He Rulan had already fallen asleep, but Zhuge Huaizhi couldn't sleep, more than thirty years ago in that winter, the cold wind mixed with the wind and snow rushed to his face.

Zhuge Huaizhi, who has just entered the fourth grade, is happily playing football with his classmates on the playground, although it is winter, and there are scattered snowflakes in the sky, but a physical education class a week is what Zhuge Huaizhi is looking forward to the most, and the cold weather cannot stop Zhuge Huaizhi's footsteps.

When he was five minutes away from class, Zhuge Huaizhi saw the physical education teacher leading a man towards him, and they got closer and closer, Zhuge Huaizhi recognized this man as Uncle Gong from his father's unit!

"Zhuge Huaizhi, stop kicking, hurry up and follow your colleagues from your father's unit!" the physical education teacher shouted anxiously.

"Why are you so unlucky?" Zhuge Huaizhi muttered in his heart, he didn't know what Uncle Gong was doing, and he followed in a daze.

When he walked to the school gate, he saw his brother Zhuge Zhenguo, who was studying in the same school, standing at the gate with his head bowed boredly, kicking the stone bumps under his feet with his feet.

"Let's go!" Uncle Gong opened the door of a jeep parked in front of the school, urged the two children to climb into the car, and drove towards the hospital with a puff of smoke.

When Zhuge Zhenguo went to school, the whole family still lived in an old house in the countryside, and the children in the village went to school late at that time, and Zhuge Zhenguo only went to school when he was eight years old.

Although the age difference between the two brothers is two years, when Zhuge Huaizhi went to school, Wu Fengqiu had already come to the Lingqiu Air Base in Shanxi with the army, and Zhuge Huaizhi went to school on time at the age of seven, so the two brothers were only one grade apart.

Zhuge Huaizhi still firmly remembers that when he was in his rural hometown, his father was a soldier outside, and his mother was alone with three children working as a farmer at home.

Every day, the mother has to work in the field, and hand over the three children to the grandmother to take care of, the grandmother was not young at that time, there were five or six grandchildren around her, the old man was responsible for holding Zhuge Jingwen, who was less than two years old, and led the two-year-old cousin and three-year-old cousin, Zhuge Huaizhi and Zhuge Zhenguo, and the older cousin ran crazy in the field, and the old man couldn't control them at all.

The more children have more mouths, the most profound memory of Zhuge Huaizhi is that they can't eat enough all year round, a group of children often fight for a bite to eat, a fruit in the field, and a wild bird egg pulled down by climbing a tree are enough to make them happy.

Once there was really nothing to eat, Zhuge Zhenguo touched a bottle of soy sauce hanging on the wall and drank two sips, feeling that the taste was wrong, it seemed to be salt and brine, Zhuge Zhenguo quickly spit it out, but a small part of it was swallowed.

A few children ran to tell their grandmother in a panic, and it was a coincidence that grandma was just about to make tofu, and a pot of hot bean juice had just been cooked, and the old man hurriedly served it in a bowl and poured it into Zhuge Zhenguo, otherwise he would have to die!

As for Zhuge Huaizhi, it is because no one has taken care of him since he was a child, and he has developed a bad habit of not paying attention to hygiene, and a pair of little black hands often grab food without washing, and he almost lost his life because of diarrhea several times!

Zhuge Huaizhi remembered that once she was almost dehydrated, Wu Fengqiu ran wildly on the country road on her back, and sent her to the health center overnight, the doctor said that if it was a few hours late, the child would die!

The hard days came to an end in 1974, and Wu Fengqiu was approved to join the army!

That winter, Wu Fengqiu happily took the children to pack their luggage, there was actually nothing to bring in the three thatched huts, the grain in the West House was left to the grandparents, and the small cart farm tools were given to Zhuge Huaizhi's uncle and aunt.

Wu Fengqiu packed the box and two chairs, which were the only furniture in the house, and sent them to Shanxi, and turned the four of his mother's clothes into a bag and carried them with him.

The night before leaving, the courtyard of Zhuge Huaizhi's house was filled with the smell of meat, and Zhuge Zhenguo and Zhuge Huaizhi ran around the courtyard excitedly.

"Brother, do you know? Our family has seven and a half catties of meat, seven and a half catties!" Zhuge Zhenguo swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said excitedly.

"Ah, seven and a half catties! That's all!" In fact, Zhuge Huaizhi had no concept of quantity at all, he was just shocked by Zhuge Zhenguo's expression, feeling that this was an astronomical number!

After many years, Zhuge Huaizhi learned from his mother that because it was almost the New Year, each family in the production team shared four catties of pork, and the grandparents gave them two catties of their share, and several neighbors gathered a total of one and a half catties of meat to his family in order to congratulate.

In those days, the people who came to Daoxi simply stepped through the threshold, Wu Fengqiu smiled from ear to ear, in the village, except for a few years ago when the Hou family came out with the army, Wu Fengqiu was the second, and many people were envious.

The night before leaving, Wu Fengqiu set up a cauldron, boiled all seven and a half catties of meat in one go, and put on the peppercorns and soy sauce that he was usually reluctant to eat, and the whole yard was fragrant!

The hen that laid the eggs was not killed, Wu Fengqiu gave it to her mother-in-law, a red rooster was killed and stewed in another pot, and the eggs saved were also boiled and put into the meat pot, ready to be made into braised eggs, and eaten on the road.

The boys were laughing and making trouble in the yard, Zhuge Jingwen sat on the threshold obediently, waiting for the meat cooked in the pot, Wu Fengqiu tilted his head in the mirror in the dim light, more than ten years, the handsome girl was long gone, and the burden of life turned her into a dark and thin woman, and wrinkles climbed up her forehead prematurely.

Zhuge Zhaoyun couldn't bear to see her working at home alone, and she stopped her several times to report to her hometown for demobilization, she encouraged her husband to work hard in the army, and looked forward to the day when she could take the children out of the mountains and to a broader place, and this day finally came!

The dinner that day was very rich, Wu Fengqiu divided the cooked meat into two, most of it was wrapped in oiled paper and prepared to be eaten on the road, and the freshly baked pancakes were carefully folded, wrapped in a clean cage cloth, and put into the baggage.

Wu Fengqiu cut the meat left into thick slices, rolled it in a pancake with the braised egg, rolled it into a cylinder, and the four of them ate it in small bites, and drank it with chicken soup.

Early the next morning, the mother and son took the tractor of the production team to the county bus station twenty miles away.

The shuttle bus from the county bus station to Xinyi Railway Station drove slowly for nearly two hours, Wu Fengqiu carried the burden, hugged Zhuge Jingwen, and turned back repeatedly, for fear that Zhuge Huaizhi and Zhuge Zhenguo would run around, and the train station would be crowded, so you can't lose the child!

Finally got on the train from Xinyi to Xuzhou, Wu Fengqiu breathed a sigh of relief, Zhuge Jingwen was already tired and asleep, Zhuge Zhenguo and Zhuge Huaizhi excitedly opened the window and looked out, this was the first time the little brothers took the train.

When he arrived in Xuzhou, he had to transfer to the train to Beijing, and then transfer to the train to Taiyuan from Beijing, Wu Fengqiu counted the route written by Zhuge Zhaoyun in the letter over and over again in his heart, for fear of missing and making the wrong car, once he made a mistake, it would be a big trouble!

Sleepiness hit for a while, Wu Fengqiu didn't dare to close his eyes, for fear of missing the time to get off the train, the train rumbled forward, and in the slight shaking, Wu Fengqiu fell asleep!

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Chapter 144: The Past