Fuyuko, who was lying on the bed, had already felt that something was wrong, but he didn't resist, but he had been preparing in his heart, wanting to swallow this pill in one bite, this kind of mental preparation is very rare for a seven or eight-year-old child. Fuyuko was a very smart child, and he knew that this expensive pill cost his parents twenty-five dollars!

So when Yan Xiuping sent this medicine to Dongzi's mouth, Dongzi didn't think about it, and bit it in his mouth. For him, the sooner such a process is completed, the better. With such a large pill, it was almost impossible to expect to swallow it all at once, so Dongzi had to bite it up before eating it. But Dongzi obviously underestimated, this medicine tastes many times worse than it smells and I don't know how many times it smells, so Dongzi endured chewing it twice, and then couldn't stand it anymore, and spit it out. Fortunately, Yan Yuxiang was prepared, hurriedly caught it with his hand, and forced his son to swallow it back, and repeated it several times before he ate all the pills. The only shadow that this incident left on Yan Huadong was that he was an adult, and it seemed that there was still such a stench in his mouth from time to time that made him lose his appetite.

But this medicine did work, and after about half an hour, everyone could clearly feel that the pure white color on Fuyuko's face had slowly turned red. Even Fuyuko himself felt much better, the feeling of vomiting and diarrhea was gone, and he was even a little hungry, but he was not in a hurry to open his mouth to eat, but wanted to feel it for a while. Among them, the happiest are Yan Yuxiang and his wife, and this incident surprised them. It seems that coming to my mother's house is the right move.

Dongzi's illness has improved greatly at night, he can eat, he ate a big bowl of dumplings made by his grandmother for him, Yan Yuxiang saw that his son was fine, and felt a lot more relieved, he did not live on the door of his father-in-law that night, but returned to his home overnight, in his home, there are three other children who let him rest assured!

On the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, Dongzi was almost good, and he was able to jump around every day, walking the streets and alleys, and when people saw Dongzi's appearance, they were really convinced that Dr. Zhang was a wonderful hand for rejuvenation. According to Grandpa Dongzi: When he went out to see off Dr. Zhang, he had to hand 100 yuan into his pocket, but Dr. Zhang didn't accept it. And when Dongzi's illness was completely cured, when Dongzi's grandfather went to visit Dr. Zhang with the gifts he bought, he was told by the neighbors that Dr. Zhang went back to the city directly after seeing Dongzi that night, which is Dr. Zhang's habit, and he went back to his hometown every year for the New Year to live in the Lantern Festival and left. Since then, there have been fewer times when I saw Dr. Zhang in the village, saying that his legs and feet were inconvenient, so he stopped moving. One said that he moved to the south. The other is that he stood on the wrong side of the county party committee and was beaten down. In short, fewer and fewer people have seen him, and Dr. Zhang has slowly become a legend in ten miles and eight towns.

It was really a wave of unsettled, and the whole family saw that Dongzi's illness was almost cured, so Yan Xiuping planned to move back to her own house, but on this night, Yan Yuxiang took the three girls to her father-in-law's house with big bags and small bags. Originally, it was time to start school as soon as the fifteenth day of the first lunar month passed, and it was time for her husband Yan Yuxiang to go to work, but this time the New Year was very unusual. Before her husband could speak, Yan Xiuping had already expected seven or eight. It turned out that since they gave birth to Dongzi, they were limited by the village brigade to pay a fine of 40,000 yuan for overbirth. In fact, before Dongzi was born, his third sister Huaqiu had already received a family planning fine, but Yan Yuxiang still took the risk to give birth to Dongzi. In the rural north, this patriarchal mentality is all too common. The year Dongzi was born was also the most difficult year for their family, and they had to scrape together 2,000 yuan to barely cope with it, but 2,000 was far from 40,000. Of course, in the eight years that Dongzi has grown up, this family has indeed received various "cares" from the brigade, such as the electricity bills they have to pay are three or five times more expensive than ordinary people's homes, and even Yan Xiuping, who has always refused to accept her fate, had to say: "As long as we can slowly deduct our 40,000 yuan, it's okay!" But this is not the case, according to the village brigade, this is only the interest of the 40,000 yuan, and the 40,000 yuan is still there, and it still needs to be paid!

