Chapter 89 life(8)

Rumors about Gao Jialin and Liu Qiaozhen immediately spread throughout the village. Their bad reputation was first revealed by a few elementary school students in the village who went out to steal watermelons at night.They said that one night, they saw the former teacher Gao hugging and kissing Qiaozhen from the back village behind the straw stacks in the threshing field outside the village.It was also confirmed that he saw the two of them lying together in the sorghum field of Qianchuan Road one night... The rumors became more and more vicious after being processed by everyone's mouths.Some people said that Qiaozhen's belly was already big; others said that she had actually shaved a child, and she even made up the time and place of the shaving carefully.

The wind finally reached Liu Liben's ears.Wearing a white melon shell hat, the two-abled man was so angry that his nose and mouth were steaming!At lunch that day, he couldn't help but beat his daughter who had ruined his family style in his own stove, and then angrily went to find Gao Yude from Qiancun. The "two-capable person" now suddenly realizes: the past few days, Qiaozhen has been able to brush off, change clothes three times a day, and run wildly outside in the middle of the night, all because of that prodigal son Gao Yude!He first ran to the dilapidated courtyard of Yude's house, stood outside the door and asked Gao Yude if he was there.Jialin's mother told him in the kiln: The old man is not here.

"It's bright red noon, I'm eating at home, where did he go?" Li Ben insisted on asking in the courtyard. "Probably went to the private plot to dig again." Jialin's mother ran out and let this respectable person from the village come and sit in the kiln.Li Ben said he was busy, turned around and left. He went out of the gate, down the small river, turned around a small hill, and walked straight to Gao Yude's private plot.Along the way, he laughed in his heart: "Hmph, I know how to dig in the soil! I'm so poor that I don't have a single valuable thing, and I want to marry my daughter to you in that cold kiln! Urine soaks in your shadows, see Do you deserve it or not!"

From afar, he saw Gao Yude hoeing millet with his hunchbacked hunchback, so he quickened his pace and walked over there.He went to the bank, and although he was full of anger, he still called this villager who was ten years older than him according to the old habit: "Brother Gao, take a rest first, I have something to tell you." Gao Yude saw the villager This proud man ran to the field to look for him on this hot day, he was so panicked that he didn't know what happened, he hurriedly put the hoe into the field and came to meet Li Ben. The two of them were kicking under the shadow of the earth cliff, and the old man Yude handed him the dry tobacco pot.Li Ben waved his hand and said, "You eat yours, I think it's choking!" As he spoke, he took out a Sichuan "Work" brand cigarette from his pocket, put it in his mouth, lit it with a lighter, and lit it. Yan Yan took a long breath, turned his head, and said with a heavy face: "Brother Gao! You Jialin is doing blind things outside, why don't you care about it? Our village will be defeated by you kid Already!"

"What's the matter?" The old man Gao Yude pulled out the cigarette pot from White Beard's mouth in surprise, and asked Li Ben face to face. "What's the matter?" Liu Liben jumped up and stood up, foaming at his mouth angrily, and said, "You prodigal son, Heitian, in the middle of the night, seduced me, Qiaozhen, and ran wildly outside, and the whole village is spreading this embarrassment. I, Liu Liben, was so ashamed that I wished I could put my head in my crotch, but you, Gao Yude, could pretend to be confused!" Liu Liben said, his fingers holding the cigarette trembling with anger.

"Ah, it's so good! I really don't know this kind of thing!" Gao Yude exclaimed injustice. "I'll let you know now! If you don't teach me, if I meet him in a mess, I'll break his boy's legs!" Although Gao Yude was a coward all his life, when he heard this capable man utter such wild words that he wanted to beat his only child's leg, he stood up from the ground with a "huh", and the brass pipe head pointed at Li Ben's white melon shell hat He yelled, "If you dare to touch me, Jialin, I will split your head off!" The old man looked fierce, like an old bullock annoyed.Taking advantage of people is not often annoyed, very annoyed.When Liu Liben saw this incompetent dead old man suddenly become so powerful, he hurriedly took a step back in surprise, not knowing how to deal with it for a long time.He simply turned around, raised his arms proudly, and walked through Gao Yude's potato field. As he walked, he turned around and said, "I'm not done with you! Let's see! I don't believe there is no cure." You father and son! What a world!"

Liu Liben walked through the potato field where Gao Yude was spewing white flowers, and came down the river bend from the same road.This capable man was anxious and angry, standing in the bend of the river, he didn't know where he should go.He is the most resolute guardian of rural traditional morality. He usually dares to mess with anything when doing business, but when it comes to hurting face, he takes it very seriously. In his opinion, people live for money , Second, I have to face.Money, money, isn't earning money just to live decently?Now, his unworthy woman didn't even want to be decent, and she was poor and hopeless with a man who couldn't get better at writing or martial arts, and messed up the village with wind and rain.At this moment, he was standing in the bend of the river, gritting Qiaozhen's teeth: Bad thing!If you do such shameless things, how can I see everyone in the upper and lower rivers?Liu Liben whirled in the river bend for a long time, and suddenly remembered his in-laws.He thought: Alright, let Minglou come forward and clean up the boy Jialin!He is not afraid of me, Liu Liben, but he is afraid of Gao Minglou!Minglou is the secretary!His kid can't bear the hardships in the field, and if he wants to find another private teacher in the future, he has to pass the Minglou test!

