Chapter 10: Knowing People and Knowing Faces
Two years after dropping out of school, Chunhua was only fifteen years old, and because of her young age, she could not work in the production team.
In the south of the village, there is a big house, which is the former tofu house of the brigade, and later, it was idle, and more than a dozen big girls cleaned up because of their age, moved out of the house, and lived a "group life" there: they finished their work during the day, and returned to this "happy home" at night, some weaved cloth, some spun cotton, and some gathered together to "fight the landlord" and "fight for the upstream"γγγγγγ It's not lively! When Chunhua heard about it, she ran there and asked to live with them, and the big sisters twisted her nose and said, "You're too young, we don't have time to coax the children to playγγγγγγ Chunhua was so angry that she blushed: "I graduated from middle school, I'm not a child!" β
The big sisters couldn't stand her "sister is long and sister is short", and in the end, they accepted her.
Chunhua's heart is very dexterous, and very attentive, it only took a month, and the big sisters learned to weave, spin cotton, and make sweaters, and the big sisters were amazed by Chunhua's ingenuity.
Chunhua is not only ingenious, but also a good child who knows how to repay his kindness.
She heard her mother say that if it weren't for her uncle, she would have fed the fish in the river when she had that illness when she was a child; When she grew up, the first thing she thought of during the New Year's holidays was to visit her uncle; When the Happy River "turned over the river", she went to the river to catch two baskets of fish, and she sent a basket to her uncle. Of course, my uncle also loves this niece. Whenever I go to the county, I always bring delicious food to the spring flowers.
My uncle is a businessman, and he often pulls the car to the market to sell vegetables, and Chunhua feels that his uncle is tired, so he helps his uncle sell vegetables. Don't look at Chunhua's young age, but she can sell vegetables, and sometimes her uncle sells out the vegetables in the morning, and when she comes to her, they are sold out in two hours. Later, my uncle went to work in the Northeast. She went to the market to sell vegetables by herself.
When my father heard about it, he felt a little "ashamed": as the director of the village committee, his daughter went to sell vegetables, which made his face go aside?
He heard that his cousin Weidong had set up a canning factory, so he asked his cousin to arrange a job for Chunhua. Wei Dong said that he was recruiting workers, and he didn't have a heavy job, just put a trademark on the can. When Dad heard this, he was very happy, so he persuaded Chunhua to work there. Chunhua couldn't stand her father's persuasion, and followed her father's bicycle to the canning factory the next day.
Chunhua worked in the factory for less than ten days, never expected, Jin Ling also went to work in the cannery, Chunhua saw him, as disgusting as swallowing flies, she didn't say a word, turned around and ran home.
It turned out that after Jin Ling dropped out of school, he didn't do his job properly and was idle all day long. He asked him to work in the production team, and he was tired. Later, when he heard that Chunhua had gone to a cannery, he asked his father to go there to work; His father said, I heard that your uncle has a wide connection, so let's go to your uncle. Jin Ling's uncle was the deputy secretary of the commune party committee, and later, because he "didn't stand in line", he was somewhat affected, but he was not punished, but he was transferred to another position, and now he is in charge of the whole commune's economy, and it is not a matter at all to let his nephew enter the cannery, because the director of the canning factory has drunk with him!
Dad saw that Chunhua had only been working for two days and became a "hands-off shopkeeper", and no matter how he asked, he didn't ask the result; Called to ask Wei Dong, Wei Dong replied, my niece is too willful, she didn't say anything, turned around and went home! When Dad heard this, he had to let her "let it go".
She did not "let it go", but did the crop work like an adult. The eldest brother went to Anhui to earn money, and her father was in the village committee to the hearts of the whole village, and the family's four seasons of farm work were pressed on her thin shoulders, but fortunately, Ruyan also worked with her, and there was a person to talk and chat, but she didn't expect that she encountered something unexpected again.
One morning, she carried a bucket on her back to spray cotton. The cotton in the field was dense and knee-high. It was noon, and she was the only one spraying in the field. Just when she was sweating hot, she suddenly heard the sound of "Silka" from far and near in the field, she thought it was a snake, and suddenly found a human head crawling towards her from time to time, so frightened that she threw away the medicine cartridge and ran homeγγγγγγ Since then, her mother has repeatedly told her that she must never work alone in the fieldsγγγγγγ
Actually, there is another person whose fate is worse than that of Chunhua, this is my cousin Ruyan.
One night, black clouds were thick. Chunhua came back from her aunt's house to visit relatives, and when she passed by the bank of the Happy River, she saw a figure moving in the river, so she shouted: "Who is dying!" When she heard no reply, she had a premonition that something was wrong, and she ran a few steps and jumped into the river, where a fierce man swam up to the man and grabbed her from behind, her neck already sinking into the river.
When Chunhua dragged the man to the riverbank, she found out that it was her cousin Ruyan who lived together, only to hear Ruyan shouting in a coma: "Leave me alone, I don't want to live anymore!" β
"Ruyan, why can't you think about it?" Chunhua asked eagerly.
Ruyan shook her head: "Don't ask, let me die!" β
"Will you be able to solve the problem if you die?" Chunhua bends down and picks up a pebble and throws it into the river. She turned and wrung the water from her blouse; "Have you thought about it, if you die, what will happen to my uncle and aunt?"
Ruyan covered her face and sobbed. Under Chunhua's repeated questioning, she finally burst out a few tearful words: "Lu Liben is an animal!" β
Under Chunhua's repeated questioning, Ruyan said something that made Chunhua angry.
Ruyan family of four, mother is a sick seedling, father works outside all the year round, can not go back home a few times, after Ruyan dropped out of school, the burden of family life fell on her, only 14 years old girl, in order to reduce the burden of the family, she and the big sisters, began to work and live. She is introverted and taciturn, but very capable. Probably because of malnutrition, her face was thin and vegetable, but it couldn't hide her beauty lines.
Her production team, the deputy captain is named Lu Liben, is a person with an undecent style of life, he has squatted in a prison cell for five years because he raped his cousin who did not come out of the five suits in the village, and after his release from prison, he should have changed his mind and become a new person, but when he saw Ruyan, he moved his heart again.
At that time, the production team needed to elect an assistant accountant, and the team committee voted. Liben recommended Ruyan to serve, the captain objected, she was young, Liben objected: "Ambition is not old, Ruyan is a literate person, who is not convinced?" The captain said that he couldn't do it, and in the end, the decision of Gui Zhi to serve as the accountant of the production team was approved.
After Ruyan became an accountant, she had more "worry points" than before, and she was very grateful to Liben in her heart, but she was too simple: her guy who could see this human face and beast's heart clearly!
One morning, after the team committee meeting, everyone else went to work, and Ruyan was about to go down to the field, but was stopped by Liben.
"What's the matter, Brother Liben?" Ruyan held a hoe in her hand.
Riben took the hoe from her hand, placed it outside the door, and motioned for her to sit down.
Ruyan was embarrassed to sit on the bench: "Brother Liben, what is the matter, so polite?" β
Liben leaned over to Ruyan and sat down, and Ruyan subconsciously dodged.
"Sister, tonight the town will stage the movie "Spring Miao", let's go together, shall we?"
One sentence made her face flush; "Brother Liben, this is not appropriateγγγγγγ"
Ruyan's Chu Chu and moving expression made Liben's heart shake even more: "What era is it, you are still so feudalγγγγγγ He leaned in with her again, and secretly glanced at Ruyan's slightly raised chest: "It's a reward for me!" β