At the end of each year, family planning is the most urgent time, and many families in the village have no choice but to hand over the New Year's money saved by thrift during the year to the village brigade. Just before this year, in order to have a peaceful New Year, Yan Yuxiang specially took the initiative to hand over a thousand yuan to the team. The village leaders also praised him for this move. But it has only been a few days, and the people in the brigade have taken several officials from the town's family planning office to surround Yan Yuxiang's house, shouting that they will either pay the money or raid the house! It would be okay if all the people in the village who had given birth were treated equally, but it was aimed at Yan Yuxiang's family. We have already said before that Yan Xiuping is incompatible with her in-laws because of her personality, so no one is willing to stand up and speak for them. Even if there is, according to Yan Xiuping's character, she would rather go to the street to beg for food than receive this affection. His husband naturally knew what kind of person his wife was, and in such a situation, he could only watch as the people of the brigade put a seal on his door just after the Lantern Festival. He didn't want to go to the door of his father-in-law, but where else could he go but there!

Grandpa Dongzi cursed while making a bed for his beloved granddaughter, he didn't dislike his son-in-law for not having the ability to deal with this matter, it is said that Grandpa Dongzi was also from Yanxiang Village, otherwise how could he be surnamed Yan! But later because of the unpleasant quarrel with the village team, he moved out of Yanxiang Village. He's cursing the "wicked people"!

Winter is not over yet, and although there are enough beds and houses at home, there are not enough stoves. Is there any other choice, of course, Yan Yuxiang and his wife are going to live in that "cold palace".

Although these two have endured hardships for thirty or forty years and have long been accustomed to this kind of life, as soon as they got into the bed, they felt an unprecedented coolness. They don't feel sleepy when it's cold, but how can people not be annoyed on such days! Because of many disasters, the word security will never exist in them.

Dongzi's mother is actually still immersed in the joy of Dongzi's safety, so she doesn't see how important it is to pay the family planning fine. It's just that the worry now is that the brigade must have already greeted the primary school in the village, which is their usual trick, and if their children can't go to school because of this, they can't say anything about being parents. Yan Yuxiang was more anxious than Yan Xiuping, he thought about it, sat up from the quilt with a bang, slapped his thigh and shouted: "Fuck, borrow money tomorrow, my baby is worse than other people's families! Can't let them not go to school!" This move really startled Yan Xiuping, and quickly pulled her husband back into the bed, in the eyes of Yan Yuxiang, an authentic farmer, there is no other way to go except borrowing money to pay off debts. Yan Xiuping was happy for her husband's responsibility. She knew that she was a woman after all, and in the more than ten years since they had been married, Yan Yuxiang had rushed to the front of many major events, and it was really hard to imagine what she would have done without Yan Yuxiang. Thinking about it, I heard the growing sound of my husband next to me, and I also heard a few dog barking in the distance...... She slowly fell asleep, too.

Before dawn the next day, Yan Yuxiang got up early, and he didn't alarm anyone, so he hung up the door and left. For the more than 30,000 yuan, he has already made a long list in his heart, and today he has to go a long way. Now there are very few farming things, so the family only gets up at dawn, although Yan Xiuping lives in her mother's house, but the task of cooking is still done by Dongzi's grandmother, this is a meticulous person.

There was nothing to do on this day, and Grandpa Dongzi went out early in the morning to shout and sell the old man's cigarettes that he had not sold out a year ago. The rest of the people gathered around the stove to relax, and no one wanted to move on such a cold day.

"No, move back, you and Yuxiang both move back, this village is better than Yanxiang Village, I don't know how many times, I'll vacate two houses for you, you live there for the time being, see what Yuxiang plans, if you get rich in a few years, you go out to build a house by yourself, I won't stop you." "Grandma Dongzi gave her girl an idea and said that she really loves her child.

