A Santana sedan passed through the village of Wohutun and immediately attracted the attention of many children running and playing on the street.

It is hard to imagine that time has entered the 21st century, and there will still be children in the countryside who are innocent and curious to chase the car, and the elderly and villagers will pay attention, staring at the car and talking about it, with envy and yearning in their expressions.

Wen Shuo, who was sitting in the co-pilot's seat, had a stunned and inexplicable sour look on his face.

In the past, every time he came to Wohutun, he had never entered the village.

Because whether he walked a long time ago, or later his mother took him on a bicycle, or when he grew up and carried his mother on three wheels, he always bypassed the path directly from the side road outside the village.

This time, my cousin drove a car, and he had to drive through the main street of the village.

In the village of Wohutun, even the widest street in the middle is only six or seven meters wide, there is no cement hardening, only each family uses gravel and ash in front of the door to pave a relatively solid area, but they are extremely stingy and try not to pave as much as possible, as if they will suffer a lot if they pave more roads.

So this potholed street is particularly mottled, this piece and that, disorganized.

To the northwest of the village is a large area of farmland, as well as barren hills, and the paths are not the same as the outside world.

So, the car passed through the village to the northwest of the village......

The villagers were very puzzled, speculating that the winter was the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, what was the car going to the northwest of the village?

The first to guess some clues was Wen Shanzhu, who lived in the northwest of the village.

Wen Shanzhu is Wen Shuo's uncle in terms of generation, and he is very close to his own family - Wen Shuo's grandfather and Wen Shanzhu's father are still cousins. It's just that Grandpa Wen Shuo's vein, to Wen Shuo, is a single transmission of three generations.

Wen Shanzhu, who is in his 50s, was squatting outside the courtyard wall smoking a cigarette pouch as the car pulled out of the village and toward the farmland.

Seeing the sedan passing by, he got up and looked at it, and still had some schadenfreude in his heart, after the hills in the northwest, there was only a small narrow road in the staggered fields, and in this car, which I don't know where it came from, the people who drove and sat in the car should have been lost, and they had to come back after wandering around the fields for a while.

But the sedan ended up parked beneath the hilly wasteland in the distance.

Three people got out of the car.

One of them stood next to the car, and the other two walked up the hill.

From a distance, he couldn't see whether it was a man or a woman, and he couldn't see his face clearly, but Wen Shanzhu was only a little surprised, and immediately guessed something, immediately raised his foot, knocked the cigarette pot on the sole of his shoe a few times, turned his head and walked towards the yard, and shouted: "Xiaocheng, hurry up and inform the uncles, uncles, and grandfathers at home, just say that the uncle Shanqi who died early, his wife and his son, came to the grave on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month...... This, that's not true!"

"What's wrong?" Wen Shanzhu's youngest son, Wen Cheng, came out of the house and said suspiciously: "His family came to the grave, what's in the way of us?"

"What do you know about a rabbit cub?" Wen Shanzhu glared and shouted, "If you want to go, you can go!"

"Oh. ”

Wen Cheng pursed his lips, muttered and went back to the house to put on a cotton coat, and rode his bicycle out to inform.

Wen Shanzhu went outside, squatted under the wall and smoked his cigarette pouch, observing the hill in the distance—the ancestral tomb of the old Wen family, on that hill.

In fact, almost all of the graves in Crouching Tiger Tun are on that barren hill.

But......

Crouching Tiger Tunli asked door to door, who has a motorcycle, then it is certain that the family has a baby to marry a daughter-in-law in the past two years before they are willing to buy a car, that is something that even dreams about. Therefore, the only people who can drive a car to the grave are the wife and son of the Shanqi family - almost all the people in the village have had it in the past two years, Wen Shanqi, who died early in the old Wen family, has a baby in the family, was admitted to Beijing University, and made a fortune in the capital!

Wen Shanzhu's wife came out of the courtyard, stood beside her man, looked into the distance a few times, and said, "Is it really the wife and child of the Shanqi family?"

"Who else could it be?" Wen Shanzhu coughed twice and said, "It's really rich." ”

"At the beginning, I said that you old Wen family people are too unkind...... his wife complained angrily: "Now I guess I regret it, right?"

Wen Shanzhu frowned and said in a low voice, "Don't be nonsense!"

The wife snorted, but stopped talking.

......

Wen Shuo and his mother carried burning paper, wine, cigarettes, a bag of ordinary chicken cakes, and a shovel along the path on the hills to the ancestral grave of the old Wen family.

The ancestral tomb of the old Wen family is north-facing, and there are more than 20 graves of all sizes.

From this, it can be seen that the old Wen family is a big family in Wohutun, and the relationship is relatively harmonious, of course, it may also be that the feudal consciousness is strong, so after several generations, there is no branch to set up another grave.

The grave of Wenshan Banner is on the very edge, and it can even be said that it has some meaning of departing from the ancestral tomb.

