This is a controversial or even slightly biased article. As a relatively closed social structure, the countryside has its side of warmth and simplicity and its side of utilitarian ignorance. As for the countryside, many people have different feelings. The author also says: I do not intend to represent all the countryside in China. My narration is based on what I have seen and heard in my hometown in Shandong province in recent decades.
One, a person who hates people has a smile
It is common to talk about people behind their backs in the village. A man in the village earned some money and bought a luxury car. In order to prevent his car from being cut into pieces, he would come to my house and park his small sports car in our factory every time he came back to the village. Once he had parked the car in the street all night, just one night, the second day of car body were drew numerous injuries, rearview mirror was break bad, wiper also fold, anyway a look is pretty sad of, see technique and the scar is not a person, the villagers talked about several days, some people laugh at, some people watching, some personnel claptrap, with my own ears I heard a voice said: “the! Tell him to buy such a nice car! This time show off in an ostentatious manner?”
There was a villager with good character, kindness and flexible mind who opened a small workshop to produce peanut oil and made some money. Later, the business became big and rich. When 500,000 or 600,000 yuan cars were opened, some people became jealous. Later, the man want to open a piece of ground cover plants, outside the village in the city will report received several telephone, said his family peanut oil is not health, “dirty”, said the villagers resolute don’t agree to cover plant, resolutely resist, send someone to survey in city, found that people’s oil mill the clean health, law-abiding, to let the village group of a few acres of land cover plants. When the factory building was secretly lit on fire once, but fortunately there is no serious harm, finally covered, just installed dozens of glass Windows were smashed, very helpless, he installed six cameras around the factory, have you heard? Just an oil shop, but rely on a bunch of cameras to protect themselves from being harmed.
New Year’s day when everyone is back to the village, women began to secretly comparison about everyone’s wearing, they firmly believe that one class of New Year’s day what to wear clothes to the person’s income, if you didn’t buy new clothes this year in last year’s clothes to pay New Year call, that finished, are you sure you didn’t make money this year, poor jingling. If you wear something expensive at first sight, then you are done too. You must have done something wrong this year and made a lot of money, or you will go broke to buy a dress and go back to the village.
You wear a $2,000 coat, and knowledgeable people will say, “That’s a good thing. It looks different.” Some people say the opposite: “What? I think this dress is worth 200. You must have been cheated to spend so much money on a brand.” If you were wearing a 200 jacket, they’d be perfectly content with a fake compliment: “Yo, that’s only 200? You’re so good at it. I thought it was more than 2,000!” Wait for you to go, or that sentence: poor B.
Many people in the village will look down on you and laugh at you if you have no ambition and don’t want to strive for more money. If you make money and become rich, these people will curse you and treat you like a different person, tripping you up, blackening you and ostracize you.
Two, about cats and dogs
rural dog more than cat is known to all, and most are free-range, may be due to health problem of some people see not bottom go to, the dog and cat to congregate poisoning, rat medicine, just plug in the sausage to eat pieces on the ground, the burst of cats and dogs in the village all quick dead as a doornail, excessive is almost kill a child.
Some people do not want to keep their dogs. They are too lazy to give them away or sell them on the market. They simply throw a litter of small milk dogs into the river when they are just a few days old, and they lose their money in an instant. Often can see litter litter litter litter litter litter litter by the river, too distressed people.
One thing leave me deep shadows, we have the family drove past the other village, village road there was a dog walking (wearing a collar, a see be good domestic black-backed), they took advantage of noon nobody on the street bags into the car, home killed ate, and then also praised the peeling off, triumphant dog skin is good, the colour is bright! I’m so sick, I feel sick every time I think about it.
A. He lives in the city and has a pet dog, which he takes with him when he comes home for the holidays. Once the dog was sick, I took it to the city to see a doctor to buy medicine, come back to park, take the dog home just by the roadside to join the fun a few uncle uncle saw, asked me to take the dog to do what, I said the dog was sick, took it to the city injection. They laughed, and one of them with a yellow dog’s uncle laughed and said, “The dog in your city is so precious. Look at our dog, how to make it all right!” “Then he kicked the dog out far, and the dog cried out in pain. He didn’t know what he had done wrong. He walked to the side of his master with low eyebrows.
