Tuweizi was originally the estate of a large landowner, and now belongs to the directly subordinate unit of the commune. A 50-meter-wide artificial canal comes straight from north to south, winds to the southwest, is the water diversion project of the newly developed large oil field, an east-west national defense highway and the canal intersect here, and the earth weizi is located in the right front of the intersection. Tuweizi is a rare architectural landscape in that area with a radius of hundreds of miles, it is surrounded by a rectangular shape by a high wall that is about three or four zhang high and half a meter thick, and the bunker on the four corners is also equipped with gun holes. The production of the high wall uses antique techniques, and the soil is piled up and compacted after frying, which is very strong, and later the residents often use the remaining soil clods on the wall to move home and smash them to the ground. The soil enclosure is divided into two rows of houses sitting north and facing south, the back row is divided into two groups, each group of more than ten rooms, the front row is divided into three groups, each group of a few rooms, there are scattered houses outside, the team site is located in the periphery, there are only seven resident families. Because the village is too small to have a school, the children need to go to the nearby village of Big Elm. The most regrettable thing is that there is no electricity in Tuweizi. There are two or three SD families here, as well as cadre families sent by the commune in turn, and transitional households temporarily arranged by the commune for various reasons. Not long after Wu's family moved here, the commune supply and marketing cooperative, because they often lost things, asked the commune leaders to send Lao Wu to the watch. At this time, Wu Liang had grown up, particularly capable, not only provoked the pillar of the family, but also was appreciated and cultivated by the leadership, and soon became a leading member of Tuweizi, as soon as he took office, he set out to solve the problem of electrification of Tuweizi, and was very popular with the masses.

In the mid-60s, when the movement of intellectuals to go to the mountains and countryside had been launched, Tuweizi was selected as the county's educated youth spot, and many children of county cadres were arranged here. The close interaction between the residents and the educated youth has formed a humanistic landscape of cordial interaction between farmers and young intellectuals. The educated youth brought the vitality of the scholars and the information of the outside world into the life of Xiaotun, and soon integrated with the life of the villagers, through the close contact between labor and life, unconsciously affected and improved the people here, and the people here are also transforming the educated youth, some of the educated youth began to start a family here, and the male and female educated youths became partners, and some married the local villagers, and they really took root. Xiaotun due to the arrival of a batch of educated youth, suddenly lively, injected with cultural vitality and vigor, the rural scarce books, newspapers, songs implanted in the life of Xiaotun, Tun people consciously or unconsciously accept cultural enlightenment, become a great luck for Tun people, the film often goes to the countryside for a sneak peek, attracting the surrounding villagers to watch, by the surrounding villagers called the village of educated youth, cultural Tun. Originally, it was close to the national highway, and there was an oilfield water diversion project next to it, which crossed with the national highway, injecting aura activity into Xiaotun, and some love stories naturally occurred by the small river and the highway. Because most of the educated youths who come here are the children of leading cadres in the county, they naturally have political sensitivity. Wu Liang was originally a young man with brains, willing to make progress, and able to endure hardships, shouldering the burden of the family and shouldering the leadership responsibility of Xiaotun, and mingling with the educated youth. The intellectuals continue to bring cultural books that are very scarce in rural areas, especially novels that are very popular with young people. Wu Liang often takes the novels read by the educated youth home to read, which also gives his younger brothers a rare opportunity to read novels, which is conducive to the growth of children, and can be directly influenced by a high-level and very active cultural atmosphere. Educated youths also often go to Wu Liang's house to gather and talk, and some educated youths talk about their own bad fate, and when a person catches up with the moment of social turning, he can only bend with the bend, which is a helpless thing. During this period, Wu Laomo's family situation began to improve in an all-round way.

At this time, Wu Lao's meme unit has good food, life and leisure, people are also in the prime of life, the body is recovering well, close to home, playing at night, going home during the day to serve their own land, the second is a soldier, the third has become a pillar of the family, and has grown into a leader with active thinking, very assertive, and good friends. The fourth primary school graduated from the village to herd sheep, the fifth and sixth walked 3 miles to the big elm village to go to the primary school, Gui Fang took the little sister at home, and was not willing to be lonely, went from house to house, helpful, very active, very popular with the educated youth. It's just that Wu Quan's family is still in Big Elm Village, but fortunately, Wu Hua and Wu Wei often visit their eldest brother's family when they go to school every day, and they don't seem lonely. With the increase in population, the number of school-age children in Tuweizi has gradually increased, and Tuweizi also has three grades of primary school that are not so standardized, that is, one teacher teaches students of different grades, and Wu Shuang is enrolled nearby.

