After the "double robbery", it has passed the beginning of autumn, and the sky is slowly getting cooler.

Just like what is said in the "Book of Songs: National Style", fire flows in July, dates are peeled in August, clothes are given in September, and rice is harvested in October.

Mars has gone west, the heat is slowly fading, and the golden autumn of the year, when the harvest is abundant and the winter clothes are cut and dyed, are about to return.

I don't know when it started, my mother Weilan's belly bulged day by day.

The good life of the only son in Dachengzi's family is coming to an end, and he is about to have a younger brother or sister.

Referring to the fate of the surrounding children, Gangzi, Goudan, Maoya, and Bolt, these old and young children or orphans in the family, in addition to being often beaten, are still very happy in their leisure days, and no matter how wild bandits are not dragged down.

But the little brothers and sisters who have younger siblings to take care of are different, and after the adults go to work, the task of taking care of the furry children falls on them.

I'm still a doll, but I have one behind me, and I even have a two- or three-year-old baby next to me.

Pitifully watching other little babies play but unable to free their hands, the bitter and hateful ones are like Yang Bailao and the white-haired girl.

Wang Jiacheng sometimes thinks that when he was a child, his cousin Mao Ya loved to beat himself so much, and it was probably this little cousin who took care of him when he could only climb on the ground.

As a result, beating back and forth, it becomes a habit.

After asking my parents, it's really like this, every time they go to work before they can't walk, they will put Chengzi at their mother's house, and the hairy girl will take him to play.

Since then, Wang Jiacheng's impression of Mao Ya's cousin has changed greatly, and his original resentment has become a deep gratitude.

However, at that time, Dachengzi had no complaints about the number of younger brothers or sisters in the family, but felt that it was something worth looking forward to.

To the six-year-old, it was like an extra toy or a new game.

Since my mother became pregnant, the time to work is shorter than before, and the voice of talking to Dachengzi is much gentler than before, and I will take him with me wherever I go.

It was still very hot in the early autumn morning, and my mother was thrashing her laundry on the bluestone pier called Yuebatang at the door.

Dachengzi was bare-bottomed, lying on his stomach in the water not far away, playing with dog shaving.

He hadn't been in the pond for a long time since his last drowning.

This pond surrounded by paulownia trees has been there since his father's father can remember.

The half-arc shape, when viewed from a higher distance, really looks like a winding crescent moon, which is why people call it Yuebatang.

Many years later, this ancient pond has been transformed into a dangjia pond.

The original pond ridge no longer exists, the bluestone wharf is gone, and the area has expanded several times compared to before.

Every time I go back to my hometown and see the current appearance of Yuebatang, Wang Jiacheng will feel inexplicably sad.

There was a place where I used to have my childhood, and what my parents looked like when they were young, but now they are gone.

Dachengzi soaked comfortably in the water, looking up at her mother from time to time.

Mom would always smile lovingly: "Come up, don't get cold!"

Now that I think about it, my mother was so young at that time, with two short braids.

There is often the sound of my mother pounding clothes on the bluestone slab.

Today, the uncle came from Lao Zhuangzi and had lunch at Chengzi's house.

Dachengzi has two uncles and an aunt.

Maoya's father Wang Shichun is the eldest, the second eldest in the adult father's family, the younger uncle Wang Shizhong, and an aunt who is in junior high school.

Da Chengzi's uncle and aunt, as well as his grandmother and father, all live in Lao Zhuangzi.

Lao Zhuangzi in the Jianghuai dialect, it means hometown, the village where the ancestors and parents lived.

Lao Zhuangzi and the oil mill production team are more than ten miles away, and the uncle and father will go back every three or five days.

In the evening, the team leaves after finishing work, and sometimes rushes back in the middle of the night, which will not affect the next day's work.

The yam is ripe with some yams, the mung beans are harvested with some mung beans, and the production team will share rapeseed oil, and they will also bring a pound or two.

It's not anything expensive, just to help the relatives of Lao Zhuangzi.

Dachengzi's father feeds pigs in the production team in his hometown, his grandmother takes care of the housework, and there are two uncles and aunts who have not yet started a family, and their lives are difficult and sad.

For Lao Zhuangzi, the young Dachengzi is unfamiliar.

The little babies can't go far, and they will go back once or twice at the end of the year.

His aunt would take him and Mao Ya to play some big children's games, and his grandmother would make rice dumplings for them and welcome her grandchildren like honored guests.

Dachengzi has never been able to understand why other people's families live with their fathers and grandmothers, why they are so far away from their grandmother's house, just like two families who have nothing to do with each other.

It wasn't until I grew up that I slowly understood a little bit about the family's past.

"Dachengzi!When will you grow taller!Hahaha!"

Every time he saw his uncle, he would always hold his nephew up high, and after a laugh, there would be no follow-up.

In his pocket, there are never candy, mud babies and other things that children like.

Uncle is tall and arrogant, and he is the most handsome of the three fathers and brothers.

