Chapter 1, A Family of Deserters

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In the spring of 1953, in February, a baby came to a poor peasant family in Gaoguantun, Wucheng County, Shandong Province.

And before the baby boy was born, the baby's father had died. The baby boy was born four or five months after his father's death, and everyone said that this phenomenon was called posthumous child.

The boy's mother, Liu, in order to make the boy live well, didn't dare to say that his surname was Xu, and he didn't dare to say that he was a boy, and he didn't dare to say that his surname was Xu until he was more than two years old, and his name was Xu, so I won't say the boy's name here, because this boy is my father, I don't dare to call him by his name.

Our family, my grandmother, with my father, and, my five aunts, a total of seven people, live, can you imagine, an old widow, with six children, can you get rich this day, even if you are not rich, but you have to live this day, my grandmother is a kind and strong person, working in the field every day, with my aunts, and my father, in a broken thatched house that can no longer be broken, lived.

I'm not afraid of everyone's jokes, the poor one, I don't care what I do, I don't even have a flashlight, lighting equipment, and a kerosene lamp.

After a year and a half, seeing that I couldn't go on anymore, my grandmother was ruthless and married my aunt, who was only seventeen years old, to a very ugly man who was six years older than her.

In exchange for two bags of grain, my grandmother exchanged the grain for a few bags of wheat bran and vegetables, barely surviving.

My aunt's house is more than 20 miles away from my grandmother's house, in order to survive, my grandmother called my second aunt and my third aunt for a long time, go to my aunt's house to eat mixed rice, eat the food that others appreciate, that taste, it is really uncomfortable, my second aunt and my third aunt, have to look at people's faces.

Sometimes, during the autumn harvest, I can order cabbage and bring it back. After two and a half years like this, the family still can't get by, and my aunt's family wants it, but my aunt's family doesn't have it, and I can't afford it.

So my grandmother had no choice but to be ruthless, and married my second aunt, who had just turned sixteen, to a black man who was ten years older than her.

In this way, with the help of two aunts, another three years passed, and in 1960, that year, the whole country signed, alas, there were many hungry people, and our family, that is, was so hungry that they were shaking.

There is no food at home, it is impossible to borrow, the eldest aunt and the second aunt, they are dying of hunger, so there is something to lend to our family.

My grandmother couldn't help it, locked the door of the house, came to the door of the ancestral hall, and shouted inside, Hongkui, I can't live anymore, I took our children and fled the famine, if we die outside, no one will burn you paper, you bless us.

After speaking, I asked my three, four, five aunts and my father to kowtow to the ancestral hall. I asked my father to run to the ancestral hall and put three sticks of incense on my grandfather.

No way, in those years, women were never allowed to enter the ancestral ancestral hall, and my father was seven years old that year, so only he went in to incense.

After that, my grandmother seemed to hear my grandfather's voice in the ancestral hall saying, let's go, it's better than starving to death at home.

My grandmother asked my aunts, did you hear your father? My aunts said they didn't hear anything. After that, my grandmother, with my father and my three aunts, went to the northeast while asking for food.

On the way, my grandmother met a big drum book, walking hundreds of miles, and then the storyteller, said to my grandmother, his aunt, you see your mother five, just such a little wild vegetable nest, I'm afraid that I can't go to the northeast, I have to starve to death, these days I also think, although we have no food, but it is better than you, I see, so, leave your family's big one, leave it to me, be a daughter-in-law, I teach her to read, sing a song or something, and I can't starve to death, what do you see.

My grandmother was in tears, crying, three, if you leave, if you see your mother in the future, you can still recognize your mother, my third aunt, wow wow crying and said, mother, I is, I have come to the edge of the sky, you are also my mother, my grandmother said, three, I have nothing on me, this ragged gown, you put on it and give it to you as a cold.

Our mother and daughter, my mother exchanged you for half a bag of sweet potatoes, Nizi, you hate your mother. My third aunt said, mother, I don't hate you.

