Liu Yetao became a matchmaker in the milling house

They don't talk about it, but they all have a detailed account in their hearts. It is said that there are really a lot of women who are obsessed with Enchang in three steps and two bridges, all of them are sincere, although they are like mountain fires on rainy days, they are all unrequited love, and the hot brazier can't be held on the kang - except for the widow Sichun is the greedy daughter-in-law who gets on the sedan chair in her dream, and the eldest girl thinks about it in vain, and the adults don't want to pull the willow leaf peach, and the colorful words are worn shoes and old clothes.

The more Enchang didn't care about marrying his daughter-in-law, the more Xiangjiu felt guilty about Enchang, no matter what he said, he only left words from Yuqing's sister-in-law, and Xiangjiu really took it seriously.

It is also a coincidence, it happens that Xiangjiu's mother's stone archway, there is a strange woman, a rare family.

The woman's surname is Fang, her name is Fang Yuzhen, just the two of them, guarding a five-year-old son, Fang Yuzhen was only thirty years old at that time, and her appearance was also one in a hundred.

In the early years, Fang Yuzhen's mother-in-law's family had no land, and his family's turnaround benefited from the land reform in the old area. The large-scale land reform in Yansai took place around 1948 and became a magic weapon for defeating the enemy in eastern Hebei in one fell swoop.

The stone archway is half a mountainous area, the Japanese puppet period was originally a tug-of-war area between the enemy and us, the Japanese army surrendered, and the eight roads of Beishan were the first to climb and open up the liberated area.

In order to mobilize the masses and consolidate the revolutionary base areas, as early as 1946, the struggle for land reform was launched in the newly expanded liberated areas.

The division of houses and land quickly won the hearts of the people, and in order to defend the fruits of victory, it ushered in the upsurge of joining the army in the old area.

Fang Yuzhen's newly married husband Xue Qingyu, like many young people in the village, mobilized to join the army to besiege Yushui Liuzhen, and the following year broke through the county seat of Jieyang in Jingshan, driving away Fu Zuoyi's cavalry brigade, Xue Qingyu also made achievements in breaking the city.

It's a pity that Xue Qingyu loves the land and his hometown, half of the revolution, Xue Yuyu, who was injured and recuperated, did not return to the team, and like many people, he was reduced to squatting at home and living a life of children's wives and hot kang heads.

Xue Qingyu, who regarded the field as his life, took the oil out of the field, piggybacked on the cattle and sold livestock, and poured cattle, horses, donkeys and mules inside and outside the mouth, and in two or three years, the Xue family bought a house and land, and became a rich family in the stone archway, which laid the groundwork for Xue Qingyu's later tragedy.

No one thought that there would be a second land reform. When the large-scale land reform came in 1948, many bankrupt landlords and rich peasants secretly rejoiced, and many of them were big families who saw the wind and deliberately squandered their family property.

Xue Qingyu didn't have that kind of brain, many rich businessmen and sellers hiding in the countryside, landlords and gentry, or because of the war, or saw through the heavens, they disposed of real estate and fields at a low price, and left the country with money.

Xue Qingyu may have been carried away by the dream of making a fortune, thinking that it was a godsend, and used the money and food he had accumulated hard in the past few years to buy the houses and fields of the young and old cheaply.

In 1948, the Yansai stone ground became a key pass for the People's Liberation Army to seize the strategic opportunity and chase the white mountains and black waters.

The stormy land reform struggle, in the soil of the eternal agrarian civilization, quickly won the source of troops and the hearts of the people, and fundamentally determined the trend of success or failure.

Xue Qingyu, who owns three double-trailer carts and more than 100 acres of land, is in Shipaifang Village, although he is not as good as the landlords and rich peasants and squires in the village's businessmen and farmers' deep house compounds, but Xue Qingyu, who is diligent and thrifty, regards money as tighter than anyone else.

As a newly-born landlord, he completely forgot the revolutionary spirit of the first land reform a few years ago, and Xue Qingyu, who was reluctant to give up an inch of land, suddenly stood on the opposite side of the struggle, and the armed working group soon regarded him as a negative example of the land reform struggle.

Xue Qingyu's stubbornness and determination surprised all the villagers in the stone archway. It is in the unfathomable place of the water chestnut pit in the west of the village, and the stagnant water of the blisters emerges from time to time, and the flowing clouds in the sky are printed on the water skins.

A small muddy river in this swampy water country leaves behind duckweed like elm money and water birds hiding in the iris bushes, as well as patches of frog chirping and red knotweed with fine rice on the ears.

Forgetting an old stone bridge on his back, Little Nihe panicked across the plains to the south in search of the place he missed.

The stubborn Xue Qingyu burned his own land deeds and grain and rice, took advantage of the chaos and noise in the flames, and escaped from the village alone.

The gunfire of the chase drove through the small muddy river, and the white water splashed like popping beans in the water chestnut pit. Rumors spread in Zhuan Tian Village, speculating that Xue Qingyu died and was buried underwater.

From then on, the swamp of the Little Mud River was regarded as an ominous place: the fishermen collected their nets heavily, and when they came out of the water, they were a coffin with a rotten lid; The village baby idler who catches shrimp and picks water chestnuts, in the morning and dusk under the moon, often frightens the pond to rise up a cloud of mist for no reason, and the yin wind lasts for a long time; Sometimes the pampas are reed-colored above the water, and often float out of the red blood.

