I can't remember what year our family started, there is an unwritten rule, that is, every year at noon on New Year's Day, we go to my cousin Junlan's house for dinner, return to our hometown on the evening of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and take turns to eat Chinese New Year's Eve dinner at the three families of my father-in-law and brothers.
For the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in turn at several uncles' houses, I am happy to participate, because there are many people that day, the old and the young must open at least three tables of people to sit, good cooking skills in the kitchen to show their skills, like I am not good at cooking, just wash vegetables, pick vegetables, everyone talks and laughs A few tables of dishes come out, the taste of the year is particularly strong.
And my cousin Junlan is the eldest daughter of my husband Uncle Cheng's family, because she lives in the same city with us and is also the eldest sister among the cousins, so gradually, several cousins proposed that the solar year is also a year, and everyone should visit the eldest sister and eldest brother-in-law.
Ah Cheng was the youngest of these brothers and sisters in the city, and he was also the most unproductive back then, so naturally he only had to obey and support.
In fact, I know in my heart that it has been since ancient times".The poor in the downtown no one asks, and the rich have distant relatives in the mountainsIt's because the eldest brother-in-law is the number one in a certain unit, so those brothers and sisters want to pat themselves on the back.
And Ah Cheng and I, that is, from the countryside, rely on a small business to make a living, I really don't want to."The white duck mixes with the goose
But Ah Cheng complained and said, "You are this person."The frog at the bottom of the wellBesides, if you have the opportunity to contact them, even if you listen with two ears, you will be more or less knowledgeable. ”
That's it, in the first few years of marriage, I really drove ducks to the shelves, and several times I lied that I was uncomfortable, with a stomachache and a headache, and asked Ah Cheng to take the child there, but Ah Cheng saw through it and said that it would not work if I didn't go.
I can't help it, just go, but after a meal, I'm on pins and needles.
In fact, I am not the kind of person who is self-indulgent, I was not admitted to university back then, but I was unwilling to farm in the countryside, and later under the introduction of relatives, I came to the city to help the family sell breakfast, and this boss is Ah Cheng's second uncle.
In this way, Ah Cheng and I, who didn't graduate from junior high school, went from acquaintance to love, and finally became a couple.
Speaking of Ah Cheng's "growth history", sometimes he laughs and has a stomachache, he was purely a scumbag at the beginning, although his father was still a teacher back then, but other people's children can teach well, but this is not good alone.
Listening to Ah Cheng, his father-in-law broke several sticks with a thick "elbow", not only did he not educate him well, but directly beat him to run away from home!
finally got it back, but Ah Cheng resolutely refused to go to school. Later, the second uncle, who was still in the city for breakfast, came back, and finally solved the urgent need, because the father-in-law couldn't see this scumbag son, saying that he couldn't eat when he saw him.
The second uncle said: ".Thirty-six lines, the line out of the champion,Just because you can't read doesn't mean you don't have other skills. ”
In this way, Ah Cheng went to the city with the second uncle before he was 16 years old and helped the second uncle sell breakfast. And at that time, it was the time when the second uncle was most short of people to work.
When she was about to go out, her mother-in-law was still reluctant with tears in her eyes, who knew that her father-in-law said to her second brother: "I'll hand over this 'little ruffian' to you!" You don't have to pay him a salary, just take care of his stomach, and I'll treat him as if I didn't give birth to him! ”
But it turns outThe grass next to the pit grows more luxuriantly. Ah Cheng, as long as he is not allowed to read and write, he can endure any hardship.
Following the second uncle, Ah Cheng learned to make kang baked cakes, oil cakes, and beef vermicelli, he got up at 3 o'clock in the morning every day to go to the suburbs kilometers away to pull tofu brains, and at night before going to bed, he had to round his arms and knead the dough to prepare for the next day's kang baked cakes.
In short, in those years, he endured all the hardships that he had not endured more than ten years ago. Therefore, when you don't have the ability to suffer from the "cold window", then you have to suffer from "moving bricks".
Within two years, I, the unsuccessful student, also went and became the "junior sister" of this person who did not graduate from junior high school.
As the second uncle's business got better and better, the old man was unwilling to sell early, and there happened to be a store next to the transfer, and the second uncle gave the plate to sell haberdashery such as tobacco and alcohol.
In this way, there is a baked cake oven in front of the store, and it can be sold until about 8 o'clock in the morning, so as not to delay the business of the store.
And I, as the only high school student among several young men, the key is still a science student, and the accounting eye came out in the blink of an eye, so I was transferred to the small store by the second uncle to sell goods, and finally "drew a clear line" with the baked cake oven.
