life struggle

On New Year's Eve, every family sits together and happily bids farewell to the old and welcomes the new. 【 】Wu Xiaojun's family didn't have the joyful and lively atmosphere of previous years, and looked extraordinarily deserted and desolate.During dinner, Wu Pingchun and Wu Xiaoliang came to talk with Wu Pingshun for a while, and then went home.

Wu Pingshun lay reclined on the bed, and said with a sad face, "Xiaojun, you also saw that although there are many brothers and sisters, they are all thieves. I am sick all day long, and my body is also worn down. It will take time to recover, I am really worried that I will not be able to handle it, one day I will not be able to bear it, who will take care of you, what should you do."

Wu Xiaojun was heartbroken when he heard the words, and said helplessly, bowing his head, "The situation may not be as pessimistic as you think, and it will be fine soon. After all, I have grown up now, even if you can't afford me, I believe I will If we prop up this family, we can still get by."

Xiaojun's mother said, "Father, don't think so much when it's Chinese New Year. We haven't experienced anything in these years. Haven't we all survived it? As long as we are safe and sound, there is no obstacle we can't get through."

Wu Pingshun said weakly, "That being said, looking at the current situation, everyone is plotting against you, and no one will pity you. I'm really worried that you will be caught by them and suffer a disadvantage." She shed a few tears and lay quietly on the bed.

At this moment, Wu Xiaofu and his son came over with a bowl of dumplings and put them gently on the table. Shi Shi asked, "Grandpa, grandma, uncle, have you eaten yet?"

Seeing them coming, Wu Xiaojun suppressed the anger and resentment in his heart, got up and went to another room.Xiaojun's mother moved two small stools and sat them down, "Just after eating, your father felt uncomfortable, and fell asleep after drinking half a bowl of dumpling soup."

Wu Xiaofu sighed and said, "My father's illness has tormented people so much that he almost couldn't survive for years. I didn't buy anything else this year. I just cut three or four catties of meat and bought a few catties of Chinese cabbage. .”

Mrs. Xiao Jun felt that something was wrong, "You didn't buy anything. I have money. Like in previous years, I bought more or less everything. If I don't have money, I can't let my relatives come and eat. Whether to buy it or not is a matter of choice." It's your own business, anyway, your father didn't ask you to pay a penny for seeing a doctor, so it's useless to tell me these things."

Just as Wu Xiaofu was about to open his mouth, Wu Xiaoqi came over with a plate of cooked meat, "Mother, I just finished cooking, I'll bring you a plate of meat."

Xiaojun's mother lowered her head, didn't even look at it, and said, "Your father is sick, and you have tormented a lot, and your father and I can't afford your food, so take it back."

Wu Xiaoqi saw that his mother's complexion was not right, there was something in the words, and he said with an ugly face, "Who said what, and what are you looking for, you know I am stupid, easy to pinch, easy to bully, I have the ability to deal with me, and I will not live in peace for most of my life .”

Wu Xiaofu got up and said, "Second brother, you can't sweep away a large part of your speech. How can you talk like this when it's Chinese New Year? Who bullied you. My father was hospitalized and I stayed by the hospital every day without saying a word. If you want to go, just Go, don’t want to go, no one said anything about you. It’s fine, my mother just said, you’re coming, what do you mean.”

Wu Xiaoqi stood up in the courtyard and said angrily, "What can I mean? You are the only one who is filial to a family of more than a dozen. What have I got? The homestead is messed up for me, and the cultivated land is for my Lai." He deliberately crushed me to death. Who dares to make a sound, fart."

Wu Xiaofu also stepped up, "Second brother, you can't speak out of your conscience. I have nothing to do with your land or not. That's because our father is in charge of the house, and he is the one who insists on it. Who can do it? If you have the ability, you Find him or else."

Wu Xiaoqi's voice became louder and louder, "What do I want to do with so much land, I can't finish planting, I can't finish eating, and I'm worried that I'll get tired and be hospitalized, and my children will suffer."

