Wen Yuanfang and his wife bought some basic daily necessities, settled in their new home in Tongxin Pavilion, and went to their hometown Tangfeng Village the next day.

Tangfeng Village is a small mountain village located in Yueshan Commune, Paitou District. Starting from Chengguan, it takes more than an hour to take a car to Paitou first, and then walk more than 20 miles of mountain roads to arrive.

Wen Yuanfang borrowed a hand-pulled two-wheeled bicycle from a distant relative on Paitou Street, moved his luggage to the car with his wife, pulled up the car and hit the road.

It was the first time in her life that Zhu Yuliang rode this kind of hand-pulled two-wheeled vehicle, and it was also the first time in her life to see the life of the mountain people in Yuedi, so although she was bumped and uncomfortable along the way, she also felt fresh and interesting.

On the way, Wen Yuanfang chatted with Zhu Yuliang in detail about some old things about Tangfeng Village and his family.

It is said that the name of "Yue Mountain" is related to Goujian, the king of Yue. At that time, Gou Jian and his left and right arms Fan Li and Wen Chong began to implement the great plan of recovering the country in this place, so the mountain range here was called "Yue Mountain".

Tangfeng Village is a natural village at the foot of the mountain, with only 100 households. During the land reform, the only landlord in the village was Wen Yuanfang's uncle Wen Bocheng. As a young man, he served as a soldier in the old warlords' army, and by the time he retired, he had saved some silver dollars. After he returned to Tangfeng with these silver dollars, he immediately bought a field to build a house, married a wife and had children, and gradually became the only large family in the village who could afford to hire long-term workers. At the time of the land reform, Wen Bocheng may not be qualified enough to be suppressed, so he was sentenced to 20 years of labor reform, and later died in prison.

Back then, Wen Bocheng looked down on his brother Wen Bozong, and his wife naturally looked down on his sister-in-law Lou Xiangfu. When Wen Yuanfang was a child, he often saw his mother being so angry with her aunt that she was so angry that she burst into tears. Whenever this time, Lou Xiangfu always admonished Wen Yuanfang: "People fight for a breath, and the Buddha fights for a stick of incense." You have to study hard, be a master in the future, and don't let people see the bottom of a bowl of water! ”

Wen Yuanfang was a stranger to his eldest brother, Wen Yuanshao, because his eldest brother was a full twenty years older than him. By the time he was born, his eldest brother had already graduated from a national high school in Hangzhou and had entered the government of the Republic of China to find a job.

Wen Yuanshao once married a wife in his hometown, and his wife died of illness shortly after marriage. As a widower, when he was a police chief in Jiashan County, Zhejiang, he married his female secretary, Zhou Jiahong, who was born in a small landlord's family. After Zhou Jiahong became the eldest daughter-in-law of the Wen family, she was sent to Tangfeng Village to serve her in-laws, brothers-in-law and aunts full-time, and later gave birth to a son and a daughter for the Wen family.

After the liberation, Wen Yuanshao was sentenced to 25 years of labor reform because he had served as a county police chief in the government of the Republic of China, and was labeled as a "historical counter-revolutionary" and thrown into the labor reform farm in northern Jiangsu.

Wen Yuanfang grew up under the care of his mother, sister-in-law and two sisters. He was particularly impressed by his sister-in-law Zhou Jiahong. Zhou Jiahong writes beautifully with a brush and can speak fluent Japanese, but she is not good at farming and housework, so she is often scolded by her mother-in-law and ridiculed by villagers.

But Zhou Jiahong is a strong woman, and she is determined to learn little by little, and transform herself bit by bit, so as to put an end to the ridicule of the villagers. Through decades of unremitting efforts, Zhou Jiahong has finally been transformed from a landlord lady, an intellectual woman, and a family member of a historical counter-revolutionary, into a good daughter-in-law, a good mother, and a good working woman who is filial to her in-laws, diligent and thrifty, obedient, and no longer regards herself as a human being. Since then, none of the villagers have mentioned Zhou Jiahong without giving a thumbs up.

