military marriage

Chapter 9
The two were at loggerheads like they were fighting, and Sheng Gen had to say: "Old Cousin, it's fine if you don't eat, but you can't be polite!" He handed Man Xiang's father a cigarette, and taught his wife dumbfoundingly: "Why can't you talk? It's a bowl of rice, why is it begging for food? Just look at the old watch, he is a lucky person, how can he beg for food?"

Man Xiangbo waved his hand, stopped Sheng Gen, and said, "Don't be so poor, I'll open the window to speak honestly - as long as your family has a dragon to live a good life, I will hand over Manxiang to you, and I don't want any gifts from your family. You don’t want too many sets of clothes in your house, and you don’t want the old-fashioned rules of visiting the big door and the small door, passing by, and asking the matchmaker to thank the matchmaker.” Man Xiangbo paused, “...I just love your village firewood and water. Yes, Chuanlong has drank ink for a few years anyway, young people, once they get married, they will know how to live." When he stood up and was about to leave, he glanced at his daughter uneasy, and said with something in his words: "I brought you Xiya Wow, it depends on the fate of the two of them! If anything happens, you can’t blame me, right?”

Hu Shenggen nodded and bowed: "That is, that is, don't worry, old cousin! We will never treat Man Xiang badly. When we come to my place, it is still the same as being at home. Then don't worry, absolutely don't worry! Our family is honest, If you don’t believe me, go to Murakami Village and inquire about it..."

Hu's father and Hu's mother sent Manxiang's father out with great gratitude, and passed one mountain after another, and the words of thanks were river after river.

As soon as the sun was shining, Hu Shenggen's alcoholic strength came up, and he slowly revealed his true colors: "Old bitch, I am really useless, the fields are not good for planting, so I bought a lot of books on growing tomatoes and read them at home." , What is he going to do? A big tomato grower, half in the sky and half in the ground, completely out of tune."

Ba Po Qiu was worried that the marriage would be ruined, so she gave her husband a hard look.

Hu Shenggen didn't care, and still said to himself: "I'm worried about Man Xiang from your house, who will come to my house to suffer in the future. To be honest, I believe that the dragon hasn't completely come out of the book, and it's not just a life. People can't lift their shoulders, lift their hands, plow the field and harrow the ground... nothing can be held..."

Seeing that gouging out her husband was useless, Ba Po Qiu secretly kicked her with her foot, but she couldn't keep up with the man's pace, so she didn't kick a few times, but she jumped up to catch up with them, took a chance, and kicked Sheng Gen fiercely. , clumsy, and staggered, she and Sheng Gen fell on the grass almost at the same time.

5
Lush silk thatch and a person-tall thatched firewood form undulating waves against the summer wind between the mountains surrounded by valleys. The forest and gurgling water in the distance are immersed in the crazy scorching sun, forming a magical scene. wonderful.

Holding the sickle, Hu Chuanlong looked at the scenery in front of him and expressed his inner emotion: "There is nothing more desolate than mountains in winter, but in summer, especially now, there is nothing more beautiful than mountains." He waited for a long time, but did not see Man Xiang agreed and raised her voice, "What do you think? Let me ask you, what do you think?"

Hu Chuanlong finally put his admiring gaze on the distant mountains on Man Xiang.

Man Xiang cut down a large piece of firewood in one fell swoop, hooked the sickle, clasped his five fingers together, held a handful of firewood tightly in his left hand, pulled a silk grass with his right hand, and threw the green firewood behind him. The action is beautiful and crisp.

Hu Chuanlong bent down to cut some thatch, struggling to find a topic to please Man Xiang, scratching his head and picking his feet, but he couldn't find a suitable topic.

Occasionally, Man Xiang turned her head and saw Hu Chuanlong dawdling behind, her heart sank a bit: "The fate of the poor, the nature of the rich, the whole slob! It's really incomparable with the industrious little six! What's the use of studying for a few more years? Can it become food? Can it become a house to live in?"

Hu Chuanlong finally found a chance to be the master when Man Xiang stopped in a daze.He said: "Take a rest, what is the old chopping doing? Just enough firewood to burn!"

