[the ant story] chapter two

[The Ant Story] is an epic tale of the survival and struggle of an ant. This article is a complete fiction, do not take the right position

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Part 1 The Early Years

Chapter two: The parents' family profile

Press Yiwu dinner table, first introduce Antai's family background. Antai's parents are both from Huaixi, Jianghuai Province. If you go back, it is likely that they migrated from Jiangxi in the early Ming Dynasty. Earlier settled in Huaixi City east thirty Li shop, belongs to the suburbs, the family is poor, really can not live the day, parents advocate moving to the suburbs of Huaixi City to settle, rely on selling vegetables to make a living, its occupation is vegetable farmers. An Tai's grandfather An Boran was a private school teacher in old China. He was a non-professional teacher and a borderland teacher. He could not live on the money he earned from teaching, and he was basically down and out all his life. When we were young, we had several opportunities to make a difference, but we failed to grasp them and ended up achieving nothing. Antai remembered that his father had said that his grandfather had been introduced to Beijing to join the Huaixi warlord at nearly forty years old, and the result was that he failed to stand on his feet and returned home more than three months later. This is not that An Boran does not have the ability, but that the big warlord fell, and fell early to do a duke, this is to take advantage of the chaos to stage a comeback, which is so easy? It is not absolutely impossible to accumulate strength after falling down, but this man who is already in the old era is full of old ways of thinking, and his outdated values have long been thrown into the garbage heap of history. Just as we learn history and laugh at the restoration of Jang Hoon and his braids, this one is not so bad, but it is still a has-been. In the 1930s and 40s of the 20th century, it was the rear wave of the front wave, when the Kuomintang and the Communist Party gained power, coupled with Japan's invasion of China, the United States and the Soviet Union forces were competing here. Those north Ocean forces have long been declining, many for President Jiang, not convinced in the concession how whir, but after all not the climate. These are the kind of people that Bonboni run to. Can it work out? For the big thing to seek the bureau after the point, people follow the wrong, even if you are right behind the step is also frustrated ah.

Less than a hundred days later, An Ran came back wearing a pair of brand new leather shoes, the only fresh thing he had brought back from Beijing. This pair of shoes is to go to the big man's servant distribution, wear their own cloth shoes did not throw, brought back. At that time, grandma gave all the money in the family to grandpa, and borrowed a lot of money to him with, thinking of going to the scene can not fall, spend money to be generous and bright. Bonan spent all his money and got nothing but a pair of leather shoes! That ashamed, feel ashamed to see his wife and children. Grandma is understanding, went to the market to buy grandpa's favorite mandarin fish to grandpa. Now think of women are poor enough, they can not go to business, marry chicken with chicken, marry dog with dog, can only hope that their men rise to prominence. When I sent my man to Beijing, I was looking forward to the future, and now I am so disappointed! But fortunately, his man came back in one piece, and in the years of war, wasn't it also a blessing?

But grandpa can not eat the mandarin fish anyway, he is very ashamed and very sad, he spent all the family money and borrowed money, did not bring anything to the family, how can he swallow this food? So he called the children and told them to eat. At that time, An patriotic was less than two years old, grandpa held the child to feed him fish, and said with tears, "Children, work hard in the future, must not be like Daddy!" . Later, there was a certain number, An patriotic was also allocated to Beijing, or a large organ large unit, at that time An Bonan was still alive, very happy, his son who could not do it finally did it. Later, Antai also floated north, stayed for three months, and did not stand on his feet with much effort, which can only be explained by fate and the fixed number in metaphysics.

Aetna's grandmother can't read, but she is a man of her own mind. From the suburbs of East thirty shops moved to Huaixi City ring Road Jinyu Road near Xinghua village, is the constitution of grandma. The old couple originally had three sons, Antai's father line three, some relatives are called the third brother, the elder brother died of heat stroke earlier. When it comes to life and death, Aetna's father has been there. An Aiguo about five or six years old, in the summer summer because of the heat with several big brothers under the pond to cool down. As they played, they relaxed their vigilance and moved more and more toward the center of the pond. An patriotic head is small, soon be flooded to the neck, accidentally choking, panic, desperately go to the pond. How do you know that the bottom of the pond is the bottom of the pot shape, and very slippery, more and more walk, and continue to slide deep. Small patriotic afraid, shouted for help, immediately came to a higher cousin, pulled him to the pond side, but unfortunately is also very slippery, and moved to the pond center direction. Cousin is also afraid, leaving the patriotism alone to swim to the pond to call adults to help. For a time, the pond left a small patriotic alone in the struggle. Such as uncle several adults have come over after a quarter of an hour, see a calm pond, thinking that the end of patriotism is not burp fart? Everyone's heart sank, thinking about how to explain to the patriotic mother. In a fixed look, I saw an object one or two meters from the shore on the other side, and I walked over and saw that it was patriotism. Do you think this has drowned? Uncle a lunge over, crouched down to carefully check the patriotism, found that the little guy is breathing evenly, but eyes closed. So hurriedly shouted "three treasures three treasures", patriotic this slowly opened his eyes. For decades after this, An Aiguo could not say why he could go ashore alone and why he could survive. It was not until one winter in 2010, after he saved a drowning man in Huaixi's Longhe Park, that he smiled and said, "Finally paid the debt." After several analyses, he finally believed that he was saved by a passing adult, but this person did not leave any message. This is fate, a turning point, is to miss, to write another.

