Chapter 6: The heart is like ashes

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On the day of the funeral, farmers and herdsmen of all nationalities who heard the news came to see her off, and the procession of spontaneous departure was very long, there were many people, quite spectacular, there were Han nationality, Kazakh nationality, Uygur nationality, Mongolian nationality, Kirgiz nationality, Hui nationality, Dongxiang nationality......

The only Han foot-bound little lady in Guangren Township, she would never have imagined that as a grass farmer, she would win the respect and love of farmers and herdsmen of all ethnic groups in Guangren Township.

The people who saw her off respected this great and ordinary mother from the bottom of their hearts, not only because she taught farmers and herdsmen of all ethnic groups to weave various household utensils with reeds and grass, but more importantly, this little old lady with inconvenient legs and feet was a warm-hearted person who had helped many families during her lifetime.

As the only surviving son of Mrs. Tian, Tian Kunhe wore linen and filial piety, threw a mud pot, and sent away the backbone of the family with a white coat.

The funeral procession marched towards the north mountain of Guangren Township, the old mother-in-law died, and Buick Porati pulled the best pine wood from the mountain overnight, and asked the village Han carpenter to help make a high-quality coffin overnight.

The maroon painted coffin was tied with three thick hemp ropes, and two long purlins passed through several hemp ropes, and sixteen men of different ethnic groups carried the coffins with neat steps towards the Guangren Township cemetery.

Wang Ling, who was at the head of the funeral procession, had a white cloth wrapped around his waist, a cloth bag rope hanging around his neck, and a horse jacket hanging from the rope, which contained round paper money cut by neighbors.

He raised his hand and scattered paper money as he walked, and whenever the funeral procession passed by an intersection or a small bridge, Wang Ling shouted at the top of his voice: "Sister-in-law Tian, you have crossed the crossroads, go all the way!" ”

"Sister-in-law Tian, I've crossed the bridge, go all the way---"

"Sister-in-law Tian, go up the mountain, go all the way---"

……

Tian Kunrong cried and fainted several times, and Buick Polati, as a son-in-law, gave a funeral for his mother-in-law in linen and filial piety according to the customs of the Han people.

Tian Kunhe buried his old mother on the north mountain of Guangren Township, with his back to the high mountain and a small tributary of the Ili River.

This small tributary in front of Mrs. Tian's grave is where Pang Jie and Xiao Tianye were intercepted by the branch, and their bodies were found on this riverbed.

Tian Kunhe moved the graves of his elder brother Tian Kunshu, Tian Kunpeng, brother-in-law Pang Jie, eldest nephew Tian Yang and daughter Tian Ye to the grave of Mrs. Tian.

Looking at the six tombs of different sizes of the Tian family, Tian Kunhe, who was as strong as iron, knelt in front of the grave and cried with his head against the yellow earth, crying so darkly.

In less than 20 years, 7 people, old and young (including the six-month fetus in Ji Yue'e's womb), passed away, and the three sons of the Tian family are now the only ones left alive.

Tian Miao, who knelt behind his father, wanted to get up and pull his father Tian Kunhe, who was unwilling to live, but was stopped by his mother Ji Yue'e.

Ji Yue'e couldn't cry and said: "Just let your dad cry, there is too much bitter water in his stomach over the years, and if he always holds it like this, sooner or later his body will be suffocated." ”

17-year-old Tian Miao's thin body knelt straight behind his father, looking at his father's rickety figure, he found that his tall and strong father in his heart looked very old after the age of not being confused.

Tian Miao burst into tears, he secretly swore in front of his grandmother's grave that the future Tian family would be supported by him Tian Miao, over the years, his father was too tired to hold on.

This year, 17-year-old Tian Miao took the college entrance examination and was admitted to the undergraduate class of Bayi Agricultural College, and he was the first golden phoenix to fly out of Guangren Commune.

This year, 16-year-old Tian Liu joined the army and was assigned to Urumqi City as a soldier, and before leaving, he gave all the toys he usually accumulated to his 14-year-old sister Tian Tao.

Looking at the toy in his sister Tian Tao's hand, his 4-year-old brother Tian Gou Yuzi reached out to grab the small pistol he had been coveting for a long time, which Tian Liu had spent half a year making with hundreds of empty bullet casings he had picked up.

Tian Gou's leftovers went to grab it, Tian Tao's hand shrank into his arms, and he didn't pay attention, and the pistol fell to the ground and broke with a "snap".

Looking at the small pistol that was torn apart on the ground, Tian Liu, who was angry, picked up a slap and slapped it hard on the little face of his younger brother's dog.

Seeing this, Tian Tao hurriedly picked up his younger brother who fell to the ground, looked for a cotton ball to plug his nostrils, and blamed Tian Liu, "Second brother, why do you hate it so much?" He's our own brother. ”

Tian Liu, who felt bored, pushed open the door and walked out of the house in a frustrated manner, and cursed coldly: "This little bastard is not my own brother. ”

Zhao Xing, who came home from work, happened to see the scene where Tian Tao persuaded Tian Liu, when Tian Liu pushed the door open, she stood behind the door along the door, and Tian Liu didn't see her mother come back.

Tian Liu saw that the laces of the yellow sneakers were loose, bent down to tie the laces, and saw his mother standing behind the door from the afterglow, shaking her body with a pale face and looking like she was about to fall, without thinking about it, he went back to support the weak mother.

