We don't know which will come first, tomorrow or the accident, so cherish the present and live today.

When Lu Jiazheng was ten years old, that is, in the winter of 1986, that is, a few months after Liu Youde and his wife moved away, an accident gave him the nickname "Scarface".

Their house is a hall with a bedroom on each side of the hall, and there are tables, chairs, benches and other furniture in the middle of the hall, which is the place for daily eating activities. There are two stoves in the innermost part of the hall, each of which is connected to a bedroom ondol and a wall between the hall and the bedroom, which also has a smoke exhaust flue. In the summer, when cooking, the flue hole leading to the kang is plugged with a piece of adobe, and the smoke is discharged along the flue of the wall to the outside, so that the kang will not be hot and unable to sleep. In winter, the flue hole in the wall is blocked, and the smoke is discharged to the outside through the flue in the ondol, and it is also a great pleasure to sleep on the hot kang at night.

In winter, each family also puts a stove in the hall, and the stove is connected to a tin barrel, which runs through the wall of the hall to the bedroom. The stove is zigzag-shaped from the bottom of the bedroom down the wall to the top, and then connected to the flue on the opposite wall, so that the smoke is exhausted and the heat of the stove is brought to the bedroom. Since the heat transfer mainly depends on the tin stove and has to avoid the ondol, the stove is placed near the bedroom door in the hall.

Because it is too cold outside at night in winter, the people here put a small bucket in the hall at night, and solve it in the small bucket, and the diligent hostess will pour the excrement in the painful urine into her own manure tank early in the morning, and after some days add some soil to the manure tank, and gradually become farmhouse fertilizer, and in the beginning of spring, the fat soil will be sprinkled into the ground to nourish the crops in the field. But all the work in Tiezhu's house is done by Tiezhu, because the silly girl can't do anything but eat, and she can't do laundry, cooking, or farm work. In the words of the villagers, this woman has no use at all except for "playing the show" and giving birth to children, and these two things have already made Lu Tiezhu very satisfied.

The winter of 1986 was an unusually cold winter, and the ten-year-old Lu Jiazheng was awakened by urine at night, and shouted several times in a daze, "I want to pee, I want to pee......", but it may be because he was too tired just after the fight, after all, Tie Zhu is fifty years old, busy with this and that during the day, and he doesn't forget to do his favorite thing at night, so it's strange if he is not tired. Or maybe he was too old and drowsy a lot, in short, Tiezhu slept more deeply that night. Lu Jiazheng shouted for several minutes, and all he responded to was the snoring of iron pillars one after another. Not to mention the silly girl, since this son came out of her body, except for occasional breastfeeding, she basically didn't care.

The more no one paid attention to the urine, the stronger the urge to urinate, I couldn't hold it back, seeing that my parents didn't react, the Lu family put on a cotton jacket in a daze and went to the ground, and came to the hall to happily discharge the urine that tortured them into the urine bucket. When he returned to the house, he tripped over a briquette on the ground and stuck the left side of his face directly on the red-hot stove. The heart-rending cry woke up the sleeping iron pillar, and he jumped to the ground from the warm quilt before he had time to get dressed, and when he came out of the hall, he saw that the handsome left side of his precious son's face had been burned off by the stove, and the whole hall was filled with the smell of barbecue.

Tie Zhu hurriedly put on his clothes, wrapped his son in a quilt, and ran to the health center in the west of the village. It was late at night, and the doctor on duty at the health center got up in a daze at the earth-shattering knock on the door of the iron pillar, and hurriedly opened the door. Tie Zhu rushed in and put his son on the hospital bed, and then knelt on the ground and said to the doctor: "Please save my son, hurry up and save him", at this time, Lu Jiazheng was already crying and had no strength, just choked one by one, and his whole body kept convulsing.

At that time, medical resources were very scarce, and in a remote and backward village like this, it was already good to have a health center, and it was also stained with the light that Lujiawa Village was relatively close to Qidong Town. Almost all the village doctors are barefoot doctors, but fortunately, this doctor still has some experience, disinfected the child's face, put on some scald plasters, and said to Tiezhu: "Such a serious burn, the meat on the face is burned, we must not see it here, you should take the child to the provincial capital or the capital early in the morning to see if there is a good treatment plan."

Tie Zhu thanked the doctor, and without hesitation, he returned home with his son in his arms, and at this time, the silly girl still remained as she was lying in the bed and slept soundly. Tie Zhu's crazy behavior woke up the silly sister, and she looked at her husband and children stupidly, completely unaware of what was going on. Looking at his son's red and swollen face without flesh, he even wanted to touch it with his hand, so that Tie Zhu slapped him, "You stupid aunt, what else can you do except lie there and get a ball."

