(fifty-four)

Han Han was born in 65, when even the country was poor and white, let alone the common people, and he was born in a poor family in the countryside. It is said that his grandfather used to be a teacher, and his father also learned some knowledge from his grandfather. It was precisely because his father had a little knowledge that his mother married his father. Because his mother saw that the house left by the family's ancestors was better, and the family seemed to be knowledgeable and well-read, and it looked a bit like they were relatively wealthy.

When Han Han was born, it was the fifteenth day of the lunar month, and that day was also Xiaohan, who entered the coldest season of the year, so his grandfather named him Han Han. This also marks that they have come to this point, and they are too poor to be poor. Because their family was originally rich from their ancestors, and at this time, they reached the point where the mountains and rivers were exhausted, and they had no food and clothing.

Who knew that after this Han Han was born, the family would become more and more unbearable. Because when his grandfather was young in the past, he taught some private acquaintances of rich children, and his father could not learn that knowledge enough to be a teacher in the new society. In addition, in the year of famine, there was no harvest in the field, and the food distributed by the team was too small, so it was to the point of starvation day by day.

Their family is from the prosperity of the past, and gradually to the dilapidation, so his father is not literate or martial, and now since he can't teach, he is not familiar with farm work. Their family's livelihood at that time, like many people at that time, ate the last meal but did not have the next.

When he was helpless, his father went to help the Yongjia family make tofu for a family of people with urban household registration who had been making tofu for generations. Because the family of making tofu has a lot of friendship with their family from the ancestors. Their friendship is that for the past few generations, Han Han's ancestors have been teaching the children of that family to read. The family also saw that Han Han's father couldn't do farm work, and the people in the production team didn't look down on him to do farm work. Although the two elders in the family are only about 50, they are not familiar with farm work, and the family really can't survive.

So the tofu maker was kind and asked Han Han's father to help him, he said: You are here with me, at least you won't want you to go hungry, I have soy milk here, you can bring some back every day, and the family will drink a little, at this time I can only do my best to help you get here. Who made our two families more than three generations good friends?

Soon after Han Han was born, his father helped the family make tofu, and until Han Han was more than four years old, he still made tofu there. He was really reluctant to leave him, because he was there, at least he wasn't hungry. There is also the soy milk that he takes back every day, although there is only a small bowl for one person, plus the salary that people gave him, in addition to buying 25 days of work per month, the rest can also buy some food. So the family would not starve to death.

In those years, although Han Han's mother became more and more disappointed in this family, the common phenomenon of that society at that time was like that. So although she is not so good to the two old ones in this family, she still follows the family and insists on staying up day by day for the sake of the children.

One day, when Han Han's father got off work at night, it was raining moderately, so he put on his coat, put on a hat, and carried his soybean milk jar in his hand. This is his habit of going back every night rain or shine for several years, because he has to take this jar of soy milk back every night and everyone drink a little. When he did this, his master did not stop him, but instead of stopping him, he praised him for his faithfulness to his family.

As soon as he walked out the door, the rain was getting heavier and heavier, but fortunately, he had a pair of long-necked black boots there at all times in case of rain. It is precisely because he has a pair of boots that are not afraid of bad roads and wet roads that he walks forward calmly step by step.

Their road there was a more advanced machine farming road in the countryside at that time, that is, a road seven or eight feet wide, and it was paved with some gravel. But at that time, laying that little gravel could not solve the problem at all, and when the rain fell heavily, those stones were pitifully few in the mud. Coupled with the pressure of the tractor, its two sides are a deep ditch, and in the middle is a messy convexity. If it doesn't rain for a long time, those potholes and pits will hurt like a knife cut. Because at that time, many rural people rarely wore shoes, and they only had to wear barefoot. If only a little light rain falls and only wets the leather layer, it will be so slippery that it will fall down if you don't pay attention to it. This one fell in heavy rain and rotted so much that it was sunk to the neck of the feet. So at that time, people said that the country road was: a knife on a sunny day, and a mess in the rain.

At this time, he is not afraid of this messy road at all, he just needs to be careful and not to fall the soy milk jar in his hand and break it. When he walked to the rocky bay halfway through, the rain in the sky continued to fall, and the convex part of the rocky bay was a section of rocky road about thirty feet long along the mountain.

