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In the morning, lu, an old man over 80, stood at the ridge of the field, rubbing his sole on the stone. In the distance came a middle-aged man, walked into the fields in front of him, his figure drowned in a piece of gold. Lu looked around and followed him, revealing the knife hidden behind him.
The fields rustled and the ears bristled. The middle-aged man was stabbed to death by the old man, bleeding, face rubbing the ground issued a wailing.
Lu Lao Han suspected of intentional wounding, but no police station dare to accept him. The policeman said, “Isn’t he dead, too? We’ll pay tens of thousands of yuan. The old man is old. In case he dies, we won’t be able to explain it.”
Lu has no income and the responsibility of losing money falls on his son, A Chu. Fifty – year – old A chu has a tired face, he burst in to angrily ask: “you stab him to make mo si?”
Lu turned his face away and said with a straight face, “His family robbed the house with us. That old house belongs to our own brothers.”
The beginning of earnest advice: “the house is the brothers, also is not your inheritance, do not have money to buy us did not have money to buy, you must contend for, now good, but also compensate for money!”
Ah Chu did not have time to detail his old father. He raced away, counting on his fingers the number of tombstones he would need to fill the gap. At the end of the reckoning, he spat into the air and banged his fist on the handle of the rickshaw, the rusty iron humming.
He sulked at the sun in the east and had to grind his teeth and pedal his tricycle to keep going.
“My whole life has been ruined by my father from the beginning!”
2
In 1958, A Chu was born in a mud-brick house in Luli Guan, Huangpi District, Wuhan, the walls of which were tinted a crude yellow. Later, the surrounding mud-brick houses gradually turned into red brick houses, then into small houses, and now this mud-brick house is the only one left.
Here, Achu saw how seeds bloomed through the cracks in the walls and how the uneven ground was trodden flat. To this day, his family still lives here.
The picture shows the old house that A Chu lived in. The picture shows the old house that A Chu lived in
A Chu was born into a “landlord family”, which was not a “glorious” thing in his childhood.
Sitting in the classroom, a chu, every day to bear the first, is the students malicious eyes. They would laugh around Him without knowing what to do, throw wads of paper at him and scold him righteously: “Your father is a bad egg! The old landlord! Exploit the working people!”
At first, the beginning of endure, but endure brought them is more and more teasing.
The commune director’s son ran into the critical point of A chu’s anger and made the last straw that broke the camel’s back. With an unexpected burst of courage, Ah Chu clenched his fist and turned it on the commune director’s son. The fist hits the other person in the face with a thud, and the world is finally quiet.
The school suspended him for a week, but Ah Chu took his bag and left, never to return to the classroom.
In the family, the father was criticized every three or five times, the mother had a disabled leg, the younger brother was still young, the burden of life can only be borne by him. Leaving his textbooks behind, he began to farm.
Small body board, every day to catch before dawn to open his eyes, in the smoke in the early morning began to wash gargle. Work at six o ‘clock, follow the adults to plant rice seedlings. The boy’s back bent from morning till sunset.
During the slack season he went to build reservoirs, carrying stones from the east to the west with a shoulder pole on his shoulder. Sweat dripped into his eyes, and he had no time to lift his hand to wipe it off. He could only proceed cautiously in the vague world.
Because of the bad ingredients, no one took much care of the young man, instead, they piled all the trifles on him. Ah Chu was silent, keeping a submissive attitude, and stopped being a “stone breaker”. Offended by his school classmates, he can leave school, but out of school, in the society to “break the stone”, he has nowhere to go.
He earned no more than ten cents a day, or forty or fifty cents. A chu labored for a whole year, but he still owed the collective about one hundred yuan. A chu in debt, the next year can only work harder.
A chu’s debt increased year by year, the most, he owed the collective 959.25 yuan.
In retrospect, Ah Chu himself did not understand how these debts snowballed. He worked so hard that instead of feeding himself, he became a poor ghost in debt. But he couldn’t stop for a moment, because he had to live.
3
The situation did not improve until the early 1980s.
A Chu is still doing farm work in his twenties, but he doesn’t have to work for his work any more. By then, people no longer talked about his family identity, his father took off the sign on his neck, and He was given his own land. But he was still the only laborer in the family. He rubbed his eyes and went to the fields every day. The rations he got all year round were just enough to make a living.
In the afternoon, when the sun was hot, he hid himself in the shade to cool off. As soon as he closed his eyes, he thought of the rice bowl at home. A thin layer of grains of rice covered the bottom of the jar, and I opened my eyes to see how many grains I could harvest this year.
In summer, either the sun or the rain. The rain poured down like a hole in the sky. When there is more rain, the water of the Wild Ditch and wild river rises and beats against the shore in waves.
At some point, a group of people appeared by the river. They threw something into the water, then stood like a statue, and when the time came, they pulled the rope violently, and often returned with a full load.
