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When Hong Kong returned to China, I was 7 years old. My father originally ran a carpet business around the county town, but the market was not good, so he declared bankruptcy. We are a family of seven, then sitting on the tractor swayed back to the southwest of shandong where my father was born.
In the words of feng Shui master, our village is surrounded by water on three sides, but the side without river is still downhill. “We cannot make money and retain it, and our officials cannot prosper”. Indeed, after the founding of our village only out of the “official”, but the county civil affairs bureau is responsible for taking pictures, can not say what. So many years later, when grandpa talked about his uncle, he was still full of pride, “He went back home once every four years, riding a big horse with guards”, but “his life is not good, when he retreated to the south, he was shot, or he would come back now, how would he have to make our village developed”.
An official, and a senior official, became every village through the famine of the grandpa heart heavy hope.
Therefore, in the future for a long time, studying in college and becoming an official rich, in the eyes of the village people are roughly equated. Third uncle used to be the first generation of “official seed” in the village, but third uncle “Language is good, I read mathematics will be sleepy, keep dozing, your grandfather saw with a stick to beat me”. In the 1980s, The third uncle reluctantly took the college entrance examination for three years, but finally failed to pass the examination. He fell all over the place and went back to the village in a panic. Fortunately, at that time, my father, who had only primary school education, got his construction business on track, and my brothers worked together. Although they did not become the “official” to honor their ancestors, they were at least the most glamorous family in the village.
Two Hua Zi is the second generation of school officials in the village.
Different from the third uncle, The second Huazi has a good academic record since childhood. He is “clever with brains and quick with accounts”. In the primary school jointly organized by several surrounding villages, he is outstanding in academic performance and has always been regarded as the first college student in the village. Wait until junior high school graduation, 2 Hua Zi one courage to take an examination of at that time the county in the best middle school — county 2 middle school, more became the village person eye promising “prospective college student”, and finally can go out “official”.
At that time, the villagers hope their children to succeed, always take two Hua Zi as an analogy: “every day before dawn to get up, afraid of spending the electricity bill at home, regardless of the cold or hot day, in the yard through the dawn to study, you have no other people that brain, as hard as others also go.
My cousin and Erhuazi are the same age. Apart from taking care of younger brothers and sisters, boiling water for cooking, and picking up wheat ears and peanuts during the busy season of farming, my eldest sister is still a “money-losing product” in grandpa’s eyes, “it is no use going to school or not”.
That, after years of forced Beijing cousin home visit, still full of injustice: “somebody else which is not in big ears to be an official, a face of red tape, which be like two hanako ugly, short, in addition to the dead to study what also not, even to be placed on his mother gave him, eyes as long on the head, in walking in the village, who recited shuld not dozen don’t see……”
Two hua zi above has an elder brother, early illness did not, in addition to only one sister. Erhua son has been much loved since his childhood. He rarely grows up in the fields like crops like his peers. In the words of the villagers, “If you weed the fields, you can get rid of the wheat in one row. When you go home, you will say that there is too much grass in the fields this year.” Of course, “You are not afraid of farming.
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in 1993, the first college entrance examination of the two Hua Zi “play abnormal”, when the reexamination of the college entrance examination of a year had a stomach trouble, until the third year of nervous can not sleep, even the examination room did not enter, two Hua zi’s father tried to urge him to take an examination of a year, two Hua zi but resolutely do not agree.
On the contrary, my cousin, who was two grades lower than Erhua Zi, was admitted to the Northeast Agricultural University after another year of study and became the first college student in our village. As a result, people in the village became more and more convinced that “life is life”.
Their granddaughter admitted to the university, but my grandfather is not happy: “learning agriculture has what use, home farming make? Girls are people of others sooner or later. Our village has bad feng shui…”
That was also the first time I saw Erhua.
