life struggle

Luo Xiao pressed her head against his chest, and murmured with tears in her eyes, "Xiaojun, you don't have any feelings for me, are you just a substitute for Yingzi?"

Wu Xiaojun held her waist with one hand, patted her shoulder lightly with the other, and said thoughtfully, "In my heart, I have always regarded Yingzi as your incarnation. When I see her, it is like seeing you in my arms." In front of me, now I am abandoning all distracting thoughts and fantasies, returning to the roots and clearing up the source.【 | 】I will cherish this very rare and slow love more than ever, and I will never let this love slip away easily, and even more so. I will not let you down. From now on, if I am sorry for you in the slightest, I will be struck by lightning and go out..."

Luo Xiao immediately let go of his hands holding him, covered his mouth and pinched him vigorously, and said tenderly, "Fool, don't talk nonsense. As long as you think what is right, just do it boldly, and I won't restrain you." Your hands and feet, pull your hind legs. If you indulge in the love of your children all day long, you are destined to be of little success, I will be very disappointed, and I will not let you off lightly. "

"Sister Xiao, what I said is the truth. I have always loved you sincerely, and I have never wavered."

"It's still a long time. Listen to what you say, and more importantly, watch what you do. Okay, okay, let's not talk about this, the sky is already bright, and it's time for us to say goodbye."

Dawn is gradually leaving, the red sun is rising slowly, and a new day has begun.With sweet smiles on their faces, the two walked out of the guest house, had breakfast, and reluctantly waved goodbye.

Three weeks passed in a blink of an eye, and Wu Xiaojun was at home every morning and evening helping his mother to feed the animals, take care of the housework, and nothing else.This morning, he came to Yuanzhen Hospital to see Song Zhihui.Song Zhihui had just been assigned to the Pediatrics Department of the hospital after the Spring Festival, and Wu Xiaosen was in the same department.The two are familiar with each other when they meet, so naturally they can talk about everything.

Wu Xiaojun asked Song Zhihui, "Why do you go to work so late?"

Song Zhihui didn't call anyone when he got angry, and said cursingly, "It's not the bastards from the Personnel Bureau who don't take us students seriously at all, pushing today to tomorrow, tomorrow to the day after tomorrow, pushing back and forth It took more than half a year. Later, I found a relationship and went through the back door to complete the formalities. Thinking of those rabbits and grandchildren hated it so much that the roots of the teeth itched."

"Isn't the county always calling for the importance of talents? Why is it so difficult to implement them?"

"I can't believe the official words of those people, but they won't kill you. It's really a poor place. The emperor is far away from anyone. Those officials look at a person with five people and six appearances. In fact, their stomachs are full of bad water and black water. A coward who doesn't see rabbits or hawks. Now that I think about it, I was very simple in school and thought everything was beautiful. When I really came into contact with society, I realized that it was not as simple as I imagined. It was very complicated inside. Very I regret that I didn’t stay outside and came back in a daze. Now all I want to do is to jump out of here one day sooner to be free.”

"Talents come out of adversity, and this may become a powerful motivation for you to work hard. I heard that sister Yuanyuan has been admitted to graduate school, isn't it?"

"That's right. I went to Wuhan Tongji Medical University to study as a graduate student last fall. Now the situation is very good. The students from their school are very sought-after. Before they graduate, there are many big hospitals vying for them. They are settling allowances and allocated housing. There is a lot of scientific research funding, not only the salary is very high, but also very valued. Our poor place is simply incomparable. The whole world is scheming and ranking seniority. No matter how high your knowledge is, no matter how great your ability is, you will lose your temper. Open. Even though I'm in the same department as your brother, I don't avoid you, to be honest, I feel like I'm being bullied by dogs."

"It's normal to have a certain gap between ideal and reality, and you don't have to be too pessimistic. What are you going to do if Sister Yuanyuan doesn't come back after going to other places? It's not a problem to be separated!"

"If it's going to rain, let her marry someone, let her go. Don't delay her future and happy life. Now I really regret falling in love with her at the beginning. It's a waste of time, a waste of time, and a lot of worry. Thinking about two All, it’s difficult! I don’t know if you’re talking about a girlfriend now, but I want to advise you, it’s best not to talk about it, and even if you talk about it, don’t take it too seriously. The deeper the love, the deeper the hatred, so as not to regret it in the future.”

