Chapter Seventy-One: Circle Year by Year
This year's Lunar New Year came exceptionally early.
The Hua Lin family has already planned that they will go back to their grandparents' house in the countryside and return to the ancestral house to celebrate the New Year with their uncles and uncles.
seems to be an ordinary move, but there are quite a lot of inside things to say in the Hua Lin family.
After the outbreak of the "top pot" incident of Grandpa Hua Lone, Grandpa was angry, abdicated arrogantly, and returned to the countryside to be a rich idler for a few years.
The leaders of the internal powerful units are very clear, even if Grandpa Hua leaves, the favor is still there, and it is not so obvious that people will go to tea, so no one will wear small shoes, and Father Hua is quite smooth sailing in the unit.
As I get older year by year, this marriage is a matter of concern to the masses.
As mentioned before, in the early years, they met on a blind date through various relationships with colleagues in the unit.
"Come on, don't be restrained, this is Hua Pingjin. Sitting in the office, comfortable, is it a talent? ”
"Hello, this is Yuan Pingqing. Engage in technology, hehe. Iron rice bowl. ”
Ping and Ping suddenly had the fate of a natural pair.
As said before, Hua Pingjin and Yuan Pingqing's love process did not last long, considering the negative impact of late marriage and late childbearing in that era, the voices of marriage urging continued.
Then I don't know who gave Hua Pingjin a move, and he had to divide the unit to say things, if he didn't get married before the division, this house would inevitably be missed.
So, I didn't wait to see the elders of the Hua family, but I hurriedly visited Hua Lone's grandfather, and the grandfather was more easy-going, and there was no bride price or any conditions to embarrass the new aunt, in short, they quickly got a marriage certificate, held a banquet in the city, and invited guests.
Grandpa Hua didn't come because he didn't want to return to the city again.
It was precisely at the banquet that Hua Pingjin's family gossip was mentioned, and it was also a fact that his parents were married by kinship, and the speaker had no intention of listening to it, which was for the young Yuan Pingqing, on the basis of information inequality and opacity.
Because I have to see my parents sooner or later, there is news from the countryside that I want to go back and do it again, which is considered to be entering the ancestral hall.
At that time, the traffic of the national road network was not smooth, the eighteen bends of the mountain road were still rugged, and the carrying capacity of the long-distance passenger car was limited, and the car sat for more than 6 hours.
Fortunately, it is not winter, and in case of a storm, sometimes there are rocks rolling down from the mountains, blocking the road.
Along the way, the car was shaking, and people were shaking, especially people with motion sickness physique were very sensitive to the smell of gasoline, and Yuan Pingqing had psychological resistance because of various physical discomforts.
Not only did she regret that she shouldn't have promised their old flower family to go back to hold this "extra move" banquet, but she even regretted that she had made a wrong decision with a hot head, why did she marry the person in front of her.
Although I have experienced decentralization, I have been to a more difficult rural environment;
However, when Yuan Pingqing got off the bus and stepped softly on this black soil rich in tungsten sand, she looked around and looked up, all of which were stacked high and tall green mountains, arranged in black pressure.
Plucked up the courage again, looked back at the way she came, couldn't see the direction clearly, and didn't know where to go at all, the defense line in her heart was very tense.
It's a little scary to say.
If this is deceived to sell, it is confused and panic that you don't even know what direction to run away.
The countryside where my grandfather's house is located is a deep mountain hinterland in the south.
It can be said that this village is the only hub station in all directions within a radius of ten miles.
The congenital conditions are good.
Surrounded by green mountains, holding a pool of living water.
In Hua Lone's impression, grandpa once described that this is a treasure of feng shui, because the plot of the whole village is like a boat, moored at the foot of the mountain.
Every second, twelve, and twenty-second day of the new year, people who rush to the market will come, and the crowds are crowded, and it is particularly lively.
Walking into the mountains from here, you will see several families at intervals halfway up the mountain.
Those who are familiar with the area can name the different villages, and in today's parlance, they know where the respective administrative divisions are in the southeast, north, and west.
