preface
In the courtyard, double Happiness home is like an island. When my father was young, he took part in the Geological battle of Baotou Bayan Obo, and finally settled down in a small town after several rounds of traveling. At that time, we lived in a family courtyard with more than 300 families, where the double happy father was an absolute exception. People do not go to his house to visit, even if the father and double Happiness is the same county fellow father, met with him only slightly nodded, the expression is still very serious.
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In the early 1970s, double happy dad was in his early 20s, thin, middle height and middle height. But rare is, he is a genuine secondary school student, is “engineer”. Unlike other workers, The double happiness father seldom goes to field exploration and spends most of his time in the laboratory or writing reports in the office. No wind, no rain, but no less than a colleague who works in the field all year long.
At that time, the matchmaker in the courtyard often set him up with someone, but he rarely went on a blind date, and even if he did, there was often no follow-up.
That year, the matchmaker introduced him to another girl who lived in a village in a neighboring county. It is said that the person is very beautiful, but the family burden is a little heavy, the three younger brothers are good at study. The matchmaker talked about two characteristics of the girl: her skin is white, like tofu; Big eyes, like dumplings. Double happy father listened, moved heart, want to see tofu and dumplings. Blind date, just know the matchmaker’s words are true. But the girl was rather cold to him. Of course, the parents of the girl with him were very satisfied with him. Later, the two married in a natural way.
But just over three months after the wedding, the bride, the future double happiness mother, went back to her parents’ home and stayed there for more than a month.
Everyone says, how can a young couple not quarrel? There’s still time to bite your tongue. Everyone advised double happy dad, go to mother-in-law home admit a mistake, attitude more sincere, so as to take back his wife. Can double happy dad do not know why, is sitting at home.
It was not until later that the reason for the bride to run back to her family became known.
After saying is bride marries, just know double happy father although salary is high, but every month must send money to the old parents that fall ill in hometown, what cannot be saved at home at all. In this way, the bride’s three younger brothers can hardly save for their tuition fees.
After hearing this, they all felt sorry for the young couple and also felt that the bride’s vision was too shallow. But to everyone’s surprise, half a month later, the bride was personally sent back by her mother-in-law. Everyone was very happy for the double happy father. I feel that he is not only a filial son, but also a man, can be calm, can hold people.
From that day on, like all families, the couple began their daily life of daily necessities. The double happy father is very good to his wife. On weekends, they often go for a walk in the jujube forest. Before winter approaches, double happy father goes riverside to put a set, caught a lot of sand chicken, frozen, New Year’s Day, most gave father-in-law home. The whole family was very happy.
But for some reason, the people in the courtyard rarely saw the bride smile.
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In a twinkling of an eye, the couple has been married for almost two years, but the double happiness mother is still not pregnant.
At this time, rumors began to circulate among people that the double Happiness mother, despite her good looks, would not have children. Later, every winter, his father would take a long vacation to the team, take his wife and go to the big hospitals in Beijing, Tianjin and other places to see a doctor. Every return, the consignment of Chinese medicine back to have to hire a carriage, to pull back.
So far, every morning, after the rooster crows once again, bursts of strong Chinese medicine flavor, will be on time from the Double Happiness home to float. It is said that the double-happy father always gets up early and pours medicine for his wife. There were several deaf old men in the courtyard, and they never had to worry about sleeping too late or making steamed buns for their grandchildren. You know it’s time to get up when you smell medicine.
Chinese medicinal residue is a good fertilizer for growing vegetables. Every year, double Happiness father’s garden is the best in the whole yard. In summer, the garden was full of green, as if it had just been glazed. Autumn, the same area of the small yard, double happy dad’s harvest beans and tomatoes, are two times the size of other people’s homes. One year, his family planted a big pumpkin, unexpectedly weighed more than two hundred pounds. The whole hospital was shocked to visit, people who had seen, all dumbfounded. Later, more and more slag, double happy father will these good fertilizer, free of charge to the neighbors. Even when it comes to autumn, the rows of small yard, long beans, red tomatoes, and record – breaking pumpkins, all indicate that this is a harvest season.
But nature makes people, double happy mother’s belly, but never experienced even a harvest season.
After three years of fruitless Chinese medicine, the couple finally died. On a summer morning, Double happy dad calmly smashed two huge medicine cans to pieces.
They adopted a one-month-old boy and named the soft, kitty-like creature Double Happiness.
After having a child, The double Happiness father would rush to a sheep family two kilometers away every morning, fill a tin heater with two jin of goat’s milk, and then rush home. The double Happiness mother would carefully pour the goat’s milk into the bottle and feed the double Happiness little by little. In winter, without goat’s milk, Shuangxi’s mother would boil rice porridge or rice oil to feed her baby.
Later, fast New Year, I do not know why, double Happiness a drink millet congee or rice oil spit. But, double happiness dad ran to the secretary’s office, while tears, while request. Finally, the team sent official letters to the bureau, through untold hardships, just got a few milk powder tickets. The couple was relieved to see their son gulping down milk.
