Dear Mr. Sheep Crowd,

First of all, thank you for inviting me to your home in the midst of your busy schedule, and for preparing a sumptuous dinner to entertain me, the best food I've had in twenty-two years, so much so that when I come home I often think that my saliva has soaked my undershirt several times, and I feel embarrassed and overwhelmed. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

I remember the last time I talked to you, you thanked me so much for helping you up after you fell, and it made me a little ashamed, after all, I just did something that a normal person should do, and you don't have to take it to heart. I was deeply impressed by your humble style and erudite cultural insights, and I was very eager to have more conversations with you, and I was very happy to hear that you would write a novel that reflected the growth of our rural youth, and asked me to provide you with some personal experiences to use as material for your writing, and I was more than happy to tell you, and at the same time I was apprehensive, and I hoped that my poor writing would bring you some information that you wanted.

Let's start with my birth. I listened to my mother tell me in detail about the situation when I was born, I was born in Huandun Village, Taierzhuang District, which is the place where you fell last time, it was the Spring Festival of 1994, it has been snowing heavily for a few days, the snow is almost drowning the long legs of my big black donkey, they are howling in the cold, the sound of firecrackers outside the house comes and goes, and the strong smell of the New Year permeates this ordinary village, at this time I have been living in my mother's belly for seven months, which makes me tired, I am eager to come out to see the outside world. Oh, you may be surprised by my description, because I may not have told you that I am a man with a great memory, and what is even more inconceivable is that I remember every detail clearly from the time I became a fertilized egg, sir, which once distressed me.

When I struggled to get out of my mother's womb, it was already dark, although I felt a strong sense of pain, but this could not stop my pace, at this time my mother still did not realize that I was going to be born, after all, the due date was two months later, when my hand was stretched out of it, my young and thin mother was frightened, she didn't know what to do, so she screamed desperately, the loudness of the voice was far louder than my big black donkey, and the aunt who lived next door heard the movement and rushed over first, At this time, my father was gambling with a group of people at the village council.

My aunt, who had been a militia company commander and had experience in childbirth, saw that my mother was about to give birth, so she immediately made a decision to deliver the baby in a town five kilometers away, and then decisively assigned the task to the five children she was following: "Big girl, you go to lead the donkey, second girl, you go and inform your uncle (that is, my father), third girl, you go and bring the padded jacket I am wearing, fourth girl, you lead your brother back to sleep, don't let your brother freeze." ”

My aunt's five children went separately according to her instructions, and after a while my father also came back from the village committee, he was covered in snow and panting and said to my aunt, "What's wrong with you, daughter-in-law?" My aunt slapped my father and said, "That's your daughter-in-law," and then my father realized that he had recognized the wrong person, and then he took my mother's hand and said, "Are you going to give birth?" My mother was speechless in pain at this time, nodded to my father again and again, my father looked up at my aunt, and then I was at a loss, my aunt didn't talk nonsense, picked up my mother and ran outside, and then put the cotton jacket that the three daughters took back and covered my mother, my father followed behind, and the aunt put my mother in a basin, the basin was not very big, but my mother's thin body sat in it and seemed to have a lot of space, because the snow was too deep, the big black donkey couldn't walk, So I had to use human traction, my father was duty-bound, played the role of a slender man, just like that, my mother sat in the basin and was led by my father with a rope to run wildly to the town, and then my aunt held the basin to grasp the direction, fortunately the snow was relatively thick, and sitting on the basin and sliding to avoid bumps.

When I finally came to the hospital, it was a very dilapidated courtyard, the lights were very dim, and the walls had not been painted for many years, and they were "bloodstained" eroded by the rain that leaked when it rained. My father couldn't take care of so much, tired and collapsed directly on the ground in the hall, fortunately, the aunt who had been a militia still had some physical strength, she looked in the hospital for a while, but did not find the doctor on duty, only found a nurse, the woman in her early twenties, sitting in a room and snorting melon seeds, the movements were extremely elegant, the aunt later told me that it was the most beautiful girl she had ever seen. Sir, I may be going to tell you a wrong theory, because my aunt was very insistent that she didn't think that a beautiful woman was of much use, probably because the nurse wouldn't be able to deliver the baby, and the beautiful woman insisted that we leave the hospital because she couldn't take responsibility for the problem.

At this time I was almost suffocated, my mother's face was bloodless, and when my aunt saw this, she played her decisive style, pushed my mother out of the hospital, and then took my outstretched hand and dragged me out of the womb, sir, so I was born at the door of the hospital, so later my name was Yang Gate.

I was happy to finally come out of my mother's belly, but I couldn't laugh because I was so weak, and my aunt wrapped me in my mother's padded jacket, and she was shocked by my appearance, because I was probably only a little bigger than the current can, so much so that my aunt thought it might be a cat, and in order to determine my sex, she peeled my legs with her index finger and came to the conclusion that I was a boy. Auntie's eyesight is very good, when she was a militia company commander, she was a pacesetter, and no matter how small the target was, she could accurately hit it.

Sir, you may have thought this interesting thing that caused a sensation in our town a few days after my birth, and people could not believe that such a young child could survive. But at that time I just wanted to drink milk, but my skinny mother's breasts were deflated, there was no milk at all, my mother held me with one hand and put my mouth on her nipples, I sucked hard, but sir, I failed, and my mother's nutrition seemed to have been sucked up by the seven months I had been in her belly.

My father, who had some strength at this point, stood up and looked at me, then was stunned.

Eventually, I survived in good health.