This article records the story of Ahua, a rural woman in the southeast coast in the past 30 years of reform and opening up. Adapted from a real case. The author tried to write a novel for the first time. Please exchange ideas with your pen pal.
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The story begins in1the 1970s.
It's early morning in summer. Ahua gets up in disgrace as usual and is busy with the family's breakfast. A cauldron of sweet potato porridge.
This is an old quadrangle in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. There is a patio in the middle, three arc hills paved with red bricks on the ground, and the valley where the arc surfaces intersect is the channel for aproll. Rain falls in the middle of the courtyard, and water is diverted from the mountain. On the edge of the steps from the entrance hall to the patio, there is a hidden drain pipe. North of the courtyard is the living room, south is the hall, east and west are the wing and porch. The hall bank of the living room is the spiritual position of the ancestors, and behind the hall bank is the kitchen. On both sides of the wing, there are two low wind towers protruding from the roof, and red bricks with four corners are stuck on the platform outside the wind towers. On both sides of the red brick platform are guardrails of green ceramic wine bottles. There are many children in our ancestors, including more than ten gatehouses, wings, corridors and wings, which are full of our own small families.
Ahua's mother is often beaten by her father. When she was twelve, her mother died of injuries. Because of the great famine, one of the twin sisters starved to death and the other was given away. The giver also starved to death soon. At present, there is a big brother in the world, a little brother in the world, and a father, a family of four, crowded in the west wing. The total construction area is less than 10 square meter.
At the dinner table, my father talked about the arrangement of the matchmaker to introduce the object. At noon, the matchmaker led the Arvin family ten miles away to the door. Hoa wore two ponytails and some clothes patched with broken flowers. She looks very handsome. The guy who came on a blind date looked at Han, covered with a worn patched blue cloth, and sat there scratching his head from time to time. When I introduced myself, I said that three generations of their family were poor peasants and middle peasants. When asked about his age, he said, "I am three years older." (Jen was 20 years old at that time, and I didn't know I was 25 years old until I got married. Jen looked down on him and wanted to divorce him. However, my father received five dollars from others and declared, "If this family doesn't marry, they have to marry. If they want to find a husband, they will marry her again. " My father found a good family before, just because my mother died early and didn't get married. Father had no choice but to give up. This time, my father hid all the money in the family, and Ahua couldn't borrow any money to dissolve the engagement, so he compromised and got married as soon as the wedding day arrived.
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There were no rings at the wedding at that time. The woman got married with a gold tooth, her face painted with wool powder, two clothes, a bedding, a thermos bottle, two boxes and a bedside table painted with red paint.
On the wedding day, Gao Jiawen borrowed the blue Chinese tunic suit of the same clan and wore the unpatched New Pants washed by his father. After a burst of excitement, the Chen family, who had been coldly bullied by three generations of relatives, married their eldest daughter-in-law.
Awen's grandmother, Sister Ping, is a strong woman who can do some paper money and incense sticks business. And a smoky smoker. She and her husband Damu have two sons and a daughter. The eldest son inherited the gene of her husband's mental disability, and the younger son and daughter followed her. When the youngest son was five years old, Sister Ping asked the Tiger King in the temple to come forward to deal with the dispute over black smoke. According to rural legend, the tiger king came out and died. To please the Lord of the tiger king, you need to put a large piece of raw meat in the mouth of the tiger king, otherwise it will bite the whole family. However, Sister Ping, who was in full swing, forgot to stuff raw meat. Washed away his five-year-old son. Since then, the burden of carrying on the family line can only fall on Amin, the eldest son in his teens and twenties. He can only work and can't take care of himself normally. After the daughter 16 got married, she ran back to her hometown in the middle of the night and jumped into the well, leaving no children.
Our mother Xiuer was adopted by the town next to the Chen family and became Amin's child bride. Sister Ping treats Xiuer better than her own daughter. Xiuer has read a book and knows a few words. After two abandoned villages in Tallinn, she followed Sister Ping to Quanzhou and Xiamen, and then returned to Tallinn to rebuild her home. Sister Ping built the first tile house with mixed structure of wood, stone and adobe in the attic. The house is east-west (according to the geomantic topography, Sister Ping's maiden name is Huang, and her maiden name is the warlock's hometown). The attic and rooms are in the south. There is an ear-shaped kitchen at the end of the north side, and the walls of the kitchen are the north side and the west side of the same family. The middle part is the living room, which is divided into front hall and back hall. The back hall stores things and cans, and the front hall is the dining room and daily life. This house is built for Xiuer. It was a mansion in the village at that time. Nowadays, the copper plate lining the door frame bears the imprint of Guangxu and Xianfeng times.
With the growth of age, Xiuer is generous and exquisite. At marriageable age, Xiuer is unwilling to marry Amin. With Sister Ping's consent, the son-in-law was adopted by her husband. I set up Akin in the next village.
