The 80s Chronicle: Addiction To the Army’s Young Wife

I especially remember that in those days when there was not much to eat, Yu Chunhua and her father were dragged to the commune for criticism. Her mother was so devastated that her two brothers were abducted that she ran out of money and died early. The remaining Yu Ziliang, who was extremely thin, struggled to support the huge family business, but he failed to hold on to the family business and was defeated.

It was the best of times, simply because all tenant slaves were free and they could make their own decisions.

It was also a miserable and miserable era, and many landowners with rich families were hit.

Yu Ziliang is one of them.

The upper three generations of the Yu family were also poor farmers, struggling under the oppression of feudal society.

Yu Ziliang's great-grandfather was an orphan when Lafayette was in power. He had neither enough food nor clothing to keep him warm. It can be said that he grew up eating hundreds of meals in his original village.

When I was thirteen years old, I followed a middle-aged man in the village and traveled around in search of a way to survive.

Later, he worked as an apprentice in a carpenter's shop. Because he was hard-working, loyal and diligent, and no matter how the master beat or scolded him, he would endure it with gritted teeth, just to learn more from the master. Therefore, Mr. Yu was very good with such a moral character. Kuai stood out among the other apprentices and gained the appreciation of his master and his daughter. After the old master completed his studies and became a master, his master gave this apprentice two choices. One was to marry the other's daughter and stay at the carpenter's house. In the shop, they can provide care for these two people nearby, and secondly, he can go out and start his own business.

Mr. Yu combined the two conditions into one, married the master's daughter, and set up his own business.

Not only did his master not think that his apprentice was a wolf, but on the day before the wedding night, the master told his wife that this cheap son-in-law would definitely have a great future.

Sure enough, Mrs. Yu was right by his master's advice. Although the conditions in the future were not rich, at least the husband and wife were harmonious and loving, and the business was booming. This was just because Mr. Yu was an honest man, and the furniture he made was durable and durable. The wife is good at embroidery and will help her husband with suggestions and carve some unique patterns on the furniture, which is very popular, especially for families with a little wealth. When their daughter gets married and needs to build dowry furniture, she will always come to the old man. His shop was well-known at that time.

Similarly, he didn't know who his parents were since he was a child. After marrying his wife, he naturally treated his father-in-law and mother-in-law as his biological parents, and he lived a comfortable life until his old age.

It's just that neither of the old man's two sons or daughters inherited the family's carpentry trade. After middle age, he did take on a few apprentices. He didn't ask his apprentices to provide for him in old age. He just didn't get wages during his apprenticeship. After completing the apprenticeship, he could leave or stay if he wanted. He didn't stop him, so his disciples always treated him very well. After all, Mr. Yu never kept anything secret.

A hundred years later, the family property will be divided among the four children. The eldest son will inherit slightly more, but he will not be jealous of his younger siblings. After all, the children will live a happy life after getting married. good.

Yu Ziliang is the eldest grandson of Mr. Yu's youngest son. The Yu family's property was purchased by Yu Ziliang's grandfather. It is near Xiangshan Village. The original lotus pond was planted after the Yu family dug the pond. The former Yu family's Dazhai was located in an open space between the lotus pond and the small green hill. Now, not to mention the house, even the skeleton of the house has long been gone.

There was a fire that burned down the Yu family's house. At one time, Xiangshan Village and several surrounding villages were almost all tenants of the Yu family.

When Yu Ziliang was a landlord, he was definitely not a slut. On the contrary, he got along very well with his family's tenants. In a good harvest year, he might collect rent according to the normal amount, but in a famine year, the Yu family never They all reduced rent, so even in the last years of feudalism, when wars were frequent in various places, no one in Xiangshan Village had ever starved to death.

Perhaps because of this, Yu Chunhua was able to stay here during the Landlord Fight.

At the same time, because of her background, Yu Chunhua was no longer the eldest daughter of the landlord's family. Old Mrs. Xu suddenly took charge of the matter, so she tried to tease her daughter-in-law in various ways.

However, Yu Chunhua's background is nothing to old Uncle Yao. His family used to be an official family. Although the family had long since ceased to exist, even if it existed, it would not be like the Yu family because of the generations of medical family. Although he is from a wealthy family, this "big" one is just a little surprised.