A beginning see their purse more and more drum, move gradually, then look for a chance to inquire about: “this is a business?”
Others answer: “make some aquatic product to sell.”
The beginning of the eyes a bright, “this make money?”
“Yes, but this is a skilled job, but also to be able to endure hardship.”
A beginning only listen to “earn”, to the following words not care. He eagerly bought a set of equipment, anchor hook, lead pendant, confidently came to the river, but little harvest.
His skill is not enough, often will let the fish get away, or no fish at all. When the anchor is caught in the water, a man cannot move about easily, but stands baking in the sun. “This taste, than at the beginning of the reservoir to carry the stone is not as good.”
Ah Chu looked at the tillers enjoying the cool under the tree, the fishers returning with a full load, and his hands were empty. The pot of rice in the family saw the bottom again, so he began to doubt himself:
“I’m not fit for this…”
“Maybe they’ve caught the fish and I’m too late…”
A chu again and again to comfort themselves, finally, he dropped the anchor hook and lead pendant, back to the farm.
“There is enough food to live on. To make all this money, my old man makes so much money, and he doesn’t end up getting criticized every day.”
A chu completely convinced himself, content to put life back to the origin.
4
In 1986, A chu, who had been married, and his wife together farm, the annual harvest is good, to protect the family food and clothing. But for a few more mouths to feed, the food would be hard to find.
Then he noticed the peddlers on their way home, who were going from village to village on their bicycles, carrying a box. Someone shouted and stopped, opened the trunk, took out his tools and banged away at work.
The beginning of the past to see, it is to play jewelry. People keep yuan’s big head at home, ancestral silver jewelry handed down to the goods lang, goods lang melted and then into new jewelry. In those days, there were no moulds, and most people only wanted the silver to be beaten into bare knuckles. The work seemed easy enough, so Ah Chu began again.
“Money?” He asked.
Others answer: “make money, but you must learn a craft first.”
He went to buy some tools with great interest, and learned from the wanderer for a few days. Then he felt confident in himself and said, “Who wouldn’t make a bald circle out of silver?”
One more day, one more day to earn money, so A chu announced that he was going to start an independent business. On his jingling bicycle, he began to travel. Wheels all over the village of yellow land, looking forward to every call for him to stop the sound.
At first the situation was fair, the fight was a little uneven, and nobody cared about the twists and turns. Later, a customer sent him jewelry with low silver content and said to Him, “Help me purify it and then make a small ring.”
A beginning to jewelry toss and turn to look, finally had to run back to ask colleagues: “purification how to do?”
Having solved the problem of purification, a new problem arose. People began to like gold jewelry, and there were more demands, “it needs to be very smooth” and “Give me some texture.”
The beginning is still in accordance with the experience of making silver ornaments, the customer sent gold to melt down and polish again. His skill was not perfect. The gold rings were not smooth enough, so one by one they were gradually worn smooth. The final product was much lighter than the original one.
The customer does not depend on, the little part wants a beginning compensation, a beginning two go, a beginning business turn loss. Because of his poor workmanship, he was notorious in the trade of gold and silver jewelry, and soon he could not get along.
In 1990, A Chu’s first child was born. A family of five lived in a dark house on a miserable field. The moment his son cried, the wrinkle on his brow became a little deeper.
Someone advised: “Ah Chu, you can take the vegetables with me. Sell vegetables to the city, a trip to make a lot of money!”
O hungry son forced the beginning of a helpless, desperate to get a broken tricycle, followed by “Squeaky clean” to the city. Selling vegetables on a small profit, a few cents a month, the adults save a few cents, but also barely support the infant son.
In 1992, when his second son was born, the income from selling vegetables was already a drop in the bucket. Then someone advised, “Ah Chu, you can do some farming and raise chickens and ducks to sell in the city. I’ve seen them get rich in their farming years.”
No money in hand, no surplus grain at home, anyway is dead, ah Chu decided to scrape together to borrow money, raised a lot of small chicken.
He was busy with the farm and took care of the chickens. As soon as the sun rises and the moon rises, the tiny chicken finally grows up. He transports a truckload of chickens to the farmers’ market, only to find himself bewildered — the supply is already saturated, everyone has a familiar stall and it’s hard to find a place.
The chicken could not be sold late, the child did not wait, still growing day by day, the cost of constantly rising, and his income has remained stagnant.
In the midst of the stress and anxiety, he saw a new way out: passenger transport. It is “passenger transport”, it is actually in the city to open a small three-wheeled passenger, shuttle between the streets, cities and towns.
5
Carrying passengers at the beginning of a, is not a threshold of the way to live. It doesn’t take much skill to know how to drive a car and know where to go. Passengers get on whoever they meet and there are few repeat customers. The driver sits in the car every day, with a small canopy, except in extremely cold weather, the rest of the time to work is not too hard.