I have to say that in the early 90s of the last century, you could really make money by doing any business, and people at that time were simple-minded, and they would not bargain.
Of course, the old man has been that kind all his life".Wear spiked shoes and crutchesThe duty person who crosses the river by feeling the stones never does illegal business.
Although many people sold fake cigarettes and fake alcohol in those years, the second uncle resolutely refused to sell them.
Although we have nothing to do with fakes, there are bad guys all the time, and I had a big accident because of a pack of fake Chinese cigarettes, and I almost put one of Ah Cheng's eyeballs on the ball, and now I am afraid to think about it.
I stood behind the counter at the kiosk, and I didn't touch the pots and pans earlier, but because the shop was small, I said."Selling goods heaps of mountainsSo every day I have to carry out boxes of beer and put them on the yard, and then neatly place the gift bags and gift boxes on both sides of the "makeup façade", so I am also very tired.
Ah Cheng estimated that he had been "harboring ghosts" for me since I was very young, in short, he took care of me when I was cooking cakes, and when I was working in the shop, he still took care of me as always.
He not only helped me out of the stall every day, but also helped me close the stall at night. In his words back then: "I am".Cui Ping's first bodyguard”。Because every night when I go back, the canvas bag on my body is the turnover of the day, think about how brave I was back then.
Although I am arrogant, when I first went to work, I couldn't even look down on Ah Cheng, a person who didn't graduate from junior high school and still had long hair. But as time went on, I gradually became dependent on him, and before I knew it, I still had a good impression.
It's just that the layer of window paper between the two of them didn't break, and the main reason is that I am several years older than him.
Ah Cheng often sacrificed his rest time to accompany me to the store in those years, but he still couldn't change his playful nature, sometimes like".Plaster the soles of the feet with lard"Like, I was still in front of the store a few minutes ago, and I couldn't find anyone in a blink of an eye!
In fact, although the store is not big, but the goods are miscellaneous, the old man in order to increase his income, and later made a public **, and there is a freezer in the summer, sometimes I am really busy alone.
I remember that it was a hot summer, and even the asphalt road at the door could be steamed during the day, and finally waited for more than 7 o'clock in the evening, and from time to time there were a few bursts of fiery wind, but the wind was better than nothing.
After I finished the dinner that Ah Cheng had brought me, I sat next to the cupboard and read a magazine. At this time, a bicycle came from across the road, and on the car was a middle-aged man in his 40s.
I saw this person go straight to the counter, point to the window where the cigarettes are placed, and say, "Here's a pack of Huazi." ”
As soon as I heard this, I quickly bent down and took a pack from a cardboard box and handed it to him, and he then paid for it, turned around and left.
Everything was normal, and I continued to read the magazine.
But within 3 minutes, the middle-aged man came again, but this time his face was impatient, and he angrily put a pack of cigarettes on the counter, and said, "Change my pack!" ”
As soon as I heard something inexplicable, I picked up the cigarette and asked, "What's wrong?" Why do you need to change? ”
Who knows that the middle-aged man's eyes widened and said, "Don't you know what the reason is?" What you just gave me was a fake cigarette! ”
I was also angry when I heard it! Do I have no idea what I sell? He's purely here to "drop the bag".
So I took out my "killer feature" and sneered at the visitor: "I'm sorry, your trick doesn't work in me, why?" Because I have all the most expensive cigarettes, I have marked them all at the bottom of the cigarette case, and you don't have this, let alone the pack I just sold. ”
Because the shop was at the intersection of the sidewalk, it was just the time when people went out to cool off and breathe, and I heard a middle-aged man arguing with me loudly, and soon many people gathered at the door to watch the excitement.
But I wasn't afraid, I took out the remaining packs of Huazi cigarettes, pointed to the bottom of each pack and said: "At the bottom of all cigarette packs, I poked the eyes with a pin, two rows, a total of 12, no more, no less." ”
After speaking, I handed two of the boxes to a lively master to see, and the master said that it was good, and it was indeed marked.
But the middle-aged man didn't give up, he felt that I was a migrant girl from other places, and he would definitely not dare to argue with his indigenous citizens, so he scolded me in a local dialect: nong your mother.
At that time, the tears that made me angry were about to fall! But I'm a girl, so I can't scold him.
At this moment, the playful Ah Cheng came, and when he figured out what was going on in three or two sentences, the middle-aged man was still scolding in his mouth, but Ah Cheng went up and punched the man, directly beating the middle-aged man to the ground.
After Ah Cheng punched the middle-aged man to the ** step, he was still angry and chased after him.
