Reborn back to 1984

Chapter 99

"Boom, boom, boom..." Amidst the deafening gongs and drums, a middle-aged man in his 40s said in Mandarin with a foreign accent: "Fathers of Xindong Village, acrobatics! The show is about to start, those who have money will give it a show, and those who have no money will give it a personal show..."

After Zhang Xiuqing's garment factory became the leading taxpayer in the province, Xindong Village also became the leading wealthy village in J County. Almost every household in the village bought a TV set, and more than half of them lived in buildings. Installed telephone and sanitary ware.

Girls from nearby villages desperately went to Xindong Village to get married, and members of the foreign acrobatic troupe desperately ran to Xindong Village.

Many people on the net boat were also mixed in the crowd of onlookers, chatting and laughing with the locals, very harmonious.

Since County J was withdrawn from the county and changed to a city three years ago, Zhang Xiuqing suggested that his father contract the deserted beach in the village, and then Jiang Shuisheng led a large group of people to raise fish, shrimp, water chestnuts, and lotus root by means of technical shares... Now the pockets are all bulging, and the thatched hut where the family lived together has long since been torn down, replaced by a spacious and beautiful building; the small net boat used for transportation has long since been abandoned, replaced by a two-wheeled bicycle , motorcycles; the children put on new clothes and re-entered the school; several well-off, diligent, and good-looking young men married local girls as housewives, and their lives were more prosperous than those in the city .

Shao Han also came to see the fun with his son in his arms. Zhang Xiuqing stood beside Shao Han with a toy gun in one hand and a bag of small egg rolls in the other.

Ma Tao is holding his precious daughter, and his mother-in-law is the same as Zhang Xiuqing, with a teddy bear in his left hand and a snack bag in his right.They got married a year later than Shao Han and Zhang Xiuqing, but their child was only half a month younger.

When Ma Tao learned that Zhang Xiuqing was pregnant and his mother-in-law was also pregnant, he was so happy that he said to everyone, "Shao Han and I are good brothers. When our son is born, We must let them continue to be good brothers!" As a result, she was pregnant in October, and when she gave birth, his mother-in-law gave birth to a daughter, and Zhang Xiuqing gave birth to a son, let alone the disappointment in Ma Tao's heart.

His mother-in-law is a smart person. When she saw the man's face was wrong, she didn't say anything like "a daughter is a caring little padded jacket for parents". Only husband and wife can grow old together and get along for a lifetime..."

What he said made Ma Tao's heart burst into joy, and his face immediately turned from cloudy to sunny. From then on, in front of Zhang Xiuqing, he regarded himself as his own family.Every time Shao Han accompanied his mother-in-law back to his natal home, as long as there was nothing important, Ma Tao would definitely bring his mother-in-law and daughter with him.

Just as the middle-aged man was spitting and talking non-stop, a monkey wearing a child's clothes rushed out with a "swish", screaming "squeaks" and doing somersaults all over the field.

Many old people and children applauded and applauded, but the cute little monkey suddenly stopped and fell straight on the ground.

Several children thought that the little monkey was dead, and they were so sad that they cried.

The middle-aged man stepped forward, kicked lightly, and shouted: "You slow slow monkey, get up and perform!"

The little monkey didn't move.

The middle-aged man took out a few melon seeds from his pocket and threw them on the ground.

The little monkey got up in a jiffy, and lay down straight again after eating.

The children were relieved one by one, some clapped their hands and cheered, and some threw out the snacks in their hands. After a while, melon seeds and peanuts were thrown all over the floor.Zhang Xiuqing didn’t keep the small egg roll in Zhang Xiuqing’s hand. His son would rather not eat it himself than throw it to the monkey. If he didn’t listen to him, he waved his small fists and screamed “Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!” on the ground.

In comparison, the little princess of the Ma family is much quieter, and she is very eye-catching among the children with runny noses, dancing and screaming "ahhh".

After the little monkey had a full stomach, he performed hard again.

Then there are two middle-aged men performing fire-breathing. They stand facing each other with their backs to the crowd, with a distance of about ten meters between them. They each hold a wooden stick in their left hands. The top of the stick is wrapped with cotton cloth. After soaking and igniting it with a match, it burned immediately; each of the right hands held a glass bottle filled with black things.

The two put the bottle to their mouths, took a swig, and sprayed it on the torch like spray. With a sound of "boom", the flames immediately jumped up to a height of more than one meter.

The two flames sometimes collided and sometimes crossed, and all the onlookers watched intently.

The little monkey who appeared earlier held a small gong in both hands, asking for rewards from the audience.Many people retreated one after another, and few people were willing to give money.

Shao Beibei screamed, and the clever and cute little monkey ran over immediately, and Shao Han took out a dollar from his pocket and put it in the gong.Ma Tao learned what he saw and gave him a dollar as a reward.

The middle-aged man couldn't help showing a happy look on his face, and waved back. After a while, a dark-skinned, haggard woman who looked about 50 years old staggered to the center of the field, ignoring the ground. Dirty or not, just lie down flat.

The two men who performed the fire-breathing performance just now carried a stone slab with a length of about 50 cm, a width of about 40 cm, and a thickness of about 5 cm, along the perimeter of the cordon, for the spectators to check.

The people standing behind poked their necks forward desperately, while the people standing in front patted here and there, and shouted in a hurry: "It's real stone slabs, not foam!"

After the two middle-aged men walked around the field, they walked to the center of the field and placed the stone slab on the old woman's chest.

Is this to perform boulder breaking?That old woman is not young, is she?Don't spurt blood on the spot, many people couldn't help but raise their hearts.

The middle-aged man carried a sledgehammer, walked up to the old woman, spit twice into the palm of his hand, then threw the hammer and smashed it down.