Hearing this, Zhu Yuliang asked Wen Yuanfang tentatively: "Do you also think that your sister-in-law is a great woman?" ”

Wen Yuanfang replied: "Judging from her perseverance and forbearance, she is indeed remarkable, and ordinary women can't transform themselves beyond recognition like her." On the other hand, I also deeply feel sorry and sad for her. She was a victim of feudal etiquette in the first half of her life, and in the second half of her life, she succumbed to the evaluation of society about her; In order to please the basic moral rules of society, she finally lost herself. In this respect, she is again a cowardly woman. My heart aches whenever I think of her, and I feel that our Wen family really owes her too much. However, it is impossible to turn back time, and fate is irreversible...... I really hate myself for not being able to transform this unreasonable society! ”

"What is an unreasonable society?" Zhu Yuliang asked innocently.

"An unfair society is an unreasonable society. It is unreasonable to allow the governor to light the lamp and not allow the people to set fires; Only men are allowed to have three wives and four concubines looking for flowers and willows, and women are not allowed to go out of the wall at dusk and four red apricots, which is unreasonable; It is unreasonable to allow men to strive for self-improvement and make a name for themselves, and not for women to release themselves and show their talents. The purpose of our revolution is to abolish the old society, build a new society, break the old moral rules, and establish new ones. Wen Yuanfang turned his head impassionedly and said to Zhu Yuliang, forgetting that he was walking on a rugged mountain road and almost hit a rock, which frightened Zhu Yuliang and exclaimed, "Be careful!" ”

The heart-to-heart conversation along the way made Zhu Yuliang even more convinced that the man in front of him was his great husband worthy of trust, he was so upright and so kind and amiable. She secretly made up her mind: as long as Wen Yuanfang does not go back on his word in the future and can fully respect her freedom and dignity, then no matter whether he is rich or poor, whether he is a king or a loser, whether he lives to be fifty or a hundred years old, she will be his most beautiful and virtuous wife, and will accompany him through the entire mileage of life............ And all this has nothing to do with the three from the four virtues.

When Zhu Yuliang thought of this, he couldn't help himself. After the shyness and pain of the first night, there was an obvious chemical reaction in her body, as if thousands of small fish were naughtily gnawing at her; She longed for her husband's golden rod to enter her body and drive away all the mischievous fish......

"Hey, you're tired, shall we rest in the shade of the tree for a while?" Zhu Yu's conscience wanted to shout "dear", but it was changed to "hey".

"Okay, let's drink some water and eat something before we go, there are still five miles left." As Wen Yuanfang spoke, he pulled the two-wheeled bicycle down to a shady area, and after supporting the two-wheeled vehicle, he took the towel handed by his wife and sweated.

"Then you don't want me to be the second Zhou Jiahong?" Zhu Yuliang rubbed her lips against her husband's ear and muttered.

"How can I make my Yuliang a rough woman like my sister-in-law?" Wen Yuanfang asked emotionally.

"What do I want to do now?" Zhu Yuliang whispered to her husband with a blushing face.

"Not here! When passers-by see it, they will arrest us as bad people. ”

"We have a marriage certificate, what are we afraid of?"

Wen Yuanfang saw that his wife was in high spirits, so he had to take her down and put her on his lap. Just as they were about to enjoy the fun of fish and water, they suddenly heard the words of pedestrians in the distance, and they were so frightened that they hurriedly adjusted their clothes and pants and continued to hurry.

Wen Yuanfang chatted casually about some old things in his family.

He said: "The most pity is my second brother, he is the most handsome and well-read of our brothers. When he was 16 years old, he suffered from acute dysentery, and when the Chinese medicine was ineffective, his mother heard from the elders in the village that it was very good to use incense ash to cure dysentery, so she let the second brother swallow the black and slimy incense ash. That night, the second brother left and returned to the West. My mother cried several times and tried to hit the wall, but was stopped. Later, after I came into contact with dialectical materialism in the army, I realized that feudal superstition was really harmful! ”

Wen Yuanfang also told Zhu Yuliang a bitter and embarrassing past.

Because the eldest son is a historical counter-revolutionary, and the eldest daughter-in-law is a landlord, his mother, a small-footed old lady, has been criticized and fought in all movements; However, at the end of each year, his mother, as a member of the People's Liberation Army, received a visit from the government. That year, his mother leaned on a pair of small feet, first went to the farm in northern Jiangsu to visit her eldest son who was a prisoner in labor reform, and then visited the youngest son who was a prisoner in the People's Liberation Army in Zhenjiang Xiaoyizhuang......

"I believe that the society will get better and better in the future!" Wen Yuanfang said confidently.