Who knows the story of the Pea Girl? Please tell me.

In the New Year, children will wear new clothes, but only Wandou does not have them. If there are, it is Wandou's mother who changes her own floral skirts or old clothes into clothes for Wandou. The three sisters wear it as a New Year's gift to the children. Sometimes the adults can't stand it and say a few words to Mother Pea. At the end of the year, don't save so much, it's time to buy some decent clothes for the children. ． ． ． ． ． Because everyone in the village knows that the Wandou family is actually rich. They were the first in the village to build a house, the second family to buy a TV, and the first to buy a Shanghai time-honored Shuangfeiyan sewing machine (that was the The best product of the 1960s), she was the first to buy a bicycle, and her mother learned how to make clothes. She makes money by sewing and repairing simple clothes for others on weekdays. Her father is also good at bricklaying. She is an expert and a carpenter. Logically speaking, her living standard has been very good since she separated from her grandparents. It may be due to the psychological factors that Wandou's mother has not had a grandmother since she was a child and has suffered too much. So I have always been very frugal, and my three meals a day are far worse than ordinary people. Only during the Chinese New Year will the Wandou family eat meat, fish, and tofu. Wandou once told me that she was already very content, because she didn’t have to do anything else at that time, and she felt like a leisurely Cinderella. She could also hold a lantern, or a shrimp, or a fish, or something like the rest of us every day. The flags are carried through every house along with the dragon and lion dance teams. Looking at the innocent smile of the pea, I felt that the pea was really beautiful, just like the pea flowers blooming in March, which are as beautiful, touching and cute. To be more precise, I had an authentic childhood like a child.

In a blink of an eye, we all reached the age of kindergarten, and the memories of childhood began to become more profound. Of course, Wandou and I went to school together, but Wandou was still the same. He had to get up early in the morning and make hot meals for himself, unlike our mother who took care of everything and let her tall buffalo go after school. , while grazing cattle, she would cut firewood and go home. On Sundays, she would go to the fields with her mother to work, or chop firewood all day long to prepare enough firewood sources for the winter. She watches TV for up to two hours a day, and then her father scolds her to go to bed. In fact, Wandou doesn't watch much else. For example, Wandou is very cold about entertainment programs, and waits to watch the Central News Network at seven o'clock every day. , learn to talk like a host, so my dream since childhood is to be a host. This is when we were in third grade and the teacher asked us to write about our ideals. Then when Wandou’s composition was taken out and read by the teacher, I understood why Wandou was so in love with the daily news broadcast, and sometimes even studied Give us some exercises.

In fact, Wandou also has another hobby of tying hair. At that time, "The Legend of White Snake" was popular, Wandou often experimented with my hair, tying it up high like White Snake. Unexpectedly, after a few times, she actually got that difficult hairstyle done. Later, when I saw some other fancy hairstyles on TV, I still learned to do it, not afraid of being ugly. I often wore it in school, which always made my classmates look strange and eye-opening. It wasn't until later that the teacher no longer thought that the peas could be cooked like this, so he warned them not to cook them that way. It was okay after school. I don’t know when Wandou learned to dress up. She often tied her hair with the lace her mother made for other people’s clothes, or sewed it on clothes. In short, Wandou’s dressing up was different from other friends, like The most we can do is perm our hair with a match head, wear diamond earrings, etc., or wear adults’ clothes, the high heels of older sisters are fun, or imitate the modern girls on TV to walk the catwalk, etc., peas Woolen cloth? I am interested in the color matching of clothes, and I am fascinated by the costumes and makeup of fashion models. Sometimes I see the stunned look of Peas, which is very cute, and then I pull my head in a daze like a fool. As I grew older, I discovered that Wandou had another ideal, which was to design beautiful clothes and makeup, because I often saw her drawing various classical beauties in class, with all kinds of flowing hairstyles on her hair. Her cloud-like bun and colorful neon skirt make her friends extremely envious. Even the teacher often praises Wandou for his rich imagination. Although we didn't know that there was such a great profession as an image designer at that time, Wandou often whispered in my ear that it would be great if one day the clothes and makeup I designed could be shown on TV. Such a dream made me admire her with admiration.

