tine seed/Kangxi radical 118

　　The other day I was joking and chatting with my groupmates, which in Changsha dialect means to curate, and as soon as I curated to the landlord, I couldn't help but think of her and the legendary life of this old neighborhood grandmother.

　　This kindly grandmother, who lived to90More than a few years old, died only a few years ago, talk extraordinary, this life ups and downs, glory and wealth also enjoy, storms also experienced, in that era, has been to a lot of places to travel, enjoy the great mountains and rivers of the motherland, she is really scenic, but also did a remarkable endurance of insults and humiliations.

　　When she was young, she was married to a senior officer of the Kuomintang, the family is also a landlord, eating bowls and chopsticks to wash the basin ra ra itch are not gold or silver, hired a lot of long-time workers, do not have to work, are served, living a life of clothes to reach out, food to mouth, and is the life of the golden rice bowl. But a lot of things just came out of the blue, then predicted civil unrest in the country, her husband wanted to take her to Taiwan, she did not agree, but unfortunately, ah, she had a thought, can not afford to give up their old mother in Jiangxi, insisted on staying in Jiangxi.

As a result, the landlord came, her husband fled in fear overnight, she took a few years old son, was copied, was hung up and beaten, home things were copied off, hung up and beaten or very cold weather to splash cold water on the body, after the home is gone, holding his son to go around begging and wandering. It can be described as miserable!

After wandering to our village, there is a very poor family in our village, a poor bachelor, can not get a wife of the kind, behind the matchmaking, she said to him as a wife, she had no choice, holding a son to beg and wander around, not even a place to stay, thinking that at least the family, at least there are four walls, but also can be considered a place to stay, she had no choice, agreed to marry, no ceremony, no banquet, just a bed quilt on the ground so together. She agreed to get married with no ceremony or banquet, just a quilt on the ground and counted them together! After the marriage, they had a son and two daughters.

       At that time, she secretly transferred part of their own property, a lot of gold and silver treasures have risked the night to her a sister, so that her sister to help her custody, her sister also promised to return to her, but for many years, her sister on this matter has never said a word. When her daughter became a big girl, the age to marry, she remembered her those properties, sleep and food, at this time, she made a difficult decision: one of her daughters married her sister's son, that is, consanguineous marriage.

　I asked her why she did it. She said that at that time she thought in order to conceal these properties, suffered so much, suffered that much torture did not say, however, her sister did not keep her word, she was upset ah, she thought of her daughter married over, more or less get back a little back, the results of their own daughters to marry over the in-laws did not send any valuable dowry, and the back of the daughter in-laws for so many years, did not get the same thing as the previous ah, she regretted ah, said her sister is so cruel, said she lost gold and silver treasures, and lost a daughter to her sister, she said she lost gold and silver treasures, and lost a daughter to her sister. She regretted it and said that her sister was so cruel, saying that she had lost gold and silver treasures, and lost a daughter to her sister.

It should be.07Around the year, the old man is almost nine, the younger generation thought of going to help the old man to fulfill his wish, to help her look for the whereabouts of her ex-husband. After inquiring in Anhui, the old man and I mention the past, will repeatedly emphasize her ex-husband's name, mention her ex-husband, that kind of beautiful, hopeful, determined eyes still lingering in my heart. It was hard to find out the whereabouts of her current husband is also running nine people, fearing that their old partner will not return, and do not want to see. After only her grandson they ran to the Anhui side of the search for relatives, the news is a pity that her ex-husband has also died.

Those few promising grandchildren are all born of her eldest son, a few engaged in real estate, assets of hundreds of millions of dollars, so I have always had a narrow understanding of my heart: that something has a pedigree. But her eldest son seems less than fifty is also a sudden brain hemorrhage gone. Her grandchildren and then rich and what use, festivals to the old man's house lively, usually on the two old people alone at home, there is something are shouting my parents to help, so she knew that my parents do not go out to work in those years, the heart is very happy, even when she was dying, are my mother to help her dress, take care of the aftermath of the end of her life to go very peacefully, there is no pain, and ahead of time, said: that I should now go! She said in advance, "Well, I should go now! She closed her eyes peacefully and went away.

　I remember, when she was alive, every time I read home, have to talk to her for a while, is back must go to her place to sit for a while, and then her grandchildren gave her all kinds of snacks milk nutrients have to be hard to stuff me to eat. Since we were young, we have been praising me and my brother, saying that other children go to other people's homes to play, or go to her home, are east to turn over the west to turn over, that we go to her home never move things, without consent are not turned over, often give us something to eat but also don't want to. Every time I talk to her, I will touch her hands, touch her face, pull her sagging old skin, and then press her large blood vessels that burst out, an indescribable vicissitudes of life.

　　Her funeral was very grand, but my parents have lamented, after the death of so grand what is the meaning of life until death are basically no relatives in front of the bed, there is no affectionate company. My dad and my brother helped them to put up the couplets on New Year's Day. Her speech is very good, eloquent is also very good, is not generally will do people, a few women can reach, but this life, perhaps because of the change of the times, the change of the years, no matter how beautiful once, how humiliating, no matter how much attachment, how much reluctance, how much reluctance, and so the curtain fell.

　　To this day, when I talk about the landlord, I can't help but think of her, and when I've just finished her story, I suddenly miss her, and to this day I still dream of her several times…….