Chapter 10: The Showdown
On the day Li Er married his daughter-in-law, the bride was a sedan chair from the eldest Cao's family, and the sedan chair at that time was the only 50-horsepower tractor in the village. It doesn't matter who marries a daughter-in-law, they all use it. It was the most advanced means of transportation at the time, equivalent to today's BMW. It is generally arranged in such a way that the bride and groom sit in the front half of the car, and the back half is played with drums and flags. Since it is a sedan chair in this village, it is not a distant marriage. Da Lao Cao deliberately drove from the middle of Baoshan Road to the south, and then from the south to the north. Later, it was driven back to the kidnapping village in the middle of the road. At that time, the west side of Baoshan Road had been developed, and there were only a few scattered homes on the east side. Li Er's family is the first household in the first row. The homestead of the collective batch is the same size. The height and style of the cover are all uniformly stipulated in the village. Especially the horizon, the back row is 20 centimeters shorter than the front row, and the rain is uniformly in the back row, if any family steals the height, the other households will oppose it. Find the dealer to solve. The village couldn't do it, so they found the township, and people from the township came to help the village do the work, and the people who built it high had to tear down the built house and start over, and the ground was as high as the surroundings.
After the tractor used as a sedan chair went around in a circle, it stopped at the gate of Li Er's house steadily. It was Xiao Taohong who picked up the sedan chair, the Li family had no daughter, and Xiao Taohong volunteered, so this errand belonged to her. Who would have thought that she had a lot of ghosts, and she did something at this key point, leading Zhang Fengxian to promise the next thing. For this one thing, Zhang Fengxian has been distressed all her life, and she still doesn't let go of it decades later. What is so important, let me tell you carefully.
Xiao Taohong took a pestle painted with red paint, placed it on the front half of the tractor bucket, and specially flicked it with her sleeves, and stretched out her hand to help Zhang Fengxian on the car get off the sedan car. One of Fengxian's feet was just about to step out of the carriage board, but Xiao Taohong suddenly stopped her and said very casually: "The sixth day of June belongs to me, and the other year belongs to you, which is called getting better and better day by year." ”
Zhang Fengxian looked at Xiao Taohong's red dress in confusion, and looked at her very serious appearance, thinking that it was ten miles of different customs, and the local rule in Sibaoshan was this, but what is the point of paying attention to June 6? Xiao Taohong saw her hesitation, and hurriedly said: "This is the local custom, June 6, look at the uncle, you will get off the sedan chair if you promise, and wait on the sedan chair if you don't agree." After saying these words, Little Peach picked up the arranged pestle again and held it in her arms. At this time, the gongs and drums were noisy, and the red flags were swept back and forth in people's hands. Zhang Fengxian also saw this situation for the first time, and he didn't understand the local customs, so he nodded vigorously and agreed to this matter. Only later did I know that it was a big deal for a little peach, and it was too late to regret it. She nodded in front of so many people, and everyone heard Xiao Taohong's question clearly. Many insiders covered their mouths and laughed. Zhang Fengxian first arrived, and when she saw everyone laughing, she also laughed with her. As a result, everyone burst into laughter. The drumming and gong beating also stopped, and when the elder Cao saw that something bad was going to happen, he hurriedly waved his hand and called the drum player to beat hard. Taking advantage of the sound of the drum again, Xiao Taohong put the red pestle in place, and Zhang Fengxian got off the sedan chair inexplicably. The wedding ceremony officially began, and the uncle of the owner presided over the ceremony. The leader of the village spoke, and worshiped heaven and earth, parents, husband and wife, and was pushed and pulled into the cave room by a group of young descendants. Li Er's marriage has settled since this moment, and from this day on, he has his own home.
June 6 is the birthday of Liu Lame's uncle, and Liu Lame goes to his uncle's birthday every year. There is an agreement with Liu Cripple, Xiao Taohong is free on this day, no matter what she does, Liu Cripple must not interfere. Otherwise, none of us will go out today, and we won't be able to worship our birthday if we don't go out. Liu Cripple is a filial child, so he has to reluctantly agree to Xiao Taohong's harsh conditions. Let her horse go to Nanshan and mess around freely for a day.