When I first saw Yu Chunhua, she had a wooden sign hanging around her neck and was standing in the middle of the crowd. She was only sixteen or seventeen years old, and she was as beautiful as a flower. But when I first saw her, she was yellow and thin, and it was difficult to let go. One imagines her to be a eldest lady.

At that time, Old Uncle Yao could only sigh, but in the next two years, this girl's perseverance made Old Uncle Yao feel pity. However, although he had medical skills, he was still an outsider. In that situation, even Old Uncle Yao felt pity. No matter how good Uncle Yao was, he would not dare to speak for her, otherwise he would not be able to get any favors, and Yu Chunhua and Yu Chunhua would also suffer more severe torture.

After that, he watched helplessly as the girl he loved married Lao Xu. Unfortunately, what greeted her was another round of painful torture that he couldn't wait for.

That kind of life lasted for decades, and it got worse after her husband died. After the death of her mother-in-law, there was still a joking aunt, who seemed to be reincarnated, giving birth to the girl who had once been confused or determined. Crushed.

When he married Yu Chunhua many years ago, she was no longer as young and tender as she once was. But in Old Yao Shu's heart, the old woman beside him was always the little girl who gritted her teeth and endured the changes of the times. She was looking forward to being rescued. , but also knew that no one dared to speak for her, so she could only bear it silently.

When Xu Jianjun wanted to join a government agency, he almost got kicked out of Yu Chunhua because of her status. However, when the people above went to investigate, the whole village felt pity for Yu Chunhua, a widow with her last son, and spoke up for her. , after all, her first two sons died on the battlefield, and the people above did not embarrass Xu Jianjun and Yu Chunhua. They approved Xu Jianjun's application to join the party, and entered government agencies after graduation.

It can be said that Yu Chunhua's girlhood was happy but dull. The first half of her life was soaked in bitter water. Only in her later years can she be considered completely happy.

Yu Chunhua has no love for her dead husband, but she is very grateful.

It was he who gave Yu Chunhua a chance to escape from the sea of ​​suffering. Although he dragged her into another sea of ​​suffering, the nature was fundamentally different.

He gave Yu Chunhua three outstanding sons and two daughters. Even if the younger daughter was disobedient and ignorant, at least during the ten years that the eldest daughter was alive, Yu Chunhua felt warm in her heart.

Of course, she raised such an outstanding son for that damn ghost and did not let her son change his surname after marrying Old Yao Shu. She believed that she was too worthy of the old Xu family. Only after marrying Old Yao Shu did she truly become a son. I have become a woman, a woman nourished by love. Although this love comes too late, it is still worth it.

Ren Junran is 47 years old this year and is the dean of the College of Translation at Imperial University of Foreign Studies. It is quite good for him to be in his current position at his age. At the same time, he can also translate some foreign academic works and has a high reputation in the translation industry. visibility.

This summer, Ren Junran saved enough money to buy a house in Fanghuayuan, the imperial capital. Before, he lived in an old courtyard. This courtyard was what it was called in the past. Now it is simply a large courtyard. There are five families, and he and his wife also live here. There are three rooms in the house, and the kitchen is shared. If two people live there, it will be no problem. But later, his wife gave birth to two children for him, and the place became crowded. .

I was thinking about buying a new house, a more spacious one, but I didn't have enough money on hand, and buying a house is different from buying groceries. You can't just think about it today and buy it tomorrow. It depends on various circumstances, so I kept putting it off. Drag till now.

The courtyard house at home is the memory of Ren Junran. He has lived here since he was born. His wife could not stand the conditions here and discussed with him to sell the courtyard house to make up for the down payment of the new house. Duan Junran did not agree. The wife then stopped mentioning it. The other party was a very gentle woman.

In the past few years, he used his spare time to translate more works, saved enough money for the down payment, and finally bought a house with three bedrooms and one living room. The down payment only cost 400,000, and the subsequent decoration was not extravagant, and the details were not complicated. When it reaches 100,000, it is considered a move.

During the move, the other four families in the courtyard came to help, and the three old houses were rented to a family in the courtyard by the couple at a fair price.

Among them, when packing up Ren Junran's mother's belongings, she found a rusty iron box. The box was about the size of an adult man's hand. It may have been printed with vegetable patterns in the early years, and the eight corners of the box were touched. It was shiny and had no rust. It was obvious that my mother had often played with it when she was alive.

