[Yang Huilin's contribution, for smooth reading, individual content fictional processing. 】
More than 40 years ago, I was selling my family's peaches on the side of the road, and Zhou Zhengfeng, who had just been discharged from the army, forgot to pay for the peaches after buying them.
It's really impossible to tell who people meet in this life, but it's not easy to do it without regrets!
At the end of the 70s of the last century, China implemented the contract responsibility system of joint production, and the enthusiasm of the sleeping peasants was awakened, and there were 10 brothers and sisters in our family, and the poor family also wanted to live a good life, and under the organization of the village collective, they contracted 48 acres of barren hillside behind the village.
In the next two years, our family went into battle, using our own sheep and pigs and borrowed money, to buy peach saplings, and planted a peach orchard, and three years later, the peach orchard began to bear fruit. At that time, there were two other peaches planted with the same as our family, but the varieties of our families were not the same, and after the peaches hung fruit, we were supplied by the village to the county supply and marketing cooperatives according to the agreement signed with the village collective.
However, because the supply and marketing cooperatives could not sell so many peaches at once, they allowed the owner of the peach orchard to sell them themselves, and our family sold peaches, and the responsibility fell on me and my sister.
The joint production contract responsibility system has gradually made our family's life better!
One day in 1984, my sister and I were on the side of the road to introduce the ** and quality of peaches to customers, but Zhou Zhengfeng, a veteran from our village, quietly walked over to this side.
Zhou Zhengfeng was my classmate in primary and junior high school, although we were not in the same class, but because we were from the same village, we often met and knew each other when we were in school.
I remember that since the second grade of junior high school, I heard my classmates say privately that Zhou Zhengfeng had unrequited love and a beautiful female classmate, and had handed a small note to someone, but the female classmate did not pay attention to him, but Zhou Zhengfeng chased after him, and later, this female classmate simply gave Zhou Zhengfeng several small notes stuffed in his schoolbag, all of which were handed over to the teacher, and the teacher called Zhou Zhengfeng to the office, and also called Zhou Zhengfeng's father to the school, and then Zhou Zhengfeng stopped a lot.
Later, Zhou Zhengfeng followed his eldest brother who worked in the commune, left the village, and went to the commune high school to study, and then I met him less, and I knew less about him, and later I heard that he went to the army after a few days of junior high school, and then I didn't know about him. When I was chatting with people this year, I heard from the people in the village that the second child of the Zhou family had returned as a soldier, and then I learned that Zhou Zhengfeng had been discharged from the army.
But now, why did he come to me? I saw him walking calmly to our stall, he looked at me quietly, and said Hui Lin, I haven't seen you for a few years, you are getting more and more beautiful, I can't imagine that you are selling peaches here.
I'm also joking, I haven't seen you for a few years, I heard that you went to the army, and you've been fine in the army for the past few years.
However, before we could chat, the person next to me urged me to ask Peaches's **, I hurriedly said, wait until I was done, so I turned around and talked to the customer.
After the customer in front of him left, Zhou Zhengfeng was still standing next to him, looking at me intently, I brushed off the first few strands of hair on my forehead, and asked if you have something to do here? Zhou Zhengfeng, who came back to his senses, hurriedly said that he was going to see a relative and wanted to buy some peaches, and later, he bent down to pick up the peaches, and after weighing, he lifted the plastic bag and said, old classmate, you are busy first, let's talk another day, and then turn around and leave.
However, when Zhou Zhengfeng walked away, my sister reminded me in a whisper, your classmate didn't give peach money, I quickly asked my little sister, he didn't give money? My sister said, I didn't give it, I looked at Zhou Zhengfeng, who had already gone away, so I had to say that I would talk about it later.
The next afternoon, I just sent away a group of customers, Zhou Zhengfeng appeared in front of me again, he saw my face and hurriedly said, Hui Lin, I'm sorry, I was in a hurry yesterday and forgot to give peach money, after speaking, he took out the money and gave me yesterday's money. I said, it's all classmates, it's okay!
Immediately afterwards, he picked five or six peaches from the peach basket and said that he would buy them home for his parents to eat.
I opened the circled money and found a note inside, which said, meet at the west entrance of the village at half past seven in the evening. There is a small river at the west entrance of the village, and the scenery is very good, and there are many people during the day, but almost no one goes to that place at night.
My sister saw the note and said in surprise, Third sister, your classmate asked you out, don't worry, I won't tell my parents ......about this when I go home
However, I tore up the note, and the scraps of paper fluttered in the wind, and I said to my sister, this is nothing, and my little sister looked at me and nodded thoughtfully.
After another three days, Zhou Zhengfeng came to my stall again and said why didn't you go that day, so I waited until midnight to ......I excused myself and said that I was tutoring my brother with his homework at home at night and forgot about it.