Now that life is better and the burden has been reduced, Gui Fang has been ingenious, and has begun to cook the meals carefully, constantly adjusting the style to do this and that. The millet produced in the sandy land, the color is yellow and the taste is fragrant, after the pot is boiled, it is fished out with a fence and steamed again, it is soaring, it is not only appetizing but also very nutritious to eat, women are confined to millet porridge for food, and then with boiled eggs and brown sugar is a good tonic. Poor families can't afford soybean oil, and it's good to stew vegetables with small rice soup. Millet and millet rice are boiled into two rice, and millet rice and kidney beans are boiled into millet rice and red bean rice, which has become an attractive brand rice. If it is accompanied by crucian carp soup, guests will not have to panic, it is simply a good meal. Heterozygous noodles, mix a small amount of soybean flour with bud rice noodles, ferment without alkali and dough starters, paste them into large cakes, and they are sweet and delicious to eat. Bud rice rice porridge, put some alkali and kidney beans when cooking, come back from work and eat in the house, sweat while eating steaming, bud rice ballast big kidney beans, the more you eat, the less enough, the green onion is dipped in the sauce, the more you eat, the stronger you are. Soba noodles are topped with shredded meat and mushrooms. Early crops buckwheat and millet. Buckwheat noodles buckwheat noodles cake buckwheat noodles. Rice sticky bean wrap dipped in sugar and dipped in oil to eat, Laba porridge dipped in meat oil, pork fat boiled out of the meat oil is easy to preserve, become the main edible oil, the remaining oil seeds are chopped and mixed into cabbage, celery as dumpling filling is very fragrant.

Gui Fang's handmade side dishes are also very particular, such as leek flowers, pickled cucumbers, salted radish strips, garlic eggplant, salted cabbage, and minced chili peppers, which must be served at every meal. and accumulated a good hand of sauerkraut.

This generation is rich in fish resources, and fish are indispensable on the dinner table, the most common carp, grass roots, crucian carp, white tickets, and three flowers. Salted dried fish, stewed artemisia sprouts with catfish, stewed tofu with crucian carp, stewed mushrooms with chicken, stewed vermicelli with pork, stewed sauerkraut with white meat. Dried vegetables for winter, planted cucumber strips, eggplant strips, carob strips, bean shreds plus the collected yellow flowers, mushrooms and wild vegetables are dried to make dried vegetables and other winter eats, especially when the green and yellow are not connected, they are taken out and soaked in water and fried, stewed, mixed and stuffed, and eaten to become the best food, which is much more delicious than the potatoes, Chinese cabbage and large rotpers stored in the cellar. Every hot summer, the melons and vegetables that are dried on the ropes or wires that are pulled up have become a novel landscape in the Tuweizi courtyard, attracting the onlookers of the neighbors and the admiration of "tsk".

One day, Wu Liang happily brought back a basket of fresh crucian carp, Gui Fang said, today Mom will give you a different way. I don't know where she learned a fresh way to make crucian carp soup with millet rice. Put salt in the basin first, in order to let the fish spit out the mud and sand in the stomach, when it is time to do, use a knife to cut a small hole horizontally on the front chest of the fish, squeeze out the bitter gall, the fish is still alive without guts, then boil the cauldron on the water, put the millet rice in the pot, when the water is not hot, the whole pot of fish does not scrape the scales into the pot, the fish enter the hot water and grab the millet rice to eat, the stomach is full, and then increase the heat to cook, serve it to the table, put on the leek flowers, salted cucumbers, garlic eggplant, spicy cabbage several plates of small pickles, each person has a flat bottom plate, The soup is served first, it is milky white, and it is unusually delicious when you take a sip. The people at the table were excited about this fresh way to eat it, but they didn't know how to eat the fish. Gui Fang demonstrated, first use chopsticks to flick the head, peel off the scales, the fish scales have been connected into a piece, with ingenuity to dial a piece down, revealing the white and tender fish, the fish belly rice, with chopsticks a clamp is a big rice ball, because the fish stew did not put salt, so eat the fish with pickles when eating, eat one after another, the fish rice is simply eaten into a family fun, have asked when to do it again, really eat the last meal and want to eat the next meal.