Anytime he returns here, Hua Pingjin will be very happy, he has loved this land very deeply since he was a child.
But Hua Pingjin, who is not emotionally delicate, has not considered the feelings of his newlywed wife at all.
A woman who has no sense of direction and no acquaintances can't even understand their local dialect that can't be summarized in pinyin pronunciation, and there is no trace of good feeling and sense of security at all.
In addition to the confusion caused by the strangeness, there is also a dislike for this place.
For example, the most primitive and rough sanitary conditions have been preserved here, and several flat plates, on the shelf, are toilets.
If it weren't for the grandeur of the ancestral house, Yuan Pingqing would not have the courage to stay at all.
But the place where you really get married, the ancestral hall you enter, is really not in this village.
In response to rumors, Hua Pingjin is the grandson who passed out.
The ancestral hall of the flower family is in the deeper part of the mountain, a more closed place.
If it weren't for hearing that after crossing this mountain, there were still people over there, Yuan Ping would have thought that he had reached the end of a world.
Yuan Pingqing was reluctant, and she didn't have the courage to turn around and divorce immediately.
She kept telling herself to be patient, and she was relieved that her home, in the city; She has a house, a fund-raising welfare house for the unit, she is from the city, she doesn't belong here, and she won't come back in the future.
They have only been married for a few days, living in that ravine, and they really have to live in Grandpa Hua Lone's house after they get married.
Yuan Pingqing, who was a newcomer, didn't understand what stepson, what biological son, what genealogy, although Hua Pingjin kept telling her that this place was his real hometown; But in fact, he has never lived here, and all the rooms are like guest residences, which is not as good as the ancestral house with the marks of Hua Pingjin's growth.
Hua Pingjin delayed the number of days to return to the ancestral home, and Yuan Pingqing's temper also came up, repeatedly shouting that Hua Pingjin went down the mountain to return to the ancestral house, and shouted that when he couldn't bear it anymore, it happened to be a good weather, and in anger, no matter whether it was right or wrong, he went down the mountain by himself.
Some villagers passed by, did they recognize that this was not a newlywed lady?
When I asked again, I found that the little lady had a dark face and only said "gone".
hurriedly went to report the news, Hua Pingjin chased it out, and followed Yuan Qingping back to the ancestral house.
And in addition to these circumstances, there is a very suspenseful side.
The bride, Yuan Qingping, knew that Hua Pingjin had a brother and sister-in-law, a sister-in-law, and a brother-in-law.
My sister and brother-in-law are in the same city and have seen each other; Younger brother, young.
But this brother and sister-in-law, only my brother has ever shown up, and my sister-in-law has avoided it.
It's just a matter of avoiding it, she peeps behind her back, and she doesn't know what she is observing, Yuan Pingqing has found a figure poking her head out in the afterglow several times.
What kind of neuroticism is this?
Yuan Pingqing's feelings are very intuitive.
However, no matter what, the Hua family has a head and face in the village.
Therefore, she once thought that the best slap in the face of her daughter-in-law to her mother-in-law was not to appear again after getting married, and the right daughter-in-law ran away, which strengthened her determination that she would not come back.
For more than a decade, she really did.
She never went back.
Even after Hua Lin was born, she was weaned next to her grandparents in the countryside, and Yuan Pingqing never missed it.
It is said that when Hua Pingjin picked it up, a child who was only one or two years old would shout "egg" in the dialect there, shouting out a tone that Yuan Pingqing couldn't understand at all, and she cried sadly.
Regarding the fact that Yuan Pingqing will not go back for the New Year, Hua Pingjin does not seem to have any opinions, and he does not force it.
But Hua Pingjin doesn't say that he must go back to the New Year every year, and sometimes he will go back to live with Hua Lin during the summer vacation.
When I was a child, I didn't know why.
Anyway, everywhere you go, there are relatives who can't tell who is whom, and ask: Why didn't your mother come, and is your father and mother on good terms?
Of course, the flower loneliness that is still in the honeypot is very good.
