Volume 1, The Temptation of Gray Chapter 1, The Loneliness of the Plum Blossom

The town is small and full of anecdotes.

Today's news occupies the town's after-dinner scene.

Blackie is dying!

Xiao Hei is Tian Laofu's baby son, and his wife Wu Yufen exchanged his life for it.

He had his head knocked out.

It is said that when he was found and taken to the hospital, he was already unconscious.

Who can do this to a fourteen-year-old?

It must have been done by Xu Jian.

People unanimously said that the target was directly at the neighbor of Tian Laofu's family, Xu Jian, the third son of Huang Chunlan, the widow of the Xu family. Piggybacking on the incident that happened not long ago, he still has some sympathy for Xu Jian.

Tian Laofu is also really, he is almost sixty years old, why don't he want to save some face for his children, and he actually did that kind of embarrassing thing, no, he wants to take his son's life again.

In the late seventies of the last century, the average education level of people in small towns was below junior high school.

To put it bluntly, most of them are coarse people who work hard, and housewives who don't know a few big words.

The people who have really studied for a few days are basically the managers of the departments of the various railway stations. They were busy with homework all day long, and they didn't have the heart to talk about Zhang's parents and Li's family.

Let's start with Tian Laofu.

Tian Laofu is the doorman of the depot.

He is honest and responsible, very low-key, and has never had a grudge against anyone in his life, but he has a strong temper.

That year, his daughter-in-law Wu Yufen was at home and gave birth to a big fat son. I don't know if the midwife is not professional enough, or Wu Yufen is destined, she bled profusely after giving birth, and before she was sent to the hospital, she ran out of gas.

According to the people present, Tian Laofu was guarding in front of his wife's corpse at that time, and the whole person was stupid.

His eldest daughter Tian Xiu is only four years old, and his second daughter Tian Li is only two years old, plus this newborn son. He's a stupid and simple old man, how can he feed these children.

It is the so-called endless road.

Tian Laofeng buried his wife Wu Yufen, leading his eldest daughter here every day, holding his son there, and carrying his second daughter behind him, like a mouse moving.

He drops his three children off at daycare in the morning and picks them up at home after work in the evening.

In this way, more than ten years have passed.

The eldest daughter, Tian Xiu, graduated from junior high school and returned to her hometown to join the queue. The second daughter Tian Li is about to graduate from junior high school, and it is said that she can stay in the city without going to the countryside to cut the queue.

Seeing that the children have grown up, Tian Laofu has also begun to make people feel uneasy.

Huang Chunlan, who lives in a red brick house with Tian Laofu's family, is the wife of Lao Xu, a wrench in the station operation workshop.

The two good neighbors who have lived for more than 20 years, who have a big or small relationship with each other, rushed to help as soon as possible.

After Tian Laofu's wife Wu Yufen died, Huang Chunlan helped take care of his three children.

Two years ago, Lao Xu died of an injury, and Tian Laofu also stayed at Xu's house overnight to help take care of the aftermath.

Huang Chunlan's two eldest sons went to the countryside to settle down in the countryside very early.

The third son, Xu Jian, graduated from junior high school and was just in time for his father's work-related injury, so he replaced his father's post with the old and the young, and became a wrench at the railway station.

Xu Ying, the eldest daughter of the Xu family, and Tian Li, the second daughter of Tian Laofu, are classmates at the same table. Due to the close relationship between the two families for a long time, they also have a very good relationship.

Families living in dry houses have a small garden in the front and back yards.

Every spring, every family sows all kinds of rapeseed in the garden, and within a few months, there are fresh seasonal vegetables on the table.

Although vegetables were not worth a few dollars, they were a benefit to families with a monthly salary of only a few dozen yuan at that time.

Diligent people raise a few chickens and ducks, and the small life is quite moist.

Huang Chunlan is a housewife with no formal job. Lao Xu died of a work-related injury, and the unit issued her a survivor's allowance every month according to the regulations.

With this money, she no longer goes to work in the small workshop of the neighborhood committee. Washing and washing every day, taking care of her own garden, and cooking three meals a day for her son and daughter, she has a very fulfilling day.

When it comes to the busy farming season, Tian Laofu often goes to help her farm and water.

