Marriage and family are a necessary process in everyone's life, and since the founding of New China, the Marriage Law advocates free marriage, breaking the shackles of China's thousands of years of feudal history, and young people, middle-aged people or old people can freely fall in love and get married. Even so, there are different ethnic customs in different parts of China, especially in rural areas, where arranged marriages of children are commonplace. In the early and post-founding periods, the first love or marriage for marriage also differed, especially in special movements, such as the importance of the family component in the class struggle. Dapeng and Yaqin's first love was in the early seventies, and the historical background of their respective families and the situation of both parties at that time were subject to the harsh influence of the objective environment.

The steep mountain road is steep and steep, probably a ditch road left by Little Japan, although the three cars have been loaded, and the old man is a little worried about going down the mountain. He asked Wang Xingquan, who was with the car, to lead the set, and he held the car pole to drive the oxen down the mountain first, and the car suddenly overturned when he shook left and right, but fortunately he didn't hurt people and cattle. Lao Chitou ordered half of the car to be reversed, that is, to unload half of the loaded car, pull it to the bottom of the mountain, unload the tree and come back to load the half of the car. The solution is good and smooth, but it is already dark when I get home to unload the car. When Dapeng and Wang Xingquan were eating, Captain Zhao came to arrange the work, and in order to take care of the people and the cattle that would not go up the mountain tomorrow, they went to Beigouzi to collect grass and pull the feed for the cattle. Dapeng was in a very anxious mood, but he still waited for Captain Zhao, Lao Chitou and Cai Baozhi to go home and leave, before pretending to mention the piano left by his brother, and hurriedly ran to the kindergarten.

"Why are you here?

"Something happened to the car. ”

"My uncle didn't come back after dark, he didn't come back when I went to Uncle Chi's house, I went to your dormitory window to see it, and you didn't come back, but I was in a hurry." ”

"Don't die of old age. ”

"It's dangerous for you to go up the mountain, right? You must pay attention to safety, for my sake, you can't hear anything?"

"When...!" Yaqin accidentally touched the strings of the violin in the midst of begging, and the two parted their embraced hands due to the sound. Dapeng agreed, and the two of them sat on the rocker again, and Dapeng began to tell about his bitter past.

"I was stopped by my classmate Li Shuqing on my way from school, and she asked me why I didn't have Russian books? She agreed to help me borrow books, and I thanked them, because not only were we classmates, but her family lived upstairs from my brother's house, and we went upstairs to our respective homes together. When I opened the door of the small hallway, the copper lock told me that my brother and sister-in-law were not at home. I opened the door of the west corridor again, and my sister-in-law was playing poker at Sister Chen's house. The sister-in-law played cards and said, "Xiaopeng, your brother used your money to buy a violin and spent more than 110 yuan." ”

I casually said, "He's already bought it, just buy it!" and I hugged my nephew from my sister-in-law's arms.

The sister-in-law said: "We already have two pianos at home, and he doesn't negotiate, he doesn't go home after receiving the money and then buys the piano,......。 ”

My sister-in-law kept muttering while playing cards, what could I do, I had to let it go. Suddenly, the violin sounded, and my sister-in-law threw down her playing cards and ran home. I knew something was going to happen, so I hurriedly handed Yanbo's nephew to Sister Chen, although it was the front foot and the back of the foot, I still didn't rush, when I entered the house, my sister-in-law had already snatched the violin, she was raising the piano to fall to the ground, I caught it, and quickly put the piano into the piano case.

I came quickly, my sister-in-law was faster, she snatched the piano case and kicked open the hallway door and threw it, and the piano case rolled down the stairs with the piano "Dang! The case opened, and the piano and bow popped out, and I hurried down to see that the golden red piano and the box with the new green gold velvet were intact, except for the shoulder rest, which I quickly put into the box and locked it.

When I was carrying the piano up the stairs, my brother felt sorry for the piano and beat my sister-in-law, at first by dragging my sister-in-law's hair and hitting the wall, and then by punching and kicking. The neighbors came to pull the fight, and the elder brother had already stopped fighting in the face, but the sister-in-law had to ignore the people, she * picked up the horseshoe watch and smashed it on the brother's head, and kept shouting: "You are still reasonable to spend money secretly?... I'll let you hit someone.... Not only did she punch and kick, but she also started scratching her face. The elder brother shouted angrily: "I spent my brother's money What is your business?" dragged his sister-in-law to the bed and beat him, but the neighbor still came to pull the rack, and the sister-in-law ran to the kitchen like crazy, holding a big kitchen knife and slashing at his brother, and the neighbor took the kitchen knife away. So they fought from daylight until dark, and when the neighbors were gone, they stopped fighting.

I hugged the crying Xiao Yanbo and gave it to my sister-in-law, my brother touched his face and panted and bowed his head silently, and my sister-in-law held the child and sulked. I didn't dare to speak, and I cleaned up the mess they had beaten up, and the little pony's hoof watch was intact and still walking "click!" In silence, the sister-in-law and the elder brother opened up.

