Chapter 2 The Wind Rises and the Sails Are Rising
Pei Zhe's current home is a three-room earthen house, which is the old house where the second elder of the Pei family used to live.
The courtyard next door is four side rooms, and there is a central hall, and in front of it is a small courtyard of a farmhouse.
This is his uncle Pei Jiannian's house.
"Uncle, aunt, second brother, fourth brother early."
Pei Zhe greeted them one by one familiarly, and the yellow earth dogs under his feet wagged their tails around, moving closely.
"Xiaoliu is here, have you eaten?" The eldest uncle, who was in the prime of life, asked.
Pei Zhe responded: "After eating the uncle, I'll pull some grain." ”
In his cognition, he had a total of three uncles and four aunts, and his grandmother was a proper heroic mother in that era.
Although the country implemented family planning at this time, there were still many brothers and sisters of the same generation, and the eldest uncle's family had four eldest sisters, eldest brothers, second brothers, and four brothers, who became superborn guerrillas.
And the other fifth uncle's family also has a third brother, a fifth brother, and a third sister, perhaps because Pei Jian'an joined the army in his early years, and got married too late, Pei Zhe is the youngest male in the family, ranked sixth.
He removed the wooden cart leaning against the wall, and then straightened a pair of wheels on the ground.
This kind of country board car can be separated from the wheel, and it only needs to be on the frame when it is used.
However, the craftsmanship has long been rusty, and he didn't catch it after a few times, and the second brother Pei Chang on the side saw this and hurried over to help.
"Sixth brother, how did you do in the college entrance examination, can you be admitted to university?" Pei Chang, who was powerful and powerful, asked out loud.
"College should be fine."
Pei Zhe responded with a smile.
Once again, he no longer allows anyone to beat his mind and let the impostor happen again.
Pei Chang said enviously: "When the second brother was playful in school, he didn't like to read, but now he knows that he regrets it when he goes out of the society, so he can only work for others." ”
The second brother Pei Chang is twenty-four years old, and he goes to sea with the boat all the year round, giving people nets to fish, and his dream is to have a fishing boat of his own one day.
Pei Zhe smiled and said nothing, he had the impression that the second brother was down-to-earth and hardworking, and he not only had his own offshore fishing boat, but also engaged in aquaculture, and his career was booming.
The rice mill roared, and the white rice flowed out of the terminal, and he pulled the mouth of the bag and loaded the rice into the urea bag.
Take the bran home first, then put dozens of catties of rice on your shoulders, and slowly walk towards the seawall.
The grandparents are almost seventy years old, and their bodies are still strong, and the old couple did not live with the uncle's family, but moved to the seawall a few years ago.
Waking up to see the flowers blooming, the villa is close to the sea, it was the dream of many people when they were young, and it was also the wish of his elders, but he didn't expect his grandparents to realize it early.
At this time, just after ten o'clock, the sky was cloudless, the sun was scorching, and the temperature in the southern part of the continent was already approaching forty degrees.
The sea breeze blowing in your face does not feel too hot, and as far as the eye can see, there is first a gray tidal flat, a green mangrove forest, and finally an endless sea level.
"Gah... Rattle! ”
Before the chai door was opened, the cries of hundreds of ducks in the yard had already risen one after another, and the noise was endless.
These guys blocked the doorway, and when they saw someone coming, they were even more excited.
Pei Zhe pushed the door open, and then kicked a big male duck that wanted to sneak out three feet away, and then his figure flashed and quickly closed the door.
"Ya, I'm flapping my wings, I've stewed you......"
Pei Zhe scolded with a smile, although his calf was pecked by this group of flat-haired guys, and duck feathers flew to his face from time to time, he still felt very kind.
These hundreds of ducks are all sea ducks raised by the old couple to lay eggs, and they are fierce by nature, and they generally have to be locked up early in the morning to let them lay eggs before they are released into the sea to feed.
"Grandpa, grandma, I put the rice on the stove!"
Pei Zhe turned around and didn't see the old couple, so he had to put the rice bag in a conspicuous place in the kitchen.
He estimated that Grandpa should take advantage of the low tide to catch the sea, and Grandma didn't know where to go.
Lifting the fly cover on the dining table, I glanced at a plate of fried sea duck eggs, a plate of fried mullet, and a pot of horseshoe crab meat, and the food was not bad.
The scientific name of horseshoe crab is horseshoe crab, or Chinese horseshoe crab, which is a black arthropod, which many people may not have seen, if you have to describe it, it should be like the "corpse turtle" in the tomb robbery notes.
