Chapter 1 That Year
In the summer of '04, it's a long way away now when I think about it. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
I still remember that year when the Yellow River was flooded, the yellow water filled the river south of the village, I took my brother and an elder in the village to set up a fishing net in the river, caught two large barrels of fish, and then my grandfather died, I can never see such a kind smile again, I know the sorrow of frost and dew......
My name is Ma Fangfang, my home is in a small village in southwest Luxi, and I was seventeen years old that summer.
A few days after the high school entrance examination, I was panicking at home.
In previous years, during the summer vacation, I followed my mother to do farm work in the field while herding sheep, and occasionally went to live at a relative's house for a few days.
But my parents still wanted me to stay at home, and they would rather buy me a new foreign car for me to ride around than let me go out.
Later, one summer vacation, when I went out to work in a stadium under construction, I realized that I was indeed too young at that time when I saw a person next to me being hit by a big hook falling from his head and bleeding unconscious.
But the heart is really big.
I am like an invincible beast, but I was locked in a small cage by my parents, and every day I rotated in the cage in circles and saliva and looked at the blue sky and white clouds outside.
By the way, blue sky and white clouds, and little flower cats.
Things finally took a turn for the better, and my uncle came. I have an uncle in my family, and an uncle, my uncle is the eldest son of my second grandfather's family, and he is the pride of our family.
With my uncle as an example, my eldest nephew was placed on high expectations by my family when he was a child, especially when I participated in a five-year competition in elementary school, and I was one of the best in my junior high school class.
College students, it's still a rarity in our village.
My uncle led a middle-aged man about his age into the house, and my parents were a little surprised, but they politely invited the man to the hall to drink tea and smoke.
The work of making tea, of course, is that I came, and there is no good tea at home, so soaking the boiling water and changing color is the way of hospitality.
While making tea, I listened to my parents and my uncle greeting the middle-aged man, and after a few minutes, my uncle turned the topic to me: "Xiaofang, how did you do in the high school entrance examination?" ”
"It's okay, it will take a while for the exam results to come out." It's rare to see the pride of the family, and when I answer, it's a bit vain.
"Oh...... You're seventeen, aren't you? It's a little skinny! My uncle suddenly said this, and then turned to my parents and talked about business: "This Boss Ning is engaged in Chinese herbal medicines, and people have taken a fancy to our small party, so he said that he asked our small party to dig herbs in the mountains for 8,000 yuan, and the ground is not alive, right?" ”
Maybe it's because I work and live in the county, and my uncle is a little less intimate as soon as he speaks, as if he is bringing someone to talk about business with our family, or out of a good intention.
It could also be that our family is too calculating.
My parents were a little dizzy when they heard this, and their first reaction was, 8,000 yuan, so much, what do you want our son to do?
I was also a little dizzy at the time, 8,000 yuan, my father went out to work every year, and it didn't seem to bring much money to the family, if I could earn 8,000, would I be a gentleman in the family?!
Money is one thing, the main thing is to get out, and I try hard to agree.
"Getting Chinese herbal medicines...... What is Xiao Fang going to do? Xiao Fang's exam results haven't come out yet, don't you have to report to a middle school a few days later!? The father asked hesitantly.
"As soon as the results come out, I'll just help him do it." My uncle has a friend in Yiyi, this matter is not a problem for him, what makes him a little unhappy is that he brought Boss Ning over this time, because he really wants me to earn some money to subsidize the family: "He can be older, what are you doing at home, don't you go out to make some money, and you will have a year's tuition and living expenses!" ”
At this time, Boss Ning also added: "It's not that I ask the child to do anything, it's just that he asks me to go to the mountains to collect medicine, which is similar to us working in the fields, but I just suffer a little and I can't get tired." ”
I just thought about going out, and I didn't care about anything else.
My parents quietly looked at this Boss Ning, dressed and behaved like a small trader like this piece, and he was also kind, but he came to the door this time and offered such a high price that people were confused, although there was a big brother in the family as a 'guarantor', he was still a little uneasy.
However, my parents were still a little loose, and my uncle and Boss Ning continued to talk to my parents.
While chatting, Boss Ning glanced at me and smiled at me.
He laughed......
Later, I learned that this Uncle Ning had been eyeing me when I was less than a year old.
Coincidentally, I had a serious illness a few months after I was born, and my parents took me to the county hospital to see a doctor, and Uncle Ning also took his daughter to the county hospital and saw me.
At that time, I was very sick, and the doctor wanted to give me a needle, but I couldn't find the blood vessels in my body, and several doctors couldn't do it, a group of doctors couldn't do it, and my parents couldn't do it in a hurry, and I was about to die.
Later, an old doctor from the county hospital came and gave me an injection to save my life.
Back.
