From a distance, Chen Qiaoshan saw a tall and thin man and a petite girl standing at the school gate, with his figure, he recognized at a glance that it was Chen Weiguo, his father and his third sister Chen Xi.

In his memory, Chen Qiaoshan is the second oldest in the Chen family, with a half-sister who has never met above, and three younger sisters below. Today, when the two-child policy has not yet been opened, five brothers and sisters may be regarded as a big news.

Speaking of this, I have to mention his father Chen Weiguo.

Chen's father was born in the mid-fifties, and in that era, there were many historical names such as defending the country, defending the people, defending the east, loving the country, loving the people, and loving the east, which is also a major Chinese characteristic, and of course, this characteristic is gradually changing with the changes of the times.

The old Chen family lives in a remote mountain village at the junction of Hubei and Henan provinces, and Chen Laohan, the head of the Chen family, who has never been out of the house in the poor countryside all his life, has five children, four sons and a daughter, and Chen Weiguo is the eldest in the family.

As the saying goes, the youngest son and eldest grandson are the lifeblood of the old couple. Chen Weiguo has three brothers and one sister, four strong laborers in the family, he has not suffered much since he was a child, has been safe and sound without illness and disaster, when he reached the age of going to school, Chen Laohan responded to the call of the country, and sent him to the school in the township.

Chen Weiguo is a generation born in New China and grew up under the red flag, and he finished primary school and entered middle school safely, but before he was in middle school, he caught up with that vigorous special year.

Chen Laohan, who has been honest and honest all his life, heard from the villagers that his youngest son did not study well in school, so he picked up a stick and rushed to the township, and drew back Chen Weiguo, who had learned to rebel and mess around with others in the township.

After careful calculation, Chen's father was driven back to the village by Chen Laohan before finishing middle school, strictly speaking, he can only be counted as getting a primary school diploma, but fortunately, it is not an era of diplomas.

Chen Weiguo, who dropped out of school and went home, was coerced by Chen Laohan's stick, so he could only drag a shovel as high as him and follow behind the buttocks of his three elder brothers, facing the loess with his back to the sky, and farming at home.

After a few years of peace and stability, under the control of Chen Laohan and his wife, several of Chen Weiguo's brothers and sisters got married one after another, and after several years of training, Chen Weiguo gradually grew up.

The young Chen Weiguo is energetic, his eyes are lively, his mouth is also neat, he has the strength to bear hardships and stand hard work, and he is a good trick in the vicinity. Gradually, the mothers-in-law and aunts in the eight towns are staring at the youngest son of the Chen family, and there are always seven aunts and eight aunts who come to the door of the old Chen family to tell the children of the Chen family's family about marriage.

The result was unexpected, Chen Weiguo, who was very rare to recruit a big girl and a little daughter-in-law nearby, and no one took a fancy to it, but they fell in love with Professor Zhang's little daughter who was sent to the village to undergo labor reform.

Professor Zhang and his wife are both high-level intellectuals who have stayed abroad, and they were originally professors at the university in Yenching to teach and educate people, but the results speak for themselves, and the chaotic years of intellectuals are not a good word, and the Zhang couple were sent to this poor and remote place with two sons and a daughter, and the situation can be imagined.

Knowing that his youngest son coveted Professor Zhang's little daughter, Chen Laohan was so angry that he poked his heart and scolded: "You are a bastard of lard, and you don't look at your own virtues. You've only just learned a few big characters, and you don't know how thick the sky is, and other people's daughters are also what you can worry about?"

In Chen Laohan's simple thinking, learned people have real skills, and they can't afford to climb up to a village man like his own son.

It's just that Chen Weiguo is also a lover, only when Chen Laohan's words are over-the-top, he hurried to Zhang Xueyu and his wife with a shy face, and he was bent on pleasing the Zhang couple who were suffering in the countryside.

Poor Zhang family's scholarly family, the family can't pick hands and can't carry it, the family has suffered a lot, seeing that there is an enthusiastic young man to help him, he is very grateful, and Zhang Ziyu, the little daughter of the Zhang family, who has come and gone, secretly got along with Chen Weiguo, the youngest son of the Chen family.

In the village, there is no wall that does not leak.