Man Xiang became anxious, "How can such a bum, such an idle boy, compare to the little six? He plows the fields, burns fires and cooks, and does all the big and small things inside and outside the house, what can he not do? What is he not a good hand at? And Hu Chuanlong, whom her parents found for her, is a bedbug alive, cuts a few hairy grasses a day, and still tells me not to do it! Don’t do it, drink the northwest wind?"

The angrier Man Xiang was, the faster he worked. "Hula la", following her gesture, a piece of firewood fell down.

The sickle in Man Xiang's hand was blunt, so she stood up, flicked the long braid on her chest, threw away the sickle, and replaced it with another new sickle that was left on the grass, prostrate like an elf in the firewood, like a green grass A blooming black peony.

During that time, Hu Chuanlong really wanted to find a chance to get along with Man Xiang alone, but Man Xiang only got along with his sister Ding Ni. In addition to the two dilapidated houses of Hu's family, there was no room for two lovers. There is nowhere to start, and many romantic fantasies are helplessly aborted.

Man Xiang's dexterous hands are really an expert at work. She lived in Hu Chuanlong's house for a month, and the firewood she chopped was piled up into stacks, which were as high as the house, which was more firewood than Chuanlong's family of four cut in a year.

Man Xiang looked at the pile of firewood that was taller than the house, clapped his hands, and suggested to Chuanlong very expertly: "The firewood for burning the cellar has been cut enough! Let's go to the town tomorrow to have fun? Always do this like a cow .”

Man Xiang has such brains and romance, his future daughter-in-law is still different from other village girls!Chuanlong was pleasantly surprised.In the evening, he washed his only pair of denim blue trousers and hung them to dry on the tree branch at the door. The trousers were soft and cool, and they looked more elegant and elegant than the home-made hand-woven cloth.

Hu Chuanlong washed his hair and shaved his beard, walked around alleys to say good things, borrowed a brand new bicycle, and kept busy sweetly until late at night before taking a rest.In the early morning, he was the first person to get up early in the village. He returned home early from the uncle's house where he was staying, washed and dressed, and under the envious eyes of the villagers, he pushed his bicycle and set off on the road side by side with Man Xiang.

Walking out of the village, Chuanlong glanced at Manxiang, stepped on the bicycle, Manxiang ran a few steps, and jumped on it.Chuanlong was too nervous, he couldn't hold on to the faucet of the bicycle, he wobbled a few times on the path, and then gradually stabilized.Chuanlong was worried about the bumpy mountain road, so he rode slowly and steadily.

But Man Xiang said disdainfully: "Come down, come down, you look weak, you don't look like a person who does things, you sit in the back, I will take you!"

Hu Chuanlong blushed, jumped down obediently, and sat in the back seat.

Man Xiang slammed on the pedals, and the bicycle flew up among the green mountain roads.

Chuanlong's face turned pale with fright, and he wanted to yell to slow down and hold Man Xiang's waist, but he didn't dare, so he had to hold on to the rear seat panel under his buttocks.

When he arrived at the small town, Man Xiang pushed his bicycle towards Hu Chuanlong, "Wait for me here, I'll do something, and I'll come to you when I'm done!" Man Xiang repeatedly urged, "Don't walk around casually, You won't be found by then."

Chuanlong supported his bicycle, watched the flow of people coming and going, and waited foolishly.

The sun slowly slides from the top of the head to the mountainside, and finally falls into the west mountain.After Man Xiang left, she didn't show up for a whole day.

Hu Chuanlong pushed his bicycle and walked under the dim street lights, his long figure was lonely and lonely.He held eight ten-yuan bills in his hand, which was basically half a year's income of the family, and water was almost squeezed out of his palms. He wanted to buy some gifts for Man Xiang for the next restaurant, but Man Xiang never showed up again.

Seeing that there were few people on the street, and Manxiang would not come again, Hu Chuanlong had no choice but to get on the bike sadly, and went home disappointed.

At dawn the next day, Chuanlong, who hadn't slept all night and was about to get up and rush to Hexifan to ask about the details, did not expect his uncle to come and was very depressed.

