two sons drowned when he was young, and the other went crazy without any ability to work, and there is often the embarrassment of eating porridge today and having no rice to put in the pot tomorrow!

The second daughter has been married to Jiangsu for 30 years and has not come back, and occasionally sending some money back is a drop in the bucket, but she is just doing her best. Although my youngest daughter's family conditions are better, my cousin bought a house in Chongqing, but he owes hundreds of thousands of debts, and his life is not easy!

In addition to my father, the uncle was raised, and he didn't care about his grandfather after he got married, and after negotiating a few times, he always said that he was not born by his grandfather, and his grandfather was so angry that he blew his beard and glared, and finally simply cut off contact, out of sight!

Riding on crutches, grandpa was shaking all over, which was a side effect of taking headache powder and painkillers for a long time, but grandpa still stubbornly refused to let me help, and walked towards the barn field slowly!

Standing there, he could see the mountains and rivers outside, but he didn't have the strength to walk down the mountain alone all these years!

Others say that it is easy to go up the mountain and difficult to go down, but he is just the opposite, if he walks down the mountain, he can only be carried on his back!

"Xiao Ming, how are your grades in school?" Sitting on a cold stone, Grandpa asked!

"What else!" Hearing my grandfather's words, I smiled bitterly: "I go to the construction site every week to move bricks and carry cement, and it's no wonder that my grades can get better!" "In the past, when I was in junior high school, my grades were okay, but when I was in high school, the curriculum was complicated, and my mental energy was not focused on studying, so I fell behind a lot unconsciously, and now I can't make up for it if I want to!

"I hurt you!" Looking at one of his lame legs, Grandpa sighed: "Of course, if you don't be greedy for that vote, you won't end up like this!" "When I was a child, my grandfather told me the story of his crisscrossing Sichuan, and I listened to it as a story at that time, and now I know that this is true, and it is all a legend that I experienced back then!

"Grandpa, what the hell is going on?" I know a lot about my grandfather's previous stories, but he just doesn't say how his leg was broken, maybe there is a big secret hidden in it!

In response to my inquiry, Grandpa looked at a cliff opposite. It is called the Black Wind Cliff, there is only a stone ladder up the mountain more than ten meters high, there used to be a group of bandits of more than 300 people entrenched in it, and it was exterminated after liberation, only an empty cottage site remained. I heard from others that grandpa used to be brothers with the bandit leader, and I don't know if this is true!

"We shouldn't be hunting for treasure!" Grandpa looked at the Black Wind Cliff opposite with some melancholy: "It's all because we are too greedy, otherwise we wouldn't have ended up like this if we didn't wash our hands earlier!" "I can't comment on what happened to my grandfather, anyway, if you walk at night, you will definitely encounter ghosts!

I have no joy or sorrow in my heart, I just feel that this story is far away from me!

"The poor can't steal the rich, they can't be greedy, otherwise they will all suffer!" Grandpa said bitterly: "By the way, how is the Iron Arm Fist I passed to you doing?" ”

Hearing my grandfather ask like this, my heart was a little empty!

When I was a child, I had a dream of martial arts, and I dreamed of being a hero who fought for righteousness!

So my grandfather passed me a set of boxing techniques, and I practiced them with great interest at that time, but this set of boxing methods is not superior kung fu at all, just relying on hard training to hone my muscles and bones, relying on brute force to match the boxing routines to beat people. It is very hard to practice this set of boxing, you need to beat the trunk wall with your fist day after day, and being able to break the brick with one punch is considered a small success, and you can only succeed if you practice internal strength!

It's too painful to practice this, I'm grinding and lazy when I'm at home, and I won't do this kind of masochistic thing at school, and over time it's not wasted, but it's still far from the realm of Xiaocheng who breaks bricks with one punch! As for being able to break the inner strength of the heart of the tree without hurting the bark, this is simply an impossible task for me!

Seeing my dodging appearance, my grandfather snorted: "I know that young people can't endure hardship, but if you don't practice, you can't practice, anyway, this set of boxing can't be famous." Now that this year is a society governed by the rule of law, it is useless to fight and kill and kill! "Although Grandpa said so, he was still quite lonely in his heart!

At that time, Chinese martial arts had begun to decline, and everyone began to play with guns, but they could still meet some people who practiced martial arts. Every time I see a martial arts movie on TV, my grandfather is so angry that he blows his beard and glare, saying that such a big knife can chop him ten, so scared that my father can only turn off the TV every time, lest the old man smash the TV with a cane, and there will be no money to buy a new one!

When I was a child, my grandfather wanted me to be both civil and military, but now I can't be civil or military, and the old man must be unhappy!

But two sons and three daughters, and more than a dozen grandchildren combined, now I am only by my side, and the old man is not easy to say. At his age, he doesn't have a few years to live, his temper is much lighter, and he doesn't love fire as much as before!

By the time it got dark and my grandfather came home, my father had already returned from planting trees, covered in dirt and carrying half a snake in his hand!

Seeing that I was back, my father said happily: "When digging the roots of the tree, I dug a snake hole, and a black snake was hoeed in two, and the snake head ran to the lower body for me to pick it up, and stewed snake soup for a while!" "Taking half of the snake from my father's hand, I took a knife and carried a bucket of water to the threshing floor, skinned and washed the snake, and then built an earthen stove on the ground.

We have a tradition here that you can't cook snake meat in the house, because snakes are very vindictive, otherwise they will attract a bunch of snakes into the house!

Although we have a majority of black snakes here, and there are few bamboo leaf green soldering irons, it is never a comfortable thing to tie a bunch of snakes at home, and there is nothing to cook outside!

"Xiao Ming, what do you want to do after graduation?" At the dinner table, my father looked at me with some bitterness: "You are not too young, it's time to marry a daughter-in-law!" ”

Yes? I didn't expect him to say that!

I'm speechless, it's not whether your era is good or not, you will be a father and carry a child at the age of thirteen or fourteen! Although I often see those older young people being urged to marry on the Internet, am I only eighteen years old?

But my mother's next words made me completely depressed: "Our family is poor, let's think about it early, otherwise I won't be able to marry when I'm a little older!" Whether it's good or bad, find one first, don't pick and choose! "Hearing my mother's words, my father, grandfather, and I both lowered our heads and didn't speak!

The atmosphere soon fell silent, and in fact many conversations had no end in sight. Once it comes to economic problems, it is the pain in the hearts of grandpa and father, if it weren't for the irreparable stupid thing they each did when they were young, the family would not have fallen into the current field!

Everyone is rich and I am poor, which is a real irony for my grandfather, who has always regarded himself as a hero in eastern Sichuan!

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