In the evenings of the eighties, the scenery is particularly sultry. The slanted beam of light sprinkled on the passers-by, popping up layers of halos, and the beauty was somewhat unreal.

Yihai was not in the mood to enjoy the scenery everywhere, he was riding a Phoenix sorghum bicycle and was sweating profusely to his hometown.

Riding to the door, Yihai rudely wiped the sweat from his forehead, and as soon as he leaned the dilapidated bicycle against the corner, he heard a cry like a cat barking from the earthen tile house.

His heart shrank suddenly, and he asked the old man squatting in the courtyard in a panic: "Dad, male or female?" ”

Daddy Yi made a calm face, knocked the dry tobacco stick, and said, "Girl." ”

Yihai's face turned dark, and his excited heart suddenly sank to the bottom.

How is it a girl again! He already has three daughters, so he looks forward to his daughter-in-law's birth being a big fat boy. Innocence is not a thing, and he will not give anything if he wants it.

Lin Po held the child in one hand, lifted the gray-green door curtain with the other, and said with a kind smile: "Old boy, hug the baby, white and fat, laugh when you tease, you must be a well-behaved and filial female doll when you grow up." ”

This is the fourth time that Lin Po has come to Yijia, and she knows the situation of Yijia very well, so she is afraid that Yihai will be ruthless and give the girl to others. She pondered, as long as this parent has hugged the baby, she is reluctant to give it to others.

Yihai was half-forced to pick up the little baby, looked down and saw the little baby yawning, the delicate and tender little appearance went directly into the bottom of her eyes, and the reluctance in her heart disappeared by half a point.

"Give me the baby." According to Daddy's face, his face was still blue.

Yihai's hand tightened, before his daughter-in-law was born, he said ironclad that if it was a girl, he would give it away, and it was not difficult for him to make this decision, but now that he was holding the baby in his hand, he felt a little more reluctant in his heart.

"People are still waiting outside." According to his father's words, three points of stern and seven points of persecution, he urged so much because he didn't want to have any more variables. The family is already poor enough, and raising a girl will be a fine for overbirth, and they can't take it out.

Yihai was silent, neither agreeing nor refusing.

According to the father, he faded and sighed, "The daughter-in-law's mother-in-law's brother-in-law's house has built a building, and the baby can't stand the grievances there." ”

Lin Po has been delivering babies all her life, and she has seen too many such things, although she can't stop it, if she should be persuaded, she won't vomit or be unhappy.

"Old Five, what you said is not right, her mother's brother-in-law also has three biological sons in the family, this son bullied his daughter, the biological and the adopted, which one, isn't this a clear thing? also said that he was not wronged, that is, he wanted to feel comfortable and deceive himself. ”

"Not anymore."

Yihai's words decided Yimi's stay and departure.

Yimi's birth was unpopular, and after being fed a meal of milk, she was thrown into the corner of the bed and left to sleep by herself.

When the clock struck five o'clock in the afternoon, the three little girls came to the most sunny room in the house, put their schoolbags on the log table less than a meter high, and climbed into bed one by one, looking at the new members of the family.

Yijia lifted the quilt, looked at the bottom of the girl, and muttered with some disappointment: "It's my sister again." ”

Yi Min was expressionless, and pulled her sleeve to wipe the girl's saliva. She already has two younger sisters, and she wants a younger brother too.

Yijia couldn't look down on the eldest sister's wooden appearance, rolled her eyes indecently, pulled the third sister's fat little chubby face, and said, "I don't go to grandma these days, and this time I don't know what our grandma said to scold Huai." ”

Yi Xiaopang nodded, she was not stupid, she went to her grandmother in the past, just to ask for something good to eat, at this juncture, she didn't want to be disgusted.

Taking out the homework book, Yijia said: "Sister, I heard from the front table that our school is going to merge with the attached middle school, which is far away from home, and it takes half an hour to ride a bicycle, and the school will definitely ask for accommodation at that time." ”

Yi Min paused as he pulled out his book, and simply said "um".

"The teachers of the attached middle school are not good, I don't want to go." Yijia looked at her sister's face and continued, "I went to the 13th Middle School this afternoon and made two sets of papers in the admissions office. ”

When Yi Xiaopang heard the paper, his eyes exploded, "Second sister got a full score again?" ”

Yijia's expression was lonely for a moment, and said, "The thirteenth middle school is in a hurry to catch up with the curriculum, and it is half a semester faster than our school. I didn't have a lot of knowledge points in advance, and I will only pass. ”

Yi Min asked, "How do you say that?" ”

"I can go to No. 13 Middle School as a transfer student, and pay for the tuition out of my own pocket."

Yi Min's hand copying the textbook slowly stopped, was silent for a moment, and continued to copy the textbook.

At night, Yimi, who only knew how to eat and sleep, was hugged by Yihai to sleep with them, and the three little sisters squeezed into two large beds made of single beds and squeezed to sleep.