Wu Xiaojun came out of the hospital, found a public phone booth and had a phone call with Luo Xiao, thinking over Song Zhihui's words all the way back home, feeling very uncomfortable.Not long after arriving home, I heard people in the village yelling, "Go over and have a look, Feng Chunni climbed on the top of the big elm tree, it is very dangerous, if you fall to the ground, you will die."

The big elm stands in the middle of the village. The trunk is more than two meters thick. Although it is more than 80 years old, it still grows luxuriantly.The old people often say that there used to be a big bell hanging on a tree, and as soon as the Japanese devils entered the village, the bell would ring automatically, and the sound was very loud.As soon as the villagers heard the bell, they immediately put down their work and fled to the distance with their families. Several times the Japanese devils rushed to the air, and a small team leader gritted his teeth in anger, and ordered a fire to burn the whole village.The strange thing is that most of the trees in the village were burned down, but this elm tree was intact.Later, the villagers regarded it as a sacred tree, and some good men and women lit a few incense sticks under the tree during festivals and festivals to pray for the safety of the whole family.Everyone was afraid that offending the tree god would cause natural disasters, and no one dared to break a branch of it, and no one had ever climbed it.

Wu Xiaojun didn't know what happened, so he hurried out of the house and came under the big elm tree. There were already a lot of spectators around here, and there were a lot of discussions.Five or six aunts and aunts looked nervous and rushed here from home holding the quilt in a panic, and four or five men and women were sweating profusely and racing against time to spread the quilt under the tree.

In the middle of a thin and curved tree branch six or seven meters above the ground, a young girl with disheveled hair, gray marks on her face, and Mu Rui's dull expression, about 20 years old, is Wu Chunni, the second daughter of Grandpa Wu Jinxiang's family. .She was wearing a shabby blouse with a see-through pattern inside the thin silk and clay-colored shorts. There was a five-inch-long slit hanging from a tree branch, and the pink breasts were clearly visible when the breeze blew.She rode on a thin branch more than two meters away from the secondary trunk with her feet clasped together. She grabbed the branch beside her with one hand and danced wildly in the air with the other, chanting, "Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva manifested his spirit and killed Xin Xin. Clever vixen. The vixen is really bad, forcibly taking away my love..." Sometimes he sang with a smile, "I am Du Shiniang in heaven, I will make clothes for you, I will pick up a whip and beat you to death, you poor lover... Hahaha, Wan Qiang, wait for me, I will go with you after I get dressed, hee hee hee hee..." When I was excited, I shook my body, the tree branch creaked, and it was on the verge of falling, and there was a danger of falling at any moment. Everyone was so scared that they sweated for her.

Grandma Jin Xiang was terrified, crying like tears, and kept yelling, "Chunni, don't be overwhelmed, please don't jump down, mother begging you. Come down quickly! Come down quickly!" !"

Several women watched her helplessly and kept persuading, "Girl, come down quickly, everyone is worried about you, your mother's voice is almost hoarse from crying, you can pity her!"

At this time, seven or eight quilts had been laid on the ground, and six young and middle-aged laborers propped up another thick quilt, ready to pick up people.Wu Yongcheng, Chunni's elder brother, called over and the great boy Wu Baogang whispered an explanation, and asked him to climb up the tree quietly, and said to her when he was close to Chunni, "Chunni, come here slowly, this is very dangerous, if you fall If you go down, you will die, and no one will see you."

No matter what Baogang and the people under the tree said, Chunni always ignored her and continued to read and sing.Seeing that everything was ready under the tree, Wu Yongcheng handed Baogang a long bamboo pole. Baogang took it in his hand and stretched it towards Chunni. On top of the thick quilt, due to the excessive momentum, several people failed to lift her, so she fell onto the quilt spread on the ground.The gravity was obviously much smaller after passing through a buffer. She lay flat on the quilt unscathed, her hands fluttering in the air, and she couldn't stop laughing loudly.Several aunts came over and dragged him back home.

Wu Xiaojun listened to Chunni's chaotic chanting, and looked at her insane appearance, wondering why such a quiet and virtuous girl suddenly became like this, and what happened to make her mentally changed after being so stimulated. Into madness and dementia?He whispered to Aunt Zhao beside him, "Auntie, what's going on?"