The peasants have the hardships and joys of the peasants, and the most bitter thing is that they have to endure the suffering of hunger when the season is not green. The joy is that the fresh smell of melons, fruits and vegetables wafts everywhere in the countryside, which can make the tired farmers begin to taste the joy of the harvest, sit next to the miso vat and hold the green onions and cucumbers that have just been collected from the ground and rub them on the placket of the clothes with the sauce to enjoy the mouth, and the wowotou steamed with the freshly laid cornmeal stickers after autumn has a fresh rice fragrance. The Tuweizi people, who fully and greedily felt the pleasures of the peasants, did not know that there were no other pleasures in the world. Tuweizi people's vision is gradually opened, first installed on the electric light, connected to the radio line, you can listen to the simulcast program of the people's radio station in various places every night, and then you can also go to sleep with the music of backgammon, the national defense highway with the gravel surface is upgraded to an asphalt road, which becomes smooth and smooth, not afraid of rain and mud, the artificially dug canal makes people see the spectacular labor scene of the sea of people tactics, and the reinforced concrete bridge that has never been seen in the countryside. Next came the magnificent movement of intellectual youth to go to the countryside, and urban civilization accompanied the educated youth into rural life, so that the rural areas experienced the baptism of civilization that did not exist in ancient times. Wu Laomo's family became the biggest beneficiaries of this baptism.

When Wu Lao's family just saw a turnaround, Gui Fang was suffering from illness and coronary heart disease due to long-term hard work, and seeing his young sons worry about aggravating the condition, Wu Liang was rushed to the county hospital for treatment despite his mother's opposition. Wu Liang also worked too early to farm, got up early and greedy late, and was heavy physical labor, and his nutrition could not keep up, so he was tired and injured, and he also needed to be treated and recuperate, but he was also suffering from the heavy burden of his family, and he was poor and sick.

During the special period, even this Xiaotun also set up a revolutionary committee, Wu Liang became the main member of the revolutionary committee, and his home became a public place where the revolutionary committee often held. The meeting at home lasted all night, and the house was filled with smoke. After the meeting, I didn't forget to stand up and face the chairman like I wish the chairman long live, the vice chairman will always be healthy, an old farmer casually shouted ** long live with everyone wishing the chairman, Wu Liang's younger brothers also felt both novel and explosive, muttering there. Usually the place where the meeting is held is also an active place for the distribution of gossip, and from time to time it can be heard that holding a newspaper with a photo of the chairman is being branded as a counter-revolutionary, and there are also clerical mistakes and mistakes that have been turned into a current one. Wu Wei was only a teenager at that time, and he also seemed to have been politically enlightened, and paid special attention to the events around him, and found the statue of the chairman littered near the house of the landlord who was being disciplined, so he led the children to the house to investigate, and saw a young girl from the neighbor's city writing Banzai on the blackboard as suspected Wanfa, so he entangled and scared the girl to tears, causing a dispute.

Wu Liang is in his early 20s, he has a mind and is very lively, he has gone to school in the county No. 1 middle school and seen the world, and then he looks at the girls in the village naturally dislike the rustic, although the girls in the neighboring villages of this village see that the young man has a promising appearance and asks someone to contact him from time to time to introduce, Wu Liang is not concerned. Seeing the female intellectuals who kept coming here, the educated and long-term water spirits, and the clothes were neat, I gradually moved my mind and wanted to find one among them. This year, there was a well-proportioned young girl with big eyes, big braids, and a round face, named Tong Hui, who was taken a fancy by Wu Liang at a glance, so he looked for an opportunity to approach. Tong Hui was very surprised that a rural young man took a fancy to him and took the initiative to express his love to him, which triggered a very complex psychological reaction. The above is a call to take root in the countryside, but I have no intention of finding a partner in the countryside to settle down, even if I want to choose a suitable one among the educated youths who go to the countryside together, it is unrealistic to go back to the city to find it, my parents have no power and power, my mother is a housewife, and my father is a railway wrenchman. Wu Liang launched an offensive of love to Tong Hui, full of confidence in this matter, he exerted his ability to say good things, and said to Tong Hui, don't think my family is poor, poor will think about change, my family from old to young has a strong desire to change poverty, and they all have the spirit of hard work, not afraid of hardship, people are not poor, the family will change sooner or later, you have to have a long-term vision. Wu Liang also found other well-known young people to make peace with him. Tong Hui saw that although Wu Liang's family had a large population and was very poor, she was indeed a little stunned, but she felt that Wu Liang was very capable and knowledgeable, he became a leader at a young age, and he was also very prestigious among the educated youth. Sure enough, when Tong Hui returned to the city to talk to her parents, she was unanimously opposed by her family, especially her father.

