Farewell to Bitterness: Niu Bin, the forgotten village child.
Outliers in the Village: The Embarrassing Story of Niu Tianmin's Family.
Life and death parting: a cold but profound funeral.
In a summer village, there always seems to be some families who are pushed to the edge of life and become outliers in that village. In our memory, there is such a family, they do not get along with their neighbors, and no one is in their eyes. The protagonist of the story is Niu Tianmin, a child destined to be forgotten by the village.
In our village, Niu Tianmin's family has always had a bad reputation. They fought with every family, perhaps over the border of an adjacent gutter, or simply for stealing someone else's corn stalks. They are like a cancer in the village, no matter who is in trouble, they will not get the slightest sympathy.
Niu Tianmin has developed a strong personality since he was a child and has become the "pofu" of the village. He had unpleasant experiences with every family in the village, but had few friends. Even the children of their own family keep their distance from their friends in the village because of the reputation of their families.
His wife is also distinctive, pungent and vicious. Their two daughters learned the strong style of their parents through words and deeds, and became the family with the worst reputation in the village. The family's bad image in the village is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and has become the focus of everyone's discussion.
However, when we learned the news of Niu Tianmin's death, our hearts swelled with a deep sadness. Niu Tianmin, the "nose bucket" when he was a child, the unsociable child, passed away in obscurity. It was a cold and bleak funeral, his family was only a few people, and even the band and the funeral crowd were so scarce.
His parents had aged much after the loss of their son, and his children stood helplessly by the cemetery in the face of the devastating loss of their loved ones. This scene is reminiscent of Niu Tianmin's appearance when he was a child, which is sad.
Before Niu Tiansheng's death, although his family was spurned, he personally did not do anything to offend the villagers. Although he rarely returned home from work in other places and did not have contact with the people in the village, he did not have too many conflicts with the villagers. Now that he is gone, should we put aside our prejudices about his family and send him on his last journey?
We should not forget the good side of human nature, and we should not fall for a bereaved person because of the past of the family. Perhaps, behind this deserted funeral, we can reflect on the relationship between people, and learn to understand and be tolerant. After all, life and death are separated, and no one can guarantee that his family will be smooth and safe, and no one can guarantee what kind of person his descendants will become.
In the sad farewell, Niu Tianmin's story may be able to trigger our thinking about interpersonal relationships. For such anomalies, perhaps we should put aside our prejudices and give a tolerance. In this world, everyone has their own story, and perhaps they are just pursuing a lifestyle that is not so understood. May the departed rest in peace, and may the living learn to tolerate.