Chapter 1: The old people in Lujiashe 1 This small natural village is called Lujiashe. Most of the small villages on the plains of northern Jiangsu are called “she”, and the medium-sized ones are called “villages.” The best revenge is massive success. The scale is particularly young. Only at night is called “Zhuang”. Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. However, there are some exceptions, and some Dazhuangzizi with a population of several thousand are also called “home”. Lujiashe has a population of just over 900 and is a medium-to-small village. What is a bit difficult to understand is that there is no family named Lu in this village. Legend has it that a long time ago, the first people to settle here were those who escaped from Changmen, Suzhou. Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 9Ethiopia Sugar 0 percent how I react to it. The three Lu brothers came out of the desert. At that time, this was still a deserted beach. Large and small lakes are dotted here and there, rivers are crisscrossed, and reeds grow all over the land. As major floods over thousands of years brought large amounts of sediment, the coastline continued to move eastward, away from the salt water and becoming a wetland suitable for agriculture. Hundreds of years ago, in order to avoid the successive wars in the south of the Yangtze River, the three Lu family brothers had to flee their wealthy hometown and come to this wild land. After more than 100 years of multiplication and the migration of people with other surnames, it has become a settlement with a population of more than 200 people, mainly with the Lu surname. It was later unknown ET Escorts that a plague occurred that year, and two-thirds of the people died at once, ET Escorts None of the young adults with the surname Lu were spared, so this place became the Lu Family House without residents named Lu. Lujiashe belongs to Chuyang County and is located at the eastern end of the county. It is seventy or eighty miles away from the city of Chuyang CountyEthiopians Sugardaddy . The east side of Lu’s houseNext to it is the territory of Donghe County, which is adjacent to the Yellow Sea and has a long coastline. The county seat was originally a salt farm on the seaside, called Hetou Chang. It was much smaller than Chuyang County, and it was less than 40 miles away from Lujiashe. Therefore, when people in the village want to go to the city for business, they usually go up to the Donghe River. Many people have never been to Chuyang in their lives. They all used to call going to the East River “going up the street” and going up to Chuyang “going to the city ET Escorts“. You can go back and forth on the same day after the 1 o’clock update. There is a small town called Taijiayao more than ten miles southeast of Lujiashe, which is famous for its brick-burning and tile-burning. It is said that Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang used city bricks fired by Taijiayao when he built the city wall of Nanjing. There is a large east-west river to the south of Taijiayao, running through Chuyang County to the west and extending into Donghe County to the east. This river is called Chelu River. Legend has it that it was originally a dry road transporting salt from the sea to the hinterland. Floods from west to east washed it into a big river. There is a long and narrow old street in TaiEthiopia Sugar Jiayao. On the 369th day of the lunar calendar, there is a market. Now, if a house owner wants to buy two young pigs or sell a few domestic chickens and ducks, they all have to go to the kiln. To go to the kiln, you only need to ask for half a day’s leave from the team, which wastes half a day’s work. There is another big village called Dawangzhuang to the east of Lujiashe. This village is very big. It is said that at the time of the National Commune, it was the largest brigade in the province, with a population of more than 6,000. There is a supply and marketing cooperative and a cotton purchasing station on the village. Even the credit cooperative and the post and telecommunications office have set up agencies there. There is also a short small street on the village, where you can buy all the necessities of life that are not planned. The most prosperous business in the morning is the sesame cake shop. There are actually three stoves for making sesame cakes on a short street. In the past, Dawangzhuang was famous for its fried crispy sesame cakes. Dawangzhuang is only more than three miles away from Lu’s house. You can walk there, although there are two rivers in between. But there are people ferrying them there, so if the people staying here come to relatives, they usually go there to buy some food. However, for those women in rural areas who rarely have the opportunity to go out, Dawangzhuang is like a big city, and they rarely go to the village for a leisurely walk throughout the year. There is a large east-west river in the center of Lujiashe’s village. The population on the south side of the river is slightly more. There are currently three villager groups and two in Hebei. At