Maybe it's because of the excessive force, after Ah Cheng's second punch went down, the middle-aged man dodged to the side and didn't fight, but Ah Cheng fell down by himself, and the bicycle pushed by the man was not biased or oblique, Ah Cheng's head hit the handle of the bicycle.
Suddenly, I saw Ah Cheng covering his eyes with one hand, and blood flowed out from between his fingers, and then someone shouted in panic: "It's terrible, it's pierced in the eye!" ”
As soon as I saw that my soul was scattered, I hurriedly helped Ah Cheng and asked a motorbike driver on the side of the road to take us to the hospital.
Fortunately, the hospital is close, and after sending Ah Cheng to the emergency department, I hurriedly called my cousin and daughter-in-law who worked in the hospital, and asked her to hurry up and find an acquaintance, I was afraid that Ah Cheng's eye would not be saved.
In a panic, I forgot all the ** numbers that my cousin usually remembered, and the eldest sister of the ** pavilion persuaded me: "Don't worry, think slowly." ”
After letting my cousin and daughter-in-law go to the hospital, I still have to run to the store, because I also entrust the neighbor merchants to take care of me, I have to close the store door, and then go back to tell the second uncle, at that time, there was no mobile phone, and the rental house did not have **, so I could only trot all the way back.
On the way back, I thought: Come on, Ah Cheng pursues me I don't want to agree yet, I can't agree this time, and it's difficult for the "one-eyed dragon" to find a partner in the future, so keep it for yourself.
When I told the second uncle about the situation, the second uncle said to me angrily: "You are really uneasy!" ”
At that moment, I was so aggrieved that I wanted to cry out loud! What does it mean to be uneasy, if it is not for you to do business, why should I let others scold and let others bully?
But at that time, I couldn't say anything, I was just worried about whether Ah Cheng would be blind.
Ah Cheng came back from the hospital that night, the injured eye was wrapped in thick gauze, and even the bridge of his nose was swollen, and the injury was not light.
But I didn't dare to ask, for fear of attracting public anger, because the rest were relatives of the second uncle's family.
The next day, Ah Cheng's mother rushed over from the countryside, and in front of everyone, she pointed at me and said, "If my son is blind, how can you be worthy of him?" ”
The implication is that it's my fault.
But I didn't dare to say it, let alone run home, I was waiting for the day when Ah Cheng's eyes were removed to see what the injury was like and how I should compensate.
Those days were the most tormenting time in my life, no one talked to me, every day I went out of the stall by myself, collected the stall by myself, and when I handed over the turnover and the account book to the second uncle at night, he didn't even raise my eyelids to look at me.
Because Ah Cheng still has a few cousins in the city, after learning that Ah Cheng's eye was injured, they all bought things to come to visit, and when cousin Junlan left, she deliberately led several other brothers and sisters to pass by from the small shop, pointing at me as she walked: "Alas, the second uncle doesn't know what to think, what kind of store to open, and the hired person can't do it, and then hurt Ah Cheng's eyes, and the gains outweigh the losses." ”
I heard it clearly, but I was too frightened to come out, it was all my sin.
Fortunately, after Ah Cheng removed the stitches later, not only did his eyeballs not hurt, because it was a needle sewn by an acquaintance, it was not broken at all, and it was also made into a double eyelid! I was relieved.
Knowing that Ah Cheng's eyes were saved, my heart was relieved, so I proposed to resign.
But the second uncle persuaded me to stay at this time, and said a lot of comforting words, saying that I couldn't blame the big guy for his bad attitude at that time, and he was really scared enough.
At the same time, Ah Cheng was even more reluctant! He lied and said that the two eyes were a single pair, which was also broken, and he couldn't let me go so easily, and he had to be his girlfriend.
In this way, my relationship with Ah Cheng surfaced.
Of course, in addition to the second uncle, there is another opposition, among which Ah Cheng's cousin Junlan is particularly opposed.
Things dragged on like this, and Ah Cheng continued to be kind to me.
It's the New Year in a blink of an eye, and we go to work on the eighth day of the first month every year, so we have all in place on the seventh day of the first month.
On the seventh day of the new year, the second uncle beat ** and asked the nephews and nieces in the city to come over for a meal, afraid that they would be busy with business in the future, and they would not have time to entertain them.
And just like that, a large round table was full that day.
Because her cousin Junlan has the most comfortable life among those brothers and sisters, she works in the post and telecommunications bureau herself, and her husband is still the leader of a certain unit, and he is often entrusted with errands.