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As time went by, I thought that that family encounter would change Wandou’s personality into a different one, because the lively and cheerful personality she had finally formed in school was no longer the same as her at home. Personal. That time, her dad was eaten up by a neighbor's chickens for more than two minutes of vegetables in the field. While in the field, he yelled a few nasty words about the owner of the chickens, such as being heartless. The neighbor, who had always been cautious, listened. She was very unconvinced, thinking that he didn't let the chicken cause trouble on purpose, so she shouldn't be abused like her father. After two arguments, the neighbor who was as strong as an ox got away with it without any effort. She pushed her father down the steep hillside and then fell into the dry well. Fortunately, their previous quarrel had attracted the attention of the people around them. Although they were too late to dissuade them, they rushed to the rescue, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous. , but still broke her head, hands and feet. In the end, Wandou's father stayed in the hospital for a month. After the court's mediation, the neighbor compensated Wandou's family for all the medical expenses and nutritional expenses, and the turmoil was subsided. However, the doctor diagnosed that her father From now on, I can no longer engage in physically strenuous work, such as working for long periods of time, going up mountains to cut down trees, etc. The reason why Wandou became silent was because her parents decided not to let Wandou go to junior high school. They asked her to drop out of school and go out to work. After a few years, she found her husband's family and married her. On the one hand, they saved money to build a house on the hillside. It was demolished and a new house built by the river. The purpose was to solve the problems of water and transportation convenience, because it will be convenient for the old couple when they get old. On the other hand, girls will get married sooner or later when they grow up. They are the children of other people. It does not matter how much they read. This concept is deeply rooted in their hearts and cannot be shaken. In addition, due to the closed-mindedness of those times, there was less communication with the outside world. , many families do that, so many children are influenced by the traditional path of sending them to work in other places after graduating from elementary school, and then marrying or taking a wife. Of course, this is what my mother told me, because her mother once said that when chatting with that group of women. In addition, at that time, there was still a long way to go before universal compulsory education in rural areas. Therefore, if you did not reach the admission score for elementary school or junior high school, you would have to pay expensive money if you missed the admission score by 0.5 points. Many parents in the village were reluctant to part with the money, so most of them had to drop out of school. The universalization of nine-year compulsory education in rural areas happened to be the year after Wan Dou dropped out of school. At that time, no matter how many points you missed, you could go to junior high school, but the class you were assigned to was not that good. But Wandou still missed that round of good times, and Wandou's sister was spared from dropping out of school.

After dropping out of school, Wandou was like a hard-working cow every day, busy with housework from morning to night. People in the village couldn't imagine how much things happened in Wandou's family all year round. The children worked like that. Spring is coming, and we go to the fields with the adults to weed and plant vegetables. In summer, we pull weeds for rice, plow sweet potato vines, and guard water canals. (July and August are the dry seasons every year. Every household in the village takes turns to irrigate the dry rice fields. Go to the rice field and guard it until the irrigation is full, and then cut it off and give it to another family, so as to ensure that each family has rice.) Spray the crops with insecticides, harvest the rice together in the fall, dig sweet potatoes in the winter, and pick them every day. Start herding cattle, chopping firewood, cooking, doing laundry, sweeping the floor and other household chores inside and outside the home.

