You go around the world and ask who's life without regrets? There is nothing if you start again, no matter how many times you do it all over again, there will definitely be regrets in life. Each river and sea is full of different scenery and its own dangers. Life is the same, and so are human desires.

The ancestor of "Scarface" has been settled in Lujia Qidan, at least since the end of the Ming Dynasty, on the edge of Qidong Town, Fangshan County, Luliang City, Shanxi Province. But with the changes of the times and the flow of population, gradually the people surnamed Lu have left this barren place, and there is only one family surnamed Lu left in this village, and the Lu family has also changed its name to Lu Jiawa Village. Good resources are the goal of everyone's competition, and a relatively fertile small area of this barren land is basically concentrated in the entire town's population, with more than 500 households and more than 3,000 people here at the time of Scarface's birth.

The grandfather of "Scarface" is called Lu Fugui, a well-known local blacksmith, and they are all family blacksmiths, and the blacksmithing skills are very famous in the local area. It can be said that 90% of the iron tools in the entire Qidong Town before Lu Fugui was arrested were from his hands, from scissors to climbing plows, iron gates, etc., as long as they were used in the countryside with iron. In 1938, when Scarface's father Lu Tiezhu was two years old, Lu Fugui was arrested by the Jin Suijun and forced to join the anti-Japanese team, and since then the first district has never returned. Some people say that he sacrificed, some people say that he became a big official and changed his name and surname, and some people say that he went to Baodao, in short, Lu Tiezhu has no impression of his father. Lu Tiezhu's mother, Cui, is a declining lady, and because his father, who is Scarface's grandfather, Master Cui, has a lot of debts for gambling, he can't sell his daughter to Lu Fugui.

"Scarface's" father Lu Tiezhu did not follow his handsome mother at all, but his father who had never met him was like carved out of a mold, looking five big and three thick and dark, giving people a fierce and vicious feeling at first glance, but in terms of brain, he inherited his mother's excellent genes, and he was very smart and very organized. Although Tie Zhu did not go to school for a day, but since he was five years old, under the guidance of his mother, he practiced calligraphy and learned the essence of traditional Chinese culture such as "Three Character Classics", "Hundred Family Names", "Four Books and Five Classics", etc., and he was also a literate and hyphenated person in such a rural area, but his mother has always taught him to be low-key, so everyone doesn't know much.

When Lu Tiezhu was 16 years old, that is, in 1952, due to overwork, Lu Tiezhu's mother Cui Shi finally died. Because Lu Tiezhu's grandfather bought a few acres of thin fields that year, and belonged to a wealthy family in the local area, Lu Tiezhu became a rich peasant when he set the ingredients, and he was influenced by his unknown father, so he was bullied a lot in those years. At the same time, Lu Tiezhu summed up a rule of his own survival while fighting, that is, it doesn't work to be smart and clever to speak, Xiucai can't be justified when he meets a soldier, as long as his fists are hard enough and fierce enough, he will not suffer, so he gradually hides his cleverness, deliberately pretends to be stupid, and with the tower-like figure, the villagers call him "two-pole goods", and gradually no one dares to bully him anymore.

In the spring of 1953, 17-year-old Lu Tiezhu and his neighbor Liu Youde, who was also 17 years old, honorably joined the Volunteer Army to fight in North Korea with a large army. Lu Tiezhu was an engineer soldier, and Liu Youde had a good image and was good at singing and dancing, so he entered the art troupe and became a literary soldier. Not long after entering Korea, Lü Tiezhu participated in the battle for the first time, and their mission was to repair a section of railroad. As soon as he arrived at his destination, he was injured by a bomb dropped by a Yankee plane, and finally recuperated at the home of a local Korean family.

A Korean woman in her thirties is in charge of taking care of Tie Zhu's diet and daily life, and what should have happened to the man and woman who are doing the fire has happened to them. It didn't take long for the troops to return home, and at that time the North Korean woman was already pregnant with Tiezhu's child, and Tiezhu didn't want to leave, but he had to return home first due to the discipline of the troops. Thinking that he would find a chance to stay with this poor woman for the rest of his life in the future, who knew that he would never find such an opportunity again.