The gossip that the Chen family fell in love with Zhang Xue's little daughter was soon spread by the eldest aunt and little daughter-in-law all over the country, attracting bursts of jokes from the villagers, and when the news reached the ears of the Zhang couple, it was already well known.

For this reason, Chen Weiguo was not less affected by the white eyes of the Zhang couple, but how could he bear that his skin was thick enough, and he still stuck forward vigorously, and the scholars of the poetry and book heirlooms were helpless, so they could only rely on the two sons who were still playing singles to chase and intercept Chen Weiguo, and strictly guard against it.

Fortunately, in that year, I didn't know how to pay attention to the law, and intellectuals had to succumb to reality, and hard work paid off, Chen Weiguo and Zhang Ziyu had a lover in 77 years and tied the knot.

On December 10 of the same year, Zhang's brother-in-law signed up for the first college entrance examination after the turmoil.

On the twenty-eighth day of the seventh month, the day before Chinese New Year's Eve, a group of people from the county and township came to the village beating gongs and drums and sent Professor Zhang and his wife the admission letter of their eldest son.

Chen Weiguo, who just got married, originally thought that he would live like this in this life, but he didn't expect the change to come so quickly.

A lot of things happened in seven or eight years, on February 27 of this year, his bachelor's eldest brother left the countryside where he had stayed for nearly ten years with his luggage, and then the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee was held in Yanjing, and the stinky old nine of the Zhang couple finally took off the hat they had worn for a long time.

In April of '79, Professor Zhang and his wife left the countryside with their brother-in-law and returned to Yanjing, and on the day they sent the three of them away, Zhang Ziyu, who was pregnant, hugged her parents who were about to return to her hometown and cried heartbreakingly, and Chen Weiguo's heart was also very gloomy.

At the end of the year, Chen Qiaoshan's eldest sister was born, and according to the rules of the countryside, she was only given a nickname, called Xiaobao.

After receiving the letter, the mother-in-law who had just returned to Beijing rushed back from thousands of miles away, and I don't know what the mother and daughter talked about, and within a few days, Zhang Ziyu told the Chen family that she wanted to take the university entrance examination, and then picked up the book that her mother carried from Yanjing and began to review, which made Chen Weiguo, who was unprepared, dumbfounded.

Maybe it's because of the family history or maybe it's because of the natural intelligence, Zhang Ziyu took the college entrance examination in the summer of 80 and was unexpectedly admitted to Tsinghua University.

This incident caused a sensation in the entire Nanyang Administration, and at that time, hundreds of people from all over the county and townships came, beating gongs and drums very lively.

When the news reached this remote village, Chen Weiguo's father Chen Laohan silently held a dry tobacco bag, squatted on the ground until dark and did not come back, perhaps this simple rural old man had foreseen the near future of his youngest son, or perhaps regretted that he failed to stop his youngest son's marriage.

At the end of that year, Zhang Ziyu, who was on winter vacation at school, came back from Yanjing accompanied by his mother, and everyone in the village looked at the Chen family's daughter-in-law who came back from Yanjing for the New Year.

In half a year, the dress of the mother and daughter has turned over, and the mother-in-law and aunt in the village are muttering in private, and they don't know what they are spreading. Zhang Ziyu, who hadn't seen her daughter for half a year, hugged Chen Xiaobao, who no longer knew her mother, and her tears couldn't stop flowing.

Before the Chinese New Year, Zhang Ziyu's mother and daughter took their one-year-old daughter to embark on the train back to Yanjing together. Chen Laohan stopped the old grandmother of the Chen family who was holding his granddaughter and didn't let go, and Chen Laohan may be reluctant in his heart......

When leaving, Chen Weiguo stared at his daughter-in-law and the baby in her arms who were not yet famous, and under the pull of his mother-in-law, Zhang Ziyu finally took his daughter and stepped on the train to the north, and never came back.

In July of '81, the eldest brother of the Zhang family came in the dust, accompanied by two young cadres of the Executive Office, and called back Chen Weiguo, who was picking grass on the slope of the production team, and brought a divorce agreement and 400 yuan.

