Chapter 20: Next Door
Dad took me and my second sister to live in Longmiao Village again, and the village chief Liu Sangui was the happiest one, because although he is now the head of a village, no one in the villagers looks down on him behind his back, and he always feels that he is just a butcher who kills pigs and sells meat, and is not worthy of the position of village chief, and the whole village respects him as much as the mother and son of the Lu family.
So the villagers lowered their eyebrows and looked at him on the surface, but when they turned around, they changed to a high-minded face.
He himself knew that he would not be welcomed, so he could only swallow his anger and try to maintain the majesty of the village chief.
Although Liu Sangui and his father usually joke and quarrel, they are very close to each other.
In the past, when his father lived in the village, he would bring a few taels of fine meat to Ye's house to chat with him every day after selling meat and collecting the stall, he liked to listen to his father, some of the words were very funny, and there was no lack of profound truth, and from time to time interspersed with a few allusions.
When his father moved away, he was still very sorry, but now that his father is back, he is happy in his heart, and he is looking for a house without saying a word.
After the liberation, many outsiders came to Jinping County to make a living, and Longmiao Village, which is the closest to the county seat, has undoubtedly become the first choice for these migrant workers to rent a house.
After Liu Sangui became the village chief, he spent money to buy a few small dilapidated houses, renovated them and rented them out at a low price.
Although there were some outsiders renting a house next door to the house, my father didn't refute Liu Sangui's kindness, and moved in with his children without thinking about it.
Lu Youcai was originally entrusted by Liu Guifen to live in Liu Sangui's house as a partner, but he saw that his Uncle Ye had moved to Longmiao Village, and Liu Sangui's family did not eat well, so he also lived in Ye's house.
On the night my father moved into his new house, he tried to write a letter to inform the family of the news of Wang Laoba's death, and the eldest sister was also very fast, and on the third day after receiving the letter, Liu Laoshi and Bald Tiger rushed to Longmiao Village.
"Huzi, what's your brother's name? I'll find someone to carve a tablet for him. Dad looked at the bald tiger with swollen eyes and asked cautiously.
"My brother's name is Wang Dapeng, and my name is Li Feihu. Brother Ye, if I die one day, don't forget to write my name as well. The bald tiger wiped his tears with a bitter face.
"Huzi, this gold bar was given to you by your brother, he asked me to keep half of it, I won't keep it, I will give it to you, your brother did not forget to tell you before he died, let you stop smoking, alas!"
The bald tiger took the gold bar, and the tears were a lot again, and he only shed tears with a sobbing mouth.
After hastily finishing the funeral for Wang Laoba, the bald tiger was gone, and the box of gold bars was placed in the room where the bald tiger slept, and I don't know if there was too little.
Liu Laoshi didn't know where the bald tiger had gone, but he saw a note on the box, full of words.
"Brother Ye, my brother let the Communist Party beat him to death, I don't have anything to say, he died unjustly, if he were me, he wouldn't cry out for injustice, we made too many sins in the past few years, and it is not enough to die ten times.
I'm gone, I won't come back, what I'm going to do is something I discussed with my cousin a long time ago, this time I will die for a lifetime, I'm afraid I won't have a chance to avenge the cottage, I just hope that Brother Ye will not be with Dou Daniu's dog thief in the future. All the gold has been given to you, you are all good people, I know that the Ye family is in trouble now, and I don't know if this gold bar can help you tide over the difficulties. ”
The signature is Li Feihu, although the handwriting is scribbled, but there is no typo, Dad's hand holding the letter trembles, Wang Laoba is dead, the Ye family seems to be missing an arm, and now the Ye family is in crisis, and all kinds of situations have not been resolved, but there can be no more mistakes.
As soon as he moved into the new house, his father cleaned up, added furniture, and built the courtyard wall with cement.
On the day my father built the wall, he found that there were several big holes in the mud wall, I don't know if it was a snake hole or a rat's nest, anyway, he didn't think much about it and sealed the holes with cement, and in order to make the wall look smooth, he also deliberately plastered a few more layers.
Since he moved into this house, my father's health has become worse and worse, at first he just had a fever, and his mind was still clear, and then after three or four days, he talked nonsense all day like crazy, ghosts, gods. Lang Zhong came to see it, shook his head and left, and Mr. also came to take a look, claiming that he was not good at learning, and he also left, and repeatedly invited four or five Mr. Yin and Yang and his disciples, but no one dared to show his father, and when asked the reason, it was basically the same: We can't afford to mess with that thing on your father.
