After becoming a master in the county, his wife and eldest son worked in the agricultural cooperative, and the family had a stable income, and the situation was improving. Within a few years, her daughter Ye Zi also went to high school.

Although Ye Zi is small, she is already sensible, she understands in her heart that it was her brother who dropped out of school to give her the opportunity to study with peace of mind, so the child cherishes it very much, although the grades are not very good, but she is very serious about studying. Perhaps it is because of this affection cultivated since childhood, that Ye Zi and Gen got along well in the following decades, no matter how things changed in the world. Of course, that's another story.

At the beginning of man, nature is good. In the high school, Ye Zi saw that his classmates always bullied Yingzi, and scolded Yingzi as a "landlord's wife" at every turn; when someone lost something, he always suspected Yingzi first; he obviously didn't take Yingzi on duty, but he also called Yingzi to clean up, saying that it was labor reform: Yingzi often cried secretly, but he didn't dare to tell the teacher.

Yingzi is the youngest daughter of Liu Yunsheng's family, her big name is Liu Fengying, her nickname is Yingzi, and she and Ye Zi are classmates in high school. Yingzi melon seed face, double eyelids, not much voice when he speaks, quite the kind of inner show, not tall, often like to comb two short braids. Yingzi doesn't like to talk at school, let alone be lively.

Although Ye Zi heard that Yun Sheng, who is Yingzi's father, had said something bad to the Wu family, those classmates were too much for Yingzi, and she couldn't see it. Ye Zi thought to himself, didn't the teacher say that "you can't choose your background, you can choose the path", Yingzi is good at studying and diligent, obviously those classmates are wrong. So, as soon as he saw someone bullying Yingzi, Ye Zi stood up and fought unevenly. This time to help, twice to help, Yingzi regarded Ye Zi as his best friend.

The days also passed quickly, and before I knew it, I graduated from high school. Like most peasant girls, Ye Zi and Yingzi both worked in the village after graduation, working in the fields with the adults. This is a simple and full of strong collectivist spirit of the era, the Zhuanghu people turned over and liberated, from the bottom of their hearts burst out of the passion to change the poor and white. Ye Zi, together with everyone, hauled manure, ploughed the land, raked the field, harvested wheat, planted autumn, and picked cotton in the production team, and gradually became the full labor of the production team.

In addition to Yingzi, Ye Zi also has two good female classmates, one is Sun Xin'e, the daughter of Sun Renyi's family, nicknamed E'er, and the other is Xing Haidong's daughter Xing Cuihuan, nicknamed Huan'er.

Sun Renyi, who was called Sun Qiliang when he was a child. Judging from this former name, it seems to have something to do with Sun Qiming. In fact, Sun Renyi's father and Sun Qiming's father are cousins who have not come out of Wufu, and the two families live not far from each other. Sun Renyi's old father did not give birth to a son and a half daughter, so he succeeded Sun Qiming's second brother, Sun Qiliang, and changed his name to Renyi, and his nickname was changed to Renwa. At present, Renwa is already three sons and one daughter, the eldest one, the third one and the youngest are all sons, and the second is a daughter, called Sun Xin'e, nicknamed E'er.

As for Xing Haidong, he lives in a small alley in Xitou Lane in Liuwan. There are two in this alley, Huan'er's house is in the innermost, and there is a wall at the end of the alley. On the wall is a diamond-shaped square of lime gray inlaid with bricks, and in the middle of the square is written in black lacquer. Immediately on the right side of the word Qin, it is the slight door of Huan'er's house. The legs of the door are made of bricks, a black lacquered wooden door, facing the south gable of Dongxia, and on the wall is a simple black and white painting. The courtyard is not large, with five north buildings, three east buildings, and three west buildings. Of course, Uncle Huan'er's family also lives in the yard. At this moment, Haidong has three sons and one daughter, and the daughter is the third, called Xing Cuihuan, nicknamed Huan'er.

Ye Zi, Huan'er, E'er and Yingzi are all girls born in the same year, but Huan'er has a bigger birthday, Ye Zi's birthday is the second, E'er's birthday is the third, and Yingzi's birthday is the youngest. The four little girls were in the same class in the high school, and after graduation, they all worked in the village. Although they don't live in the same alley, the four little girls often like to play together, either going to this house together, or going to that house together, doing needlework or something, calling themselves the four sisters.

The Xing family, the Sun family, and the Liu family are all authentic Liuwan people, and they naturally have more roots in the village than the Wu family, an outsider. Although the composition of the Yingzi family is not good, it is a big surname in Liuwan, and according to the people in the village, there are many people in the family. Huan'er's father was an accountant in the production team, and he often had a pen pinned to his jacket pocket. E'er's father is a village cadre, and no one dares to mess with him in the village. Huan'er and E'er have their own rooms at home, and they are both folded rooms at both ends of their parents' houses, which are independent and warm.

The two-end folding house is a characteristic of the houses in the persimmon bay area. Generally, it is a five-room tiled house, divided into two households, the two rooms on one side are an entrance door and a large window, and the three rooms on the other side are two-end folding houses. That is to say, the three rooms are a door with a large window on one side, a hall in the middle, and a bedroom on each side, separated by a thin partition wall, which is called the house wall. There is only one door frame on the partition wall with a curtain and no door, so it is very convenient to come and go on both sides.