Because Wenshanqi died early at the beginning, his father is still there, so he is not allowed to enter the ancestral grave.

Later, after Wen Shanqi's father died, although under the control of his daughter-in-law and daughter, he entered the ancestral grave, but the people of the old Wen family only opened the grave of Wen Shanqi's mother, that is, Wen Shuo's grandmother, and closed the grave with Wen Shuo's grandfather, but did not take Wen Shanqi's coffin out and bury it at the feet of his parents according to the rules of the ancestral grave.

Burning paper money in front of the graves of grandparents and fathers, pouring wine, disassembling packets of cigarettes and scattering them into the fire, kowtowing, Wen Shuo and his mother stood side by side in front of their father's graves.

"Mom, my father's grave didn't enter the ancestral grave. Wen Shuo said softly: "I didn't understand before, but now, I can see it." ”

"Alas. Li Qin shook his head bitterly and said: "At the beginning, you were young, and you didn't let women get involved in such a thing as going to the grave, the old men and elders of the old Wen family were in charge, and your father's grave has never been touched here." ”

Wen Shuo picked up a shovel, shoveled soil around the grave, and said, "Why don't we move around much in our family and hometown......?"

Li Qin sighed softly.

Wen Shuo gave birth to a nameless fire in his heart, grinned, and said while shoveling soil and filling the grave: "It's nothing, the ancestral grave is a thought, a family for several generations, more than ten generations, more and more people have passed away, and there will always be a time to build a grave again, so don't be sad, Mom, even if it starts with my father, let's build another grave." ”

Li Qin understood her son's character, sighed again, and said, "Mom didn't want to talk to you about these short things in the family before, because she was afraid that you would have conflicts with others and not get along with the people in your own family...... Although we have not moved much with the old family of Crouching Tiger Tun over the years, but, in the final analysis, your surname is Wen, so there can be no hatred. ”

"Mom, you're always the old good guy's mind. Wen Shuo smiled.

"You used to be young, but now that you're older, you have a sense of proportion in what you do, Mom will tell you, so that you don't have a pimple in your heart, it's not good. ”

"Hmm. ”

Wen Shuo's heart trembled, and the action of shoveling soil and filling the grave slowed down.

Li Qin wrapped the fur collar wrapped in a down jacket, and her thoughts seemed to be back to ten or twenty years ago in an instant.

Wen Shanqi is the most educated person in the old Wen family, and even in the whole Wohutun, he went to high school, served as a soldier, and returned from the army major, and was assigned to the cotton textile factory in the county.

At that time, he was the pride of the old Wen family and the pride of Crouching Hutun.

Who doesn't envy?

At that time, life in the countryside was extremely poor, so naturally, the people of the old Wen family would go to the county seat to find Wenshan Banner today, tomorrow my family, rub a full meal with meat, and take home a little something, or find Wen Shan Banner to help find a job for the strong laborers in the family......

Wen Shanqi is a very character person, but he is extremely affectionate, in those years he did his best, without violating the provisions of the regulations on the premise of helping the family, the factory, the county can access short-term labor work, not hesitate to run back to the village more than ten miles to inform the family to make money, but also think of a way to arrange the family to go to the factory as temporary workers.

It can be said that Wen Shanqi has done his best to help the old Wen family.

Later, after getting married and starting a family, and having children, Wen Shanqi's family expenses will inevitably increase, and it is inevitable that the amount of alms and in-kind gifts will be reduced to the old family.

And this buried the initial contradiction.

Human nature is like that.

When giving and giving become habitual, many people take it for granted and don't feel grateful.

There is a saying that "give birth to Mien, fight Mien." ”

That's probably what it means.

The people of the old Wen family are not completely so ignorant, none of them can say how Wenshanqi is bad, after all, people's hearts are long, Wenshanqi's help to the old family over the years, who doesn't have a little bit in their hearts?

But people's habit is to complain and discuss privately after they have emotions.

Then, the people of the old Wen family began to attribute the root of all this to Li Qin - it must be this daughter-in-law who controlled the mountain flag and didn't let the mountain flag give it to us anymore!

After that, it was the young people of the old Wen family who worked as temporary workers in the cotton spinning factory, and some relied on Wen Shanqi to be a leader and cadre in the factory, so they cheated and played tricks, and even showed off their might from time to time. Some of them begged Wen Shanqi with a shy face to help them get the indicators of regular employees, so that they would have an iron rice bowl......

No man is content!

Wen Shanqi has no aversion to the family who wants to become a regular employee, and this is called a progressive idea in those years, and he has also made efforts to help them work hard to progress, learn more, and strive for places.

But it's a pity that these people from the old Wen family almost have no cultural background, and if they want to fight for a place as a regular worker from the countryside and the countryside, it was originally a matter of breaking the head in those days, so it was very difficult.

Wen Shanqi is also a person with an upright temperament, and he will never take the wrong path, one is one and two is two!

Therefore, no one in the old Wen family can grab the quota of regular employees.