The east of the village there is a drying wheat field, smooth, village people like to gather here in twos and threes, chat, play cards, say some of the home language. On the day we returned to our hometown, Erhua Zi sat on the stone mill beside the wheat field, wearing a sleeveless white vest, big shorts, wearing glasses, thin and timid, and the surrounding shirtless men shaking the cailian fan, and just came back to the hometown of the father.
Two Hua son around no adults, just around a group of children, cuancuanduo: “Two Hua son, talk about one, talk about one…
I knew it was him, but for a moment I could not equate it with erhuazizi — I imagined him as a young, successful man in a suit, with a shiny head and a bright face.
Two Hua Zi first pretended to despise: “Don’t talk about it, don’t talk about it day by day, there is just this thing inside the belly, after talking, there is no more.”
The children do not follow, noisy, until the adults playing cards were people hate dog hate age children noisy impatient, impatient with reprimanded open mouth urging: “Two hua zi, you have nothing to do, just tell them for a while.”
Two hua son sat up straight, like the radio to tell the story of the general cough, then in the eyes of the people look forward to shi Shi ran to speak: “One day, the sun is beautiful, there is a stone on the mountain of flowers and fruit with a loud noise, out of the stone monkey came, the monkey’s head was born to raise…”
I have seen it on TV, I know he is talking about sun Wukong, pulling his mother not close not far to stand listening.
It was the first time That I heard people speak books on the spot, although there is no TV to see understand, but two Hua Zi even said with gestures, grinning teeth, the middle will also suddenly add a “just like XX big black pig”, really make people can not help but laugh.
two Hua Zi speak is really good, almost without turning over the book, you can “Water Margin”, “Romance of The Three Kingdoms”, “Journey to the West” from beginning to end, but also like the radio storyteller like cadence, let people listen with interest. So that later every meal point, there are children urged two hua son “go home to eat, next time to speak”, for fear that he was called home to eat miss some wonderful part.
Then in the future, even “Yang Jia Jiang”, “three men and five senses” and so on, I also listen to the two hua Zi here at the earliest.
At that time, not only children love to listen to, tired a day of adults also like to stop to listen to a paragraph, heard the wonderful place will also applaud. At the end of the year, however, there came an odd feeling: “Two hua Zi, what a bad thing it is to say. What a university to have that skill. In front of the blind man in the village, talking about books and going to the countryside to visit households, there will be a lot of pimping steamed buns in this year!”
Every time he heard this, Erhua zi would blush and rub his hands together, but for a long time he couldn’t say anything. Instead, Erhua Zi, a short peasant woman, would jump on his feet and scold: “Why don’t you go begging?”
In fact, he was in his early 20s. But after three failed college entrance exams, he was no longer the seed of an official in the eyes of the villagers. What’s more, farming is not hard, going out to help relatives is not tired, going to the construction site can not bear the guilt… Not long before my home returned to the countryside, he went round and round back to the village, the year of the strong young man idle, which makes the village people feel that two hua zi is worthless.
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Not long after, two Hua son during high school talk about boyfriend and girlfriend of the matter came out, the girl is a neighbor village, also admitted to the university. This next, the village is an in an uproar: “do not learn well, no wonder not to take an examination of the university!”
My mother is not a mean person, but when I play instead of studying, my mother would always take this scare me: “Study hard when you should study, don’t be like Erhua Zi, who can’t get into the university and the whole village laugh.”
The difference is that while the villagers laugh at the second hua son, the third uncle who failed to enter the university is full of praise. A few years earlier, third uncle and my father parted ways, still engaged in the construction industry, the family moved to the county, became a bright “city people”.
Third Uncle said in the village, “Since I was a child, I have made a lot of money. If I go to college, I will surely become an official.” Turn head to come and tease two Hua son again: “you also read so many years of book, total can’t do an official, still have to come back be a farmer?”
Two hua son don’t talk, the villager also can connect for him: “an daughter-in-law be a college student, wait for an an daughter-in-law to become an official, an not be an official wife.”
A group of people burst out laughing.