Ah Jin lost his mother while nursing, ranking fifth among his brothers. He grew up on the breast milk of his eldest sister-in-law, and has been raised by his eldest brother and sister-in-law who is one year younger than his eldest nephew. Older than a teenager, he is crazy from time to time (now manic). People of the older generation think that ghosts are following them, they can't walk away, and sometimes they have seizures. When my ears were small, I was climbed in by a gecko, and I was a little hard of hearing. Also because of poor hearing, I speak loudly. People are very beautiful, and their height is 1.7 meters. When this happened, although Xia Shangcun abandoned the village because of two contradictions, killing people and leaving all kinds of grievances, Xiuer still insisted on uxorilocal.
The last abandoned village. Because the ducks in the upper village ate the wheat in the lower village of threshing ground and were killed by the lower village, conflicts broke out and an appointment was made. On the day of the fight, a villager with no martial arts in Shangcun secretly invited bandits from the mountains to sneak into the crowd and killed one of his own in the melee. After death, no one cares, and no one collects the body. The whole village announced that it had abandoned the village and fled. This time Xiuer fled to Xiamen, where there is a village with the same name. Quanzhou, Fiona Fang and Xiamen, villages of the same name, have been abandoned several times and concentrated in permanent places.
On Xiuer's wedding day, when firecrackers rang outside Ah Chin's house, the bandits of the same clan ran to Pingjie's house with shotguns and killed Xiuer. Stopped by the same person outside the wedding room, or shot in the middle of the wedding bed. At this moment, Sa is relieving herself on the toilet curtain beside the bed, otherwise people will be gone.
Many people of the same clan have a bad heart. They cling to Pingjie's family or are stupid for generations, and then occupy land and houses. After Ah Kin was adopted, his hopes were dashed.
Although Sister Ping agreed with her son-in-law, although Amin died around the age of 20, she still didn't like Aqin, who was hard of hearing. It is also very uncomfortable to see the harmonious picture of love and affection between the two couples, and he is not allowed to serve food when eating. It was not until three children were born that the whole family had to eat, so Xiuer had to secretly hide some food for Aqin at the back door. Then there is business income and so on. And was taken to her home, leaving no money here.
Ah kin and Xiuer are very disappointing. Their first child is a boy named Arvin. Sister Ping is very kind to Arvin. From birth, she carried it on her back, coaxed it and shook it. People take care of her grandson with their hands. She uses her back as a bed day and night. The second child was also a boy, but died soon after birth. The third child is still a boy, named Axing.
After A Xing was born, he found an opportunity to work with him, fled his family and went to repair the railway. He's been gone for five years, and I haven't heard from him. Pan Fu eagerly led his son out and got the man back. After I came back, I gave birth to a son and two women, a Sheng, a Po and a Xiao Xue.
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There is a heavy camphor ladder under the attic on the south side. Connected to the attic is the big room in the east. The west wall of the big house is connected with a small wing, about 5 square meters. On the south wall of the small room, there is a small oil paper window with double openings, and on the west side, the inner wall is a big window with a wooden fence. Outside the inner wall on the west side is a small hall of the same square with a south gate, and the north side of the small hall is connected with the hall.
Ahua's wedding room is arranged in the small wing. Opposite the door is a new wooden collapsed bed carved with red oil paint, and a khaki mosquito net cloth is attached to the hook beside the bed. The curtain on the top of the bed is a red cloth ball. The gap between the end of the bed and the wall, 40 cm wide, is a curtain of a brown coarse cloth door, and behind the door is a convenient bucket at night.
The wedding bed is 205 cm long, 145 cm wide and about 260 cm high. There is no decorative cover on the top of the bed. In the middle of the bed is a horizontal solid board with two wooden boxes on it. There is no room for my wedding bedside table, so it is on the wall of the small hall.
On the second day of the wedding, Ah Jin cooked a bowl of pork liver noodles and came to the room. He saw that the mosquito net was still there, and before the young couple got up, they directly smashed a bowl on the ground. This is also the day when Ahua goes home.
At that time, the marriage custom, newlyweds, when not pregnant, the wife can not live in her husband's house. In the same room for a day or two, my wife will go back to her mother's house, and then after a while, my husband will call home. Otherwise, it will be regarded as debauchery and will be laughed at. Between farm work, the new wife in the field is always laughed at by the villagers.
Jen is very disciplined. As soon as she gets home, she will be back for a long time. Arvin didn't go back to her husband's house until he asked her. It took three or four years to get pregnant. First, she married a little girl in the same village. After five years of marriage, her stomach hasn't moved at all. At one time, her husband's family suspected that she was an eggless person. Later, she became pregnant with Ahua at the same time and did not divorce.