Chapter 6 4. The sea is dry and the stone is dead, the heart remains unchanged, and the love remains unchanged through the centuries

The red sun is scorching, and the heat is scorching. July is the busiest season for double grabbing in rural areas. Chi Yuhua has always been a strong labor force in the family, and when he came back, he went to the fields with a sickle, and devoted himself to harvesting and planting non-stop.I worked for three days in a row, sweating profusely every day, and the sky was dark.While working that day, a torrential rain came unexpectedly, drenching Chi Yuhua completely.She insisted on using her body temperature to dry all the clothes until the sun went down and the moon hung on the eastern mountain.When she brought home the last load of rice, she had no strength in her body, and she fell to the ground with the rice and couldn't get up.More than sixty years later, Chi Yuhua still clearly remembered that it was July 11th.

A human plague suddenly spread in Xingguo County. One after another, people fell ill and died inexplicably.Three-quarters of the people in the village contracted human plague successively, and most of them bleed to death within seven days. I'm not dead, I want to be reunited with Cailian. Chi Yuhua refused to die. He vomited and vented for ten days, did not eat or drink, and his whole body was so thin that he was a bone, but he still refused to die. He didn't feel anything in his body, but he still opened his dull eyes and waited for the medicine.At that time, there were no doctors, no medicine, and there were only native medicine prescriptions handed down by the native doctor.Chi Yuhua swallowed a potion of earthen prescriptions that can cure people's plague to the top.Use a urine spoon to scoop up a bowl of maggots from the cesspit, wash them in the Lixi water, then put the maggots into a mortar, beat them into a pulp, and pour cold water into your stomach.People who can hardly swallow water and rice will not vomit after drinking the stinky maggot slurry.It's not good to drink without vomiting, Chi Yuhua pinched his nose and drank three times a day before finishing a bowl of maggot slurry.After drinking the maggot slurry, I felt strips of maggots crawling back and forth in the throat and belly, which made people panic. The maggots seemed to crawl out of the mouth immediately.

From no feeling at all to the feeling of rebirth, this feeling is that maggots crawl out slowly, making people panic, and then feel the tastelessness of life, the helplessness of life, the pain of life, the expectation of life, the joy of life... and then live coming. It might be maggots or human bugs that brought Chi Yuhua back from death.This worm is her pregnancy. More than 20 days later, she got up to take care of Li Cailian's grandmother's funeral, and the world changed.Funerals are most in need of manpower, but the Li family usually has a large number of people, but not many people come forward.When I asked, five of Li Cailian's younger siblings had died one after another. In the entire family estate, 12 people had the plague successively, and 11 died.

When people are eliminated, helpers in doing things are eliminated, and human burdens are eliminated.If Chi Yuhua wanted to go out of production and make a revolution, there would be no reason and no one would stop him. When Chi Yuhua took Cai Chang's warrant to go to the district and county to go through the transfer procedures, Xingguo County had just been divided into two counties by one county, namely Xingguo County and Yangyin County. Inspector and secretary of the women's committee of the park.Chi Yuhua wanted so much to go to the Ministry of Land and work with her husband day and night.When she was arguing with the staff of the organization department of the county party committee, she suddenly felt very unwell and vomited desperately.After being reminded, she was pleasantly surprised to find that she was pregnant.She stayed and changed her life.

Yangyin County governs each part of the junction of Xingguo, Ganxian, and Taihe counties, including Jiaofu Village, Chayuan Township, which is the most remote mountainous area.Chi Yuhua served as the inspector of the county party committee and secretary of the women's committee of the park for nearly two years, and the Red Army left the Soviet area on the Long March.On the eve of the Red Army's Long March, Li Cailian once returned to Xingguo County to arrange the evacuation work.The situation is extremely urgent.As soon as he arrived in Xingguo, he hurriedly sent a message asking Chi Yuhua to come to Xingguo City to meet within a week, and repeatedly explained: It is estimated that the White Army will occupy Xingguo County in a week, so you should not come to Xingguo County.This is the last letter Li Cailian wrote to Chi Yuhua. The fate of the letter was the same as before, being detained by Li Cailian's father and stepmother.When the letter was delivered to Chi Yuhua, a week had passed.It's time to "don't come to Xingguo County".

From the end of 1934 to the end of 1935, a bulletin with roughly the same content was posted everywhere in the counties in southern Jiangxi to buy heads: Offer a reward——Whoever gets the head of the communist bandit leader Xiang Ying, Chen Yi, Li Cailian... One of the heads can take the head to the county The Bandit Suppression Headquarters received a reward of 5,000 silver dollars... Old China has always had the habit of implicated people. The government authorities and neighbors all knew that Chi Yuhua was Li Cailian's wife, but the authorities did not convict her. The first to attack Chi Yuhua was Li Cailian's biological parents and stepmother.