During the New Year's holidays, Huang Chunlan also took the initiative to come to Tian Laofu's house to help dismantle and wash the bedding. The two of them talked and laughed together, and neither of them said their gossip.

Distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors, the relationship between the two families has been good for more than ten years, and it is normal to take care of each other in life.

Suddenly, one day, Tian Laofu's eldest daughter Tian Xiu had a dream, and her mother Wu Yufen told Tian Xiu in the dream: Don't let your father and Aunt Huang always be together, something will happen after a long time.

Tian Xiu was awakened by this dream, and actually broke out in a cold sweat.

Don't look at Tian Xiu is not yet twenty years old, she understands this dream entrusted by her mother quite thoroughly.

Tian Laofu has been single for more than ten years, and Huang Chunlan's nickname is also called Widow, and the two of them get together, no matter what they do, it is not a violation of law and discipline.

Not breaking the law doesn't mean you're compliant.

At that time, people were so resistant to remarriage that they couldn't imagine it.

Especially as a child, as soon as he heard that his father was going to remarry, he could not say anything, so he regarded the woman who had never entered the door as an imaginary enemy, and the brothers and sisters joined hands and wanted to tear this woman apart and chew it up.

Why?

Having a stepmother means that the father betrayed the family. Not only is he sorry for their mother, but he also ruthlessly abandons them and becomes a traitor to the family.

If a woman wants to remarry, it is even more remarkable.

When children are children, especially sons, they can't hold their heads up in front of outsiders at all, as if everyone is poking them in the back.

According to the regulations, after graduating from junior high school, Tian Xiu had to follow the children who graduated from junior high school in his father's unit to go to the countryside to join the queue and settle down.

Fortunately, her uncle had the strength in her hometown and went through the formalities for her to return to her hometown.

Nominally, she went back to her hometown of Tianjia Village, Qiming Town, to settle in the queue, but in fact, she only left the relevant procedures there, and people still stayed at home.

She only needs to wait for three or two years, and when there is a quota for returning to the city for work, she will become a full-fledged factory miner.

To tell the truth, this family is really inseparable from Tian Xiu.

She is the eldest in the family and a girl. The family is as small as firewood, rice, oil and salt, three meals a day, as large as sewing and mending, washing and washing, all of which need her to cook.

She has become the mistress of the house.

Tian Xiu's dream became a piece of her heart. She didn't dare to tell others about this kind of embarrassing thing, so she could only tell her second sister Tian Li secretly.

Tian Like is a ghost and clever, don't look at her usually doesn't talk much, when she encounters things, she has ghost ideas one after another.

Hearing that her mother had given her eldest sister a dream, Tian Li put her mouth to the root of her ear and said, "It's impossible for Aunt Huang to fall in love with our father." ”

This is true, people go to the market to buy vegetables, and they have to pick and choose, let alone get married.

Huang Chunlan is a well-known clean and upright person.

At that time, people basically wore woolen cotton clothes. The highest-grade fabrics are nothing but polyester and really good.

Clothes sewn from these fabrics can be pressed out at once once they are worn on the body and squatted, especially when they are lying on the kang with their clothes closed.

Looking at Huang Chunlan and her children, even if they wear the kind of work clothes issued by the unit, they are all upright, and they are washed blue and white, which makes people look clean and tidy at a glance.

Tian Laofu wears all year round, all of which are labor clothes issued by the unit.

The fabric, known as the cloth, is so thick that no matter who wears it, within two days, the knees and elbows will definitely bulge out a big bag.

When his wife Wu Yufen was alive, she could eat and drink, had a lot of strength, and could still think of washing Tian Laofen's clothes once a month.

It was Tian Xiu's turn to take care of the family, she was thin and didn't have the strength to wash her father's work clothes.

Sometimes Tian Laofu's clothes are so dirty that she can't see it, so she can only press the clothes into the large laundry basin, soak them in laundry detergent for a few hours, and then scrub them with a brush.

The clothes looked to be washed, but it didn't take long for them to break.

The reason is very simple, how can pure cotton fabrics withstand the destruction of Tian Xiu's soaking and brushing.

