The ring woman did not go back to her home, and went directly to a cave not far from her home. This cave is called "Hairy Dog Cave". It is said to be a hairy dog hole, but no one has ever seen a hairy dog. Legend has it that this cave has seven floors and is connected to the neighboring county seat. However, there is no definite statement about whether there is or not. But there are still many people who go to explore the caves, but they all give up halfway.

There are many weeds and thorns at the entrance of this cave, which is very hidden and cannot be found by people who generally do not know. The entrance to the cave is relatively small, but once you enter, it suddenly opens up. Listening to the ancestors, it seems that the Red Army had camped here before, so there are stone tables and stone benches inside, and you can also cook and sleep.

The woman first hid in this cave, and quietly went back to see her mother at night, and then her mother accompanied her to the cave with some daily necessities, quilts and blankets.

The mother was afraid that the woman was afraid at night, so she stayed with her in the cave for the night.

The woman was really scared, there were a lot of bats in the cave, and the kerosene lamps were extinguished, and many bats flew around in the cave as if they were having a party. There are also many wild birds around, and they make strange calls in the middle of the night.

The ring woman and her mother didn't sleep well all night, but the child slept peacefully.

Early the next morning, my mother went back. In this way, the mother carried the family on her back every day, brought food to the ring woman, and then went uphill to work. At night, the woman who accompanied the ring slept in the cave.

One day, the ring woman went out to dry diapers while the child was asleep. When she returned, she suddenly saw a cobra on the bed, and she saw that the snake was about to climb on the child's head. The woman did not dare to scream or move. The child had just woken up at this time, and she reached out and grabbed the snake like a toy. And the snake did not bite her, but was a little afraid of her. After a while, the child let go, and the snake ran away.

The woman ran over to pick up the child in frenzy. From then on, she never dared to leave the child half a step away.

As the saying goes, "There is no such thing as a thatched house that does not leak for three years". The fact that the woman lived in a cave was finally discovered one day.

On that day, the woman washed her hair, draped her hair, and sat on the bed to breastfeed the child. A group of children come to the cave to explore. As soon as I entered the cave, I saw a female ghost with a disheveled head, sitting on a stone with a child in her hand. They were so frightened that they ran out and shouted, "Ghost is coming!"

Several of the children fell ill when they returned.

Later, the families of these children invited Li Decai to come to the "bar god". Li Decai later quietly ran to the cave to look, only to know that the ring woman and her child were hiding there.

This time it spread on the street. The people in the street began to talk again. Many people feel that the women and children are too pitiful, and they are upset for them.

Zhao Wenjun, the husband of the ring woman, was very distressed when he learned that the ring woman had left his hometown and lived in a cave. He couldn't take it anymore and took a few days off to find the leadership of the commune. The leaders of the commune came forward to find the elders of the Huan women's clan, and after doing some ideological work, they promised not to embarrass the Huan women and her daughter again.

So the ring woman returned to her rented house.

After some time, they managed to buy two houses in another place. I moved in.

The ring woman was afraid of the people in the clan, and she would embarrass her daughter in the future, so she found her a godfather and godmother. Let the daughters and their surnames. This godfather and godmother are educated youths from Chongqing, with a high level of culture, they have just gotten married and have no children yet. Seeing that their goddaughter was so beautiful, they gave her a very nice name: Chen Ziyan. The name of the milk is: Xiao Ji. But they didn't stay on the street long before returning to Chongqing.

The ring woman no longer goes to work in the sewing club, and carries her children and her mother to work together every day to earn centimeters.

Unconsciously, five years have passed, and the land has been contracted to the household. Each family contracted the land and divided the firewood. The eldest brother of the ring girl made a lot of money in business, and found a very spacious place near the street again, built a dozen beautiful tile houses, and used square stones to face a very spacious courtyard dam, and the courtyard dam also repaired a stone railing, and many beautiful flowers were planted in the flower pots on the railing. There is also a large fish pond with a lot of fish in it. He can be considered the richest man on the street.

The elders of the ring women's clan have basically passed away. The rest are of the younger generation, and most of them are busy running their own one-third of an acre of land, and they no longer have the extra energy to ask about Xiaoji. There are also a very small number of good things, and the trouble of wanting to find a ring woman has been settled by the eldest brother with money.

However, the ring woman's own family is in trouble.

When Xiao Ji was 2 years old, Huan Nu gave birth to a younger brother named Xiao Jun. The family was so happy that they all spoiled him and raised him to be fat for nothing. This Xiaojun is greedy and stuffs everything into his mouth. Once I had a bad stomach, got sick, had a fever, talked nonsense, and almost died. I stayed in the hospital for a long time, took a lot of hormone drugs, and hung a lot of bottles of saline. Later, after being discharged from the hospital, Xiaojun seemed to be a little silly, and he was not as clever as before. The woman in the ring asked Li Decai to come, and Li Decai pinched his fingers and pointed to Xiaoji. The Ring Woman understood, but she didn't say anything.

