Chapter Eighty-Nine: Fatty's Life Experience
Fatty Zhang Dabiao had a rough life experience. Thirty years ago, he lived in a small village near Hexi.
My grandfather left a few acres of fertile land, but one day it was usurped by a big landowner. The honest grandfather was so angry that he went to the landlord's house alone on a cold winter night to argue with his family.
He was so cruel that he broke one of his grandfather's legs and immediately threw him outside the door. The stubborn grandfather just lay in front of the landlord's house all night and did not leave. In the end, he suffered severe frostbite.
When Fatty Zhang's father went to the landlord's house to look for him, he found that his grandfather was dying. After carrying Fatty's grandfather back, the family invited famous doctors from all over the county to treat him, which cost a lot of money and depleted the family's meager savings.
I owed a lot of debt, but my grandfather didn't survive half a month and passed away helplessly in anger.
Before my grandfather died, he still missed the few acres of land that his family had occupied by landlords. When he was buried, my father said that his eyes had never been closed.
My father, who was still a young man at that time, was so angry that he and his uncle and four brothers went to the landlord's house to ask for an explanation. However, the landlord's cousin was a county captain in the county town, and he had the support of his cousin, so he usually bullied the good.
If there were too many, they immediately asked the thugs to drive them out.
At that time, the four brothers suddenly became angry. They came with hoes and hatchets and were about to fight to the death. Unexpectedly, the thugs were outnumbered and beat the third brother to death in front of the three brothers. The eldest brother was extremely grieved at that time.
As if going crazy, he rushed out of the circle of thugs and ran into the lobby of the landlord's house. He saw the arrogant and domineering landowner with a hoe on his head, and immediately hacked the landowner to death.
That's okay, all the thugs rushed to the elder brother and trapped him, preparing to send him to the county government. When Fatty Zhang was a child, his father recalled that his uncle yelled at his father and fourth uncle to leave quickly, and then the uncle
He hit a stone pillar and died on the spot.
That night, Fatty's father took his pregnant wife and fourth uncle, and the three of them fled their hometown, and then ran anonymously to the deep mountains of Lintong, more than a thousand miles away from their hometown in Hexi.
Just a few months after settling in the mountains, the fat man's mother died in childbirth. It was a hard life. It was the coldest month of winter and the family was too poor to open the pot. His father was twenty-five years old that year.
There was no choice, there was no rice for cooking at home, and although he was worried about being wanted by the officials when he went out, his father had no choice but to leave the child at home, and discussed with his fourth brother that in the cold winter, his father and his sixteen-year-old fourth uncle would stay together.
After two days of wandering in the deep mountains, when they reached the dead end, God favored his family. The two brothers hunted a lactating female wild goat.
He tied the sheep at home and carried half of the room's hay for the sheep to eat. The ewe breastfed the baby Zhang Fatty, leaving his fourth uncle to take care of the child. Then his father ran to the dock alone to carry sacks and work as an unloader. Before walking out of the mountains,
His father said to his fourth uncle:
"Fourth child, the family has suffered a series of changes. Our poor father, eldest brother, and third child have all passed away. Now my mother-in-law is also suffering, having given birth to a big fat baby and passed away.
Now there are only two of us and a baby left. We have fled to the mountains without food or water. We are about to run out of food. Your second brother and I are thinking about going to the docks outside the capital to sell some energy and earn some money to support the family. You can take good care of the baby at home.
, Brother is relieved this way.
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In this world, wealthy landowners can bribe the government and confuse right and wrong at will. If I cannot hide my identity and am caught by the government, I will be beheaded and unable to come back, so I will leave it to you."
Fatty Zhang's father is really a tough guy. He left the mountains and ran to the dock. He carried the sacks of three strong men every day and earned two cents of wages. He went back to the mountains once every half a month, and paid for his fourth uncle and his uncle every time.
The son brought grain and oil back with him, and worked hard to feed three people for ten years.
Fatty has lived with his fourth uncle in the deep mountains of Lintong for more than ten years. He is very familiar with the forests within a radius of 500 miles.
My ancestors left behind a secret book for finding gold, and I took it with me when I fled. When my fourth uncle returned from hunting in the mountains, he pondered the ancient book whenever he had time. Fortunately, my fourth uncle had studied in a private school in the countryside for four years before leaving home.
This classic book on gold-hunting and tomb robbing has been read over and over again for three or four years, and the more than 300 pages were almost torn by my fourth uncle.
When Fatty Zhang reached the age of seven or eight, his fourth uncle took his nephew to the mountains to hunt roe deer and wild boars. They also wandered around in the forest. Following the guidance of ancient gold-touching books, the two of them figured out the five hundred-mile radius.
There are more than twenty tombs in the big forest. Under the guidance of his fourth uncle, Fatty also developed good hunting skills and secret techniques of tomb robbing. His shovel skills were learned from ancient books.
