When Shandan was about to go to high school, Tie Dan'er was just twenty years old, but Tie Dan'er's mother had already put Tie Dan'er's marriage on the agenda.

First let out the wind, who is willing to marry the girl to Tie Dan'er, and the old couple will serve in three brick houses.

The first is the Xianglian of the Chen Wu family of the Tara River. At that time, Tie Dan'er was herding sheep in the Tara River, and there were three children in the Tara River who were given away by Tie Dan'er's grandfather, that is, Tie Dan'er's third uncle Wangcai.

Wangcai's adoptive parents are local Mongolians, have no children, only adopt Wangcai, as a pearl in the palm of the hand, the family is not bad, Wangcai has not worked since he was a child, and his parents should take care of it. Even such a major event as marrying a daughter-in-law and building a house was properly arranged by his parents.

Wangcai's daughter-in-law is a child daughter-in-law who fled from the mouth, went to Wangcai's family at the age of ten, and married Wangcai at the age of sixteen, and has been living in Wangcai's family. She was accompanied by an older sister and a younger brother. The parents of the three siblings starved to death during the three-year natural disaster in the early sixties.

The three sisters and brothers begged all the way to the Tara River, and Wangcai's parents kindly adopted them, and they raised their little sister when they saw that they were the same age as Wangcai, and became a child daughter-in-law.

The three sisters and brothers have a place to stay, and they are naturally happy to have a bite to eat. My sister agreed to Wangcai's parents' conditions. and settled down with all his heart, and also settled down in the Tara River, and got dozens of acres of land. The days of the He Wangcai family passed peacefully day by day.

It's a pity that Wangcai is not a diligent person, he squats under the sun every day when he is full of food and drink. Fortunately, there is enough labor at home, and his food is indispensable.

What made Wangcai and Wangcai's parents most angry was that Wangcai's daughter-in-law gave birth to five daughters in one go. This made the old couple who had been looking forward to their grandson all their lives very unwilling.

But in the 70s, the country had begun the family planning policy, and Wangcai had to hide in the depths of the grassland with his wife to have children.

It's a pity that God doesn't forbid me! I gave birth to two children in three years, but I couldn't give birth to a single child. Both daughters were sent to the local herdsmen, and they did not dare to take them home.

Wang Cai returned home in a hurry, and his daughter-in-law was forcibly dragged to the hospital for sterilization by the cadres in charge of family planning work in the township.

The family's hopes of continuing the incense were dashed.

Wangcai's father couldn't turn around in one breath and fell ill and died. Only Wangcai's mother is left to help Wangcai live.

Tie Dan'er also heard that the third brother's life was not good, so he went to help others herd sheep while helping his younger brother's family do some farm work, and also piggybacked on several of Wangcai's sheep.

Tie Dan'er's body has not been very strong, but in Wangcai's house, he has become the pillar, helping to do big and small things, and helping Wangcai pick two urns of water when he comes back for a day.

Wangcai's eldest daughter is the same age as Tie Dan'er, and she promised to marry someone early, and since then, Wangcai's relatives have also come to help, and Wangcai's days have not fallen apart.

The villagers of Tara River saw that Tie Dan'er was a real person, so they introduced the family's daughter, Xianglian, to Tie Dan'er.

When the two children met, Tie Dan'er blushed to the root of his ears, and he didn't even dare to raise his head, his eyes stared directly at the ground, extremely embarrassed.

Xianglian is two years older than Tie Dan'er, she looked at Tie Dan'er generously, the little man in front of her has not yet grown into an adult, and he looks like a child. The eyebrows are still beautiful, not very tall, at most 1.7 meters, and the body is also a little thinner. Wearing an ill-fitting blue tunic makes him look much thinner.

Xianglian didn't take a fancy to Tie Dan'er, which made Tie Dan'er's self-esteem very hit! Tie Dan'er thought: I'm a talented person, I have to have strength and strength to have family wealth, which point makes her look down on it?

He was secretly determined to pull one back.

Under the careful management of Tie Dan'er's mother, Tie Dan'er's family is getting better day by day, with more than a dozen sheep, two cows and four horses. Tie Dan'er is big and weak, unable to do heavy work, and grazes a flock of sheep or cattle every year, which is more than the income of working in the field.

Tie Dan'er's mother has several lofty ideals: build three brick houses for Tie Dan'er, provide Shandan for college, and find a good in-law for her little girl Erlian.

She began to work before dawn every day, except for the crops in the fields. She also got up early and raised dozens of rabbits, a dozen chickens, and a pig, and there was nothing to feed, and she came back from pulling wild vegetables from the ground with Tie Daner and Erlian every day to feed rabbits, chickens, and pigs.

Erlian and Mao Dan'er's sister bell are not learning materials, and they ruined the good reputation of Shandan and Mao Dan'er! The teachers said that they didn't believe that the two of them would be the sisters of Shandan and Mao Dan'er, which was really incomparable.