However, on the southeast coast, many fishermen like to serve pickles for breakfast, which actually taste similar to ordinary crabs, and the taste is not much meat.
However, this thing can't be eaten too much, because their blue blood is rich in copper ions, and it is easy to be poisoned by heavy metals if they eat too much.
Pei Zhe was just about to leave the courtyard when a young man came up to him.
In his early Chinese New Year's Eve, he wears a blue shirt and pants printed with coconut trees, similar to the fashionable Hong Kong movie hooligans.
He had a cigarette in his mouth, an air gun in his right hand, and a net pocket in his left hand, full of caught birds, partridges, quails, sparrows, and seabirds.
"Little Uncle Ten."
Pei Zhe said hello.
The young man in front of him was his youngest uncle, ranked tenth, and he had not yet married in his thirties, nor did he go out to work to earn money, and he was idle all day long, living with the old couple.
"Little Six is here!" Pei Jiansheng picked his chin.
"Little Uncle Shi, what are you doing here?" Pei Zhe asked knowingly, in fact, he knew the purpose of these birds.
"It's nothing, make some small money to spend."
Pei Jiansheng disagreed, put the air gun under his arm, and then took out a pack of classic Hongtashan in his trouser pocket, shook out an old-fashioned Hengqiu and said: "Xiaozhe, you are 18 years old and an adult, your father must be strong, don't hit the south wall and don't look back...... Uncle Ten is your dearest person. ”
"In today's society, we must not only study more, but also pay attention to human feelings, and you can't fit in without learning to smoke......," he continued.
Before he finished speaking, Pei Zhe had already put the cigarette in his mouth, "Little Uncle Shi, let's have a fire." ”
Pei Jiansheng was stunned, only to see that his little nephew had already taken the matchbox, pulled it and lit the cigarette, spit out a cloud of smoke, and the action was familiar and in one go.
"Good boy! Take it and smoke it. Pei Jian sang and threw the cigarette case over.
He was worried that his nephew would be depressed, and he wanted to give it a click, but he didn't expect Pei Zhe to see it at all.
After all, this smoking is not a good habit, and he is still an elder instigating a junior, if the old man sees it, he must break his leg.
"Uncle Ten, I'll leave first if it's okay!"
Pei Zhe waved his hand and left in style.
Blowing the sea breeze and walking on the seawall, he flicked his cigarette ash and fell into deep thought.
took the other party's cigarette, not because he was addicted to smoking, but because he wanted to get closer to the relationship between the two.
Pei Zhe recalled the life trajectory of Uncle Xiaoshi, and his experience can be said to be tragic.
Pei Jiansheng is not good at reading, but as the eldest of his uncles, he is naturally favored by many people, which also creates his debauched and frivolous temperament.
When I was young, I also went to Suicheng to work, but I couldn't endure the hardships, and I ran back within a few years, and I became an unemployed vagrant in the village without any skills.
After seeing the prosperity of the big city, who is willing to endure his own mediocrity, and over time, his mind will naturally be crooked.
Now Pei Jiansheng is in the town to show people karaoke, as we all know, this kind of place is the gathering place of gangsters, in Cantonese is "rotten boy".
It was also from this time that Pei Jiansheng made a mistake and was unable to extricate himself, fighting, drinking and gambling, and finally got contaminated with things that should not be contaminated, and he went in within a few years.
When he came out again more than ten years later, he had already been a person, the good years were no more, and his body had fallen into many diseases, and he died of illness within a few years.
Pei Zhe saw with his own eyes that after Pei Changsheng was arrested, his grandmother, who was almost seventy, sat alone in front of the bed crying and swollen her eyes, and every time the uncle went to visit the prison, he would boil lard, fill two large bottles of Jianlibao and send it in......
These things are still vivid in my mind.
He flicked off his cigarette butt and looked up to see a flock of big white ducks playing in the water on the beach, and occasionally a villager passing by returning from the sea.
"There is nothing more to criticize than to be humble, and nothing to be sad than to be poor......"
In this life, let yourself rewrite their tragic ending, change the fate of your relatives, and erase the regrets of your life.
The state of mind of the two lives, he values family affection, can look down on money, but also understands the charm of money.
The top priority is to change the poverty situation at home first.
In the distance, the wind rises and the tide rises.
Pei Zhe suddenly smiled, the tide was rising, the sea and the sky were wide, and the wind was sailing.