One evening, at dinner time, the smoke curled up, and the voices of families calling for their children to come home for dinner came and went. A distant relative who was a security guard ran to report in a panic: "Come to the bay tomorrow to catch the strong man, and the boy will draw one out of two."
Everyone didn't know how to swallow it for dinner that day, and looking at the big family at the table, grandma immediately decided, one word, "Run!".”
That night, he simply packed up his things, the eldest uncle carried his father (five years old) and eighth aunt (seven years old) in a basket, the second uncle carried the luggage, and the others supported each other, taking advantage of the bleak moonlight, abandoned the home that had just settled down, and escaped from "Tao Shengliu" with one foot deep and one foot shallow.
Suddenly, we couldn't run far, and Chengguan Town, Xinzhou, became our refuge. first rented a house to settle down, and grandma did the same trick again, and the family set up a deep fryer again. Soon, the snacks of the Tao family's mother-in-law became popular again in the old city, and the fritters once again supported the hope of the whole family's life.
Time flies. Don't say it, having more children also has the advantage of having more children, one brick today, one board tomorrow, gathering sand into a tower. Soon, my grandmother built a house of her own, and my uncle got married.
Speaking of uncles, of course, they are the pillars of the family. He is not good-looking, but he is very charismatic. Uncle has a characteristic: he is especially able to speak well, and he is not stage frightened when he sees anyone. The family was backward, and the uncle often went to the rich to work as a helper. It's strange to say that such a poor boy is especially liked by various ladies, and he often encounters all kinds of overtures and even teasing him. Uncle has a lot of stories in this regard, and when I met him later, I liked to listen to him talk about these glorious histories, and every time Uncle told it, his eyebrows fluttered, his spit flew everywhere, and then he laughed at it. In fact, Uncle is very backbone in his bones!Grandma is very praising him for this!
From the outside, the life of the whole family is on the right track again, but in the grandmother's heart, another set of plans is brewing. As mentioned earlier, my grandmother had a younger sister, my aunt, who later married in Shanghai. My father-in-law has worked hard in Shanghai for many years and has made small achievements in his career. The husband was engaged in the business of some agricultural products, selling grain and cotton from Xinzhou to Shanghai for sale. My father-in-law has more than a dozen flat poles in his hands, and the so-called flat poles are the quota of dock porters, and there is no way to work if there is no quota. From time to time, my grandmother and my aunt kept in touch with each other, learning about the outside world and waiting for an opportunity.
The uncle, of course, was the most knowledgeable about the situation at home, and he noticed the letters. Once I told my grandmother about my thoughts: I want to go to Shanghai to break through. Seeing that the time was basically ripe, my grandmother agreed to my uncle's request and sent him to take the lead and go to Shanghai to join my aunt.
My father also reached the age of elementary school and studied at Chengguan Primary School. According to my father's words: Reading is studying, and family tasks are indispensable. The task assigned to the father was to take care of the rice that the family ate. Every morning, my grandmother would put the fried fritters in a bamboo basket, and my father would carry the basket to the street to sell it door to door. At that time, most of the people who could afford to buy these food were all kinds of handicraft owners on the street, and they had a habit of only taking in the money in the morning and taking it out in the afternoon. So the money is on credit in the morning, and you go to the store in the afternoon to collect it.
My father's memory is excellent, which family has a few fritters?How many twists?It's all up to my brain to remember, and I will go to the store to settle the money after school in the afternoon, and it will be the same. Occasionally, I will meet people who are half-truths and half-truths, and they will fool the children into deliberately giving less money, and the father will give them a hundred and fifty-ten to explain what they bought, and what details are clear at that time, and slowly no one will try to give less money.
Another reason why my father's things sell well is that my father loves cleanliness. Even the patched old clothes were flat and clean on my father's body. This is mainly due to the fact that the father is very careful when playing or simply takes off clean clothes and puts them away before playing, so people on the street are especially willing to buy food from this shrewd and cleanly dressed child.
Of course, the grandmother knew her child's sales skills, so the task was upgraded. There is a theater in Chengguan, which is a cultural activity center with few people, and the business of guests is very hot every day. Soon there was a little boy with a tray hanging on his chest, with all kinds of cigarettes and snacks in it, shuttling and selling in **.
At that time, children were generally not allowed to enter the theater, and children liked to watch the excitement, so while the janitor was busy dealing with the guests, he would sneak in through the gap next to him, of course, not every success. When sneaking into the theater becomes a matter of probability, the father can enter the theater in a grand manner, which naturally becomes the envy of the children. Soon my father became the head of the local children and gained a lot of fans, including my mother, which is a story for another time.
It is precisely because of this experience that he has become accustomed to watching and listening to operas has gradually become his father's lifelong hobby. Sometimes he chatted with us about all kinds of kung fu in acting, which was the first and the best, and it was not inferior to the judges and experts in some competitions. The father's point of view is;Everyone should know a little bit about drama. However, love is love, because of his natural voice, his father has been a listener for a lifetime.
Although I can't sing it, it's still good. My father had a classmate who was good friends and played together. This classmate's father is a storyteller, and he often teaches children some knowledge of storytelling, and with the ability to listen to each other, his father actually learned a lot of storytelling paragraphs. First, he performed among the children, and soon, the adults also discovered this playful boy, and if he had nothing to do, he was asked to do two paragraphs.
At this time, my father shook his clothes, picked up a wooden stick, found an earthen platform, woke up the wood, and the big drama was staged. What "Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties", "Luo Tong Sweeping the North", "Xue Rengui's Expedition to the East", "Xue Dingshan's Expedition to the West", "Xue Gang's Anti-Tang Dynasty", what "Bao Gong Case?".", Peng Gong's Case", "Shi Gong's Case", and "Three Heroes and Five Righteousness" came as soon as they opened their mouths, with a full voice and good performance, and everyone applauded.
It wasn't until a few decades later that I went to Chengguan and met some older people, and occasionally heard them talking about the Tao boy who could tell a story.
The uncle's family settled down in Shanghai. What he remembers most is the growth of his father, the youngest brother. In addition, he has a child of his own, and he urgently needs his grandmother to help take care of it. So at this point in time, Grandma once again adjusted the course of the ship of fate, "Let's go to Shanghai".