first the riverIt was not so wide. There was a long and narrow stack in the middle of the river, which was covered with reeds. Later, the stack became narrower and narrower, and eventually it was submerged in the water. The two small rivers merged into one big river. In the past, there was a wooden bridge across the river. The width of the bridge board was less than two feet. Because it had been in disrepair for a long time, it swayed badly when people walked on it. Especially when it was windy and rainy, most elderly people crawled on it. Cross the bridge. There is also a north-south NianEthiopians Sugardaddy night river to the east of the village, which intersects with the Zhonghe River in a T-shape. There is a three-dimensional river at the turning corner. The small Duozi facing the river has a land temple built underneath it, so the people on it are called Temple Duozi. The land temple faces south and is built on the bank of a river. There used to be an old elm tree that had grown for more than 100 years on the bank of the river. It is a small temple and covers nearly half of the river surface. When boaters pass there, they have to pull the branches with their hands to stop the boat and enjoy the rare coolness for a while. Later, the tree was cut off from the roots and burned during the steel smelting. The Dipan Temple was also razed to the ground by reactionary generals during the Cultural Revolution. At the beginning of the 21st century, the spring breeze of reform and opening up brought about earth-shaking changes in Lujiashe. First, the rickety wooden bridge over the Zhonghe River was replaced by a cement bridge with railings. Later, the lanes in the village were paved with cement pavements, and water pipes extending in all directions were buried on the pavements. The bright street lights at night make this small village look like a beautiful Jiangnan town. A few years ago, a not-too-wide rural road was built behind the village. Country villas rose up on both sides of the road. Every year around the Spring Festival, private cars of different colors would be parked along the road. The earth temple on the temple stacks was also rebuilt through the villagers’ voluntary fund-raising, and Ethiopia Sugar Daddy was built wider than before. Even though the elm tree sprouted from the roots of the old tree has grown more than 20 years ago, it is far less overwhelming than it was back then. This is an ordinary village in the Lixiahe area, and our protagonists will make their debut at this time.
2 Now, live Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. Most of the residents on Lujiashe Laozhuang Terrace are elderly. In recent years, many wealthy families have built villas beside the highway. Some who have made a fortune by doing business have bought houses in the city, and some have children who have been admitted to university and moved to the city. task. If these people’s familiesEthiopia SugarThere are also old people, and most of them are reluctant to live with their children, so the old house becomes their last habitat. It is idle and the door is locked all day long. It may be sold to other people at a very low price. There is a single old man living in an old house just across a small ditch from the temple. His surname is Li and his given name is Hancheng. He is in his early 70s. Because he was the second eldest son in the family, the younger generations called him Er Si Si (it is customary here to call grandpa Si Si). Most of his peers also called him Er Si Si. call His name is Lao Hancheng. Laohancheng has a son and two daughters. The son is the youngest, his nickname is Sanzi, and his eldest daughter is Li Wen. They are married in neighboring villages, one to the west. Too far, ET EscortsMy eldest daughter is now a grandmother. My son was admitted to a technical secondary school in the provincial capital. At that time, the state was responsible for the assignment. After graduation, he was assigned to work as a technician in a state-owned enterprise in the provincial capital. I heard that he is now a technician. Became a member of that state-owned enterprise A middle-level cadre. His grandson was also in college in Nanjing. Two years ago, his wife was diagnosed with early-stage cancer. I’m staying at home, and it’s just New Year’s Eve thereET Escorts house, give you a room to retire in the city.” He said: “I’m not used to going to your place, you are all off work. Being alone upstairs and having no work to do, I always felt like it was hard to get through the day or night. I live in a home, and there are many acquaintances when I go out. In the morning, I can take a stroll to Dawangzhuang to order a fried cake for breakfast. In the afternoon, I can chat with a few elderly people about daily life. The day passes quickly. . “After hearing this, the son felt that it made sense, so he obeyed him. Before leaving, he specially talked to his neighborEthiopia Sugar The daddies called and hoped that they would take care of each other morning and night. There were two things that made the son uneasy the most. One was that the old