Nanjiang Village has long gone out of fashion to "crying for marriage". The little girls now go in and out of the city, are self-reliant, love freely, are full of confidence in life, and know the one who will hold their hands for a lifetime. Why should Ai Ai cry and marry again
But Ah Chun, who was always smiling, cried bitterly the day before getting married.
On the fourth day of November, Yangjiapu was squeezed inside and out. In addition to the distant relatives of the Yang family who arrived a day earlier, a bunch of impatient villagers went to see the dowry at the wife's house. There are two new suitcases in Dahongtu, two pairs of embroidered mandarin duck pillows in the water, eight colorful quilts, one unopened sewing machine, and fragmentary cabinets full of daily necessities. Basically, some of the girls from the rich family in Nanjiang Village have Ah Chun, and some of the patterns are even more modern and elegant. I saw a large group of aunts all praise and change the way to say some blessings.
Finally, the dowry was given at the appointed hour, and the crowd watching the excitement gradually disappeared. Inside the room, A Chun carefully checked from beginning to end. All the preparations are ready, and the elder brother and sister-in-law will take care of the fine details about the banquet, so you don't have to worry about it yourself. So he got up and pulled out a set of clean clothes from the outer wooden box, took soap, towels, and a boiling water bottle, and walked to the cowshed behind the house. There lived a close relative who made her dream, but depressed.
Pushing open the wooden door separated by the corner of the bullpen, there is only a simple and old wooden bed in the small space, with a thin body shrinking on it, at this moment, holding his head and shaking with cold, the messy ground is clear. A thick quilt lies horizontally.
This is Ah Chun's father, Yang Yunbo, a "crappy" lunatic from Nanjiang Village.
No one knows how "crappy" Yunbo went crazy. It seems that he just woke up overnight, and he became the crazy talk now. The peasant family was busy digging from the soil and chatting and gossiping for a while, and no one would bother to get to the bottom of it anymore. But the life of the Yang family will continue to suffer in the chai, rice, oil and salt. Without the protection of his father, A Chun brothers and sisters finally grew up under the care of their mothers. The hardships can be imagined but hardly understood by outsiders. When the brothers and sisters finally took their own roles and had the ability to feed back their hard-working parents, the mother Wang died of illness due to years of hard work. The father of the lunatic who stayed, did not eat rice but competed with pigs, and did not live in the carefully arranged rooms of his children, but had a soft spot for ruined temple bullpens. The son wants to support, but the kiss does not. No one knows what kind of entanglement and helplessness flashes in his eyes from time to time under A Chun's genial smile.
"Father, get up and wipe your face. I'll help you wash your hair." A Chun walked over and gently shook his father's thin shoulders. Seeing that there was no response, she said to herself as usual: "Father, I'm getting married tomorrow, don't you know?..."
Unexplained eye sockets quickly turned red, and he just got up but couldn't talk about it anymore. So he wiped his face and pushed his father again: "Father, get up, I'll change you into clean clothes."
Perhaps Yang Yunbo is having a sweet dream at the moment, in which there are beautiful things that he has been eager for for a long time but cannot reach. Therefore, he was very displeased when he was disturbed abruptly, and suddenly raised his head angrily: "Don't touch me... You get out of the way."
The accustomed Ah Chun didn’t care, and continued to ask with a smile: "Father, please, just change your clothes, okay? I'm getting married tomorrow, let me wash it for you again."
Yang Yunbo responded by raising his hand away from him and pushing Achun away. He seemed to be expressionless and expressionless: "If you want to marry, it's up to me." After that, he closed his eyes and turned to fall asleep.
Ah Chun, who had fallen to the ground, was extremely sensitive today, watching his father's back two lines of tears flowed down, she couldn't help crying anymore. Some relatives in front heard the sound and rushed to see this scene, and I knew something in my heart. He sighed inwardly, stepped forward and picked up A Chun to persuade him: "Silly girl, don't cry, today is a good day, let's not cry."
But Ah Chun was even more sad when she heard it: "Where do I want to cry, there is nowhere to cry if I want to cry. My mother is gone, who else can I cry with?"
Hearing that, the eyes of all people couldn't help but also flashed water, but they could only continue to comfort: "Achun, stop crying. Your father is not dirty now, everyone knows that you are filial and will not laugh at you. , The days will grow in the future, and the Sun’s house is not far away. Come back and make things slowly."
Ah Chun was already crying, and whimpered, beating his chest, "Why don't I think my father is dirty? I just want Dad to sit in the main room cleanly and watch me get married. Isn't this even too much? Is it?... For so many years, I thought I was used to it, but today I still feel so piercing pain in my heart... I frugal and did so much dowry. Who is this for?"
After that, he cried intermittently for a long time. In the end, the older Yang family's mother-in-law came in and said a few words to A Chun: "On a good day, what's the matter with you crying like this? What's the matter if you let the Sun family hear?"
Before Achun could answer, there was a capable aunt next to her with a smile and took the stubbornness: "It's okay, it doesn't matter, the bride is crying, the two families are happy, don't cry or be lively. Today we cry for all the embarrassment, we Achun From tomorrow on, I will be a happily bride. If you marry a good family, you will enjoy happiness in the future."