A Chu by driving three rounds, finally for the home to hold up a relatively smooth sunny. He was glad he had chosen the right career, because the income was enough not only to pay for his two sons’ education, but also to support his new daughter.
The whole family ushered in the new century in peace and beauty.
In the fall of 2003, when the elder son entered junior high school, he began to commute frequently around the school.
There was a lot of traffic around the school, and so did the number of people who visited his business. When be free and at leisure, he stopped in the street near the school, looking at the figure running in the teaching building not far away, this comfort makes him satisfied.
A chu also often can see some restless students sneak out of the campus in the afternoon. With long hair and baggy clothes, they climb over walls expertly and fly away like birds at liberty.
Sitting in the car at the beginning of a day, waiting for business, over the wall out of the teenagers saw him, aggressively coming: “money out! We’re short of money!”
The beginning of a leng for a moment, did not expect a few small hair children actually have the courage to rob adult, dry smile way: “child, this is not what good thing…”
The boys grew impatient and, calling him a wordy figure, went straight to his pockets and pockets. Ah Chu tried frantically to push him away, but several strong hands clung to him. Deadlock do not know is who kicked the beginning of a foot, then the fists and kicks of the teenagers fell on the beginning of the body, as if he was just a sandbag. A chu ate the pain, hunched over the car seat, protecting the hands gradually loose, leaving only a long and weak SOB.
The leg that a chu is broken by teenagers, fixed plaster, the person lies in the home cannot move. The tricycle was sitting in the corner of the yard. He looked at the rusty iron sheet, his heart falling with the cart.
The day in the home becomes tight again, the wife is hard to maintain, every day hums back ache back to sleep. The first son quitted school and said to A Chu, who was sick in bed, “Dad, I am going to earn money to support my younger brother and sister.”
The beginning of looking at his leg wrapped in plaster, speechless, a family of seven people, can not starve to death.
As more and more residential buildings began to be built, the eldest son went to work as a mason on the construction site. Ah Chu raised his legs, no longer driving a tricycle, and went back to farming. Only then did the family’s life go on again.
Imperceptibly, the surrounding houses have become new houses, only left their family or mud-brick house, the fence withered, helpless.
Suddenly, the second son went to high school, tuition increased sharply, there was no policy to reduce the accommodation fee, tuition and miscellaneous fees, and the eldest son’s income as a mason could not support. The eldest son was told that he could earn more by cooking in the canteen than by masons, so he immediately changed his job and learned to cook, just like his father.
Fortunately, the second son got good grades and ranked among the top five in the township high school. The whole family was struggling, hoping to have a college student at home to turn their fortunes around.
Xu was expecting too much, before the exam, the family said over and over again “no pressure”, but became the biggest pressure of the second son, he got the worst result in school. After coming back from school, the teacher’s words have been hovering in His mind: “With his strength, he can be admitted to a good school for another year.”
The beginning of a finger calculated, found himself unable to afford the cost of his second son.
As the family sat together, the second son, with swollen eyes, said in a hoarse voice, “Dad, I’m not going back to school. I’m going to earn money.”
Proud of the second son encountered Waterloo, but he did not even help the ability to do, the beginning of the bottom of my heart last a light also extinguished, he did not even shed tears sigh, only the calm as ashes.
He dropped his tools, walked out of the field in silence, drove his tricycle to the quietest place, and began to cast tombstones. As long as several molds are placed, the material is poured into the molding, the work is basically completed.
“At first I fished, and the fish only took other people’s hooks. I played silver and it was almost impossible to pay. Later I breed, others do not like to buy my. So I shipped passengers, but was broken leg. Now I deal with ‘things that are gone,’ and they don’t give me a hard time, which is good.”
6
In 2011, Lu, chu’s father, planned to move into a house left by his brother, but unexpectedly his neighbor caught fire and moved into the empty house first for safety.
Hearing that his neighbor was going to pay for the house, but he had no money, Old Man Lu was in a whirl. Seeing that his desire to change houses was about to be dashed, the old man picked up an early morning and rushed forward with a knife in his hand foolishly, stabbing his neighbor to the ground.
Did not rob the house, but to compensate tens of thousands of dollars. Chu seemed to have been used to fate playing tricks on him.
The second son did not read again, with the eldest son loan, opened a small buffet restaurant near huangpi bus station, the youngest daughter in the supermarket as a cashier, every day after coming home like the mother of more than 50 years old general back pain.
The eldest son was a half-way cook, not good at learning, not good at the food, not too many repeat customers, the brothers did not know how to communicate, did not have money to promote, and could not attract new customers, the cafeteria was soon gone.
The elder son was in debt and couldn’t afford a new house. The debt was so great that he looked eagerly for a new way out, tried and failed again and again, and found another way.
The cycle of a new generation begins.
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