After muttering a few words to the midwife, Zhang's mother called the old man to talk to the midwife, drank a sip of water first, and then went straight to Yezi's house. As soon as she entered the house, Zhang's mother first exchanged a few words with her mother-in-law. Seeing that his mother-in-law was in good spirits, he changed his words and said with a calm face: "This, it will take two months from the time I enter the door, but I gave birth today, and it doesn't look like a miscarriage." ”

As soon as she heard this, Ye Zi's mother came back to her senses, and she was stunned for a long time speechless. And what about the leaves? The tears have already burst out of their eyes. She lowered her head and began to sob. Suddenly, the scene from ten months ago came to mind:

It was the height of summer, and it was a shower in the second half of the day, which was cool and pleasant. I didn't work in the field, and I was idle, so Ye Zi washed his head, dried it for a while, braided his hair, changed into a red checkered homespun round neck gown with a white background and exposed shoulders, and wore a pair of sky-blue Chinese-style homespun pants. The placket of the round-necked gown just fell on the red belt, and when you walk, the red belt is hidden and sometimes visible, which is very good-looking. As usual, Ye Zi had dinner, brought a needlework basket, and went to play with the female classmates. While doing needlework, the two girls talked and laughed and chatted, and before they knew it, it was more than ten o'clock in the evening. The female classmate said that it was so late, so she went back. Ye Zi took off his coat, wore only homespun pants and covered sheets, and slept on the kang of his female classmates. After all, it's summer, and it's common for girls to toss and turn when they're asleep, and it's common to cover poorly and bare-chested. I don't know how long I slept, Ye Zi felt as if someone was pressing on her body, blocking her lips with her mouth, and the sharp stubble made her face itch. The man was so drunk that he groped her breasts and her legs. The leaves struggled hard, but they were almost breathless. In shyness, panic and despair, Ye Zi's loose Chinese-style pants were ripped open...... The poor leaf was like a lamb, afraid of being embarrassed, and did not dare to squeak, but endured the pain and let the man move. Through the moonlight through the curtains, Ye Zi was surprised to see a familiar face. That night, Ye covered his face with a sheet and lay down until dawn with tears in his eyes. And the female classmate who slept on the other side of the big kang slept until dawn with snoring, unaware of what happened at night.

Cheng Tian's family works in the adult pile, and the flirting and meat jokes between middle-aged men and women also make Ye Zi know something about men and women. In fact, there is a custom of "listening to the room" in the persimmon bay area. The listening room is the night of candles in the cave room, which allows the young men to hide outside the wedding room and eavesdrop on the affairs of the bride and groom. If they are discovered, not only will they not be scolded, but the bride and groom or their families will also have to give candy and boiled eggs to eat. Of course, this is idle talk. Although Ye Zi didn't tell anyone, including her father, about that night, when she returned home the next day, she asked her mother to find a matchmaker to urge the Zhang family to marry, because she was worried that something would happen to her. Because of this, after getting married, Ye Zi has been unsteady in his heart.

Now, the previous sense of foreboding has unfortunately been confirmed. Paper can't hold fire. Things have come to this point, and Ye Zi has nothing more to say. Seeing that Ye Zi was only crying and didn't speak, Zhang's mother said coldly: "When things come to this point, we won't say anything, it's useless to say." That's the way to go, divorce. After saying this, Zhang's mother turned around and went back to her Beixia. Ye Zi was still sobbing vigorously, but still did not speak. Wu's mother's face was so angry that she couldn't speak. The baby kept crying, and no one cared.

Needless to say, after this Zhang's mother returned to Beixia, she added a generous gift to the midwife, so that the midwife insisted on the outside world, and said that it was difficult to give birth and suffocated to death. At first, she was stunned for a moment, but when she thought of Zhang's mother's previous question, she quickly came to her senses, and she had already guessed the reason, so she didn't say anything and agreed to Zhang's mother's order.

That night, Ye Zi's mother was angry, picked up the baby girl, took advantage of the night, ran to the west of the village in one go, and left the baby in swaddling clothes on the side of the road. Although it was a hot day, the night was relatively cool. However, the population in this era is relatively small, and there are wild wolves and foxes in the countryside from time to time, and from time to time I hear that whose children were taken away by wolves, but I rarely hear that there is anyone who picks up the baby.

Ye Zi can be said to have stayed awake all night, and before dawn the next day, Ye Zi wrapped her headscarf, dragged her weak body, and carried a burden with her mother, went out of Zhang's house, and walked all the way back to Liuwan.

Gen'er ran to the county seat and called his father back. Waiting for the leaves of nature is the cross-examination of the family. Ye Zi's mother said angrily: "Okay, that girl, you can lose your old face." "Ye Zi, what the hell is going on with you?" Ye Zi asked with a serious face. "So what's going on, how did you get to this?" said Dova, too. The leaves bowed their heads and remained silent. "Who bullied you?" Gen'er asked. But the leaves didn't speak, just sobbing.

Sister-in-law Ye Zi said roundly: "The matter has come to this point, it's useless to blame her." If you just have an accident, you feel that something is wrong, and you can fight quickly, and you may be fine. Ye Zi looked up at his sister-in-law, sighed, and still bowed his head and remained silent.