man had a hard life and felt uncomfortable when he was idle. He would definitely keep it a secret. The children are secretly doing small jobs behind the bricklayers. In the past, their mother took care of them. Do something today that your future self will thank you. for. Taking care of him, there is only one person left now. Who can take care of him if he is injured or not? Secondly, most of his neighbors are also in their old age. Who can take care of whom during the confinement period? There was nothing he could do. His son only had to call him every three days. The house where Old Han Cheng lived was his family’s ancestral house. The terrain was very high, and the high terrain proved that there were people living here.For the longest time, the farmhouses in the past were full of barren earthen walls. They would be torn down and rebuilt every few years, and each time they were rebuilt, the height would increase by several inches. Therefore, when there was a flood in 1991, water filled the houses around the village, but the water here was still more than a foot above the water level. The location of this house is also quite good. Behind the yard is the river. There is only a narrow ditch between the temple and the temple to the east. It is considered the southeast corner of the river. People in the past said: “It is difficult to buy the southeast corner if you have money. It is warm in winter.” Cool summer is so happy.” This house was rebuilt in the 1980s, when it was newly dividedET EscortsAfter a few years of farm work, the rural economy was gradually improving. Many families tore down their mud walls and built brick walls, demolished thatched houses and built tile houses. The old man Cheng didn’t have much savings at that time. In order to keep up with the situation I also borrowed some money to build these three brick houses. They were quite impressive when they were first built, but now they have become antiques in the village. After all, twenty or thirty years have passed. However, as the saying goes: “A real house is like a fake house,” which means that no matter how ugly the house is, as long as there are people living in it and regular repairs, it is a family. The three houses built by the old man are still The traditional layout style, the middle room is called the main room, also called the open room, occupying the entire area. It always seems impossible until it’s done. Half of a house, with the door facing south. The east and west sides of the main room are the east room and the west room respectively. There are doors connected to the main room. The rooms are very small, only half the size of the main room, measuring one foot, four, seven feet from north to south, and seven feet from east to west. A bed can be placed horizontally. On the north wall of the main room is a bulky household god cabinet, which is a relic of the ancestors. Ethiopia Sugar Daddy always had a portrait of Mao Zedong, which was later replaced by a scroll of a birthday boy. There was an Eight Immortals table in the main room, where the old man ate and received guests on the west side of the yard. gate He also built a kitchen with two grass-burning stoves. The stoves have not been burned since his wife left. The eldest daughter gave him a gas tank and stove. The old man has always kept pace with the times. Then burn the grass and cook rice in a rice cooker , a water heater for boiling water. There is also a thatch shed connected to the pig pen in the yard. No one has raised pigs for a long time. The pig pen has always been empty and piled with useless debris. The thatch shed is still there. Although his son installed a solar water heater for them a few years ago and also built a bathroom and installed a toilet, the old man was still used to using thatched pot. He couldn’t bear to waste the fertilizer in vain. He planted some by the river. Vegetables have never been treated with chemicalsEthiopia Sugar Daddy Fat. There is a pair of old people living to the west of Laohancheng.Han wife. The old man’s name is Zhao Guoqiang, a retired township cadre. Because he worked as a civil affairs assistant in the township before retirement, some people still call him Section Chief Zhao, but most people call him Lao Zhao. Because the old man Cheng had a different relationship with him, he always called him Guoqiang by his first name. Guoqiang is one year younger than Lao Hancheng, so the two of them are children. When they were young, life in the village had no limitations, except the ones you make. When they were in junior high school, they were roommates. After finishing the fourth grade, Lao Hancheng’s father did not want his son to continue to go to school. At that time, he was still working alone, and he was a 12- or 13-year-old boy.Ethiopians Sugardaddy It is a half-labor job and can help the family a lot. It is said that farmers only need to know a few characters to know “the name of the person and the public account”. Guoqiang’s father was more open-minded and let him go to Dawangzhuang to attend high school for two years. Later, when he arrived at the