Chapter Twenty-Six: Grandma's Story 2
Around the winter solstice of 1942. Grandma Wai Tai took a little boy and gave birth to a pair of dragons and phoenixes in a haystack in a village in Muye City, Zhongzhou Province.
The girl in the dragon and phoenix fetus is Chang Annie's grandmother.
After the birth of Chang Annie's grandmother, the grandmother named the girl Ma Qingping, which means a lifetime of Qingping.
After Xiao Qingping was born, his grandmother had to temporarily settle down in the local area, but a woman with three children, a house without a foot, an inch of land, no fixed residence, and a helpless mother and son of four temporarily lived in a deserted and dilapidated temple, begging for food to make a living.
One evening, the sky suddenly began to drizzle.
On a muddy country road, a man gradually came, about 35 years old. The clothes on his body were wet, and his feet were covered with yellow mud, and he covered his head with his hands from time to time, looking embarrassed.
It was getting dark, the rain was getting heavier and heavier, and the village was full of smoke, and the man involuntarily quickened his pace, walking alone in the drizzle.
The man's name was Wang Daye, and he looked up, getting closer and closer to the next village, and seemed to be expecting something in his heart.
The village in front of me is not big or small, with hundreds of families scattered everywhere, slightly backward and poor.
Most of them are low-rise old houses with mud structures, and Wang Daye came to the first family at the entrance of the village and asked for a place to live, but was directly refused.
Wang Daye continued to walk in the drizzle of the small village, and an unfamiliar figure smashed the pot in the village at once, and several curious dogs chased him and roared behind him, children looked curiously, and adults whispered together.
Wang Daye was a little embarrassed, came to a house again, and mustered up the courage to ask, "Sister, can I stay here for one night." ”
A middle-aged and elderly woman was holding a rice bowl, and when she looked, a man on the side suddenly pulled her behind her and said something, and then the middle-aged and elderly woman said: "The family is small, and I can't live there, you go to another house to ask." ”
Wang Daye's face was hot, and as soon as he walked away, he heard someone behind him speak: "Recently, Wangjia Village has lost something, that is, an unknown person has come to the village, this person is sleeping on a rainy day, and he is a pathfinder, and now no one dares to take in passers-by." ”
Wang Daye quickened his pace, left as if fleeing, dodged under the eaves everywhere, and then came to a house not far away, and before he could speak, he was driven far away. Wang Daye was disappointed.
The night gradually came, Wang Daye was hungry and cold, asked most of the villagers before and after, but no one was willing to take them in, and even a bowl of cold rice could not be obtained, if it was not raining, his tears would definitely hang on his face, and finally there was a blind man in the village, jokingly said: "There is a broken temple in the east of the village, if you are not afraid of ghosts, you can go there to sleep." ”
When Wang Daye heard this, there was no other way now, maybe it was the best choice, so he had to go to the broken temple in the east of the village hungry, only to hear a burst of laughter behind him, and he didn't know what it meant?
The sky was completely dark, Guo Zhengping finally touched the broken temple, there was no candlelight in it, through the faint night, only to find that this was an extremely dilapidated small temple, overgrown with weeds, extremely desolate, and gloomy.
The beams of the roof have collapsed most of them, leaking rain everywhere, the ruins and broken walls, there is a clay sculpture of the Bodhisattva in the middle of the temple, Wang Daye curled up in the corner, and finally understood the reason why the villagers laughed!
The sound of the rain gradually stopped, Wang Daye was as cold as water, fell on a pile of grass in the broken temple, and fell asleep unconsciously.
In the middle of the night, the broken temple was windy and cold, Wang Daye heard the faint sound of a baby babbling behind the clay Bodhisattva, Wang Daye was a little infiltrated, shrunk his body, and did not dare to move, only to hear the voice becoming clearer and clearer, couldn't help it, and was bold, kneeling in front of the clay Bodhisattva, kowtowing three heads, and silently chanting in his mouth: "Great Compassion Guanyin Bodhisattva bless~" got up and walked behind the clay Bodhisattva.
Approaching through the moonlight through the broken window into the temple, there was a haystack behind the clay Bodhisattva, and there seemed to be something moving in the haystack.
The two children were born less than half a month old. Together, they were wrapped in the dirty old coarse cotton clothes worn by an adult. It was also covered with straw.
Wang Daye was a little shocked, how could there be two such young children in this broken temple? Wang Daye saw that the two children's faces were a little blue, their bodies looked weak, and the babbling voice was also very weak, raised his hand to pick up the baby, turned around and sat on the haystack with his back against the clay Bodhisattva, the two children let Wang Daye hug him, and looked at him with four pairs of eyes dripping and slipping, kicking his little hands and feet, babbling in his mouth, Lao Wang couldn't put it down. I think these two babies are very cute.
The two children were held and slept all night, and the next morning, Wang Daye was in a daze and did not wake up completely, when he heard footsteps from the temple, in fright, Lao Wang sat up, and the two children in his arms, one of them suddenly cried.
The footsteps were getting closer and closer, and Lao Wang saw clearly that there were two people in front of him, a young woman, and a child about 4 years old. The two of them were thinly dressed, with yellow faces and thin muscles, and they were trembling all over. He stood in front of Lao Wang with a somewhat flustered expression.
When the young woman saw Lao Wang holding the child, she hurriedly said, "The child is mine, give it to me!" After taking the child, the woman pulled the child and sat on the haystack, raised her eyes to look at Lao Wang, turned her back a little embarrassed, opened the shabby clothes with holes everywhere, and began to feed the two children.
After feeding, the woman put the two children on the haystack, and the 4-year-old boy, lying on the woman's lap, cried and said, "Mom, I'm hungry!" Mom, I'm hungry! Lao Wang looked at the scene in front of him and couldn't help but redden.
Lao Wang said: "Sister, what about your man? How can one person with three children? ”
The young woman pulled her hair, raised her eyes to look at Lao Wang, and said, "The child's father has passed away from illness, and his in-laws can't stay anymore." I originally wanted to take my children to Daxing to join my parents' relatives, but there was a famine on the road, and it seemed that I couldn't go to Daxing. ”
Lao Wang listened to the woman's experience, and also told the woman about his life experience, Lao Wang's family is in the west district of Quanzhou City, Qilu Province, his father passed away, there is only an old mother, and a brother who is 1 year older than Lao Wang. Because of the poverty of the family, Lao Wang and his brother have never married. In 1938, after the Japanese army invaded Quanzhou, my brother and Lao Wang were arrested to be a strong man, according to Lao Wang's recollections, those days were really hell on earth, during the day let me work hard, do a little slower, the devil used a leather whip to whip hard, all day long, tired and tired, when sleeping at night in a circle, someone next to him with a gun to watch, someone ran to shoot. However, there were still people who kept running away, and after being captured, they were beaten to death in front of the new strong men, and one of them was caught and burned alive on the fire. I have been doing it for 5 years, and last month, my brother and Lao Wang tried to escape again, but on the way, they were arrested with guns. The elder brother didn't run away, he let the devil catch him on the spot, and with a headshot, he ran desperately, running 20 miles in one go. Leng let him run away. Penniless, he saw a village here, so he came to find a place to settle down and find a way to go home......
is the same as the end of the world, why should we have met before!
Later, Wang Daye became the husband of Chang Annie's grandmother, that is, Chang Annie's grandmother. Grandma also changed from Ma Qingping to Wang Qingping. This is the story of Grandma Anne!