My grandmother said, okay, don't cry, follow your mother-in-law to live. When I arrived at your mother-in-law's house, I was obedient, if my mother hadn't died, we would have seen her in the future.

Let's go. My thirteen-year-old third aunt, and her son-in-law, kowtowed to my grandmother. My grandmother took it, my fourth aunt and fifth aunt, carried my father, carried half a bag of sweet potatoes, and continued to the northeast.

After walking for nearly two months, I finally came, my cousin's house, my cousin's uncle, who was the secretary of the Party Committee of Keyihe Town at that time.

Helped my grandmother dig an earthen cave. The four mothers lived in the earthen cave. It's the kind of house with a big pit and a few slabs built on it.

100 days my grandmother to work in the production team, my fourth aunt, fifth aunt, to the lumber yard to pick bark, pick up firewood, so after five or six years, my fourth aunt, sixteen years old, working in the lumber yard, my fourth aunt, fancy it, on the matchmaker, and my grandma proposed, my grandma said, we are poor, if you marry my daughter, you have to promise, every month, to our family, five yuan.

My fourth brother-in-law agreed. My fourth sister-in-law was very rich at that time, but he was fifteen years older than my fourth aunt. At that time, my grandmother had a bad trachea and couldn't work.

It is said that this disease, called emphysema, is not able to do heavy work anyway. But the mother had to eat, so she had no choice but to agree.

After more than a year, my grandmother, my fifth aunt and my father moved into the **relief, adobe house.

Just that kind of slab sandwich mud, house. More than half a year later, my fifth aunt came to Keyihe to inspect the work, took a fancy to my fifth aunt, and went to my fourth brother-in-law and my grandmother to say, my grandmother said, okay, but the condition is that he has to get money, my father goes to school, and my grandmother can't do heavy physical labor, he also has to help my grandmother, give us a family, ten yuan a month.

My fifth uncle agreed. My fifth aunt is ten years older than my fifth aunt. Speaking of this, I want to say, how do I feel, my aunts, in this matter told me, my brothers-in-law are all old cows who love to eat tender grass, and they also have the feeling of taking advantage of people's danger.

And at that time, the bride price was really not expensive. Now if anyone gives me a child daughter-in-law, I will give him a cartload of dried sweet potatoes.

At this time, my father, who was ten years old, went to school every day, got out of school, and then picked up things and slept, although the family lived a hard life, but not starved to death, and at that time, only my grandmother and my father were left in the family.

The five aunts are all married, with an income of nearly twenty-five yuan, my grandmother takes the soles of shoes, braids frames, weaves gnats cages, ties fans, weaves straw shoes, as soon as my dad gets out of school, he picks up things, helps grandma sell straw shoes, fans, bamboo baskets, and soil baskets, and the days are getting better day by day, and our family is sprouting red, absolute eight lifetimes of poor peasants, six years later, my dad graduated from primary school, my dad's academic performance, it was quite good, he was admitted to middle school, and he got the admission notice, but there was no way, the family had no money, so no matter how good the test was, it was in vain.

There is no way to get through the relationship of my cousin, I found a job in the Food Bureau, and used a knife and grass for horses 🐴, and a year later, Uncle Menren retired, and the old man had no children, and my father was very good at doing things, always helping the old man's family, diving and chopping firewood to do chores, the old man would retire, and my father would take his lack and carry the sack.

My seventeen-year-old father carried five noodle bags at a time, two sacks at a time, and had to honor my grandmother when he got home, and he only earned 32 yuan and five dimes a month for this heavy physical work.

