Master Pei Xiliang in the kiln

I didn't know Pei's correct pronunciation until I went to middle school, but I got used to it when I was a child and didn't want to change it. I also called Pei Xiliang Bai Dad and his wife Bai.

Peijiayuan is in the southeast of my yard, with a road in the middle. The road is lined with fields. His door is in the north of the west wall of the yard, and mine is in the east of the south wall of the yard.

My mother cooked a meal and stood at the gate just in time to see Pei's mother standing at the gate.

My mother shouted: His white mother is coming to dinner!

Pei's mother shouted, I'm ripe, too. Come and eat!

Every day my mother and Pei's mother greet each other like this. They are busy with housework every day and have no extra time to sit together and chat, so they can only communicate briefly in this way.

I don't know when the Pei family took root in Li Jiayao. Pei is the only one in this village where Li has an absolute advantage.

As long as I can remember, I heard from my elders that Pei's family used to be in the east of the county. Pei Xiliang married the Li family's daughter here and naturally became a member of Li Jiayao. However, Pei Ma gave birth to three daughters in a row, and then she stopped giving birth, so Pei Xiliang took her nephew from her second brother's house to the other side of the city. This 1899 young man is older than his three daughters. It didn't take long for the Pei family to marry their nephew, and it didn't take long for them to be alone. Pei Xiliang spared no effort to help his nephew build five rooms outside his north wall, and since then he has become two Pei families.

Time flies, Ma Jia's three daughters have all grown up and reached the age of marriage, but at this moment she is pregnant again. After October's efforts, Pei Ma Jia gave birth to a dignified boy. Happy Pei Xiliang stuttered for a long time, and now he can't say a complete sentence, but he works harder. For the sake of their soon-to-grow-up son, the industrious He family got up early and got greedy for the dark, and almost never missed work. Their three daughters also went to work until the day before their wedding.

Pei Xiliang is famous for his carefulness. He only remembers that when others said about him, his mouth only made a slurping sound, and his tone was extremely exaggerated. At that time, there was a big and small thing in the neighborhood, and everyone followed the ceremony, giving silks and satins a bed of floral quilts, followed by six feet of floral cloth. If the relationship is distant, you can go to dinner or find someone to take it. Pei Xiliang won't let others take it, for fear that he can't take it. To this end, he left a laughing stock, and others always regard it as a joke, as a rainy day, or as a talk after dinner. After a long time, he will be heard, but he never cares, and still stutters and asks those idle people gossip: eat … eat … just. As if what these people are talking about has nothing to do with him, he is still working hard. At home, Pei's mother is also very careful, and three meals a day are extremely frugal. Her daughters are also influenced by their parents and never waste.

At that time, every family was poor and lived a poor life. It is a strict plan not to go to the credit union for loans every year, but Pei Xiliang has a deposit and has always had it.

Later, the industrious Pei Xiliang was more industrious. He takes good care of his land and still leads a frugal life. His daughters also got married one by one. When the child grows up, it's time to marry a wife. Because the family is well-off, someone soon introduced a relative's daughter, and the marriage did not encounter any twists and turns. He successfully married the girl into the house. His wife is a gentle girl, Pei San. As a result, the family put in endless struggle and integrated with the land, and the land rewarded the hard-working family with the most abundant harvest.

Pei Sanwa built a brick house in a yard with the help of her parents. The family also moved into the new house and moved into the new countryside behind the expressway. The good life has begun, and there are three more people in the family.

Pei Xiliang, an old couple, looks at two men, one woman and three grandchildren, and his body is even stronger and he has endless energy. Pei's mother is in charge of housework at home and takes care of her grandchildren. When Sanwa goes to work outside during the slack season, she will come back to help her father sow and harvest. Daughter-in-law and father-in-law work together on their land.

In winter, father Pei Xiliang and daughter-in-law also filled the granary. Last year's old grain and this year's corn were sold and replaced with tickets. Pei Xiliang deposited them in the credit union. He intends to leave some cash assets for his children and grandchildren, and more than a dozen chickens raised by Pei's mother are responsible for the daily necessities and sporadic expenses at home. At the end of the year, Sanwa gave her father every penny of her salary. Pei Xiliang went to the credit union again and still saved every penny of him. He looked at his precious passbook and thought carefully, with a hint of quiet joy on his face!

In this way, life was extremely tight, and all three grandchildren went to school. The comfortable and happy life made Pei Xiliang's wrinkled face overflow with a satisfied smile. Nearly seventy years old, he can still ride his bike to Houtan and get up in the middle of the night to water it.

Sanwa is still working at the construction site, and her parents help her wife with farm work and take care of her children at home, which makes him very hard and earns money. However, his heart is safe, but his body is not very comfortable and he will have a headache from time to time. At first, he thought it was a cold, so he went to the drugstore to prepare some cold medicine, which was also very useful. What bothers him is that this symptom will reappear every few days and be repeated several times in a row. Every headache is worse than the last one. Later, frequent pain made him unable to complete the task on the construction site, so he had to go home and rest. Adequate rest and rest still failed to relieve his headache.

The results of the examination made all the people who accompanied him look pale: brain tumor. Be hospitalized for further examination and treatment. Everything was carried out according to the doctor's arrangement, accompanied by my sister and brother-in-law in turn. I went back to tell my parents that a bad cold required hospitalization infusion, which was only an expedient measure to stabilize the mood of the elderly.

The operation time was soon decided. Because of the huge medical expenses, the sisters had no strength to gather together, so they had to tell Pei Xiliang the truth. Without saying a word, the old man got up silently on the kang, staggered on the cabinet on the kang, picked up a figure from the corner of the ceiling, tore off a corner, allowed only two fingers to reach in, dragged out two passbooks from it and handed them to his son-in-law.

From then on, the old man never said a word, went to the field silently, ate silently, slept silently … everything was going on silently.

A month later, Sanwa was discharged from the hospital. The tumor has been removed and it is malignant. This fact is only known by my sisters, which is benign to both patients and parents. Now I just need to rest quietly.

Half a year later, Hao Sanwa left, leaving her elderly parents, young daughter-in-law and three underage children.

Pei Xiliang is old and his son is gone. He stuttered more, which made his language more concise. When he has to talk, he will pop up three or five words. At other times, he closed his lips and said nothing, but he still worked nonstop. He wandered in the fields all day. During a short break, he will smoke a pot of dry cigarettes at the trees beside the ridge, and his eyes will look at the distant mountains, where he sleeps. He helped the tree get up and climbed into his field again. He really wants to dissolve in this land forever, forever and ever, but he can't. He is not alone, his son is still there, without his grandson. He has no reason to let himself collapse.