Yuan Pingqing only went back to get married once, and she had a lot of impressions about the scenery of the village, ancestral halls, ancestral homes, and characters, which were fragmented and increasingly blurred.
almost all relied on the flower loneliness when she was a child, and gave her a review and explanation little by little.
For example, talk about the situation of the uncle's family and what happened; Architecture, such as what grandparents' treasures are hidden on the ancestral house; Gossip, for example, when loading New Year's goods to relatives in the city, did you see who loaded more than what?
Maybe there is a mother, there must be a daughter.
Hua Lin also had the experience of going down the mountain alone.
At that age, I don't know why his father had to come to this village, can't he just go to his grandparents' house?
His father didn't leave, playing mahjong, and said that he would come back again.
Hua Lin knows the way, she is not impulsive at all.
She came here every year with her father, and she remembered the rough stretch of the road.
The most difficult thing is actually a lot of three-way intersections that look exactly the same, if you go wrong, then you are really lost, there are forks in the road, it is not easy to come back, and if you are more unlucky, you may meet wild boars in the mountains.
Hua Lin was overconfident, how old she was, so she resolutely took a step to walk back to her grandfather's house on her own.
History repeats itself, and it is also at the entrance of the village to meet the villagers.
"Tongue of the horse, child, hang (sound) Goo Wow (dialect, where to go?) )”
Hua Lin understands a little, but he can't speak at all.
She replied in Mandarin: "I want to go home, to my grandfather's house." ”
Hua Lin strode away, and heard an earth-shattering shout behind him, changed to Mandarin, which meant that this girl was going down the mountain, dangerous, and quickly shouted Hua Pingjin to catch up.
Before he walked to any of the three-way intersections, Hua Pingjin came on his grandfather's bicycle, and his temper was really good at that time, and he didn't have a superfluous nonsense, and drove Hua Lonely home leisurely.
Hua Lin told her mother about this incident, Yuan Ping was overjoyed, and she felt proud in her heart, feeling that her daughter had inherited her own different style.
This triumph began with the layoff, and with the borrowing of money to buy trucks in Pingjin, it began to make ends meet, and it was chic.
Who would have thought that it would be a stressful burden for their family to buy New Year's goods and spend the New Year in the city as a family?!
Do you want to buy some candy, melon seeds, and peanuts to deal with the Yuan sisters?
Chinese New Year's Eve always has 6 dishes, 8 dishes, 10 dishes, such auspicious numbers are colorful, right?
In the case of getting more and more difficult every year, in that year, after Hua Lin was beaten to the road to run for her life, her mother finally made an extremely difficult decision to go back to the countryside that was all described by Hua Lone's mouth.
Because my grandfather is a retired cadre, his salary is very high.
If you want to save a sum of money, this is the only way.
How difficult is it for this to become a means of relieving the poor?
Hua Lonely is suddenly divided into two parts of life with watching the Spring Festival Gala at home for the New Year.
Dad usually celebrates Chinese New Year's Eve and returns to the countryside with flowers before the Lantern Festival.
The memory of the "year" in Hua Lone's impression is the "Spring Festival Gala".
Her family lives high and can see fireworks set off in various places throughout the city.
If the Spring Festival Gala is performing singing and dancing, she will go to the balcony to watch fireworks.
Also guarding the boy on the balcony next door, the boy who leaned against the wall next door and listened to the beatings on the other side.
They will be closest to each other on the balcony, talk about whether the language program of the Spring Festival Gala just now is wonderful or boring, and they will exclaim that a certain set of fireworks is beautiful against the sky.
After zero o'clock, the whole corridor is crackling, deafening firecrackers, and the smell of cannon fodder that can't be blocked in the crack of the door.
Unexpectedly, suddenly, the whole family had to go back to grandpa's house for the New Year.
Unexpectedly, this is not an accident, and I will go again the next year...
I didn't expect that the third year would be...
She always has such nostalgia and sadness, she seems to know that from now on, she will never be able to go back to the past, and she will not be able to experience the heat, truth, and hope of that moment.