Among the many descendants of Wandou's family, Wandou is Grandpa's favorite granddaughter (because Wandou has five uncles and one aunt, and each family has three children). Although Wandou does not show any special performance in front of many people Come out, at least I think so, because Wandou often gives me candy, saying that it was given to her by grandpa, and also lets Wandou eat it alone. Don’t tell anyone, let alone grandma know, every time Wandou treats grandpa. This feeling is well preserved. Because the seven-color candies of Grandpa Wandou were given by kind people when he went to the mountains to deliver grain and oil, but Grandpa Wandou was reluctant to eat them, so he often stayed behind and gave them to Wandou secretly. Wandou often told me that he must have some sweets in his life. Treat grandpa well, because only grandpa loves me the most. Every time I heard what Wandou said, I was very moved, and felt the same happiness and sweetness as she did. Unknowingly, I also fell in love with her grandfather. Whenever Wandou’s grandfather smoked cigarettes, I would feel happy every time. When it rains, whenever winter comes, whenever we gather around the fire pit, whenever we are bored and don’t want to play games after dinner, Wandou and I often move a small bench and sit around her grandpa. Around that time, I realized that Wandou could act coquettishly in front of his closest relatives. We often listened to her grandfather telling stories about the Red Army wars, ghost stories, and interesting, unforgettable, and classic stories that happened in the previous generation.

Wandou's grandfather had no brothers or sisters. I heard from Wandou's grandfather that her grandfather only had one sister. Her grandmother escaped from the disaster in Jiangxi. Unfortunately, her grandfather died of illness the second year after giving birth to Wandou's grandfather. To this day, Wandou's grandfather Wandou’s grandfather could not remember what his father looked like. Later, he heard from many grandmothers in the village that Wandou’s grandmother was a very capable, kind-hearted, and very beautiful woman. Therefore, since Wandou’s grandfather passed away Later, at that time, many single men in the village wanted to marry Wandou's grandmother. There were also many well-meaning people who saw Wandou's grandmother living in such a difficult situation and did a lot of ideological work to persuade her to remarry. There is only one sentence that shocks me now: I will only love one person in this life, and I will never follow another husband. It can be said that Wandou's grandmother was the image spokesperson of the chastity arch in the village, which made people of that era feel more admiration and respect.

Wandou’s grandfather is the Barefoot God in the village, because he has a pair of fully patched cloth shoes all year round except in winter. Wearing straw sandals when delivering grain and oil in the mountains, we were almost barefoot, so Wandou's grandfather had a pair of very wide and thick feet. Now that I think about it, they are the most beautiful and artistically beautiful feet I have ever seen. Not only It not only represents how rich the life experience of Grandpa Wandou is, but also gives me a glimpse of another realm of life, which is to be strong. So many years later, no matter how big the setbacks Wandou encountered, she said to me, whenever I have When I didn’t want to live anymore, my grandfather’s feet told me that there is nothing to fear about difficulties, but the spiritual compromise. Just have a strong belief in your heart, grit your teeth, and everything will get through. Such facts and truths have also affected me, so that whenever I am frustrated and at a loss, I will have the same mentality as Peas, face everything with strength and courage, and constantly challenge myself. In comparison, we all feel that our suffering is nothing, because the story of Grandpa Bean has made us admire him very much.

Wandou’s grandfather had almost no childhood memories. He began his turbulent career as a deliveryman at the age of fifteen. The so-called deliveryman’s job was to grind the chaff collected from the mountains every day. Rice husk powder (one of the best feeds for pigs), milled rice, sweet potato powder, and other things that people in the mountains ordered in the town were all delivered through her grandfather through dozens of miles of mountain roads. On the way back, Wandou’s grandfather also brought trees and bamboo boards (springboards for building houses) to people down the mountain. Three hundred and sixty-five days a year, regardless of wind, rain, or snow, as long as the mountain Whatever the people at Yamashita need, they will be delivered as scheduled and properly on the day of delivery. Therefore, every family at the foot of the mountain or on the mountain admired Wandou's grandfather, and even had a heart for her grandfather. Many years later, even Wandou's father and uncles were respected by the people in the village, including Many grandchildren including Peas. Although Grandpa Pea worked so hard, he almost never got sick. At that time, I also understood the truth that only by working a lot can you be healthy. There are even some elderly people in the village who are well-off. In their later years, they suffer from pain and discomfort. They often lament that they are not as strong as Grandpa Pea. I often hear many younger people privately praising Grandpa Pea, saying that they have achieved good fortune in those years. In return of gratitude, I trained an uncle who became the dean of the city procuratorate, a principal of an elementary school, and a leader of a large enterprise in the provincial capital. The others also lived quite peaceful and happy lives. Regarding this point, I believed what an elder in the company said later. God can clearly see what people are doing. If you do a lot of good things, even if blessings do not come to you, they will. It is reflected in the younger generations, so only poor people will have famous college students. For example, world-famous artists are all from humble backgrounds. Ordinary families who are honest and work seriously, or opportunities always come to those who work hard and are successful. If you have done a lot of things that are sorry to the world, even if the tragedy has not happened to you, it will be reflected in your next generation. Therefore, many corrupt officials will either die miserably in the end, or the next generation's family will be ruined. Either he died young, or his heir was a complete fool, etc. In short, it's all about retribution, and God is the fairest decision-maker.