Wu Pingshun was lying on the bed with his eyes closed, and he didn't want to talk to these two people, but he didn't expect them to sing the double reed, deliberately talking about himself, and got out of bed in a fit of anger, "You son of a bitch, I don't have any conscience, it's useless to feed you like this Daddy, I didn't see how good I am, and they all came here to find trouble for me, and they won't let people be quiet for a while, because they are afraid that I will die slowly, so get out of here."

Wu Xiaoqi said indignantly, "You are my father. I can't fight back when I beat you, and I can't fight back when I scold you. When it comes to your faults, you will be violent. If you are not cursing or beating, it is unreasonable."

Wu Pingshun angrily threw off the cotton-padded coat that was draped over his body, picked up a wooden stick and drew it towards Wu Xiaoqi, "What's wrong, I committed a crime by giving birth to you and raised you, and I owe you. No one will stop you from paying back." And fight back, you beat me to death and I am clean."

The world saw that Wu Pingshun was in a hurry, so he hurried over and hugged Wu Pingshun's waist, "Master, calm down, don't get angry. It's cold outside, come in quickly, come in quickly." Wu Xiaoqi dodged sideways, dodging The wooden stick ran out in a hurry.

Wu Pingshun returned to the house, saw the dumplings and meat dishes on the table at a glance, picked them up and threw them into the courtyard, "Whether they brought me food or disgusted me, as long as I have a breath, I will starve to death, and I won't eat yours." Food for the bastard.” Seeing that Wu Xiaofu was still sitting down and smoking a cigarette, he said viciously, “Xiaofu, although you are the boss, you don’t know shit. Me, now that I'm still alive, I'm always thinking about my two acres of land, so give up, as long as I live for a day, don't try to succeed. Don't bother me here, get out, get out, get out. "

Wu Xiaofu saw that his goal had been achieved, and if he didn't leave, I was so angry that I couldn't deal with it. He stood up, shrugged his shoulders, glanced at Wu Pingshun, who was still angry, and retreated with his son in dismay.

Wu Xiaojun gritted his teeth, suppressed his anger, and did not utter a word, in order to avoid making a big fuss and hurting his father's unhealed body.After they left, they returned to their father's bed. Before they could speak, Wu Pingshun shouted, "Xiaojun, lock the door. No one can open the door until noon tomorrow. After a fart year, I'm full of breath. If you want to celebrate the New Year, if you don’t, you should prepare for the funeral.”

Wu Xiaojun said tremblingly, "Father, don't think about it, they haven't been like this for a day or two, and you know it, if your illness relapses, you will have to bear it yourself."

Wu Pingshun was ashamed, sighed, and said in a low voice, "Xiaojun, you have seen it too, a group of people like this, who cares about our life and death. When I see a doctor, they just run around a few times, and they feel as if they are strangled to death. Asking them to pay a penny is like cutting their flesh. I am completely disappointed, this is life, and I deserve it. Your wings have not grown hard yet, and once they harden, I am afraid that they will be the same as them. " Said As if her heart was broken, she went to bed helplessly, covered her head and fell asleep without saying a word.

Firecrackers bid farewell to the old year, always exchanging new peaches for old symbols.On New Year's Eve, the sky is full of stars, and firecrackers come and go from all directions, resounding throughout the night sky. The haze of the past is submerged under the firecrackers of the New Year, and new hope is slowly ignited by people full of passion and good wishes.

The three members of Wu Xiaojun's family were not in the mood to resign from the New Year's Eve vigil, nor did they have the joy of eating dumplings to welcome the arrival of the New Year, nor did they set off firecrackers to slay demons and celebrate.The whole night, like someone who had just passed away at home, we ushered in the dawn of the new year amidst the gloomy, dejected, and unhappy.

Before dawn, some juniors in the village were already calling their elders to pay New Year's greetings. Seeing that Wu Xiaojun's house was in a dark state, they knocked and no one answered, so they went to another house.Wu Xiaojun was supposed to go to various houses and take the opportunity to visit the elders, but he lost his energy due to the commotion last night.

It wasn't until after ten o'clock that Wu Xiaosen and his wife came back with their children, and the three of them got up, lit a fire and cooked New Year's dinner.

