Essays on rural chronicle series of essays

Cai is one of my peers who have the most contact with me in a small village. Because the shop opened by my family is opposite his house, we are looking up and not looking down. When he comes back from work, he often comes to my shop and talks about some stories outside the village.

At that time, he liked to listen to Zhongguang Popular Network, an entertainment broadcast in Taiwan Province Province, especially the slogan "Let China people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait experience relaxed and lively popular feelings at the same time", and the massive popular information from Hong Kong and Taiwan. Gradually, I also like that program.

Another thing that greatly influenced me was that he was my first teacher who played mahjong. When I first learned to play mahjong, I was really addicted to drugs. I remember every night, after dinner, I went to the store to be on duty, and he would make an appointment with three friends on time to wait for my arrival. Although I lose money every time, I am the happiest every time. I always feel that it is not easy for them to play with me. If I lose a little money, I will pay my tuition. I always adjust my mentality.

Cai's parents are famous good people in the small village. It can be said that a penny wasted will not be squandered. A vegetable farmer in the village next door always finds an excuse to sit down and rest when he sells vegetables and passes by my shop every day. Without a pack of cigarettes, she turned the conversation to Cai's family. First, she asked us about his family's recent situation, and then said that her daughter Amei was about the same age as Cai. Finally, she sighed directly, if the two families can form in-laws, it would be the best of both worlds. Everyone followed suit and said, "Yes, yes."

Some good people who participated in the chat went to tell Cai's parents about it. Who knows that Achai's parents muttered: "Nine times out of ten, the business will be settled, and I don't know what people think." You see, I haven't read the eight characters yet, and I'm beginning to calculate each other.

In this way, no one made it clear. Cai still asks the matchmaker to introduce her, and A-mei goes to kiss her as usual.

But God plays tricks on people. No matter how the matchmaker fixed them up, he just couldn't find the right person. Finally, a symbolic matchmaker was invited to bring two families to a table and talk about their married life.

Everyone in the small village thinks that the two of them can finally make a positive result this time.

However, things did not follow the trajectory that everyone imagined. In the morning, they went to the county department store to buy engagement gifts. Before noon, Cai came back alone. Neighbors are whispering: "What's wrong?" How can Cai run back alone? "

Later, after listening to the story told by the matchmaker, everyone felt that the marriage was hopeless.

It turned out that the two sides agreed to buy two sets of clothes and a set of gold jewelry for the girl as an engagement gift. Who knows when A-mei is going to buy a woolen coat, A Cai whispers, "It's too expensive." Ah mui walked away without saying a word. When Ah Mui was looking at the ring at the jewelry counter, Ah Cai was shouting again: "Where is this thing suitable for rural people to buy?" Ah Mui couldn't help it, and threw a sentence: "Then go find the right person!" It's true that lovers are lovers, and they just parted ways.

Various rumors in the small village immediately exploded: some said that Achai was more sophisticated than her parents, some said that Achai valued money more than her daughter-in-law, and some said that Achai could only be a bachelor in her life ...

Time flies, the sun and the moon fly. A few years passed quickly. Ah Mei married a family named Liu in a small village. How old is her son? Choi still hasn't found the right woman.

Zhang Apo in the small village is warm-hearted. She tiptoed to tell Achai's parents: "Now there are several girls from Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou in the small village who have married and are living a very stable life. Why don't you ask them to marry a daughter-in-law for a few referral fees? " Without saying a word, Achai's parents even said, "That's absolutely impossible. In case the girl runs away one day, isn't it both human and financial? "

At some point, several years passed. A Cai is still a person, and the wind and frost of the years have carved a clear mark on his cheek.

Cai's parents are a little worried. Seeing that their son has entered the age of no doubt and his marriage has not yet settled will be regarded as a joke in a small village.

One dark night in a month, A Cai's parents knocked on Zhang Grandma's door. They want to invite her to the Li family in the neighboring village to find Cai. One of the daughters of the Li family just divorced her husband and took a daughter with her. Hearing this, Zhang Apo did not refuse, but lamented, "If I had married a-mei, my children would have gone to college."

A Cai's parents murmured, "Alas, fate hasn't arrived yet."

When I returned to my village during the Spring Festival this year, I met Achai, who married Li's daughter. The little girl also called "Dad" very kindly.

I silently blessed them in my heart.