Chapter 6: Reminiscences
Hao Jiali got into the car, just squinted her eyes, and was sleepy, to put it bluntly, she was woken up by a cough before she fell asleep.
Hao Jiali didn't open her eyes, but opened her eyes slightly, and saw a person sitting across her seat from the gap between her eyelashes.
Hao Jiali didn't bother to tell whether this person was male or female, anyway, it didn't matter to her, she just wanted to devote herself to a full sleep, and Hao Jiali had no interest in things outside her body.
Hao Jiali only glanced at the person opposite, and then went to sleep by herself.
After sleeping for less than two minutes, Hao Jiali heard a "bang" sound, which frightened Hao Jiali to open her eyes immediately, sit upright, and look for the source of the sound around her seat in surprise.
The first thing Hao Jiali saw was a man standing on the side of the window of the carriage.
The man's hands were grasping the window of the car and lifting it towards the roof of the car and stuck in the iron groove of the window frame, and this thud was the sound of the iron bar inlaid with the window glass rubbing against the iron groove.
After Hao Jiali heard this voice, she saw the man who opened the window and stretched his hands out of the window, palms facing up, and the rain drifting outside the window.
After a while, the man's hand retracted, and then rubbed each other with his palms, and after rubbing, the man looked at his palm and said to himself: "Hmm! With such a light rain, it doesn't matter if it drifts into the window. After speaking, the man turned around and sat down in the seat opposite Hao Jiali.
As soon as the man sat down, Hao Jiali saw it.
The man's thirty-five or sixteen-year-old grade, melon seed face, one-line eyebrows, the knife-cut nose bridge extends to the tip of the nose, the man's nose is not big, the nose is not wide, and the delicate air matches his face shape just right.
It's just that this man's mouth is a little wide, and his lips are not fleshy, and he looks cold and ruthless.
Hao Jiali looked at the man's eyes again, with a small outline, a narrow eyeliner, and a faint black shadow around the eyelids, as if she had drawn eye shadow.
In fact, sitting opposite was an authentic man, Hao Jiali also saw that this man had a haircut, and the Adam's apple on the man's neck was like a fruit on a tree in the middle of his throat, which was just one of the male characteristics that could only prove this man.
The second male characteristic is that the man wears a gray-white V-neck short-sleeved yarn, with a flat chest and a somewhat thick collarbone on the chest, like two skinned sticks separating the neck from the body.
This man has no abs, and even a little bulging belly, like a belly that drinks too much beer, Hao Jiali saw that the man's short-sleeved hem was tucked into his army-green pants, and his clothes were obviously not big enough, and his beer belly was almost stretched out so that the fabric of his clothes could be stretched out, and the shape of his navel and eyes were looming:
"This man has a belly as big as a woman who is two or three months pregnant." Hao Jiali said to herself when she saw Chen Yan for the first time.
"What is a man with a belly like this?" Hao Jiali disdained Chen Yan's appearance when she first met him.
The man in Hao Jiali's mind is the kind of man with a majestic body, broad thick shoulders, chest muscles, abdominal muscles, and biceps of the arms, and his facial features are as handsome as the flag-raising soldiers in Tiananmen Square, this is the real man, and the Prince Charming in Hao Jiali's mind is this.
Like the man sitting opposite, Hao Jiali didn't even want to give him a straight eye.
Hao Jiali couldn't find the source of the sound when she heard the sound, Hao Jiali sat down lazily and put her hands together and began to close her eyes and sleep, Hao Jiali didn't want to ask where the sound of the man opposite came from just now.
Hao Jiali is not a woman who casually talks to others, she is a cultivated woman, although she gave up school after graduating from junior high school to pick up the burden of supporting the family for her father, who died early, but Hao Jiali's hands have never left books, Hao Jiali's heart has always been influenced by literature, Hao Jiali is much more intellectual and self-contained than her peers, which is inseparable from innate and acquired efforts.
Innate is, Hao Jiali's ancestor grandfather was an official in the early Qing Dynasty, as for a few products Hao Jiali is not very clear, the real information recorded in the family genealogy from generation to generation was lost during the migration, and all the descendants of Hao Jiali and their generation know that they are the descendants of famous families.
