Doomsday's Handle

My name is Chen Xi, and I am 28 years old.I was born in an ordinary peasant family in K city in the southeast of Y province.My father's name is Chen Bing. He participated in self-defense counterattacks in the early years. After retiring, he worked in a rubber product factory in the city.My mother's name is Zhang Huiying, and her family is from the countryside. After marrying my father, she worked in a plastic factory.My father was taciturn, but he doted on me very much.If I am self-willed, he will still clean me up.But the number of times I was repaired by my father since I was a child can be counted on five fingers.The mother is a typical rural woman, nagging and loving to take advantage of small things.

Before I went to elementary school, my family environment was good. My father worked in the factory, and the production team would send some money from time to time.The income of the family is higher than that of the uncle who is the director of the housing management bureau and the aunt who is a senior engineer.After I went to primary school, my family’s situation gradually deteriorated. My father fell ill one after another, first with appendicitis, and then with typhoid fever. After the typhoid fever recovered, he was admitted to the hospital because of renal colic.Not long after, the factory where my parents worked closed down. After losing my job, my father found a job as a plumber, and my mother opened a small shop, and I was able to get by.

After entering junior high school, my father went to work during the day and went to work in the fields after get off work in order to provide for my schooling.In the second year of junior high school, my parents were busy and had no time to take care of me, so I became a free-range child.I began to learn to skip classes and fight.Parents were invited by the teacher, and my father hurried over from the field after finishing his work.I will always remember that the head teacher looked at the embarrassed father with contempt, and said very mean words with disdain.Father just said that he would discipline him well.I looked at my father and felt sour in my heart.

After returning home, there was no beating or scolding as expected. My father just said earnestly, "If you don't study hard now, will it be difficult for you to be like your father in the future and give your children a better environment?"

Later, when my mother found out about it, she treated me to a meal of fried pork with thin sticks.I have slowly changed since then.After graduating from junior high school, after I got my graduation certificate, I still felt a little grudge and went to ridicule the head teacher.

"Mr. Jin, your face when you look down on people is really like a dry-skinned ape."

My family's family situation improved slightly after I graduated from university.

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City K, where Chen Xi's family lives, has a total area of ​​1957.81 square kilometers, of which mountainous areas account for 91.5%, dam areas account for 8.5%, and a population of 30.With the continuous growth of social economy and population expansion, the area of ​​K City is also constantly expanding, and the fields of the production teams in the city have turned into tall buildings.

Not long ago, Chen Xi's aunt called and said that the old house left by Chen Xi's grandparents was going to be demolished, and it was going to be rebuilt there, and asked Chen's father to go to the old house to see if there was anything that needed to be cleaned up.Father Chen originally planned to go there in person, but suddenly his gout broke out, so he asked Chen Xi to drive over to have a look.

The Chen family's old house is located in the northwest of K City, at the entrance of the West Village.West Village is an urban village, belonging to the old city of K City.This old house was built in the generation of Chen Xi's grandparents, and it is a hundred years old.Chen Xi has never been here since the death of the grandparents of the Chen family.

Chen Xi stopped the car at the door.Walking in, the first thing that catches your eyes is a yard of about 100 square meters. Behind the yard is a quaint old house. The walls of the house are still the old foundation walls that are all rammed with soil, and the roof is covered with dusty tiles.In the center of the house is the rectangular main room, which is now called the living room.The main room has no windows and only two thick wooden doors. The innermost part of the main room is an altar, on which there is a portrait of Chairman Mao in addition to the offering of heaven and earth. My family’s worship of great men started from our ancestors.There are two rooms on each side of the main room, and each room has a small window less than one square meter in size.The windows are made of wood without glass, and there are only two small wooden windows and doors. A few steel bars are installed on the window frames, and screens are placed on them. When it rains, the wooden windows are closed, and they are usually open.This kind of old house is warm in winter and cool in summer, but it is relatively humid and dark.Now that no one has lived in it for many years, it looks even more gloomy, as if something will come out of the dark corner at any time.

When Chen Xi was a child, he would come to live with his grandparents every summer vacation. At that time, there was a big mulberry tree and two peach trees in the yard.When he was in kindergarten, Chen Xi saw a lot of mulberries growing on the tree, and he was greedy under the tree, but the mulberry tree was too big, so he looked helplessly at his little arms and legs.Sericulture was popular at that time, and older children often came to ask for mulberry leaves.Every time, Chen Xi would carry the small wooden bowl for him to eat, blinking his big eyes, and let them pick horse mulberry for him to eat.If anyone doesn't pick mulberry leaves for Chen Xi, he won't pick mulberry leaves for others.Later, every time a person came to pick mulberry leaves, he would help this clever and lovely child pick a small bowl of mulberry leaves.After getting the mulberry, Chen Xi carried a small plastic stool and sat under the shade of a tree, eating happily while watching others pick mulberry leaves.

When Chen Xi was six years old, he developed ringworm on his face. Grandma Chen taught him to apply the white liquid from the stem of the horse mulberry tree, and it would heal soon.So Chen Xi took the sickle that his grandfather used to do farm work to the tree every day, and chopped a knife on the trunk.After the white mucus flowed out, he wiped it on his face, and it didn't take long for the ringworm on his face to heal.

