Behind the courtyard wall is a pigsty with several pigs inside. Chickens are walking around the yard or flapping their wings. Adults are talking loudly in the yard and children are asking questions loudly. There are hoes, shovels, plows, rakes and other farm tools in the yard. This is a small courtyard full of fireworks, and this is a very satisfied family. It is a miracle that such a complete yard and a complete family appear in this small mountain village full of ruins and miserable grass. Most of the families in the village have moved away, leaving only a few families, mostly elderly people, unwilling to live with their children.
After a burst of voices, a couple came out of the yard. The man's pillar is still lazy in my memory, and the woman Qin Zi is not worthy of the shadow in my memory. That weather-beaten face can only see the beautiful shadow of that year. When she recognized me, she greeted me warmly by calling my name. Looking at their distant backs, I stood for a long time. Through the years shrouded by the fog of time, I saw such an isolated, special and quite complete family past life.
The first person out of my memory is the mother of this family, Eiko.
Zi Rong is a person who lives in a small village below our village. She is a tall and beautiful girl with beautiful eyes. The son-in-law "Black Bald Man" betrothed by her parents belongs to our village. Needless to say, "black baldy" is his nickname. He is short, but his head is big and round, like a gourd, and he is bald, so he probably got this nickname. Like most men in the village, he is a stonemason, who has been dealing with stones all the year round, forging his skin color into the color of stones, with rust red in black, which looks shiny and more in line with his name of "black baldy". After all, the bricklayer is a craft and an artist in the village. Because Eiko's family is poor, her parents rely on her daughter's bride price to make a living, so they don't ask the man's various conditions, as long as they are given enough expensive bride price. In this way, Eiko, like many girls of the same age, can't decide to marry a "black bald man" who is far away from her anyway.
One year after marriage, she cried and ran to her parents' house, saying that she wanted a divorce. Her parents asked her why, but she didn't say anything. There was no way to be forced to ask questions. She told her mother the truth: it turned out that her husband's "black bald head" had a man's skin, but it could not be as powerful as a man. Parents are firmly opposed to divorce, just let the "black baldy" see a doctor quickly. I don't know how many herbs I ate and how many folk remedies I used. Two years later, artistry got pregnant. Next, three women, one man and four children were born one after another. These children are tall and beautiful. I just don't know what's going on, but that son is a doo who can't lift it. To this end, Eiko ran all his life. She ran to open a grocery store, looked for a job everywhere, sent people home and worked as a nanny … but she did everything she could.
Eiko's son, Zhuzi, has a dry, lanky face and pale complexion. Judging from his appearance, he is also a nice guy. However, once he speaks, or acts, there is an evil spirit between words and gestures. How can I put it? Laziness, carelessness, no backbone, no energy, no direction, a feeling. Temperament feels like a pile of mud, languishing there, lifeless and doing nothing. Because there is no goal in life, and there is no responsibility that a man should have, he goes out to work with the villagers and always comes back in a few days.
Eiko's daughter-in-law Qin Zi is definitely a lovely person.
Qin Zi is short and slim, with a round face, black eyebrows and almond eyes, double eyelids, a small nose, a clear lip line and no red paint. Just looking at her appearance, you will think this is a beauty. When you have dealt with her, you will find that she is not only beautiful in appearance, but also more beautiful in heart.
In the village, when she gets along with her neighbors, she is generous, kind and considerate of others everywhere. At that time, the village was seriously short of water in spring, and everyone argued and quarreled about water. One said it was his turn to receive water, and the other said it was his turn. People scrambled to reach into the spring to pick it up. As a result, buckets collided with each other and people began to quarrel. At this time, if Qin Zi were here, she would persuade her in a particularly kind and infectious tone. When she arrived at her house to collect water, she set an example and gave it to those who were in a hurry to use it. She would rather lag behind, delay some time and try to make everyone harmonious.
Qin Zi used to run a canteen in the village to make a living. For those neighbors who go there to play with their children in their arms, she always gives them food generously. When adults feel embarrassed, they shirk it. How can this be done? Don't give it to him, but pay it quickly. She said, how much can this be worth Kidding children, hold down the hand that asks for money quickly. Her actions always have a sense of intimacy between neighbors, which makes people feel decent and warm. Everyone likes her easygoing and kind. I used to be a substitute teacher in the village. After graduating from high school, she loved reading and had an indescribable enthusiasm for me. She especially respects people with a little culture!
Qin Zi is always passionate about life, and she has been trying to make her life rich. She once studied fried dough sticks and sugar cakes. In order to make more money, she worked odd jobs everywhere to make money and sold them in villages and parties. How incompatible her positive attitude is with her husband's laziness and lack of progress!
That year, perhaps because she was too disappointed with her husband's pillar, she took her three-year-old daughter to her mother's house and said she wanted a divorce. I have lived for almost a year, but no matter how Zhuzi and her mother-in-law called, they didn't come back and said they wanted a divorce. Later, mother-in-law Eiko went to invite the brigade cadres to come forward and drove to her parents' house to pick her up. The cadres of the brigade took her, feeling reasonable, and went several times. Finally, she wrote a letter of guarantee on the post, promising that she would work hard to earn money and never run home again.
However, when I got home, everything was the same. Pillar went to work, or ran home in a few days, or played around all day, without a straight shape.
This is bitter for two women.
Zi Rong hit a wall everywhere to make money, while his daughter-in-law Qin Zi farmed at home to support her children. She saw a temporary coolie in the village and went to work as a coolie for others. After giving birth to her second daughter, in order to make a living, she had to leave her children at home and go to the construction site in Shanxi alone. Although life is extremely difficult, the peasant consciousness in her bones makes her feel that she must have another son.
That year, Qin Zi was pregnant again, and family planning was very tight. Without paying the fine, she took people directly to the village office. My son was almost killed because he had no money to pay the fine. Zi Rong started from the eastern end of the village and borrowed money from one family to another. Every time he arrived, he said, "Our family has been tied to the giving ceremony. You have to get some life-saving money." People sighed and gave her more or less money. In this way, she simply collected the fine of more than 10 thousand yuan and gave it to others before taking her grandson home with her daughter-in-law
What happened in their family once became the news in the small village, and people always talked about it after dinner. Some people say that in this case, what does Qin Zi want? I don't want to give birth to his son, and I will do it myself; Some people say, as a failed man, what will happen in the future if he doesn't have a son? At some point, he brought the topic to the identity of the two children.
Qin Zi is a thoughtful woman who is struggling with such a husband. Nobody knows. Rumors about her falling in love with someone in the village have come out from time to time, saying that of the two daughters she gave birth to, only the eldest daughter is the pillar of her husband and the other two are the man's. It's really strange that the eldest daughter looks like Qin Zi, and the other two children really look like that man. Dark and bright complexion, round face, eyebrows and eyes, lips exactly like him! People don't blame Qin Zi like other cheating women. Instead, I said sympathetically, that's good, that's good, at least two children are not like losers in the column.
This is a special family. Both women have ideas and opinions, but the most important man is a loser. This family can't survive.
Now, people in the village have either moved to the big village or bought a house in the city and left. Only this family has stood in the old place so successfully. It not only adds a lonely vitality to this small mountain village, but also tells a different helpless life in silence.
What the world sees is often the appearance of perfection. If you look at the truth through appearances, you will be really surprised-it turns out that there are often many loopholes behind perfection!