Antai's uncle (father's second brother) An Chuanhua works in Huaixi cable factory, is an ordinary worker, when young, he briefly participated in the volunteer army to fight against the United States and aid North Korea, was found to have hernia on the way to the front and sent back to his home, finally implemented a job, a lifetime in the factory quietly until retirement. Uncle has three children, the eldest second is a daughter, the third is a son, all in the Huaixi cable factory below the branch works. Uncle is six years older than patriotic, so call the younger brother habitually called "little patriotic", the elder brother's degree of education is not high, although six years older, but the younger brother still has a little sense of high opinion. An Chuanhua's daughter-in-law Cong Wenying is an orphan, was adopted by a pair of childless rural people, grew up also hard-working and capable, in An Chuanhua was returned to the army to work in the factory after the introduction of marriage. They have two daughters and a son, respectively called An Yongrong An Yongfeng and An Yonglong, Yongrong and Yongfeng older than An Tai 10 years, 6 years old, the youngest An Yonglong older than An Tai 4 years old, is a dragon.

Aetna's family has one daughter and four sons. The daughter is Mother Antai, the eldest. Antai's maternal grandmother only lived 40 years, gave birth to 9 children in her life, and gave birth to a child about two years after marriage, and finally died after giving birth to Antai's uncle. Five of the nine children survived, and of the four who died, two girls were drowned, which would be considered murder today, but was a common occurrence at the time. Aetna once had the nerve to ask, "Why didn't you drown yourself?" Ann mother said, "I am the first child, long tiger brain, not afraid of people, the family likes to keep", "but followed by two sisters are not so lucky."

Later, Antai lived for a period of time with her mother's maternal grandmother, who died in 1957 when her mother was 17 years old. My mother's four brothers are 15, 7, 4, and 1. It can be said that the second brother and the third brother are brought up together by the eldest sister and the eldest brother, and the youngest is Antai's old uncle, who is only 1 years old, and the elder brother and sister can not take, and the elder sister to the father is the big aunt, and has been brought to the primary school, so the elder brother and the big aunt and their family are particularly close, more than their own brothers and sisters. Every time Antai often heard her mother nagging her mother died early, a photo did not leave, very sorry, very self-blame, because the only photo is her mother accidentally lost when moving.

According to the memories of Antai's mother, when she was a child, her family was still very happy, and there was a very kind and capable grandmother, who protected the little babies as the old hen protected the little chickens. The home is very big, there are 30 acres of land, there is a big pond, raised a lot of fish, ducks and geese, also raised a few pigs, and even raised a cow, the family is not worried about eating and drinking. Ann's grandmother lived a long life, lived in her early 90s, and died a year after Ann's own mother died. The loss of the two women was a direct result of the family's collapse. Grandpa works in the government department in the city, usually do not care about the family, the little things in the family are dealt with by the elder daughter, but also suffered a variety of bright and dark bullying of the villagers, Ann mother also from time to time with some excessive adults conflict. These adults often give in eventually, because it makes no sense to fight with children, not to mention that beating dogs depends on the owner, and the girl's father works in the government, and the other side is not easy to end. Tempered by such an environment, An's mother has developed a character of not being afraid of things and being able to endure hardships since she was a child. Because she is the eldest, the younger brothers are more than 10 years younger, the father is out, the grandmother and mother are gone, and she has to bear the family responsibilities that her age should not bear. Antai often heard her mother say that the days after her own mother's death were really too difficult, and these feelings can only be known by the parties, and in any case, they can not feel the same.