Once the desire for love has germinated, it cannot be eliminated unless it encounters a personal insult or other major personality injury. In the face of many obstacles, we need to constantly add reasons to ourselves and provide confidence and courage to break through the obstacles. Some ideas are not clear at first, but are in a hazy state, and when they encounter the right facts, like a magnet attracting iron is more like welding, they determine the direction of the evolution of ideas and behaviors. Thousands of thoughts and thoughts that occur in life are like seeds sown in the world, which seeds can take root, sprout, grow and mature and bear fruit, and which ones will die, one looks at whether the seeds are good or bad, and the other depends on what kind of ecological environment the seeds fall into. Wu Liang's desire to marry a girl in the city turned out to be just subconscious, as early as when he was a student in the county No. 1 Middle School, but he didn't dare to think clearly, the poor students and the reputation of stealing made this desire even more impossible. Unexpectedly, the flood of going up the mountains and going to the countryside actually sent the beautiful city girl to him, providing him with the opportunity to achieve his dream of happiness and beauty.

Wu Liang's whole family attaches great importance to the success or failure of his marriage, which has multiple symbolic meanings, not only beyond the general concept of the family, but also beyond the barriers between urban and rural areas, workers and peasants, especially means that the whole family is liberated from the shadow of the unfortunate marriage of the boss Wu Quan, the success of this matter will mean the improvement of the status of the whole family, and the phoenix in the city will fall to his family is unprecedentedly encouraged and motivated. This made Wu Liang's ideas more persistent and more eager to succeed. However, the combination of Wu Liang and Tong Hui encountered obstacles that greatly exceeded the imagination of the two people. At the in-laws party of Wu Liang's family, one side was happily pouring all his possessions, and the local food that could be put on the table was full of tables, but the other side was cloudy and overcast. Tong Hui's father was even more angry when he saw the situation of Wu Liang's family, the family lived in such a hut, the north and south kang, there was no condition to build a new house, they couldn't afford to give a bride price, they couldn't get decent decorations, they just made a pair of boxes with clothes for the wedding and put them in the north kang, and the kang curtain was closed. On the day of the kiss, there was a scene that made the bride extremely painful, just when Tong Hui cried goodbye to her parents and younger siblings and walked out of the house, Tong Hui's mother felt sorry for her daughter after all, worried that the girl would suffer from this and fall into the abyss of suffering, and couldn't help but tear her face in the face of the parting of her relatives, but Lao Tong was very annoyed that the eldest daughter insisted on going her own way, and lost her face when she married in the countryside, seeing that the girl was going to leave the house, she said coldly, you can go, take off the watch! Tong Hui's brain suddenly went blank when she heard it, and she didn't know how to take off her watch, how to get out of the house, and how to get on the train, but fortunately, Wu Liang was by her side, supporting her all the way, and comforting, don't get angry, the old man's attitude is understandable, and slowly everything will be fine. secretly vowed in his heart to let Tong Hui live a prosperous life.

Wu Laomo's family has a new daughter-in-law, which is full of joyful atmosphere, but in the evening, it has become the most embarrassing moment for the groom and daughter-in-law. Wu Laomo worked in the commune's supply and marketing cooperative, but Gui Fang and several sons and a little girl slept in the south kang, and a newlywed couple was in the north kang, that is, a curtain was drawn. A couple of newlyweds want to have sex and have to wait until the people in Nankang have fallen asleep, the originally strong sweet and warm newlywed life has been added to the deliberate waiting and restraint, and the splint has become unbearable, and the strong love is not satisfied, and the resentment has accumulated for a long time. was originally a harmonious family, but now Wu Liang kicked and slapped his younger siblings when he was a little unsatisfactory, and his younger siblings were sensible and did not squeak, for fear of upsetting his sister-in-law and making his mother upset, so he became extremely diligent. After a long time, Gui Fang saw the way, and he didn't want his son and girl to be wronged, so he sat on Nankang and scolded Wu Liang and told Tong Hui again, eat you, wear yours, I eat your father's, I haven't let you feed you yet! He scolded again, don't be inside the door, and have the ability to go outside. Wu Liang could only endure it when he heard it, and his distressed and sickly mother wanted to coax his newlywed wife again, and hated his younger brothers and sisters for not being successful. The atmosphere at home gradually became tense, and Wu Liang often took advantage of the opportunity to buy some snacks and candy for his daughter-in-law, who often stuffed them under the box, and was seen by the sharp-eyed and greedy brothers, who naturally took advantage of the lack of people in the house to steal them. and often because of the housework to do more and less disputes, Gui Fang is most unaccustomed to the new daughter-in-law's lazy life, a little unsatisfactory to sit on the kang head and open her mouth to scold, and who is not the grandmother who invited!