National Commune, Guoqiang first became the accountant of the brigade, and was later selected as the party secretary. In the early 1980s, he was transferred to work in the commune. When Guoqiang was the party secretary, the old man became a As the captain of the team, he has a good reputation in the team because he is responsible and selfless in his work. The fifth team is also relatively advanced and is a model team in the village. It happened that the second-in-command in the brigade that year (called the deputy director of the Revolutionary Committee at that time) was caught and raped in bed because of prostitution. That family was also a soldier and a member of the Communist Party. In order to calm down the incident, the commune fired the deputy director. Disappointed, Han became the second-in-command naturally and became Guoqiang’s partner. After Guoqiang was transferred to the commune, Lao Hancheng took over as party secretary. However, eight years later, he was punished and dismissed from his post despite being a good party secretary. The reason was that one of his sisters had given birth to three children. At that time, family planning affected the nine clans.
3 Mr. Guoqiang and his wife also moved back from the town two years ago. Before that, he had bought a small commercial house in the town and had been living there. After retirement. Originally, he planned to retire there. Later, a few years later, he suddenly wanted to return to the village. He felt that living in a pigeon cage-like unit was really boring. In addition, his wife’s legs and feet were not good and it was difficult to go up and downstairs. The building is very inconvenient. The old house of Guoqiang’s family was renovated a few years later than that of Hancheng’s family. It had become dilapidated because it had been unoccupied for a long time, and there was a gap in the courtyard wall. Before moving back, he asked someone to renovate the ET Escorts house. The ceiling was also made and the floor tiles were laid. The original The doors and windows were removed and replaced with aluminum alloy ones, and a cement floor was poured in the yard. The son also asked people to install air conditioning and solar energy, and built a bathroom with a bathtub and toilet. Among the old houses where the elderly live on Laozhuang Terrace, this place can be regarded as the most modern and comfortable place.Nested. The courtyard behind the old man’s house has been empty for many years. It was an older brother of his. The old couple left early. His son, in order to avoid having a child, the family went to the south of the Yangtze River to build a big ship in the early years. Transportation. Later, the business grew bigger and bigger, and a sand and gravel yard was opened there. It is said that I now have several million in hand! Not only does he live in a large commercial house in a suburban county of Shanghai, but he also invested in several front-end houses. Now he can earn tens of thousands every year just from the house money. . Behind that uninhabited yard lived an old lady who had been a widow for many years. Her daughter had long since been married, and her son was married. I made some money by opening a clothing store in the city, and later opened a clothing processing factory in partnership with others, bought a house in the city, and moved the whole family to the city. Because the old man didn’t want to live in the city with his son and wife, he stayed at home alone in his old house. The old man’s name is Zhaodi, Ethiopians Escort this year 68 years old, his maternal surname is Tang, and he married from Dawangzhuang in his early years. This Tang Zhaodi went to elementary school for several years when she was a child. When Zhao Guoqiang was a high school student in Dawangzhuang, she also went to junior high school in that school. At that time, few girls in Xiaozhuangzi went to school, and many girls in Dazhuangzi went to schoolET Escorts On the other hand, most girls will go to school for a few years, and a few families can let their daughters finish primary school. However, the financial conditions of Zhaodi’s family are not good, so he only went to the third grade. Zhaodi has a sister who is three years older than her, named Xiangdi. When the villagers give birth to a girl for the first time, she usually names the girl with the word “di”, such as “picking up the younger brother”, “waiting younger brother”, “suo younger brother”, etc. , the meaning is obviously that she hopes to give birth to a younger brother in the next child. When my sister was born, her parents were very happy. As the saying goes: “Ethiopia Sugar Daddy blooms first, then bears fruit. Raise a girl to take care of her. “Little boy” her father began to get nervous when it was her turn to give birth to her younger brother, because there were cases in the village where four or five girls were born without changing the tire. Fortunately, Ethiopia Sugar was quite successful in recruiting a younger brother. Three years later, he actually “recruited” a younger brother. The brother-in-law had an aunt who