Two Hua zi in front of the village people can not hold up his head, in private with us a group of junior high school primary school “child soldiers” complained: “have not been admitted to the university, rich is uncle, do not have money to do grandchildren are not your turn.
I did not understand at that time, just feel that money is much better than no money, after all, every New Year’s third uncle’s lucky money is tens of tens to give, give two uncle knock head can give touch a piece of candy out even if it is good.
At that time, the spring breeze of reform and opening up had not yet reached the rural compound, but the general mushrooming of individual businesses.
At home idle not long time, two Hua zi also moved the heart, take advantage of the home old jujube tree by the city peony garden value, “sold the price”. Do not do two in a row, regardless of the family opposed, the forest will grow for decades more than a rough old locust tree sold a clean, the next day went to the county to buy a motorcycle back three.
two hua Zi car back that day, the whole village old and young people are standing in the street not wide and short, looking at the shiny dark red motorcycle three wheels tut praise, two Hua Zi more like a victory, riding a big red motorcycle three wheels from the village east to the village west, back and forth.
The village person see green with envy, mouth however not convinced spirit: “black sheep, money put a bank much good, return ability eat interest.”
Someone met Erhua’s father on the street — my great-grandfather’s generation — and said, “Third father, Erhua has bought a car. Where is he going to get rich?”
Wearing a navy blue cap all year round, the 50-year-old man scratched his head and said: “We don’t know. The second Hua zi said he wanted to sell youtiao.”
Within a few days, two Hua son’s youtiao shop opened zhang.
Every morning, my friends and I run to the next village primary school morning reading, almost exactly the time when Erhuazi rode a motorcycle three rounds to the countryside to sell youtiao, until we go home to have breakfast at the end of morning reading, Erhuazi has also sold a circle in the surrounding village came back.
two Hua Zi do not read, had to go to the town relatives there to help, with people learned fried youtiao, only feel that this business is small profits and high turnover, the rural world has a lot to do.
“Small arms short head, the land is not good, but also want to learn business.” The first time a person in the village sold youtiao, could not help but ridicule.
That being said, however, erhua zi youtiao just opened is always in short supply, every time go to the countryside cross a household to come back to leave not much, the village if someone wants to eat, but also need to estimate cleverly he sold youtiao back time, in order to buy a few.
During that time, the countryside is no rare snacks, Fried dough sticks are barely solution of two hanako my food addiction, every time I go to school I is just two hanako and say hello, ask him to help me with five hair moneys Fried dough sticks, wait until come back from school, took hold good Fried dough sticks, much from second hanako is 5 or 6, 4 root is always more than usual.
Once two aunts did not buy, passing my door just saw me “shout shout” to the mouth grilled fried dough sticks to make rice, then smiled and said hello to his mother: “Dog day of two hua son, sell fried dough sticks are sold hair, his village people take a few deep-fried dough sticks even money.
But the good times did not last long, two Hua Zi “youtiao with leavening agent”, “the scale is not enough”, “fried youtiao oil never change” and other statements began to hide and rapidly spread.
Add two Hua zi’s own craft learning is not perfect, fried dough sticks selling appearance is also very general, business was greatly affected, less and less sales every day, the small profit has not sold more, two Hua Zi very soon with a sense of ease to close the stall.
Before and after but two or three months time, two Hua son’s youtiao business was hastily concluded, the villagers again “tut” sound.
“This is a man who has been to school. It’s a real prodigal.” “That’s not a rich man who has spent so many years studying in vain.”
4
After the youtiao business was closed down, Erhuaci became idle again. He went out early and came back late all day on a motorcycle. Some said they would go to their relatives’ homes to learn cooking, some said they would learn to repair bicycles, but more often they said, “He has nothing to do but wander around aimlessly”.
Such as the festival, two hua son to send boxing day, even a good face also can not see.
The villager spoke of 2 Hua Zi: “did not take an examination of a university to show you did not have that life, honest work farm, toss about what?” Even the grandfather also become sigh: “Two Hua Zi how so?”
