“The child’s father, you say something, what should we do with Zhao Di’s marriage.”
“What are you talking about? Neither the Wang family nor the Zhong family wants to marry her, and I can’t force her to marry me with a knife.”
“But the people from the Zhong family are coming, and the Wang family is also waiting for our family’s Zhao Di to reply. It’s not an option to keep dragging them on.”
“What should I do? Go and call Zhao Di.”
“Keep your voice down, I got up at the third watch and went to the thatched hut. There was still movement in Zhao Di’s hut. I guess I was crying secretly last night.”
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Song Zhaodi was born on the evening of August 15, 1945, the day Japan announced its surrender.
In 1963, he was admitted to Binhai Normal University. He was the first and only college student in Xiaosong Village.
In early autumn in 1963, Song Zhaodi went to Binhai City with the money from the village, town and county and her mother.
After getting off the bus, the girls didn’t go to Binhai Normal University to report, but walked to a tube building first.
Just in the middle of the day, the upstairs and downstairs of the cheesecake was filled with the aroma of various meals. Song Zhaodi carefully compared the address in her hand, saw the word “bell” on the door again, and nodded to her mother.
Soon, Mother Song raised her hand and knocked on the door.
A moment later, the door opened, and a woman in her fifties with a ruddy face and a smile on the corner of her mouth appeared in front of the mother and daughter of the Song family. Mother Song raised a smile: “Cousin. Zhao Di, call someone quickly, this is your cousin Zhao—”
“Why are you here?” Zhao Yin frowned, smelled the fishy smell, and stepped back with a look of disgust, interrupting Mother Song’s introduction.
Song Zhaodi’s face changed slightly, ready to explain. Zhao Yin spoke again, extremely impatient: “I’m busy at the moment, I don’t have time to entertain you, I’ll talk later if I have anything.”
Mother Song’s face flushed with embarrassment.
Song Zhaodi noticed that everyone who was cooking in the cheese building looked towards the Zhong family’s side and grabbed Song’s mother’s arm: “Mother, let’s go!”
Mother Song stumbled a bit, turned her head and found that the girl’s appearance was not good, and her chest was faintly stuffy: “Then, cousin, we’re going back.”
Coming out of the tube building, Mother Song looked at the two dried eels wrapped in the sack with a very complicated expression: “I wanted to give it to your cousin, oh, my daughter, you take it to school.”
“I have money on me. I will pay you back to school tomorrow. You can take it home and eat it yourself.” Song Zhaodi looked back at Tongzilou and couldn’t help but grit her teeth, “Don’t interact with her in the future.”
Mother Song: “If you say something stupid, it’s your cousin no matter what.”
“Then I won’t tell you!” A girl from Song Zhaodi went to school in Binhai City. It was the first time she left her home for hundreds of miles. The whole Xiao Song Village was not at ease.
Mother Song thought that her aunt’s daughter would remarry to a family with the surname of Zhong in the city, so she asked the villagers for two big eels, hoping that her cousin would help her take care of Song Zhaodi for the sake of the eels.
Mother Song heard that the voice was wrong, she turned her head and saw that her daughter’s eyes were slightly red, she wanted to cry but held back, her nose was sour: “It’s because my parents are incompetent, so my daughter follows me—”
“Yes, I didn’t have a good relative.” Song Zhaodi interrupted her mother’s apology.
Mother Song was dumbfounded.
Song Zhaodi coaxed her mother, but her heart was heavy, and her aunt Zhao Yin’s expression as if she saw maggots could not go away.
Six months of schooling, her dark skin turned white by the sea breeze, her round face, big eyes, and high nose bridge, Song Zhaodi, who has a long and slender figure, lost her rustic look and pursed her lips into a smile. Back home, Song Zhaodi welcomed the praise of the whole village, nothing more than going to college is really different.
196/4, the first month, Song Zhaodi looked even better after a good year. Back at school, Song Zhaodi also became a beautiful sight in Binhai Normal University.
It didn’t take long before a bold admirer approached Song Zhaodi secretly.