Since then, the words of women and children have changed color, and they are regarded as dirty land, and the men and women of the village community are afraid to avoid it. Since then, Xue Qingyu has disappeared, and the wild village dialect has said that it has long been turned into gun dung and mud, or guessed that he escaped from the mountains and forests of western Liaoning, only the water chestnut pit is greasy and drifting, year after year, silent.

Someone in the neighborhood saw Fang Yuzhen, the daughter-in-law of Qingyu, in the Qingming Festival of the cold rain knocking the spring, leading the children to burn paper by the pit, and the five-year-old child wearing a filial piety hat and the widow of the house cried, so that the men, women and children of the stone archway were cold and frightened.

Pinching his fingers, Xue Qingyu's phantom is gone, and it has been six years, and there are good people who have conspired to marry relatives for Yuzhen.

It is said that the girl is born with melons, and the little daughter-in-law who is ripe and falling into the melons is charming, and Yuzhen, who is just at the right age, has a difficult life, but she drinks cold water and grows meat.

Walking on the village street, Yuzhen's crisp breasts swayed and hung ten pairs of wolf eyes, and her hips swayed to hook the hearts of countless men.

Fang Yuzhen has been a landlord since her husband disappeared, and she has fallen into the identity of a landlord's wife, Fang Yuzhen knows what is good, and she lives in a simple place with coarse cloth all year round.

There are many rights and wrongs in front of the widow's door, rain and snow weather, and in the slack season, either the moonlit night terror stepping on the broken tiles, or the ghost knocking on the door of the residual lamp wall.

Someone has already protected the matchmaker to propose marriage, Yuzhen pouted back, thinking: life to see people, death to see corpses, she can't let go of Qingyu in her heart, every time the matchmaker says kiss, Yuzhen will cry behind her son's back afterwards.

Since then, Yuzhen has not allowed the matchmaker to come to the door, and has been living a lonely lamp and living a difficult life. Stayed up to seven years, Qingyu ghost was gone, Yuzhen guarded himself like jade, and hurt the covetous heart of the man in the stone archway for no reason.

The landlord's wife, who has no one to protect her, will naturally make her life worse, and some well-wishers will advise: marry a man, marry a man, dress and eat, marry a good ingredient, and even the children will change their doors and will not be aggrieved!

These words touched Yuzhen's heartstrings, in the early years, she stayed in the plains of the town, and there were many such people, and the little wife who used to stay in the south of the town flew separately when the disaster came, married a poor peasant, and even brought the children into the main book.

Yuzhen still has a layer of dust that she can't say, not to say that she misses a man, on a whim, it is over if she says that she is forbearing.

Not to mention spring planting and autumn harvest, men are mountains, donkey stacks, cattle and horses; A woman is a sweep, a well water, a vegetable bed, and a loom.

A woman who has lost her man, after a long time, knows the value of a man's gold. I don't know when Yuzhen lost, and it happened that Liu Xiangjiu, who had heard about it for a long time, took advantage of returning to her mother's stone archway to hook up the matter.

Xiangjiu didn't dare to talk to Enchang in advance, so he only asked Enchang to pick up firewood to sell on the market, and stayed in the town for one or six major sets.

Enchang wanted to sell firewood for money, and he was worried about tearing a piece of cloth and adding new clothes to Xiangjiu. Enchang walked ten miles up the Liwan River to the pine branches under the lonely stone peak of Beishan.

In Chaihe City, west of the town bridge, people led Yuzhen to hide from Enchang to meet people. At first, Yuzhen was reluctant to twist and pinch, and there was no one to watch the excitement.

Some people were anxious, and they felt that Enchang was sturdy and picked up a loose shoulder and walked over, and someone here was busy looking at Yuzhen.

Yuzhen only glanced at it, her eyes were not enough, her face looked like a charcoal fire, and her face turned red into the color of a cockscomb.

Yuzhen said to herself, when she saw Enchang, her heart grew like grass and bloomed with flowers. At that time, Enchang was just the same age, maybe one or two years younger than Yuzhen, and the person was standing there, Yuzhen said that it was difficult to describe.

I only saw it, and I was in a trance where I saw relatives and friends; It seems to be a warm mountain and pine that can be relied on; It is like the mountains and rivers and clear water that I have seen anywhere, and it is like the floating clouds in the sky after the rain.

The eyebrows touched lightly, Enchang stretched his eyes like the wind and the sun, and his body and bones were as strong as the iron and stone face. When the matchmaker saw Yuzhen's happy eyebrows and smiling eyes, he knew that the two of them had fallen lotus branches, jade butterflies were flying, and they had already blended with fish and water.

I don't know how Yuzhen accosted Enchang, and after a while, he wrapped up Enchang's hard wood. Enchang walked in front of him and planted a flat child to carry firewood, walked like a cloud in the wind, Yuzhen was tight, and the hot face accompanied him and handed a towel to Enchang to wipe his sweat.

I don't know, I cast envy, thinking that it is a beautiful couple, a pair of cowherds and weaver girls made in heaven.