"Canteen wife" is the mother-in-law of the old branch secretary Fang Rende. Earlier, we talked about Fang Rende's personal situation through some links of Xu Zhiguo's buying of a house and Xu Zhiguo's banquet for neighbors. But those episodes are too general to fully understand his family. In this paragraph, let's focus on his family.

Fang Rende was short in stature, with sparse hair and small, deep-seated eyes. He is not highly educated, he is not very literate, and he can read and write a few commonly used words, which are also engraved in his brain by rote memorization. He has served as the secretary of Shanghu Village for more than 30 years, and has also served as a 'township representative' for many years. The village rarely calls Fang Rende by his name, either by calling him Secretary Rende or by 'Representative Fang'. Fang Rende was a veteran party member who had been the village secretary since the beginning of liberation, and he was still a member of the branch committee when Liang Yong took over his position after he was discharged from the army.

Fang Rende himself has a lot of stories hidden. Some are stories that outsiders know, but most of them are secrets that are difficult for outsiders to understand. He has a strong will that ordinary people can't bear. It is said that in his early years, when he was carrying a shotgun to make a revolution, he haunted the mountains and mountains to chase bandits, not only to fight with the bandits and the remnants of the Kuomintang soldiers, but also to fight with wild boars and wolves. He once carried the wild boar he had killed down the mountain and distributed it to the hungry people to eat, but he did not eat a bite himself. He wounded the soldiers of the Kuomintang and some bandits. The biggest achievement was when he led a team of militia to catch three bandits at once, and it was this operation that destroyed his own image.

It is said that the incident is as follows: Fang Rende organized the militia to go to the local Dou Jishan to search for bandits, these bandits were also from poor people, and because they were forced to make a living, they gathered together and began to block the road, hurt people and rob people. Later, the scale became larger and larger, and these people from poor backgrounds also began to degenerate and corrupt, and they all became ruthless. Later, they robbed people's women, burned people's houses, and beat the people. Fang Rende was already a small group leader in the militia organization at that time, and he led a group of militiamen to meet a group of bandits of more than a dozen people when they searched Dou Jishan, so the two sides started a hand-to-hand battle. As a result, they captured three bandits, one of whom is said to be the head of the bandits. Fang Rende and the militia took the bandits to the PLA troops stationed here at the time. It just so happened that the People's Liberation Army was also fighting with the Kuomintang army here, and they also captured one officer and eleven soldiers. It was decided to convene a vigorous rally of struggle, and the crowd at the meeting was indignant and shouted slogans that shook the heavens, and after the meeting, the officer and the bandit leader were to be shot. At that time, the PLA leadership wanted the execution to be carried out by local militia groups. So Fang Rende, who had made meritorious contributions, was arranged in the execution procession.

Before the execution, the PLA tied up the heinous bandits and the Kuomintang officers, and pushed them to Fang Rende and another member of the firing squad, hoping that they would shoot at close range. As a result, another team member killed the bandit leader with one shot, and Fang Rende had already fired three shots and still did not kill the Kuomintang officer, causing laughter from the onlookers. The head of the unit was furious, snatched Fang Rende's pistol, and opened the officer's head with a single shot. It is said that just after this shot, because Fang Rende was too close to the position of the Kuomintang officer, after the bullet was fired, the officer's brain was splashed into Fang Rende's mouth, and Fang Rende vomited nausea and vomited. Since then, Fang Rende has fallen into the strange disease of spitting all the time.

Some people say that in fact, Fang Rende was so frightened that he peed his pants before the execution, but he was wearing cotton pants at the time, and he was not found urinating on the cotton pants. Of course, this is a nonsensical 'case' that no one can say, and only Fang Rende himself knows "defamation or not". Later, after Fang Rende was elected as the party representative of the township people's government (referred to as the 'township representative'), no one dared to talk about this matter.

Fang Rende was an apprentice in ceramics since he was a child, so he still had a soft spot for making ceramics after the liberation. The ceramics he made were varied, the demeanor was realistic, and some of the characters were cute and cute, which made people laugh and laugh. He pinched birds and beasts, made fish and insects, painted orchid cinnamon, painted plum peaches, and splashed bamboos can all be lifelike and vivid, and each work has his uniqueness. It's just that Fang Rende can't write words and can't go to the big scene.

Fang Rende's wife, Yang Sufeng, is from Yang Fengling Village. Before the liberation of Yangfengling Village, there were thirty or forty households, with a population of one hundred and twenty. Yang Sufeng's father and Fang Rende's father are brothers, and they went to the beach together to sell illicit salt earlier. Later, they were separated for a period of time due to a shortage of wars, and when they met again by chance, the two were already full of children. The unexpected encounter made the former brothers sad and happy, and Yang's father decided to marry his eldest daughter Yang Sufeng to Fang Rende, the second son of Fang's father, who was of the same age, as a wife, in order to show 'kiss and kiss'.

