Forty-second

Since Zou Long went to college, the hard life of Lilac seems to have seen the end, and Zou Long's appearance has made the neighbors look up to him. On weekdays, when the Lilac Village team gives people a dumpling rope, everyone will flatter a few words, saying that the old sister-in-law, you will have Fuheng in the future, and if the third child of your family becomes the county master in the future, you will be the old lady of Taijun before you put it! Lilac always smiled indifferently when she heard this, and said that she didn't want to be the county master, he could throw away the hoe handle, and I would be content to earn a relaxing meal.

Zou Long joined the work after graduating from university, and became the head of the township at the age of twenty-five or sixteen. It's just that his career is not smooth, and he only began to work hard when he was thirty years old, but he began to decline in officialdom after serving as the first secretary of Xinqiao in the twenty-ninth year. The main reason was that the family planning work at that time was difficult to carry out, and the party secretary was fully responsible for vetoing it with one vote; although he did his best, he did not please him at all, and his methods were excessively arousing the resentment of the people. In addition, his wife, Mr. Ning, is a person with emotional intelligence who is not online, and he has not played the role of his wife's diplomatic and internal helper in the county, so his popularity is not very good.

In this way, Zou Long rose and fell in many towns and towns in Anhua as a few secretaries, and only got a third-level investigator when he retired from the second line.

After the relaxation of the birth policy, the second child was first allowed, and then the third child was directly opened - the disappearance of the demographic dividend made the country anxious. Even so, today's young generation has lost the courage of their parents to hide from the past and hide from the world, even if the state offers the extension of maternity leave for civil servants in disguise, welfare rewards will not help. The concept of young people has changed, and the energy and financial resources required to have one more child are unimaginable. Mortgages, car loans, support for the elderly, astronomical tuition fees for children's schooling, and various training expenses make it difficult for them to leave.

Zou Long, who retreated to the second line to engage in logistics support work, saw this situation, and laughed at his younger colleagues and said that I used my grievances and future in exchange for the good situation of the demographic dividend of several towns in Xinqiao Mukong, and it seems that I have made indelible contributions to the country and the party organization!

After being a captain for a few years, because of his decent life, he was appointed by the township to be the village security director and mountain watchman. Blessed to be upright and upright, with a clear distinction between public and private, there is a person in the village who fights and he can always mediate impartially, and he is very praised among his neighbors. The work of the mountain watchman was an offending business, and in those days, people relied on chopping wood to get through the day to cook food and keep warm.

Youfu was heartbroken when he saw the half-grown trees that were cut down by the little daughter-in-law and children when they were chopping wood, so he caught this kind of situation countless times, and used all the means of education and scare, but there are still a few people who repeatedly teach and repeat offenders. Blessed because the villagers generally did not go online to fine money, there was no law and punished so many people, which attracted a lot of hatred.

In the end, Fu Si thought about it, so people simply cut down one, and he made up one in the spring of the next year, and the people who came and went to cut down the trees were embarrassed, and slowly the various mountains were covered with layers of green again.

More than 10 years after the closure of the mountain and the cultivation of forests, the bare hill cut by Hongxing Village during steel smelting was regrown with reckless green pines and green bamboos. Under the song of the birds, you are blessed to lie on the soft grass, breathing in the fresh air and the fragrance of the earth, and your heart is very comfortable.

Looking at the green mountains and green waters that were cut down and resurrected by his own generation, the old Xia Sheng said to Youfu with emotion, blessed, you really made a blessing for the place, and repaid the debts of the sins made by your uncle's generation back then.

The most fortunate thing about the village leadership in the past ten years is that he successfully saved the fate of a young man who accidentally injured his father.

That guy's name is Gui Zhouxing, and he is blessed and called Shengbo according to his generation. He has a hot temper since he was a child, and he always causes trouble in the local area, and in three days, two neighbors and children came to the door to ask for a reason, which made his parents very sad. One morning, Gui Zhouxing carried a hoe to hoe grass in the field, because of the quarrel with people for gambling money the night before, his father Gui Renwei chattered about him in the back. Gui Zhouxing, who was tired of reading, couldn't help but yell at him, "You are long-winded, don't talk about cubs beating their fathers, and risking the king's law!" ”

Gui Renwei was so angry when he heard this, he grabbed Gui Zhouxing's hoe, and scolded in his mouth: "You disobedient and unfilial beast, I ...... I ......"

Before the words fell, Gui Zhouxing, who didn't know the situation behind him, saw that his old father grabbed his hoe, and he was so angry that he broke free, and shouted in his mouth: "You let go quickly, be careful that I am afraid of you with a hoe!" ......" was still speechless, but he could only hear Gui Renwei's voice behind him, and he fell to the ground with a thud!