Three, legal
Once there were two policemen driving a police car to the village to arrest people, all the villagers went out, under the premise of not knowing what happened, the villagers in a daze overturned the police car, two policemen, one stunned on the spot, the other leg broke. Then there came a mob of twenty or thirty men from the city, with helmets and shields, and they took them away. When I asked the villagers what they were for, almost no one knew. When I saw someone start to talk, I started to curse. When I saw someone push and shove, I went up and hit them, everyone thought so. Later two policemen came to the village to identify them and gave several sentences.
My hometown is a village in Shandong province, which is a relatively civilized and open coastal village. Most people over 50 years old in the village have graduated from junior middle school, and more than 30 have high school diploma. Most households have an income of at least 60,000 to 100,000 yuan per year, and most families have a small car. Air conditioning, computers, heating, thousands of mobile phones, toilet seats, water heaters and other basic things, as long as the city has, more than half of our village’s households have. It’s not like flipping a police car, beating a police officer or something stupid, but they did it, and they were proud of it.
Of course, most of the police can not do strict law enforcement, even the ordinary attendance will have a lot of tricky and helpless. Why should the police go to the village to take people secretly? Because dare not open and aboveboard! You go to a certain village to catch a suspect in the city, the neighbors do not say cooperate, dare not at least bright and upright block law enforcement, but the village dare, because the village is the site of the villagers. In addition, there are many tangled interpersonal relationships, such as the head of the village and the town police station director is a distant relative, the village bully and a captain is brother-in-law, and so on.
In the village, the police also look at the eyes of the villagers, without exception. The A and B families in our village had A quarrel about building their houses, which led to A quarrel between them. It is difficult to determine the right and wrong things, but the police car came to the scene, did not ask how to go up, A with the prisoner’s way of handcuff the police car away and detained for two days, also kicked him several feet. B? Instead of being arrested, I drove myself to the police station a few hours later to record a confession, just like going to tea to chat. Why not catch A instead of B? Because the fault is A? Or is it because of B? Neither. Just because when the police arrived, several of B’s brothers and nephews were standing there swearing furiously, while A was alone. Just pinch one, and the cop picks the soft one.
After the accident, A was hospitalized due to multiple injuries. After mediation by the police, B refused to pay A penny. A sued B, in fact, has constituted A minor injury, but B found A relationship, has not been sentenced, for several years, A finally won, the court only awarded B to lose money, B refused to carry out, also took A lot of people to the police station, finally nothing. A was beaten, detained, and denied justice and compensation. B hits people, causes trouble, but is not detained, and does not pay compensation. What do you have in mind? There is nothing you can do. As long as there are no dead people, there is no law or reason in the village.
This is the most obvious truth: in the village to live in the upper echelons must depend on the prosperity of the family, there must be a man in the family, there are many men in the family is a cow. Because of this, the preference for sons over daughters is particularly deep-rooted in the countryside.
Four, encounter people to think the worst
The village’s hutongs run in all directions and the main roads are made of concrete. That year can be all dirt road, cement road when the town committee came to say: “each family take 1000 yuan, for the whole village paved into cement, leaving no corners. The chicken thief in the village, think that the town committee from fishing, would not pay, rang shouldn’t accept money should be free shop, the person in charge in the town said to give you free shop main road is to give face, but also free shop alley? There are no doors. Then the other people finished paving the main road to go, the villagers looked anxiously, and together to find the town committee, said that each would like to fill 1000 yuan, for the alley also paved. “The materials have been removed, the workers have been removed, and the equipment has been withdrawn. If you want to shop again, you have to start all over again,” the township committee said. The village exploded again, each one jumped to scold the town is not a thing, every household earn 200 yuan more for nothing, said what also do not want to pay 1200. Then the villagers decided not to attach to the town, he looked for the construction team asked the price, the construction team looked and said: shop quality so good road every family to pay 2000! Anyone can see clearly that the town is working hard to help the villagers save money, but it has been a long time since then, and some people in the village still say: even if you charge 1200, they (the town committee) also earn a lot!