Song Zhaodi is not at all interested in the male classmate’s affection, and accidentally learns from her classmate that the other party’s family is rich and has overseas connections. When the aunt’s disgusted appearance came to mind again, Song Zhaodi, who secretly vowed to become a superior person, accepted the other’s offer.
1966, the beginning of spring, Song Zhaodi had been with each other for two years, and the two had a very good relationship when talking about marriage, Song Zhaodi was full of excitement and planned to bring the person home during the summer vacation, but the other suddenly disappeared without a trace .
After inquiring from various sources, Song Zhaodi found out that there was something wrong with her object’s family composition. She was afraid that the “red soldiers” would find his home and the family secretly took a boat to Gangcheng.
Song Zhaodi was extremely sad when the subject escaped, and was afraid that the “red soldiers” in the school would find out that she and the other party were boyfriends and girlfriends. As soon as the school closed in May, she ran back to Xiaosong Village on the pretext of helping the family harvest rice.
The high school in Hongya Town, where Song Zhaodi is located, also closed classes, and the people in the village had no doubts when Song Zhaodi returned early. Mother Song noticed that the girl’s appearance was wrong, and before she could figure it out, someone gave Song Zhaodi a kiss.
Song Zhaodi had just lost her love and was not in the mood to date others. Because the man’s uncle is the town leader, Song’s father is not easy to offend, so he said that Song Zhaodi has not graduated yet, and the marriage will be discussed after she graduates.
The parents of the other party thought that the Song family disliked the son who did not graduate from junior high school and was working in a factory. Not only was he not angry, he also felt normal. After all, Song Zhaodi was the only college student in the eight villages of Shili after the founding of the People’s Republic of China. When the matchmaker went to the Song family to propose marriage, they did not expect the Song family to agree.
The man’s uncle also felt that his nephew was whimsical. Knowing that he was rejected by the Song family, he said that his nephew Toad wanted to eat swan meat, and naturally he did not go to the Song family to make peace.
In 1967, in the late spring, classes in universities all over the country were closed, and it was recommended that educated youth go to the countryside for exercise. Hongya Town also welcomed the first batch of college students and high school students who went to the countryside to exercise.
Song Zhaodi couldn’t go back to the city again. The Wang family’s parents who couldn’t stand her son’s request again sent someone to the Song family to propose marriage. It was also mentioned that once Song Zhaodi married into the Wang family, they would find a relationship to arrange Song Zhaodi to teach in the town.
Song Zhaodi hesitated, but she really didn’t like the Wang family, so she didn’t let go.
Song’s father and Song’s mother were also reluctant to force Xiaoqinggong. When she grew up, she was admitted to a university and won glory for her family. Now she is still teaching in the primary school run by the village, and she can give the little girl who earns work points to the family.
The Song family pushed the Wang family again on the grounds that Zhao Di was still young. The Wang family also saw that the Song family did not want to marry them.
Wang Degui met Song Zhaodi once in the town, and he was obsessed with her, and vowed not to marry her. The parents of the Wang family went to beg Wang Degui’s uncle to come forward for their son.
On Sunday, September 10, 1967, Uncle Wang rode his 28 bicycle to Xiaosong Village.
The villagers laughed when they saw him and asked if they were here to match Wang Degui.
Uncle Wang’s face was flushed, and he wanted to continue walking, but he was afraid that the villagers would think he was running away, so he got out of the car and said that he only had one nephew.
The villagers told Wang Degui’s uncle that the Song family had a guest. It was Song Zhaodi’s cousin from Binhai City.
Uncle Wang didn’t believe it was so coincidental. He pushed the car to the door of Song’s house. He heard Mandarin from inside. He looked inside through the crack of the door. There was a woman who was dressed well, not from the village. When Wang Degui’s uncle saw this, he didn’t go in either. He pushed the car and left, intending to come back another day.