Zhao Xing lay on the bed, gave Tian Tao a few yuan, and sent her to the store to buy candy for her younger brother's dog.

Zhao Xing, who was leaning on the futon, said straight to the point to her nervous son: "Liuzi, how can you scold your own brother bastard?!" ”

Hearing his mother's questioning with a thick tone of harshness, Tian Liu tilted his head and laughed, laughing at himself: "My brother, my brother?!" But his surname is not Tian, his surname is Li ---" The words behind him almost shouted out of his throat.

Zhao Xing's beautiful phoenix eyes widened as if she had been struck by lightning, she looked at her son in disbelief with tears in her eyes, and roared in a hoarse voice: "Where were you that night?!" ”

Tian Liu restrained the anger and remorse in his heart, his facial features were a little distorted, and his eyes were tearful and sobbed: "I would rather that night, I had a nightmare, but it is not a dream, it is a real existence, mother, why did you give birth to a dog leftover?" What do you think his eyebrows and eyes look like the Tian family? You know, it was a big mistake for you to give birth to him, you are self-defeating---"

The word "insult" in Tian Liu's mouth was slapped into his mouth by Zhao Xing, which was the first time his mother hit him.

Mother's resounding slap added to Tian Liu's hatred of the dog's leftovers, he covered his right cheek with his left hand, and rushed out of the house without saying anything.

When all the recruits wore big red flowers and lined up in front of the county armed forces, relatives came to see off their children who had joined the army.

Tian Liu here, only his sister Tian Tao and his younger brother Gou Yuzi saw him off, and there was no mother.

Tian Liu, who was wearing a green military uniform, looked at her sister in disappointment, "What about our mother?" ”

Tian Taohong's swollen eyes wept silently, "Second brother, my mother is sick and can't get out of bed anymore, she asked me to tell you that you must do a good job in the army." ”

Gou Yuzi pulled his brother Tian Liu's clothes, pouted and cried: "Brother, don't go, brother, Gou Yuzi is obedient and doesn't make you angry." ”

Looking down at the dog's leftover with tears in his eyes, Tian Liu's heart twitched inexplicably, yes, this is his mother's little brother after all.

Tian Liu squatted down, held the little face of the dog leftover with both hands, wiped away the tears of his little face with his thumb, and advised: "Brother is not angry, the dog leftover, listen to the words of my mother and sister at home, and study and read well."

Looking at the eyebrows and eyes of Tian Gou Yuzi's small face, Tian Liu's hand was taken back as if he had been stung by a bee, he didn't want to look at the dog leftovers, which looked like Li Qiwen's facial features, and he was disgusted when he saw it.

Tian Liu quickly returned to the formation and climbed into the military vehicle in the order of the queue, and in the noise of gongs and drums, the car gradually moved away from the armed forces.

He looked at his sister's figure with blurred teary eyes, and finally couldn't help but sobbed quietly, crying and crying and crying.

The new soldier who traveled with him thought he was in love with his family, and he cried like a girl, pointing and making fun of him.

Only Tian Liu knew that he was crying for his poor mother and for his cowardice back then.

That summer night was a nightmare that Tian Liu could never shake off, and this terrible nightmare entangled and devoured his heart all the time.

That summer night is the dividing line of Tian Liu's life, and it is also the dividing line of his personality, before he was a carefree and happy teenager, but after that night, the death of his father made him hate everything around him, and his personality began to distort.

That afternoon, he played hide and seek with Jia Xi, the eldest son of Uncle Jia Ming's neighbor, and Tian Liu, who had nowhere to hide, began to play tricks, not hiding in the designated range, but hiding directly under his parents' big wooden bed, quietly waiting for Jia Xi's search.

Jia Xi didn't find Tian Liu within the specified range, he knew that Tian Liu was playing tricks again, and he was too lazy to play hide and seek with Tian Liu, who violated the rules of the game, and he went home to eat hungry.

Tian Liu, who was hiding under the bed, stupidly waited for Jia Xi to look for him, and fell asleep in the extremely boring waiting.

In his sleep, he was suddenly awakened by the movement in the house, and he seemed to understand it.

Tian Liu thought that the man on the bed was his father who was on night duty, and he was so frightened that he hid under the bed and didn't even dare to come out.

After some time, he held his breath and tried to sneak out while his parents were asleep.

Unexpectedly, Li Qiwen's voice deliberately lowered his voice from the room, "Hao Jianliang." ”

Then I heard the footsteps of a man tiptoeing out.

Soon......

Everything returned to calm, in the dead of night.

From under the bed, I saw my mother holding a strip of cloth in her hand, and she staggered and walked out of the house without even closing the door.

Tian Liu hurriedly crawled out from under the bed and quietly followed behind his mother, only to see her mother walk to her coal house and throw this long strip of cloth on the beam.

When her mother stood on the coal and stuffed her head into the strip of cloth, Tian Liu pushed open the door and picked her up, crying, "Mother, you can't die." ”

Zhao Xing's mother and son sat in the coal room and hugged their heads and cried, and later, Zhao Xing told her son not to tell his father about her suicide.

But this shameful thing has been buried deep in Oda Yanagi's heart, like a poisonous snake entanglement around him, and constantly reminds him of this unbearable scene.

The eyebrows and eyes of the younger brother Gou Yuzi do not have the masculinity of the Tian family boy at all, the willow eyebrows, slender eyes, and feminine eyebrows and eyes are clearly the epitome of Li Qiwen.