Tian Laofu felt sorry for the ruined clothes, so he simply didn't wash them if he couldn't wash them, and sometimes he couldn't wash them once for a few months.

His reasons are very sufficient, anyway, they are the work clothes issued by the unit, and no one laughs at them.

Tian Laofu specializes in smoking old dry bubbles, just to save money. He spent a low price to buy back the tobacco leaves grown by the peasants, dried them on the kang, tore the children's used textbooks into strips, rolled them on, and smoked "ba, da" without a few puffs, and the whole house was filled with choking smoke.

An old man in his fifties, wearing a set of dirty overalls all year round, with a scruffy beard, a mouth full of big yellow teeth, and a sloppy ghost.

The second daughter Tian Li therefore concluded that Huang Chunlan would not take a fancy to her father.

Tian Xiu is convinced of this dream entrusted by her mother.

She stays at home all day and can often see her father and Huang Chunlan's contact.

She didn't care about this before, but after being reminded by her mother's dream, she began to pay attention to observation. found that the eyes of Huang Chunlan and her father looking at each other were indeed not as plain as before, and even the tone of their words was full of mystery.

"Something must be wrong with them." Tian Xiu made an authoritative judgment, which made Tian Li grumble, and was stunned for a while before saying, "What is Aunt Huang trying to do with my father." ”

This is the focus of the problem.

Tian Xiu couldn't find an answer. can only be explained in one sentence after the break: Wang Ba looked at the mung bean, right eyes.

"If they really do that, our family will be ruined." Tian Xiu's panic about the unknown shed sad tears.

In the eyes of the children, the stepmother is more fierce than the wolf grandmother.

Tian Xiu is the eldest daughter in the family, and when her mother was alive, she was often asked to do housework. With her mother gone, she naturally took on all the household chores.

She occasionally complained in her heart, lamenting that she was born at the wrong time and did not have the blessing of Xu Ying.

Xu Ying is an old child in the family, with a hard-working and capable mother, and three older brothers, who spoil her like a princess and don't let her do any work at home.

thought that Huang Chunlan was really married to her father, and the two families combined were nine people.

In terms of age, she is the eldest among girls, and Huang Chunlan must treat her as a girl.

She was already uncomfortable enough to serve the three members of her family, and she had to do slaves and slaves for the five people who had nothing to do with her, and that kind of life really couldn't be lived.

Tian Li had a clever mouth, and coaxed the eldest sister to raise her noble hand and not climb her to work.

Seeing the tears of the eldest sister, they are like a tap tap, and they don't stop flowing when they say it. She said completely to make the eldest sister happy: "Don't worry, I promise to make them yellow." ”

"Why are you messing up?" Tian Xiuxin thought it was true, and asked Tian Li for a basis, Tian Li blinked her eyes and said, "You will know when the time comes." ”

Soon after the sisters' conversation, something terrible finally happened.

Tian Laofu began to brush his teeth and shave, and once in the morning and once in the evening, brushing his teeth for at least ten minutes each time.

Tian Xiu saw his father squeezing a large piece of toothpaste on the toothbrush, stuffing it into his mouth and flying up and down, brushing so carefully and so hard. Almost every corner has to be brushed dozens of times, and then with a mouthful of water, the face is "gurgling" and rinsing for a while.

In the past, Tian Laofu couldn't shave his beard once a month, but now he shaves his beard and shaves his cheeks.

Not only that, but he also personally took out a set of railway uniforms from the cabinet and replaced the labor uniform.

Since the railway uniform was issued, Tian Laofu only wears it during the New Year's holidays, and he is not even willing to wear it to his relatives. Now it's a good thing, he treats the railway uniform as a daily wear, and he also says: "This dress is thin and easy to wash." ”

Did you hear it, what a considerate excuse, Tian Laofu in the name of reducing the burden on his eldest daughter, in fact, it was for the sake of stinky beauty.

There was no need for Tian Xiu to say anything, Tian Li had a premonition that something was wrong, and the devil was about to enter the village.

After school that day, Tian Li specially bought a string of sugar gourds, and waited on the way home for her younger brother Xiaohei from school, when she happened to meet a bad boy named Shengzi and blocked the road to ransack Xiaohei.

gave birth to a son with two older brothers, who were collectively called bad quack by their parents.