When Gui Zhouxing turned around to look, he saw that his Lao Tzu had fallen to the ground, and a hole was knocked out by the hoe he broke free from at the temple of his ear, and blood gushed out. Seeing this situation at that time, Gui Zhouxing suddenly became stupid, and sat on the ground panting, sweating down the mud along his chin, and he didn't know whether it was sweat or tears flowing down his nose and cheeks to the corners of his mouth, salty.

The people who had rushed to hear the news gathered around.

Seeing Gui Renwei who fell in a pool of blood and Gui Zhouxing, who was at a loss, the two fathers and sons, who were angry for a while, scolded Gui Zhouxing, who had caused trouble, and the two elders stepped forward and slapped him a few times, and a cousin kicked him several times. Gui Zhouxing, who kicked to the ground, lost his usual arrogance, and lay on the ground and cried.

Before he crawled to his father's side and was about to make a gesture to help his father up, his cousin kicked him to the ground again, and shouted angrily to the others: "Wenzhi, Brother Wu, hurry up and tie up this disobedient and unfilial beast, don't let him run away!" Turn around and pinch him to drown in the Danshan River Bay! When everyone heard this, they rushed up and took Gui Zhouxing, and tied Gui Zhouxing firmly to the big tree on the side of the road with a rope tied to straw.

Gui Zhouxing didn't struggle to resist, let everyone tie him up, but just cried out in his mouth: "Grandpa Jian, Uncle Wen, you do good deeds, send my father to the hospital quickly, if he has three long and two short, I will be alive in the house!" When the old Gui Shunjian heard this, the white beard was so angry that he trembled and said: "I knew this was the case, why bother in the first place!" You...... You...... I also know that Gui Renwei is your father! ……”

The blessed one who got the letter rushed over, and saw Gui Renwei, who was lying on the ground with only one breath and his head covered in blood, and Gui Zhouxing, who was tied to a tree and crying hoarsely, and immediately called out after a moment's hesitation: "Wenzhi, you drive your tractor quickly, put more straw in the carriage!" Brother Wu, you know some medical principles, I want to stop the bleeding and deal with it, fortunately, you go to the hospital with the car, it is important to save people first!! ”

As soon as everyone heard the reason, they split up and got busy.

At this time, Youfu relieved his heart, walked to Gui Zhouxing, who was tied to the tree, stared at him with a pale face and guilty face under the fright, and asked: "You also know what is wrong, I thought you jumped out of the crack in the stone, but you didn't know that your father and mother were born?!" Tell me yourself, how did you do today's thing? ……”

When Gui Zhouxing saw Youfu, he shook his body that was tied up a little numb, and shouted like pounding garlic: "Fu Bo, I know it's wrong, I really accidentally touched my father!" You did a good thing to save my father, and my Zhou Mengzi will remember you well for the rest of my life! Hurry up and go to the hospital, I'm really unintentional! …… Hurry up, my dad is still bleeding there! ……”

The cousin next to him heard this, rushed over and slapped him again, turned back to Youfu and said, "Brother Fu, Zhou Mengzi, this beast drowned in the river when he was old!" Now the society can't do it, and it can't let him go, kidnap him and send him to the police station of the Public Security Bureau! His father beat him to death and let him eat foreign bubbles, and he had to sit in prison if he was crippled! ”

Youfu frowned, didn't pick up his cousin's call, and asked Gui Zhouxing directly: "Do you really know what is wrong?"

"Yes, Fauber! You send my father to the hospital first, and if you want to kill or kill me, it's up to you to accept my fate! ”

Youfu circled around the tree, stopped and stared at Gui Zhouxing and asked, "How many people, Uncle only asks you one word!" If I don't send you to the police station for the time being today, you will serve your father! As for your father's life, you can't even run?! Your father is dead, Uncle will take you to Fufa, and then you will talk about the length of the crippled body, okay?! ……”

When the cousin heard this, he was anxious, and yelled at Youfu: "Brother Fu, you can't be so cheap, this bastard king and eight dog things!" Send it to the police station, and if you don't kill this dog alive, you will already spare him! ……”

Youfu didn't argue, and only after the brother had made a complaint did he calmly persuade: "Brother, being a brother understands your feelings as an uncle!" Anger is anger, you calm down and think, now you don't know if you live or die, once you are rescued, it will be difficult to recover if you don't live in the hospital for a month or two, you said that if this is the case, who can take and urine and serve for so long? In addition, Zhou Mengzi's incident today is a little fierce, but it is indeed unintentional. Young people make mistakes, and they need to be taught and changed, but what can they teach them when they go to prison?! If you die, don't say a word, and hand over this bastard thing to the government to deal with! If Ren is fortunate to have a dead life, let this bastard serve and repent of his sins, and it may not be impossible to be a good person from now on?! In the Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, it is said that Cheng biting gold and robbing is also a first offense, and giving this fierce cub a chance to repent is also considered a virtue, what do you think? ……”

The cousin hung his head and thought for a while, then suddenly stomped his feet, raised his head and yelled at Gui Zhouxing who was tied to the tree: "Brute, for the sake of your Fubo's face today, I will spare you for the time being!" Your father will take risks if he lives, and if he dies, you will ask for more blessings! ”

Gui Zhouxing, who was untied, immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed to everyone, and then carefully got his father into Wenzhi's tractor with everyone.

