Author: Li Weizhong
Wang Laowu, thin and dark. His parents died early, and he could only live under the same roof with his second and third brothers, who were also single.
The second brother and the third brother worked during the day to earn work to support the family, cooking rice, washing pulp, raising poultry and livestock and other household chores naturally fell on the shoulders of the young Wang Laowu, and whenever he had free time, he had to pick up the pig grass and pick firewood. The green-nosed dolls in the Wang Family's Great Forest followed him in groups of three or five, and the thick and honest Wang Laowu seemed to be a doll head.
One day at noon, passing by the door of the landlord's wife Wang Zhang's house, he heard the sound of fried beans in the house, Wang Laowu called a few dolls to wait at the door, Wang Laowu went to the backyard to pick up Wang Zhang's only two chickens and ran all over the sky, Wang Zhangshi rushed out to catch chicken thieves, the chickens panicked and panicked around the master, the master went home, and the fried beans in the pot were gone.
In the autumn, the oranges and persimmons are ripe one after another, and the Wang Da Niang next door is particularly cut, and no one can eat her melon fruit. In the evening, taking advantage of the production team leader's strong labor force in the storage room to hold a general meeting of the members, Wang Laowu invited a few half-cut dolls to put on a sentry, drilled the fence wall trees by himself, picked most of the oranges and persimmons in a few pockets, and did not dare to take them home and hid them in the grass pile behind the production team's storage room. The next morning, Wang Da Niang beat her chest and fell to her feet and cursed the heavens - which turtle son stole my things, the sky thundered!
Wang Laowu's second brother was steady, shouldering two or three hundred pounds. Whenever the production team harvested in the spring, he did the heavy work of picking wheat and millet. The third brother is tall and shrewd, digging coal in the small coal kiln of the commune, and often helping the neighbors repair flashlights, sprayers, biogas lamp stoves and so on when they return home from work. Two strong laborers, earn more work points throughout the year, plus investment in feeding pigs, year-end final accounts, due rations, and some cash income, spring, summer, autumn and winter, thin dry, usually carrots, amaranth, cornmeal plus wedges, so as not to force the belly to round. The three brothers ate a large amount of food, remember once, a ten-pound pig brain shell, boiled a good boiling pot, the three brothers on a few dimes a pound of shochu, a meal will be thrown over.
Because the three brothers were the children of rich peasants, although they sincerely loved the sweet fragrance of roses, they did not enter the palace of marriage for a long time. It was not easy for the matchmaker to come to the door to say kiss, and the woman was Su Shufen of Guanxian County, petite and beautiful. It is also the beauty of heaven and justice, and as soon as he says it, Wang Laowu finally has a third sister-in-law. Since then, the world of men has added the fragrance and shadow of women.
The captain arranged for the construction of three new rooms opposite the dam of the five courtyards of Wang Lao, with row roof trusses and bamboo walls. The master mason mixed the mud on the wall with mud, grain grass knots and water, and the outside was made of lime slurry mud, and the snow white was bright. The door is a wooden door made by the carpenter master using the eucalyptus tree of the production team, and the eucalyptus trunk is to be deformed, and the inside can be seen from the crack of the door, and the outside can also be seen from the inside. The floor of the three houses is paved with three mud and compacted, the roof is combed and cleaned with freshly harvested wheat straw, the hand of the master mason, the three houses stand in the south of the courtyard dam, like a work of art, don't underestimate this house, live in it warm in winter and cool in summer.
One morning, the new house welcomed its owner, the commune cadre and the secretary of the brigade, and the two female intellectuals who had just joined the team. Thin called Jin Rong, Chu Chu moving, slightly fat called Qinglian, a smile a haha, is in adolescence Wang Laowu, saw two young and beautiful figures, think that it is a fairy under the mortal, thin body, suddenly pulled up the tent. At night, Zhi Qing Jinrong poured foot wash water and splashed it on the body of the black shadow, the black shadow moved, "Qinglian, there is a ghost", the people living in the whole compound dam heard the news and moved, the flashlight, the kerosene lamp, with the squeaky opening of the door, look left and right, do not see the ghost shadow.