Zhang Fengxian got up in the morning, cooked and ate with Li Er, brushed the pot and washed the dishes, and cleaned up. So he carried the shovel and watered the ground. At this time, the land had just been divided. Every household takes turns to water, and if it is your turn to water, if you don't water, you will be skipped, and if you want to water, you have to wait for the next round, and the crops do not wait for anyone, and if you water less once, you will have to harvest less grain. Watering the ground is generally done at one time, and it does not stop in the middle. The pump sends the water out of the wellhead and watches the start of the well. If you stop eating at noon, you'll have to deliver water again in the afternoon. This well is quite far away from the crops, and the timing is turned on here, and the water from the well flows to the ground and starts to water their own land, which takes an hour, and if you have a four-inch pump, it costs 12 yuan an hour. In the first eight or four years of land division, twelve yuan was not a small amount. When you go out to work as a bricklayer for a day, the big workers earn up to five dollars a day, and the small workers generally earn only three dollars. In order to save money, Zhang Fengxian didn't go home to eat at noon, and starved and watered his three acres of land in one go. By the time he returned home from the field, it was already past two o'clock in the afternoon. When she entered the house, she felt that there was someone in the house, and when she entered the door, she saw that Xiao Taohong was combing her hair in the house. The quilt on the bed had just been folded. Li Er sat on a chair in the outer room and smoked. There was food for her in the pot. Seeing her enter the house, Xiao Taohong hurriedly brought out the food and put it on the low table, serving her to eat. While Zhang Fengxian was eating, she felt that something was not quite right. In today's atmosphere, why is the little peach a little anti-customer-oriented? took advantage of Zhang Fengxian's meal. Little Peach sat on Zhang Fengxian's bed in the middle room. Looking in the mirror, drawing eyebrows, and applying lipstick, it looks like a hostess. Zhang Fengxian was very angry about what she did, and after eating, she went into the house and asked Xiao Taohong: "Which one are you singing today?" ”
Xiao Taohong smiled: "Today is June 6th, you forgot if I was a day and you were a year?" When you got off the sedan chair, you nodded in front of everyone, what's the matter, do you want to regret it? ”
Zhang Fengxian was so angry, she pulled up Xiao Taohong, who was sitting on the bed, "This is my bed, you stay there." ”
"Yo," the little rosette said wittily, "What do you call your bed, this bed was brought in by me and my own brother, and in less than three minutes, I lay on it and fell asleep for the first time." ”
Zhang Fengxian was sitting on the edge of the bed. Hearing Xiao Taohong say this, she felt that the bed was dirty, so she reached out and opened the coat kitchen, took out a new floral quilt from the inside and spread it on the bed, and sat on it herself, meaning that she was afraid that the bed that Xiao Taohong slept on would stain her body. Now Xiao Taohong is more reasonable, she put her hands on her chest: "This quilt is also sewn by me, not only this bed, but also the bedding in the kitchen are sewn by me, to tell you the truth, after sewing a bed, I will first cover me and sleep on it." I'm the first, you're the second, the last. ”
Zhang Fengxian sneered: "No wonder our family was baked in a nest, it turned out that you little fox spirit had been drilled." In order to be angry, she spread the quilt on the ground, stomped on it, and said as she stepped on it, "I have destroyed this unclean thing." ”
Little Pink is still refueling: "The bed is not clean either".
Zhang Fengxian replied: "I smashed it and replaced it with a new one."
Little Pink said, "The quilt is not clean."
Zhang Fengxian said hatefully: "I burned it."
"The house is not clean"
"I picked it up."
"People are not clean"
"I killed him and got ---- new one." Zhang Fengxian gritted her teeth and said the last sentence, she obviously heard it, what she said was lack of energy, that was to make Huazi grit her teeth---- be poor and hateful, and kill him, that would be impossible at all.
Xiao Taohong softened first: "Okay, I'll call you big sister, it's okay." In the future, I won't compete with you for this position, my brother and I are small, growing up bare-chested, I should have been the mistress of this house, but unfortunately, my life is cheap, I can't afford such a good man, God is unfair. She looked up to the sky and sighed, and two lines of hot tears rolled silently down from her eyes. She continued; "If you kill him, you too will die, and I will also die, and it is also a miracle for the two of us to sing a song on the bridge. Ahem, to face the reality, it's still the same sentence, you are a year, I am a day. After she finished speaking, she patted the red clothes on her body and raised her legs to leave.
Zhang Fengxian stretched out his hand to stop her: "Do you dare to die for your own brother?" ”
Xiao Taohong puffed up her chest: "Dare, do you say jumping into a well or hanging?" ”
"I don't jump into a well with you, I don't hang myself with you, I'll play this with you." Zhang Fengxian walked to the remaining pile of bricks outside the door, and reached into the house to bring two new bricks. "Let's each work together, pat our heads with bricks, and die for your dear brother, do you dare? Come, let us both perish together, and see who is more faithful to him. ”
Seeing this scene, Li Er hurriedly stopped the fight between the two, and pulled one in one hand and said, "Don't die for the two of you, it's better for me to die." As he spoke, his hands were tight, and he wanted to take the two women into his arms, but he was pushed away by the two at the same time.
"If you dare, I dare". Little Peach also let go out, the evil qi of the past few years has accumulated too much in her chest, and at this time it suddenly becomes irritated and erupts, if you don't live, you won't live, it's not interesting to live anyway, it's better to be a widow than to die!
Zhang Fengxian gritted her teeth and slapped the brick on top of her head, the brick broke in two and slid down her shoulder, only to see her head crooked, her body soft, and on the ground. Little Peach didn't pretend to be a bad seed, she slapped the brick all over her head, the brick was not rotten, it fell to the ground, she felt a hot current flow down her scalp to her face, her head was clouded, and she fainted.
The huge wife Liu Xueyin, that is, Xiao Taohong's sister-in-law, opened a clinic on the west side of Baoshan Road, diagonally opposite Li Er's family, called "Abduction Clinic". Next door to the clinic is the "Abduction Hotel" opened by Xiao Taohong and Liu Cripple. Two families are covered in one piece. It is the first batch of buildings on the side of Baoshan Road since the reform and opening up.
When Little Pink wakes up, she finds herself lying in a bed at the kidnapping clinic. There was a hanging bottle hanging on his arm, gauze wrapped around his head, and his head hurt terribly. She turned her face to look at the other two beds around her, which were empty, very strange.
Liu Xueyin asked her, "What are you looking for?" ”
Xiao Taohong asked: "Zhang Fengxian didn't come to treat her injuries?" ”
Liu Xueyin was very strange: "She carried you here, put you down, help me wrap your head, look at the hanging bottle, and give you a number of pulses, saying it's okay, skin trauma, just raise it for a few days, and go home, your own brother has also come, my brother has also come, they have all gone back to dinner." ”
Xiao Taohong wondered: No, obviously Zhang Fengxian made the first hand, the brick was broken in two, and she fell to the ground, why is she okay and I just smashed my head? Tell me, judging this reason, whether she is stupid or she is stupid.