On this day, Dad invited a statue of Guanyin Bodhisattva out of nowhere, for the family to burn incense and worship all day long, and since that day, he seems to have changed a person, he usually doesn't drink much, but now he would rather not eat than drink a heart, and the amount of smoke is twice as much as before, and I don't care about me and my second sister, he doesn't even look at the letter sent by Jiyang, as if everyone and everything has nothing to do with him.
And the most amazing thing is that from that day on, he can help anyone in the village to solve a disaster, and he can cure minor illnesses such as cold, fever, headache, brain fever, etc.
It's just that Dad now doesn't know how to become so crazy and sloppy, with a scruffy beard, and a smoky body full of alcohol, if it weren't for the real difficulties at home, I'm afraid no one would touch his side.
Liu Sangui saw his father's behavior at this time, and the impression of Ye Shou'an, sighed, and never came again.
When she moved in, the second sister didn't want to see Lu Youcai, just like I don't want to see Lu Youcai now, I feel disgusted to see what he does, even if he has good intentions, the second sister has to dislike it before accepting it.
But half a month after moving in, the second sister and I became the henchmen of the rich brother.
Every day when Lu Youcai came back from school, he would take me and my second sister into the mountains with a shotgun to catch rabbits and pheasants.
On this day, the three of us were setting up a fire in the yard to roast rabbits, and suddenly I noticed that a round round head appeared on the wall between the courtyard next door and my courtyard, which was the neighbor's child Fuzi, who seemed to be two years older than me, he always liked to peek at us roasting game against the wall, and every time he was discovered, he would hurriedly lower his little head down, only revealing his black half-pulled head on the wall.
Lu Youcai likes to joke, once he quietly came to the wall with the freshly peeled rabbit skin, covered the rabbit skin that was still with blood on his face, and suddenly jumped away, so frightened that Fuzi fell from the wall to the root of the wall, and then he did not appear on the wall for several days.
Later, I heard that Fuzi's family was a foreigner, and there was only one father and one sister in the family, and his father was in Jinping County to set up a stall to sell croquettes, and he rushed to Jinping from Longmiao Village early in the morning every day, and his father did not collect the stall until seven or eight o'clock in the evening.
Fuzi's sister is only one year older than Fuzi, usually his father goes out to set up a stall, and his sister takes care of him at home, but recently it seems to be catching up with the temple fair in Jinping County, so his father can't be busy alone, so he asked his sister to help. Prepare dry food at home every day, and eat some when Fuzi is hungry. Fuzi is not a child who likes to go out and wander around, anyway, the temple fair will only be open for a few days, just deal with the past.
Next door is a large courtyard, there are four or five families living in a courtyard, every night when there is nothing to do, I will sit in the yard with my second sister and listen to the movement in the courtyard next to me, anyway, it is very interesting.
The little couple next door quarreled over trivial matters again, and the wife was a loud voice, and she could listen to the whole street with one mouth.
The wife smashed the pots and pans to pieces, and the husband didn't want to quarrel with his wife, so he endured it again and again. Seeing that more and more people gathered outside the door, some children also followed the blind coaxing, and the wife's mother's family was only separated by a wall next to it.
The wife scolded her husband, and the husband occasionally returned his mouth, and he couldn't say a word of unpleasantness when he blushed, and the wife still refused to forgive, and the husband couldn't bear it, so he only said: "Divorce", which made the wife and her family stunned on the spot.
The husband went into the house, picked up his coat and walked out, got on his bicycle and walked away without looking back.
The woman's family was anxious and shouted at his wife: "Go after you!"
The wife obviously didn't expect this to be the result, so she sat on the ground and cried for a while.
Early the next morning, there was a cry next door, the second sister dragged me to see the excitement, Lu Youcai stopped us from outside the door, let us not go over, it turned out that the woman who quarreled last night hanged herself.
Lu Youcai said that the woman's neck seemed to be purple, her tongue was long, her eyes were not closed, the white eyes were rolling, tsk, Emma, she was scary, she suddenly made a grimace at me as she spoke, and I was scared to cry when I was three and a half years old.
The mourning music has been ringing next door for two days, I asked Lu Youcai when I would not listen to these ugly tunes, Lu Youcai said that he would be funeral tomorrow, and he would not have to listen to it early tomorrow morning.
On the day of the funeral next door, there was another turmoil.