This time, Zhou Zhengfeng did not hand over the note again, but said seriously, I want to talk to you, if you agree, you will nod, I didn't expect a person who had been a soldier to confess like this, my little sister was so ashamed that she ran to the side, I looked at the person in front of me, and remembered the words of my parents urging marriage: Your boss is not small, and you have been on a few kisses, what kind of do you want to find, my mother's face was full of sadness.
Urging marriage has become a heavy and helpless topic for many families
Yes, in our village, girls as old as me have long been married, and some have children, and I am still alone, how can my parents not worry, and my mother often loses sleep at night for my business.
I looked at Zhou Zhengfeng quietly and saw that he was talking very seriously, not like a joke, so I also solemnly said that if you want to talk to someone, you must talk about it well, and you are not allowed to be half-hearted.
Zhou Zhengfeng's eyes widened, I didn't have half-heartedness, indeed, although this person had a crush on a female classmate when he was in school, it was already a matter of many years ago, why should I hold on to other people's things.
Moreover, Zhou Zhengfeng to me, there is still "kindness", when I was in junior high school, a school went halfway, suddenly it rained heavily, when the love of the young boys and girls, no longer like children when they talk two little guesses, are deliberately keeping a distance, now suddenly encountered heavy rain, I saw Zhou Zhengfeng looked at me, hurriedly took off his coat and handed it to me, without saying a word ran into the heavy rain, he went home first, I hurriedly wrapped his coat on his body, and also struggled to run home.
Later, although I also got wet with my clothes, Zhou Zhengfeng took off his coat to me in the heavy rain to resist the rain, which moved me a lot. It was from this "coat" incident that he gradually had a good impression in my heart.
Later, I and Zhou Zhengfeng formally dated, with the deepening of the relationship, Zhou Zhengfeng's advantages gradually revealed, he is kind-hearted, responsible, he treats my parents, than his own parents, what is going on at home, running fast, even the little sister said, brother-in-law is quite good.
In 1985, Zhou Zhengfeng and I had a wedding, and we both came together. One day after marriage, when I was bored, I talked to him about buying peaches without paying for them, whether it was intentional, Zhou Zhengfeng smiled, how long has this happened, it is not worth saying, later, he saw that I kept looking at him and laughing, so he said that this thing was indeed intentional at that time, the purpose was to have one more chance to contact you.
However, when I told him about his chasing of the female classmates in the class, I didn't expect Zhou Zhengfeng to hear this topic and immediately defended it, what time is it, what happened in middle school, who can remember it, let's not talk about it?
Later, I was forced to be anxious, Zhou Zhengfeng said intermittently, that female classmate didn't fancy me at all, after the teacher criticized me, he also told my parents about it, for this matter, I also ate the soles of my father's feet, saying that I don't go to school well, how old I am, so I chased the female classmate.
However, I know that this matter is not so simple, one of my female classmates is good friends with the female classmate Zhou Zhengfeng chases, the classmate said that after Zhou Zhengfeng became a soldier, he also wrote a letter to other girls, but the girl really had an idea, and never paid much attention to Zhou Zhengfeng, and now, Zhou Zhengfeng did not tell me this paragraph.
When I mentioned that you had contacted that girl after you became a soldier, Zhou Zhengfeng saw that my face was wrong, and thought to himself that I must know something, the village is not big, and there are few female classmates, I must know something about this, so Zhou Zhengfeng said that he did send a letter to that girl when he first became a soldier, but there was no follow-up.
I asked again, then why do you want to be good with me after retiring from the army, Zhou Zhengfeng said generously, we are also people who know the roots, I have grown up in the past few years as a soldier, I feel that I was very stupid at that time, wasting time and energy in hopeless things, it is really not worth it, especially in the past few days after returning from the army, seeing you and your family with their own hands, changed the face of the family, it is really amazing, and when I was in school, you helped me write my homework many times, I really slowly liked you.
I saw that he was quite sincere, so I didn't say anything more.
However, over the years, Zhou Zhengfeng has done a really impeccable job, he has worked in the county cement factory for many years, all his wages have been handed over, and he needs money to ask me when he needs it, and he himself does not smoke, and he has never missed anything when he drinks occasionally, and there is another point, from the cement factory to his home 8 miles, as long as it is not windy and rainy over the years, he has ridden a bicycle and never played.
What especially touched me was that on the side of the parents of both sides, he handled it very well, not only did the big gift thoughtfully, but when he was free, he often went to the old man to sit there, and when he encountered a festival like the New Year's Festival, he took the old people on both sides to the house, and the family was reunited.
Later, due to the complicated family affairs, I couldn't help but lose my temper often, and the 3 children in the family were very close to their father, sensible and filial!
Now, he and I are both grandparents, and looking at this man who has been with me for most of my life, sometimes I think:When I met him in this life, I was content, and if there was an afterlife, we would still be together!
*Selected from the Internet, joint deletion].