These two brothers fought and stole iron on the railway line, so it can be said that in addition to the good things they don't do, there are no other bad things they don't do.

They were arrested by the police at the police station twice in three days, first hung up signs, paraded all over the streets, and then sent them to the detention center, where they stayed for 10 days and half a month.

I don't know what their parents think, anyway, his younger brother gave birth to a child, because of these two bastard brothers, he became a three-point stick in the school, and even the teacher was afraid of three points.

Every morning and evening in the school, there are students on duty standing guard at the school gate.

Whenever this happens, Shengzi will take a few younger brothers with him and stand aside.

Seeing a boy walking alone, he hooked his fingers, and the boy had to walk over obediently, and the pennies in his pocket became a child.

After school, Shengzi is the biggest buyer of the small traders and vendors who sell at the school gate.

What melon seeds, peanuts, marshmallows, chewing gum, and children are all bought and distributed to the younger brothers who follow them to eat, and the style is very beautiful.

It is also time to have a child, and it is unlucky today.

He spent all the money he had extorted that day, and was eating as he walked, when he saw Xiao Hei being the last to walk out of the school gate and quietly follow them.

He stopped, waited for Xiao Hei to come closer, and without saying anything, he slapped Xiao Hei first and said, "What are you going to do." ”

Xiao Hei was the last to leave school every day, just to avoid the robbery of the gang of Shengzi.

Today he memorized the idea, came out early, and saw that they had not gone far before giving birth to a child, thinking that he would follow them quietly and would not be discovered.

As a result, he was afraid of something, so he received a big slap first.

Before Xiao Hei begged for mercy, the hand of the son had already reached into Xiao Hei's pocket, empty, and there was not even a penny of steel hammer.

Shengzi knew that the few cents in Xiao Hei's pocket were looted by him in the morning, and there was nothing in his pocket at this time, but he still widened his eyes and threatened: "Where did you hide the money, hand it over obediently, otherwise you will ......"

"Bang", a big slap that resounded in the sky, fell on the face of the child, and immediately left five finger prints.

Tian Li slapped her son in the face, and she felt angry, so she raised her leg and kicked it.

Giving birth to a child and bullying boys of the same age is not ambiguous at all. When he met a fresh graduate like Tian Li, especially a girl, his reaction was absolutely fast, first shed tears, and then shouted: "You wait for my brother to come, you can't kill you." ”

The son ran away, and his followers ran faster than him.

Shengzi and the others ran away, Tian Xiu handed the sugar gourd to Xiao Hei, guess how Xiao Hei reacted.

He forcefully pushed away Tian Li's hand and shouted, "Show you!" ”

Without waiting for Tian Li to say anything more, Xiao Hei left angrily.

Xiao Hei has to face the group of people who have children every day, and being bullied has become commonplace.

was bumped into by Tian Li today, and slapped Shengzi with a big slap, which is equivalent to owing Xiaohei a sum of money to Shengzi.

Tian Li can't stay by Xiao Hei's side every day, and she won't be willing to eat this dumb loss when she gives birth to a child. From tomorrow, Xiao Hei will be guilty.

Tian Li did something bad with good intentions, she ran forward to stop Xiao Hei, stuffed the sugar gourd into Xiao Hei's hand again, and whispered, "There is going to be a big incident at home." ”

Tian Laofu came home from work, Tian Xiu had already prepared dinner, and just waited for Xiao Hei and Tian Li to come back from school to eat.

In the past, Tian Li arrived home first, and Xiao Hei was the last to come back.

Xiao Hei and Tian Li came back together, and Xiao Hei still had sugar gourd dregs hanging from his mouth.

Tian Xiu saw it, looked at Tian Li and understood.

The two sisters put the food on the table and deliberately hid out to free up a few minutes for the little black father and son. I believe that as long as Xiao Hei speaks, Tian Laofu can't even say a word.

Xiao Hei has the absolute right to speak in front of his father.

Sure enough, the two of them didn't say a few words in the house, Tian Laofu slapped the table vigorously and shouted outside the house: "You two bastard girls, get me in!" ”