But since then, whenever something happens at home, the ring woman will scold Xiao Ji, thinking that Xiao Ji is unlucky, and she is the one who has caused these troubles.

When Xiao Ji was 6 years old, she was not yet high on the stove, so Huan Nu asked her to step on the bench to cook. If she doesn't do it well, she will hit her on the head with chopsticks or a brush.

Two years later, the woman asked her to wash her in a reservoir near the street with a basin of dirty clothes.

Xiao Ji is very smart, and he can learn what to do. After going to school, I also like to study. But the ring woman thinks that girls don't need to spend money to read so many books, anyway, they have to get married when they grow up. A girl must be able to do everything first, otherwise her in-laws will clean her up when she gets married in the future. So what is cooking, making pig food, slaughtering pigweed, herding cattle, mowing grass...... Xiao Ji has to do it, Xiao Ji is young, which is equivalent to half a labor force in the family.

But there was no way to do it at that time, the ring girl later gave birth to 2 more children, Zhao Wenjun has been teaching in other places, and he can only come back on weekends. The work in the fields is done only by the ring woman. Xiao Ji is the biggest, so the work at home is basically done by Xiao Ji.

The ring woman is harsh on Xiao Ji, and Xiao Ji feels very uncomfortable. Thinking that he was not biological, he often secretly wiped his tears when he slept at night, and he couldn't sleep very late. Then I fell asleep and often had some messy dreams.

Once, she dreamed that she had turned into a phoenix and was thrown into the furnace by a monster and almost burned to death.

Another time, she dreamed that she and her mother lived in a cave with many bats and snakes. The serpent ran after them.

......

So Xiao Ji often wets the bed. wetted the bed, and the ring woman wanted to scold her again. Xiao Ji didn't dare to say anything.

Xiao Ji is very well-behaved at home, but she is very bold and bold outside, and she has made a lot of good friends. When she encounters any grievances at home, she always tells her friends. Her friends would comfort her, help her with things, and make her happy every time. She also has a cousin who treats her very well. Every time I went to chop wood and cut the grass, my cousin let her play, and he helped her do it.

Once, Xiao Ji and his cousin went to Gongshan to steal firewood. Although they have firewood on the mountain at home, it is not as good as the one on the mountain. The cousin is in charge of chopping, and Koji is in charge of sentry. In a moment, my cousin cut a lot of very thick firewood, tied it with a rope, and tied it in three bundles. But Xiao Ji suddenly heard the voice of the forest ranger's uncle. She hurried over to tell her cousin, who said, "Quick, push the firewood down the hill first, and then we'll slide down that slate over there." ”

So they pushed all the wood down the hill and came to a slab of stone. Without saying a word, my cousin slid down first, but when he landed, he broke his foot and screamed "ouch ouch" below. Xiao Ji was already afraid of heights, but when she heard her cousin screaming, she didn't dare to slide down.

What to do?

Seeing that the uncle of the forest is about to come here. Xiao Ji couldn't care so much, closed his eyes, sat on the stone slab trembling and slowly slid down. Suddenly, she felt as if she had grown a pair of wings and was flying. Then, gently drop on the ground. The cousin was very strange when he saw that Xiao Ji was unharmed. Koyoshi himself felt very strange.

Every time Xiao Ji washes clothes, he will make an appointment with a few good friends to wash them together. After washing the clothes, they will find a place with shallow water and learn to swim. But there was no one to teach them, and there were no swimming rings at that time. They took the adult's trousers, blew them into the hem of the trousers, filled them with air, and tied them tightly. Then lie on your crotch and stretch your hands out into the water to paddle to both sides, moving your feet like a frog's feet so that your body can float in the water and you can swim forward slowly. But over time, the air inside the trousers will run away. Later, they came up with another solution, holding empty basins in their hands and their feet like frogs' feet, so that not only could their bodies float in the water, but also swim forward for a long time.

One day, Xiao Ji and her good friend Lin Lin went to her uncle's fish pond to wash clothes. After washing for a while, Linlin stopped washing and went to the water to learn to swim as usual. Xiao Ji had a lot of clothes and didn't go. Linlin took the basin and swam around happily in the water, and asked Xiao Ji to go down too. Xiao Ji just buried her head and washed the clothes, she wanted to take advantage of the good weather, wash the clothes and then dry the clothes in her uncle's yard. Linlin swam more and more energetically, and slowly swam to a deeper place, getting farther and farther away from Xiao Ji. Xiao Ji looked up and was taken aback, she shouted loudly: "Old Lin, come back quickly, it's dangerous over there!" Linlin couldn't stop at all, she continued to swim forward, suddenly, Xiao Ji saw the basin that Linlin was carrying floated to the side, Linlin's body fell straight down, and slowly, her head was out of sight.