Uncle Ning, who was watching from the side, felt that this thing was quite rare, so he took out three copper coins in his pocket and calculated a hexagram for me. The gentleman forgives the sin.
I have never understood the matter of the sixty-four hexagrams of the Book of Changes, according to Uncle Ning's translation, that is, this child's life is too hard, and it is a little evil.
There is one more thing that answers his hexagram.
When I was four or five years old, my mother rode a foreign car to my grandmother's house to visit relatives, and when I walked to the bridge at the west end of our village, I didn't know that I was crazy, and suddenly I made a fuss, and I made a lot of noise and kicked and arched on the small seat of the girder of the car, and my mother was in a hurry, and the people and the car overturned into the river.
At that time, the river was very deep and flowed eastward.
My mother fell from the bridge into the river, and before she could get up, she went to the front of the car and touched me, and when I touched it, the person was gone, and the small stool tied to the girder of the car was gone.
My mother was frightened, and hurriedly followed the car to the east, and after touching me for a while, she touched me, and after fishing me up from the river, she hurried to treat me, and then I said the most humorous sentence in my life: there are fish in water, there are fish in water, and there are fish in water......
Survived.
The resurrection of the dead was something that Boss Ning saw with his own eyes in the county hospital, and he also listened to my uncle, and he also inquired about some feudal superstitions in the village, so the eyes he looked at me and smiled at me were very complicated.
I don't have a blue sky and white clouds and a little flower cat, I just thought that this Boss Ning could take me out to see the world, not only did I laugh with him at that time, but Nima was a little shy.
It's a big loss!!
After chatting for a while, the matter was settled, today I will clean up at home, and tomorrow I will go to my uncle's house in the city to meet with Boss Ning, work with him for two months, and give 8,000 yuan.
My uncle and Boss Ning didn't eat at home, so they were in a hurry to go back to the city.
My parents have spoiled me since I was a child, and I am very reluctant, but I also know that when the child is older, I have to let go when it is time to let go.
Of course I was full of joy, I went to clean up after lunch, and I didn't remember until halfway through the cleanup, I contacted a few classmates and the third child about going out to work, although the matter was not discussed, but I was going to pull out and do it alone, and I had to say hello to my brothers, and I couldn't help but fight for justice.
Especially the third child, I'd better take him with me, according to the advertisement, he is my Yoremi!
Put down my things, and I'll go to find the third child.
The third child is my little friend in the same village, from childhood to adulthood, this child has several characteristics, which often make me puzzled, dazed, and confused.
First, he doesn't like to go to school, he would rather be whipped by his father, who has practiced martial arts, with a stick thicker than his thumb than go to school, as if going to school is an extremely painful thing for him, and it is much more painful than a few blood marks on his nose and swollen face.
Second, he often brags about his 'martial arts', but he always drops the chain at the moment of performance, such as falling into a puddle when performing light gong water floating, falling into a pit when performing a reed crossing the river, rolling down when performing a tiger descending the mountain, etc.
Third, he stopped watching cartoons after he was ten years old, and secretly went to the town to buy some DVDs and secretly watched them on his VCD, and he was very used to those whining and shouting films, except for horror movies, this grandson still doesn't even dare to watch the zombie uncle.
Fourth, after he went to junior high school, he was finally able to accept a little 'academic', known as the most love of Chinese, and he fell in love with literature in the third year of junior high school, but his Chinese score was only 20 points, which can be a shame in the school's language circle, but he is so loved, and the others he loves are speechless.
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This is the third child, Zhu Jianfeng, a person whose weird examples have reached countless levels. My friend.
"The third, the third......" standing outside the wall shouted, it is a common rule for the children in our village to play together, every time I call the third child like this, my heart is always very strong, very strong, I don't know why.
"What for?" After a pause, the third child agreed.
"Come out, I'll tell you something!" Listening to this movement, I knew that there was no one in his house, and that he must be doing something that made him feel weak, I knew.
"Will you come in?" The third child still wants to continue.
"You come out!" I insist.
After a while, the third child came out reluctantly, with an expression of King Zhouwu Zheng on his face, I don't know, I thought he was worried about the country and the people at home.
I told the third child about going out to collect medicine with Boss Ning, and the third thought about it, and was not very happy to go, he has graduated from junior high school now, and he has to prepare for a long-term job.
I had to persuade each other with good words, and after persuading for a long time, in the end, the third child looked at the face of the money and agreed.
When I went back, I asked my parents to call my uncle and ask Boss Ning if he could promise one more person. Boss Ning listened to the situation of the third child and readily agreed. The price was the same as mine.
The next day, on the way to the city with the third child, I thought, I am a good man on the horse side, how can I have a price with such a rough man as Zhu Laosan, no, no, I have to secretly discuss with Boss Ning, let him increase the price for me, I must increase the price, and I must not be in the company of this fat guy!