Therefore, when they reached the third grade of primary school, they did not have the face to go to school again, and both went home to work as farmers.

Erlian people are tall and big, and some have strength. Every morning for half an hour, a bag of pigweed is designated to be carried home.

Coupled with the weeding that he used to pull when he was working in the fields, the family's livestock and chickens had something to eat.

It's just that Erlian's little hands have been deformed due to excessive labor.

Tie Dan'er's mother naturally feels sorry for her little girl, but if she wants to be noble in front of others, she must suffer behind her back, which has always been Tie Dan'er's mother's belief.

In order to save two cents and a pound of kerosene money, Tie Dan'er's mother finished working every night, the children fell asleep, and she was still grinding potato flour under the moonlight in the dark light. She cleaned the small potatoes that were taken back from the field that people could not eat, and grinded them one by one on a grinding board nailed with iron sheets, so that the potato flour for the New Year would be settled, and the pigs and chickens would have potatoes to eat.

One year, Shandan was at home during the summer vacation when he graduated from junior high school, and Tiedan'er's mother grabbed the sheep dung of a sheep pen when the heavy rain came.

At night, Tie Dan'er's mother began to have a fever and was very uncomfortable.

Iron Dan'er is not at home at night, only a few children. She woke up Shandan next to her first, Shandan woke up the iron egg in the east room, and the two siblings went to find their father nearby in the dark night.

The two didn't dare to shout loudly, but they looked around to see if there was any light from the flashlight, but they didn't see it after looking around. When the two returned home, their mother was already very strict, vomiting and diarrhea and having a high fever.

Shandan guarded his mother, and Tie Dan'er went to invite Langzhong in the village. Tie Dan'er took a shovel and prepared it for a parry when the village dog attacked.

Tie Dan'er knocked on the door of Lang Zhong's house with all his might, and finally woke Lang Zhong's family from his sleep.

Lang Zhongti slipped up his pants, pulled his shoes, and came to Tie Dan'er's house with Tie Dan'er, and when he saw Tie Dan'er's mother's appearance, he was startled.

I saw that Tie Dan'er's mother had a sallow face and was angry.

Lao Langzhong hurriedly took out a silver needle and pierced Tie Dan'er's acupoint, and Tie Dan'er's mother returned it in one breath.

It was the autumn harvest season, and everyone was exhausted. Lao Langzhong himself was not very good, so he gave Tie Dan'er a few stitches and went back.

Shandan and Tie Dan'er stayed by their mother's side helplessly, just waiting for their father to return at dawn.

Although Tiedan'er's mother was very uncomfortable, she was worried about scaring the children, so she held on silently.

Early in the morning, Fuquan in the village came to borrow a sickle, looked at Tie Dan'er's mother's appearance, knew that it was typhoid fever after the rain, and touched Tie Dan'er's mother's hands, her hands were cold. asked Tie Dan'er to take a sewing needle to bleed Tie Dan'er's mother, but his fingers couldn't bleed anymore, so he had to break the veins in the elbow socket, and the blood spurted out at once.

Both sides were bloody, and Tie Dan'er's mother felt a lot more relaxed all of a sudden.

She said that it was as if the feeling of being tied with a large rope on her head and body suddenly loosened. It wasn't until the sound of iron eggs' big footsteps sounded that the family seemed to have finally come out of hell.

Tie Dan Da hurriedly went to find a barefoot doctor in a neighboring village, and the doctor hurriedly put down his farm work and hung up the infusion bottle.

After hanging the infusion bottle for a few days, Tie Dan'er's mother didn't want to lose again, she was reluctant to pay. When Tie Dan'er's mother said that her life should not be killed, there were seventy-two life-saving pills, and she said that Fuquan bloodletting saved her life. Fuquan lived in the east of the village, and Tie Dan'er's family was in the middle of the village, and that day Fuquan actually remembered that Tie Dan'er's family borrowed a sickle, which was why God sent him to save her life.

It's just that Tie Dan'er's mother's illness is indeed very strict, her neck can't turn, and she can't walk steadily, she was thirty-eight years old that year.

She was very scary, she said that Grandma Tie Dan'er died at the age of thirty-eight, afraid that she would follow in her footsteps, Shandan took care of his mother while feeding the family's pigs, chickens, rabbits, and cooking the family's rice and dry food for the autumn harvest, and her heart was also full of fear.

In her primary grade, she took on the burden of life, and in addition to doing what she had to do, she also found time to review her homework.

She is determined to study hard to get out of the grassland and out of the countryside, and no longer live such a hard and difficult life. She figured out Guò's own efforts to change the fate of her family.

Just in time for the chicken plague in the village, the chicks who had just hatched for two months were all depressed, and Shandan slaughtered a chicken that was not active every day for his mother to stew and eat, and more than 20 chicks were eaten, and most of his mother's illness was cured.