Green Apricot

On this day, my eldest sister also came back from the city on leave. The girls in the village were all rushing to pick up the bride, and the boys were also rushing to make trouble.

It is said that it is a scene of trouble, but it is actually knocking on the door for the groom when picking up the bride.Ordinary lads can't do it, you have to hire someone who is stronger and thick-skinned.Otherwise, the groom will not be able to receive the bride, and will have to keep giving out red envelopes.

I didn't want to go at first, but I couldn't stand such a lively scene, and getting married was a very scary thing for me. I didn't want to face him, but my mother insisted that I go.My second sister said that lest I have no experience in the future.

After dinner at [-] o'clock in the evening, all the women in the village went home to feed the pigs and cows. The men who were fond of drinking were still drunk with my uncle and went crazy, and those who liked to gamble gathered together to have a good time.It's not easy to gamble around and watch the fun.On weekdays, it is dark in front of the uncle's house and the lights are not turned on.

It's going to be brightly lit tonight.Little boys and girls are playing hide and seek in the grass in the village.Some people crawled into other people's beds and fell asleep at eleven or twelve o'clock to see if their beds were empty.And the women who stayed behind gathered around the fire and talked about their own family affairs, their husbands and children.There were bursts of laughter.

And the young man we got married with, our adult best man, matchmaker, and two little girls set off in the invited car.It was only nine o'clock in the evening when we arrived at the bride's side, and it was not yet time, and we could not enter until eleven o'clock.

The car stopped on the side of the road and waited until eleven o'clock before driving into the village. The seven or eight people who entered the bride's house to accompany the man wanted to have a drink with the men on the bride's side.There are eight people on each side, punching and drinking.Which side of the people is drunk means which side of the people has no face.The rules are like this, and I don't know what the specific meaning is.

As for us young men, we went to knock on the bride's door with the groom.We got out of the car and accompanied my eldest brother to the gate of the bride's house. Several young men and girls held hands and blocked the way, saying: "Leave the money for the road."

My hall brother originally wanted to send a few red envelopes to those boys and girls, but Liu Yong from our village deliberately pretended to be drunk and squeezed to the front of the crowd.Shouted: "Whoever wants a red envelope, I will cut off his hand."

As he spoke, he took out a knife out of nowhere and chopped at the hands of the two people in front. Those two people thought he was really drunk and quickly let go of their hands.The few of us pushed them away and squeezed into the yard.Except the main door is open, the other small doors are closed, and there are people inside each door shouting red envelopes, red envelopes.We didn't know which house the bride was in, so we could only knock on one door after another.

The door inside only opened a gap, and the red envelopes were thrown in. The people inside said that it was not enough, and they sent it again, and threw it again, and they still said it was not enough.I don't know which strongman was pushing the door against it and couldn't push it open.And the people here are all scrawny little boys.It can't beat others at all.In the end, the red envelopes were almost finished, and the people inside felt that they had enough before opening the door, but there was no bride.Started knocking on another door.

The young man who distributed the red envelopes felt that there were not many red envelopes, so he told the people inside that the door should be opened wider, and the red envelopes were too big to fit in.At this time, everyone outside and inside burst into laughter.The outsiders didn't dare to push hard at first, but later they all used their experience to have fun, so they pushed vigorously together, and the door was not strong enough to knock it down.

At this time, all the adults rushed over and shouted: "Ah, you guys, just play and play, don't play with fire."

We saw that there was no bride inside, only the last one left.There are more and stronger people inside the solid door, and there is no way to push it open.The people outside were exhausted from pushing, and the people inside yelled, either give the red envelope or come again, and they couldn't get in after a dozen consecutive pushes.

At this time, the bride's adult and the groom's matchmaker came over and said, stop playing, it's time to do things, and they opened the door with a red envelope and sprinkled it into the crowd.People just dispersed.

I looked at the boys in the village. Many of them went home to get married without getting married at my age, and some got married without growing beards.

I get scared just thinking about it.Marriage seems to be a matter of course for any of them, but it is like an insurmountable mountain for me.

I was thinking about someone knocking me behind me, and I looked back and saw that it was curly hair.

Curly was a classmate of mine in elementary school. His family was very poor. He didn’t go to school until he was a teenager. He was very close to me at that time. He came to our house when he was in the fourth grade of elementary school. Hair is naturally curly.So everyone calls him Curly.Later, we went to the sixth grade together and he went home.

I didn't expect to meet him here. At that time, I was still young, and he was several years older than me, and his development was early. When we took a bath in the river beside his house, he was already very big. I haven't developed yet, thinking that when I grow up, the place will grow like his place.long hair.

Then he was very majestic, at that time he was just envious, without any love, at that time he looked like an adult, a little fat and muscular.

Looks a lot thinner now.Although he looks more well-dressed, his legs can still be seen, and his face has lost a lot of weight.

"Hey, how could it be you? You are also a relative here?" He smiled, not as brightly as before, nor as natural as before.He nodded and said: "If you don't repeat a grade this year, you will be in the third grade of junior high school."

"Well, yes, you will be in high school next year, how are you doing in the next few years?".As I said that, I inadvertently looked down at him.Inadvertently sigh, no matter how difficult life is, they still live in this world according to yin and yang, and the difficulty is only temporary.As long as they have hope and goals in life, a good life is not far away.

It's just that I've been thinking that I'm living to waste my time in another world.I just hope that this doesn't happen again in my next life.

"Father", I looked back at him and saw a child lying on his lap, looking very sleepy, and fell asleep in his arms after a while.

"This is your child?" He smiled with his mouth slightly parted, and hummed.Say "I met my wife when I was riding a motorcycle".

"how old are you?"

"Four years old"

"Four years old? So, when you were still in school..."

His mouth grinned even harder, and he nodded and said "no way".Although I don't know why his face is tired, but when he said that there is no way, his face is full of happiness.

It suddenly occurred to me that this might be the reason why people regard marriage as a lifelong event and a happy event in people's eyes.I suddenly felt ashamed.

In their world, no matter whether they are poor or rich, there will always be their share of happiness.And my happiness can only be hidden in my heart for a lifetime.

Hiding in my heart is the only happiness in my life.Suddenly I really miss Uncle Tianming, I don't want to do anything to him, I just want to see him, even if I look at him silently behind him.Now, I don't even look forward to seeing him, I just need to think about him, thinking that there is a person in this world who exists in my mind.

"What are you thinking about? Are you thinking about women?"

"No, in your world, happiness is a matter of time. In our world, we have too many burdens, and I'm afraid it will never come."

"It's the other way around, you are going to be admitted to university, and you will be officials in the future. I'm afraid when we see you in the future, we will have to call you a master."

"Why don't I trade it with you, maybe I would rather live in poverty in the countryside with my wife and children for the rest of my life."

"You don't understand, poor and lowly couples are always sad."I thought to myself, yes, you people, happiness comes so easily, so naturally, so naturally, that's why you despise the happiness you get.

If you go to our world to experience, you will know that we are ten or eight years older than you, but you are still not satisfied.

After a while, my hall brother and the others finished all the etiquettes that should be left before we got in the car and left.I felt heavy, didn't want to talk to anyone, and fell asleep as soon as I got in the car.