Chapter 3: The Collapse of a Brick Kiln

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In the early morning of the next day, Tian Kunshu, who had finished burning the kiln at night, came home and saw his daughter-in-law Zhao Xing's eyes as swollen as peaches crying, and asked her.

The tired Tian Kunshu didn't think much about asking more, his wife left his hometown to live in Xinjiang for 15 years, Zhao Xing didn't go home to visit relatives for 15 years, and he didn't see his mother's family all year round, so it is reasonable to miss his relatives and cry.

Early in the morning, Tian Kunshu and all the bricklayers of the Handicraft Association continued to the newly built large kiln to build a chimney, a new brick kiln 500 meters long and 60 meters wide, with 26 cave openings on each side.

The foundation and cave walls below were designed and built according to Technician Zhu's drawings, and only the key part of the tall chimney remained.

In order to ensure that the new brick kiln is put into operation this year, so that residents of all ethnic groups in the county can move from low adobe houses to bright brick houses, the manual association has worked overtime to build it, and the progress is very fast.

The tall chimney is more than 50 meters from the top of the brick kiln, and at least 55 meters high from the ground.

Li Qiwen, who was in charge of the brick kiln, and his "dogleg" Hao Jianliang squatted in the shade of the brick kiln, smoking a cigarette and pondering, discussing how to place Tian Kunshu in the night shift kiln, and they went to his house late at night to touch Tian Kunshu's daughter-in-law.

I heard a loud rumbling noise, and the whole ground shook as if there had been an earthquake of several magnitudes, and then I heard a loud sound of bricks collapsing.

Frightened, the two of them crawled away from the shade and found that the tall chimney that had been standing there was gone.

The chimney lay on the ground like a ruin, and the chimney crushed half of the cave to the north, and there was a thick white ash from the chimney, and it was so smoky that it was impossible to see anything.

Seven or eight of the dozen bricklayers were crushed in the collapsed bricks......

This was the biggest safety accident that shocked the county that year, and Technician Zhu, who designed the drawings, was sent to the construction site to do manual work, and Li Qiwen was dismissed from his post and sent to the sand field to dig and sift sand, and Hao Jianliang also went with him.

The county leaders invited experts from the interior to design the drawings on the original basis of the brick kiln, and continued to start construction non-stop.

The unexpected death of her husband Tian Kunshu made Zhao Xing suddenly feel that the sky was falling, the pillars of the family were gone, the blow was too great, she cried and fainted many times, lying on the bed without dripping water, and couldn't stop moaning.

Hearing the bad news, Mrs. Tian rolled her eyes on the spot and fainted, and among the people who hurriedly pinched her mother-in-law, the old lady finally breathed back.

Mrs. Tian was bedridden, her daughter and son-in-law took good care of her, Zhang Hua went to the old lady's bedside for a while, told her sister-in-law that she was going home to cook for Tian Wan'er and Shishi, and left in a hurry.

Zhang Hua, who returned home, never went to see her mother-in-law who fell ill, nor did she go to the county seat to see off the departing Tian Kunshu.

At this time, Zhang Hua was thinking about her own home, with the idea of "sweeping the snow in front of the door" and "hanging high on your own".

Tian Kunhe, Ji Yue'e and their families rushed to the county seat overnight to help, and Tian Yang, who rushed to hear the news, had dried tears along the way.

Tian Yang, who wore linen and filial piety, took his younger siblings and cousins to kneel in front of his father's coffin, and knelt down to thank the visitors according to local customs.

The people who came to see off the people who came to see off the funeral rites of the Han people in Guangren Township knelt down in front of Tian Kunshu's coffin, took a cup of wine handed over by the eldest son Tian Yang, poured it in a mud basin, and then burned three pieces of paper, "the dead are the greatest", and then knelt down and kowtowed three times.

When Li Qiwen and Hao Jianliang just walked into the crowd with straw paper, Tian Liu, who was originally kneeling in front of the coffin and sobbing, saw them and got up suddenly.

The twelve-year-old boy dressed in linen and filial piety rushed to the two of them quickly, tore and kicked at the two middle-aged men, grabbed their palms and bit them hard.

Li Qiwen's right hand was bitten by the tiger's mouth, and Hao Jianliang's wrist was also bloody, and the two of them struggled to break free from Tian Liu's bite, scolding and scolding: "Damn, little, do you still want to go against the sky?!" ”

Tian Liu, whose mouth was full of blood, cursed like crazy with a sharp throat: "Bad guy, Kaitai (get out), Absis give (I RI your mother), bad guy, bad guy, I will definitely avenge my father when I grow up!" ”

With hateful eyes staring at these two men in their forties, Tian Liu pointed at them with his right hand, and said unrelentingly: "You wait, I will definitely avenge my father when I grow up!" ”

The people around knew that Li Qiwen and Hao Jianliang had become commonplace to bully Tian Kunshu, who was honest and swallowed his anger, and everyone shook their heads and sighed: "Bullying people all day long, this is really evil." ”

"It's better to settle a grievance, not to settle it."

"People can't do bad things, and lo and behold, other people have a grudge."

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Li Qiwen and Hao Jianliang, two seven-foot-tall men, were frightened by the vicious and resentful eyes that shot out of Xiao Tianliu's eyes that were not commensurate with their age, and they were poked in the backbone by the people around them and left in embarrassment.

