Aunt Tian's Troubles (short story)

One

"Whoever touches my field will never struck me!" Mrs. Tian stood at the head of the field, holding a hoe, and said angrily.

"Aunt Tian, road construction is a big guy's business, can you stop it alone?" Sheng Da picked up a load of dung water, snorting, sweating all over his face, "I wish I would waste the vegetable field, so as to save the day and water the vegetables to death." ”

"You young people, are you tired of living?" Mrs. Tian pursed her lips and squinted at her pair of big feet, "If you are not sick or sick, you will die of exhaustion if you do some work?" Bigfooted? I came here in fifty-nine years, I didn't starve to death, I picked up a life, I love to work. I'm afraid of being tired, so I'll give birth to a person! ”

"I heard that there is something from above, and the village has to find a project to spend the money, no, the road in Tianfu is narrow, and it is just widened." The little man blinked his little eyes, looked around, and whispered.

"It's the team that wants to make money again," Mrs. Tian pouted, spat on the palm of her hand, and picked up the hoe to clear the ditch, "Hehe, there are many tricks, the primary school drills five wells in three years - out of the ordinary?" An old well in Tianjia has been used for decades, and according to this method, the ground is full of holes! ”

"We don't care about digging wells, as long as the compensation is reasonable, we will sell it!" Sheng Da put his feet on the horse, carefully put the dung bucket in the ditch, and splashed the manure scoop into the amaranth field. The sun had set on the dam, and the west was red, and the eight fields were hot and steamer-like, and the rice was setting ears, and one or two barnyard grasses were sticking out of the dark green rice fields, holding their heads high.

"It's all money-eyed goods!" Mrs. Tian pursed her lips and muttered angrily. "Money can never be earned, how much is enough? Lose a few bucks and get a wax. When Ming'er has no food to eat, I will tell you to drink the northwest wind! ”

"Auntie, the village has to build roads, and you can't twist your arms and thighs!" The little man tucked his short hair from his forehead behind his ears, pointed at the brigade headquarters, and squeezed his little eyes quickly.

"I don't nod, he dares!" Mrs. Tian uprooted a one-meter-high neem tree on the ground with a hoe, knocked off the mud on the hoe, and threw it into the ditch, "Whoever dares to touch my field will not be beaten on me!" ”

Two

"Sister, building roads is everyone's business, how can you stop it? Besides, in the future, maybe Erhei will come out and buy a car, and you will be eager to widen the road at that time. Second Uncle Tian stared at Mrs. Tian with eyes as big as a bull's eye.

"I don't have that blessing, I can't wait for that day!" Mrs. Tian had a gloomy face and didn't look at her second brother, "I don't object to widening, and I will abolish the Tian Bei of the Zhou family over there." If you want to occupy my field, no way! ”

"Sister, can you be reasonable? Last year, the village brought tap water, and the pipes as thick as the cellar were all used to hit Zhoujiatian, and now the road is being built and then looking for people, Yu Li can't say it. Besides, it's not for nothing, the village still loses money! ”

"Losing money?" Mrs. Tian snorted and pursed her lips, "Those few cents, which eye can I see!" Hey, I said his second uncle, this is a matter of the brigade, what are you going to do? Relatives help each other, you're good, elbow outward! ”

"I'm turning out?" Second Uncle Tian became angry when he heard this, his eyes widened, and his eyeballs were about to pop out, "This is really a dog biting Lu Dongbin, I don't know the hearts of good people!" I was planning for you, thinking that your orphans and widows had no supporters, and they went to the village to fight for you, and you actually said such chilling words! From now on, I will not care about your family's affairs! Second Uncle Tian was so angry that his chest fell together, his face was flushed, his lips trembled, and he left panting.

"It's rare!" Mrs. Tian spat at her brother's back, "The emperor is not in a hurry, and the eunuch is in a hurry...... It's hard to guarantee that there is no benefit, and there is no profit and you can't afford to ...... early"

For several days, Mrs. Tian stayed at the edge of the field, pulling weeds and watering manure in the vegetable garden. On this day, the daughter-in-law, who has rarely served the vegetable field, came staggeringly. She crouched down and measured something, a tape measure in her hand.

"What do you measure?" Mrs. Tian looked at her daughter-in-law and asked.

"I see how long one meter five is......"

"Are they looking for you? Do you agree? Mrs. Tian raised her voice.

"The village asked my second uncle to do my job...... The second uncle guaranteed that according to the highest compensation, at least 20,000 ......"

"See the goods that are open to money!" Mrs. Tian muttered, muttering, daring to be angry but not daring to speak, "Okay! Good! Since you have all agreed, why should I be a wicked person? But we have ugly words in front, as the saying goes, the first thin is not thin, and the second thin is not thin. said that it would occupy one meter and five, and I would not follow half a foot inward! You have to find someone to write an agreement, there is no evidence, there are words to prove it......"

Three

The second pillar drove the excavator to the field and prepared to dig the roadbed. Mrs. Tian and her daughter-in-law kept an eye on the line to prevent being occupied.

"Two eggs! You pay attention to me, don't dig through the line-" Mrs. Tian shouted in a straight voice. Her old, hoarse voice was drowned out by the rumbling sound of machinery. From east to west, a deep ditch two meters wide was dug out, and like cutting tofu, the square rice field was cut off by a brush, and it became a long and narrow one.