Years later, the most interesting story about Grandpa Pea is the story of the death of our country’s leader Deng Xiaoping in the spring of 1992. That time made me feel that Grandpa Pea was the cutest person in my memory. Because her grandfather burst into tears after seeing this news broadcast on the TV news, and later mentioned Mao Zedong

When Xi passed away, he didn't eat for a day just to commemorate our great man. He also led all the people in the village to say nothing for a day and mourn silently. Wandou and I learned more about history from her grandfather’s stories. In addition, her grandfather is also a movie fan. The rich people in the village will hold open-air movies on the river beach every time they celebrate birthdays, build new houses, get married, make full-moon drinks, or go out as a college student to create a scene. That scene is still fresh in my mind. Under the bright moonlight, there were people sitting there, men and women, young and old, and Wandou’s grandfather was the most active one every time. Not only did he help the movie staff with the preliminary work, but also after the movie ended I still wanted to talk to us children from beginning to end, because many times the children would fall asleep in the arms of the adults before the movie was finished.

For a while, Wandou was so tired that he often talked nonsense and sleepwalked at night. However, Wandou’s father actually believed the nonsense of some people with ill intentions. Wandou was struck by an evil spirit, and maybe it was the man who enveloped him a few years ago. The evil spirits of the whole village are attached to Wandou.

Speaking of the innocent soul, I was still worried. I heard that the girl was out for love because her parents did not agree with her free love and locked her in the room for several months, forcing her to have sex with her. A wealthy but disabled man got married, and eventually she suffered a mental breakdown. On the afternoon of the first day of her wedding, she stole a bottle of pesticide from the house while her family was less prepared, and then wandered around the village like crazy. In a circle, he passed by Wandou's house before going up the mountain. He talked nonsense to Wandou who was sitting in the chair, and even touched Wandou's pink face. Wandou screamed and caught her father's attention, so he drove away. Then I saw the unkempt girl running towards the hill behind Wandou's house. That night, the girl's family searched the whole village and even the back mountain, but could not find any trace of her. It wasn't until the next morning that her father went up to the back mountain to cut cow grass and discovered that the girl was speaking white. Mo fell and died on a tree. So Wan Dou's father often told people in the village that he saw the girl's face when she died. It was so ferocious and terrifying, and her pair of dark eyes seemed to tell the world about her misfortune. The long tongue is exposed, as if it wants to swallow up this hateful human world. So when we were very young, we often heard such a true story told by Wan Dou’s grandfather, so that every time I see a horror movie, I think of those dark and empty eyes, just like the famous Japanese movie called The female ghost in the movie "Sadako" gave me nightmares again and again. Her father has also been haunted by that nightmare for many years.