Along the way, Gui Zhouxing hugged his father, and tears of remorse fell on his father's face.

After some first aid in the hospital, Gui Renwei was saved. Seeing the broken bones taken out by the doctor after the operation, Gui Zhouxing cried again and felt remorseful!

During the remaining one or two months of rehabilitation, Gui Zhouxing did not dare to be sloppy at all, and served with all his heart and soul day and night.

Since then, Gui Zhouxing has changed his face and changed his face, and later became a family and bought a truck to pull up the transportation and became rich.

When he met people, he said that it was Fauber who gave him a chance to be born again.

When Lilac was sixty, his children gave him a grand birthday feast. That day, relatives and friends came to congratulate, it was very lively, and Zou Long, who was the head of the township, also invited the masters of the cinema to play a movie. The villagers all say that the cloves are good, and the bitterness is sweet, and they want to be more happy!

The children are older, but Lilac, who is already Hengfu age, is an idle person. In her words, she is a low-boned and hard-working person, and she will be uncomfortable if she doesn't do something all day long.

Lilac remembered that she had raised sheep at her mother's house when she was a child, and she couldn't help but buy three sheep to raise them at home. In the past few years, her sheep team has grown to more than ten heads, and it is very spectacular.

Hu Gui'e, who lives in the same house, can't smell the smell of the sheep, and when Lilac drives the sheep back to the house, she turns her back and pinches her nostrils to breathe. But it's hard to talk about her, so I have to say when I meet people, only my family Xiongying and his uncle are a cheap bone, and Lao Da is still the commander of Mozi sheep, so that a person from Wanzi can't live in peace. Today, the sheep gnawed on the cedar trees of other people, and tomorrow they can eat the cabbage in the bay, and they will prepare grass to serve these ancestors when it rains and snow, and they are just looking for the time to carry it! Picture, how blessed are we to have a few nieces and nephews who still have less of her?!

The words reached Lilac's ears, and Lilac understood Hu Gui'e's words, and tried her best to go in and out of the back garden when driving sheep on weekdays.

Lilac The rest of her days, the thunderous homework is to put the chickens in the morning, and after eating breakfast and lunch, she will drive the sheep to the mountains and tie them to the trees with long ropes to graze, and by the way, pull some herbs to treat hemorrhoids, swelling and pain in the neighborhood. After driving the sheep home when the sun was setting, after a short rest, he would pick up the old business of making brown ropes for decades, and fill his stomach when it was time to hold the lamp.

After the responsibility contract system, there are no longer a large number of brigade communes for brown ropes. The cloves bought some palm leaves and processed them at home, and after they were made, they let them come to the door to pick and buy, and the surplus was sold in the town when they were in the market.

The cloves are good at craftsmanship, and they sell as much as they do.

Later, nylon rope came out, and the use of brown rope was gradually replaced. Even so, it turns out that many regular customers still come to buy a few sets of brown rope to bundle baskets, and they all say that the brown rope of cloves is firm and not slippery, which is better than those nylon ropes!

In the beginning, the lucky brothers were happy to feed the old mother some sheep and do some work. Lilac doesn't play cards, and she doesn't like to chat, a person who has been soaked in bitter water since she was a child, and she was born as a daughter and a man, so that she will be idle will make her sick alive.

By the time Lilac was seventy years old, her strength was no longer as strong as before, and she gradually felt difficult to beat the larger brown rope. In particular, the sheep she raised occasionally stole the neighbor's crops and gnawed away the saplings in the mountains, for which the blessed brothers also compensated her a lot. The most worrying thing is that Lilac drove the sheep and fell a few times, although it is fine, but I am still a little afraid when I think about it. Brother Youfu said that he didn't want her to raise sheep and play brown ropes anymore.

After some wits and courage with Youfu, Lilac finally compromised and gave up her brown rope career at the age of seventy-four. The main reason is that the role of brown rope has been basically replaced by nylon fiber rope, and there are fewer and fewer people selling brown rope. With the popularization of Western medicine, there are fewer and fewer people looking for cloves to pull herbs, so she has a good ancestral skill of herbal medicine, and the descendants have not passed it on, and it has become a swan song.

