Chapter 1: Sinking
In the Spring Festival of 1985, a song "Fifteenth Moon" sang and cried a lot of people who were wandering outside and could not go home, that year Cha Wenbin was reunited, he became a father, a few days before the Chinese New Year, Concubine Yu gave birth to a son, named Cha Liang.
The fat man said, this name is good, and this kid's conscience must be very good. The birth of this child made Cha Wenbin busy, and he couldn't get any free time, he seemed to be inexperienced as a first-time father, and he didn't have diapers at that time, and he had to change into diapers cut from a lot of old clothes every day. In the winter, they washed in the river, and they had to bake it with charcoal fire if it didn't dry it, and it was two months after they came back from Huoshan.
According to the rules of the countryside, when a woman gives birth to a child, she must set off a full moon cannon, and the family must open a full moon wine. The Cha family has no relatives, and the Yu family is no different, but Cha Wenbin's family is still quite lively, and they treat people very well on weekdays. So, there are quite a few banquets in this banquet, which are much stronger than ordinary people.
When Cha Liang was born, he weighed seven pounds, chubby, with big eyes and big eyebrows, and his small mouth was like a cherry, and he looked like a concubine, just two words: good-looking! Therefore, Cha Liang has a nickname called Xiao Qi, probably because he weighs seven pounds, and in that year of material shortage, it is not very common for babies of such weight to be born.
The arrival of Xiao Qi made Cha Wenbin's brows that had been frowning for days finally stretch out a little, which could be regarded as a hint of comfort, and the wind and clouds in the distance brought a piece of jade, saying that it was a congratulatory gift for his son. I have seen that piece of jade, as big as a silver dollar, carved into an extremely complex pattern, some like a bird, in fact, it is the totem of the Feng clan, and only the head of the Feng clan has always been qualified to wear it. She gave that piece of jade to Cha Liang, I don't know if it means that the Feng clan will be a real seclusion from now on, and they will no longer ask about the rivers and lakes?
Seeing a family of three enjoying themselves together, the fat man felt that it was indeed a little inappropriate for him to stay like this, although Cha Wenbin and Concubine Yu had never meant that, but after so much, the fat man felt that it was time for him to change the environment. Therefore, that night he specially cooked a table of wine and food by himself, Concubine Yu is a very smart woman, so Xiao Qi was a little uncomfortable and went back to the room early to sleep, she knew that there were men's topics among men, and there should be space for them.
That night, the fat man cried while drinking, and Cha Wenbin also cried. I don't know if he was drunk or sad, the fat man said that he missed the second child, and as soon as the second child left, his soul was lost, and every time he thought of the brother in his room, he couldn't sleep at night.
"I always feel that he is standing at the head of the bed looking at me, and it is the same as before, I call him and he ignores me, you know what Cha Ye, as long as it is like the night, I close my eyes and open my eyes are his last smile, I feel uncomfortable......"
The two men then hugged their heads and cried, sadness is not good, it can make a person fall into the abyss quickly. So the fat man decided to leave, he said that he should find a place to start over, not that he wanted to forget Ye Qiu, but that he should forget those pasts.
There is a banquet in the world, Cha Wenbin knows that the fat man has made up his mind, and from the perspective of his own life, the people who accompany him to the end are more than lucky. Luomen has no news since the first battle of Huoshan, I don't know what they will do next, Cha Wenbin is too lazy to care, once the hexagram is broken, there will not be much movement in a short time, and there is nothing more important than Xiao Qi's safety at the moment.
"Let's go," Cha Wenbin said: "Don't come back after you leave, I don't have a good end with me, Lao Xia is, Xiaobai is, Ye Qiu is, I don't want you to be too, keep it all, let me feel better." ”
The fat man said don't worry, I will always be by your side even if I leave, didn't Luomen send Ye Qiu to go undercover for you, I will also go undercover for you, aren't you happy to let me take over the five major families, that's okay, let's wedge a nail into his Luomon's nest!
Cha Wenbin said that you are making a fucking excuse, think about Jiu'er, in fact, Jiu'er is really good, she is beautiful and a big family, and Old Man Ding is also kind. We don't have to do those crooked ways, I just want to guard the hot kang head of the girls and children in this life, we don't want to provoke those rights and wrongs, just live a stable life.
The fat man scolded him for having no interest, Cha Wenbin scolded him for having no conscience, scolded and laughed and cried and was drunk, and when Cha Wenbin was dragged out from under the table by Concubine Cheng at dawn, the fat man was no longer there, and an envelope was left on the table, and he opened it to see that it was a passbook and a letter. The letter said that he wanted to go out quietly, and he might come back when he would, and the money he had saved in the past few years would be given to Xiao Qi as a red envelope. Cha Wenbin is a person with no economic concept, he doesn't know what the string of numbers behind him represents, in fact, that's all the fat man.