Early in the morning on the second day of the first lunar month, as in previous years, the four brothers went to their uncle's house to pay New Year's greetings.During the meal, when my aunt asked about my parents' health, Wu Xiaofu said with hesitation, "My mother's health is not bad, but my father has not recovered from a serious illness, so it's not very good."

My aunt said, "Your father has a stubborn temper and can't tolerate anything in his heart. In fact, his illnesses are all due to tiredness and anger. They are both in their 60s, so they should kill their temper, let alone show it again. You have great strength."

Wu Xiaofu said, "To be honest, my father really can't plant so much land, and we are very distressed to see him suffer and suffer."

Wu Xiaoqi said angrily, "I am not tired if I stop so much. No matter how much food he sees, others can't even see a grain. The money for selling food is not spent by others."

The aunt said with a heavy heart, "Actually, it's not easy for your parents to raise the six of you all your life. Now that you are serving in the army and going to college, the rest of the family can live well. It's time to take a rest and enjoy the blessings. I Look, I should give you a few points of the land in advance, and give whoever belongs to you, so that you won't have to work hard day and night."

Wu Xiaofu, Wu Xiaoqi and Wu Xiaosen nodded and said yes, "Yes, yes, it should have been like this a long time ago. I don't know what my father was thinking, why did he stop him."

On such occasions, Wu Xiaojun has always held the attitude of saying little or nothing, but seeing how complacent they are, he couldn't help getting angry, and said angrily, "You don't know why, I know, I'll come My father told you. All of you are independent and free from hands and feet after our father and mother have worked so hard to settle down and finish all the things. However, there is nothing wrong with me. For one thing, I didn’t get married, I didn’t have children, and I didn’t do anything. Although I went to college, it was just a status, but I was still a student with no grass. Moreover, the state subsidies are very little now, and the cost is more than before. The two of them are old and can't do business or go out to work. Isn't it just by planting a few acres of land to collect two grains and sell them for my education? Besides, who can I count on to give you all the land? Do it, do you want to drink the northwest wind? You have the intention to get rid of me from the family, but I am the darling of my parents, and they can't bear it."

Wu Xiaosen interjected for a long time, "According to foreign traditions, once a person dies, he must leave his parents and live independently. Now that you have surpassed it, you should no longer rely on your parents."

When Wu Xiaojun heard this, he was furious, threw the chopsticks in his hand "snap", stood up, pointed to Wu Xiaosen's nose and said, "I think you are more than 30 years old, but you are still an outsider. , shit doesn’t make sense, I don’t know my back hurts when I stand and talk. Let me tell you, this is in China, in Yuanzhen, not the United States. You were still in high school, and you went to Pingxi because my father sold a cow to confess you , Your marriage was invited by our parents and set up a table for you. Even if you have been working for many years, our parents paid half of the expenses for your son's full moon. At that time, why didn't you say that you exceeded your age? When I grow up, I don’t depend on my parents anymore.”

Wu Xiaojun kept talking like a cannonball, causing cold sweat to break out on Wu Xiaosen's forehead, and he was tongue-tied and silent.Wu Xiaojun walked into the courtyard and said to Wu Xiaosen, "The two of them want to divide up their home, and it's not a matter of a day or two. I don't compare myself with the people in the city, so I follow the current local rules and situation, first take out the money for building my house, getting married, and giving birth to half a month of wine, and then pay ten yuan a day. Standard, the four brothers will share the living expenses equally with our parents. If you agree to this condition, you will go home and share the land now."

When the people at the table heard this, they were all dumbfounded.The aunt pondered for a moment, then said, "I only thought about worrying about your parents' troubles, I really didn't think about it so much. Thinking about it carefully, your parents are the most difficult right now. You really should think more about them and consider their difficulties." , Now is really not the time to divide the land." Looking up, Wu Xiaojun was about to leave, so he hurriedly said, "Xiaojun, don't leave, we haven't eaten yet, how can we go."

Wu Xiaojun said without turning his head as he walked, "Auntie, they want to kill my parents and me. I'm not in the mood to eat at the same table as these beasts. If I can't eat, I won't eat. "Speaking, he pushed the bicycle, went out, rode wildly all the way, and went home.