Yi Min looked at the swaying branches outside the window, unable to fall asleep for a long time, too many things in his mind piled up, and unexpectedly insomnia.

The third sister goes to preschool and doesn't spend any money. The second sister has been smart since she was a child, and when other people's children just learned to recognize numbers, the second sister was already able to add, subtract, multiply and divide. In order to save tuition, the second sister skipped all the way to junior high school. Fortunately, in order to avoid the fine, my father wrote the age on the second sister's household registration book by five years. I didn't even encounter any problems with the formalities.

The second sister's classmates thought that the second sister was born short because of her natural shortness, but they didn't know that the second sister was born tall and half a head taller than her peers.

The second sister is so smart and a person with great talents, she doesn't want to delay the second sister.

The next day, Yi Min got up early, cleaned up the house lightly, and made a simple breakfast before waking up the second and third sisters.

Yi's father and Yi's grandmother live in the uncle's house, and they don't come to the house to eat, and there are only Yihai and the three daughters on the low wooden table.

Yi Min brought her mother a bowl of thick rice with brown sugar, and a large bowl of noodles to her father, and then began to eat her own corn paste.

"Dad, after this semester, I want to quit school and work."

Yihai sucked the noodles and didn't say a word. Yesterday's blow was too great, and until now, his mood is still gray.

Yi Min said: "The classes in the third year of junior high school are too difficult, and I can't keep up with them. Anyway, I can't get into high school. ”

"Hmm." Yihai got up and rode a bicycle to catch up with work, not taking the words of the eldest daughter seriously.

"What a good person you do! What can you do without going to school! Go to the weaving mill like everyone else? And then die of old age in the weaving factory for the rest of your life! Yi Jiaqi's eyes were red. I knew that my sister had such a plan, so she wouldn't say anything, even if she went to the attached middle school with poor teachers, she could be admitted to high school.

Yi Xiaopang timidly looked at the eldest sister, and then at the second sister, holding the big bowl, not daring to speak.

"What are you arguing about!" Sun Shuxi's roar came from the east room.

Yi Xiaochubby stood up and ran to the east house with a fart, shouting loudly as she ran: "The second sister got a full score in the exam, and the teacher rewarded her with a notebook. ”

According to Xiaopang's eyes and talking nonsense, she loves to rub her father's radio on weekdays, at a young age, she doesn't know all the words, but the vocabulary in her head is amazing, and the words she says make people laugh and surprise at the same time. This kind of acting skills with the mud have long been practiced.

Yijia and Yimin looked at each other, the two deserved to be sisters, and they were stubborn and refused to back down.

Yi Xiaopang, who ran to the east room, stood at the head of the bed, supported his fleshy chin, looked at his sister, and asked with a smile: "Is my sister very well-behaved?" Did you make trouble? Mother's body is important, and it must be taken care of. Tell me what you want to eat, and I'll find a way to get it for you. ”

The sweet words of not wanting money were frantically smashed at Sun Shuxi, or they said that the girl was a caring little padded jacket, and these words made my heart warm just by listening to them.

"My sister is very well-behaved, much better than all of you." Yesterday, she still had some regrets in her heart, and even a little angry little girl. After a peaceful night, I saw the little girl's well-behaved and clever little appearance in the morning, and I felt pity for this little girl in my heart.

"My sister looks like a different person." Yi Xiaopang teased his sister, and let Sun Shuxi see it when he made his sister laugh. "Mother, look, my sister looks so good when she smiles."

Sun Shuxi touched Yi Xiaopang's face and said, "Don't worry, I won't send my sister away." ”

Yi Xiaopang exhaled a big breath, patted his chest and laughed.

"Little girl, goblin!" Sun Shuxi poked Yi Xiaopang's head and laughed along.

"Sanya, tell your mother, what's wrong with your eldest sister?" The eldest girl is the meat that fell from her, how could she not understand, when the meal was just delivered, the eldest girl's face was a little wrong.

"Mother, I told you, you can't be in a hurry."

"Say, your mother hasn't experienced anything big!"

Yi Chubby sighed like a little adult, although she didn't like to read, but she also knew that only reading could make a difference.

"The eldest sister wants to drop out of school." Yi Xiaopang thought about it and added, "The money saved is used for the second sister's tuition." ”

"What did your dad say?"

"Dad just said 'um' and didn't say anything." Yi Xiaopang remembered his father's appearance just now, and his eyes that were always bright and sunny were a little less bright. Dad never cared about the three of them.

Sun Shuxi pushed Yi Xiaopang, "It's time, hurry up and go to school." ”

When the house was completely quiet, Sun Shuxi changed the little girl's diaper, gently pinched the tender buttocks, and said with an inexplicable smile: "After so many years, I am still such a dead man, I owe it!" ”。