This Yang Sufeng is also illiterate and has never gone to school for a day. I don't know if it was a congenital disease or an acquired cause, Yang Sufeng was deaf when she got married, but she was not dumb. Fang Rende didn't know at first, but later he knew, but he was already in a boat, and he could only live with her. What's more, the conditions were also poor at that time, and Yang Sufeng rushed to do all the work when she got married, which saved Fang Rende a lot of effort. Fang Rende didn't like to do rough work and heavy work, and Yang Sufeng just made up for his vacancy.

Yang Sufeng rarely talks to her neighbors, she is friendly with you, she smiles at you, and gives you something of little value. In fact, in addition to not hearing the sound in her ears, her speech is very clear, she and Rende quarreled again for some reason, and every sentence is a classic. The neighbors can't learn if they want to, so they hope that she and Fang Rende will have a 'fight' every day, and everyone really wants to hear her 'classics'. However, she rarely quarreled with Fang Rende. Therefore, it is also a pleasure to be able to hear Yang Sufeng's voice clearly.

The big canteen began, and the village also began to manage the canteen, and the iron pots and earthen stoves at home were destroyed by the village and sent to the commune to make steel, and men, women, and children were driven to the big canteen to eat big pot rice. At that time, Fang Rende was also a canteen management staff, so he naturally arranged Yang Sufeng to work in the canteen. I don't know who started to call Yang Sufeng 'canteen wife'. Since then, although time has passed, her real name has gradually been hidden, and the 'canteen woman' has replaced her name.

The 'canteen woman' is a good hand at raising pigs. The pigs that passed through her hands were raised fat and white. She has a very unique vision when choosing piglets. Therefore, Fang Rende must bring the 'canteen wife' with him when he buys and sells pigs.

The person "canteen woman" said that she was not strange or strange, and that she was strange and very strange. She will feed two big fat pigs every year, at that time, not to mention raising a pig, that is, raising a chicken, a duck and a dog, you have to calculate whether the food at home is enough to eat, not to mention that it is still a pig and feeds two a year at once. Fang Rende has some economic acumen, and he calculates these economic accounts when he has nothing to do all day long, and he calculates them accurately. He calculates that raising pigs is a good income, so he is very much in favor of the 'canteen wife' to raise pigs.

The 'canteen woman' feeds two fat pigs, and not both of them buy the piglets at once. Fang Rende calculated such an account, and at the same time, the investment in buying piglets was not only too large, but also increased the risk of raising pigs. Although the income of pigs is large when they are slaughtered, such risks are sometimes not necessarily proportional to income. Fang Rende's pigs are slaughtered in the summer and autumn seasons. Because he has done his own market research, he feels that the price of pigs slaughtered in these two seasons is the most affordable. Everyone's thinking is one pig a year, raising in spring and rising in winter, which is the worst time. Because everyone is always selling pigs, the market is easy to be full, and as soon as the market is full, the price of pigs will fall. And because the pigs have to be re-purchased after slaughter to bring back to feed, at this time the production of piglets will be greatly reduced, resulting in a situation where piglets are in short supply, so according to the principle of 'scarce is expensive', the price of piglets will rise in a straight line. Everyone is just blindly following the psychology, but they don't know that there is something else inside. Fang Rende calculated an account, such blind obedience, one thing and the other, pig farmers will have about two months of wasted time. Therefore, people work hard to feed a pig and still 'operate at a loss', and his family has already raised 'wind and water', this is the difference.

It is incomprehensible for the "Fang representative" family to sell and buy pigs. On the day of the pig sale, the 'canteen lady' got up from bed early, and she had to go over and talk to the fat pig for a long time. The 'canteen woman' told all the things that the different neighbors usually said to the pigs that were about to be slaughtered. She bathed the pig as she climbed into the wooden railing of the pig barn, holding a bucket of warm water and a soft brush in her hand. The pig listens to her very much and sometimes talks to her in 'pig language'. Everyone estimated that the 'canteen woman' couldn't hear it, but she seemed very moved, and she was very affectionate for her pigs. She usually doesn't spend her days with her neighbors, but she 'talks' things to the pigs. After she finished bathing the pig, she asked her son to pick up the pig's food, and she stood next to the pig and watched the pig gobble up. When the pig eats, it stains the freshly washed body, so she doesn't wash it again, no matter how dirty the pig is. Then, Fang Rende mobilized his son to push the trolley over, and the 'canteen wife' opened the door of the pig house, and the son and his neighbors came over to help catch the pigs and pass the scales, and the 'canteen woman' went to the car to spread the rice stalks and weeds. As soon as the straw was laid, the pig began to howl in a heart-rending manner. At this time, the 'canteen woman' walked over, patted the pig on the head a few times, and said a call to the pig, and the pig fell silent. Everyone is very curious about how this 'canteen woman' understands these 'pig languages'. It's a mystery. Because, the 'canteen lady' won't take the initiative to tell you, and you can't ask this 'deaf person'. The deaf person doesn't know what you're going to ask her.