That time, Wandou was indeed sick. At night, he would talk incomprehensibly in his sleep, wave his hands and feet from time to time as if fighting for something, and break out in cold sweats and have a high fever from time to time. The symptoms are somewhat similar. They have been like that for half a month. Even after seeing a doctor, they are not getting better. During the day, the adults asked Wandou what she dreamed about at night. Wandou couldn't remember what happened at all. It seemed that what the adults said had nothing to do with her. She just felt top-heavy and had no strength at all. Even talking seemed like she was trying to convey her freshman year. Only when you breathe can you calm down. Other than that, they are no different from normal people. The most important thing is that someone said they saw Wandou secretly going up the back mountain several times in the evening. Later, when he asked Wandou if this happened, Wandou himself said nothing. To be very precise, I have never gone up the back mountain, because since I heard Wandou’s grandfather talking about that, the friends in our village have not dared to go up the back mountain. So Peas and Wandou's father had no choice but to follow the advice of others and find a mage to do something for Peas and Dou. In this way, I also witnessed an authentic ghost hunting operation in the village. That mage specializes in bathing the dead, and is also the host of funerals. I saw him wearing weird colorful clothes, holding a bell in his right hand, and a bamboo tube in his left hand. My mother said that there were pea's birthdates, an egg representing the heart and soul of pea, and of course incense ash. Hold the egg tightly. Her father followed closely behind him, holding in his hand a set of neatly folded clothes, pants, shoes, and even underwear and socks that Wandou often wore. In the astonishment of us children, we first walked from Wandou's house I don’t know what I recited in front of the sacred frame in the living room, and then I sang something crazily all the way to the pier of the mother river that our whole village worshiped (actually it was just a blue stone used by the people in the village) One of the small piers was built, and people in the village often washed clothes, carried water, and took baths there. Over time, it also became the stop of the July 15th Ghost Festival.) There was also paper burning there.

Qian was composing to the sky again, and murmuring some incomprehensible words for several minutes. Finally, he took out a small bowl of fresh blood from the neck of the living big rooster that had been prepared in advance. The mage took a mouthful of chicken blood with half-closed eyes, sprayed it from all directions toward the sky and the holy river water, then clasped his hands together and knocked three times on the bamboo tube. Then the upper opening of the bamboo tube was sealed on the spot with black silk cloth, and a square tile was pressed on it. Then Wan Dou's father knelt on the ground and kowtowed three times with the Master. On the way back, the Master called Dou Dou's real name "Feiyan, come back quickly", shook the bell, and scattered a lot of banknotes. Wandou's father was holding the bamboo tube and following behind the master, shouting "Feiyan, come back soon". That scene was similar to the plot of the movie "Evocation of Souls", so it was so profound and delicate in my memory, and the shouts were loud and clear over and over again. Under the approaching night, it flew to every corner of the village. Under normal circumstances, when a mage performs a ritual, except for people from that family, other people who are not relatives or friends are not allowed to watch. Children in particular are not allowed to go out, let alone respond naughtily. The adults said If a child's Yang Fire is low, be careful if you see ghosts or something that you shouldn't see. It will scare other people's souls away, and then the next bad luck will be your turn. Although I have never experienced it personally, in a village where feudal superstition is so prevalent, children are still a little afraid of this kind of thing. They are afraid that the beautiful snake in Mr. Lu Xun's "Sanwei Bookstore" will appear behind us. Adults say What? The children followed suit and kept silent.

After the mage finishes the ritual, Wandou will wear that suit of clothes for seven days, and then the mage will start a new round of rituals in the same order, except that the suit of clothes worn by Wandou will be burned. It was said that only in this way could the calendar ghost be driven away. Finally, the mage hammered a nail on the grave of the ghost who was responsible for the illness, which meant that the calendar ghost could be suppressed forever. In superstitious terms, the so-called calendar ghosts are those who do not die in ordinary times. Most of them die because of injustice, plus some who died accidentally, such as those who jumped into the river, those who hanged themselves, those who drank pesticides, those who were raped, etc., who committed suicide and homicide. ． For example, when I was eight years old, a family in the village held a large-scale funeral for the son of a criminal leader. We who were ignorant saw many cars and many wreaths arriving at once, and that the criminal gang had not been arrested. The arrested brothers all put down what they were doing and ran to the road to see the spectacular scene and listen to the adults slandering the deceased. Because the person in the coffin was shot dead by the people's police justly, some people said that when he died, he was just like he was when he was alive. It made people tremble and tremble when they saw him, so they all discussed in private how many more nails should be given to him. Nail, so that the village will be peaceful and there won't be such evil people, because if he is not crucified, he will still do things that harm the world in the next life. Later, my mother told me not to go to that hilltop in the future because there were dozens of nails driven into the tomb. It’s hard to explain why things like this happen in the countryside. It might be a coincidence that gave it a mysterious and superstitious color. But the strange thing is that since the funeral, Wandou did not have any nightmares that night. The so-called high fever The symptoms are getting better day by day.

