Dear friends, today I want to tell you a story that happened in the past eight years. This story was shared with me by Miss Lui, an enthusiastic citizen, and the protagonist of the story was her grandfather. Ms. Lui's hometown of Shandong is rich in apples, and the apple harvest season is particularly busy every year. At that time, the village had a special transport fleet responsible for transporting apples to all parts of the country for sale. As the village head, Miss Lu's grandfather was mainly responsible for docking these transport convoys and counting the number of apples.
In the 80s, the rural traffic conditions were not good, the roads were narrow, and most of them were sandy dirt roads. As a result, it is inevitable that some accidents will occur when the truck transporting apples is driving around the village. That year, a truck full of apples had just left the village and was about to hit the county road. At the place of the handover, there is a small dirt slope. The driver was very cautious, and after confirming that there was no one on the road, he increased the throttle and turned onto the county road.
However, at the moment when the truck drove onto the county road, the driver suddenly spotted a young man in his 20s coming across the street, riding a 28-bar bicycle. The driver quickly took the steering wheel, but the truck lost control and overturned in a trench on the side of the road. Fortunately, the truck was not fast, and the driver was not injured.
When the truck overturned, the driver saw the young man riding straight towards the ditch on the other side of the road, and ended up falling headlong into the ditch. The driver took a great deal of effort to open the door of the cab, and when he came out, he found the young man lying motionless in the trench. The driver thought to himself that his truck had not hit the young man, and that he should have ridden into the ditch himself. So, the driver stepped forward and pulled the young man, only to find that the young man was still motionless and had no signs of life.
Soon, the passing villagers and the subsequent transport convoy arrived at the scene. Miss Lu's grandfather also rushed to the scene as soon as possible. When he looked at this young man, his heart suddenly tightened, because this young man was the son of the Tang family in the same village he knew. The Tang family is a very wealthy family in the local area, and this young man is the only son in the family. Sure enough, the Tang family stopped doing it as soon as they came, and demanded that the truck driver pay for his life. The truck driver was very wronged because he didn't hit the lad at all. Moreover, he himself suffered heavy losses. The truck driver said that now that the person is dead, his company is willing to make some financial compensation. However, the Tang family did not agree and demanded that the truck driver pay for his life. Their demands are clearly excessive, like a lion's mouth wide open.
After some negotiations, the Tang family and the transport team finally failed to find a reasonable solution. The Tang family parked the young man's body in place and demanded that an explanation be given within a day, otherwise he would not be buried. As the village chief, Miss Lu's grandfather had to take people to keep vigil there at night in case there were any more accidents.
That night, my grandfather and two other villagers kept vigil. They got a cart and sat on it, drank some wine and ate something. When there are a lot of people, everyone is not so afraid. After everyone had eaten and drunk enough, they lay down on the cart and went to sleep. In the second half of the night, Miss Lu's grandfather got up in a daze and wanted to go to the toilet, so he sat up from the board car. At this moment, my grandfather suddenly saw a figure in the shed across the road. Moreover, the figure was dressed in red. Grandpa thought he was dazzled, so he quickly rubbed his eyes and took a closer look, and sure enough, he saw a man in red clothes helping the young man who was lying down.
Grandpa was so frightened that he wondered if he was here to steal the corpse? He dared to shout: "Who? The man in red! As if he heard his grandfather's shout, the man in red actually helped the young man who had been cold for several days to stand on the ground. Immediately after, the two men floated in front of my grandfather. Grandpa wanted to shout again, but found that he couldn't make a sound at all. Only then did he see that the woman in red was a girl in her 20s. The girl told her grandfather that she was the eldest daughter of the Zhang family in the neighboring village, and that she and the young man were already engaged. She asked her grandfather to bring a message to the Tang family and asked them to go to her house to propose.
After saying this, the girl and the young man in red disappeared. My grandfather snapped his eyes open and found himself lying under the cart. It turned out that everything just now was just a dream. Just then, he saw a group of people rumbling out of the village road. It turned out to be the two men who had been keeping vigil together and woke up. Miss Lu's grandfather saw that it was none other than someone from the Tang family. The only exception is Don Jr.'s father, Don Sr. Old Tang was very flustered. It turned out that the old couple was at home in the middle of the night when they heard the sound of pots and pans in the kitchen. Old Tang turned on the flashlight and went to the kitchen to take a look, and saw his son looking for something to eat in the kitchen.
Xiao Tang turned around and saw Old Tang and said, "Dad, it wasn't the car pulling the apple that hit me, I volunteered to go with the small courtyard." With that, he was gone. Old Tang was afraid that something would happen, so he hurriedly brought someone over. As soon as Miss Lu's grandfather heard this, he quickly told Old Tang about the dream he had just had. At this time, Old Tang's face was very ugly. Miss Lu's grandfather didn't dare to ask more, after all, this is a family matter.
Later, although Lao Tang was a little embarrassed, he still called Miss Lu's grandfather aside and told him the cause and effect of this incident. It turned out that Xiao Tang originally worked in a machinery factory in the city. He looks like a talent and does a good job. The surrounding villages all said that he was a rare good young man. The thresholds of their homes are almost flattened. But Xiao Tang can't look down on anyone, but he likes Xiao Yan'er, a girl from the Zhang family in the neighboring village. The two get along very well. Although Xiao Tang likes Xiao Yan'er very much, Lao Tang resolutely opposes this family business because of Xiao Yan's family's poor family background and some special reasons. Unless Xiao Tang dies, Xiao Yan doesn't want to enter their door. The words have already come to this, but Xiao Tang insisted on recognizing that Xiao Yan'er would not marry her, and even had a very fierce conflict with Lao Tang at one time. However, what no one expected was that Xiao Yan'er's temper was very strong. At a disagreement, she committed suicide by hanging herself on the door frame.
The next day, Lao Tang went to Xiaoyan's house in a neighboring village with some gifts. Xiaoyan's family is the only one left in her mother, and the family conditions are very poor. As soon as Old Tang told the matter, Xiao Yan's mother agreed to Xiao Tang and Xiao Yan's matter very calmly. Then Old Tang hurriedly found someone who understood and got this matter done.
After the persuasion of Miss Lu's grandfather, Old Tang symbolically asked for some compensation and buried Xiao Tang, so what about when everything settled? When this old Tang was sorting out Xiao Tang's relics, he dug out a physical examination report of the unit from Xiao Tang's drawer, at that time this Xiao Tang had been diagnosed with terminal cancer, it turned out that he knew that he would not live long, so he chose to leave this world, so it seems that his death is also reasonable, but it is a pity that he has not had time to confess to the girl he loves, and all this is irretrievable.