So he turned from the river bend to the small road in Qiancun, walked up a small slope, and walked towards Minglou's house.Gao Minglou's family is the same as his family, with a large stone kiln for one penny and five holes, which is obviously much larger than other families in the village.The in-laws also surrounded the wall and built a gatehouse not long ago.But Liben felt that the courtyard of his in-laws was not as good as his own.Minglou carved the gate and built it so that the soil is full of chlorine, and the fence is also inserted with horizontal stone slices; while his gate tower is tall and ostentatious, with stone couplets on both sides.Besides, the kiln eaves of Minglou are connected with stone slabs.Although the stone slabs are neater and more beautiful than those of other houses in the village, his house is built with green bricks of the same color and wears a "brick hat", just like an official office kiln in the city!What's more, his in-laws' kiln stones were all chiseled by pimps, which looked much rougher.And his kiln face stones are all finely chiseled, white and ash jointed, and they are all in one piece!

However, he was not in the mood to compare the length of the two courtyards when he came here today.He came today to ask for his in-laws.In these aspects, unlike earning money and hoop kiln, he knows that he is not as good as Minglou.The eldest daughter Qiaoying and her in-laws greeted her warmly and entered the middle kiln.The middle kiln is actually the "reception room" of the Ming Building. There is no kang inside, just like the guest room in the commune.If a cadre from the commune or county came to the countryside, no family in the village would even think about inviting him. Minglou would host him and stay here.Near the window stood two tacky-looking sofas, freshly made, still undraped and wrapped in pieces of sacking.Li Ben sat down, and his in-laws quickly brought a pot of tea and put it in front of him.Li Ben didn't drink, took out a cigarette and lit it, and asked, "Where did Minglou go?"

"You don't know yet? He has been gone for several days to the commune meeting. He said he would come back today, but he hasn't come back yet, and it will probably be later in the afternoon." The mother-in-law said. "I bought a horse in the grasslands of Inner Mongolia a while ago, and I haven't been anywhere in the past few days, so I don't know that Minglou is out for a meeting..." Liu Liben said lightly. "What's the matter?" His mother asked him. "It's nothing. A little thing... forget it if he's not at home, I'm leaving." Li Ben stood up and was about to get up.Qiaoying held two noodles, blocked the door and said, "Father, I have mixed the noodles, and you can eat here!" His in-laws also tried their best to keep him for dinner.

