Section II
Wenzhu was lost to Yang Liu by his father as gambling money. Wen Zhu's father is also a gambler, and after gambling all the way, the family is surrounded by four walls. When he was young, he first lost Wenzhu's mother in a bet, and when he lost Wenzhu's mother, Wenzhu was only five or six years old at that time. Wenzhu's mother also won it at the gambling table by her father, and later Wenzhu was born. When Wenzhu was not born, my mother was unwilling to live with a gambler like my father for a lifetime, and I was unsuccessful in seeking death and life several times. She is not for anything else, just to raise the child to adulthood. The mother couldn't change her father's gambling nature, so she could only marry a chicken and a dog, and accept her fate. When Wenzhu was five years old, his father finally lost all his gambling money, and finally bet on Wenzhu's mother, but he also lost. Wenzhu's mother could have cried, but she didn't shed a single tear. She looked at Wenzhu's father, who was squatting in front of her in a dejected manner, and said very calmly: The child is mine and yours, and I am leaving. I only ask you for one thing, raise the child and let her marry a good family.
The father, who was squatting on the ground, raised his head at this time, gritted his teeth and said: "Child, mother, you go first, maybe ten days, maybe twenty days, I will give up my life to win you back, we are still a family, I don't dislike you."
The mother had a cold face, spit at the father with a "bah", and said: No one believes your nonsense. If you lose to me this time, there will be a next time, for the sake of the child, I can only give you one gambling money, there is no next time.
The father's head lowered again, raised again with a half-sound, and said with a white face: I will win you back, and I will never gamble again. Let's live a good life.
Mother said, "You have said this a hundred times and a thousand times, who will believe it?"
After the mother finished speaking, she took Wen Zhu's hand, and Wen Zhu stood aside and looked at the two of them very calmly. Five-year-old Wenzhu already understood what was happening in front of him. She didn't cry or make a fuss, and looked at her parents calmly.
The mother first squatted down and hugged Wenzhu, tears flowing.
Wenzhu went to wipe her mother's tears, and her mother said: Child, remember, this is my mother's life.
The father knelt down for the mother, and said in a choked voice: "Child, mother, don't worry, you walk with the front foot, and I will win you back with the back foot." Don't gamble anymore, and bet that I'm not raised by people.
The mother stood up, wiped the tears from her face and said, "The child is also yours, you can watch it."
After speaking, he walked out of the house, waiting outside the door to win his mother's Xiang Mazi. Bet on Mazi, only bet on women, not on the house or land, so Xiang Mazi changed women like a marquee. The woman who won did not stay with him for long, for months at most, for a few days at the least. Xiang Mazi once said that he wanted to win all the women within a radius of 100 miles, and then lose again.
When his mother walked to the door, Wen Zhu shouted in a thin and sharp voice: Mother.
The mother turned her head once, and she saw that her face was so pale that there was no trace of blood. In the end, the mother rode away without looking back on the ox cart that drove to Mazi.
The father really did what he said, and the next day he went to bet with Mazi again, he wanted to win back Wenzhu's mother. His father had no gambling money, so he had to use his life to offset it. Xiang Mazi didn't ask for his father's life, but said: Bet the guy in your crotch.
Father looked at Xiang Mazi, he knew what Xiang Mazi was thinking. Xiang Mazi won Wenzhu's mother, and he had the final say on what bet Xiang Mazi, he could only agree to Xiang Mazi. As a result, his father lost, and he smiled at Mako and threw the scissors in front of his father. The rules in the casino are that if you say it, you will spill the water, and there is no room for retraction. Unless you're not in the circle. With a reputation for not being trustworthy, it is difficult to live a personal life in the land of Kanto, unless you go far away.
That night, my father came back crawling. Ever since his father went out, Wenzhu has been sitting on the threshold waiting for his father. She hopes that her father will win her mother back and return to her former warm life. As a result, he saw his father, covered in blood.
It was the day after my father lost again, that my mother was at Xiang Mazi's house and hung herself up with her trouser belt. This was one of the most dignified and fierce ways for women to die at that time.
The mother died, and the father lay on the kang and cried for two days. Later, he bent over, crossed his legs, and went out to gamble again. This time he won back a few acres of mountainous land. Since then, my father has stopped gambling, and his temperament has changed greatly. The father gambled on the objects in the crotch, and his personality was like that of a woman.
Leaning on those acres of mountainous land, my father pulled Wenzhu, my father was silent, and every year my father always took Wenzhu to my mother's grave to have a look and burn some paper. The father rushed to the grave and said, "Child, mother, look at the child, she is older."
Later, his father also let Wenzhu study in private school for two years and learned some words.
My father was working on a few acres of mountainous land, supporting himself and Wenzhu. Wenzhu will be sixteen years old in a flash, and the sixteen-year-old Wenzhu is a beautiful girl, one of the best in a hundred miles.
That time, my father came to my mother's grave again, and every time I went to my mother's grave, Wenzhu always accompanied me, but this time my father didn't let Wenzhu accompany him. He rushed to the grave and said: "Child, my mother has grown up, and there is no one who can compare with our girl." I want to find a good family for the girl, and she will be used for a lifetime.
The father kowtowed three times to the mother's grave and said, "Child, mother, I will gamble one last time, this is the last time, to win back some dowry for the child." A girl can't find a good family without a dowry, you know. This is my last time.
After the father finished speaking, he kowtowed to his mother's grave three more times, and then turned back and walked away.
Before gambling, his father said to Wenzhu: Girl, my father will go out for a few days, if he dies, you will bury my father next to your mother. I can't live with her in this life, and I will serve her as a cow and a horse in the next life.
Wen Zhu knew what his father was going to do, so he knelt down for his father with a "plop". She said with tears in her eyes: Dad, gold and silver mountains are not rare, you don't gamble anymore, please.
My father also shed tears, raised his head and said, "Girl, I told your mother that it's just this time."
My father's gambling intentions that he had accumulated for more than ten years had been decided, and ten cows could not be pulled back. My father went again, and he wanted to make a last stand, to use his life to gamble for the last time. As a result, no one accepted his gambling "capital", if you want to gamble, you can only accept his girl Wenzhu as gambling capital. In order to let his daughter marry a good family, for more than ten years, his father's gambling nature has not been lost, he does not believe that he will lose the bet, and if he really gambles the girl, he can bet his life, which is the rule of gamblers. My father, who had not gambled for a long time, walked to the casino for the last time.
As a result, he lost badly, and his opponents were all generations away. Those opponents in the past either washed their hands and died, or their families were ruined. The new generation in these casinos, green out of the blue, only a few rounds, he first lost Wenzhu to Yang Liu, and then when he fished again, he lost his life again.
Yang Liu looked very humane and said to him: You just give me the girl, and you don't want your life. Don't you still have a few acres of mountainous land, so you can live for another ten years.
When Wen Zhu knew that his father had lost to Yang Liu, he was as calm as his mother had left the house. She even kowtowed to her father, and then said: Dad, you gave me this life, and you raised me, I know your kindness. It's nothing, even if I repay you.
After saying that, he stood up and walked away without looking back.
Yang Liu led a tall horse and waited outside. Wenzhu left, riding a horse.
My father eventually crashed to his death on a rock in front of his mother's grave. Wenzhu buried his father, and instead of burying his father and mother together, Wenzhu buried his father on another hillside, and the two graves looked at each other from afar.
After Wen Zhu lived by Yang Liu's side for a month and ten days, she lost to Feng Shan again as Yang Liu's gambling capital.