Tie Zhu was also the first time to beat the stupid girl, he didn't have time to pay attention to the frightened stupid girl, rummaged through the boxes and cabinets and took all the family's savings with him, and went straight to the capital with his son. This countryman, who had never been to the capital, endured the white eyes and disgusted expressions of the city people with his father's love, and finally found out about the best Union Hospital for treating burns.

After seeing Lu Jiazheng's condition, the hospital doctor said that the dead flesh must be removed and the skin graft must be performed immediately, and the cost of the first operation will be at least 5,000 yuan. Since the child is still growing rapidly, the facial changes will be relatively large, and at least two skin grafts will be needed in the future to ensure that it returns to normal.

At that time, within a few years of the arrival of the contract, even the salary of the mayor of Qidong Town was only forty or fifty yuan a month, and if any family in the village had 1,000 yuan, it could simply go directly to the national newspapers for publicity. For peasants in poor areas, 5,000 yuan is an astronomical amount, and all the belongings that Lu Tiezhu brought with him when he came out of his home at that time were only 2,000 yuan, which is all his savings in the past six years from the time he contracted the production to the household. Originally, I was going to pack a few acres of land to build a greenhouse in the coming year, so as to engage in vegetable planting. It's not enough to pay it all now, what can I do, in this unaccompanied place, who can I find to help me get through it.

Fortunately, the director of the hospital took into account his special situation and applied to the superior leaders for a reduction or exemption of part of the surgical fees and medical expenses, but the money can only be used to do a basic dead flesh removal operation, and then do some infection prevention measures. During the operation, he was also asked to do some chores in the hospital, so that he could not only take care of the child, but also reduce his expenses during this time, so that the Lu family survived the most dangerous first hurdle.

As the saying goes, "Blessing is incomparable, but disaster is not a one-way street", when Tie Zhu returned home with Lu Jiazheng, who had just undergone surgery, the second blow made this iron-clad tough guy almost get sick. Since the silly girl can't do anything, she doesn't eat or drink, so everyone can try not to go out in winter. Tiezhu's family is on the edge of the village, plus the previous Tiezhu was short-tempered and would do things with others at every turn, and the silly girl couldn't communicate with people, so their family's popularity was not good, and no one usually came to their house to chat. The first operation to remove the dead flesh basically hollowed out half of Lu Jiazheng's face, so it took a lot of time to recover, and it took more than two months in total.

Tie Zhu has been gone for more than two months, and the silly girl who has not eaten or drunk does not know when she has left this world in hunger and cold. When they got home, they were greeted by the cold corpse of the silly sister, because it was winter, the corpse had already frozen, so the corpse did not rot, and no one smelled anything. Tie Zhu endured his grief and hastily completed the funeral of his silly sister, and ushered in the New Year's bell of 1987.

The reduction of medical expenses also means that some treatment procedures will be reduced, and some good drugs will not be available to them in the later recovery, so the recovery effect will be worse. After more than two months of surgery and recovery for the first time, the infection caused by the burn was brought under control, and new flesh began to grow on the face. But the huge scar covered the entire left side of the face, making this originally delicate face suddenly hideous and terrifying, and it could only be wrapped in gauze all day long. It will only be opened when the dressing is changed, and some ignorant children gradually give him the nickname "Scarface". At first, Tie Zhu would be so angry that he chased his son out of Erli when he heard the children call his son "Scarface", but gradually he got used to the new name.

Fortunately, although Tie Zhu is fifty years old, his body is still strong and he has inexhaustible strength. In addition to keeping his few acres of land in order, he also has construction skills, and as long as he has time, he goes to the town to work to save money for his son's next operation. Their home is on the edge of the town, with the improvement of people's living standards, there are more and more opportunities for temporary work in the town, plus most of their land has made the iron pillar into a greenhouse to grow vegetables, in the iron pillar has not been bright and night, two years later, it has become the first 10,000 yuan household in the village, and the iron pillar has also become the first person in the village to buy a TV, the first to buy a bicycle, and the first to drive a diesel tricycle into the village.

The happiest thing for Tiezhu every day is to shout in the yard after breakfast: "Son, come and shake a lot of cars"

"Hey" Scarface happily agreed, took out the rocker and plugged it into the car, and his thin body shook vigorously, listening to the sudden sound of the tricycle.

"Son, you're leaving, you have to study hard", and then Tie Zhu drove a tricycle to the town with freshly picked vegetables.

