[Tuesday, 30 June 1992]
[It is suitable to marry, travel, dig wells and offer sacrifices]
[No haircut or funeral]
Looking at the half torn calendar hanging on the wall, Lu Yuan finally confirmed that he had been reborn.
There is a plaque on the main room, saying "Heaven and Earth, Master". I can see the old hanging bell on the wall and several kerosene lamps.
The foot is not a floor tile, not a wood floor, not even cement, but a pitted loess. Those potholes are the pits splashed by rain.
"Brother, Dad wants you to eat!" A sallow and emaciated girl tied the cow close to the shed and stood at the door calling Lu Yuan. The old Lu family has one son and two daughters. Lu Yuan is the eldest and the second, Lu Yao. This is Lu Chang, the younger sister.
The name was given by Li Yuxiang, a mother who had a fifth grade degree in primary school. In this age of "founding the country," "loving martial arts," and "serving the people," the name is also advanced.
However, as the only male in his family, Lu Yuanli deserved to enjoy the only qualification to go to school. After six years of hard work in high school, he was admitted to college, and he escaped his family responsibilities by studying directly.
But his two sisters didn't know one character, but they had a rough life.
Lu Chongyang, his father, sat down at the table without saying a word. As a man, he has the privilege of not touching the spring water of the sun. Even when guests come to the house, women are not allowed to serve.
Li Yuxiang took two eggs from the bowl, broke the shell and put them into Lu Yuan's bowl.
These two white eggs made Lu Yuan's two sisters look straight.
"Mom, you are really eccentric." Lu Chang muttered, "You can eat eggs as soon as you come back."
Lu Yuan looked at the egg in the bowl and shook his head with a wry smile. In this age of son preference, everything is so reasonable.
"Ermei and Xiaomei are still growing up. Let's give them eggs to eat!" Lu Yuanyuan picked up a bowl and put a folder of eggs into Lu Yao and Lu Chang's hands.
Lu Yao, the second younger sister, was still hesitating. Lu Chang was afraid of Lu Yuan's repentance, so he ate the eggs in two or three bites.
Looking at his own baby, Lao Lu, who had been smoking dry tobacco, finally showed a trace of relief, but immediately sank again. He knocked his cigarette gun, put it on the table, and said something thoughtless:
"Chang Shu will come to our house in a few days."
Before Li Yuxiang and his two younger sisters knew it, Lu Yuan changed his face and quickly confirmed that:
"Evergreen? Wangevergreen? Wangevergreen in Xitou Village?"
Lu Xi's character is Jin. He looks at Lu Yuan strangely and nods. Yes
Lu Yuan sighed. No wonder he always thought he had forgotten something important, but now he remembered it.
Wang Changshu is going to propose marriage to his second sister!
This is a big thing!
"Brother, who is Wang Changshu? Do you know him?" Lu Chang asked eagerly, as if he didn't understand why Lu Yuan reacted so strongly.
Lu Yuan did not speak.
Meet!
I know all of them!
In another time, Wang Changshu is his brother-in-law.
This year, Lu Yuan is seventeen. His second sister Lu Yao is two years younger than him, only fifteen. Twenty years from now, if you dare to propose marriage when someone else's daughter is 15 years old, you will be merciful if you don't kill her.
In this era, it is peaceful.
Wang Dehua, at the east end of the village, has become a grandmother at the age of 36.
The reason why Lu Yuan has such a deep memory is that Wang Changshu is really not a gadget——
He was poor and lazy when he was young, so he finally learned carpentry skills and spent three days fishing and two days drying nets. After marriage, the two entered the factory. Lu Yao became a nanny because he was illiterate. He worked from morning to night and waited on him just like the grandfather.
But this is no good. You can be friends and friends, spend time and drink, and even your son doesn't care.
They quarreled and finally divorced in January 2018. In that year, their sons were already 24 years old. What's more, their sons divorced one year earlier than them.
In this way, Wang Changshu was unwilling to sign the divorce agreement, and even opened his mouth for 400 thousand yuan. Lu Yuan was so angry that he took someone to block the door and beat him.
Now in this time and space, he would never let Er Mei be with such people.
"Yuan'er, do you know him? How about this man?" Lu Chongyang is an honest farmer. When his son knew about this man, he followed the trend to inquire.
Lu Yuan froze for a moment. It was true that he had not seen Wang Changshu before. What should I say to make Lu Chongyang give up this idea? After thinking twice in his mind, he said paradoxically:
"I don't know, but I've heard of him. I've heard people say that he is unstable and idle. He also likes to drink and cause trouble. He is a rascal. There are a lot of friends outside, and he doesn't seem to be a man who can live a life."
At worst, the most important thing in the mountain village is to catch wind and shadow.
In any case, Lu Yuanda will not admit that he will die if he is investigated in the future.
What's more, what he said must have some roots.
After he said this, Lu Chongyang's face changed obviously, and said in a hesitant tone, "No, I heard that Chang Shu was in town, learning craftsmanship with a teacher, and he will be a craftsman in the future!"