The most unbearable thing for Tong Hui is the unhygienic living habits of the peasants, out of sight and out of mind, but the family lives under one roof, and it becomes a kind of mental torture in the eyes every day. A few little uncles went to the outhouse barefoot to urinate on the toilet at night, and happened to meet two people who were making out and had to stop, the family sat around a kang table to eat, she and Wu Liang sat on both sides of the kang table, often to help the people sitting in it to serve rice, when eating, a table of people kept eating while tapping their mouths, and after the meal was carried to the mouth with chopsticks, they didn't smack clean and took the things in their mouths and stretched them out to the plate, even Gui Fang, who was afraid that his child would be wronged, couldn't stand it, From time to time, use chopsticks to knock on the interception, and the chopsticks are clean! Watching the children laughing and playing at the dinner table, he scolded, I can't stop your mouth when I eat! The mouth and head are not clean, and he raises his arm and plucks it on the sleeve of his clothes. Occasionally improve the food, all of them will keep holding the delicious stuffed into the mouth that has been full, often cough up phlegm while eating, and then a large mouthful of thick phlegm "pop" across the table of the food far to the ground, fall to the table and even fall to the ground on the rice grains are also picked up with chopsticks and put in the mouth to eat, go to the back of the house and don't know how to avoid people casually squatting there to defecate, summer to pick cucumbers from the home simply with a hand to sit next to the sauce jar and dip the sauce to eat, Take the water scoop into the water tank, scoop the water and drink the rest, and pour the rest into the water tank. Whenever she saw these sloppy behaviors, Tong Hui couldn't help but show a look of disgust. The younger uncles will feel the pressure invisibly, and realize that doing so will add some trouble, perhaps to make the sisters-in-law in the city look more pleasing to the eye, and gradually add some restraint to their behavior.

In Tong Hui's eyes, although the little uncles are a little too sloppy, but they are still very discerning and diligent when they see those younger brothers and sisters, they get up in the morning to fold the quilt and clean up the house, put the table when the meal is ready, pick up the house, brush the dishes and sweep the floor, when they come back from school, they put down their schoolbags and hold firewood to help cook and stew vegetables, wash clothes on Sundays, clean up the garden, and the big picture is reasonable, and the work is crisp and neat, and the sloppiness in the details of life is slowly changing, as if being washed by the rain gradually becomes tidy. These children like to read, when they are idle, they often have a book in their hands and sit on the kang or lie down to go to bed before turning it over, they are fond of books, and they hear a "poof" sound from time to time when they read interesting entry, and there is often a book on the dinner table, and even deliberately find a quiet place outside to squat on the ground when on the ground and spreading a thick novel, sometimes seen by the Tun people, it is rumored that the children of the old Wu family and read. In the past, there was no electricity here, so they had to go to school and work during the day and read books at night by the kerosene lamp in a faint light the size of a bean. The landscape that Tong Hui saw in this family was rare in the countryside, and it somewhat diluted her dissatisfaction and resentment. It's just that the sex between husband and wife is too unsatisfactory, and they have to be temperate and patient for a while. Judging from this narrative, the next generation of Wu Laomo is luckier than other rural youths, and they can experience a baptism of urban civilization much higher than rural civilization in their daily trivial life under one roof, so that they more or less begin to stay away from unclean rural life, and through the promotion of reading, everything is happening unconsciously, everything is changing imperceptibly, and slowly they themselves are hating those sloppy living habits. This allowed them to integrate into city life relatively smoothly later on. This is a peculiar way of learning and education, but it is more effective than those civilized exhortations, and under the gaze of the beautiful sister-in-law, they understand the importance of cleanliness and tidiness.

Wu Liang calmly weighed it, considering that it would be better to separate the family and live alone, now Wu Hua has also come down to work, the fourth Wu Shi has become a soldier again, Wu Gui has also been demobilized and arranged to work in the county bank to marry a daughter-in-law, the younger brother and sister can also do some housework, the family burden is gradually reduced, and he gradually heard the villagers talking about him, saying that he relied on his younger brothers to help him live, and decided to move out of Lu to live alone. The result of the separation is a relief for everyone and the small family.