After everyone thought that Erhuazi would find a job outside and settle down, he began to make a new living in the village.
The village is surrounded by rivers on three sides, the river is clear, the widest place is only four or five meters. The second Huazi did not know where to get a fishing net, the scholar in the upstream place set up, also bought a black onesie, very complete equipment.
Small river difficult big fish, two Huazizi will fish carefully separated, big fish save up to keep, until the market to sell, palm big fish sent to the town hotel fried fish dry, the remaining two fingers to long lancet, then sold to the people around the village.
My mother bought me a few times two hua Zi’s lancet, two fingers to grow, with scissors pinched head and tail, cut open belly, squeeze out the inside of the dirty things, has not left much, often a large plastic bag in the end to leave a small pot. Mother put the cleaned fish on the coal-ball stove and braised them slowly and carefully for the whole afternoon until they were as sticky as porridge and the fish bones were crisp.
My mother did not allow me to go swimming in the river. Only when my second brother, who was studying in the county, came back from school on weekends, would my mother make an exception and let me go to a shallow place to play with him.
Wait until two Huazizi in the river under the net, do not allow others to play in the river. Once My second brother and I went to catch fish in the river to the north of the village as usual. As a result, before the fishy smell was touched, Erhua zi came over far away, even to coax and frighten: “Don’t play here, there are horses and turtles (leeches) inside, get into the eyes of the horses to get out, chickens and chickens have to be cut off.
I was so young at that time that I thought it was true. I was so frightened that I ran out of the river and cried all the way home to my mother. Later, when the village partners under the river, I also seriously warned them “there are horses in the river turtle”, provoking a burst of laughter, “Two Huazizi that chicken pit you, you play in the river water, the fish are scared away, he also caught a fart fish. I’m still skeptical.
in fact, two Hua Zi also has no strength, every day by his father to lift the net, the net, two Hua Zi is only responsible for selling fish, until nothing in the afternoon holding a VAT of tea water like a two shizu.
Some people did not like it, and set up new nets in the river, which were thicker and thinner than before. At most, a dozen nets could be laid in a short stream. In the end, all the effort was wasted, and no one could get anything.
Then the rumor began again: “The water in the river has been polluted by a chemical factory in the county. It is dirty and smelly.” Rumor has it that fewer and fewer people are buying fish.
Fish in the river can not go, two Hua son “brain active good”, hit the idea of their own fish, the river fish fry into the village pond, full of thought that a few months can catch up with big fish. But in those days, ducks and geese were common in the countryside. Every day, groups of ducks could be seen staggering and fluttering to the pond for food.
Two hua zi’s fish is not small, once I saw a duck in its mouth with a palm big fish, shaking right and left on the bank, hurriedly to chase, ran a good distance to catch the fish, thought that home mother will praise me, did not expect to be a lesson.
5
These years, two Hua Zi is “do what what not line, do what what not in”, “east a nut hammer, west a rod, no long-term plan”. Instead, I went to my high school girlfriend’s house more and more frequently — today I sent a fish, tomorrow I cut a few pounds of meat at the market, and almost spent all the time at home, leaving my elderly parents to toss about in the fields.
The village people do not like, live in the back of the two Hua son to see him grow up big ye once also took a stick chasing two Hua son dozen: “you read the book were eaten by the dog.”
two Hua Zi short, not good-looking, smiling face pleated, did not go to school well, to and fro not to make money do not say, but also in the village fell a black sheep reputation, really not to inquire. Prospective father-in-law originally how all look not to go up, can get along for a long time come down, but some wavered instead.
In 1999, when the girl was assigned to teach in the town after graduating from university, the family relaxed their position. Apart from letting Erhua build a house, the bride price according to the then popular “Eight eight Dafa” (888 yuan) not a penny less, they did not bother him particularly.
Two Hua zi more and more often run to the town, every day riding a motorcycle three wheel accompany girl to and from work.
in everyone thought that the two hua son finally to have a time, before long, but a great event.