Walking with him was the Cold Moon Knife in front of Ye Qiu, this knife had been left in the fat man's hand, Cha Wenbin said that this knife was too heavy to use. But the fat man did not think that every time at night he would sleep with the knife in his arms, and he went to the cobbler to sew a scabbard, and he said that he would not let the knife out of the sheath again, never.
Cha Wenbin sat on the bridge with a bunch of old sheets all day, and he didn't know what he was thinking, the smell of alcohol all over his body, the scum on his face, the sunken eye sockets, and his sloppy appearance. The people who came over were all familiar faces, and everyone didn't react when they greeted him, and some good things ran to ask Concubine Lu, saying that your man is a magic barrier, in fact, Concubine Lu knew in her heart that he was reluctant......
When it was dark, a fire burned everything to the end, the quilts, the clothes. According to the rules, the personal utensils used in life after death are all burned, Cha Wenbin said that Ye Qiu did not die, he went to a place where no one disturbed him and lived a life that should belong to him, just like the monster Laosan, they actually do not belong to this world. That's why he kept those things, but he burned them after all, and he said that he burned those painful memories that he wanted to forget, after all, he still had to live.
During the Spring Festival in 1985, the young people in the village began to put on jeans, the whiter they washed, the more fashionable they were, riding 28 bars all day long and wearing toad glasses, and on the schoolbag shelf were either girls in floral skirts or a tape recorder screaming at Ula Ulla. That New Year's month is the most comforting and calmest New Year's month that Cha Wenbin has ever had, since the fat man left, few people have come to the house, but every day he sits on the small bridge at the door and looks at the distant village entrance. Concubine Yu knew that he was thinking about people, and wanted to see those friends who mixed together every day, she felt that Cha Wenbin would be abolished if she continued like this, so she encouraged him to go to Guanzhong to find the fat man.
But Cha Wenbin refused, he said that those who should come will come, those who should go will go, and he must learn to get used to it. So he began to put down the Taoist talisman, picked up the hoe, took off the Taoist robe and put on the labor cloth, and replaced the black-faced cloth shoes with liberation shoes. Every day, he followed the rest of the village to learn the sowing experience of the south, and he planted seedlings on half an acre of land, and raised a dozen chickens and a pig.
Concubine Yu saw it in her eyes, Cha Wenbin was even more dull than before, he would only laugh when he saw Xiao Qi, and it was just to make the child laugh, and when the child fell asleep, the couple fell into silence, and often in the middle of the night she could still hear Cha Wenbin's sigh, which was a kind of helplessness.
Lao Xia in 1985 was not much better than Cha Wenbin, Comrade Lao Xia has now become an expert in the field, but his daughter-in-law still has no movement. This made Xia Lao Liu very anxious, he was not in a hurry to hold his grandson, but Lao Xia's life was different from others, and he had to exchange it for the next generation.
In mid-March, the seedlings in the field have begun to grow a stubble, Xia Laoliu smoked a cigarette and knocked on the soles of his shoes, the grass is green again, why didn't the daughter-in-law react to her belly? His old face was not easy to ask, so he thought about it and decided to go to Cha Wenbin to settle a hexagram.
As soon as he said this, Cha Wenbin laughed and said Uncle, don't worry about this, the time has not yet come, he will definitely have a future, and he is 100% a son.
Xia Lao Liu said that you just got a son, this is comforting me, right? Cha Wenbin said that it was not comfort, it was fate. As soon as he said this, he suddenly looked down at the liberation shoes that were stained with mud, and the chatter he had been talking to people all day recently was not any feng shui yin and yang gossip, all of them were some chemical fertilizers, seeds and pesticides, so Xia Lao Liu looked at him a little strangely.
"Didn't you learn this skill in vain? We can't beg for food from the land, you shouldn't be in this Wuli shop for the rest of your life, I heard a while ago that many people who came to you were sent away, Wen Bin, if your master knew that you were like this, wouldn't it be uncomfortable? ”
"It's nothing, uncle." Cha Wenbin said with a smile: "It's good to know for yourself, besides, the knowledge in farming is also great." ”
In fact, before she came, Concubine Yu secretly went to find Xia Lao Liu once, he wanted Lao Liu to help him think of some way, and she didn't want to watch Cha Wenbin sink like this.
"Wen Bin, I came here to say that you are different from Qiu Shi, your life has its own trajectory, but he fell early, and you should not follow in his footsteps."
Cha Wenbin glanced at the woman who had been eavesdropping in the corner, he actually understood in his heart, but he couldn't get over that hurdle......