In the crying of the Chen family's grandmother, Chen Weiguo stared at the beautiful signature on the agreement for a long time, and finally gritted his teeth and wrote his name as neatly as possible under the familiar name, but found that the contrast of the six words side by side was so dazzling, which deeply stung this rural man who only had a primary school education.

After signing the papers, Chen Weiguo went back to the back room and took out the marriage certificate wrapped in red cloth with four bright red characters of mutual assistance and mutual love, rolled up the huge sum of 400 yuan on the table and threw it into the arms of his eldest brother.

The former eldest brother was driven out of the village by Chen Weiguo's three elder brothers with a broom, and the two cadres in the county also left in disdain.

The divorced Chen Weiguo has become a laughing stock in ten miles and eight towns, some people say that he is stupid, some people laugh at him for being naïve, and he can't keep his daughter-in-law and baby. The Chen family could only swallow their anger, and they had to beg their grandfather to tell their grandmother to go around and find another daughter-in-law for their youngest son.

The divorce was not a good reputation in those years, and the result could only be thankless, and no girl from any family was willing to go to the door of the Chen family.

After this incident, Chen Weiguo, who used to have a bright heart and bright eyes, and a sharp mouth that smiles when he sees people, is completely silent, like Chen Laohan who likes to squat on the ground and smoke a dry tobacco pouch silently.

Maybe time is the best mentor of mankind, he will quietly teach you to mature, Chen Weiguo changed overnight.

In the middle of 83, under the care of the seven aunts and eight aunts of the Chen family, he finally remarried, marrying a provincial woman named Tao Xiuying, who was eight years younger than him.

Tao Xiuying is a widow and a woman with a rough fate.

The first time she was married to someone for two months, the man contracted an emergency and left, and some half-immortals said that Tao Xiuying's life was hard, and the man's family went to Tao's house to make trouble several times, but he was helpless, his reputation was bad, and it was difficult to be a family again.

dragged on for two years, and the Tao family failed to find a good in-law for their daughter, and finally a yellow flower girl cheapened Chen Weiguo, a second-married old man from other provinces.

Tao Xiuying looks very handsome, her personality is also refreshing, she cleans up the house inside and out, and her life lives unhurriedly.

The eldest son was born in July 30 of 84, Chen Weiguo did not care about the rules of the countrymen, and then went to give the child a nickname that was easy to support, and directly pointed to Qiao Shan less than 100 meters high in the distance and said: "The second baby is called Qiao Shan, Chen Qiao Shan!"

No one in the Tao family, who was happy with their grandson, asked why their daughter's first child was the second child, and they all knew that Chen Weiguo also had a daughter with an unknown surname in Yanjing, so he didn't say anything after hearing this.

I don't know what Chen Weiguo thinks, the babies are born one after another.

On the first day of the first month of the eighth year of the eighth year, the third girl was born and named Chen Xi.

On June 187, 87, the girl was born and named Chen Wan.

The Chen family, who gave birth to three babies in a row, almost all of them were leveled by the cadres in the township, probably knowing the bad things that happened to the Chen family a few years ago, and the superbirth passed quietly in the end.

On August 15, 92, Chen Weiguo's fifth child was born and named Chen Yue.

The policy changed, and the township was changed to a town, and this time the cadres in the town did not give up, and finally fined the Chen family 3,000 yuan.

In the countryside at that time, 3,000 yuan was a huge amount of money, and Chen Weiguo couldn't take it out, but fortunately, there were many brothers in the Chen family, and the four brothers of the Chen family borrowed money everywhere to make up the fine.

Of course, in the end, this debt had to fall on Chen Weiguo's shoulders, and the burden of the Chen family was a little heavier.

Chen Weiguo, who was surrounded by three daughters, seemed to finally breathe a sigh of relief, during the slack time, a big man often walked around with his old man in his arms, and when he met people, he would come up to show off his little daughter. The neighbors complimented him a few times, and he could have fun all day.

With the passage of time, the past events that happened in the Chen family gradually no one mentioned them anymore.

The Chen family has four babies, plus two adults, a total of six mouths, in this year when they all rely on the ground to dig food, the life can be imagined. As he grew older, Chen Weiguo, who had suffered hardships, gritted his teeth and sent his four babies to school one after another.