A scholar who can’t be an official but can’t make a fortune
One day a large group of young men came to the village, asked two hua Zi home, without another word, see what hit what, Windows and Windows a thin piece of broken glass, even the courtyard wall was pushed. Be beaten come to the door by the person, the person in the village does not do of course, the crowd is turbulent under, almost did not form the group fight that did not see for many years, fortunately have the person in the know to come in time, explain one time, make the person in the village embarrassed unceasingly.
originally, two hua son every day to send the girl home, one day was the girl saw the village, two people unexpectedly undress ground from the corn field. Some gossip in the village angered the girl’s family. originally on two hua son despise, this is to add fuel to the fire, the woman’s home directly put words, let two Hua son take 5000 dollars to get people.
At that time, the bride price in rural areas of southwest Shandong was far from the exaggeration of “three jin and three liang” (about 140,000 yuan) and “never moving” (cars and houses). The “one in a thousand” value of 1,001 yuan was already a high standard — a small worker on a construction site earned less than 10 yuan a day.
two Hua Son with his father at home farming, mother often sick, the family is not rich, these years two Hua son scholar business, did not earn money not to say, but also put the home to play a clear two white, the only married sister is not a master, not to take out this “huge money”. Plus two Hua son in the home with “anyway has been his family, who even, natural can save” wishful thinking, some wrangle, did not expect to anger the woman’s family, this just had now this one.
Then, let alone the middleman said broken mouth, the woman soon even 5000 dollars also refused to agree, not to mention two hua son home fixed 5000 also not out. Before long, I heard that the girl’s family took the money and married the girl to Shanxi.
It was a good thing that was in the bag. What’s more, the middle also adulterated the two sides against each other, men and women erotic that point of matter, all parties embellish under, two hua zi once again become ten miles from home point of view, delighted in talking about the figure.
The villagers looked down on him and ridiculed Erhuazi: “You talk about friends failed to enter the university, this time well, there is no daughter-in-law.”
Even the children had their own way. Seeing Erhua Zi from afar, they began to laugh: “Erhua Zi, I heard that your daughter-in-law has run away with someone!”
Second, Hua zi could not hold up his head in the village, not to mention there was no matchmaker, even his relatives were ashamed to join him, “If you don’t go to school well, if you don’t farm the land, you can’t do anything. It’s not an official’s life, it’s a shameful life.”
6
Before long, two hua son a person carrying luggage out of the door, a walk for many years.
Although the person went away, but the village people did not forget him, every time chat about the child’s academic performance, there is always a word with the final verdict: “people have to accept the fate, now study is good is useful, the examination is not the same as the two Hua son.
In 2006, I was a sophomore in The County No. 1 Middle School. It was similar to the story of Erhua Zi, and I was often praised for “learning from childhood is good, it is expected of college students” — in fact, my academic performance was not among the top 10 in the class.
I was already the fourth group of “scholars” in the village. Even my grandfather, who had a bad relationship with my mother, always asked me about my grades intentionally or unintentionally, and weighed which major could be assigned to be an official.
Fortunately, at that time, closed-door education was popular in schools, with only two days of rest per month and very little time at home. Plus I will deliberately take a long detour every time, from the village east head home when the bicycle rode very fast, but saved a lot of hello.
Once When I was riding home, I heard a car honking its horn behind me before I entered the village. I thought it was someone I knew in the village. When I turned around, a strange face passed the fashionable woman in the passenger seat and leaned forward to greet me: “Xiao Long, home for Sunday holiday?
I have some confusion, deja vu, but dare not recognize: one is not seen for many years, the appearance of two Hua Zi changed a lot; Second, I can’t imagine erhua zi is rich enough to buy a car.
Aware of my embarrassment, two Hua zi himself laughed first: “Also, I go when you are still in primary school!”
The woman on the copilot was wearing sunglasses of foreign style, did not take off sunglasses from beginning to end, did not say hello to me, just hurried on.