Jin Ju explained to Sheng Gen and Ba Po in the main room: "My brother and sister-in-law told you not to make a fuss. I am full of fragrance. I don't have such a blessing. She thinks that she can't read a word, but I Chuanlong is a A high school student, she felt that she was not worthy of uploading the dragon, so she ran away with the little six in the same village. She gave up. My brother and sister-in-law said that they would never recognize her again, so they pretended that she had never been born and raised her. I passed on Long Shiwen Breaking the word again, I will find a good one in the future... If you want to open it up, don't be surprised."

Chuanlong, who was about to get up, tore off the shirt he had just put on, threw it on the ground, and fell asleep again.

6
Hu Chuanlong couldn't swallow this breath, and turned over and over on the bed, the sheets were wrinkled into a pile, revealing the straw under the bedding.

To appease him, his mother, Bapo Qiu, specially brought a bowl of shredded pork noodles to his bed, but he didn't eat it.

The sunlight shone through the thick holes in the row of bowls in the eaves, and a group of sparrows crawled around in the holes, chirping happily.The disturbance made Chuanlong feel even more restless. He beat the bed, raised himself up, frowned and rubbed the gum in the corner of his eyes.

The room was quiet, Ba Po Qiu was afraid that her son would commit suicide, so instead of going to the field, she sat at the door and sucked the soles of her shoes.The damp, musty wind blew from the gutter, Baba Qiu felt limp all over, tiredness quickly hit her brows, her sewing hands stopped slowly, her eyes closed involuntarily, and her head opened up little by little. Doze off.

Hu Chuanlong's unknown anger had nowhere to vent, and he fell heavily on the bed again. He suddenly felt his body was cold and sticky, and when he touched it with his hand, he was covered with sparrow feces.

Chuanlong jumped up from the bed like a monkey. The anger he had suppressed in his heart for many days finally found a breakthrough. How can this dilapidated house and temple be full of incense?

Chuanlong picked up the noodle bowl on the stool and slammed it against the wall...

The ear-piercing voice made Ba Po Qiu wake up from her doze, she stood up abruptly, ignoring that the soles of her shoes on her lap fell to the ground, she rushed into the room in a panic, her eyes blinking, and she complained: "Man Xiang ran away, I know you're sad, and no one messed with you, I've let you live in the room, let Ding Ni borrow someone else's house to sleep..."

Baba Qiu stopped abruptly, wiped her eyes, saw the broken bowl and a pile of noodles under the wall, she was completely driven away from the drowsiness, and rushed over to serve them.

Ba Po Qiu turned her head and stared at her son fiercely: "You prodigal son, this is the noodles I borrowed from your uncle's house after I begged my grandpa to sue my grandma. , who fell around at home, no wonder Man Xiang couldn't be tied, no wonder Man Xiang ran with others..."

As soon as the incense was full, Hu Chuanlong's already subdued flames sprang up again. With bare feet, he ran to the corner of the door, grabbed a hoe, and dug towards the base of the wall, shaking a group of people on the wall who were pecking at the straw. A few sparrows from Shibuya rushed away.

Baba Qiu put down the broken bowl in her hand, ran over madly, hugged the hoe, and sat on the ground crying.

Hu Chuanlong pointed angrily at the adobe wall, hanging on it like a straw beard. "You two are too lazy and honest to be adults. I have lived in this kind of house since I was born. I heard from my uncle that this house has been built for nearly 20 years, and you don't say it was made of mud. Well, tell me, where is the house in the village?" Isn’t it mud? Which family in the village doesn’t have walls covered with mud?”.

Ba Po Qiu suddenly felt wronged, and pleaded: "Baby, can you blame me? It's all your old bastard, a pack of cigarettes every two days, the family can't save money at all, and can't make up their minds..."

Hu Chuanlong stared at his blood-red eyes, leaned on a hoe, and looked at his mother who was sitting timidly on the ground, blinking her little mung bean eyes. His heart softened, and he squatted on the ground and burst into tears...

7
The matter of Chuanlong throwing bowls and digging walls, after the eighth wife exaggerated her husband who was off work, it became even more heinous.Undecided, Sheng Gen went to the back of the village to discuss with his eldest brother. De Gen twisted his thin neck in excitement, and twisted all his words into the truth: "I owe a beating, I owe a beating, I can't fool a daughter-in-law, but I blame the old man Come on, how can such a thing happen? My ugly words have come to the fore, if you don’t discipline him cruelly, you will eat his hot shit in the future, and it will be too late..."