Since the two female Zhiqing came, Wang Laowu was a little six gods and no masters all day long, thinking about right and wrong, and always loved to come to the door to talk when there was nothing to do. In the past, thick hair was always messy, and every morning egg white was smeared on the hair by hand, and the hair was combed to a slippery pace, and the third sister-in-law always felt that the hen at home was like her.
The spring canola flowers are finished, immediately busy with the summer harvest, like beekeeping the second brother, with a rack car to pull more than a dozen barrels of bees up the mountain to feed. Wang Laowu was instructed to take good care of his third sister-in-law, and at night, the third sister-in-law shouted", "Qingwen, come and help me rub my back", and Wang Laowu, who was lying on the bed, heard the third sister-in-law's call, but did not dare to take a step beyond the thunder pool, because there is an old saying in the countryside that "the eldest brother is the father, and the eldest sister-in-law is the mother." Helplessly, the third sister-in-law made a call again and again, Wang Laowu had to go to the kitchen, in the dim light, Wang Laowu saw the woman's carcass for the first time, the hot blood rushed to the top of his head, his hands gently rubbed the snow-white skin of the third sister-in-law, the wet third sister-in-law turned around and hugged his little uncle Wang Laowu, kissing Wang Laowu wildly, "You are not allowed to peek at the female Zhiqing for two days, it is against the law." The skinny Wang Laowu snuggled up to his third sister-in-law and fell asleep...
Wang Laowu gradually grew into an adult, and the production captain always discriminated against the children of the rich, asking Wang Laowu, who had just become an adult, to do heavy physical work and level the production team's fields. Dryland is easy to handle, and the convex soil is picked up to a low depression; the paddy field is troublesome, and the wet soil is lifted, and the muddy water is stepped on, and the legs and feet are not moved, let alone the heavy burden. Although Wang Laowu had no culture, his mind was still active, and he used wooden planks to form a wooden boat, put the dirt on the top, put a rope on his shoulders, and pulled the "mud boat" to a low-lying place, and after a day of hard work, he was exhausted. When she went home to take a bath, the third sister-in-law caressed the scars on her shoulders and kissed her uncle from time to time. At this time, Wang Laowu comforted himself, or someone loved me.
Since Wang Laowu became a labor force, he left work early and finished work late, so that the production captain could not find fault. At night, it is difficult to survive, cultural life is tired, and every day after listening to the broadcast of the loudspeaker, only three or five blow shells together, and then go to sleep. If you hear that there is a dam movie anywhere, you will run to see it without falling, even if it is ten miles and eight miles.
In the early days of reform and opening up, when the fields were divided into households, there were families who lacked labor, and Wang Laowu was asked to do farmland work, manage tobacco, alcohol, and rice, and pay three yuan a day. There was a special Uncle Kwong who gave Wang Laowu the "economic" cigarettes contained in the "Jinhe" cigarette box, and Wang Laowu never cared.
Wang Laowu took over the salary with his left hand, and as soon as he returned home, he handed over his right hand to the third sister-in-law, because the third brother was in a mining accident in the small coal kiln, and Wang Laowu had to take up the burden of feeding his nephews and nieces.
A matchmaker came to the door to propose to the family, Wang Laowu replied: The woman must be as beautiful as the "white lotus" to agree, and from time to time in front of everyone, she says that the "white lotus" in the movie "White Lotus" is too beautiful.
When he was idle, Wang Laowu was introduced by others to work in a nearby individual enterprise, and only returned home once at the end of the year, and the wages earned were all handed over to the third sister-in-law.
Because he had just done heavy physical work all day as an adult, Wang Laowu fell ill, and the township dam head said "tuberculosis". Individual enterprises do not attach importance to environmental protection, and after a few years, when Wang Laowu returned home, he gradually became thinner and thinner, and his health deteriorated. The third sister-in-law was in pain in her heart, and she was eager to grab the root of the disease from the little uncle. He ran up and down, accompanied Wang Laowu to check, small hospitals, and exhausted all kinds of home remedies, and Wang Laowu was still deteriorating.
Wang Laowu suffered for a winter, with a smile, shook the hand of the third sister-in-law, and went to find the "white lotus" in his heart...
Note: The image comes from the Internet