Two Hua Zi look like sigh, more like sigh: “Hear you go to school in the county, study very good, later take an examination of university no problem. Go to school, don’t be like me.”
Mother has always been superstitious “horse dumplings off the horse”, at that time every month as long as I go home, mother will do hand-rolled noodles, pick some green vegetable leaves in their garden, hot pot yan oil, “yi” sound, and then two poached eggs on the nest.
Mother did not care about when Erhua Son came back, how so rich, only in the two Hua son car when the woman, just came to some interest, repeatedly questioned me about the woman’s appearance.
I tell the truth, “Wearing sunglasses, did not look carefully, like a city person, very fashionable.”
My mother, who was never interested in trivial matters in the village, was uncharacteristically interested in telling me about Erhua Zi.
two hua son back not long time, in addition to a Santana, also took a woman. At this time, erhua zi, who was about 30 years old, was no longer a bachelor in the countryside. It was a good thing that he could bring a wife back, but this woman caused a great disturbance in the village.
It is said that Erhuazi left home one way to the west, do not pick, cement worker, construction worker, garbage and so on what three education and five stream as long as they can feed the belly to do, spent a few years almost traveled to half of Shanxi. Finally in Taiyuan fell down, plate under a steamed bread shop, life is better.
According to Erhanzi, he “originally just wanted to see how she was doing from a distance,” but after a while, he hooked up again. two people unknown for a few years, two hua son after all feel unfamiliar, afraid of which day was found, plus the identity card also expired, two people a total, simply sold the stall, bought a car all the way to elope home.
Said this, the mother also “bah” 1: “that woman have children in Shanxi, live a good life. Two hua son is also, rich what big girl can’t find, be a married fan got five fan three……”
Upon their return, they caused a stir in the village. The villagers envy at the same time, also held a playful attitude, her home because her daughter “to run the” great shame, home visit did not even let into the door, let two hanako thanks to several, including my father, is “respected” clear person to act as matchmaker, a group of bike ran two or three miles’s hot day, for it is “did not even drink hot water mouth”.
two hua son home more do not agree, one is a few years ago the old hate did not disappear, two is to feel that two Hua son “somebody, what kind of big girl can not find, have to find a second-hand goods. Two Huazi want to take people home, were his mother scolded from home to the street, but also put words: “Over my dead, or don’t want to enter the door of our house.”
two people did not stay in the village, two hua zi in the county next to rent a yard, is barely settled down. No wedding, no marriage license.
7
In those years, people in the village believed in life more and more, especially the third uncle, who had always been a scene, suddenly became deeply in debt and hid himself from anyone. Everyone said, “Our village has never made a fortune, let alone an official.”
But this time two hua zi come back, also calculate the true sense of prosperity return home, how much let the villagers feel, “even if not an official, read more always can make a fortune”. No matter how much we are interested in him and his wife’s series, the two children on the bright side and became the village “promising man”.
The village people with two hua son joke “big boss came back”.
And this time, two Hua zi not only ready to make a fortune, but also want to take everyone to make a fortune together. Erhuazi struggled in the city these years, not only steaming steamed buns, but also fascinated by the stock market, he told the villagers, “in good times, I can earn more than if I worked hard to sell steamed buns for a year.”
Village people have always believed in down-to-earth, safe and secure earn this money, the first choice of money or “in the bank to eat interest”, for this invisible, touchless behavior has been sniffed.
Just a long time, two hua zi’s life not only did not fall, but more and more rich, go out of the car not to say, gold watch gold teeth, suits, every time back to the village smoke, is not a common white, red general (general smoke), all is small Su start, occasionally can also encounter a few soft China.