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Years passed quickly, and little Double Happiness grew up slowly. When she was seven years old, she went to primary school just like us. Only then did double Happiness mother have some leisure time. The days became stable and the relatives from Shuangxi’s mother’s hometown often came to visit her.
But in the winter of 1982, the incident completely broke the calm of the compound, but also destroyed the double Happiness parents’ life.
That winter, double Happiness home to play a big chest of drawers and a chest of drawers, double Happiness mother from the street to please a carpenter. The carpenter was about forty years old, and he did not speak much, but he was skillful and his work was delicate. In his spare time, his good friends often went to his house to help and lay a hand on him. When the old lady in the courtyard is free, she will go to shuangxi’s house to chat and comment on the newly made furniture.
One after another, the shrewd and poisonous old lady saw the budding trend and whispered to the double happy father, “Take good care of your wife. Don’t work too hard. Your wife didn’t look the right way at the carpenter.” Double happy father listened to, just simple smile. Later, the friends who often came to help also saw the problem, often words words other places to remind him, but double Happy dad that period of time, as if enchanted, no one’s words do not listen. Every afternoon after dinner, I went to the office to work overtime. It is no wonder that the work at the end of the year is more.
It finally broke out one night in December at a railway station.
That night, Zhang Dakui, a good friend of Double Happiness’s father, was taking his family to the exit of the railway station, preparing to pick up his old mother who was coming to his home for the New Year. The station was supposed to arrive at half past nine in the evening, but the bus didn’t arrive at nine forty. Then the announcement came that the train would be two hours late for some reason. Zhang Dakui listened, had to lead the whole family into the waiting room, after all, outdoor dripping water into ice.
At about ten o ‘clock in the night, a man and a woman came into the waiting room, each with only a small bag in his hand. Although the woman is wearing a big mask, the man deliberately lowered his head, but Zhang Dakui still recognized, this man, is not to double Happiness home do furniture carpentry? Fix one eyeball to see again, that female, unexpectedly double happy mother!
Just in doubt, Double Happiness mother also recognized Zhang Dakui, hurriedly and tensely dragged the carpenter, to escape. Zhang Dakui’s wife, standing nearby, suddenly coldly shouted: “The middle of the night, are the two people going to elope?” Hearing this, Shuangxi’s mother felt shocked, dropped the carpenter and ran away. But before he had run more than ten steps, Zhang Dakui’s wife grabbed his arm. The carpenter rushed back to save him. Zhang Dakui’s two sons, who were sixteen and seven, saw that their mother had been wronged, and rushed to them. Together with their father, they tied the carpenter’s arm behind them.
Zhang Dakui decided that his wife would continue to wait for the train in the waiting room to pick up his old mother. He and his two sons were responsible for taking double Happy mother and carpenter back, let double happy father deal with this matter. Along the way, heavy snow fell. Two half-boys, each desperately clinging to a carpenter’s thin arm. If he walked too slowly, he would kick the carpenter in the back. Sixteen seven years of age, blood, hands and no weight. The carpenter grinned with pain and begged for his life. The double Happiness mother followed the carpenter, but she walked with her head down and feet down, without saying a word.
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Finally, a group of people finally noisy, arrived at the double Happiness home, left and right neighbors are also awakened, all ran out. The courtyard was dark and full of people. Everyone was talking, saying that the double happy father must be angry, I do not know how to beat the man and woman.
In people’s eyes, this is a very shameful thing, so many years, the yard has never happened staff family members and people elope. After all, elope, or elope with a carpenter.
The double happy father came out of the house slowly at last. He did not strike, but looked at his wife and the carpenter. The double Happiness mother and the carpenter straightened their backs instead.
The three men looked at each other for a long time without speaking. The yard was as quiet as the moon. Flakes of snow fell on the heads of the three, and soon melted.
Suddenly, sleepy eyes double happiness, wearing long Johns, ran out. The little guy grabbed his mother’s waist and shouted, “Mom! What a crowd!” The double happiness mother saw that her son was wearing thin clothes. She wrapped him in a padded jacket and said softly, “Double happiness, go home quickly. Don’t be frozen.” Double happiness is not from, say to return together return, then left hand force tugged at mother, right hand tugged at father.
As she walked home, Double Happiness mother turned back with tears in her eyes and stared at the carpenter. The carpenter took one hateful look and started to walk out of the yard. Zhang Dakui’s two sons, quickly stopped, double happy father slowly walked past, whispered: “let him go.”
Later, the whole team said, double happy father is really a wimp, carpenters seduce his wife, they both eloped, he did not scold, not a punch.
The next day, Double Happiness mother lowered her head, went to the yard to screen coal, go to the public restroom to pour urine bucket, all the men looked at her contemptuously, eyes seem to want to extend a slap, give her a resounding slap. The women swore the worst and spat fiercely as she approached. Fair and square, right in front of her eyes.
Later, every morning, the double happy father actually sifted up the coal core, poured up the urine bucket. In people’s eyes, this is what women do! Everyone thought that the double happy father was so weak that he didn’t even look like a man anymore.
From then on, no one visited the double Happiness family any more. Even during the Spring Festival, no one paid a New Year’s visit to the double Happiness family, except children. They could go to the Double Happiness family to play, because their parents often said, “Adults are adults, children are children, it’s two different things.”