When Chen Xi was in elementary school, he made a swing on the peach tree in the courtyard.Once, while swinging on a swing, he fell off the swing and hit his head on a rock, causing a big opening and bleeding all over the ground.Fortunately, Father Chen was also at Grandpa's house at that time.Father Chen was shocked when he saw the miserable kid Chen Xi who was covered in blood and crying, picked him up and ran outside.After running for a long time, I ran a short distance, and then returned to my grandfather's house, put the little boy on his back, and rode a bicycle to the hospital.

Chen Xi basically spent his childhood here, and he couldn't help but feel a little disappointed when he saw the untended yard overgrown with weeds, presenting a dilapidated scene.

In fact, most of the things here were burned when Grandpa Chen and Grandma Chen passed away. According to the old people, they were easy to use for the old people, and they burned them and let them take them away and continue to use them.The rest are scattered items, mainly to see if there are any important or commemorative things missing.

Chen Xi looked around and there was nothing to take away.Finally, he looked at the altar, and there was a box on it, which seemed to be the place where grandma put prayer beads and Buddhist scriptures.Grandma Chen is a devout Buddhist believer. She gets up at 6:[-] every morning to chant scriptures and persists for half an hour every day.Grandma Chen is illiterate. When Chen Xi was in elementary school, Grandma Chen often asked Chen Xi to teach her scriptures.The old man's memory is not good, so it is often Chen Xi who memorizes the scriptures backwards and Grandma Chen barely remembers them.But this does not affect her enthusiasm for the Buddha in the slightest.

Chen Xi opened the dusty box, which contained only a string of Buddhist beads made of unknown wood.This string of Buddhist beads is hand beads, left by Chen Xi's grandmother.I heard from Grandma Chen that her grandmother passed away inexplicably. According to the custom here, she has to stay for three days after encoffining, and she will be buried at the right time.When it was time to burrow into the ground, when the coffin was about to be nailed, there was a sound in the coffin, and the grandmother came back to life.The grandmother who woke up said that she was taken to a large hall by two people. The hall was covered with iron chains as thick as arms, and there were also chains on the ground.The two asked her to kneel on the iron chain, not allowing her to raise her head.Someone in the main hall asked her birth date, she answered, and then asked her if she was Chen Yushi, and her grandmother replied that it was Chen Lishi, and she was sent back later.Grandma's legs were swollen the next day after she woke up, and after the swelling subsided, some marks like iron chains were left on her calves.

Chen Xi picked up the Buddhist beads and looked them over carefully. The Dharma beads of the Buddhist beads are blood red in color, while the other beads are dark purple close to black, and there is nothing special about them.Chen Xi put the prayer beads on his hand and continued to tidy up.

After tidying up the things to be taken away, Chen Xi contacted the person who bought the old furniture and sold some of the better old furniture, and gave the badly damaged old neighbors as firewood.

[A man like me doesn't know how to be happy...] The phone rang, and Mother Chen called.

"Hey, mom, what's the matter?"

"Xiaoxi, have you tidied up there?"

"It's ready, just some old photos, and the furniture has been dealt with. You can go back later."

"Then Xiaoxi, go back and help your mother collect the vegetables, and remember to add some grass to my pasture. I went out with my friends to soak in the hot springs, and I won't come back for dinner at night."

"Okay, Mom, have fun." Chen Xi hung up the phone, put the packed things into the carriage, locked the door and went home.

After Chen Xi started making money, Chen's father and Chen's mother were not allowed to go out to work.Mother Chen always likes to run to the mahjong room when she is free, and lost a lot of money for a while.Once when Chen Xi was washing clothes, she accidentally found the IOUs in her pocket after losing money.Chen Xi was very angry, he hated gambling the most.But after thinking about it, maybe Chen's mother was just bored, so Chen Xi taught Chen's mother to play some simple QQ games, taught her how to manage farms, ranches and supermarkets, and taught her to play cards and mahjong with others online.Mother Chen stopped going out to play mahjong after she learned it, and occupied Chen Xi's computer every day to steal food, find someone to play cards, and asked Chen Xi to open a blue diamond for her because she was kicked all the time.Later, Dad Chen also learned how to play chess on the computer. Sometimes the computer could not handle the allocation, so Chen Xi volunteered to contribute his notebook, but he was rejected because the screen of the notebook was too small to use.

Chen Xi sat by the computer and completed the tasks assigned by his mother.He fed the animals on the farm and stole the vegetables that could be stolen. Seeing that the vegetables planted by Chen's mother were still five minutes away from ripening, he took out the apples and sat in front of the computer to peel the apples and eat them.Suddenly Chen Xi felt a splitting headache, and with a flick of his hand, the fruit knife cut a gash on his finger, and bright red blood gushed out.Chen Xi hurriedly went to get the facial tissue next to the computer, but accidentally blood stuck to the computer screen.At the same time, a small blood bead strangely floated onto the Dharma bead and was absorbed by the bead.A red light flashed on the bead.Chen Xi's eyes darkened and he passed out.