Bandit woman—you short-lived bandit woman should have been killed a long time ago!Li Cailian's biological father and stepmother were secretly thinking, since Li Cailian is worth five thousand silver dollars, how can Li Cailian's wife be worth nothing?They quietly reported to the district security team. The boss of the security team had a vicious image. They didn't dare to make it too clear when they informed the police, only saying that it was Li Cailian.At dawn that day, a group of white soldiers came to capture Li Cailian on tiptoe in the mist.Fearfully, they searched inside and outside the house, only to see Li Cailian's wife, so angry, the head of the security team slapped the informer twice, and left in a swarm, catching a few chickens and ducks by the way.It turned out that the authorities were not interested in Li Cailian's wife.

Li Cailian's father sat on the bamboo chair resentfully for half an hour, covering his burning face.There was a fire in his heart, he thought, let's forget about being an official, Chi Yuhua, who is beautiful and beautiful, is still worth a few dollars to sell to someone else to be his wife. In this farce, Chi Yuhua lost the last chance to meet Li Cailian.At dawn that day, Li Cailian's team happened to be passing through Xingguo, and he came back to visit his home with a security guard. He hid under the bridge piers of the Lixi River, and found the noisy security team from a distance.Immediately transfer quickly.Later, when Chi Yuhua washed his clothes and came to the bank of the stream, he finally saw the handwriting left by Li Cailian. The two names Chi Yuhua and Li Cailian were carved on the rocks of the bridge pier.Trembling, wading through the stream, she pressed her face against the rock, felt her husband's warm warmth from the familiar handwriting, and figured out a series of experiences in the handwriting.The reunion of the husband and wife who had been thinking about thousands of times and waiting for it all the time, just like this was invisible, and the tears flowed into the creek along the bridge pier...

A greater disaster came again.Li Cailian's parents and stepmother were impatient to deal with Chi Yuhua, they tried to make friends everywhere, and they didn't even pay back the price, so they sold her for 45 silver dollars.Without Chi Yuhua, there would be one less opponent who would divide the property in the future. The buyer, the seller, and the people present gathered together. When they were clearing the table and laying out the paper to write the deed of sale, Chi Yuhua heard the news and made a fuss: If you dare to sell me, I will die on the spot for you to see. Will come to you one day!It was hard to get off the tiger, and the elders of the Li family who were invited to be present, the father-in-law of the house objected.

Li Cailian is not under your name, what right do you have to sell Chi Yuhua.Twenty years ago, your elder brother died with nothing to rest in peace. Your mother made the decision, and you personally promised to adopt Cailian into your elder brother's name, so your elder brother closed his eyes. That time, I was also asked to be the 'person present'.I can't be the person present if I become the person present, and I still want to stop you from betraying someone!Chi Yuhua was not sold, but was kept as another member of the family.Since they are other family members, they cannot stay in this family.Chi Yuhua was ruthlessly kicked out of the Li family where he had lived for more than ten years.