In order not to eat Chuanlong's hot shit in the future, Hu Shenggen begged his elder brother to form an alliance with him. They tied Chuanlong's hands with hemp rope, hung him under the floor, and beat him severely with sticks and whips.

Ba Po Qiu was wiping away her tears, seeing this posture, she didn't dare to say anything more.It was Jin Ju who ran over and stopped the corporal punishment.In fact, only Jin Ju, who is decent and eloquent, can stop this corporal punishment.

Jin Ju ran over, glanced at her husband, at Chuanlong hanging on the floor, and at Bapo Qiu, and shouted: "My Baba, you are so useless to die, rotten grass without pulp, Chuanbai!" The dragon is not a piece of meat that fell from your body! Just relying on men to be cheap like this? You can stand it? Dead man! Wooden man!" Crying with tears and snot: "You don't know how distressed I am. It still hurts!"

Hu Degen and Hu Shenggen brothers looked at each other, thinking that if Baba Qiu was half as capable as Jinju, she would have come out to stop him earlier, they were just pretending to frighten the child, why would they really beat him so cruelly?They threw down the sticks in their hands, and Xiang followed them out.

Standing on the chair with the scissors in hand, Jin Ju cut the rope that bound the Chuanlong.

With the support of Ba Po and Jinju, Chuanlong's eyes shone fiercely. He must get out of the mountains, get out of this dilapidated house, and work hard to create another world and another world outside!
In the autumn of that year, the county armed forces just came to the village to recruit soldiers. Hu Chuanlong, who was determined to leave the mountain village, brazenly carried a sack of peanuts and waited by the only road leading to the outside of the mountain. Suddenly, a sack of peanuts rolled out of the forest with a "crash".The accompanying visitors from the local armed forces thought it was a stone rolling down the mountain, and hurriedly dragged the recruiter to dodge, but unexpectedly rushed from behind a tree, a stunned young man said that he wanted to be a soldier, and all his most precious belongings were contained in the sack!
The accompanying visitor kicked the sack, recognized that it was filled with peanuts, and showed a look of disdain, "I thought that officials from other places would be rare for a few peanuts! A few peanuts are bullshit in their eyes! I don't know how big the sky is and the earth is so thick. ! If it wasn't for the People's Liberation Army, I wish I could give him a few slaps!"

The recruiter in the army patted Chuanlong on the shoulder and back, but immediately asked Chuanlong to go to the county armed forces department for a physical examination in a few days.

After a series of conscription activities such as medical examination and political examination, Chuanlong got his wish and put on the green uniform.

Yusuo's warm towel gently slid across every inch of Chuanlong's body, and his ten fingers delicately kneaded his warm toes.

Chuanlong's injury has improved. The scorched scars on his body gradually became dry and formed a layer of black crust. Every time, I am delighted to find that after the black shell falls off, the fresh pink tender meat is revealed.

"...Yusuo, the good girl in my dream, thank you for your noble heart, which melted into letters of concern and warmed my military life. Every time I read your letter, the tension in the military, Lonely, I relax. Looking through the past calendars, it is indeed because of your warmth that I was able to survive the lonely and floating military career. I dare not give up my pursuit and work hard to be admitted to the military academy..." The desk lamp in front of the bed, in the heavy In the dark night, the sun shrouded Yu Suo, who was holding a thick love letter, "... I once counted my 'fate', saying that I was born in a foreign country, and I was born on the road to success. Of course, this is also a very superstitious statement, but looking back at my high school The bumpy road from graduation to now is also close to the fate. He also said that once I fall in love with someone, I will pursue it without hesitation, not afraid of high mountains and long roads, and cherish her! Spirit, not only loves her husband, but also loves her elderly parents, supports his family, can not only endure the loneliness of life, but also shoulder the dual responsibilities of military family members, cherish this hard-won praise. Yu Suo, I think This person must be you, such an ideal military wife is none other than you..."

As Yu Suo was reading, she suddenly felt a warm air rushing against her ears. She raised her head, and her puzzled eyes immediately turned into surprise like lightning.

(End of this chapter)