Long years (11)

The one who cried about the old lady was none other than the old lady’s eldest daughter, Jin Ximei.

Everyone knows that Jin Ximei's father has been sorry for her. Therefore, it is understandable that this girl married into the Zheng family and is not close to the people here. You can go ahead. Although they are not close, they can move around normally.

There are still some. Especially in those years, when the son-in-law named Zheng died unexpectedly, leaving her with two sons and the child in her belly, the old lady felt sorry for her daughter at that time and helped her take care of the child. After all,

The man is dead, and he is the one who keeps it in his heart wholeheartedly. This Jin Ximei is a bit stubborn and stubborn. She must not be able to figure it out in her heart!

Why? Why is it so rare for me to follow you? I am living a good life. It would be great to live like this.

But why did he die? Why did he die? Why did you die?

As soon as I couldn't figure it out, I suddenly had no support. The child was small, I was pregnant, and without a man, I had no source of income. Various reasons were mixed together, and I fell ill all of a sudden. How sick is it? As sick as a mother.

I had to start thinking about dressing her up.

Mr. Jin looked at it and thought, this can't work! It's not worth it for such a young person to have his life taken care of like this. After all, he is his biological father. He didn't know where he found an old doctor who said he had a folk remedy that could cure the disease.

Illness. The doctor treats a dead horse as a living horse. I don’t know what kind of snake venom was used. The person’s life was saved, but after he recovered from the disease, his back was completely hunched.

Fortunately, the child in her belly was born healthy despite struggling to survive.

After a long time, and with such medical conditions, no one can tell clearly what disease the aunt had and why she was treated like that. Anyway, it was said to be quite miraculous.

The illness was cured and she was not dead, and the child in her belly was still strong. Jin Ximei did not want to die. She was so quick that she immediately hired a man to come to the house. This man was honest, tall and thin. This was how the family lived.

Over the years, the man who married her gave birth to two more daughters. Now there are two sons and three daughters. The first three have one father, and the last two have one father.

We live door to door, and across the wall is our maternal home.

When the children were young, they didn't play together, and the old lady watched them together.

Even if he doesn't have a good face towards the old man, he is still moving around.

But in what year did the two families stop interacting with each other? Even the original person who lived in the same alley didn't know very clearly. It seemed that by the time he discovered it, the two families had already been like that.

The old man and the old lady have been paralyzed these years. Logically speaking, the daughter-in-law lives next door. It is not easy to ask the daughter-in-law to clean and unpack the bedding for the parents. If they are married far away, that's it. It's really not a good idea.

There's nothing we can do if we don't go. But we live right next to each other and no one comes to help us. How big of a grudge is this?

Now that the old lady is gone, when Aunt Jin cries, half of the alley hears it. Jin Ximei, who is next door, must have heard her, because she is crying for her mother on the other side of the wall.

Lin Yutong went through these things in his mind, but without stopping, he followed the fourth master's footsteps and entered the east room. Others followed in, and the small room immediately became unbearable.

The old lady was lying flat. Judging from her stiffness, she must have been silent in the middle of the night.

Aunt Jin cried twice and quickly wiped her tears. There are rules for funerals. You are not allowed to cry until you burn the "trash paper". Especially, you are not allowed to shed tears on the deceased. Why is this happening?

It's not very clear. Some old people say that if this is the case, people who want to leave will feel uneasy.

Everyone who heard it in the alley came. This man died and there was a funeral to be held.

Funerals in rural areas have never been a matter for one household. The entire production team has to help when they are free. There are dedicated deacons.

Zhang Langcheng lived at the entrance of the alley, and he acted as the deacon whenever anything happened on the team.

Arrangements are made as soon as the person arrives, but in reality the funeral has to be announced! There is also something special about mourning, that is, the close relatives must report first.

What is considered a close relative? For example, the other rooms in the Jin family are all out of the fifth service, but because they live not far away, they behave like ordinary people when nothing happens, but if something happens, as a relative, they have to notify

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No matter how you put it, these are all ‘family members’.

After the funeral is over, it is the turn of the married daughter. For example, in the Jin family, there are three married aunts who have to mourn. One is Jin Ximei, one is Jin Xiju, and the other is Jin Xilan.

Zhang Langcheng arranged for people, "It's not far away! Da Meizi is next door, Erju is in Shangqin, and Sanlan is in Potou."

Shangqin and Potou are both villages seven or eight miles away from Pingan Town. These young men just walked there and came back soon.

All the people who arranged it were gone, and when Jin Ximei wanted to announce her funeral, Aunt Jin exploded, "No! Why should I announce her funeral? I'm not afraid of people knowing, and she will never even think about visiting the Jin family in her whole life."

A married daughter will not be allowed to come back for the funeral even if her parents die unless she receives a funeral report from her mother's family.

Just like Jin Ximei now, she heard that her mother had died a long time ago. After crying in the yard, she ran to the door to cry. She looked at the busy people coming in and out. She couldn't go there without announcing the funeral to her.

Her sister-in-law was scolding her at home and refused to announce her funeral. Jin Ximei's mouth moved, but she couldn't say a word.

The matter came to a standstill.

