Maybe everyone is carefully avoiding the question Tian Limai asked, and they are unwilling to open that page of painful history, but they didn't expect Tian Limai to ask it!

"Mai'er, what do you ask? Hurry up, adults talk, what is the answer of the little baby?!" Father Tian Hezhuang hurriedly said.

Grandma held the rice bowl and looked at Tian Limai, looking a little ugly on her face!

"Alas——," Grandpa sighed and said, "Grandson, if you want to know how your mother's cough disease is, then I'll tell you about it!"

"Father (Father, is the name of the people of Wuling Mountain for their father-in-law), don't let it pass ——, the past, and mention what it do?!" Father Tian Hezhuang hurriedly stopped!

"He Zhuang, you are a son-in-law, it doesn't matter if we talk about it, maybe you all think that I and my old right guest are at fault for this matter, in fact, it is not what you imagined, the reason why we have not spoken out has been said, this matter is really a bit embarrassing!" Grandpa said.

The whole room didn't make a sound, they didn't even go to eat food, they were all looking at Grandpa and listening to him intently!

Grandpa looked at Tian Limai with his eyes, and then said to Tian Limai: "Grandson, this is to blame that era, in the seventies of the last century, the fashionable is a large collective, and now Huolongping Town is called Huolongping People's Commune, and the village is called the brigade, all add a red character in front, and our village is called." Red Fire Brigade', we are on the four called the eleventh production team, every morning men and women listen to the captain's whistle, unified uphill to the field to do farm work, the production team to each member to fill in the work points, at the end of the year according to the distribution of work, many families do the head of the year, the end of the year is 'overrun households', at that time, our family because of the old, the next is small, a family of seven, the labor force is only me and your grandmother, every year is ' Overspending households', the labor of the production team, we don't dare to delay for a day, and no one delays at that time, even go to a relative, go to the street to buy things, you have to write a leave note, that is your mother Yang Meizhen just gave birth to the full moon, your grandmother carried your mother uphill to do work, if it is to do hand work, you can carry your mother to do it, but if it is digging soil, weeding, planting seedlings and other work, you can only use a 'doll basket' to put your mother in the ground in the cliff recess or under the big tree!"

"Grandpa, wait a minute, what is a 'doll back basket'? What does it look like? Sister Yang Tingting interrupted her grandfather's narration and asked.

"Granddaughter, this 'doll back basket' is a kind of back basket specially woven by the craftsman to carry a small baby, large at the top and narrow at the bottom, with a seat in the middle, which looks a bit like a chair, but it is woven with bamboo strips all around!" Grandpa explained.

Sister Yang Tingting nodded, indicating that she understood! But Tian Limai didn't understand the "overspending household" again, and he asked: "Grandpa, what do you mean by 'overspending household'?" ”

"Oh, some things in the fifties, sixties, and seventies of the last century, now it's funny to say it, to you small babies, a lot of words have to be explained, you know, that's the 'overspending household' as the name suggests, that is, more than their ability to pay, that is, overpay, at that time, many families with less labor force were busy all year round, and at the end of the year, the production team accounted for it, overspending, and became an 'overspending household', and it was necessary to pay money to the production team!" Grandpa explained.

Tian Limai nodded, and also said that he understood!

Grandpa then recounted: "It was a hot day, it was a sunny day, it was the production team that organized women to hoe the bud grain, your grandmother couldn't carry your mother on her back, because she was afraid that the bud leaves would scratch her face, and she was afraid that the sun would bask your mother, so she put your mother in a 'doll back basket', chose a cliff recess, put your mother in it, and then your mother went to hoe with the women, at first your mother began to cry, at that time, it was normal for the child to cry, and after the child cried for a while, he would cry and fall asleep!"

"After your mother cried for a while, she didn't cry, and your grandmother thought it was the same as usual, so she didn't care, because at that time there was a rule in the production team that a woman who had no one at home to take the child could take the child to the field, but the child should be left in the field and not be delayed all the time, and the interval between feeding or caring for the child should be more than one hour, and not more than ten minutes at a time, and the daily work of the lactating woman should be deducted by two points!

"Your mother didn't cry, your grandmother hoeed the grass with confidence, and it wasn't until a little later that your grandmother went to take care of it, and this sight frightened your grandmother to shout!"

Grandpa paused when he said this, Tian Limai looked at his grandfather nervously, not knowing what was going on, and his sister Yang Tingting asked, "Grandpa, what's wrong?" What's going on? ”

Sister Yang Tingting's tone seemed very urgent.

Tian Limai glanced at her grandmother and found that her grandmother's whole body began to tremble, and when her grandfather saw it, he hurriedly held her grandmother's hands with both hands, and comforted: "Old right guest, don't be like this, this matter is over!"