"I can't swallow this breath, who bullied you?" Ye Zi's father still asked. "Bastard, don't put his leg down. Dova shouted again. Maybe it was because his brother's words frightened him to realize something, Ye Zi said with tears in his eyes: "I know that I can't swallow this breath, but I don't want to involve the whole family." I don't want to say anything, so I accept my fate, and you all don't care about it. ”

For a few days, my parents, sister-in-law, and younger brother all asked a few times, but Ye Zi just refused to tell the truth. The family thought to themselves, since the leaf is an elm pimple, admit death, then there is no way, just let her go. My brother and sister-in-law are very good to Yezi, and my little nephew Haihai surrounds Yezi all day long, asking my aunt to take him to play. It's just that Ye Zima's face is not very smiling. After all, Ye Zi had just given birth to a baby and needed to be confined at home, and Wu's mother still burned a sweet noodle soup and beat eggs for Ye Zi to eat before going to work every day. I bought some brown sugar and came back to nourish the leaves.

At this time, slogans such as "The class struggle will be cured as soon as it is grasped" appeared on the earthen walls of the village, painted with lime water. The village still takes grain as the key link, does not operate many kinds of operations, and implements a three-level accounting system of commune, brigade (village) and squad based on the production team, and the large-scale production tools and fields such as livestock, wooden wheels, ox carts, and horse-drawn carts are owned by the collective and used in a unified manner, and the farm work in the fields is also arranged by the leader of the production team. The team implements a division of labor system, with a full-time laborer working for one full-time laborer and a one-time labor diary for ten minutes, and a half-laborer for the elderly and students for a labor diary of five to nine laborers.

Grains such as wheat, millet, millet, beans, sesame, corn, and sorghum, as well as agricultural and sideline products such as cotton, cottonseed oil, and melons, fruits, and vegetables, which are laid down by the production team, are basically distributed equally among each family according to the size of the population, except for handing over public grain and selecting seeds for seed. Of course, there are individual squads that are assigned according to the different situations of full and semi-labor. At the end of the year, according to the unified pricing of agricultural and sideline products, the total output of agricultural and sideline products throughout the year, the depreciation of large agricultural machinery, the expenditure of pesticides and fertilizers, the retention of reserves, the total amount of work for the whole year and other factors, the agricultural profit and unit price of work are calculated. The sum of the labor points earned by each household throughout the year is converted into money according to the unit price of the labor points, and then the total price of the agricultural and sideline products that the household receives throughout the year is subtracted, and the remaining part is the dividend of the family for a year.

At this time, the agricultural production in the village mainly relied on livestock and labor, and the labor productivity was very low, coupled with the "scissors difference" policy of industrial and agricultural products, that is, by lowering the prices of agricultural and sideline products, the peasants were allowed to support urban construction in the form of secret supplements; therefore, at this time, in the rural areas around Persimmon Bay, generally a full labor force could only get two or three cents for one working day, that is, ten cents, and the best was only four or five cents, and the worst was only one or two cents, or even five cents.

Even so, the team's farm work has not decreased. On the contrary, under the call of the agricultural science village and the promotion of production by grasping the revolution, the farm work was arranged quite tightly. In addition to rain and snow, the villagers worked from morning to night, and even proposed to make a good start, and they also had to work on New Year's Day and Spring Festival.

It's just that this day is not beautiful, and there is a drought almost every year, and the harvest in the field is not as good as the year after year. The food rations distributed by the team were not enough to eat, so the villagers spontaneously took their family's fine grains, that is, wheat, to the city on bicycles, and exchanged them for more coarse grains such as cornmeal and sorghum rice in a ratio of one to one, so as to fill their bellies. Even the breeders stole the corn, sorghum, wheat bran and other feeds distributed by the production team to the livestock home as rations.

As a result, the mules, horses, donkeys, and cattle in the production team were all skinny and bone-covered, and they were straining vigorously and were weak. When it came time to work in the fields, the animals did not have long to walk and lay on the ground, and no matter how hard your whip was drawn, the poor animals did not move, only two eyes stared at you blankly, and they jokingly called them airplanes.

The animal could not be pulled, and the person who used the animal could naturally go to rest in a dignified manner, until the animal could get up. Because of this, the captain often arranges those poor animals to be used by those who have heads and faces. When the animal is lying down, the man can squat next to the animal to rest, and the work is still earned. That's the benefit of someone who has a good relationship with the captain.

When the time came to rest, the villagers went around looking for wild vegetables to dig so that they could take them home and mix them in flour to satisfy their hunger. At this time, it is good for a large family in the countryside around Persimmon Bay to eat a small plate of vegetables at a meal, and only during the Spring Festival can they eat a little meat throughout the year. If you go to the temple fair to buy some meat, you like to be fat, not thin, because there is a lack of oil and water in the stomach, and the fat meat tastes delicious. But at this time, the pigs and sheep still have less fat and more lean meat, because they all eat grass and drink farmhouse swill, and they can't eat any oil and water in their stomachs.

As for the clothing of the villagers, it is even more important. For both adults and children, the clothes are patched on top of each other. Some of the boys in the village know how to do needlework, which actually starts by sewing their own clothes and trousers. Anyway, no one dares to say a word rich, let alone show a little bit of wealth, in fact, there is nothing rich to show, even if the situation is better, it is not much better.

Maybe it's because of the nervousness of the situation, maybe it's because she's too careful, anyway, Ye Zi feels different at home than before, and she is suddenly divided. So, after the full confinement, Ye Zi and Xiao Zhang went to the town to go through the divorce procedures, and then went to work in the production team.