It’s about the road. Village at that time, the town only give half, the rest of the village committee to pay, village committee money, not much money, the villagers refused to pay, we looked for the surrounding factory to raise money, my home outside the village has a factory, in fact, with the village road is not far away, it should be said that no matter how much money is a favor, my father was generous to say twenty thousand. Later, the money is not enough, he asked for the factory, and my father gave ten thousand. So also earn no good words, the villagers privately also scold the owners of the surrounding factories, said: “give so many money farts with no top, also do not know what to do with so much money, under small ah!” But the two hundred thousand that repair road bad is nearby factory gather together of! They make sarcastic remarks when they have nothing to give. My family in recent years is not rich, my father said to me: “we have no money only know, tell others that people do not believe, people think your Chen Jinshan. A lot of people won’t pay to lay their own road, and you expect them to pay to build a road? Let’s give it to them. I’m wearing a boss hat! Others gossip.”
Five, taking advantage is not enough
The cement road of the country is regarded as sunshine grain yard all the year round, 4 driveway leave 1 driveway only for you, 2 driveway also leave 1 driveway only for you, leave a wrong car space far away, the city sends a person to rectify for many times in town, have no use at all. The wheat still hasn’t been confiscated, so he takes the broken pieces and throws them on the road to get a good place in advance. More because of too much wheat field next to the cement road, some people want to multiple a few wheat, incredibly take hoe to dig a big cement road, land, plant wheat, leading to collapse, it is very narrow 2 lanes, his home to become 1.5 lanes that leng, I see a few more years to become a lane 1, it’s wrong not to drive, traffic when often have a heap of the traffic there. He had to say that the road had invaded his wheat field when he laid the foundation for it, but the road was straight, built from east to west, and did not occupy his land at all.
The village now has special sanitation workers responsible for cleaning the streets, the village also set up a few large green trash cans, that is more than a meter high, with wheels at the bottom, in every community in the city. Our village actually someone to the home to steal garbage cans, just put a new on someone secretly dragged home at night, anyway, is the public things, do not take the white. Have you ever heard of throwing trash cans in the city? Not only the trash can, including fences, pipes, and even the pump head, as long as it is public, will be killed, even if it is not stolen will be destroyed by you. The town has built a hut for each village, as a shelter for children waiting for the school bus, such a lovely hut has been destroyed into a disorderly shape, there are people secretly shit inside. You said, our village roads usually, factories everywhere, rich in fish salt, the economy is developed, why do these people still do so bad? Why are you so ugly when you eat? Why are your hands so cheap? I just don’t understand.
Sixth, rumors are made and spread
There was a businessman in the village, and the husband and wife went to travel for more than ten days. There was a kind of speculation in the village, which said that someone in the family had got a shameful disease and went out (to the big city) for medical treatment. More pass more heresy, have say his family man outside whore caught venereal, have say gamble money lost dodge debt to go, have say booth a lawsuit to be caught wait a moment. Later people with travel when the photos and specialty came back, we still do not believe, still said contemptuously: cut, it is tourism, not a year not a section of the tour what tour! There must be something I don’t want people to know!
Have a young man to work outside, because the condition is not good the decision postpones a child, married 3 years to still have no child, the village somebody says they are infertile barren, still have a person to guess out of thin air, say that female had become a young lady outside, because abort a fetus so bad not to go up.
I have a female classmate of the same village, after graduation the home gave the relation to enter the tax bureau of the city, be a small soldier in the bureau, once the New Year comes home thing too much take not, a leader of their company drove her back to the home, the village blew up, said she was kept by the person cloud, particularly ugly.
That year she was in her early 20s, now she is still not married in her 30s, dating several young men in the nearby village have blown up. After all, we grew up together and went to school together. I know she is not that kind of person. On the contrary, she is very motivated and she has been doing things seriously since childhood. But the villagers don’t believe it, you think, pretty pretty, dressed in fashionable clothes, said she was not a ghost? Only fools believe it! Alas, is really speechless extremely.