Grandma's hands broke free of her grandfather's hands, and her hands held her head tightly, so she looked very scared, and her mother Yang Meizhen saw it, and quickly put down her rice bowl and walked over to stand behind her grandmother, hugged her grandmother tightly and said: "Mother, don't be afraid, it's all over, isn't it good for me?"

Because of her mother Yang Meizhen's embrace, her grandmother's love seemed to have improved slightly, and her whole body trembled a little lighter, but she still showed a frightened look, and her mother Yang Meizhen's hand stroked the top of her grandmother's head: "Mother, it's okay, I'm fine!"

Seeing that his grandmother's feelings had improved slightly, his grandfather went on to say, "Your grandmother is desperate to ......."

As soon as my grandfather began to speak, my grandmother's whole body trembled very violently, and her hands began to hold her head tightly again, looking very scared!

"Dad, don't talk about it! Mother can't stand it......!" Mother Yang Meizhen said to her grandfather.

"Alas, Mei Zhen, as soon as this is mentioned, your mother can't stand it, how many years, sometimes your mother will be scared awake in her sleep, some people say, after inviting someone to 'take the shock', you will forget about it, we are all messed up, but your mother is still like this, that incident makes you remember it too much!" Grandpa sighed.

"My mother-in-law, my mother was afraid to mention it, so I won't talk about it, although we don't know what happened at the time? But I'm sure something extraordinary happened!" Grandpa said to his grandfather.

"My family, at that time, the news spread far and wide, and even the newspapers in the state published it, haven't you heard of it?" Grandpa said.

Without waiting for grandpa to reply, his father Tian Hezhuang picked up his wine glass and hurriedly said to his grandfather: "Father, come on, come on, don't patronize and talk, you still have to drink and eat, I salute you, my grandfather!"

"He Zhuang, don't just respect me alone, let's all drink together, drink together!" Grandpa picked up the wine glass and compared it to grandpa first!

"In-laws, drink, this is He Zhuang's respect for you, you drink first!" Grandpa didn't bring a glass, he said.

Grandpa didn't say anything more, and put down his glass after taking a sip of wine!

At this time, my grandmother had gradually recovered to normal, and my mother Yang Meizhen stood behind my grandmother, coughing twice, and my grandmother said: "Meizhen, don't stand here, go sit and roast your feet, or you will cough again!"

Mother Yang Meizhen saw that her grandmother was back to normal, so she returned to her seat and sat down, stretched her feet to the edge of the fire pit and roasted her!

Tian Limai wanted to know what was going on, but just now his grandfather stopped talking, and Tian Limai was no longer good and didn't dare to tell his grandfather!

Tian Limai glanced at her sister Yang Tingting, her sister Tian Liyu and Tian Yimei, Tian Limai found that the three of them were looking at their grandfather, and their eyes were eager for their grandfather to finish speaking, but the three of them may be the same as Tian Limai thought in their hearts, and they didn't dare to ask!

Just when dinner was about to end, the second uncle Tian Shuizhuang and the second uncle came to pick up Tian Mi Mei and went home, the second uncle Tian Shuizhuang was invited by his father to the table to drink, and the second uncle did not accept the invitation of his mother Yang Meizhen to "eat more" on the grounds of "having eaten"!

After dinner, the second uncle Tian Shuizhuang and the second uncle took Tian Yimei home, and when she left, Tian Qimei said to her grandfather: "My father-in-law, I want to listen to everything you said!"

"Sister Tian, go back to sleep quickly, and talk about it when your father-in-law has time!" Grandpa said.

My sister Tian Liyu and my aunt helped my mother Yang Meizhen clean up the dishes and chopsticks, and Tian Limai saw it and hurriedly went to help!

After cleaning up on the dinner table, he went to the stove house to wash dishes, brush pots, and tidy up the kitchen.

As soon as her mother Yang Meizhen and her aunt left, Tian Limai asked her sister Tian Liyu, who was also busy, while she was busy: "Sister, you listened to your grandfather's story, what do you think happened when you pressed it?" ”

"Brother, how do I know? However, something terrible must have happened, otherwise, when it comes to it now, grandma is like that!" Although her sister Tian Liyu is only eleven years old, every time Tian Limai talks to her, she feels that what her sister Tian Liyu says is like an adult, and she says it very well!

"Sister, let's take a guess and see if we can guess? The point is that it has something to do with Mom's cough, either the water suddenly came out of the cliff recess and drowned Mom, or—"

Before Tian Limai's words were finished, his sister Tian Liyu interrupted him and said: "Brother, the day that my grandfather said was a big sunny day, and besides, my grandfather didn't say that the cliff recess was close to the ditch and the stream, how could water suddenly come out of the cliff recess?!" ”

"Sister, since it's impossible to get out of the water, is there a sudden strong wind?" Tian Limai said again.

Sister Tian Liyu laughed, she said: "Brother, don't guess, the wind won't make my mother cough, not to mention the wind, the cliff is just sheltered from the wind, how can it blow Mom!"