Lu Yuan shook his head secretly.
Craftsmen are still popular these days, especially carpenters.
The washstand, the bed, the table, the chair, which is not made by the craftsman? In the next 20 or 30 years, the ceiling, closet and customized furniture of the new house can not be separated from carpenters.
Just as Lu Yuan was thinking about how to explain, Li Yuxiang, who was protecting the calf, complained: "What do you know? Yuan'er is an intellectual. He knows more people and things than you do. It's normal to hear something."
"Yes, Dad!" Lu Yuan hurried to strike while the iron was hot and said hurriedly, "This kind of person is determined not to do it. What if the government catches him as a petty thief again? Is Second Sister not destroyed?"
Lu Chongyang wanted to put on the airs of his parents, but when he heard Lu Yuan say so, he hesitated again.
Lu Yuan looked into his father's eyes and said:
"Otherwise, let's put this matter aside and don't settle it so quickly. Anyway, the second younger sister is still young. We can see how Wang Changshu's character is, and make a decision later?"
"You can eat first. I'll go back to the room and have a rest." Lu Chongyang didn't answer in a hurry. He didn't even eat food. He grabbed the dry tobacco and left.
"I went to cut pig dishes."
Lu Yao, the second younger sister, simply took a few mouthfuls of rice and returned the table.
A girl of 15 or 16 years old in the countryside has a thin face when talking about marriage in front of her. I put down my chopsticks and hurried to cut pig dishes. There was no electricity in the village, so I had to work before dark.
The younger sister Lu Chang is eager to watch, and wants to be busy again. She is scolded by Lu Yuan and runs to help Lu Yao.
Seeing that there was no one on the table, Lu Yuan looked at Li Yuxiang and said, "Mom, what I said just now is not a joke. Wang Changshu is really no good. He found a reason to blow this up."
Li Yuxiang usually loves his son the most, and he always depends on everything. This meeting also prevaricates: "I'm afraid it's not easy to do!"
"Why don't you do it? If you don't want to do it, it will take another three or five years. Don't settle down." Lu Yuandao said.
Li Yuxiang was collecting the bowls. Hearing this, he simply put the bowls on the table and whispered, "This is Lu Yao's baby kiss when he was a child. It's not easy to regret it."
"Is there anything else?" Lu Yuan was foolish.
Baby kiss? propose a marriage by pointing to the stomach -- an old practice of marriage had been engaged to each other before they were born? What kind of dog blood routine is this?
Am I Uncle Xiao Yan? Or am I Nalan smiling at his brother?
Should I stop myself and regret my marriage, when Wang Changshu suddenly said, "Don't cheat the poor youth after 30 years of Hedong and Hexi", and then suddenly changed his mind and started a new life?
Li Yuxiang didn't notice Lu Yuan's crazy thoughts, and whispered: "This family has been settled for more than ten years. Every year, the old Wang family comes to give gifts on New Year's Day. If you want to repent, you have to spit out these gifts. More than ten years, plus betrothal gifts, this is not a small amount!"
"How much?" Lu Yuan's face darkened.
No wonder he didn't hear anything in his previous life. Lu Yao's marriage seemed to happen suddenly.
Now I think it's true that the Lu family and the Wang family are not close, or even in the same village, and they come back to give gifts on New Year's Day. It's not such a good thing.
"At least four thousand!" Li Yuxiang raised his fingers and shook.
Lu Yuan suddenly said nothing.
In this year, the salary of senior officials in the town was less than 200 yuan. A month's work in the factory was more than 250 yuan. The price of pork was 1.5 yuan... 4000 yuan, which is equivalent to two years' salary.
For farmers who face the loess and face the sky all their lives, at least half of their lives will be spent to fill this hole.
"Don't think about Lu Yao. I'll discuss it with your father again. If it's really like you said, even if we sell our cattle, we'll have to give up the family!"
Li Yuxiang always felt that Lu Yuan was a little different today. Only now did he find that Lu Yuan was beginning to care about his family's affairs, and he was relieved while collecting his dishes and chopsticks.
"Go to school now. Old Lu's family hopes you will become famous. If you can get into college, you will honor your ancestors. When the time comes, you will take the public job and go out of the village."
Lu Yuan shakes his head and smiles bitterly.
In the 1990s, many public families left their iron jobs to seek a living in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou? However, in this village, Duan Gongjia Bowl is also regarded as a matter of honor.
The theory of the futility of reading started in a few years ago. Those rich men who relied on the demolition funds and stood at the tuyere held cigarettes and patted their round beer bellies. "I have a big fight, but I don't know a lot of words, and those who work for me are college students."
But Lu Yuan doesn't think so. What he studies is knowledge and what he develops is vision. The pig on the tuyere will fly in this era, but it will not fly too high or too far after all.
But now there is something more important in front of him. Lu Yuan takes a glance at several crooked houses and grits his teeth.
"Make money!"