Where can a young woman go when she leaves home? Chi Yuhua, who had nowhere to go, couldn't enter the house, so he picked up three pebbles and built a stove in the corner under the eaves outside the house, and simmered the stove overnight at night.The night in the mountains was so cold that I couldn't sleep.She looked at the small road opposite Li Xi, the small road was very white under the moonlight, how she wished that there would be a person on the small road, and this person would be Li Cailian!What a cold weather, Chi Yuhua, who was pregnant in October, sheltered herself from the wind with chopped pine branches, covered the ground with straw to keep out the cold, and gave birth to a daughter while tightly simmering in the stove.How much blood was shed, the gushing blood soaked the straw, and flowed to the ashes of the stove to darken the stove fire, and the air of the whole village was filled with a thick smell of blood.Chi Yuhua, who was in pain, not only didn't dare to ask for help, he didn't even dare to call out loudly.According to the Hakka customs, it is fierce for a woman to give birth to a child, which will bring fierceness to the house and people who bump into it accidentally.Chi Yuhua, who was afraid of being chased away by others, was in so much pain that she didn't even dare to yell. When she couldn't stand the pain, she looked at the other side of the river and called out in her heart: Li Cailian, Li Cailian—why don't you die so you can come back? There is a way to relieve the pain: bite the sweat cloth with your teeth and exert force.After poor Chi Yuhua gave birth to a child, a ball of cloth was bitten to pieces like a ball of pickles. With a child, there is support. Although it will attract more curses from her parents and stepmothers, she is used to it. It doesn't matter if you scold, it won't hurt.With a child, there will be an extra mouth for breastfeeding. Chi Yuhua usually eats the last meal without stopping, and he is so skinny that there is no milk for his bones.Without milk, how can I feed my mouth?Fortunately, many mothers did not have milk at that time.A few days later, Chi Yuhua learned to feed the child with rice soup and chewed rice.Although the child was skinny, she still felt relieved that although she was struggling, after all, she passed on to Li Cailian.Once you have it, you will have a lot of power.Whenever she worked day and night and was too tired to bear, she thought: keep waiting, no matter how hard and tiring it is, it is worth it.When I meet Cailian tomorrow, I can give him a daughter, which is a surprise. Daughter is the crystallization of her love, her baby, her hope, her sustenance and her life. However, Yan Shuang preferred to kill single-rooted seedlings, and when her daughter was three years old, she contracted measles and died suddenly.Li Cailian had never even seen or hugged a lively daughter who grew from more than one foot long to more than two feet tall. She died as soon as she died.Chi Yuhua cried for three days and three nights with his daughter with his eyes closed tightly, until the child in his arms gave off a smell, and then buried him under a tree in Houlongshan. Chi Yuhua, who is naked, can't stay at home and wait, she wants to take the initiative to go out and look for it.On the third day after burying his daughter, Chi Yuhua wiped a handful of pot bottoms on his face, carried the small square mirror in his pocket, and left with a hatchet.Walk along the familiar road, walk along the road you have walked, walk into the road you have heard of, walk into the road you have never heard of, the road with a lot of people, the road with no one in it... How come there are so many roads in the world? Why isn't there a road leading to her husband? !She has been to Jiangkou Township, Yudu County, and Ningdu Prefecture. How big can the world be?I don't believe that I can't find my husband.A woman who has been to so many places can't find another one in Chayuan Township. Chi Yuhua cut firewood all the way and searched for it. In many mountain villages, she lived with widows and widows. This kind of people had husbands or sons who were the Red Army. They sympathized with her and took the initiative to take care of her and provide information.Once, she heard that the guerrillas in a certain place were fighting with the White Army, so she rushed to risk it.The battle is over, only a few bloody corpses.She rushed forward recklessly, inspecting the corpses one by one, and was greatly relieved that she didn't see Li Cailian.She found a hole, dragged several corpses in, and blocked the hole with stones. After doing this, she was covered in blood and pain, and she was also a wounded person. All the way to work all the way to find, all the way to beg all the way to find.Because she was worried that Li Cailian would come back to find her and miss both sides, she returned to Jiaofu Village a year later, and then went out again and then went out again.I searched for 8 springs and autumns.Sleepless nights were spent by the side of the road, under the eaves, in firewood sheds, and in toilets.In the dead of night, she often took out a small square mirror to see things and think about people, and the starlight and moonlight reflected the mirror light. The bright and shiny square mirror has become blurred and mottled, and the borders on the four sides have already rusted to black.The end of the world is boundless and the road is boundless, Chi Yuhua's heart is on the end of the world and on the road.Oh, Li Cailian Li Cailian, where are you, why can't I find you?Li Cailian, do you know, I wait for you every day, why don't you come back!Every day and night, Chi Yuhua asked and confided in the mirror.Chi Yuhua, who was used to singing popular songs and folk songs of Xingguo, faced the mirror and hummed the song Wangfu day and night on the road. You said you would come back, I will wait for you desperately waiting waiting for people is not easy eating chewing sad sleeping asleep anxiously drenched in the cold winter rain I gave birth to your little girl little girl waiting I can't wait until I die at the age of three poor Wait, wait, black hair turns white, tender face turns wrinkled Wait until everyone forgets to wait for no one anymore Wait until the world is completely dead and there is no more sound Wait until the people who waited with me are far away Wait, I will fight Desperately wait and wait with all my strength, I must wait for you to come back to get together... Eight springs and autumns, the entire time of the Anti-Japanese War passed by in a flash. She wandered alone and embarked on a search campaign. Suffering, sprinkled on her, also sprinkled around her. In 1943, Li Cailian's father fell ill and became paralyzed. This old man who had tortured Chi Yuhua countless times was ignored.It was Chi Yuhua who came back and pissed and shitted, and worked hard to serve his father-in-law until he died.For funerals, the stepmother doesn't care, and the half-brother doesn't care.Of course Chi Yuhua can ignore it, but if Li Cailian is at home, will he ignore it?Therefore, Chi Yuhua took the place of her husband as a filial son, running around asking Taoist priests to pray for the souls of the dead, asking villagers to carry the coffin up the mountain, and crying for him in front of the grave.A few years later, Chi Yuhua sent away her abusive stepmother.One after another old people were sent away, and one sibling after another was brought up.Chi Yuhua endured the long journey of life alone, shouldering the burden of the family that should have been supported by two sets of shoulders...