We couldn't agree on the funeral arrangements, and we couldn't burn the paper when everyone was present. If we couldn't burn the paper, it wouldn't be a formal funeral. We couldn't wash and change clothes for the old lady.

But it's already hard. It's very difficult to wear it now. It's not a good idea to leave it like this.

Zhang Langcheng couldn't reason with a woman, so he went to Jin Ximin, the old man, "... Brother, how can we talk about the past... At least I fooled the old lady into being buried first..."

Old Man Jin held his head and said nothing.

Zhang Langcheng knows this about the Jin family. Jin Ximin is not very capable, but what do you say? How many friends does Qin Hui have? What's more, Jin Ximin is just a coward, honest and incompetent, and he is not evil.

A thoughtful person. He really has a few close comrades. Even after he came back from the army, he has always kept in touch. His son was able to help him greatly when he got married, which shows that the relationship is still strong. It's not like they haven't helped before.

That year, a comrade-in-arms stopped by to see him. The comrade-in-arms couldn't bear the way his family's life was going. He said that he couldn't help with anything else. Do you think this will work? I think it will work for your second boy. This boy will take care of him.

You can't go wrong if you work in the army to earn a living, and you can have a good temper. Even if you can't stay in the army in the future, if you regain your professional skills, you will have the status of a cadre when you come back.

This is really a big help.

There's no need to hesitate about such a good thing. Just do it.

Jin Laoer was originally a gangster, fighting and running around wildly. He had a strong physique and passed the test. His comrade said that the conditions met the recruitment standards of the Air Force.

Although there was someone in the middle who had a good reputation, Jin Laoer's own quality was quite good. Not only did he not make it difficult, he also said that he had selected talents for the army.

It's a good thing, everyone should be happy.

But somehow Jin Ximei found out about this, so she came over and told her father and her brother, "...The Jin family owes me my life. If they hadn't sold me at a good price back then, the Jin family would have been hungry."

I'll die several times. You have to pay me back...and don't want anything else, just this quota as a soldier..."

She has two sons, Zheng Youliang and Zheng Youyou.

Zheng Youliang and Jin Mancheng are the same age, and Zheng Youyou is half a year older than Jin Manchuan. The cousins ​​are close in age, "I asked Youliang to go for Chuanzi..."

Isn't this a joke?

Who can agree?

Jin Ximei has always been ruthless and a ruthless person. She also said, "If you don't ask my son to take over, that's fine. Don't worry about her disrespect. I will go to the recruiting place tomorrow and tell them, my eldest brother

It used to be the KMT, but now it is still connected with Taiwan. I wonder if they want you two..."

Isn't this nonsense?

If Jin Ximin had such ability, he wouldn't be able to live like this.

But in those years, who cared about this? In special times, innocent people were said to be spies and counter-revolutionaries. What's more, the reports from relatives were very convincing.

That's really not looking for a future, that's looking for the life of the whole family.

Old Man Jin couldn't figure it out. He couldn't figure out how things could have turned out like this.

After Jin Ximei said that, she turned around and went home. Her brother couldn't figure it out. As a result, that night, old man Jin couldn't think of anything and jumped into the well. If he really jumped, it would be fine if he died. Once he died, he wouldn't be afraid of involving his children and grandchildren.

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Fortunately, the team's tofu mill grinded tofu at night and used a lot of water. They had to pull water one after another. When I was lifting water from the well, I felt that my hands were heavy, so I quickly called for someone to pull him up and give him first aid.

Okay, finally the person was saved.

Counting now, that was all five or six years ago.

Think about how much Aunt Jin hated her sister-in-law. At that time, the eldest brother was just an adult and the fifth child was only about ten years old. There was an elder and a younger one. If the man died like this, how could the family survive?

At this point, Jin Ximei didn't let go.

I had no choice but to ask the eldest son of the Zheng family to go.

When the eldest son of the Zheng family joined the army, his name was not Zheng Youliang, but Jin Manchuan.

The comrade knew about this, and he accepted it by leaving the relationship. But admitting it meant admitting it. Zheng Youliang had been in the army for three years and was demobilized without any promotion.

Jin Ximei immediately arranged a marriage for her son. The girl in this family had a birthmark the size of an egg on her face. It was not good-looking, but her uncle was in the armed forces. The marriage was guaranteed, and Zheng Youliang was demobilized and reassigned.

A good place to go is the court.

Demobilized soldiers generally go to the public security department more often. This court is actually similar, with judicial police.

Not only did he become a policeman, but his previous file name was Jin Manchuan. Later, he added a piece of proof of adoption, saying that he adopted the Jin family's child into the Zheng family and changed his name to Zheng Youliang.

Cleanse away the bits of the past.

Today's personnel files are different from those of later generations, especially during that decade, with a lot of confusion.

Anyway, he was a decent man with status and background who worked in the court. The other was a country man who couldn't even afford a wife and almost hired a wife.

There was no one to investigate, so the matter remained in confusion.

If you think of this, do you think this woman from the Jin family should be angry?

Yes! I feel like taking a bite out of this sister-in-law!

But time has passed. Is it interesting to chew on those old sesame seeds and rotten millet things in the past?
To be continued...