Liu De'an focused on sending firewood to the kiln. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info firewood is a dry miscellaneous wood and pine fir branches and leaves., do not fold or care about the size, just fill the fire with a branch, the fire is blazing, with a slight explosion of "crackling".

Liu De'an is Secretary Liu's eldest nephew and Liu Yinghua's eldest son. This year is twenty-five, one year older than Zeng Qingfu's full daughter Zeng Sulian, the two have been classmates from primary school to junior high school, and after graduating from junior high school, they went to agricultural high school together for two years, and then returned to the village to farm together.

The man is handsome, the woman is beautiful, and the two of them have no guesses from their childhood sweethearts. The villagers joked that they were a very good match for a pair of golden boys and girls, and both parents also recognized it, but they were still young, and neither parent mentioned marriage.

Five years ago, a year after the two returned to the village to farm, Liu Yingguo got a recommendation from the commune to go to the Workers' Peasants' and Soldiers' University, and he wanted his nineteen-year-old nephew Liu De'an to go to university and then make an iron job.

Liu Dean was excited, but Zeng Sulian, an eighteen-year-old beautiful girl, washed her face with tears and avoided seeing him again. The trustee passed a word to him, saying that he would be a national cadre after graduation in the future, and she would definitely not be worthy of this rural yellow-faced woman, and he would regret it at that time, and the long pain was better than the short pain, so he broke his mind as soon as possible, so as not to be more sad in the future.

The two have been enrolled together since they were six or seven years old and have been together for more than ten years, Liu Dean knows Zeng Sulian very well, knows that she is ambitious, yearns for the outside world, and has always wanted to jump out of the farm, but she has no chance. She must be happy and envious that he can have such an opportunity, but her parents and brothers are ordinary farmers, and she has no chance to have such an opportunity. It wasn't because she didn't dislike him, he knew she must be hiding in the shadows somewhere at the moment and weeping.

After a sleepless night, he made the first big decision in his life: to give up this indicator to her and become a soldier himself. If his family objected, he would rather abandon this indicator and never go to school.

As soon as these words came out, the whole family was in an uproar. After fierce arguments, discussions and discussions, Liu Yingguo agreed, but he finally said to his nephew: Haba, I hope you don't regret it in the future.

The pie fell from the sky, Zeng Qingfu was so happy that his mouth grinned to the root of his ears, Zeng Sulian was even more grateful, and offered to hold an engagement ceremony with Liu De'an before she went to school, so as to determine the relationship between the two and reassure the parents of both parties.

In the countryside at that time, the difference between engagement and marriage was only a thin marriage certificate. An engagement is basically the same as getting married, but not having sex together. Repentance of marriage will make people laugh and disgust, and it will make the family unable to hold their heads up.

In this way, Zeng Sulian jumped out of the farm gate and entered Yangzhou Normal University to study as a worker, peasant and soldier college student. Three months later, Liu De'an went to the army as he wished.

After Zeng Sulian came back from the winter and summer vacations, she spent more time in Liu's house than in her own home, and the Liu family liked her beautiful and lively future family very much. Zeng Qingfu was very pleased with this.

The change was in the third year. Zeng Sulian left home for less than ten days during the summer vacation, did not come back during the winter vacation, and did not even return home for the Chinese New Year. For a while, gossip was spreading, and it was said that Zeng Sulian liked the new and hated the old. Zeng Qingfu was anxious, and personally wrote a letter to Liu De'an, asking him to ask for leave to come back to visit relatives, and go to school to find his daughter to come back to get a marriage certificate.

Liu De'an really took family leave and came back, Zeng Sulian also came back, the two were affectionate, the rumors were self-defeating, and the two families were relieved. After all, Liu De'an is an active-duty soldier, unless Zeng Sulian gives up her future, who would dare to destroy the military marriage?

In the winter of the previous year, Liu Dean was demobilized and discharged from the army. After four years as a soldier and four years of railroad, he couldn't put on an officer uniform with four pockets like his cousin Liu Dewen, so he could only go home and continue to repair the earth. Since he came back from demobilization, Zeng Sulian has never returned home, and she has not come back for the New Year, and a letter came in the first month, proposing to break up, and repeatedly apologized. After that, he didn't reply to the letter, Liu De'an went to the school to find no one, Zeng Qingfu was so angry that he fell ill, and asked his son to accompany him to the city to look for it, but he didn't see anyone. After returning home, he announced that he would sever the relationship between father and daughter, and never allow an unfilial daughter who had broken her conscience to return home.

