Chapter 3 Home
Grandma gave birth to children for the Liu family, and in Liu Lang's previous life, it was a great credit, even if it was not enshrined, it had to enjoy the same treatment as the queen at home, but in that era, it was natural for a daughter-in-law to give birth to a child, and it was a woman who could do it, so this is not capital at all, in addition to this, you also have to cook, laundry, take care of your husband and take care of the children, and the most important thing is to take care of your in-laws, especially the mother-in-law of the head of the family, even if you take care of it well, you will be abused and rolled your eyes from time to time.
This is the life of my grandmother for more than 20 years after marrying into the Liu family.
Until the grandmother was too old to walk, and she had no strength to scold, the day when her grandmother was in charge of the house came, but just three years ago, her grandmother suddenly got a strange disease, and she lay unconscious in bed for seven days and seven nights, and only relied on her family to pour gruel into her mouth little by little to barely maintain her life.
When I was sent to the hospital, the doctors didn't see any problems, because there was no CT or X-ray equipment in this era, and finally the doctors came to the conclusion that you should go back and prepare for the future!
Well, this conclusion plunged the family into extreme pain, and according to my father's later recollections, I had really bought my grandmother's shroud at that time, and I was waiting for her to die.
But the doctors' conclusions are unreliable after all, and they have not changed for decades, just when the family is in despair, grandma miraculously woke up, although she can't go to the ground, but she can still do food to open her mouth to stretch her hand, a month later, grandma finally recovered, even if it is inconvenient to walk since then, and her consciousness is sometimes unclear, but after all, she still survived, and her vitality is tenacious.
According to my father's recollection, ten years later, a doctor who had treated my grandmother at the time learned that my grandmother was still there, and he was very surprised: the doctor in charge had died, and it was a miracle that the patient he had concluded was certain to die was still alive and well
But this miracle continues, even though more than 30 years later, grandma has been bedridden for more than ten years, Liu Lang's father, uncles and aunts are taking care of her every day, and the tenacious grandma actually lives longer than herself, oh, yes, that is her own in her previous life.
Liu Lang often sees her grandmother these days, she is on a cane, and when she sees herself, she smirks, and then stretches out her hand to hug herself, but the grandmother who is sitting on the kang will let out a cold snort, and the grandmother immediately retracts her hand, but soon she will reach out and touch her face, and her mouth will make a squeaky sound, and Liu Lang will giggle at her grandmother, and every time at this time, grandma will smile,
"Ring, ring, ring, ....... ”
There was a crisp bell outside the house, and then you could hear "Bang Dong!"
The iron door of the house was broken open.
Liu Lang didn't need to look to know that his father was back.
After his father leaned his "permanent" car against the wall, he pushed open the door, which was very "characteristic", and made a "zla" sound after pushing, which was the sound of the friction between the wood and the ground, Liu Lang was very profound about this sound in his previous life, after all, he lived here before he was ten years old, and listened to this sound every day.
After pushing open the door with its own "sound effect", you have to pass through a passage about five meters long and less than three meters wide, this passage is called the "outer room", which corresponds to the "inner room", and there is a door between the two rooms, and the "inner room" after pushing the door is where the family eats and sleeps.
It felt like a two-room house, but twenty years later, such a house was collectively called a shanty town.
The outhouse is not a house, there is a stove, there is a place for cooking, and there is a running water tap, but half of it will not flow out of the water for a month, but there is no problem with the draft, because there are two large tanks next to the tap standing, and one tank will always store clean water, which can be used every time the water stops.
The other jar is usually empty, and only in autumn, when the autumn vegetables come down, will it be filled with cabbage, and then put in a large grain of salt and press a heavy stone, and after covering the lid, the sauerkraut that will survive the winter for a month can be eaten.
In addition, there is a brick stove in the outhouse, which is not only used for making a fire for cooking, but also connected to the earthen kang in the inner house, and there is also an iron pipe.
The other side of this iron pipe is connected to a pig iron heater, every winter, the temperature in the north is close to minus 30 degrees, at this time the fire in the furnace will not be extinguished, slime, The chopping wood will be thrown into the stove, and the water in the heater will be boiled when the blazing flame smokes the soil kang hot, and the freshly washed socks will be completely dry in an hour, but don't put your cold hands on it, because it is almost boiling hot water, and people's hands will be burned within a minute of putting them on it.
However, even if the heater is burned hot, but in the coldest time, the temperature in the house is not enough to make people feel warm, and after a long time, your face and hands will be numb from freezing, after all, there is only one heater in the house, and the wooden windows of the house are cracks, even if the gaps are completely blocked by newspapers, but they just don't let the cold wind blow in, and they still can't block the penetration of the cold outside.
At this time, the best way to warm up is to get into the bed, the hot kang will drive away all the cold, even if it is snowing outside, you will sleep peacefully, but when you wake up the next day, you will feel that your throat is very dry, and the taste of being roasted by the soil kang overnight is actually very uncomfortable.
Liu Lang has spent ten years in this room, and many things have been firmly imprinted in his mind, but in his memory, many memories are good, and in this life, all the details of this room have been seen by him, and he found that this is very different from his good memories, it is hard to imagine that his childhood was spent under such conditions, but now after all, it is 1980, and the country's policy of reform and opening up has only been two years, and his hometown is not at all in the small northern city of the spring breeze of reform。
"Zila!", the wooden door of the outhouse was pushed by the father's own sound, and at the same time, the father's voice also came.
"I'll look at my son!"
The father pushed open the door of the inner room and walked in, Liu Lang's half-open and half-closed eyes watched the door open and then slowly closed by himself, showing the appearance of an automatic door, of course, he did not have such high-end furniture in his home, the reason why he could close it by himself was because there was a spring hanging on the door and the door frame was connected, and the spring would be stretched when the door was pushed open, and the spring would be re-closed as soon as he let go.
The father picked up Liu Lang from the kang, and then gently put his face on Liu Lang's face, Liu Lang was shaving by his father's beard stubble and bared his teeth.