married into the Lu family house. She often went to her aunt’s house to play when she was a child. When she was ten years old, her aunt would “introduce” her. That year, Li Hancheng was thirteen years old. He was born four tall and six fat. Capable and sensible, Hancheng’s family and his aunt’s family were in the same team, and there was no aunt who wouldn’t talk to her when she met her, so her aunt concentrated on arranging this marriage, saying that it was just right.Han Cheng is three years older than his younger brother Zhao. “The male is in his third year, and the golden mountain depends on the silver mountain.” Later, the marriage of this well-matched couple did not take place. The reason was very simple. The mother who wanted the younger brother wanted to marry her daughter to an only son’s family. There were three brothers in the Hancheng family, so they would only get one-third of the family property of the previous generation. . In fact, the so-called family property at that time was nothing more than seven or eight acres of farmland and large farm tools such as wooden boats and windmills. Within a few years, all these things were owned by the Communist Party and put into the society, and most of what was left was Several thatched huts. It happened that there was an only son named Gu in our team. The boy was one year older than Han and his family was not bad. We succeeded in the first meeting. Later, he recruited his younger brother and Han and worked together in the same team for half a century. Neighbor. Until their twilight years, both of them became a single man and a widower. Zhaodi got married here in 1964, when she was 20 years old and the boy from the Gu family was 24 years old. That year, the situation in the rural areas improved slightly. Although they still didn’t have enough to eat and had to replace vegetables with vegetables, they were already starving to death. Many families who had fled the country began to return. The Gu family also returned from Hubei after the autumn of that year. The father who recruited his younger brother was an honest man who stayed home during the three-year famine. The family suffered a lot. The older sister who recruited his younger brother died of starvation and illness on New Year’s Eve in 1958. During the Spring Festival, each person was given seven or two meters, poorEthiopia Sugar‘s sister has not seen rice for dozens of days. When she was given rice, she had just died and was unable to enjoy the long-lost delicious meal. 5Ethiopia Sugar In the spring of Daddy9, her mother took her and her younger brother to “Haili” to beg for food (people here used to call the seashore east of the East River Haili). At that time, the people on the seaside were better than here. , after the public cafeteria was opened, I could still drink two meals of corn grits porridge every day, plus potatoes and carrots, and I was basically full. Because there used to be too many people begging for food here, and they didn’t have enough to eat every day, so they were only willing to serve half a bowl of porridge to them when they met someone with good intentions. When they got some food, they had to let their younger brother eat it first, and then When it was the turn to recruit a younger brother, sometimes the mother and daughter would give in to each other. At that time, Zhaodi was fifteen years old. She should be a tall and graceful girl now, but at that time she was still a completely undeveloped child. One day, they stayed at the house of an old man and his wife. It was a private house. There was no village there, and most of the families lived together in three, four, or five or six families. There were many private houses in the countryside. Second ET Escorts It snowed heavily all day long, and the old man’s wife took care of their meals for the whole day, although they only had two meals of Hulu I couldn’t eat corn grits porridge, but I still felt very sorry. Opportunities don’t happen that day, youcreateEthiopia Sugar Daddy them. The mother who persuaded her brother to recruit her said: “I seeEthiopians EscortSo many people have starved to death in your place. I’m afraid they won’t be able to recover for a while. Why don’t you leave this little girl here with me and I’ll find a home for her.” The mother said, “My son will be settled with a family when he is ten years old. Even though she is in Hubei now, if she comes back one day and wants someone to marry her, how will she explain it to her? “The old lady said again, “In this world. Daona has so much control over it. A few days ago, a woman who got married and gave birth to a child at home stayed with someone when she was begging for food. When the man from the family came to find him, he only gave him a few dozen kilograms of corn and even the child. I was sent away if I didn’t want it.” After hearing this, my mother was a little tempted, because this could save her life and maybe help the family support her younger brother. However, she was not left in the end, mainly because she was determined not to recruit a younger brother. (To be continued)