My this home has an uncle, it is the son of the brother home of my grandfather, more than 40 years old, the year before last because gallbladder polyp was in hospital open an operation, the relatives of our this home went to the hospital visited, it is a small operation originally. There was still a good woman in the village taking advantage of the cold to ask my mother: “I heard that who got stomach cancer? Hard?” My mama smile with somebody else explanation: “you listen to who nonsense of, be the small operation of gallbladder, with cancer all not have a side!” The woman shrivelled. “You see, cancer is nothing new these days. Are you keeping it from him?” Others also agreed, one after another said that it must be cancer did not run away, they all heard, one of them said so logically, the logic is almost impossible to beat, I thought at that time have this brain at home farming work is a waste.
Seven, the complexity of the wedding
There are a lot of restaurants around our village that can contract wedding banquet, the table is a lot of, arrange to sit but a skill to live, who have money, who have a good home, who relationship is good, want to arrange ahead, or let him be the Lord accompany. If you don’t get along with each other, if you don’t talk to each other, if you have enmity, keep them apart as far as possible and keep them apart.
My brother married when the seat board printed three times, the first time after printing to take back, someone looked at it and said, who and who relationship is not good, how to arrange a table? So I reprinted it, took it back a second time for closer inspection, and had to scrap it because I put two incompatible ones on the same table. It wasn’t until the third time that it was done.
Face is something that most villagers do not care about very much. For the same number of friends and relatives, a dozen tables are enough. Why are there only 30 and 50 tables in the countryside? It is because of the face, your family has a happy event, if you do not call him, he has no face, will slander you behind your back, curse you. Lord in order to “as a result, xi, broadcast, as far as possible, please, our village people to eat mat has a bad habit, it is people must go home please twice, must please his twice he will come to the wedding banquet, first of all, about a month before the wedding to send invitation CARDS, second from the wedding day to an hour before the wedding, this time must be the door to call him again, phone no, must be his relatives to call, you don’t call the second time, he has not come, he will think you despise him, will hate in the heart, will be detached from you, what is more difficult with you. This is not my sensationalism, there are many precedents.
Most villagers go to the wedding banquet not for the atmosphere or to join in the festivities, but to eat and drink well. After the wedding, the whole village is immersed in a heated discussion that lasts for several days.
Discuss how much money you have, how much money you received wedding, it is lost or made, what car, wedding wedding banquet to drink how much wine, how much smoke of cigarettes, crab fat not fat, big lobster, sea cucumber is how many heads, eat abalone can go in, several vegetarian dishes on the table a few meat dishes, he left for guests to return values are not valuable, and so on.
If one fails to live up to his expectations, he will make a lot of bad remarks, such as calling you stingy and stingy, and bad character. If one of them exceeds his expectations, he will say you have two bad money and don’t know how to show it.
Eight, support
There is a strange family in our village. The man in this family is not a young man. His elder brother takes care of his sick old mother all the year round and gives her 50 yuan every year. Every year! 50 pieces! The yuan! At the very beginning, I gave you 20 yuan per year, but it didn’t rise to 100 yuan until 2016! Still bashfully have a face to say with others: “an niang get old, peacetime not how go out, nothing spend money of place.” His wife died early, and she had a son, who was not doing well in the family. The family income was very low. The second family condition is good, at least can afford a car, but in more than ten years of time not only do not take care of, but also only give so few money.
This has become a myth in our village. It is nothing for everyone to scold him behind his back. There are many flaws in human nature, but such inhuman performance is rare in the world.
Last year, when his mother died and most of the men in the village went to help, I went back to my hometown on vacation with my father. The second son of the old woman lay prone on the grave and cried, “Mother! How do you go so early ah, the an brothers have not finished filial piety ah! Niang!” We had to go, but the second son was still there, crying on his knees. My dad angry in front of everyone scold way: “you still have the face to cry! If your mother didn’t have you so a thief, also can’t so early not!” And when he had reasoned, he answered him not: but wept there: and the company left him, and went their separate ways.
Do you think he has mended his ways? After a few days, he began to fight with his elder brother for the four old rooms left by the old lady… .
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