It is said that he has infinite strength, and he has 300 catties of fertilizer picks, from the district supply and marketing station to the warehouse of the production team more than ten miles away, and he does not need to change his shoulders.

He is also very clever and diligent, and he learned to kill pigs and sheep without a teacher.

Whoever has a problem calls him to help, and he will never refuse.

is such a well-known good offspring in all parts of the country, but he was hurt by his father's big hat of "four types of molecules".

Joining the army for three consecutive years is enough for everything, only the family component is not passable, and he is forever stuck outside the gate of the army.

is obviously a child of a pariah, but he is arrogant.

He didn't look down on ordinary girls, he only looked for what he liked, and the marriage event was delayed.

Chengzi's father often said later: "If the third child is still alive, he will definitely go to the town to be a butcher when the land is settled." He is surely the richest and most prosperous of the old brethren today. It's about this uncle.

"Big brother and second brother, I'm getting married!"

After an egg or two of local wine was eaten, the uncle brought good news to his brothers and sisters-in-law.

"Why don't you bring that girl here, sisters-in-law, so you can give you long eyes!"

The eldest lady was very happy for this little uncle and asked him happily.

Chengzi's mother's face was a little ugly, and she could already guess the purpose of Uncle Chengzi's coming over today.

Every time I come to Wangjia Dazhuang, there is never anything else, just to borrow money.

There are many uncles and aunts, and life is tight.

Only Chengzi's family has just been more comfortable, so every time he can help this little uncle, his family is left.

Mao Ya looked at the uncle with admiration, the beautiful flower shirt on her body was bought by the uncle for her, and it was a new summer dress that only the girls in the town wore.

As the only girl in the third generation of the entire family, not only her parents spoiled her, but Lao Zhuangzi's relatives also regarded her as a baby.

"It's the second daughter of the Lao You family, right?"

Chengzi's father asked his younger brother with relief, he only came to the oil mill production team when he was a teenager, and he still remembered the personnel in his hometown.

"Yes, hehe!" said the uncle.

"Then you can marry the most handsome woman in the whole team!

Uncle thinks long-term and is a little worried.

"Don't worry, big brother, the second girl is with me! Her parents asked the matchmaker to bring a message, as long as I can afford the bride price of 200 yuan, I will be able to do things next month!"

Uncle is full of confidence, he and the second girl of the You family are fighting childhood sweethearts, and the whole village knows about them.

"It's a big deal in the family, let's make it all together. Big brother and sister-in-law, how much can you give?"

The biggest obstacle to the uncle's marriage at present is the bride price, and only his brother and sister-in-law can help him.

There is no need to greet each other, and Chengzi's father went straight to the point.

"My family can only contribute a maximum of 50 yuan, which is still the money left over from the sale of pigs last month. If it doesn't work anymore, on the day of the third child's wedding, I asked the army to send a hundred catties of rice. ”

Chengzi's cousin, Junzi and Bingzi, is about to reach the age of begging for a wife.

On this hot day, they both followed a carpenter's relative to carry wood in the mountains.

It is said that a single cedar tree used to build a house can earn a difference of two yuan from the inner mountain fifty miles away to the town outside the mountain.

Carry one per trip, one round trip every two days.

That's a lot more than earning a share of work in the team.

Although the eldest son of the eldest uncle Wang Shichun is the eldest son in the family, it seems that he does have his difficulties now.

It is not easy to grit your teeth and give fifty yuan to your brother to marry a daughter-in-law.

The eldest lady didn't speak, and her eyes seemed to be red when she blinked twice.

"Okay, my family still has a hundred yuan in cash, and the black pigs in the pen are also about a hundred pounds. The third child, you went to the supply and marketing cooperatives to sell it in the afternoon, so that your bride price money was about the same. ”

The uncle's money and rice have exceeded the expectations of Chengzi's father.

He was not ambiguous, and shook out all his family wealth.

"You sell our mother-in-law too!

Chengzi's mother couldn't hold back anymore and cried.

This bit of belongings was saved by her with a drop of blood and sweat, and the second child in the family will be born soon, and she needs money.

Now it is all lent to the brother-in-law for marriage, and I don't know if he can pay it back in the year of the monkey.

For the hard-working adult mother, it is really more uncomfortable than tearing out the heart.

"Wei Lan, why are you crying? Isn't it just a little money, I'll earn it again! Can you bear to watch the third child fight a bachelor for the rest of his life?"

Father Wang Shichuan also screamed, showing the spirit of the head of the family.

"Big brother and sister-in-law! Second brother and second sister-in-law! Thank you very much! Hahaha! Don't worry, I won't lose any of your money! Now that this policy is about to be liberalized, I don't have any other ability for the third brother, but I have the strength of my body! I don't believe it, just with our hands, God can make me poor for the rest of my life!"

Seeing that his brother and sister-in-law were quarreling because of their own borrowed money, the uncle quickly stood up and smiled.

His deafening rhetoric, Chengzi and Maoya will never forget.

But no one thought that this was the last swan song of their third uncle Wang Shizhong, and he fell on the road before dawn so without hesitation.