The steep ridge is only about ten feet high, and the road is halfway up the mountain, and there is also a rock ridge on the top of the road. This road is also a road for many years, and this road has changed from a small road in the past to a machine farming road now. After so many years, it seems that it has no problem at all, but at this time it has a problem. No one can see the problem, it really depends on a person's luck. When it comes to luck, many people don't believe it, but many things in the world show that this luck does exist.

He was walking calmly in the middle of the rock ridge, and at this moment he just wanted to get home early, while the soy milk in the jar was not cold, so that the family could drink a bowl to fill their hunger and sleep. He knew that the family was used to it, and they (she) were waiting for him to go back every day to drink this bowl of soy milk. The purpose of using the crockpot to fill the soy milk is to keep it from being cold, so that it will not be reheated when it is taken back.

Suddenly, he heard a muffled noise from above, and when he looked up, his feet were immediately sinking again. He had just panicked in his heart, but it was too late for anything. Together with the rocks that had slid down from the rock, he followed the path under his feet, and all rolled down the rocks and slid down to the bottom of the ten-zhang high rock. Then everything returned to silence, and some were just the pouring rain, mixed with thunder and lightning, and it continued to pour down, and the sound of the rattling was like a ghost in a story, crying to the world about the unfairness of this world.

It wasn't until the next morning, when the sun showed its face, that the first person to pass by came on the road. He could not walk at this junction, and he saw that there was a road four or five feet wide, and with the rocks above, it had slid to the bottom of the mountain. When he looked down again, he seemed to see a small mess of clothes and cloth underneath, but he didn't suspect anyone there at all.

Until there were more people passing by at both ends, they were all standing at both ends of the road, and they were all talking about the heavy rain last night, and they were also talking about how to repair this road. One of them went down to see the rocks that had slid down, and just like that, they saw a man in the pile of rocks. When the crowd dug out this man, many people knew him. Isn't this the guy who helped the tofu shop! Isn't this the son of Mr. Han!

Pity this Han Han's father, he stirred all the way with these stones and mud, and his hands and feet were only left with some ligaments and tendons, and his clothes were connected, and his head was also smashed. This tragic scene, everyone present watched it, and they couldn't help but shed tears, and Han Han's family was even more grieved. In the end, it was the kind neighbors who carried his father back and buried him. Poor his father was only thirty years old at that time.

In this way, Han Han's mother-in-law and grandfather suffered a serious illness, and his mother was also sad for a long time. During those times, it really relied on the help of the neighbors, as well as the help and care of the owner of the tofu factory, and the family barely survived.

Less than a year after that, when Han Han was not yet six years old, his mother disappeared from their home. After she left, no one knew where she had gone, and the rest of their family of three, old and young, was so poor that they had nothing to eat, let alone inquire where she had gone.

Later, Han Han's mother-in-law and grandfather relied on their own land to grow some vegetables, and a small amount of grain shared with the production team. Because at that time, if you didn't earn a job, you could only share the basic rations, and as for the money for the basic rations, you had to rely on the team to take care of them. Because their family couldn't be more special at that time.

Han Han didn't know how he had lived out of those years, and he didn't know how he had survived that day. Only those who lived in that era, those who came from that era, and those who had personal experience of those difficult years could experience the hardships and hardships of that time.

Because Han Han's ancestors were educated people for generations, his grandfather still insisted that he go to school at that time, and Han Han also went to elementary school, and when he was in the sixth grade of primary school, his grandfather died. His grandfather died, and he didn't study anymore. Since then, Han Han, who is not yet thirteen years old, has been working in the production team.

Han Han's mother-in-law watched this family fall into ruin, she not only did not fall down for the roots and seedlings of the Han family, on the contrary, she became stronger, in addition to labor, she also regularly exercised at home. She thought: I don't live well, if I die like an old man, I get sick and sad in tears, then there is such a little grandson left in this family, what should I do if he is so young?

Therefore, people's faith is very valuable, as long as a person has faith and goals in his heart, no matter how great the hardships and hardships are, they will not be overwhelmed. Han Han's mother-in-law has gone through family changes, and she has become such a strong person.