Dou Xian, who broke a few ribs, begged to come to see off Tian Kunshu, who was carried by two strong men on a stretcher, and he tilted his head and cried at the coffin: "Brother Tian, junior brother Dou Xian will give you a ride, you go all the way ---."

Tian Liu pulled his brother Tian Yang, his sister Tian Tao, and Tian Miao, Tian Sui, who knelt in front of the coffin and also wore linen and filial piety, to Dou Xian who was lying on the stretcher, and solemnly kowtowed to Dou Xian three times, and he cried: "Uncle Dou, I don't have a father, woo woo---"

In the process of giving Tian Kunshu a funeral, the people who came to help, as well as Tian Yang, Tian Kunhe and others, all found that the twelve-year-old Tian Liu seemed to have grown up overnight.

Suffering is often much more powerful than years, and it can force people to grow up quickly.

Twelve-year-old Tian Liu didn't want to grow up quickly, but he had to accept this cruel reality.

His hatred for Hao Jianliang and Li Qiwen was not only because these two people often bullied his father Tian Kunshu, but what made him hate these two even more was that he heard that unbearable scene that night......

Mother's love is the greatest selflessness in the world, like a small boat, even in the stormy sea, despite the wind and rain and erosion, the boat drifting on the sea and drifting with the tide will provide a comfortable nest for sleeping children.

After Zhao Xing, who was sick and weak, lost her husband, she looked at her three minor children, and she was so strong that she gritted her teeth and got up, and supported this incomplete home with her weak shoulders and sickly body.

Since Tian Kunshu died in the line of duty, the county gave these housewives a job in order to take care of their widows after the brick kiln collapsed.

Illiterate widows are assigned to work as cleaners in various government agencies, and literate widows are assigned to government agencies to do some work within their capabilities.

Zhao Xing went to school in her hometown in Jiangnan for eight years, and she was relatively literate, and the higher authorities placed her in the county education bureau to do the work of sending and receiving documents and newspapers.

Zhao Xing, who has a formal job, moved out of the brick kiln family home and lived in the staff dormitory of the Education Bureau, so that Li Qiwen and Hao Jianliang, who coveted her, no longer dared to act rashly.

Not long after working in the Education Bureau, 36-year-old Zhao Xing did not come on her menstrual leave this month, and she became pregnant.

For this little life in her womb, Zhao Xing has complicated, contradictory and tangled feelings, and she doesn't know whether to go or stay.

Several times, she walked to the door of the obstetrics and gynecology department of the county hospital.

Every time I walk into the door, my heart seems to be stung by a bee, and I retract my steps forward, what if this child is my husband's?

Leaving the door of the obstetrics and gynecology department, I stopped and thought, what if this child is not Tian Kunshu's?

At this moment, even she didn't know whether this child was from her husband Tian Kunshu, or from the two miscellaneous Li Qiwen and Hao Jianliang, and she was conceived two days before the brick kiln collapsed.

In her heart, she longed for the thoughts left to her by her husband Tian Kunshu the night before he died, and commuted to work with a big belly with a fluke mentality.

In April of the following year, Zhao Xing was so nervous that she gave birth to the child in the delivery room of the county hospital, a sturdy boy.

Zhao Xing struggled to raise her head and look at the wrinkled, red-flapped baby.

Judging from her eyebrows, she knew that it was bad, this child was not her husband's, and the general appearance of her facial features was very similar to Li Qiwen.

Zhao Xing was angry, she fainted on the spot, and the doctors and nurses rushed to rescue her.

For this child who should not be born, Zhao Xing is disgusted and disgusted from the bottom of her heart, this baby is a product of humiliation.

She named the boy's nickname Gou Leftover, and the second son Tian Liu directly told others that the little brother of his family was nicknamed Gou Leftover, and his big name was Tian Dog Leftover.

With the successive recruitment, recruitment, and enlistment indicators, the intellectual youth have all left one after another, and the once lively educated youth spots have become deserted.

Life in Guangren Commune has returned to peace, and the only news is that Zhang Zhongming, the eldest son of Zhang Xilin's family, has taken Wang Mazi's old hens to the nest again, and Wang Mazi's daughter-in-law is so angry that she is scolding the street.

On this day, Tian Kunhe carried a shovel to water the crops, only to see a group of people on the road surrounding, shouting, three layers inside and three layers outside, so lively.

Tian Kunhe, who didn't want to be nosy, passed by to watch the lively crowd, and heard the urn of Zhang Zhongming, the eldest son of Zhang Xilin's family, shouting angrily, "This is a female mule, and she still has two small mules in her belly, so it is so expensive." ”

As soon as Zhang Zhongming's words fell, the crowd watching the excitement instantly burst into laughter, and the people who watched the jokes did not pick out the nonsense that Zhang Zhongming said when he opened his eyes, and saw how Zhang Zhongming blackmailed pedestrians.

Immediately, I heard a young man's voice from the crowd, "Even if it's a female mule with two small mules, it's not worth a thousand yuan, right?!" ”

"How can you know the price of mules, last year my mule gave birth to a pair of twins, I calculated according to the price of the twins plus the money of the mother mule, I must pay 1,000 yuan." Zhang Zhongming continued to brazenly make up nonsense.

The crowd of onlookers made fun of it again, "Hahaha---"

Everyone muttered in their hearts, this Xilin's big son Ga Qiuqiu is a bad and wilted master.