Under the windowsill of the bedroom is a large earthen kang, and it is also bright to do needlework on the kang during the day, and you can sleep at night as soon as the curtains are drawn. And the earthen kang is quite large, it is the kind of big earthen kang from the front eaves wall to the back eaves wall, one end to the other, if you sew a quilt or something on the kang, it is spacious enough. If you come to relatives and spend the night, four or five people can sleep on a kang upright, and you don't feel too crowded. No, the four little girls are either in the Huan'er house or in the E'er house, anyway, they are inseparable, like sisters.

There is a husband and wife who are just Ye Zi, a girl, and they are naturally very fond of each other. Ye Zi is a monkey, five years younger than her brother Gen'er, with a melon seed face, red phoenix eyes, white skin, slightly yellow and curly hair, and often two thick braids. This girl has been enthusiastic since she was a child, very likable, and ingenious, what to pinch flower buns, cut paper, tie paper flowers, she can learn it, there is nothing in the village that is not boastful.

According to You'er, at noon on the day when the leaves were born, after lunch, he went to the kang and took a nap, and then he had a dream when he lay down. I dreamed that I was sitting under the persimmon tree resting, and the blue sky was white, and suddenly a great flood came down from the dirt ridge in the distance. Just when he was stunned, a firebird came out of the white clouds not far above the soil ridge, and the firebird flew straight to the soil ridge, and when it flew over the soil ridge, it suddenly burrowed down into the flood, and after a while, it looked like a sheep going down the water...... Just as he was wondering, a persimmon leaf floated down and fell on his face, which was cool and woke him up from his dream. That afternoon, the mother of the Wu family gave birth to a daughter. Thinking of this strange dream, Boss Chen named his daughter "Yezi". Perhaps because of this dream, some mothers regard their daughters as pearls in their palms and love them very much.

It is natural for the people in the village to go from side to side. The baby's family grew up playing together, and it is also common for the east to run the west. In his spare time, Ye Zi either went to Huan'er's house to play, or went to E'er's house or Yingzi's house to play. The leaves are good-looking, and ingenious, and classmates and families love to see them. If there is anything delicious, as long as the leaves are present, they will be allowed to eat together. As the days go by, whether it is in the Xing family, the Sun family, or the Liu family, Ye Zi doesn't feel that there is anything that is not born, and he doesn't even have any scruples.

Huan'er teased Ye Zi from time to time, saying that when Ye Zi grew up, she would marry her brother. And what about the leaves? I don't take this seriously at all, I still go to Huan'er's house to play, and I don't look embarrassed at all. In the evenings, the girls often do needlework together, and sometimes they play late, so they spend the night together on the big kang of their classmates and do not go home.

Zhen'er has not been in good health recently, she is tired and always feels dizzy, so she went to the village health station to have a look. The doctor at this health station is a barefoot doctor in the village who came back from the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, knows some traditional Chinese medicine. I checked Zhen'er's pulse, looked at the tongue coating or something, and was diagnosed with anemia, so I had to take B12, and I also prescribed some Chinese medicine, so that I could take it home and drink it.

Hearing that her daughter was not in good health, Zhen'er's mother came to Liuwan from Xicun to accompany her for a few days. That night, that is, the night when Zhen'er's mother left, the mother and daughter lay on the kang and chatted for a while: "Zhen'er, there is something that has been left in my heart for a few days, and I want to tell you about it." "Well, you say. "Dongzi is outside, you have to take care of the inside of this house." "Yes. "Don't worry about anything else, it's just ......" "If you have anything to say, just say it, Mom." "Maybe it's a lot of heart. "It's okay, just say it. ”

"I have been here for the past few days, and I have seen Ye Zi sleeping in people's houses from time to time and not coming back. This is not good, I have to talk about this baby. "Hmm. However, there's nothing to worry about, it's not sleeping in her classmate's room, it's fine. "The eldest girl's family, she doesn't go home at night, what is this like? "Now that there is a new society, the babies have all studied high school, and they are all educated, so it doesn't matter. "The rules left by the old man always make sense. It's not good for a girl's house to sleep in someone's house. "Yes. Besides, in the middle of the night, there is no light in the alley, and the daughter's family is timid, walking at night, the black light is blind, and the baby is also cold. "Wouldn't it be nice to put a lantern on it?" "Well, I know, Eming'er will talk about the leaves. ”

After the old mother went back, Zhen'er was working in the agricultural community and doing housework at a sky-high price, so she forgot about it. Later, when I occasionally remembered this, I also said a few words about the leaves, and asked Gen'er to make a small lantern for the leaves. And what about the leaves? The child's nature is dictated, and after a while of restraint, the nephew hits the lantern again—as usual (according to the uncle), and from time to time sleeps in the classmate's house and does not come back. In this regard, Zhen'er did not say anything about her daughter again, let alone strictly discipline Yezi. Although Zhen'er said that she also understood the reason that her adopted daughter was not a godmother, but Ye Zi, a daughter, doted on a little, and felt that the village was safe and sound, and there would be nothing wrong. Of course, this is all gossip, so don't mention it.