After two years of work, he became a regular, and his salary grew to more than forty-three yuan, with this more than forty yuan per month, plus my grandmother sold things to earn ten yuan and eight yuan, plus the fifteen yuan given by my uncles, there can be more than sixty yuan, the young man is also handsome, and literate and hyphenated, that is, the family is poor, after the introduction of my uncle, my father and my mother got married, at this time, it is much stronger than my aunts, when they got married, my aunt's bride price seems to be two bags of noodles, the second aunt should be two bags of sweet potatoes and a bag of wheat bran, the third aunt half a bag of dried sweet potatoes, the fourth aunt is five yuan per month, and the fifth aunt is ten yuan per month。

My dad got married, a pair of red solid wood furniture boxes, a washbasin, a pair of warm pots, a pure larch πŸ‚ kitchen, a black iron pot, chopsticks, bowls, water scoops, flashlights, two shops and two covers, and quack new big liberation shoes.

Quack new really good pants, really good clothes, woolen hat, this image thief is awesome, looking at my mother, three-fold pants, really good plaid jacket, a pair of embroidered mille-feuille shoes.

Coiled in braids, with a fake flower, with a fake flower on the chest, my dad on the chest is the chairman of his old man's head, on the arm, the semi-automatic watch of the Shanghai card, is the kind of string.

The red marriage certificate, my mother, the cigarette powder on my face, not to mention how beautiful this image is, it is simply the contemporary Fan Bingbing, the guests present, mainly are, my eldest aunt and second aunt (the third aunt can't come and has no news because the sweet potatoes are dry.

The four aunts and five aunts, the leaders of the grain sub-bureau, the head of the supply unit, the director of the two stores, the director of the office, the director, the deputy director, the clerk of the Forestry Bureau, and the clerk of the post office.

Each has a gift, the basic link leader, all five yuan, ten yuan for the director, and two yuan for the workers.

Calling for two people, biting the apple 🍎 and biting the sugar cube, let's talk about the banquet noodles, the square box of dim sum, the trough cake, the chicken stewed mushrooms, the white meat, the fungus scrambled eggs, the fried garlic moss, the potatoes with the pulp, my grandmother took out her life savings.

The director of the bureau announced on the spot, saying that Comrade Xiao Xuzi was given a positive performance in the unit, and now it has been decided to transfer Comrade Xiao Xuzi's work post, and he hopes to make persistent efforts.

My dad was promoted from the sack carrying position and transferred to the grain store to pour the noodle bag. Relatively speaking, the salary is not long, but it is much lighter than carrying a sack.

Thanks to the party, the organization, and the care of the leaders, my father said that he wants to join the group and hopes that the leading comrades will continue to be strict with themselves.

Test yourself strictly, Yunyun. After marriage, my father and mother, it was called a double entry pair, but at that time, my mother was a rural person, no household registration, no food relationship, so I had to eat high-priced food.

But fortunately, my dad found a very good job for my mom, and went to the family team to make a bag of noodles. One point can make hundreds of noodle bags a day.

That's a few dollars, and other people's daughters-in-law can't do this good job. In the past few years, our family, my mother's first big baby, under the careful preparation and care of the whole family, made a grand debut and played the opening song of the God of Gamblers.

And our family, bidding farewell to the era of kerosene lamps, used a very powerful contemporary light bulb. The three of them in a family of four make money, which can be described as making money every day.

My brother is definitely afraid of melting in his mouth, and he is afraid of falling off in his hand. I eat my mother's milk every day, I am not happy, I cut, I throw whatever I want, and I want to hit whoever I want.

The second oldest in the world, the third in the world. Two years later, our family ushered in a second little life, but because I had a bad cold, I went to accompany my grandfather at the age of one.

After another two and a half years, this day is October 1979, a certain day, said this day, is not an ordinary day, that day I was bragging in the cave, suddenly heard, the king order, said to call me to patrol the mountain, I patrolled the South Mountain to patrol the North Mountain, was patrolling, saw a woman, the belly is very big, I thought, why sit in the mountain little monster, it is better to turn into her belly, to be a person, it must be much better than the monster.

I walked to her side and got in, haha πŸ˜„ Later, I only heard a thunder in the clear sky, Xu Lao Er was born, and Qiao Feng played the song here.

Let's start with that.

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