When Scarface was twelve years old, a family of four came from out of town, and they bought the original house of Liu Youde's family and became the new neighbors of Scarface's family. In the days when the house was sold, Wang Xiuhua also came to visit Tiezhu, but at that time, Tiezhu was already uninterested in many things because of the successive blows, he just wanted to earn money to treat his son's illness and train his son to become a talent, and he didn't want anything else.

The new neighbor moved from Suide, Shaanxi, the man is called Yang Liankui, 40 years old is from Suide, and the woman is called Liu Yan, 38 years old is from Mizhi, and they all say that the woman of Mizhi is the Han of Suide, and this sentence can only be used half of this sentence on this couple. Yang Liankui is tall and handsome, but his temper is a little wilted, and he never quarrels with others, even if there is a dispute, he retreats step by step. Liu Yan is a big face with a long chin and teeth protruding outward, a bit like a gorilla's mouth, if the chin is upturned a little more, it will be compared with Zhu Yuanzhang in the history books. Liu Yan is a woman with a very pungent personality, and an unforgiving mouth can always make those who want to quarrel with her run away. A pair of big watery eyes and skin that never tans make up for the regrets on the mouth, making the overall look not ugly. If you only look at the figure, then there is no one in this village who can compare, how to say, it is the kind that is often said in the countryside to give birth, and the European and American girls in the pictorial have a comparison, but her body is always wrapped in loose clothes, and everyone can't notice it.

Yang Liankui and Liu Yan have two daughters, the eldest daughter Yang Jing is also called the eldest girl, 14 years old this year, two years older than Scarface, her appearance and figure follow his mother, making up for her mother's regret that she did not become Zhu Yuanzhang, and her chin was successfully tilted upward. The second daughter Yang Min is 6 years old this year, and she looks like her handsome father, and she looks quiet and delicate. As soon as the couple moved over, everyone speculated that they wanted to escape family planning, so they were targeted by the village cadres and forced to undergo sterilization. Since then, Liu Yan often quarrels with someone when she has nothing to do, which scares everyone to hide away when they see her, and Yang Liankui has become more wilted. Since they are outsiders and have no land here, they can only contract other people's land to plant, and when they heard that Liu Youde's family had left, they even took over the house and land, and became the neighbor of the iron pillar and scarface.

Although Scarface suffered this catastrophe, it didn't affect him too much, he was still the little bully in the school, and now with his terrifying face, it made others stay away. In addition to fighting badly, Scarface is not bad at studying and has always been at the top of the grade. In 1989, at the age of 13, Scarface entered junior high school and entered the No. 3 Middle School in Qidong Town, and there were several people in the village who attended junior high school together, including his neighbor Yang Jing.

There are two main streets in each horizontal and vertical street, which are long from east to west and short from north to south, and are generally distributed in a tic-tac-toe shape. There are four schools in the whole town, one high school is Fangshan County No. 6 Middle School, and the students of No. 6 Middle School are all graduates of other rural junior high schools near Qidong Town, and are composed of students who can't go to County No. 1 Middle School and want to go to high school. Since the establishment of the school for more than ten years, only one has been admitted to university, or after 8 years of high school, perhaps his persistence finally moved God, and he was finally admitted to Shanxi Normal University in the 8th year. In the school, he is called the "old fairy", for which the school leaders also praised the old fairy, and hyped it up in the school, anyway, the sixth middle school was admitted to the university in the case of such a poor source of students, which is worth celebrating.

The other three are all junior high schools, and there is a saying in the town that summarizes the characteristics of these three junior high schools, "the teachers of the first middle school, the rice of the second middle school, and the hooligans of the third middle school are running around." The best teachers are assigned to the first middle school in the cave, the second middle school and the third middle school are actually the same, one in the east and one in the west, all of them are graduated from other nearby rural primary schools, and the food and school environment are very poor. But the third middle school is the worst, and more than half of the little hooligans in the town are the third middle school or unemployed young people who graduated from the third middle school.

In these two schools, the comparison is not about learning, but about fighting and engaging in objects, whoever fights the most is the boss, think about how bad such a school is. Especially girls, there are many people who go home with big bellies before graduating from junior high school. The beauties of Liu Youde's family all graduated from the third middle school at that time, although they gathered the attention of all the men in the school, including the principal, but they are very smart and know how to use their advantages to protect themselves, not the kind of people who stupidly use others as a container for excreting hormones, and finally have to go home to farm. But there are also many women who are not so smart, and in order to maintain their position as the eldest sister, they do not hesitate to do anything, and in the end they don't get anything, and most of them go home to repair the earth.