Chapter nine hundred and thirty-one year after year, three lives
Lao Gao's family lives in the very edge of this small county with a population of just over 200,000. The yard is quite large and there are two three-room brick houses in the north and south. They are an old couple with two sons and a girl, all of whom are married.
The family also has a child. After the girl got married, the two sons lived in a brick house.
The life of Lao Gao's family has always been quite difficult. The old couple got cerebral thrombosis five years ago and could only lie on the kang while the old lady feces and urinates while being fed. To put it bluntly, they are waiting to die, but
But people are quite strong and struggling to stay alive, always lingering on their last breath.
The old lady is not in good health. She cannot see clearly due to cataracts and still walks on tiptoe. The older of the two sons is thirty-six, the one who just drove the Wuling Hongguang, and the younger is thirty-two. The two brothers make a living by farming in the summer.
, planted a few acres of land, and did some odd jobs in the county town when he was not busy farming. His daughter was married to a village near the county town when she was less than 30 years old, and her husband's family's life was not very good.
In general, the members of Lao Gao's family represent the poor people in the country who live in the most dire straits. They don't have much to eat and live a bad life. They just live a simple life without any hope or ambition.
There is no dawn or smile, but we have to struggle.
Logically speaking, such a life is enough to last a lifetime. It is a bit hard, but it is better to die than to live. But before the Chinese New Year, Lao Gao's family didn't know what happened, and they started to have bad luck one after another.
A total of three people died the year before and after, which immediately drove the family crazy.
Before the Chinese New Year, on the 22nd day of the twelfth lunar month, the children of the eldest son of Lao Gao's family went skating with their friends in the rivers around the county. In the Northeast, there are basically two types of entertainment activities for children when they were young, making snowmen, having snowball fights, and playing on the ice.
The eldest son is skating up there. His eldest son is a nine-year-old boy. Due to malnutrition, he has grown smaller and weighs only about fifty kilograms.
The small river where these children were skating was actually just a small puddle. In the summer, the water depth was nearly one meter. When it froze in the winter, it froze solidly. A small river like this could be used even by a car, let alone people.
But it happened that day when the eldest son's child went skating on the river, he actually fell into an ice hole and disappeared after falling. The child was not shocked at all. The adults came after hearing the news, but it took two hours.
The child was fished out only ten meters away from the ice hole, and by that time he was already frozen into a popsicle.
The eldest son was the only child in the family. After his death, he was extremely sad. The child's mother almost went crazy, but she didn't expect that the funeral arrangements were not finished yet. On the fifth night after the child's death, the old lady went out to pour urine for the old man.
I tripped while walking while bathing. The road in Northeast China is very slippery after the snow. Basically, if you don’t pay attention, you will fall. This old lady fell to the ground and hit her head on an ice lump.
He was bleeding profusely at that time, and when others found out, his blood was frozen and he was naturally dead.
There are still about ten days left before the New Year. Two people in Lao Gao's family, an old man and a young man, have died. There is no need to celebrate this year at all. Let's all start organizing funerals. This just goes in line with the saying, misfortunes never come singly.
People spent the New Year's Eve eating dumplings while watching the Spring Festival Gala with laughter and firecrackers, but the members of Lao Gao's family watched the two coffins with gloomy faces. It was quite a day.
It's heart-wrenching.
After the funeral arrangements for the old lady and the child were over, and the Gao family had not yet come out of their grief, the second son drank at a friend's house in Shilidi three days ago, probably because he was too grieved by the death of someone in the family.
, the second son drank one and a half kilograms of liquor by himself. When he left, he was quite sober, with his hands in his hands.
There was a cigarette hanging in his pocket. Although his steps were a little unsteady, he was not in a drunken state. Originally, the friend planned to let him sleep overnight, but the second son had to go home alone and wandered around. When he left,
When I was three or four miles away, I stepped on a small road and slipped. I fell to the ground and never got up again.
In the early morning of the next day, someone passed by and found the body of the second son. At that time, he was lying in a ditch covered with snow. He had taken off his clothes and was wearing underwear. He was lying stretched out as if he was asleep.
It's freezing and hard.
A few years ago, people who drank alcohol often froze to death in the rural areas of Northeast China. People often froze to death in the rural fields of the three provinces of Heilongjiang, Jilin, and Liaoning. I heard such a thing more than once when I was a child.
After drinking in the winter, you will be very sober at first when you go out, but after a while, you will quickly become paralyzed. At this time, it will be better if you walk home in one breath. Once you fall, don't
Come to think of it, a drunk person who fell to the ground couldn't tell where he was and couldn't feel the cold. Subconsciously, he would think that he was lying on the hot bed at home, so he wanted to take a nap.
Once you fall asleep, there is no possibility of getting up again.
Years and years ago, the already poor Lao Gao family lost a child, an old lady and a second son, and one for each of the three generations, old, middle and young.
The owner of the breakfast stall sighed and said: "If you do something evil, you will definitely drown the child in the small river. In summer, if you plunge hard, your head will be stuck to the bottom of the river, and in winter, when it freezes, the whole river will be frozen.
, how could a person fall?"
Xiang Que groaned and asked, "Then didn't you find someone to take a look at this family?"
"I looked for it. When the old lady died, I found someone to do it, and then there were dancers to remove the evil spirits. I spent two days and spent more than a thousand yuan, but I didn't expect that just after the Chinese New Year, my second son was frozen again.
He's dead. Now, whenever the old Gao family encounters a gangster, they will carry a kitchen knife and chop them." The boss squinted at Xiang Que and said, "So, little brother, you must be careful when you go there.
Don't say that you are acting out, you will get beaten easily."
Xiang Que said: "This is a charlatan."
The boss laughed and said: "Let me tell you, who in this country from all over the country doesn't know what the gangster is like? It's just a matter of cheating a little money, it's not worth it."
Chuma is a branch of shamanism under the wizard. To put it simply, it can pass through the underworld, can make ghosts appear on the body, and can also tell whether there is something dirty in you or in your family. Those who are slightly more capable can also perform divination.
After all, in the old society, the people who took action were those who had real apprenticeships and learned their skills, but in recent times, those who take action are basically deceitful.
Because the rural people in the Northeast are stupid and willing to spend money. They don’t like to go through proper channels to solve problems. They prefer to find the horse.
Therefore, there are many scammers in this industry now.