Aidenwei came quickly, but because the tree branches were relatively thick, each one as big as the mouth of a washbasin, he couldn't do it alone, so Xiang Jin, her grandparents, uncle and mother
Together, we also asked a few more people in the bay to help cut down the trees.
Because the trees were too big, Aidenwei said, "Sister-in-law Juyun, it's difficult to move these trees up the mountain, so I'll put them directly under your bay. When the time comes, I'll go down to the bay and do it for you."
"Okay, okay!" Yang Juyun nodded.
Then everyone worked hard to lift the trees back to the head of Aunt Liao's family's courtyard.
After Xiang Jin stopped stopping the old couple, he went home directly to cook. There were many people eating at home tonight, and they also invited outsiders to help. Naturally, the meal would not be one bowl.
Simple noodles can be whipped up, so you have to cook dry rice and fry two vegetables, at least one of which must be meat.
Aunt Liao helped her, and during the cooking process, Xiang Jin suddenly thought of something, and then asked Aunt Liao, "Auntie, didn't you start working outside for nine years? How come Xiang Tao started working for eight years?"
out?"
Aunt Liao said, "Your father also has a girl who married to the Northeast, and then didn't she dig coal and cut wood there? Later, when they were recruiting workers there, she wrote back and told her about this, saying that she wanted to
Should I go to Tao or cross the sea and become a coal worker or a lumberjack?
At that time, being a worker was equivalent to being a member of the country's population. After discussion with the old Xiang family, they decided to let Xiang Tao go, and then Xiang Tao went."
Xiang Jin nodded, "Oh, so that's what happened?"
Aunt Liao nodded, "Isn't that what it's all about?"
Then Xiang Jin asked, "Why haven't I heard of the old man and a girl?"
Aunt Liao said, "Hey, that was a long time ago, and she was married there for many years and hasn't been back for decades. She only occasionally exchanged letters with your father for a year or two.
As time goes by, no one will talk about her anymore, so it’s only natural that you don’t know.”
Xiang Jin asked again, "Is she my great-grandfather's daughter?"
Nowadays, in order to carry on the family line and continue the incense, isn’t it common for rural people to adopt a son and come to marry their own daughter? It must be the same thing for old man Xiang and his girl, but why didn’t these two succeed in the end?
Aunt Liao shook her head, "No, she was also adopted. She was a daughter of your great-grandmother's brother. She originally wanted to marry your father when she grew up."
Oops, is this really what happened?!
Then I heard Aunt Liao continue to say, "Who would have thought that she just fell in love with a young man from Northeast China who was an educated youth in our area at the time.
The young man also had some feelings for her, so the two of them got close, and later when the young man went back, she went with him, so your father later married your mother-in-law."
"Oh, so that's what happened. Wasn't the old man very depressed at that time?" The daughter-in-law who grew up together ended up running away with someone else. Just thinking about Xiang Jin felt that he should be very depressed.
Aunt Liao laughed and said, "I don't know. I got married later and listened to some old people in Wantou."
Then Xiang Jin asked again, "What happened when Xiang Tao 'died' in the first place? Didn't anyone in the old Xiang family see the body?"
Aunt Liao said, "Why didn't you see it? It was your father who went to claim the body with two veteran cadres from our brigade and cremated it. It is said that after he went to Liaoning, he directly became a lumberjack, and then he came from the mountain once
When pushing the wood into the river down the mountain, both the man and the wood rolled into the big river below.
It is said that a lot of timber is transported directly through the big river. The river water is directly washed downstream, and then the timber is picked up in a place where the river is not fast, and then loaded onto large trucks and transported to the timber purchase and trading center.
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It is said that several corpses were fished out of the river at that time. They were all wearing logging overalls. Two of them could still be seen as human beings. They were from their group, who pushed logs from the mountain and rolled them down the river.
Two people.
However, because the other body was a little far away, it was salvaged two days later than the other two bodies. However, when the man was salvaged, his whole body was swollen.
In addition, due to the long-term erosion of the river and the friction with the stones in the river, the body's entire face had already become unrecognizable when it was salvaged. It can only be judged from the outer clothing and general body shape.
It looks a bit like Xiang Tao."
"Oh, this is how Xiang Tao was 'dead'," she finally understood.
But that's not my fault. Since he's not dead, he didn't even know how to report the news to his family, and he stayed outside for so many years before coming back.
Xiang Jin curled his lips and stopped talking about Lao Xiang's family matters.
However, when they were about to finish cooking, Xiang Nan came back pouting, and Xiang Jin asked her, "What's wrong? Who made you angry?"
Xiang Nan said angrily, "Didn't we cut down that tree? I wanted to drag back some of the cypress branches and tips that were cut off, and then dry them and use them as firewood, but the old woman didn't want to
Yes, he yelled at me fiercely and said, 'What are you dragging? You have to drag it to your own slope, don't drag mine!'
Then my mother saw it and said forget it. She will drag our tree back from the slope another day. Sister, are you angry? They cut down our tree and now they are paying us. Are the branches and tips of the cypress tree the same?
It’s ours? Why doesn’t she let us delay?”
Xiang Jin nodded to comfort her, "That's the theory, but Xiang Nan, you have to know, if they don't cut down our trees, will we have to go to the slope to cut them down ourselves?"
Xiang Nan nodded, "Yes!"
Xiang Jin analyzed it with her again, "Now, look, if we go to the slope to chop it ourselves, do we have to go to the slope to collect the firewood ourselves?"
Xiang Nan nodded again, "Yes!"
Xiang Jin said, "So forget it, what we want is just the main trunk. Since we have got the trunk, what do the branches mean?
Since our family is not short of firewood, why don't we just be generous, respect the old and love the young, and stop being like them?"
Xiang Nan was still angry, "But they, I don't want to respect that old man?!"
Xiang Jin stretched out his hand and pinched her cheek, "Girl, I forgot what I told you before. We need to be more generous and relax our structure. As the saying goes, we should be merciful and merciful. We don't have to do everything.
Care about everything, especially trivial things, will make your mind narrower and narrower."
The little girl lowered her head and remained silent. After a while, she raised her head and said, "Okay, then I won't be as knowledgeable as them."
Xiang Jin's lips curled up into a smile, and then he took a piece of meat from a plate of stir-fried vegetables and brought it to her mouth, "Here, let's try how this dish tastes. Is it salty or mild?"
When the big fat piece of meat was brought to her mouth, the corners of the little girl's mouth immediately raised, and her eyes were full of smiles. She opened her mouth and then took the piece of meat into her mouth.
Aunt Liao couldn't help but laugh when she saw her eating like a little hamster.
Xiang Jin asked her, "How is it? How does it taste?"
Yatou nodded vigorously while chewing carefully, "Yeah, it smells good! It's delicious! Not salty, not bland, just right!"