After the end of the Korean War, Tie Zhu was known to the company commander because of his lack of military exploits and his style problems, although he was not punished, he was not able to mix up an official and a half-job, so he could only return to his hometown to farm. Fortunately, he didn't miss an arm or a broken leg, but due to poor family conditions, he looked ugly and fierce, and his temper was also very short-tempered, and he didn't marry a wife until he was in his thirties. The blacksmith furnace at home has been out for many years, and Lu Tiezhu can't make iron, and he has always been the handlebar type of the village collective after returning from changing jobs.

Tie Zhu's home is on a small hill in the easternmost part of the whole village, belonging to the highest household in the whole village, which was built by his grandfather when he was the richest. Because their house is made of iron, the noise is usually relatively loud, and other villagers try to stay away from his house when building houses, and from their yard to the west, almost all the courtyards of their houses are in full view, and there is a feeling of seeing the mountains at a glance.

The closest to their house is Liu Youde's house, which is fifty or sixty meters away. After Liu Youde was demobilized from the army, he entered the county's art troupe, married a beautiful wife Wang Xiuhua in the county, and gave birth to his first child, Zhaodi, half a year after marriage. A few months after the birth of his second daughter, Laidi, Liu Youde was removed from the art troupe because of his personal style, and returned to Lujiawa Village with his wife and children. It was the spring of 1960, and Zhao Di had only been in Di for three months when she was 6 years old.

Liu Youde's personality has been much more restrained since he returned to the village, in the words of the villagers, he is a relatively wilted person, and everyone calls him Liu Laofu, but he is still a very shrewd and capable person, with a height of 1.8 meters, he looks very standard, not fat, not thin, and his body is also very strong. is more afraid of his wife, his wife let him go east and dare not go west, and his wife told him to catch chickens and never dare to catch fish, which is also the unanimous evaluation of the villagers. His wife Wang Xiuhua turned out to be just a miscellaneous member of the art troupe, she was very beautiful and had a pair of hooking peach blossom eyes, which normal man would instantly explode in her hormones at a glance, and her figure was tall and convex, especially in the back, it was big and round, and it didn't take long for her to become the women's director of the village.

It is rumored in the village that she has some affairs with the village chief and even a few cadres in some towns, and they also say that Wang Xiuhua and Lu Tiezhu also have a leg. These people who have an affair with her are described by people in all the details of the time, place, place, and action of the event, which are more expressive than what they have seen with their own eyes. The villagers, who were originally uneducated, became super imaginative when describing these things. It's no wonder that in the countryside (in fact, everywhere) there is no woman who is beautiful and cheerful and is not programmed. Because there were almost no entertainment programs at that time, especially in the countryside, there was nothing to do between husband and wife at night except those things. In the daytime, they are fighting with each other, arranging this, talking about that, and men and women are touching here and pinching there, and it is not appropriate for men and women to touch and pinch there. In any case, that kind of thing is always the most popular topic, and beautiful women naturally become the center of the topic. Tie Zhu, a five-year-old and three-thick, energetic old bachelor is also an indispensable supporting role in this kind of story.

In the five stories with Wang Xiuhua as the protagonist, Tie Zhu is not the main supporting role, just a trick, mainly because Tie Zhu is far worse than Liu Laofu, except for a pimple meat, nothing is comparable to Liu Youde. In the three stories with Tie Zhu as the protagonist, Wang Xiuhua is the main supporting role, because their family is closest to Tie Zhu's house, and from Tie Zhu's house, even Liu Youde's thatched house has no privacy at all. People are terrible, once you take it seriously, then this matter will be more and more outrageous, if you don't take it seriously, and even cooperate with people's curiosity from time to time to hack yourself, everyone will feel interested.

Wang Xiuhua and Tie Zhu are both such smart people, so they quickly transferred these gossip rumors to others in their own self-deprecating way. So what is going on with the two of them, even Liu Youde himself doesn't know, but he can be very sure that the other four stories about Wang Xiuhua are fake, Tie Zhu has been playing with him since he was a child, and joining the army at the same time is his best brother, he believes that Tie Zhu is not that kind of person.

