In the evening, in order to save kerosene, the family gathered in my grandmother's room and lit a kerosene lamp made of inkwells. The flames of bean size danced, bringing a hazy light to the whole room.

Didi played with his brother's toys, wooden guns and wooden knives, dancing knives and playing guns, and kept shouting: "Kill", "Horn, Horn".

Yoyo saw a small tank made of bullet casings, picked it up and admired it carefully. The slingshot was hidden by his brother's baby, afraid that Didi would be damaged.

Grandma and Mom continued to spin thread, and Grandpa and Dad took turns telling stories to their siblings, all of which were small stories of enlightenment.

Yoyo pretended to be cute and tender, pestered the two to listen to their own affairs, and successfully shifted the topic to the history of revolutionaries, and grandma and mother also joined in from time to time to explain a few words, so that Yoyo had a general understanding of the situation at home.

Grandfather Ai Zhenyu, born on December 25, 1908 in the lunar calendar, is a descendant of the declining royal family in Kyoto. After the peaceful liberation ended his 40-year leisurely life, he married his 20-year-old maid and grandmother, who had served him for more than ten years, and engaged in the sorting of cultural relics in the Palace Museum.

Grandma Han Xiuqin, born in 1928, her parents died when she was a child, and her brother who was 7 years older than her depended on each other. When he fled from the war, he was separated from his brother and sold by traffickers to his grandfather's house to work as a maid for his grandfather. Under the influence of his grandfather, who was progressive in his thinking, he learned to read and write, helped his grandfather support the dilapidated family, and won his grandfather's respect. After the turmoil began, my grandfather was shocked and criticized, and his body and mind were greatly devastated. Grandma was born as a maid, and his brother is a meritorious soldier, so he has not been affected for the time being. When the revolutionary general mobilized her to draw a clear line with her grandfather, she resolutely took her grandfather, daughter and son-in-law back to her hometown Hantun Village on the edge of the Yellow River and settled in the countryside.

Father Wu Weihua, born on the eighth day of October 1943, is the son of his grandfather's old friend, born in a medical family, familiar with Chinese medicine since childhood, yearning for Western medicine, studied in the UK for 5 years, and returned to China to serve after completing his studies. Unexpectedly, it coincided with the Cultural Revolution, and his experience of studying abroad brought disaster to his family, overseas relations, enemy elements, reactionary academic experts, one big hat after another crushed the well-known family, and his parents died one after another in the turmoil. Under great pressure, the grandmother held a wedding for her daughter and son-in-law who were in love, and brought the two back to their hometown.

Mother Ai Wanying, born on the eighth day of April 1948, was raised by her grandfather who was an old woman since she was a child, and she caught up with the Cultural Revolution era in her third year of high school.

Brother Wu Hao is seven years old and was born on the ninth day of October 1968.

The younger brother Wu Di was two years old and was born on the tenth day of October 1973.

Yoyo was five years old and was born on the third day of March 1970. Although she is a girl, she thinks she is the baby of the whole family, everyone loves her, flowers bloom, grandma loves her uncle, and her parents are the sweetheart. The elder brother is the sister control, and even the younger brother is the head of the elder sister.

My grandmother's maiden home, Hantun Village, is located in the lower reaches of the Yellow River and is a small village with only more than 300 people. Grandma left home since she was a child, and after several searches after liberation, she finally found her hometown in 1955 and found her relatives. The elder brother who transferred from the army got married and had 4 sons, and served as the branch secretary in the village, which was also the basis for the grandmother to return to the village with the whole family.

My uncle and grandfather were vigorous and brave, fought bravely in the army, formed a revolutionary friendship with their comrades-in-arms, and saved the lives of the two leaders. He exchanged his blood for more than a dozen military medals, but he also left more than a dozen scars and two pieces of shrapnel on his body.

After the victory to resist US aggression and aid Korea, his uncle was already a brigade commander, but he was so worried about his lost sister that he was afraid that he would miss his sister's information if he was not in the village. gave up everything in the army, transferred jobs and returned to his hometown, and really let him wait, and the brother and sister were reunited.

The state not only gave him a settling-in allowance, but also issued a fixed monthly living allowance of more than 50 yuan and various tickets, and became a well-known wealthy household in Shili and Eight Villages. Several of his comrades-in-arms in the army did not forget him after becoming the commander, and they have always kept in touch with him, and several of his uncles joined the army and went to college.

Uncle and grandfather had an open-minded temperament and enthusiasm, and he reached out to help the villagers who had difficulties, and soon after returning to the village, he was elected by the villagers as the village party secretary, and he was also a well-informed village cadre in the commune and even in the county. He was a fair person, and he wholeheartedly led the villagers to Benfu Road, Hantun Village had few people and fertile land, and gradually became a wealthy village around.

Even during the turmoil, there was an uncle and grandfather who stood up for the country, and the village was located in the remote Yellow River beach area, so the village was not greatly affected. In a good year, the value of a job has reached 5 cents, most of the villagers can live well fed and clothed, and the prestige of the uncle and grandfather is also increasing day by day.

My uncle took great care of my grandmother's family and arranged for them to live in the common house of the production team, and reported to the boss that it was a cow house. The villagers are simple, there is a lot of arable land in the village, and grandma not only settled down smoothly when she returned to her parents' home, but everyone also respected grandpa and dad as cultural people.

Father Wu Weihua's exquisite Chinese and Western medicine skills shine in the remote countryside where there is a shortage of medical treatment, and his reputation is getting bigger and bigger. My uncle and grandfather took the opportunity to set up a clinic in the village and won a place for my father as a barefoot doctor.

Her mother, Ai Wanying, had never done farm work since she was a child, and her uncle and grandfather gave up her old face to ask for a private teacher in the commune, and she taught in the primary school in her village. For this reason, many people in the village said that he was selfish and had a good idea to give himself in advance.

Grandfather Ai Zhenyu's body was carefully conditioned by his father, although he did not leave any major hidden dangers, but in the end, he was old and had poor physique, and was arranged to plant vegetables in the team's vegetable garden, which was the same as women's labor, seven points a day. In his free time, he cut shade wicker (a kind of wild wicker that grows in clumps) on the Yellow River beach, made some baskets and baskets, and sold them to subsidize his family. Grandma watched the children do housework at home, and also raised a large flock of sheep and a dozen chickens.

Although my parents only have a monthly allowance of a few yuan, they both earn the labor part, ten cents a day. And my parents earn 365 days a year, every day. Coupled with the grandfather's income, although the family is old and young, although the life is not rich, it can still live.

Yoyo slept until midnight, and was awakened by the sound of "woo", grandma patted Yoyo, "Don't be afraid, the north wind is blowing." ”