Zhao Yin’s husband died at an early age, so he remarried to the Zhong family in Binhai City. When he first married into the Zhong family, Zhao Yin treated his two stepsons very well, and he did not treat the Zhong brothers badly when he became pregnant. When she gave birth to a son, as soon as the confinement was born, the brothers of the Zhong family were sent to the parents-in-law’s house. The two brothers of the Zhong family knew it personally.
As the saying goes, half the eldest child eats the poor old man. The two brothers of the Zhong family were growing up and were driven by their stepmother to the grandparents’ house. Because the grandparents’ wages were not high, the two brothers dared not open their stomachs to eat, and often woke up in the middle of the night from hunger. Water hard.
A year later, the sixteen-year-old eldest of the Zhong family went to work as an apprentice in a state-run garment factory. He didn’t get much salary. Anyway, the brothers didn’t have to tighten their belts and got up in the middle of the night to pour water. And the second child of the Zhong family is also very good. He learns that there is no tuition fee for going to university, and the school pays back the money.
On the day of receiving the notice, Zhao Yin finally remembered the two stepsons, and immediately took the Zhong brothers home to live. It’s a pity that the Zhong brothers have already been heartbroken by their stepmother.
After lunch at home, the two brothers returned to their grandparents’ house again.
There is a college student from the Zhong family. Even if he hasn’t reported to the school yet, people who used to despise the Zhong family brothers will bring things to the Zhong family to congratulate them.
A few days later, someone still wants to say kiss to the boss of the Zhong family. However, the eldest of the Zhong family shared a house with his grandparents, and he had nowhere to live if he married a wife, so they all refused.
Later, the eldest of the Zhong family used the money he saved and the money saved by the second child of the Zhong family in school to buy a plot of land on the corner of the street and build three mud-tiled houses. Only when the house was completed did he invite others to introduce him to him.
The second eldest of the Zhong family has a promising future. Thanks to his younger brother, the relatives and neighbors of the eldest of the Zhong family brought gifts or money to congratulate him on the wedding day, including the heartless Zhao Yin.
Unfortunately, the second child of the Zhong family still doesn’t like this stepmother, so he went to Shencheng after graduation, far away from home.
College students can be said to be rare in the military, so the second child of the Zhong family is a second lieutenant as soon as he joins the army.
Zhao Yin watched his stepson come back in a military uniform, and did not dare to treat the boss of the Zhong family harshly, nor did he dare to trouble the boss’s family. With a smile on his face, he kept cursing in his heart that the second child of the Zhong family died on the battlefield.
Perhaps Zhao Yin’s curse took effect, and the second daughter-in-law of the Zhong family died on the street, leaving behind three children.
The second child of the Zhong family is a soldier and cannot take care of the children, so he puts the three children in the elder brother’s house. The eldest of the Zhong family is willing to help his younger brother look after the children, but they still have two children.
The grandparents of the Zhong family have passed away, and it is impossible for the parents-in-law to help take care of the children. Sister-in-law Zhong looks after five children alone, and cannot take care of them at all. Sister-in-law Zhong, who has more than enough strength but not enough strength, suggests that her brother-in-law should marry again.
The second child of the Zhong family has no objection, but is worried that no one will marry him, and the person who is willing to marry him will not be able to take care of the three children.
Somehow this matter came to Zhao Yin’s ears, Zhao Yin told Sister-in-law Zhong that she had a candidate, but she didn’t know if she was married.
The sister-in-law of the Zhong family didn’t believe that her step-grandmother could do anything good, but when others heard that the second child had three children, they shook their heads and refused without even thinking about it. As a result, the sister-in-law of the Zhong family could only pin her hopes on the cruel step-mother.
Afterwards, Zhao Yin brought a few catties of vegetables, a catty of pears, a catty of fried fruit and half a catty of pork to Xiaosong Village to say kisses.
Song Zhaodi still didn’t forget how much Zhao Yin looked down on when she and her mother went to Zhong’s house four years ago, and also felt that Zhao Yin was a weasel to the chicken this time and had no good intentions.
As soon as I heard that Zhao Yin was coming, Song Zhaodi ran out of the kitchen wearing a coarse apron without tidying up.