Day after day, one year after leaving school, Wandou’s family built a new one-story red brick house next to the road. Wandou’s parents were very happy and slaughtered a pig. After setting up a few tables and inviting relatives and friends to have a great drink, Wandou, apart from showing happiness on his face, was actually not happy at all in his heart because he longed for school, but he didn't dare to say it for fear of being beaten by his parents. When he was sad, he ran to me and talked to me while crying. Every time Wandou is so sad, I don't know how to help her. I just feel very sad and sad.

In the winter of the following year, Wandou's mother sent Wandou to work as a waiter in a small restaurant in the town. He worked from six in the morning to ten in the evening, and all the wages were given to the family. Because the junior high school is also in the town, Wandou and I can still talk every now and then. Wandou would turn the grievances she suffered in the restaurant and the pain accumulated in her heart into tears and tell me everything with choked sobs. Three months later, Wandou said that money was lost in the restaurant, and everyone suspected that it was Wandou stole it. Although Wandou tried his best to explain, no one spoke up for Wandou and fired Wandou. At that time, I was thinking that the owner of the restaurant was either a psychopath or had a personality problem, and he actually treated him like this. A girl who seems kind and lovely thinks of stealing money and still does things every day.

He is so diligent, but he is just not good at dealing with people and doesn't talk to strangers. Not only did Wandou's mother fail to regain her daughter's dignity, but she even scolded Wandou and stayed at home for half a month before sending Wandou to a place far away from home. In a newly opened restaurant in town, Wandou's mother left without knowing the details of the business nature of the restaurant. It was only after Wandou started work on his first day that he found out that it was a pornographic shop selling mutton with pig heads. The night before, the proprietress had given Wandou a lot of ideas about how to make money quickly, and it was nothing more than letting Wandou do the work. Business, fortunately, Wan Dou was quick to think, and escaped from that situation on the excuse of thinking about it, and ran home that night.

After escaping home that time, he had a public quarrel with his family for the first time, but his little arms couldn't escape his thighs. Peas's father prepared a thick stick and was about to hit Peas when he was ready. When he was ready to die, luckily his grandfather stood up and shouted to Wandou's father, "Let Wandou tell you the specific story first. If you want to beat him like this, beat me and Wandou together." So Wandou escaped. A severe beating. Because in many cases, especially Wandou's father, he would be beaten severely without asking the reason. Wandou’s mother is also the kind of person who only hears one-sided stories about beatings and scolding, as if Wandou is not their biological daughter. In my impression, Wandou was hung upside down by her father several times, tied to the window, and then He beat Wandou over and over again with branches until Wandou passed out and there were scars all over his body, and he was not allowed to cry or shout. In everyone's minds, Wandou was a good and obedient child, but every time he made a little mistake Even trivial things can lead to beatings. At that time, I was always glad that I was a descendant of intellectuals, and I was relatively less beaten and scolded by my parents. In our place, some parents were more cruel than Wandou’s parents, but those children were also a genuine headache for adults. In the elementary grades, they learn to be sneaky, lazy, not doing housework, and cause trouble for other people's families. Most of them are just rubbing salt on the wounds. The heart-wrenching pain is still difficult to change the stubborn minds of those children.