As the old saying goes:Winter melons have hair, eggplants have thorns, men have ability, and wives have power. In addition, Junlan is the eldest among Ah Cheng and them, so no matter whether she is in front of or behind people, she shows the demeanor of the eldest sister.
The same goes for the dinner that day. After the second uncle brought a stewed chicken soup to the table, Junlan began to ask everyone to eat, seeing that everyone was embarrassed to do it, Junlan stood up, directly took chopsticks in one hand, and grabbed the chicken shoulder and chicken leg in the other, and began to divide the chicken for everyone one by one.
Junlan from left to right, and from right to left, everyone took care of it, and after the meat was sandwiched, she began to scoop the soup for everyone, but I was the only one who missed me!
Is it that she doesn't care? No, I was sitting across from her, and she was deliberately humiliating me!
Because from Ah Cheng's eye injury to learning that Ah Cheng was having a relationship with me, she never gave me a good look.
One day I went back to the rental house to pick up the goods, just passing by the kitchen where the second uncle was cooking, the door was open, and I heard Junlan say to the second uncle: "Second uncle, you must take care of Ah Cheng, marriage is not a child's play, that Cui Ping is not an idle person, she is a high school student, why would she fall in love with Ah Cheng who did not graduate from junior high school?" It's not like you're trying to take him for a moment.'"SpringboardI don't want to go back to the countryside to farm! ”
I didn't hear what the second uncle said later, in short, Junlan resolutely opposed my marriage with Ah Cheng.
However, after Ah Cheng's continuous efforts and overcoming many obstacles, the two of us finally achieved positive results.
Later, when the second uncle was older, he decided to quit the rivers and lakes, so he left the small shop to me and Ah Cheng, of course, not for free, we spent tens of thousands of yuan in transfer fees.
Because Ah Cheng and I have been on that road for many years, we have gradually become more and more customers. In order to expand our business, we opened two more fruit supermarkets, and the business became bigger and bigger.
For so many years, the two of us have lived a prosperous life with our own hands, not only camping in the city and buying two houses, but also a façade house.
And Ah Cheng's other brothers and sisters who work in the company are".Wang Xiaoer's New Year, a year is not as good as a year.
Of course, the habit of visiting my cousin Junlan's house on New Year's Day every year has been maintained for so many years.
Men's vanity is particularly strong, especially for people like Ah Cheng, with the improvement of his living standards, the grade of gifts he goes to his cousin's house also rises.
In fact, I never participated in the things on the scene, all of them were arranged by Ah Cheng.
No wonder some people say:Look at the wine in the cup, and the cup is a tribute to the rich.
Although we are still some distance away from the "rich man", we are at least better than the other few who earn a dead salary, so every time I go to my cousin's house, she rushes to serve me vegetables and smiles like a flower.
But I'm a grudge-holder, as my mom saidPuppy remembers juvenile. Yes, I am indeed not a magnanimous person, no matter how the times change, I will not forget my roots, but the "hard wound" in my heart is also untouchable.
As for being "forced" into the car by Ah Cheng every year to accompany me, I am really reluctant, but think about it, I still focus on the overall situation.
Yesterday at noon, Ah Cheng and I went a little late because we had some things to deal with, and the other brothers and sisters had already arrived.
As soon as Ah Cheng and I entered the door, my cousin hurriedly ran over to greet me, and I saw that everyone had changed their disposable slippers, so I was also ready to take off my shoes and change them.
Who knew that my cousin smiled and said, "Ping, don't use it, our family can step on it casually!" ”
By the time I came back from washing my hands, the gang had all sat down, and the dishes were almost ready.
I thought it was all my own family, and I could just sit down and eat a bite, so I sat down on a chair.
At this time, my cousin trotted out of the kitchen and said with a smile: "Ping, come and sit here, how can you sit there?" ”
After saying that, my cousin gently put her arms around me and pulled me to sit beside her, next to my cousin-in-law.
In fact, Ah Cheng and I are the youngest according to our age, and we shouldn't be on an equal footing with the master, and besides, it wasn't like this in the past few years, so why is the "treatment" getting higher and higher.
At this time, I subconsciously looked at Ah Cheng, only to see him snorting at me and glaring at me.
As a husband and wife for more than 20 years, I knew what he wanted to say next when he opened his mouth, so at this time I also knew what he meant, it must be that my cousin looked at me differently and treated me as a guest.
I deliberately turned my face away from looking at him, and I thought it was a little funny.
Again, the same sentence:The rich and the rich cannot be lewd, and the poor cannot be moved. Only by striving to change and strengthen oneself can we win in life!