And Hao Jiali's grandmother is a well-founded official lady, to Hao Jiali's grandmother Cao Juying's generation she is still the daughter of a landlord, the family is wealthy, due to the liberation of the land reform. Earth. The owner Cao Juying's family was demoted to poor middle peasants and confiscated all their property, and Cao Juying also married Hao Jiali's grandfather, an illiterate old man, because of her bad ingredients.
Although he is a big man, Hao Jiali's grandfather can also work as a carpenter, making beds, cupboards, desks and other wooden supplies for families near and far, and it is not a problem to support the family with craftsmanship, but he should not have died of illness early, leaving Hao Jiali's grandmother Cao Juying and Hao Jiali's uncle, father and two uncles, one of whom is still mute.
Cao Juying can't support four children as a woman, so Cao Juying has no choice but to remarry with four children, and Cao Juying will marry Hao Jiali's current grandfather Chen Zhanjun as soon as she gets married.
Chen Zhanjun's family composition is really good, Chen Zhanjun's two elder brothers all died on the battlefield to resist US aggression and aid Korea, and Chen Zhanjun picked up a life from the battlefield and came back.
Hao Jiali listened to her current grandfather Chen Zhanjun talk about his heroic deeds, Hao Jiali knew that he had been shot three times by the enemy on the Korean battlefield, one shot passed through the crotch of his pants, and the pants pierced a hole, and the person was fine, and the second shot blocked a shot from the military kettle used to drink water on his waist, and no one was injured, but the third shot Chen Zhanjun did not dodge.
The enemy's bullet grazed the top of Chen Zhanjun's head, and Chen Zhanjun's scalp was wiped with a large piece and bloody, and after the injury was healed, no hair grew on the wounded part of Chen Zhanjun's head.
This injury is nothing, Chen Zhanjun finally picked up a life and came back, this life Hao Jiali heard her grandfather, that is, Chen Zhanjun, mention that when he ran out of ammunition and food in the end, he piled up the corpses of the sacrificed soldiers and saved himself from death, or he would have been like his two elder brothers and asked the army to award a piece of "martyr's family, supreme glory." The plaque was hung in front of his house.
After the victory of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Chen Zhanjun was demobilized from the army and was assigned to work in a steel plant, where Chen Zhanjun's job was to shovel coal in the steelmaking furnace.
Chen Zhanjun felt that this kind of work was no different from farming in the countryside, plus this salary could not support the parents, wives and children at home, Chen Zhanjun's two elder brothers died on the battlefield, Chen Zhanjun's parents were old and had no one to take care of them, Hao Jiali's father and Hao Jiali's two uncles were young, Hao Jiali's grandmother Cao Juying couldn't manage it alone, so Chen Zhanjun gave up his job in the steel factory and returned to the countryside.
After returning to the countryside, Chen Zhanjun was ugly because he had a scar on the top of his head and no hair to cover it, which attracted the ridicule of the children in the village, and the children laughed at Chen Zhanjun for being a leper head, so Chen Zhanjun had to wear a hat all year round, Chen Zhanjun did not die on the battlefield, but he was afraid that the villagers would laugh at him, and he wore this hat until his last breath.
Hao Jiali's grandmother Cao Juying dragged her children and daughters to remarry Chen Zhanjun, and from this generation, the family plummeted, farming for generations, the so-called rich only three generations, the family began to get poorer from generation to generation, poverty and Hao Jiali's father had no choice but to marry Hao Jiali's mother Chen Feng, the daughter of a poor middle peasant.
Chen Feng is the youngest child in Hao Jiali's grandparents' family, she is lucky to go to primary school and know a few words, but she is an authentic country woman, and she has all the vices of country women, such as: she likes to talk about people's strengths and weaknesses, talk about people's right and wrong, snobbish, careful and so on.
Regarding this point, in fact, Hao Jiali's father had found out when he got married, but Chen Feng was good, and Hao Jiali's uncle Chen Qing was the captain of the production team at the time, and he had the right to marry Chen Feng in order to get rid of the life of mud legs in the countryside.
For example, coal miners need strong labor in the countryside, Hao Jiali's father married Hao Jiali's mother Chen Feng, and then got the only recruitment index that the production team grabbed to fight, and Hao Jiali's uncle gave him this index.
Since then, Hao Jiali's father has become a veritable working class.