"Mom," Yan Xiuping's voice dragged on for a long time, and then said: "You and my dad have already lived hard enough, we can't come back and trouble you, besides, the girl I have married outside, if I move back again, what do you let outsiders think." ”

"They love to think what they want, this is my own daughter, and I can't come back yet! Besides, if you don't think about you, you have to think about these four poor children, they don't go to school, they are not as good as other people's children. Dongzi's grandmother paused and said: "You listen to your mother's words, turn your head and let your father run to the village brigade, the village brigade is easy to talk to, let them sum up, see if we can let the children hang up their names here first, and go to school first." The more Grandma Fuyuko spoke, the faster she spoke, as if she had already calculated it, and as if she was glad that she had come up with such a good idea.

Yan Xiuping didn't know how to deal with this after hearing this, she is a woman who longs for independence, if she is allowed to get close to her parents and in-laws occasionally, it will be bad for a long time. This woman is a little ambitious, he knows that his mother will not harm him, but from her heart, she just wants a small family of her own, she doesn't want such a big family, she wants to live independently, and desperately longs for the scenery of life. But the reality always backfires.

Grandma Fuyuko looked at her girl noncommittally, as if she was already tempted. I want to pour a spoonful of oil and add a fire. I was about to speak. But I heard Yan Xiuping say: "Mom, I know everything you said, let's see if Yuxiang can borrow money, if we can borrow it, I think it's better for us to go home and live." Give him three days, what do you think?"

"No, three days is too long, going to school is a big thing, although your mother and I have no culture, but *** his old man said, 'If you don't study for three days, you can't catch up', you see, the great people have said so, three days of study can not be delayed. Grandma Fuyuko pouted and said.

This sentence amused Yan Xiuping, gave her mother a thumbs up, and said: "It seems that you are not uneducated, you know the words of great people, amazing." So, let's take one of them, two days, two days, it's okay, right?"

"It's just one day, there's no negotiability! If not, let your dad run errands for the kids. "Grandma Dongzi doesn't eat this set, and she refuses seriously.

Yan Xiuping saw that she couldn't say anything, so she had to pretend to be pitiful and said: "Okay, one day is one day, but it's late today, let's start tomorrow." After speaking, she didn't give her mother a chance to defend herself, stood up, and said, "Mom, I'll go and see where my dad went, I'm not at ease on such a cold day." "She actually wants to find a chance to slip away, or the pestering mother will have to bargain again. Before the words fell, the man was gone. Only a long sigh from Fuyuko's grandmother was left.

As soon as it was dark, Yan Yuxiang came back, Yan Xiuping saw that he was empty-handed, and her heart was already half cold, she knew that her husband's popularity was not so bad, because he was an authentic honest man, that year, in this small mountain village where the spring breeze of reform and opening up had not yet blown, people had good thoughts, and honest people were a group that lived better. Even if you can't borrow that much money in a day, you should always borrow a little. But now it looks like not a penny has been borrowed. When the family saw this scene, they were embarrassed to say anything. Grandpa Dongzi has been a poor peasant all his life, if he says that he does hard work, it is not a problem, but as long as money is mentioned, they have a headache more than anyone else, they are indeed poor!

Yan Yuxiang sat down at the dining table to eat without saying a word, and after eating, he saw him put the bowl away, hugged Dongzi and said, "Chun'er, you go and help grandma wash the dishes, and we will go home after washing." ”

"Borrowed the money?" Yan Xiuping asked with a suspicious expression.

"Well, I took five thousand ,...... with my eldest brother" Yan Yuxiang reported the list of borrowers like a running account, "Just now, while it was still dark, I had already handed over the money, and the seal had been taken, we could go home, and they could go to school!"

The family was overjoyed when they heard this, and Yan Xiuping first applauded. Although Dongzi's grandmother looked at the girl who couldn't keep her, she was also happy for Yan Yuxiang from the bottom of her heart. Although Dongzi didn't know what was going on, and he didn't bother to care, but when he saw everyone so happy, he suddenly felt that his father must have done something earth-shattering and weeping!

Until many years later, Yan Yuxiang also educated Dongzi that at that time, who insisted on taking out his deposit slip that was about to expire, and he had to rush to do it for us without interest, this kind of kindness can not be forgotten, Dongzi always took the trouble to listen to it, and kept it in mind.

After packing up their things that night, the family of six took advantage of the moonlight to go home.