I don’t know whether this story should be a novel or a prose. I heard from my classmates that this is a true story. The protagonist is an employee of the same steel plant. Although this person has been retired for many years, he remembers this thrilling past every time he talks about it. So vivid, it also made the audience shudder and sweaty palms.
In the early 1960s, in a small town on the outskirts of the Northeast Tiecheng, there was a farmhouse and a courtyard. The owner was an honest farmer named Zhang Daqiang. His wife and three-year-old daughter make a living by growing vegetables. In addition, his family of three squeezed into the North House, renting out the side houses on both sides of the house, using very little rent as a living allowance.
The mother and son live in the east house. The old lady is seventy out of five. The husband has passed away many years. He was born with two sons, but the eldest son died of a sudden illness when he was three years old. Only the second child is alive and healthy, so he named him “little second”. Although this Wang Er has never read a book, his head is clever, and his mind is like “sieve eyes”. Because he loves participating in everything and enthusiastic to help, everyone calls him “Brother Wang”. The second brother Wang didn’t have a formal job at first, so he went to the city to “pull his feet” and help people play “day jobs” to support the two old women. At that time, the cultural life in the rural areas was relatively backward. One had no television, and the other had no video. The movie had to go to the city a dozen miles away. There is only one small restaurant in the town, where you can eat three meals and drink tea after meals. It has become the main gathering place for young people in the town. Brother Wang must be there after dinner every day to “bring bragging” and “lala quack” here to hear new things in Zuocun Youxiang. One day, he heard that in Zhoucun to the south, two young men bet at night. A asked B to nail a wooden wedge to a new grave outside the village. He used half a catty of white wine and a catty of roast beef as the gambling capital, and the loser paid the money. . Because B was scared at first, but when he nailed the wedge and turned to run, he suddenly felt that his coat was being dragged by the “ghost”, and B was scared to death on the spot. On the second day, it turned out that because B was in a mess at the time, he nailed a wooden wedge to the edge of his coat. After listening to this, Brother Wang patted his chest and said: “Where are the ghosts? I scare myself, if I am not afraid!”
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Westinghouse lives They are a young couple, the male is Liu Fu, a demobilized soldier who works as a picket guard in a factory in the city; the female is Li Ying, a bookbinding worker in a printing factory. Both of them work very well. The husband is an advanced worker in the factory, and the wife is an expert in the workshop. The income of the young couple is not high. They married in a “naked marriage” half a year ago and lived here in a rented house. The husband and wife had a very sweet life. The two negotiated, don’t want children first, work hard for a year, and wait for the savings to be reborn as a “fat boy” next year. After dinner that day, Liu Fusheng finished the briquettes stove, boiled the water, and told his wife:
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“I went to the night shift, and you sleep well at night A warm night, no need to cook tomorrow morning, I will bring oil cakes and soy milk back from work.”
The wife said really: “I see, it’s cold outside, you need to wear more!” Let’s put the coat on her husband by hand and tie him a big scarf. Liu Fu went out happily.
After getting off work the next morning, Liu Fu ran away on his bicycle for fear that the oil cakes and soy milk wrapped in two layers of towels would be cold. Looking at the door, the door was closed tightly, Liu Fu was bored? No, Yingzi wakes up very early every day, cleaning the yard first, and then tidying up the house. Why hasn’t she gotten up so late today? First he knocked on the door with his hand, then called out loudly, but there was no answer in the room. Liu Fu feels bad! So he tried his best and slammed the door open with his arms. Yeah! I saw my wife lying motionless on the bed, and she felt a little cold after touching her hands and feet. Liu Fu was stunned. He picked up his wife and shook it vigorously, shouting desperately, but his wife still did not respond. Then he thumped his chest and slumped into tears. The crying alarmed the neighbors. The landlord Zhang Daqiang and his wife of the North House, the second brother and the wife of the East House Wang, and the neighbors all ran over. No matter how many people there are, there is no power to recover! Everyone saw that Yingzi had died, the man persuaded Liu Fu together, and the woman helped Yingzi clean her body and prepare to let the deceased “go into the soil for peace”. The women go to town to buy clothes, and the men go to the coffin shop to buy coffins. When everyone was about to go out, Liu Fu suddenly stopped Brother Wang and quickly took out a paper bag from under the box, and gave him the only 120 yuan in it, so that he could go to the city to buy a Shanghai brand watch. Chai Duo Lie is full of fire, and more people are quick to do things. Less than an hour later, the clothes and coffin were all ready, and the second brother Wang panted and bought the watch. Just before Yingzi was about to enter the death, Liu Fu held his wife’s hand and faced his wife in a heartbreaking farewell.