Some people turned their heads and didn't dare to look, some people screamed, and some people shouted "Hello..." Amidst the noise, the stones were torn apart, and the old woman shook off the broken stones from her clothes and struggled to get up.

She didn't go down to rest, but led the little monkey to ask for a reward.

There were a little more rewards than just now, Shao Han and Ma Tao still rewarded one yuan, while the others gave only dimes and dimes.

It's not that the people of Xindong Village don't want to hold money, it's just that such acrobatic performances can be seen every few months, and it's not surprising that the villagers watch a lot of them.

The middle-aged man put away the bounty and waved again.

A skinny boy in his teens walked slowly to the center of the field. When he looked up, Zhang Xiuqing couldn't help being stunned. She never thought that she would see Xie Chengfei in her hometown.

Before she could recover, the middle-aged man clasped Xie Chengfei's shoulder with one hand, and took his right arm with the other, pulling hard.Amidst the screams of pain like a slaughtered pig, Xie Chengfei's right arm was pulled and dislocated.

Amid the sympathy, the middle-aged man continued his efforts and dislocated Xie Chengfei's other arm.

The old woman who had performed the boulder-breaking performance just now led the monkey around the stage to beg for rewards.

It wasn't until this moment that Zhang Xiuqing recognized that this was her old woman and her mother-in-law Hu Shanmei from her previous life.

Xie Chengfei had his arms hanging down, his forehead was covered with cold sweat, his whole body was trembling, and he couldn't help shouting, "Ah, ah, ah, ah..."

Many aunts and aunts donated their pockets one after another, some gave five cents, some gave two cents, and some gave one piece.

Shao Han also recognized Xie Chengfei and Hu Shanmei, his face turned cold, he hugged his son with one hand and his mother-in-law with the other, turned around and walked to his father-in-law's house.

Ma Tao was about to follow and leave, but Hu Shanmei's gong for reward was already stretched out in front of him.

Ma Tao's greatest hobby in this life is to show off, so without thinking about it, he immediately took out ten yuan from his pocket and threw it into the gong.

Hu Shanmei has never received such a large amount of reward since she was engaged in acrobatic performances. She couldn't help but raised her head and carefully looked at the clothes of Ma Tao's family. When she saw the little girl in Ma Tao's arms, her heart couldn't help but move ...

Half an hour later, Shao Han and Ma Tao came out of Zhang Lingen's house with their mother-in-law and children, and were about to drive home.

Ma Tao drove in the front, Shao Han drove in the back, and as soon as he drove out of Xindong Village, he was stopped by a pair of ragged mother and son.

Ma Tao thought that the two were going to take a ride, so he rolled down the window and asked, "Where are you going?"

The mother and son were going to Hu Shanmei and Xie Chengfei. In order to find the whereabouts of Xie Mingfei, the mother and son followed the acrobatic troupe and traveled all over the country. Thinking of meeting a great virtuous person here... The most important thing is that this virtuous person has no son.In some places in southern Jiangsu, family planning is very strict, and no second child is allowed at all. This little girl is probably the only child of Dashanren... In her hometown, daughters are always from other people's families, and sons can carry on the family line , if you don’t have a son, you will be poked in the back... If your son becomes the son of a good person, then you won’t have to perform acrobatics anymore. House... That day was so beautiful that I laughed out loud just thinking about it!
Hu Shanmei signaled her son to stand in the middle of the road, and walked around to Ma Tao. Through the car window, she saw Ma Tao's wife sitting in the back seat, holding the child in her arms, humming a nursery rhyme, and couldn't help but feel a thump in her heart: "What if the wife of the great good man objects?"

It was getting late at night, and the child was clamoring to go to bed. Ma Tao couldn't help showing an impatient look on his face, and asked him what he had just said again.

Hu Shanmei clasped and clasped her hands, gritted her teeth, and then said those few words that had been brewing in her heart for a long time: "There are three great filial piety, and the greatest thing is to have no descendants. If you have no son, I will give you my son." , you just need to give him a place to live and give him enough to eat. In the future, when you grow old, he will beat you up..."

Where did this madman come from?How could there be such an idea?Ma Tao couldn't believe his ears.His mother-in-law laughed angrily: "Our family is not short of money. If you want to have a son, you only need to pay a fine. It's not popular to throw pots and flags, haven't you heard of it?"

Hu Shanmei couldn't help being taken aback, but this was an opportunity to change the fate of their mother and son, she seized it with great difficulty, and she would not let go even if she died, so she motioned for Xie Chengfei to come over, and the mother and son lay on the car.

Ma Tao couldn't help being furious, and honked the horn vigorously to let the mother and son come down, but Hu Shanmei had made up her mind that if Ma Tao didn't agree, they wouldn't get up.Ma Tao wanted to get out of the car, but his mother-in-law firmly held him by the arm and refused to let him go: "These two people are crazy, and it's hard to reason with them. After you get down, if there is a knock What should I do if I get stuck by them?"

Just as there was an inextricable commotion, a large group of people came from behind, it seemed like a dense crowd, and people from the acrobatic troupe were among them.

They were all called by Shao Han. After hearing Ma Tao's explanation, the faces of the people in Xindong Village were very unhappy, and the people from the acrobatic troupe also cursed Hu Shanmei for being too whimsical.

The middle-aged man stepped forward, pulled Hu Shanmei up, without saying a word, and slapped him twice; two middle-aged men grabbed Xie Chengfei and stopped him from making trouble.

The car restarted, Zhang Xiuqing turned her head, and through the moonlight, she vaguely saw Hu Shanmei who was so old that she was not reconciled to staring at Ma Tao's red car that was very valuable at first glance...

That night, the entire acrobatic troupe was kicked out of Xindong Village, and Zhang Xiuqing never saw them again.

(End of this chapter)