Looking at the palm spinning that has been strangled by the brown rope for nearly a lifetime, Lilac said to it like a lifelong friend, old man, I am going to retire when I am old, and you are tired for a lifetime, so rest!

Since then, there has been no palm master within a radius of more than 100 miles, and this business was buried in the grave with Ding Dang's death more than ten years later.

Her fourth grandson, Zhou Xiang, also said with some regret that it is a pity that the inheritance of grandma's craft has been broken, and it is possible if it is not to apply for any intangible cultural heritage.

The size of the sheep is also slowly shrinking, and the main credit is that several grandchildren have been married one after another, and they have been killed to entertain guests during the wedding ceremony. Lilac once promised that when each grandson got married, she would give a sheep as a congratulatory gift, and many of them were eliminated in the past few years. The remaining seven or eight were also sold to farmers who needed to raise sheep in the market. Only the last old ewe remained, and the sheep dealer was afraid that he was old and thin, and he couldn't make any money, so he had no choice but to rush home. Lilac didn't make a fuss when she learned about it, and she knew the kindness of her sons.

She said to the blessed brothers, there is only this companion left, don't force me, let me be a companion with it! It's smart, it knows what I mean, and it's obedient and never makes trouble!

The blessed brother was silent and complied with her wishes.

The older Lilac, knowing that her days are numbered, she has been lonely for many years, and her longing for Qiusheng, who has been dead for many years and lying in the grave for dozens of years, and her heart and son are becoming stronger day after day, year after year.

How many breezes dawned under the afterglow of the sunset, and her body was a little rickety, she led the old ewe to the phoenix-shaped post where Qiusheng and Si'er were buried.

Fengxinggang is the public cemetery of the Gui clan, and green grass and shrubs grow everywhere. The old ewe chewed all kinds of delicacies unrestrainedly, and the cloves accompanied Qiusheng and Si'er's grave, chattering about her thoughts about her husbands and sons with a handful of snot and tears.

The old ewe looked at the cloves and seemed to understand something, and walked over with a shudder, and used her long tongue to wipe away the tears from the lilacs' face.

Later, the old ewe was so old that she once fell into the ravine and couldn't get up. Lilac tried everything she could not help it get back on its feet, and when the old ewe bleated miserably at Lilac at the end, she tilted her head and died.

Seeing that the old ewe did not close her eyes when she died, and there was still a line of turbid tears in the corners of her eyes, Lilac was touched a lot in her heart. She sighed and said to the old ewe, old man, you go first, and I will come to accompany you in a short time.

Lilac rejected Yougui's idea of selling the dead old ewe to the sheep dealer, and insisted on digging a pit to bury it himself, and deliberately put a lot of ingredients that the old ewe usually likes when burying it. The Chinese concept of death as life has profoundly influenced Lilac, who believes in the Buddhist idea of the cycle of life and death of six animals.

When the last handful of soil was piled up, the old lilac burst into tears. The mouth was vaguely resigned, you have never eaten secretly in your life, and you have harmed people, go to Lord Yama to protect your good background, and reincarnate as a person in the next life, so as to avoid the life of the white knife entering the red knife!

Since then, in addition to teasing a few great-grandchildren, Lilac's daily homework is to raise more than a dozen chickens.

Xia Sheng died at the age of seventy-eight, and several of his children were working outside the home all year round.

Originally, Hu Gui'e and Lilac were polite on the surface, but in fact, there was some estrangement in their hearts.

When my mother-in-law was alive, my mother-in-law preferred cloves a lot. The main reason is that Lilac and Qiu's love as husband and wife didn't worry about her, and after Qiu fell ill and died, Lilac's orphan and widow made her even more worried about love. Hu Gui'e is different, not to mention the complicated marriage history, and the union with Xia Sheng is also unclear. Although Xiongying's birth made her mother-in-law happy, there was always such a membrane in her heart, which made Hu Gui'e always linger.

In addition, the cloves are old and always have some sheep, chickens, brown rope herbs or something. Hu Gui'e loves cleanliness and can't stand those troubles, and when she is in a bad mood on weekdays, she throws off the door and gives her face to Lilac to see.

Lilac knew that something was wrong, so she tolerated many of Hu Gui'e's wrongs. After a while, Lilac always took the initiative to resolve some boredom with Hu Gui'e first. Hu Gui'e and Lilac don't have any knots that they can't get by, and when they see Lilac showing goodwill, they are as usual as if nothing happened.

In this way, the two concubines are not salty or light, and they have been together for many years under one roof.

End of Chapter 42