Grandpa was a revolutionary cadre who participated in the end of the liberation War, which was the last bus to catch the people's public servants, and also retired cadres who enjoyed certain treatment. But grandpa is a timid person, in the work never use power for personal gain, nor engage in power trading, mother is an example. A girl left Huaixi City alone to work in the different city of Jiuzi Post and telecommunications office, which is nearly 20 years, when she was in her early 20s, and returned to Huaixi City in 1981. The first uncle also worked in the post and telecommunications system as an accountant until retirement; the second uncle worked in a tractor factory, which eventually closed down and became a laid-off worker; the third uncle worked in a steel factory, a very ordinary technical worker; the fourth uncle failed the college entrance examination four times, finally learned English from Antai's father, and then was admitted to the local foreign friendship hotel waiter. Less than two years to seize the opportunity to enter the Jianghuai Province light industry Import and Export company, at a very young age to complete the counterattack of life, occupied an excellent development platform, and eventually became one of the company's founding three elders, and has been working until retirement. So Grandpa's five children are on their own, not by their father.

Antai's father was admitted to Jianghuai University, which was a well-known university in the Republic of China before the founding of the Communist Party of China. Ann's father is a veteran college student in the 1960s, and also a college student with a high diploma. In high school, Ann's father's grades are very good, especially in English, English talent was scarce at that time, the teacher encouraged Ann's father to continue to study and go to university, but the family did not agree, because it is too poor. Home has been with Ann dad chanting, let him go to work after high school graduation, and work are connected, go to the local police station when the police. Ann father home attitude also told the teacher, the teacher is very upset, soon to Antai home for home visits. At home, the teacher said to Antai's parents: "An Aiguo's grades are very good, especially the English is very good, if there is a chance to further study, the future will be able to make greater contributions to socialist construction." Ann Ma said: "Our family is indeed very difficult, the need for patriotism to work and earn money soon", the teacher: "I know your family is very difficult, but for the country to train talents, for the proletarian revolution to train successors, this is how important responsibility and historical mission, for this sacred goal can not overcome the immediate difficulties?" "Think about it again, overcome the current difficulties, the child will have a better opportunity to serve the people, and his income will certainly be much higher than that of working right now." .

Perhaps it was this last paragraph that made the difference, and Aetna's grandparents were shaken. . I remember that when I went to the store to buy things, the first thing I often said was "grasp the revolution to promote production, I play 1 jin of soy sauce", and the other side often answered "dig a deep hole to accumulate grain and prepare for famine for the people", "1 jin 2 liang, 12 cents".

In the Red era, income and personal interests could not be mentioned on the surface, and although the wise people were sparing no effort to exploit personal interests, they must not speak out, otherwise they would make an individualistic mistake, which should be a serious ideological mistake in the Party. Therefore, it is "risking everyone's opinion" to raise personal income, which is enough to show that teachers are not afraid to make mistakes in order to convince parents not to regard themselves as outsiders, and make their prehistoric power.

A few days later, An patriotic mother found the teacher, agreed with the teacher's opinion, continue to support his son to continue to study, support him to take the university. Ann Ma hurriedly answered to "that is, thank the teacher for training." . In this way, An patriotic students to go to college is set, but want to go to college and can go to college there is still a big gap. Fortunately, An student is undistracted and focused on studying hard, and finally can achieve what he wants.

An Aiguo classmates from the countryside to the city, school two years later than others, in the class is older, relatively mature, has been the monitor. He is even-tempered, belonging to the kind of "unambitious" person who does not care about politics and has a relatively low interest in life. Therefore, during the full swing of the Cultural Revolution, patriotic students have not been too demanding progress, neither rebels nor royalists, but belong to the very marginal peripatetics. Even this will be a certain impact, fortunately, patriotic students family composition is very good, three generations of poor poor farmers, so it has been respected by the organization, because it is rare to say that three generations are poor farmers, you know that even red Sun is a rich farmer. So the organization has been keeping an eye on him and developing him. At first, he was selected to go abroad for further study, although it was only Tanzania, the worst small African country in Asia, Africa and Latin America, but it was also very significant, at least when he came back, it was not difficult to do a director-level cadre. But unfortunately it was replaced by someone with connections. Then he was assigned to work in an organ directly under the Military Commission, which is the superiority of the root positive Miaohong, which is the poverty of three generations in exchange for the Party feels that such a family is the most loyal and reliable.

College graduation came as expected, An Apatriotic is also as rumored, was assigned to the capital of the great motherland, Beijing, assigned to the subordinate organs of the military Commission that many people look up to work, but first to go to the place to exercise for a year, which is called "college students accept workers, peasants and soldiers re-education", that place is an air Force airport in Yanbian, Jilin Province. During the time of returning home by the parents introduced Ann mother Luo Ying, the two sides at a glance to see each other. Because the time to visit family is short, there is not much time for love, and before long the two get married and a family is established, what will life be like in the future?