Aunt Zhao is a well-known fast-talking woman in the village, and she also uses a small trumpet to pass the microphone. Seeing Wu Xiaojun asking her, she was very happy, so she quickly pulled him aside, and said in a low voice, "Xiaojun, you have been away for a long time, I don't know The situation, Wan Qiang, Chunni, and Xinqiao are getting better, making Xinqiao's belly bigger for fear of being found out that they eloped. Chunni also slept with him many times, and later saw that the two of them had run away, and she was hopeless. My brain was strongly stimulated, and I couldn't turn it around for a while, so I went crazy. I don't know what is ugly or shameful, and sometimes I run around in the village naked in broad daylight. It didn’t work at all the next time, and it was useless to burn incense and worship Buddha everywhere. Today, Grandma Jinxiang climbed up a tree without seeing her. Do evil, do evil.”

Wu Xiaojun listened to her mysteriously explaining the whole story, and couldn't help thinking for a while. Could it be that the way young men and women choose spouses here has also changed, and free love has also challenged this place where feudal ideology still occupies the main position.It's a pity that Chunni, a beautiful girl with yellow flowers, has become a victim of free love in vain.When I got home and told my mother about it, my mother let out a long sigh and told the whole story.

Wujia Village is not a big village. There are more than 80.00 people, most of whom are surnamed Wu. Counting up to five generations, [-]% of them belong to the same family.Due to the relatively backward location and lack of open-mindedness, young men and women seldom find a partner to fall in love with for many years, and basically rely on relatives and friends to match up and get married.Hearing of a girl who has fallen for someone without a matchmaker can quickly become a piece of news and a topic of conversation after dinner.

Compared with the big family, Wu Yongkui is a small family. There are four brothers, one is simple and the other is stupid, and the other is a worker in other places.Although he used to be the village head, because of his small family, his words have no weight. Wu Jinlin, one of the big families in the village, brought a group of children and grandchildren to his house every now and then to make trouble for him. I had no choice but to swallow my anger and be a man with my tail between my legs.He has three sons and two girls. Except for the youngest son Wu Wanqiang, who is just in his early twenties and has not yet married, the other four have already married and established businesses.The young man Wu Wanqiang is very handsome and handsome. Although he has not graduated from elementary school, he can speak well and has a very flexible head. Some young girls have a crush on him, but few people dare to approach him due to secular pressure.Wu Wanqiang was very picky about choosing a partner. He had met a dozen girls, either because he thought they were short, tall, or unattractive, or that they had a bad family. They never made a decision.However, every time he has a blind date, he is secretly watched and remembered by Grandpa Jin Lin's second daughter Xinqiao and Grandpa Jin Xiang's second daughter Chunni.

Wu Jinlin and Wu Jinxiang are uncles and brothers, and Wu Yongkui's grandfather is called the third uncle.They have four brothers from the father's generation and 11 brothers from the junior generation. They are the most populous and most powerful branch in the village.Wu Jinlin ranks fifth among the junior brothers, he is the most active one, bullying the weak and fearing the strong, seeing who is not pleasing to the eye in the village, he will be scolded at the slightest and violently beaten, and generally no one dares to provoke him.He has two girls and a young son. The youngest son died of a sudden illness three years ago when he was less than ten years old. The eldest girl, Xin Hua, is already married. The second girl, Xin Qiao, is 19 years old. She was turned into a flower by the villagers, because she had long been secretly in love with Wu Wanqiang, and the matchmaker never found a match.Wu Jinxiang has two sons and two girls, the eldest son Wu Yongcheng and the second son Wu Yonghe, the eldest daughter Chunju has already married and had children, and only the youngest daughter Chunni is 19 years old. Although she is not as beautiful as Xinqiao, she is gentle, virtuous, beautiful and dignified. Whether high or low is not engaged yet.

Due to inner admiration, Wu Xinqiao and Wu Chunni were secretive and sneaky at first. The two found excuses to strike up a conversation with Wu Wanqiang and said some happy and witty words.Because they are all from the same village and are big family members, everyone is familiar with them, so there are naturally fewer taboos.The three of them often get together to play poker, flirting, cursing, and laughing. Sometimes Wu Wanqiang said some flirtatious things, and the two of them didn't feel disgusted. It was very hot.At first Wu Wanqiang had some scruples about the two of them, but as time went by, he couldn't help himself, so he mixed with the two, and gradually developed to be alone with the two of them in fields, beside haystacks, small river ditches and other places where there are few people. tryst.

Wu Wanqiang lives in his grandfather's house every day in order to take care of his uncle and grandfather who is sick and has no children.Last winter, Grandpa had been living in his house since his death, and he was the only one there at night, which provided good opportunities for Xinqiao and Chunni.