"Do you still buy two violins at home?" and if you have money, you can buy a radio,......。 ”

I'll buy you a radio tomorrow." ”

"That's Xiaopeng's money, I didn't let you move it." ”

"He is my own brother and does not distinguish between each other, what do you say Xiaopeng?"

What can I say at the moment of the battle between my brother and sister-in-law? My brother is taking political classes again, what are you doing to go to college, what are you helping to find a job and start a family! My sister-in-law also started cooking, and my brother began to fiddle with his beloved violin again.

The next day, my brother not only spent 110 yuan to buy a universe brand radio, but also spent 19 yuan to buy tables and chairs, and the money he got back from the hospital cost more than 200 yuan just one night. My brother happily played the piano, my sister-in-law happily listened to the program on the radio, and I was the only one who was hungry and did my homework.

In the years of natural disasters, there was a ration of food, my brother was a clerk with a monthly ration of 27 catties, my sister-in-law was a family member with a monthly ration of 18 catties, my little nephew was only 6 catties, and the state took care of middle school students with 33 catties per month, and even our teachers were only 27 catties. If the food is not enough to eat, we will drink mushy porridge made of vegetable leaves, and the factory will supply some sugar residue and cabbage dumplings. Every time I eat, I can only drink that small bowl of porridge and eat a vegetable ball, my brother and sister-in-law let me again, I also said that I was full, and I was hungry and dizzy after a few bubbles of urine.

Originally, my sister-in-law found a job after marriage, and at first she worked as a waiter in the municipal hardware, and she was tired of standing at the counter, and after she became pregnant, she began to change jobs because her spare unit was too far away from home. She worked as a narrator in the exhibition hall of the Railway Cultural Center, and stood and spat at the stars all day long. She went to the factory primary school to teach, and went to the hospital to work as a nurse. The leaders of the municipal hardware came, and Liu Shuzhen was dismissed from the staff meeting for jumping ship in many places, and her sister-in-law has no job since then.

I envy my brother's talent and style, and I appreciate my sister-in-law's relationship of losing college for marriage, and my sister-in-law's marriage is respected. They are so fanatical and persistent from their first love to after marriage, they are inseparable from fishing, skating, and dancing after work. When my mother was alive, my brother and sister-in-law took me to night fishing, and threw a few lines into the river by the bridge, and as long as I heard the bell on the pole, the fish was hooked, and there were catfish, blackfish, and crucian carp. The next day, my brother was holding the fish behind, and my sister-in-law was riding in front of me to support me faster than him. But there was a car parked on the side of the bridge slope, and my sister-in-law just went around the front of the car and drove down a big truck from it, and my sister-in-law quickly got out of the car and leaned to the side, which almost killed both of us, and we never went fishing again.

My brother and sister-in-law were originally a dancing maniac, that year on the night of the Spring Festival and Chinese New Year's Eve, my mother put money in the filling, but I put a cinder in the filling, until one o'clock in the evening, my brother came back to accompany in the dance hall, and my sister-in-law went to dance but there was no trace, we had to eat dumplings first, and my brother ate the money in the first bite. The sister-in-law came back at more than two o'clock in the morning, saying that she had lost the bicycle, and her mother hurriedly gave her dumplings.

With the help of the police station, the bicycle was recovered, but the child was hospitalized with a serious cold, and the mother went into the ward to give her sister-in-law ten yuan, which was put on the coffee table and lost by her sister-in-law. On the day I was discharged from the hospital, my sister-in-law went home first, I walked ten miles with Xiao Yanbo, who had just passed away, and I was so tired that I put him on the stone slab when I got home.

It's just that there is usually no dance, and my brother and sister-in-law just hold a stool as a dance partner and dance, let me knock on the wooden comb one, two, three, and they will also jump. Even though I was young, they took me to the ballroom a few times, and it was another world, and the music was so solemn and beautiful with its rhythm, the petrol cans, the pigeons, the waltzes of youth, even the accompaniment of socialism was good mixed with interludes, and the drums were so good, and I was also addicted to the grandeur of the ballroom and the music.

The mother died, the stepfather and his brother fought a lawsuit, and the brother and sister-in-law spent nearly 300 yuan in a pension. In those starving days, there were dances in the city every day on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Tuesdays, Fours, and Saturdays. My brother was also the principal violin accompanist in the ballroom, and my sister-in-law followed me, leaving me at home hungry to watch the children.

Xiaobo slept I wrote homework and read books, I was originally a book lover, since elementary school with my mother's membership card to spend five cents to get a library card, the railway library has 100,000 books to take home for free, what fire gold steel, Journey to the West, Journey to the East, twenty years of witnessing strange appearances, what Three Kingdoms, Water Margin, Wu Song, wildfire spring breeze fighting ancient city, often walk on the road and concentrate on watching, hitting trees, falling into the ditch is a common thing. And now at my brother and sister-in-law's house, I am taking care of Xiaobo but concentrating on reading Lu Xun's books, even if I study hard, can I really go to college?

See Chapter 14: Stealing a board to take the blame for your sister-in-law.