"Two eggs! You bastard, blind in your eyes? said that it was good to dig one meter and five, but you went down with this paw, and you dug 50 centimeters more! What a good eight bucket fields, all square and cornered! The rice that has been planted for many years is a ripe field! How will we grow crops in the future? You miscellaneous ......" Mrs. Tian scolded while crying.

"And you—" She glared back at her daughter-in-law and scolded, "The blind man sees the money and opens his eyes!" A good piece of land is wasted, and in the future, people will sell the land and sell it for a lot of money, and there will be times when you regret it! ”

The daughter-in-law looked at the dark deep ditch, smelled the fishy smell of pond mud, frowned, and did not say a word.

Mrs. Tian found the village party secretary and blamed the construction company for not operating according to the agreed size, occupying an extra 50 centimeters of land.

"Almost a hundred squares! We have a contract......"

"Don't worry, old lady." The branch secretary pressed Mrs. Tian's shoulders, sat on the sofa, and explained to her unhurriedly, "It is also the idea of the Tianwan people to build this road, and it is Uncle Tian who bears the head." Nowadays, young people have money, and more and more people are buying cars, and the road in Hatotian is too narrow to break two cars, so it is recommended to widen it. The expropriation of farmland shall be compensated from the funds of the village-to-village project, and the compensation shall be as much as it is compensated. You can rest assured, it will not be in vain! This road is repaired, and everyone benefits......"

"Why should everyone benefit, but my family suffers? I'm not angry about this! I'm not a living man! ……”

The branch secretary said something bad and sent Mrs. Tian out of the door. When she walked to the edge of the field, she found Li Qitou and a group of workers unloading a cart of stones into the ditch.

"Deflated! Why don't you boys have eyes when you work? See what has become of my vegetable patch? The stinky pond mud has been dug into the vegetable field, how can I grow vegetables? ”

"Old lady! You're so old, don't enjoy yourself at home, what kind of vegetables do you grow! Do you think there are still a few farms in our Li Wan Tianwan? This urban area has expanded, and it will soon be developed to us, and the fields are all sold! Do you see the small righteous land, but it is all a cemetery, and it is also sold to the developer! Just wait and count the money! ”

"See your big head!" Mrs. Tian scolded, "The fields are all sold, and the whole family drinks the northwest wind!" Do you think you're from the city and get paid a month? Lose two dollars, spend it when you get it, and spend it when you run out of reinforced cement to grow crops? According to me, you should be allowed to live for five or nine years, and these little kings and eight lambs will not starve to death......"

Four

The roadbed was laid, and the cement was just waiting to be laid. It rained for half a month. The pavement is potholed and looks like a marijuana face. Tian Lao Taitian's three vegetable fields were also occupied, and the remaining two were covered with thick pond mud, like the Five Elements Mountain pressed on Sun Monkey's body, and the vegetables planted before were suffocated. Mrs. Tian dragged Lao Han's legs, limped to find the branch secretary three or four times, and the branch secretary spoke, and the second egg reluctantly manipulated the big iron claws of the excavator to dig up the stinky black mud pressed on the vegetable field.

In the second year, the rice field of Mrs. Tian's family did not have seedlings, so it was left there and overgrown with weeds—the ditch dug during the road construction was too deep for the ploughing machine to go down. Mrs. Tian nagged about this for half a month, and when she saw people, she complained that those excavator guys were irresponsible. In the autumn, the thatch in the fields grows as tall as a man, and a large area of yellow and clear water occupies the whole field.

Sheng Dajia's vegetable plot accounted for most of it, and the rest was covered with black pond mud, so she simply didn't plant it, so it was deserted.

During the cement laying period, people saw Mrs. Tian bending her back and digging the vegetable field with a hoe every day. Like ants moving caterpillars, a hoe and a hoe open up the wasteland. By the time the cement road was paved, the two vegetable patches had been planted with greens, radish, onions, garlic, and coriander. The ditch was cleared, and the soil of the vegetable garden became dark and soft again due to the sprinkling of grass ash and manure. Mrs. Tian's temper has become worse recently, and she scolds people at every turn, because her vegetable field is close to the main road, and the young daughters-in-law in the bay pluck her garlic seedlings and coriander. "These sloth bears! I don't know how to pick up the big garlic seedlings, and the big and small ones are pulled out by the brain, which is the same as shaving the head! ”

There is also a deflated daughter-in-law who steals vegetables, and Mrs. Tian caught the deflated head who dragged it home and scolded: "Deflated head! You plague child! You dug up half of my three vegetable patches! At that time, you were asked to give Qingtang mud, but you were still unwilling, why are you embarrassed to pick my vegetables now? When the wait is sold out, you still have to go into the city to buy food and green onions, and you may not have the work to do if you have money! ”

"Old lady, don't be verbose." Scratching his head and laughing, Okida shouted loudly, "Xiaoyi is going to be auctioned, and the developer has already negotiated with the village." If each family has its own amount, the money will be given according to the square. Why don't you go and watch it, your family can claim a lot of money this time......"

When Mrs. Tian heard that she didn't even have time to carry the hoe, she dragged Lao Han's legs and limped towards Xiaoyi. There are not only her mountains, but also three tombs.

"Whoever dares to touch my land without my consent unless he hits me ......"

About author:Wu Fang, a native of Henan Mall. She loves to read and write. Record the bits and pieces of life and show the folk customs of the small town. Willing to step on the solid and deep soil, with quiet words, remember the years like water.