Even his mother spoke with confidence, gold rings gold earrings, go where is the focus of the crowd. On the contrary, erhuaci’s father still got up every morning to collect dung all over the village and play tricks silently on his several mu of land. Some people joked with him, and the old man grinned: “We don’t understand what he does, and we can’t help him. We plant some land by ourselves, so we can’t get hungry at least.”
two hua son’s sister with his mother, short and small, after the marriage even gave birth to two daughters, plus a few years ago with two Hua son money to money to some pull not clear, two Hua son his brother-in-law almost not to father-in-law door. But at that time ran very diligently, the villagers looked down upon him, far saw and asked: “Shanini under men, and came to the old man’s family meal?”
Later asked anxious, two hua son his brother-in-law said: “Two Hua son to find me board to buy stocks, earn how much money I can not look at it.”
Village people this just know two hua son help people buy stocks, casually invest some money, earn more than farming.
With the first one, soon there were the second and the third, and more and more people began to buy stocks along with the second. But the vast majority of those left behind in the countryside are either elderly or, like their mothers and aunts, too ignorant to know what stocks are or to understand the market, let alone the tedious procedures involved in buying and selling them. In this case, the money “lend” to two Hua Zi, charged high interest, has become the choice of the vast majority of people.
For the first time in years, reading seemed to work in the village: “Study hard, technology is developing so fast, don’t be as blind as we are, and don’t even know how people make money.”
Soon, more and more people began to buy stocks from Erhua. Many even sold their coffins and gave the money to Erhua in an attempt to catch the ride.
Even two aunts, crying all day like immediately not open the pot, afraid that our home and third uncle asked her to borrow money, all quietly took the pen to two hua Son, then or two Hua son his mother said the leak, we just know that two aunts so rich, also dare to bet, alone a person borrowed more than 70,000 to two Hua son. The grandfather who always loved his little son knew and swore angrily: “Don’t look at your own situation, and don’t be afraid of being left (not returned).”
That was erhuazi’s heyday, not only buying shares, but also starting a small loan business, just like the private small banks of today.
Even my mother has changed her mind, no longer believing that study is the only way out: “You see, Erhuazi didn’t go to college, but who has a good life in the surrounding villages? !”
Two hanako his niang, when he was young because people go to his home and pick up the grain, can jump the heel people quarrel, at that time is like a rich lady, mantra became, “two hanako led a few days ago I went to XX, how the somebody else how there”, come to the end, the including my father, even some of the demolition crews pull out contrast, his mother angry.
And in the most beautiful time of two hua son, even “father-in-law” tone began to loosen, at least allow his daughter to go home.
8
Just, the good luck of 2 Hua zi, seem to be used up in those two years once. In 2009, when I went home for the National Day holiday, I heard that erhua zi had been arrested, charged with illegal fund-raising and fraud.
Later, we learned from adult gossip that in 2008 the stock market took a sharp turn for the worse, making it more difficult for private borrowers to get back their money. Wait until the stock market like a bottomless pit, swallowed up two hua son hands most of the funds, two Hua son began to realize that the event is not good.
But at this time, two Hua zi has made an unusual action — he began to return the relatives and villagers of the principal, picking up bits and pieces of three thousand and five thousand of the first also, more of the first to return a part.
Later, we also said that the two aunt lost eye poison, blocking the door of the two Hua son, not only to return to the principal, even the interest is also a little.
Two aunt blocked the door like two hua zi collapsed the last straw, before more people hear the wind and move, two hua zi real in the top, ran. Next door village to do Chinese herbal medicine business called the police, but more than two months, hidden in relatives of the two Hua Zi was caught back.
How much money did erhua son owe, the villagers said what all have, big to a million, small to several hundred thousand, but when Erhua son was caught, only a few tens of thousands of pieces on the body. Finally, two hua son first instance sentence 7 years 5 months.
son debt father also, two hua son his father never out of work, 60 years old people began to follow others around, go to the construction site to do a small job, leaving two Hua son his mother in the village door not out of two doors.
Debt collectors, often come to make, there are even on the two Hua son home not to go, live for a few days. But his mother can only wipe tears, no longer the past high and mighty, just repeatedly said to the creditor, “we will pay, we will pay”. The villagers said, if the two hua zi “no”, the death of debt elimination, but a hundred, now this situation is a bad debt.