When the fat man was fourteen years old, his fourth uncle, who was obsessed with money, finally couldn't help but dig a big tomb. The fourth uncle said that he had lived a poor life in the mountains for too long, and the second brother had to carry sacks for ten years at the dock.
After years of hard work, it was time to take a break, so he encouraged the fat man and his father to rob the tomb together.
At that time, the fat man's father tried to persuade his fourth uncle for a few days, but his temper was like a stubborn cow. Once he made up his mind, he would not look back.
At that time, the fourth uncle was angry and said that he would go alone and take the risk himself. He would rob the tomb and dig up treasures, and then take the fat man and his father to eat and drink well. After the three of them had money, they left this ghostly place in the mountains.
The fat man's father had no choice but to worry about the safety of his only brother, so he gritted his teeth and agreed to the fourth uncle's tomb robbing job against his will.
Fatty was left alone at home. Fatty stayed in the hut deep in the mountains and waited for his father and fourth uncle for five days. Five days later, in a dark night, his father came back in despair, with dirty and fluffy hair.
Bird's Nest, his eyes were dull, and he looked like a beggar, but his fourth uncle didn't follow him back. If the fat man hadn't heard his father's cry to open the door, he almost wouldn't have recognized him.
Just as the anxious fat man asked where his fourth uncle had gone, his father slowly said with tears and snot in his nose that his fourth uncle had touched the mechanism of the tomb and was buried alive in the sand and suffocated to death. His father dug for four days and found nothing.
The discovery of Fourth Uncle's body was undoubtedly a bolt from the blue for the fat man. The father and son hugged each other and howled all night long.
The fourth uncle, who was only in his twenties, died so young. His grandfather was of the same lineage. His grandmother died of illness twenty years ago. His grandfather did not die well and was angered to death by the landlord bully. His wife died in childbirth. Four brothers, died.
He had three children, and only his father was left. Even the strongest man could not withstand such a heavy blow due to this series of tragic events involving the death of his family members.
Fatty's father seemed to be the same as before, but his face was a little pale with sadness. He told Fatty that after his fourth uncle left, Fatty was the only one left at home. There were many large beasts in the mountains, and the door should be bolted at night. In short, he said a few words
To take care of his trivial words, his father immediately left the mountain and ran to the dock to continue working hard.
The fat man waited for his father for more than half a month, from late autumn until the cold wind blew in winter, but his father never came back to the mountains as scheduled.
The fat man went out of the mountains for the first time. Before, he had been following his fourth uncle. A young man and a fat child stood on a high hill, watching his father come down the mountain. They kept waving goodbye until his father walked through the woods and left.
On the dirt road leading to the capital, the figure was invisible.
That time the fat man couldn't wait any longer, so he carried a piece of bacon as dry food and hurriedly walked for two days and two nights out of the mountains. He set foot on the dirt road that he had seen from the hills before. He clearly remembered it in his mind.
His father once said, "Work hard at the wharf by the Weinan River."
On the road, he kept asking passers-by about the location of the dock. When he arrived at the dock, after asking around, he found a few workers who were working hard with his father, but he learned that a bolt from the blue came.
His father died. Eleven days ago, when unloading cargo on the ship, his father, who had been in a daze, was carrying more than two hundred kilograms of sacks. When passing the wooden plank connecting the cargo ship and the dock, his father failed to hold on to the heavy sacks.
, the two big sacks on his back rolled over into the turbulent waves of the Weishui River together with the people. The workers hurriedly jumped in to save the people, but after a day of salvage, they couldn't even find the body.
The co-workers didn't know that Fatty's father had a son, and they couldn't find his home to notify him. It wasn't until Fatty arrived at the dock that he got the heartbreaking news.
He was fourteen years old at the time. After living for more than ten years, the strong Fatty Zhang only cried three times. The time when he was born from the abortion, when he was still a baby, he cried loudly next to his mother who had passed her life. The second time was when his father
He learned that his fourth uncle, who had raised him up, was buried alive in the mausoleum, and he cried all night.
Less than a month after the death of the fourth uncle, his father unfortunately fell into the river and was washed away without even leaving a body. The fourteen-year-old fat man cried the loudest for the third time and walked back along the mountain road while crying.
From then on, he lived alone in the mountains.
"Hey, last month I met the tomb robber Liang Si when I was hunting in the mountains. He persuaded me to join him in robbing the tomb with his sweet words. He promised that after he got the treasure, he could give me some food in exchange. I went out to the mountains with him for the second time to buy weapons for the tomb robber in the city.
Qi Qi, I thought that after that time, I would never leave the mountains again, but I didn’t expect that now I would step out of the mountains for the third time.”
After Fatty and Guo Nuan worked together to kill the killer outside the tomb, under the guidance of him, a tour guide who was familiar with the deep mountain areas, Guo Nuan and Cui Ying finally found the post road to Chang'an.
At this moment, the fat man looked back with infinite affection at the rolling mountains behind him and murmured to himself.
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Chapter completed!