Chapter 149: Old Things (I)
Huasheng Town is one of the top 100 economic towns in China, because the land here is full of black gold, coal and oil given by God, and the reserves are very rich, if all of them are developed, the entire Dragon Kingdom will not be used up for fifty years.
Therefore, with the support of the coal and oil economy for many years, Huasheng Town has a very strong economic strength, and the town is also very prosperous, even the taxis on the road are entry-level BMWs.
Si Qingli and Zuo Yilan's two families are natives of Huasheng Town, the two families live next to each other, but the relationship is extremely bad, they are famous rivals, it is said that the relationship between the two families was quite good at the beginning, but it suddenly deteriorated at the beginning of Si Qingli's grandfather's father's generation, and now the two families are almost feuding.
As for the reason for the deterioration of the relationship between the two families since Si Qingli's grandfather's father's generation, Si Qingli heard his ancestors vaguely say that when the political situation in the Dragon Kingdom was turbulent and a nationwide purge was carried out, Si Qingli's grandfather (grandfather's father) was an old private school teacher who taught Bagu Wen, and his family still had a few assets, so he was classified as a feudal remnant, and the conference was criticized, beaten and humiliated.
And at that time, the grandfather who was in charge of criticizing Si Qingli was the grandfather of his neighbor Zuo Yilan, maybe he was too ruthless to make people cheap, Si Qingli's grandfather couldn't stand it in a few years, he was young, he left the old and small in his early thirties, and a young and beautiful wife died.
Not long after Si Qingli's grandfather died, his wife, who couldn't stand it, left her child who was less than two years old and remarried, and the person who remarried happened to be the widower Zuo Yilan's grandfather who died early after leaving only one child with his original wife.
The two families are neighbors again, and they don't look up and look down, Si Qingli's grandfather, who was still young at the time, never understood why his mother suddenly didn't want him, and became someone else's mother, often crying and shouting for his mother, but he never got a mother's warm embrace, but watched his mother often hold the child next door whose mother had died a long time ago as a baby.
With the passage of time, the two young children grew up day by day, and Si Qingli's grandfather always thought that it was Zuo Yilan's grandfather who remembered that special era, killed his father, robbed his mother, and ruined his family, becoming an orphan without a father and mother.
And Zuo Yilan's grandfather also hates Si Qingli's grandfather, because even if his mother takes care of herself, she has been worrying about her own children, not to mention that in that era of extreme material scarcity, Si Qingli's grandfather's mother has to secretly take the things of her step-husband Zuo's family from time to time to help her ex-husband Si's family, so as not to starve to death for the children she originally left in the Si family.
Later, that turbulent era finally passed, the national college entrance examination was resumed, Si Qingli's grandfather was admitted to the junior college, and returned to his hometown after graduation.
And Zuo Yilan's grandfather, who was not admitted to college and went out to work early, also went to work in the mine under the arrangement of his family, but he was an ordinary worker who went down to the mine to mine.
This sudden reversal of identity made the two of them very unhappy at work, and they both felt aggrieved in their hearts, not to mention getting along in the daily neighborhood, which was the kind that didn't even care about each other when they met.
Later, the country's economic form gradually improved, and began to change from a planned economy to a market economy, encouraging the circulation of commodities and encouraging business and entrepreneurship in the sea.
The grandmothers of Si Qingli and Zuo Yilan saw that others had made money and made a fortune, and their eyes were hot for a while, so they simply set up a commissary on the first floor of their self-built house, selling some miscellaneous department stores and daily necessities, not to mention making a fortune, they can also subsidize some households.
However, the two have been living next to each other, and even the business is the same, one mountain can't accommodate two tigers, where does a small town with a big palm want so many commissaries, not to mention that they are still neighbors, and the competition between peers is either you make or I lose, which is naturally tragic.
Both sides are full of strength, today you do a price reduction promotion, tomorrow I will come to buy one get one free, as a result, the beams of the two are getting bigger and bigger, and this dead knot can't be untied.
After Si Qingli and Zuo Yilan were born, the deadlock between Si Zuo's two families has lasted for decades, and there is no sign of resolving it at all, and Si Qingli and Zuo Yilan went to the same elementary school, junior high school and high school together because of the school district division.
Si Qingli was also a bear child when he was a child, often calling friends to make trouble, what to dig out the bird's nest on the tree, tricking teachers and classmates is not less, the most serious one is to get a pair of big red pants to hang on the flagpole of the school flag, Monday morning by the principal organized by the whole school teachers and students flag-raising ceremony, everyone in full view, everyone is looking up at the big red pants on the top of the flagpole in the wind.
For this big red pants incident, Si Qingli was beaten by his father, and he almost couldn't get out of bed without being beaten, but because Si Qingli had excellent academic performance, he didn't take any of the city's three good students, outstanding teenagers, etc., so the school and teachers also loved and hated him, and it was not easy to leave punishment in his file, so as not to ruin the school's rare good seedlings.
The young Si Qingli is a thief and a thief, and naturally he knows it, anyway, he doesn't make trouble everywhere, but there is one person he never messes with, not only does he never mess with him, but he also cares for him like a baby, and that person is his childhood sweetheart Zuo Yilan.
is different from the bear child Si Qingli, Zuo Yilan has been a good girl since she was a child, quiet and delicate, well-behaved and cute, with medium academic performance, this kind of child has a very low sense of presence in everyone's eyes, and can basically be regarded as a transparent person, but Zuo Yilan has been very famous since she was a child, the reason is that since elementary school, the bear child Si Qingli has directly let her go, and no one is allowed to bully Zuo Yilan, she is the person she covers.
When Si Qingli was young, he was told by his parents not to play with the cute little girl Zuo Yilan next door, because their Zuo family was a bad person.
Xiao Si Qingli, who still doesn't understand the rights and wrongs between adults, doesn't understand that the little girl next door, Zuo Yilan, is so sweet, cute and well-behaved, not like a bad person at all, why can't they play together? It's just that I secretly observed in private, why did my parents say that Zuo Yilan and their family were bad people?
I secretly watched and watched, and after watching too much, I put the soft and cute Zuo Yilan next door to see in my heart, and gradually turned myself into the protector of little Zuo Yilan, I couldn't see Zuo Yilan being wronged a little, but I didn't know that I was the big bastard who made Zuo Yilan suffer the most grievances.
Xiao Zuo Yilan's heart has also had a good impression of this little brother Si Qingli who has been caring for and protecting him since he was a child, but he didn't dare to say too much because of the strict prohibition of his parents.
When the two of them reached adolescence, when the teenagers and girls began to yearn for their first love in a hazy way, Si Qingli and Zuo Yilan naturally came together, but this coming together caused an uproar among the two families of Si Qingli and Zuo Yilan, and the already stiff family relationship between the two fell below the freezing point.