Of course, also is not no one suspected two Hua son money was living with the woman away, but two Hua son after the accident who also can not find her, go to her mother’s people have been driven out of the stick, until many years later no one swore to have seen in the south.
Like Shaxian snacks, Lanzhou ramen, these years, all over the country to sell steamed buns are mostly our fellow villagers.
Around 2010, seeing people in other villages getting rich by steaming steamed buns, building roads, temples and lanterns, people in the village also moved their mind and began to go out to steam steamed buns one after another. Some people became rich by building buildings and buying cars, and they had more and more confidence to speak: “There is no use getting out of official position, money is the king.”
In the past years, the words “no way to go, water and air flow” were less and less taken to heart. Everyone was so busy making money that no one seemed to remember erhua Zi any more.
Two Hua son his father did not wait for two Hua son out, in 2013 when a child on the neck grew a fist size tumor, soon passed away. After so many years, I just paid back the bills in the village. Maybe I still owe a little. I didn’t continue to chase after his family, only some people in the village would come to erhua’s home every New Year.
two hua son after the death of his father, two hua son sister took his mother, only increasingly dilapidated courtyard reminds the family once existed.
Erhuazi was released from prison in 2015 and had no face to go home. She lived with her sister, a recycler in Cangzhou, and was soon sent to a mental hospital by her brother-in-law. It is said that Erhuazi not only stole money to buy lottery tickets, but also talked to herself all day long, talking to the air and not knowing who she was talking to.
In 2017, Erhua zi “came out” again, because his brother-in-law refused to pay erhua zi’s hospital fees. So two more years passed.
The end of the
On the afternoon of the first day of this year, my eldest brother and I were sitting on the newly built road in the village, basking in the sun. We saw a man coming from a distance. He was wearing a knitted hat and the zipper of his coat seemed to be broken. Wait close, just discover is 2 Hua zi.
Think of two aunt before also remind me with brother: “don’t lend money to two Hua son, he now see who all borrow money, shameless, have money to go to the county looking for young lady.” But it was too late to get up now.
Fortunately, perhaps the first day of the New Year’s day for the sake of the two hua son but also did not like the two aunt said, meet began to find us poor brother opened mouth to borrow money. Just take out a mobile phone, call out what do not know the interface of the studio, repeatedly stressed that he has been a little famous live singer, only need someone to subsidize packaging, will be as famous as some rural singer, when the time comes not only 10 times rebate, also can introduce his female fans to the investor when “escort”.
I looked at each other with the eldest brother, not only because two Hua son’s broadcast room for a long time did not see a popup window, more importantly, the money in the pocket of our two brothers added up to seem to be not enough “investor” basic line.
Er Hua Zi should be to see my brother and I embarrassed, very disappointed, just happened to be working outside the village steamed bread rich people, are gathered not far away to chat, see er Hua Zi, burst into laughter hello: “Er Hua zi, come, big star, sing a song for everyone lively.
Two hua zi hurriedly get up, grinning, inferior mobile phone stereo begin to play slightly show heavy music, it is a “borrow five hundred years to the sky again”.
The afternoon sun was so warm that I couldn’t open my eyes.
I looked at erhua son standing in the center of the crowd, hoarse singing songs, around the people laughing, inexplicably remember when I was a child, erhua son is also in the center of the crowd, we are laughing, as if there is something different, but also as if there is no difference.
My cousin, who dropped out of junior high school, also went to steam steamed bread, sunbathing beside us and teasing his son: “Lile, when I grow up, I will steam steamed bread with your father instead of studying. Don’t learn erhua, because it will make your father angry to death.”
The 7-year-old was Suckling and scared, hiding behind my grandfather’s back. Grandpa years ago after riding a bicycle fell leg foot has been inconvenient, plus cerebral thrombosis, even words can not say clearly, but good ears. I was so close that I could barely hear my grandpa’s mumbling: “When can we get an official in our village?”
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