When she didn’t go to the elementary school in the village, Song Zhaodi helped her family with her work and went to the beach with her mother to pick up sea melon seeds. Song Zhaodi, who had been home for more than a year after being exposed to the wind and sun all day, turned into a black and thin local girl.
Zhao Yin looked at Song Zhaodi and was very satisfied, and then said that she told Song Zhaodi about marriage, not an outsider, but her second stepson.
The Song family heard from relatives that the second child of the Zhong family was a college student. Mother Song estimated the age of the second child of the Zhong family, and asked him why he was not married yet when he was almost thirty.
Zhao Yin said that getting married means getting married, and her mother-in-law died a few days ago.
Mother Song is neither smart nor stupid. She didn’t ask if the second child of the Zhong family had any children, but asked what would happen to the child if her mother died.
Zhao Yin thought for a moment, thinking that his cousin knew that the second child had a child, and smiled awkwardly, saying that if there was no child, the second child of the Zhong family would not be able to get Song Zhaodi’s turn.
Song Zhaodi sneered, and Song’s mother, Yang’s, got up to see off the guests. Since the two were relatives, she didn’t say anything, but said that the family had to discuss it again.
The three-year difficult period when Song Zhaodi was admitted to university has just passed, and the life of the common people is a little better. The cautious Zhao Yin was afraid that her mother’s family would hit the autumn wind, so she never contacted her mother’s family, so she didn’t know that Song Zhaodi was a college student, and always thought that Song Zhaodi couldn’t even write her own name.
Seeing the unnatural expressions of the Song family, Zhao Yin misunderstood that they could not accept that the second child of the Zhong family had three children. And she felt that even if she had children, Song Zhaodi, a rural girl who could marry a college student, was a blessing from her previous life. When I got home, I told Sister-in-law Zhong that it was done, and told the second child to come back as soon as possible.
On September 23, the Song family received a letter from Zhao Yin from the city, saying that the second child of the Zhong family would be back after the National Day.
Mother Song didn’t know how to reply, so she asked Song Zhaodi what she planned.
Song Zhaodi didn’t even think about it, and said that no one would marry. But when she returned to her own room, thinking about whether she would marry Zhong Jianguo, the Wang family would come over every three days to ask her if she had thought it through.
Both the Zhong family and the Wang family choose? She is twenty-two years old, and she will spend at least two or three years at home, and she will still have to get married after two or three years. By that time, the conditions of the other party may not be as good as that of Zhong and Wang.
As the National Day gets closer, Song Zhaodi, who doesn’t know what to do, can’t wait to die. But she didn’t want to die. While hating myself for being ruthless, I hate myself for being swaying, looking ahead and looking back. On the night of September 30th, I cried in the middle of the night, and the next morning, the core was replaced by Liu Ling, who was a hundred years later.
Looking at the spider web on the roof and listening to the dialect with a strong northern accent across the wall, the person on the bed didn’t want to admit that she was Song Zhaodi, but her chest was sore and the corners of her eyes were sore, so real feelings were telling Liu Ling, She is no longer a famous fashion designer at home and abroad, but Song Zhaodi, a villager in Xiaosong Village, Binhai City.
Liu Ling was born in the millennium. Before her death, a group of apprentices, Sun asked her if she had any unfulfilled wishes. Liu Ling lived a smart life and thought about it seriously and expressed no regrets.
The apprentices wanted to help her too much, so they asked Liu Ling to think again. Liu Ling said that he only hated not getting married, trying to get married and trying to raise a few children. Before the apprentice could speak, she also said that having a baby was too painful, and the mother ran to death and the son ran to life, or she might lose her life, so forget it. All the apprentices, Sun, were speechless by her words, and she also passed away.
The soul comes from a hundred years later, Liu Ling looked at the calluses on his hands, sat up on the bed, patted his sleep-deprived, dizzy head, secretly slandered God, it was true, the words before his death were just casual Say: “Father, mother, I’m marrying!”
The door opened, and the huge hall fell silent.