Zhou Xiaoliu's family lives in a small village called Zhoujiawu in the southern hilly area, Zhoujiawu is surrounded by slightly higher hills, a slightly flat open space in the middle is concave, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, Zhou Xiaoliu's grandfather and his five brothers who fled from Zhejiang took a fancy to this place, and supported each other to settle down here, and later they also built a row of halls in the middle, four rooms in the east and west, and a large tiled house with a long corridor supported by pillars under the eaves.

The six rows of large tiled houses are neatly lined up, which is particularly magnificent compared to the scattered houses built by the villagers who came to settle down later. So this is a young village, and it is only 81 years old.

Although the Zhou family's house is big, it can't hold many people, and when it came to Zhou Xiaoliu's father's generation, he cut bamboo and made a thin wall like a mat to divide the room into two to live, and several stoves were built in the originally empty hall and turned into a large kitchen.

Half of Zhou Xiaoliu's house is only a dozen square meters, and all the furniture of her family is crowded inside.

An old shelf bed was placed under the bamboo wall woven by Zhou's father, an old dresser was placed at the head of the bed, and a wooden cabinet stood under the wall opposite the dresser, and the cabinet was filled with oil, salt, sauce and vinegar and dishes and chopsticks. There were two stacks of mud bricks under the window opposite the bed, and an old door panel was placed on it, and the door panel was covered with old mats, and Zhou Xiaoliu's three sisters could barely sleep at night. Sandwiched in the middle of the small wooden round table is the dining table.

At two o'clock in the morning, Zhou Xiaoliu, who was sleeping on the outermost side of the shelf bed, woke up hungry. As a newborn baby, eating and drinking Lazar have to rely on others to complete, so Zhou Xiaoliu snorted a few times, and Zhou's mother, who was next to her, was too tired to respond after giving birth.

Zhou Xiaoliu snorted a few more times, and Zhou's father, who was sleeping inside, rolled over and fell asleep again.

Zhou Xiaoliu snorted a few more times, and his innermost three-year-old brother Zhou Peng was woken up, and sat up in a daze and peed. On the fifteenth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, the quilt was no longer covered, and her brother's urine directly burned Zhou's father to wake up.

Zhou's father slapped Zhou Peng's buttocks a few times, and then scolded him to change his pants, Zhou's mother also woke up, and hugged Zhou Peng, who was crying, and comforted him softly. On the door panel, Zhou Xiaoliu's three sisters opened their eyes when they heard the voice, and found that there was nothing they needed to do, so they closed their eyes and went to sleep.

Everyone seems to have forgotten that there is a new person in the house today. Zhou Xiaoliu can't help it, crying children have candy to eat, don't talk about sugar now, even if you give saliva to drink. Exposure fines or something, this shouldn't be her baby's business, she just took care of herself and didn't starve to death. So she burst into tears.

But Zhou Xiaoliu was about to lose milk on the first night of her birth, because when she was about to cry loudly, an old and sad cry sounded first.

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Grandpa Zhou Yongan went out for a walk after dinner that day, and when he came back, the oil lamp was not lit and fell asleep directly, and later when the eldest son and eldest daughter-in-law were chased by the Family Planning Commission to run back into the mountain, his mother-in-law woke him up and asked him to take a look, "What do you do so much, you panic", he only replied to this sentence and then closed his eyes and squinted. As for the fact that his eldest son later picked up his eldest daughter-in-law and youngest granddaughter from Houshan, Zhou Yongan said that he had a good dream and didn't know.

Zhou Yongan didn't lie, he was dreaming at that time, a sweet dream.

He dreamed of a girl, who was a hairy boy back then, and when he went to the town to buy something, he noticed that the girl who was walking in front of him had lost a hairpin, so he picked it up and returned it to her. He will always remember the situation: she looked at him with a smile as she took the hairpin, and two deep pear vortices seemed to suck his soul away, and he suddenly blushed and was at a loss.

After many inquiries, he learned that this girl was the daughter of a big family in the town, and she was going to marry into a high-ranking official in the city as the daughter-in-law of the family. Since then, this girl has become the white moonlight in his heart. And in this dream, when he picked up the hairpin and returned it to the girl, it suddenly rained heavily, and then the girl asked him to borrow an umbrella, and he took the girl home with the umbrella, and the girl was going to marry him.

I dreamed until the day of his wedding to the girl, and the girl sat on the new bed in the cave room and waited for him shyly.

He rushed to the bride as if he was drunk, and with great excitement, he picked up the weighing rod and picked up the bride's hijab. Unexpectedly, the shy bride became his deceased father. He screamed "ah" and fell to the ground with a "snap".

Grandpa Zhou woke up crying from his dream, wiped his tears and said a lot of "how unfilial his son is", and his sons were afraid that something would happen, so they all got up and went to his room.

When Grandpa Zhou saw his sons, he didn't speak, but only let him light an oil lamp and take pen and ink, and then he wrote and drew on the paper. Early in the morning of the second day, Grandpa Zhou personally went to invite Taoist Li from the neighboring village to come over and do the law, saying that his deceased old father dreamed at night and asked him to set up a tablet at home, and offered incense on the fifteenth day of the new year. When he knew that Zhou Xiaoliu was born in the ditch in front of his father's grave last night, he gritted his teeth hatefully and said to his eldest son: "You wait for me!"

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So Zhou Xiaoliu was born in front of the grave, and the news that disturbed the ancestors from living in peace spread, and when it came to her third aunt's mouth, it became that Zhou Xiaoliu was born in front of the grave, and the eight characters were so hard that even ghosts were afraid. Zhou Xiaoliu was very wronged. In her previous life, she had never heard of such a play.

"I gave birth to so many, how can I remember them one by one", whenever she asked Zhou's mother when she was going to be born, Zhou's mother replied. Not only could she not remember the time of birth, but she also said that she had forgotten where she was born. Zhou's mother is a person who is particularly fearful of ghosts and gods, even if a butterfly flies into the house, Zhou's mother does not let the children catch up, but takes the children together and bends down to worship three times, saying some words that the children think are absurd, and respectfully invites the butterfly out. Thinking about it now, it is estimated that Zhou's mother deliberately forgot.

The weather was fine, and in the open space outside the door, Grandpa Zhou took his children and grandchildren to bow down to the newly erected tablets on the incense table one by one according to the instructions of the Taoist priest.

Zhou's father knelt and put a large paper bag of tobacco and a brand new pipe in front of the case, this is a good product he spent a lot of money to ask someone to pick from the cigarette market in the city, originally to be filial to his father in a few days, he thought that his grandfather was good at this when he was alive, and taking this should show his sincerity.

He folded his hands and bowed to the tablet, and said: "Grandpa, my grandson has made amends for you, I shouldn't have disturbed your peace in front of your grave yesterday, we are unintentional, we can't help it, it's really unbearable to have a child......" Grandpa Zhou coughed when he saw that his son was talking energetically. Dad Zhou stopped when he heard this, kowtowed three times firmly, and stood aside.

Zhou's mother had lochia after giving birth, and she was not allowed to come over on this occasion, so she hid in half of her room and did not come out. She looked at Zhou Xiaoliu in the bed and frowned. I always thought it was a son, but it turned out to be a daughter, and I was born in such a place, and now I say that I disturbed the ghost...... She used to envy other people's children for not crying and making trouble, but now when she looks at Zhou Xiaoliu who is silent, she only feels very evil, so she throws a disgusted look at Zhou Xiaoliu without subtlety.

Zhou Xiaoliu howled in his heart: When will anyone remember to feed me? I can't cry anymore!!