Wang Xianqiang's mother asked her husband to use all the relationships to completely dispel her son's idea of interacting with Mei again. Transfer my son to a middle school in Jiangbei Province, thousands of miles away from home. In order to urge my son to study, I urged my mother not to farm any more, and entrusted an acre of land to relatives. Then he took his son to rent a house in the city and began to accompany him full-time.
On the day Wang Xianqiang left, Mei Zi dropped out of school and has not returned yet. He looked at the house on the other side of the courtyard wall, and his thoughts were like a mess. We have been friends since childhood. We have been friends for more than ten years and have never been apart. Now we have to live far apart, and I don't know when we can meet again. He couldn't help feeling sour at the thought of the present situation of plums. He and Mei Zi grew up together, and they are as familiar and cordial as brothers and sisters. If he can really live with her all his life, how satisfied he will be with his life. He said to himself, Plum, wait for me, I will definitely go back to China and marry you as my bride, and I will definitely let you live a happy life.
Although it is late autumn, the leaves on both sides of the village road are not all yellow, but mostly green, dark green, half yellow and half green, light green and purple. Farmers are drying corn by the roadside. One by one, glittering. Piles of sweet potatoes on the hillside are like red mountains. There is a bumper harvest everywhere. Xian Qiang is full of hope at the moment, like a soldier about to go to the front, with high morale. He wants to fight for a happy life for him and Mei Zi in the future.
Plum went to apply for dropping out of school. With the approach of the college entrance examination, the head teacher tried his best to persuade Mei Zi to study well and be admitted to the university. It's a pity to drop out of school at this time. You can apply to the school for poor students. However, considering that her parents need to take care of her, Mei Zi needs to farm at home and her brother needs to go to school. She was very helpless and decided to drop out of school.
Plum's dream was shattered like soap bubbles. Once she was glad that she was different from other girls in the village. She has ideals and ambitions. She once looked forward to a bright future. She can go to college with her first strong brother, and then follow the example of "Qi Mei flies with me" and live a happy and warm life. However, the family changes made her dream come to nothing. But she is unwilling and unwilling to give up, and she will not give in to fate. Plum thought, straightened up and walked forward firmly with her head held high.
When she got home, she heard that Xian Qiang had gone to school in other places, which was both gratifying and somewhat disappointing. She is glad that he can continue to pursue his dream. But I'm disappointed. I don't know when I can see him again. I can only bury my thoughts about him deeply in my heart.
May's mother can't do heavy work anymore, she can only do some small housework. Plum gets up before dawn every day to make breakfast, wash, feed and massage for her father. Then feed pigs and cows. Then go to work in the fields. A girl's house, digging and chopping wood. Busy as a top every day. After packing everything in the evening, Mei Zi dragged her tired body and sat down to read and study. She often stays up late into the night. Sometimes she is really sleepy, so she eats some peppers to stimulate her nerves and continue her study. She taught herself high school courses and is going to take correspondence courses. Correspondence universities don't need to spend time going to school. You can study at home.
On Sunday, Mei Zi had to run dozens of miles of mountain roads to deliver food and food to her brother. She scrimped and saved, bought a new dress for her brother, and didn't want him to dress too shabby, at least let him walk into the crowd. However, her kindness made her brother Zheng look disgusted. Phoebe said to his sister, "The food you cooked is not delicious at all, and the clothes you bought are very rustic. All the students in our class wear famous brands. Bring me more money next time. " Before Mei Zi could speak, she celebrated, took her things and left without looking back.
Plum is very sad. She has been arrogant since her brother was protected by her parents. Often grab things with her, no matter right or wrong, in the eyes of parents, Mei Zi is always wrong and must make way for his younger brother. My brother was spoiled by his parents since he was a child, with his mouth full of food and clothes reaching out. Just take it and don't pay it. I didn't help with my work during the holiday. I played around all day and disappeared. From childhood to adulthood, from three years old to old age. Plum doesn't expect her brother to be grateful, she just needs to do her duty as a sister.
After Mei Zi dropped out of school at home, Liu Xiaohui came to Mei Zi every once in a while to get married as soon as possible, saying that his mother urged him every day. His mother said that all boys his age have children. Mei Zi said she would reconsider. Mei Zi said that she had thought about it, but she knew that marriage would not last long. After all, her family owed money to others, and she promised Liu Xiaohui's mother herself.
Autumn has come, winter has come, and the crops have been harvested. The vast Yuan Ye, vegetation withered, cold mountain water. That sad autumn, colorful autumn, seems to have become a distant past. Lonely land will lie under a white cloak, close your eyes and recall your lost years. But the earth will not age, winter is just a quiet dream, it will not sleep in the past.
However, the weather is getting colder and colder, and dad doesn't want to go out. When the sun is warm at noon, Mei Zi helps my father go out to exercise and bask in the sun. Father's body is getting weaker and weaker, and his appetite is getting smaller and smaller. Sometimes I don't say a word a day, and I lie in bed with my eyes closed most of the time. Mei Zi is worried that her father will fall asleep.
I got up early that morning, and Mei Zi cooked the meal as usual and gave his father a bath first. But when I touched my father's hand, it was cold, and then I put it in my father's nostrils, and my father had no breath. Suddenly, Mei Zi collapsed in front of her father's bed and began to cry. My father left quietly, without even leaving a last word. Mother sat there silently with tears in her eyes.
Father's life is a life of suffering. Although he has a serious preference for boys, he also works hard to maintain this family and support several children. However, he left us before the children could support him. "The tree wants to be quiet, but the wind will not stop. The son wants to raise and not stay. " How heartbreaking this is. Plum thought of her father's past, and tears rolled down like broken beads.
On the day of father's funeral, plum burst into tears. However, just after his father's coffin was carried out of the yard, Plum's tears suddenly stopped and her eyes dried up. No matter how sad she was, her tears just couldn't flow out, leaving only a dry cry. Is this what people call extreme sadness, crying without tears? Plum really realized it today. I cried all the way until my father's coffin was buried in the loess. At this time, plum's tears suddenly poured out and flowed out. Everything around me suddenly darkened, the cold wind blew and the dead branches swayed. The grass whimpers and the grave mourns. Plum cried her eyes swollen and her voice hoarse. She was helped by her sister before going home.
For a long time, plums didn't eat or drink. Standing in front of the bed where my father slept before his death, I was dumbfounded and let my tears flow silently. Mother cried with Plum in her arms to persuade Plum to eat, and her health was important. Father has gone, and mother doesn't want anything to happen to Plum, so she can't bear the blow any more. For mother, for brother, for this family. Mei Ziqiang perked up and went on working in the fields.
It's already deep winter in a blink of an eye. One morning, snow flowers and small white feathers floated outside the window, falling like pear petals. Plum sees Liu Xiaohui coming again through the window. He must be urging marriage again. It seems that this marriage has to be put on the agenda.
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