326: Sixty years of vicissitudes
The old man burst into tears of excitement and kept saying, "Thank you!" Thank you! ”
His words interrupted my conversation with Lin Xin, and I didn't think much about my relationship with the goddess.
"Uncle, I want to ask you what is the reason for being apart for so long?" I said.
This couple has been separated for more than 60 years, and the old man still misses his wife so much, and looking at his face and hexagrams, it means that he has no continuation.
The loyalty to his wife in his heart is very admirable.
The old man wiped a handful of tears with his dry hands and said: "More than 60 years ago, the war was in chaos, the people everywhere were not able to make a living, there was no food and clothing, and our family was so hungry that they couldn't open the pot.
At that time, the whole country was a battlefield, and there were military disasters everywhere, and there was no place of peace in the huge place. A few fellow villagers said that Taiwan's treasure island, which is far away on the side of the strait, is currently peaceful, so they proposed to go there to make a living and work hard for two or three years, maybe they will earn money by then, and the domestic military disaster will be cleared, and then they will be able to live a good life when they come back.
So we took a boat together and went to Taiwan, where we got a job and settled down for a while.
Although the first days were hard, there was no shortage of food, clothing and money to make, we were all very happy, and we all wanted to take over all the parents and daughters-in-law in the family, and planned to settle here.
We wrote a letter and sent it back to the mainland, but we didn't wait for a reply, and sent a few more letters, all of which were lost.
It was suggested that a representative should be sent back to see if the letter was lost, and someone had to go back to report it to the family.
In the war years, the chances of losing letters were too great, and we all believed that this was the reason.
There is a man named Xiao Jiang in our village, who is very clever, and everyone chooses him to go back and see. After that, I bought a ferry ticket and sent him back the next day.
Unfortunately, when the ship was halfway through, they encountered the defeated Nationalist army retreating to Taiwan, and their ship met this civilian ship at sea.
After that, the Nationalist army arrived in Taiwan, took over the rule here, imposed a blockade of the coastline, and there was no hope for us to return home.
In the first few years, I was not even allowed to write letters, and this stay was thirty or forty years!
There was no news at home, and I didn't know if my father and wife were still alive. When we left, there were not many meters left at home, and I don't know if they went out to make a living and were affected by the war or what happened, and we didn't hear anything from them from beginning to end.
When these decades have passed, and the two sides of the strait can finally communicate, we will write back, but it will still be a stone in the sea.
Those of us who came to Taiwan halfway during the war, because of the tension between the two sides of the strait, the rulers were afraid that we would be spies mixed in with the mainland, so they refused to let us go free.
Seeing that everyone else can travel to the mainland, and we are trapped on a small island, we can't even move an inch, not to mention how anxious we are.
This kind of thing is also chasing after the wind, and it is difficult to argue.
Sixty years have passed, and now that the national army is no longer in power, we have been gradually cleared of suspicions, and it was not until not long ago that I completed all the formalities for returning to China and returned home.
My home is long gone, and I have gone to the mountains to the west to see the terraces of my family, but they are long gone, and they are desolate, and I can only see many graves on the mountainside, and there are no tombstones, so I can't tell who is who.
I can't believe that my wife is dead, even if she can't insist that I come back and remarry, as long as she is alive, then I can look at her to comfort the pain of lovesickness for many years.
After searching in the village and in the mountains for many days, there was no news, and there were few peers of my age in the village, and their minds were so confused that they couldn't ask anything. And the young ones don't know what happened back then, even if they listen to the elders, they only know a rough idea, and no one can tell whether my wife is still alive or not.
In the end, I hesitated to find a fortune teller to tell a fortune teller, but I was afraid of a bad answer.
Hey, what do you want, hey!
My daughter-in-law and I have only been together for three years, and she hasn't left me a man and a woman in these three years, hey! ”
The old man sighed repeatedly, and the tears in his eyes kept falling like rain.
The sad look on his face was heartbreaking.
Everything is as shown in the hexagram, and I am not wrong.
My throat was choked and I felt like crying. Looking at Lin Xin again, she couldn't help but cry silently on the side.
Farewell for more than 60 years, or goodbye, imagine who can withstand this kind of blow. The old man didn't faint to death, he was already psychologically strong.
In the war years, the most innocent people were the common people, who did nothing wrong, but they had to suffer these unjustified disasters. went out to make a living, but it became an eternal separation, and I couldn't even receive the news.
If the old man couldn't bear it and died in Taiwan, wouldn't he not know if his wife was still alive until he died, and he would become a blind eye!
In fact, tragedies like his are not uncommon in the war years, and this is only the tip of the iceberg. The list goes on and on.
The old man's life was too miserable. is so old, has no children under his knees, and has been away from his hometown for so many years, and no one knows him after returning to his hometown.
It was only the longing for his wife in his heart, and the desire to go home to see his parents' graves and pay homage to comfort the second elder's soul in heaven, which made him return to this hometown that had become a stranger.
Compared with Lin Xin, the old man is much more miserable!
At the very least, Lin Xin still knows how her parents died, where the grave is, and she will go to worship during the New Year's holidays.
At this time, Lin Xin couldn't cry anymore, she hid in the corner of the bed, covered her head with the quilt, didn't dare to cry loudly, she kept sobbing, and she was very painful.
I panicked, so I asked, "Why didn't you renew yourself when you were in Taiwan?" Is it because you are not satisfied after looking for it, or is there something else that causes you not to look for it again? ”
"At first, I thought about my wife, so I refused to look for it. Later, when I got older, it was impossible to find it. ”
He is to marry his wife and die alone, I have a little more admiration for the old man!
When I thought of myself, I changed my mind about my sister slightly, and I suddenly felt ashamed, so I hurriedly dispelled my thoughts about other people.
In any case, I want to change my life against the sky and be with my junior sister!
As for the goddess Lin Xin, if there is really something touching between her and me, then let's talk about it!