As mentioned earlier, the iron pillar is the handlebar type of the village collective, and his main job is to send the things in the village to the designated place in the town, and then pull some things that the village needs from the designated place in the town. Lujia Village is less than five kilometers away from Qidong Town, with two small hills in the middle, a few small forests, and the rest is cropland. Many villagers have sat in Tiezhu's car, and Wang Xiuhua is also one of them, so she can become a supporting role in their own stories.

One day in July 1972, 36-year-old Lu Tiezhu drove the village collective's cart back from the town of Qidong, and there were several women sitting in the car, and the women were all unscrupulously joking about this old bachelor, and suddenly a woman saw a ragged woman fainting on the side of the road, everyone hurriedly stopped the car and went over to take a look, and there was still gas, it was estimated that she was hungry and fainted. At that time, supplies were scarce, and as long as you fainted on the side of the road, you would be hungry. People carried the woman's fluttering body into the car and took it back to the village, and after rescuing her, they found that the woman could not answer anything except for a few simple words, and people did not know who her name was, where she was from, and how old she was. Some people who have seen the world can tell from the pronunciation of a few words that she may be from Sichuan. So the people in the village called her "Silly Sister", and in the end, because the name was too long and it took a lot of effort to call, she gradually changed it to Silly Girl.

After a few days of recuperation, the silly girl gradually regained her blood color, and she still looks like a pretty woman, but she is a little thinner. Everyone thinks that the silly girl was rescued by Tiezhu, which means that she has a relationship with Tiezhu, who is thirty-six years old and has no wife, which is also God's letting him wait for the silly girl, so the two finally became husband and wife under the collective matchmaking.

Since Tie Zhu got married in the summer, everyone slept with the windows open, and in the first month of marriage, at least two heart-rending screams of silly girls could be heard every morning and night, but everyone was far away and was not affected by this noise. Liu Youde's house is close, and if you pay attention to it, it is still more obvious.

In the first two days of Tiezhu's wedding, a few curious villagers were still ready to go to the listening room, but just after Liu Youde's door, they heard the cry of this stupid girl, and their curiosity suddenly diminished and said, "This Tiezhu has never seen a woman in his eight lives, and he is as strong as striking iron, and he is not afraid of knocking the kang down." After saying that, he turned around and went back, and those who were married were anxious to do the same thing, and those who were not married could only work hard for their left and right hands.

Liu Youde was packing up in the yard that night, Wang Xiuhua had just come out of the thatched house and was about to sleep, watching a few people in the listening room snickering and passing by at the door of their house, Wang Xiuhua knew what they were doing as soon as she guessed, and jokingly said, "Hey, have a few stunned boys have listened to it, and they have to pay for laundry detergent when they go back, what is the picture?" ”

One of them, a young man in his early twenties who was not yet married, said: "We have to come all the way to listen to it, just like you and my Uncle Liu can hear a good show when we stand in the yard." If you marry Zhao Di to me, won't you have to spend laundry detergent, it's really not good, Aunt Xiuhua is not old, and she can settle down. ”

"......" Wang Xiuhua responded in the most vulgar language.

"Okay, okay, what are you fighting with a few little hairy children" Liu Youde came over and pushed Wang Xiuhua into the house, Wang Xiuhua scolded more and more, and as soon as all kinds of swear words came out, several young men immediately ran away.

"Okay, okay, everyone is far away, go back to the house, what's wrong with you today, like you took gunpowder, and you're so angry with a few hairy children. Zhao Di and they haven't slept yet, how bad the impact is," Liu Youde said.

When Wang Xiuhua heard the mention of her daughters, she immediately realized that it was a bit of a gaffe, but in order not to let this wilting husband see it, she said angrily: "Didn't you listen to that little B cub who is bad at recruiting Di?" Usually when I meet Zhao Di, I take advantage of it with my hands and feet, just now if you don't stop me, I have to drag his down and feed the dog. ”

The two of them pushed and shoved to go back to the house, and Yingying also heard the cry of the silly girl, Liu Youde hugged his wife's plump body and whispered with a smile: "This iron pillar is really, I don't know how distressed people at all, how can the stupid girl's thin body withstand him tossing so much"

"You know it's distressing, I want you to toss, you toss" Wang Xiuhua smiled and glanced at her husband.