The couple opened it and took a look, only to find that in addition to some yellowed stationery written with calligraphy, there were also photos of their parents.

Ren Junran's parents were just ordinary people. His father died when he was not yet born. Ren Junran was considered a posthumous child. It was his mother who worked hard to raise her. When she was young, her mother was a textile worker. Later, the textile factory closed down and her mother He also worked a lot to make a living, and finally raised him up. Less than half a year after Ren Junran got married, he died of overwork.

But this was the first time Ren Junran had seen this iron box, and the contents of the several pieces of letter paper inside made Ren Junran very curious.

It was my father's handwriting. My mother could not read a single Chinese character in her whole life, but my father seemed to be quite knowledgeable. The father I heard from my mother when I was young was simply brilliant.

These letters were neatly folded and placed inside. It looked like the contents were letters written by his father to his grandfather. There were about thirty pieces of them, but they had never been sent.

I learned from the letter that his grandfather was named Ren Yongjia, a local doctor who lived in Xiangshan Village. The letter contained his father's confession to his grandfather, saying that he was young and frivolous and did not understand his father's difficulties, so he left home impulsively. After running away, although I missed my father very much these years, I still couldn't make the decision to go back. I was always worried about him until he died.

Ren Junran's wife is Jiang Xiuqing. She is an associate professor at the University of Foreign Studies and teaches Russian. Both of them stayed at the school to teach after graduation, and they have a very good relationship.

She knew that her husband had no father since he was a child and was raised by her mother-in-law. Her mother-in-law gave her all to her husband, which can be said to be her heart and soul.

In fact, when she was brought back by Ren Junran for the first time, her mother-in-law told her that her body was exhausted and she would not be an eyesore in front of their young couple in the future. She only hoped that after she left, they would be able to live together. Being able to discuss and consider everything, be affectionate and loving, and grow old together in an ordinary way.

The relationship between Jiang Xiuqing's parents is very good. Her mother didn't agree with her getting along with Ren Junran before. She was worried that Ren Junran's widowed mother had mental problems and was afraid of teasing their daughter. However, she saw that her daughter was disobedient and refused to agree to anything. Ren Junran broke up, and the two of them had no choice but to let it go.

After they got married, the two elders of the Jiang family were still a little uneasy when they saw their mother-in-law who looked very poor. At the same time, they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Seeing that their mother-in-law was like a burner, even if her daughter was wronged, she might not be able to do anything. It will be too long.

Unexpectedly, her mother-in-law passed away half a year after they got married.

Jiang Xiuqing knew what her parents were thinking and felt very unhappy. In the past ten years after their marriage, they had never spent the night at Jiang's house. If they had something to do, they would go back for a meal and show their filial piety. After all, there was an older brother and an older sister at home.

Although she knew her parents were thinking about her, Jiang Xiuqing still couldn't agree with this idea.

In order for his daughter not to be wronged, why should he breathe a sigh of relief because his son-in-law's mother is dying?

She loved this man, and at the same time she respected the mother who raised him. Her parents' thoughts made her feel cold.

When she saw the contents of the letter, Jiang Xiuqing told Ren Junran that she would accompany her to Xiangshan Village. If the old man was still alive, he would take him over. You know where his roots are.

Ren Junran thought about it all night, and then he and his wife took a few days alone to buy a ticket to Jiangcheng.

It was this Xiangshan Village group that made Ren Junran know that he and his biological grandfather lived in the same city, the imperial capital.

And my grandfather has been going to the imperial capital for more than 20 years!

Hearing the news, Ren Junran felt a little sad.

He didn't know what he should be thinking about now, or how to think. His whole mind seemed to be empty.

Perhaps because he is Ren Yongjia, the grandson of Old Uncle Yao, the entire Xiangshan Village is very enthusiastic about him. They all ask about his father, whose nickname is Xiao Shitou, and even tell him that his father ran away from home. In that turbulent era, my grandfather rushed to the war-torn battlefield in search of his only son. A few years later, he returned to the village with a broken leg.

This made Ren Junran feel uncomfortable in every possible way.

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Don't worry about old Yao Shu. He is gone, but his grandson is here.