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After the qingming festival, the double Happiness family did not plant vegetables in the yard like everyone else, but planted flowers in the small yard for the first time. In the spring, morning glory, Chinese rose, jasmine, lilac are competing to open, a blaze of color. Double Happiness’s mother sat alone on the bench, staring at the flowers, staring blankly.
After the winter, she had thinned out like a sheet of paper.
Later, some children went to double Happiness home to play and came back to tell their parents that he saw double Happiness mother buried all the flowers blown down by the wind in a deep pit, thinking it was really funny. It is, as you know, a funeral flower! Then all the people were more contemptible of her, said she was such a person, how can like Lin Daiyu bury flowers! Lin Daiyu is a twenty-eight girl, you are a forty year old woman, Lin Daiyu is in the Grand View garden, you are in the vegetable garden, Lin Daiyu is a noble lady, but you are a housewife! The most important thing is that Lin Daiyu is pure and pure, but you failed to elope!
In fact, double happiness mother also has to go out of the house. Every holiday, the courtyard someone else to marry a new wife, the general assembly firecrackers set off loud, everyone is jubilantly to grab cigarettes, grab milk candy, grab the bride’s new wedding shoes. At this time, double happy father will hold double happy mother, two people hold hands, standing at the gate of the courtyard, double happy mother will be toward the direction of the bride, greedy to watch. Each time double happiness will rob to come of happy candy, stripped the paper, plug a piece of the mother’s mouth. Double happy mother will squint eyes, a face of happiness.
A woman who bears a lifelong crime for her husband
The days went on for more than twenty years.
In 2007, the double happiness of a successful career bought a big house in a big city in the south to take her parents to live with her. At the time of departure, Double Happiness’s father supported his white-haired wife and went to the pagoda tree where the old people in the courtyard enjoyed the cool air. The old people in the courtyard were surprised. After all, they had not talked with each other for so many years.
Double happy father slowly, and everyone said a buried heart secret for many years. He said that his wife, also known as double happiness mother, for him to carry a lifetime of abuse, he can not feel sorry for her.
It turned out that the double happy father had a handicap before marriage, and he had been secretly to several clinics. Some doctors said it was organ, some doctors said it was psychological, and some doctors said it was good to get married. Later, really married, but still can not live a normal husband and wife life. Three months later, double happy mother wanted to divorce him. But worry again, if the husband’s problem after the public, double happy father in this courtyard can not be a person.
So, the couple to discuss: double happy mother returned to her mother’s home, said to the man that her husband is rude and love to beat people, so just divorced; Double happy father, on the other hand, said his wife because he did not have savings, unable to support the family, just divorced.
But as a result, double happiness mother really returned home, parents firmly do not agree with their divorce, just say sick to see a doctor. Besides, your son-in-law has just given the family a lot of money, and you’re going to get a divorce, so your younger brothers won’t be able to pay their tuition.
Later, double Happiness mother accompanied him to Beijing, Tianjin and other places to see a doctor, that hill like Chinese medicine, all he drank bowl after bowl, but he can only be unconscionable, said double Happiness mother can not be pregnant and have a son.
Later, they had to adopt Double Happiness. When their son grew older, Double Happiness’s mother’s first love came to the courtyard to find her, the carpenter. Two childhood sweethearts, deep love, because the carpenter family is poor, unable to marry.
Double Happiness mother to middle age, decided to live for themselves, she will want to live with the carpenter idea, the whole told her husband. The double happy father also felt that his wife was too poor for so many years, and that the child was too old, so he agreed. But god is not as good as man, nature, they happened to meet Zhang Dakui in the waiting room of the railway station.
When the double happy father finished, he held his wife’s hand tightly. Hearing this, the old people were shocked and opened their mouths wide. Instead, shuangxi’s mother whispered, “My husband is a real man! It’s my bad luck!”
Later, several old men took Double Happiness mother’s thin hand, with tears in their eyes, said: “You this life, but how over ah!” Double happy mother after listen to, looked up, touched a head of white hair, old tears, but a word also can not say out.
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Back more than 60 years ago, in a small village on the Western Plains of Liaoning, the double Happy father was still studying in a commune middle school.
One day in the winter, he had a stomachache and hurried to the toilet after class. As a result, several students from the same village thought he had gone home first, so they all left. He could only go home alone. It was getting dark at three or four o ‘clock in the afternoon in the winter in the northeast.
It was snowing hard that night, and a Wolf was following him on his way home, far and near. He was terribly nervous. When he finally got home, he covered his mouth with his hands and didn’t put it down for a long time. He was afraid that if he opened his mouth, his heart would jump out. It was after that night that he found himself dead. Whether the shock was the cause, no one could say.
In those years, the old family is few, blister wilderness is more, hare pheasant everywhere is everywhere, Wolf also is much. When I was a child, I often heard wolves cry at night. Later, when there was a famine, people ate up all the wild animals, and the Wolf had nothing to eat, so he often stared at people.
This led to the tragedy of a double happy mother’s life.
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