Author: Wang Xinhua
Children are in debt, some pay debts, some collect debts, and no debts do not come;
Husband and wife are all fate, there are good fate, there are bad fate, and there is no fate and no gathering.
In general, a woman can be killed.
One or two husbands will be considered "broom stars" and "widows", and men will stay away.
The old man in the neighborhood of Shuiquan Lane in my house has killed eight men one after another, what are the successions of these eight men? I met her around 1987, when she had just married my neighbor, her seventh husband. With six men killed, she has become a celebrity in the community.
The first time I saw her, I felt that "this woman is unusual". The old ladies in the mine are generally traditional, with low cultural quality, introverted personalities, and conservative dress. And this old man is close to the sixtieth year, although his appearance is ordinary, but he wears a pair of myopic glasses, holds a cigarette, and has a Beijing accent and Beijing rhyme.
Later, I listened to her tell her story of her glorious history.
It turned out that she was from Beijing and was sent to our mine. Later, I don't know why she was criticized for what happened, and she couldn't stand the fight, so she lied that she was the daughter of a member with the same surname in "Sanjia Village" in order to get free.
The criticism was immediately stopped, and the unit sent people to Beijing to investigate and verify. It is said that the celebrity old gentleman was really found, and the old gentleman denied having such a daughter. The investigators came back and intensified their criticism of her.
At this time, she has been married several times, but it is always a good relationship, and the good period is too short, and the mountains are dry by water. Over the years, her fate has been very bumpy, she has no formal job, and she cannot return to Beijing, so she has to drag her children and daughters to live in the mines.
In desperation, she had to go to a single miner to dismantle and wash bedding and laundry for them to earn a little money to make ends meet.
Later, she seemed to have found another worker, but before long, her husband died again. It wasn't until she married the widowed old F that she lived a good life for a few days, playing mahjong with the old F and a group of old men every day, and going to the Cultural Palace to dance every day, living a happy life.
Within two years, Lao F got esophageal cancer and became terminally ill. Seeing this, Lao L hurriedly reapplied for a marriage certificate with Lao F in order to legally obtain the inheritance. **After that, she was busy dancing every day, and her care for Lao F became more and more sparse.
After Lao F's death, not long after, Lao L remarried a retired old section chief of a mine on Xinhua South Street. Within two years, the old section chief, who was elected as the eighth husband, also got some cancer and drove west.
Uncle L, a friend of my parents, was enthusiastic and talkative. During the New Year's holidays, I went to visit him on behalf of my parents, he always gave me New Year's money, firecrackers, and kept for dinner, once, he went to Beidaihe and came back, and gave me several bags of shells of different shapes, I liked him very much.
When he was young, my parents were matchmakers and married Aunt Z. Aunt Z is a neighborhood of my parents' hometown, and she had a brief marriage history before liberation, and then her husband was lost for many years due to wisdom and disability. Later, I heard that she had died in a foreign land, and Aunt Z had become a widow.
After the two got married, Uncle L was in the mine, Aunt Z was in her hometown, and the two places were separated, and there were many such couples in the mine at that time. The two failed to have children and adopted a pair of children. Aunt Z took her two children to accompany her mother to farm in her hometown, and Uncle L took family leave to visit them every year.
This situation lasted for more than 20 years, until 1986, when the mine began to implement a large-scale policy to report urban hukou to the children of family members in rural areas. Uncle L was very happy, and came to my house several times to talk about this good policy, looking forward to the beautiful scenery of family reunion.
Uncle L excitedly moved the household registration of Aunt Z, old and young, and they moved to the mine.
Soon, I was surprised to find that in this newly reunited family, Uncle L seemed to have become an outsider. Aunt Z and her two children are not close to him, and only the old mother-in-law in her seventies is better to him.
After Aunt Z moved in, Uncle L was taken to live in a small room in the courtyard, and the two were still separated. Later, Uncle L retired and couldn't stay at home, so he went to Yinchuan to work to watch the gate. A few years later, he became seriously ill and died not long after his return.
Their fate is that it is better to divide than to get together. Distance, for them, is not a chasm, but a bond.
When I was four or five years old, my next-door neighbor was the old M's family. The old M is short in stature, more than Chinese New Year's Eve time, and squints. Married to a wife, with a defective figure. After getting married, he adopted a daughter.
In the middle of the night, I often heard that the two were fighting, and Lao M was an eternal loser. often miserably calls his neighbors to relieve the siege, and he is always scratched by his wife.
After a long time, the news that Lao M was afraid of being beaten inside spread, and the sexless marriage of the two became an open secret. Someone with a good deed has a bad idea: "Old M, why do you keep getting beaten?" Is your wife pretending to be a man? The loyal old M will say, "Who knows!" Then the do-good man said, "The next time she goes to the toilet, you can go and see it." "Old M is silent.
Later, the story of the old M's wife stealing the man also spread. Once, the old man got off work in the middle of the night and blocked the adulterer in bed. The final ending is a copy of Wu Dalang's story, and he is the one who is beaten. Even so, Lao M still paid monthly and handed over most of his salary to his wife.
And his wife did not take care of his life at all, he ate in the canteen of the mine and wore dirty clothes all day long. One Spring Festival, he thought he could eat a meal of dumplings, and went home in a hurry, but as a result, he bit down and almost choked to death, it turned out that the dumpling filling was pure chili noodles!
Regarding their marriage, my father always sighed: "Lao M really owes her in his last life!" And Lao M himself once sighed: "She is here to collect debts!" ”
Later, about the debt was collected, and the old M's wife died. Lao M's evening scene is very good, after his daughter gets married, Lao M takes her children, and her daughter and son-in-law treat her very well.
Xiao Z is a young worker in the mine, and in the mid-seventies, he was next to my family. He is lazy and lazy, he can't go to class, and he is idle. His wife is beautiful, she used to work as a temporary worker in the mine, and she can't hide her natural beauty in labor clothes. Because Xiao Z doesn't go to work, the family lives a hard life.
At the end of the 70s, Xiao Z's family moved to live in five buildings, which were very remote and in the mountains.
Before long, I heard that Xiao Z had forced his wife to become a prostitute, and he became the eighth king, and he made a career out of it, which must be easier than going down the well to make money by himself. His wife became the first batch of women who lost their feet in the mine after the reform and opening up.
When I first heard about this, my parents were just skeptical. Later, Z's wife broke the jar and broke it, and openly wandered in the market, laughing at the guests, eating, drinking, and slandering. At this point, the rumors have become true.
When I was in junior high school, it was the mid-80s, and my wife had fallen into the dust for several years, and I had seen her in a restaurant, and I no longer had the elegance and beauty I remembered when I was a child.
My classmate Kong Da Radish's family lives in five buildings, and when he talks about Xiao Z's family, there are many well-detailed jokes. I remember one of them was that Xiao Z set his wife as a prostitute and prostituted others himself.
They also have children, who are a little younger than me, and they are already past the age of confusion. If there is a father like this, how can a child be innocent?!
About author:Wang Xinhua, born in the 70s in Shitanjing, graduated from Bureau No. 2 Middle School in 90, and taught in Bureau No. 1 Middle School for a short time after graduating from university, and now works in Dongguan City, Guangdong Province.