At that time, the atmosphere was very good, and it was more shameful to repent of marriage than to repay debts. Not to mention their situation? It's simply crossing the river and demolishing the bridge, ungrateful. Zeng Qingfu was so dry that he didn't go out for three months, and Liu De'an couldn't bear it, so he lay at home behind closed doors for a few days, and when he came out, his beard was black and thin, just like a different person.

Now, more than a year has passed. Zeng Sulian graduated as a teacher in the city, and in the first half of the year, there was news of her marriage, which is said to be married to the son of a cadre of the Municipal Revolutionary Committee. Zeng Qingfu strictly ordered his family not to go to the city to attend the wedding, so his wife cried and swollen her eyes.

Liu De'an, who has eased up, has been silent, he has no complaints about Zeng Qingfu and his family, and took the initiative to go to his house a few times, but persuaded them not to take it to heart, and let their daughter go back to her parents' house, after all, blood is thicker than water, and she can't cut off her maiden road because of previous events. and said that he didn't blame her anymore, as long as she was happy. was so moved that Zeng Qingfu and his family burst into tears.

The Liu family also said another family affair for him in the spring, and the plan is to marry next year. I heard that he was not very happy, and he was forced to come and go reluctantly due to the pressure from his family.

In the summer season, it is the time when the autumn tiger is raging. It's a little cold at night in the mountains. Looking at Liu De'an, who was sweating profusely and had a stain on his face under the firelight, Zeng Qingfu, who was smoking dry tobacco, felt a faint pain in his heart.

He thought that he had completely offended the Liu family, and he would never get along with each other from now on, who knew that he would still go to his house in this later life, and still call him "uncle".

This time, Secretary Liu Yingguo personally came to the door and asked him to take the lead in helping their family burn bricks and tiles, which made him both moved and ashamed, and he secretly warned himself: no matter what, he must help their Liu family to burn excellent and qualified bricks and tiles.

Zeng Qingfu spit out the cigarette butt, walked out of the grass shed and said to Liu De'an: "De'an, you can rest for a while, I'll burn it for a while." ”

Liu De'an raised his arm and wiped it on his face, revealing a mouth full of white teeth and said with a smile: "Uncle, you are old, the weather is hot, you have to rest more, you still have to control the heat, I am young, it's okay, I will be called to change me later." “

Zeng Qingfu was not good at arguing with him, so he turned around to the top of the kiln and inspected the situation of the skylight and smoke window.

At this time, in the middle of the night, the moonless starry sky was bright, the bright Milky Way was embedded in the sky, there was only a slight light on the ground, and the kiln fire illuminated the place more than a foot away, so that it was darker elsewhere.

A hot wind blows, Zeng Qingfu shivered for no reason, his brows jumped slightly, his heart was cold, he raised his eyes and looked around, there seemed to be a shadow approaching the brick cellar in a trance, he went down to the flat ground, walked a few steps out, the dark night under the starlight was faint everywhere, he coughed loudly twice, took out the dry tobacco and lit it, stood in place for a while, wiped the sweat on his forehead, and returned to the grass shed silently.

Each industry has its own heritage and taboos. Since ancient times, craftsmen are living at the bottom of the society, injuries and illnesses are inevitable in labor, and being oppressed by the powerful is the norm, in order to protect themselves and self-heal, they have more or less learned some miscellaneous things, such as small home remedies or secret recipes such as healing injuries, stopping bleeding and relieving pain. Of course, there are also various small tricks that are considered superstitions.

In fact, as far as ordinary laborers are concerned, craftsmen with a skill are the smarter among them. Long-term observation and practice have given them a keen sense of certain aspects, which is somewhat mysterious and inexplicable, similar to what modern people call the sixth sense.

Zeng Qingfu was like this at this time, and he had a bad premonition in his heart: I am afraid that something will happen to this kiln.

Li Chaokuan, who had always been an alcoholic maniac, cured Zeng Mengchun's madness, and the people in the village were spreading his myth. Zeng Qingfu secretly decided: Invite him to come over tomorrow to see if he can think of some reassuring solutions.