Li Ben thought about it, there was a fight at home just now, Qiaozhen and his wife were crying, and they were upset when they went back.Besides, he was indeed a little hungry.No one cooks at home this time.So he sat down on the sofa at Minglou's house again and drank tea.He thought: After dinner, I might as well go to the road in front of the village and wait for him to come back from Minglou! When Liu Liben sat down at Gao Minglou's house again, the old man Gao Yude was still standing with his chin on the handle of the hoe, standing in his private plot in a daze. Just now Liu Liben lost his temper to him without thinking, saying that his son seduced his woman, which really confused the old man. Originally, the old man Gao Yude hadn't been in a bad mood recently.He saw his son freed from his distress and calmed down, it was quite the same thing.He is already dying, but his son is living in a prosperous place. He will marry a wife and have children in the future. Even if he closes his eyes and sleeps in the loess, he will feel at ease.Jialin has a tougher temper than him, and the future will definitely get better.Now that I suddenly heard this kind of thing, I felt very sad in my heart.Who in the village doesn't pay attention to a good matchmaker?I didn't expect my son to be sneaky, what a disappointment!Besides, neighbors in this village, this kind of thing is the easiest to make people smell bad! At the same time, he thought: Qiaozhen is indeed a good child, and there are more than a dozen villages in Sichuan Road.Jialin was able to find such a daughter-in-law in the countryside, that was really his child's blessing.But even if you want to get married, you should do it according to the local customs. You have to go all the way, how can you go to the field in the middle of the night? Lin looked like an out-of-shape person.Terrible!Once a man's reputation is ruined, he will not even be able to find a blind and lame daughter-in-law; everyone will regard him as an unpopular person.Not only underestimated, no one would want to work with him in the future.Confused boy!How can you be so clueless? The old man Gao Yude no longer has the mind to hoe the ground.He limped down the creek from the trail with his rheumatoid leg. Although he hasn't eaten lunch yet, he is not hungry at the moment.He was sitting under an old willow tree by the river, touching his bare feet with his thin hands, thinking about what to do about this matter.Although he is old, his mind is still alive.He thought from Qiaozhen's side again.He thought: Maybe this girl really likes me, Jialin!Do you want to formally invite a matchmaker to talk about this marriage in an aboveboard manner?But when he thought of Liu Liben, his heart turned cold.He is a poor family with little business, how dare he climb others?Not to mention him, even people with better fortune than him can't catch up with Liu Liben!The sun had passed overhead, and the mountains in the west cast shadows on the bottom of the ditch, and it was late afternoon.The old man Yude was still sitting in the shade of a tree touching his bare feet, not knowing how to deal with this matter. "Hey! What are you thinking of sitting here by yourself?" Someone spoke from behind.The old man Yude turned his head and saw that it was the old bachelor Deshun.He really wanted to talk to him.Although they are quite different in age, they have been old friends for life; in the old society, long-term workers often look for the same owner.He beckoned and said, "Deshun, come and have a seat. I'm so upset right now!" Deshun sat down beside him, put down the hoe on his shoulders, and said, "I'm still busy! I'm going to rush to hoe my private land again in the next day, and the ground is full of grass again!" He took Gao Yu De handed over the smoke pot and asked him: "What's the matter of torment? You have such a handsome and good son, and the situation has turned up in a year or two. Jialin is really a good boy! Don't look at him Minglou, Liben is now Let's make a fuss, and none of them will be able to make trouble with Jialin in the future!" "Oh!" the old man Yude sighed, "You still praise him! These two poles have caused me trouble!" "What trouble?" Deshun's face was wrinkled to the corners of his eyes. Gao Yude hesitated for a moment, and then said: "This kid is fooling around with that second daughter Liu Liben. Now the whole village is spreading the wind and rain. I don't believe you haven't heard of it?" "I saw it a long time ago." Who said they were fooling around? Young people are good friends, what’s the matter?” “Ah, you already knew, why didn’t you tell me earlier?” Gao Yude angrily turned his head at his old friend and gave him a glare. . "I thought you knew about this! The two dolls are a perfect match! Young people see young people!" The old man Deshun said to the annoyed old man Yude with a smile. "Old and unscrupulous! It's good, it depends on what's good! How can you wander around in the dark and midnight!" "Oh, you old-fashioned old man! It's not like we haven't been young before! I have never married a wife in my life, and I was a bastard for two days when I was young, let alone the fashionable young people now!" "Okay, don't talk nonsense! Liben just came here to send me a slap in the face, and said he would break my Jialin's leg! I think something will happen! What do you think we should do?" Gao Yude looked sad, and kept touching the bare feet with one hand. "Don't worry about Liu Liben's threatening words! He just scared the fox away! No matter how brave he is, he can't beat his daughter! As long as Qiaozhen looks at Jialin, no one can stop him! That's it, if you don't believe me, just wait Look! Don't worry, you just love to worry! I'm still busy, so go back and eat!" The old man in Deshun handed the smoke pot to Gao Yude, stood up and walked away with a hoe on his shoulders, still humming Xintianyou ditty. Gao Yude looked at his distant background, and felt that he was much older than himself, but his bones were stronger than his own.He said in his heart: hum!Bachelors in the world have no worries!When one person is full, the whole family is full.You can speak boldly!Tell you to have a son too!It's no wonder I'm worried about you!When I was young, I was too anxious to grow up, and when I was older, I was too anxious to do anything; let alone causing a mess for my mother and father! The old man Gao Yude felt that his legs were not only painful but also numb, so he stood up and limped towards the house.When Gao Yude entered the house, he saw Jialin Zhengguang lying on the kang with his upper body reading a book.Jialin's mother wasn't there, so he probably went to sleep in the nearby kiln. The old man hung the hoe in the door and said to his son who was reading: "You still read! Books have spoiled you! You are such a big boy, you don't know how to deal with the world! When will you stop worrying?" what……" Gao Jialin sat up, unable to figure out what his father meant by these words.He looked at his father and said, "What's the matter with me?" "What's the matter? What a good thing you did! Today, Liu Liben came to our private plot to find me, saying that you and Qiaozhen are getting married or not, and that the whole village is talking about it." You two are shameless!" Gao Yude squatted on the ground again, touching his feet with his hands. Gao Jialin's mind suddenly buzzed.He put the book in his hand on the kang, and said after a long time: "Don't worry about my business, what do people want to say!" Gao Yude raised his pale head and said, "Be careful, you boy! Liu Liben said he was going to break your leg!" Gao Jialin bit his lips, sneered contemptuously, and said, "Since this is the case, I It will make him look even worse!" Gao Yude stood up, took a step forward, and said to his son heartbroken, "You must not make trouble for me again!" "You gave up early! How can our situation surpass others! What kind of situation is it? This big horse and river are all top-notch!" Gao Jialin crossed his bare arms on his strong chest, and said to his pitiful father: "Who will climb up whose family? Dad, you have no future in your life! Don't be afraid! I did this, and I will do it for you." I am in charge!" Gao Yude looked at his son's stubborn face and cried out in pain: "My silly baby, you will fall down one day..."