Fushun's thoughts still have to return to reality.

The strange big stone in the fifth group of Yangjiawan Village is covered with moss, and a few tenacious pine trees have been stripped of the traces of time after the vicissitudes of life. The boulder is about 30 meters long, 30 meters wide, and about 20 meters high, and looks like a sleeping stone cow from a distance. Underneath the boulder is a wide stone cave, where the babbling stream converges into a clear pearl, and the sound of dripping water lingers in the cave. The fields at the entrance of the cave were planted with wheat, and the green ones made the cattle and the sleeping stone oxen look at them with greed.

Fu Shun touched his belly, he knew that if he didn't go home, Yang Zegui's Huangjing stick would be beaten harder.

"Shun Wazi, you cut off your brain, you don't agree to shout to death, see you sitting in the big stone field, aren't you hungry?" It was Yang Zegui's mother-in-law who spoke, "Go and eat, the red porridge is in the middle pot, the fried cabbage has been eaten by your eldest sister, you eat the cold pickles on the hour, and you don't eat dinner at night!" ”

Fortunately, Yang Zegui's cripple is not at home, otherwise he would definitely not be able to run away from this beating. Fushun hurriedly put the cattle in the cattle pen, picked up the grass and ran to the dark kitchen to serve the rice in the pot, gobbling it down, this day was indeed hungry, the 13-year-old little man was still growing his body.

Fu Shun didn't like this lame father, and he wasn't interested in Yang Zegui's broken leg. Yang Zegui is a celebrity in the production team and the brigade, he is a good hand at farm work before he broke his leg, he has been high and small, he has played abacus well, and he has always been the accountant of the Yangjiawan brigade. Yang Zegui is the fourth oldest in the family, his father is a superstitious wizard, and he hid in the temple to be a monk during the war years, fortunately he is a poor peasant, and he survived in that era.

Yang Zegui was only 22 years old when he became the accountant of the brigade, and everyone called him "Yang Abacus", whether it was just liberated when the land was divided, or when eating a big pot of rice later, "Yang Abacus" was a bowl of water, and everyone in Yangjiawan gave a thumbs up when they saw it. "Yang Abacus" married Shufen at the age of eighteen, and gave birth to the eldest girl Shufang at the age of twenty.

In the year when the famine began, Shufang and her mother finally became pregnant again, "Yang Abacus" looked forward to the stars and the moon, and after finishing Yangjiawan's accounts, he went to Xie Jiaba's accountant Xie to do the accounts, just for Lao Xie to give some relief. This time, the competitive Shufang Niang finally gave birth to a son, and the courtyard of the old Yang family exploded. Because, Wizard Yang himself always feels that he is a person who has eaten fast, and having seven sons is all fateful, and several brothers of "Yang Abacus" have already married daughters-in-law, and all of them are not angry, either one is not born, or all are girls, the second Yang Zehua gave birth to a boy, and he died in less than half a month.

The old wizard held this fat boy who weighed eight pounds, and his calloused hands kept stroking the child's forehead, and there were words in his mouth, Yang Zegui knew that this was the baby's grandfather who was doing things for him, and after reciting a passage to bless him with peace and disaster, the wizard was relieved: "Fourth, this baby is not easy, the fourth daughter-in-law is also pregnant with several, except for Shufang, none of them have lived, so I took him with him, I said hello to Taishang Laojun, the baby is rich and noble!" I gave him a name, you see if you want it - Jianhua, health, prosperity, wealth. "Yang Abacus" didn't speak, hugged the child to express his acquiescence, and muttered in his heart, Dad only knows a few idioms of glory and wealth, fortune and treasure, and the seven brothers are lined up in turn, if there is really an eighth, it has to be called Yang Zebao.

I don't know if it's really fateful exhaustion, after Yang Zegui gave birth to two daughters Shufen and Shufei one after another, Jianhua not only did not enjoy any glory and wealth, but an accident caused the six-year-old boy to die in Huangquan. Wizard Yang fell ill in bed for a month and did not go out, he regretted that he gave birth to seven sons, and what he hated the most was that he actually worshiped Taishang Laojun and went to worship the Buddha, and suffered so many sins when he was vulgar. When I dream, I always say to the fourth child, the fourth child, you have to pay attention, you can't go to the East!

Yang Zegui, who has gone to school and demolished the temple and knocked down the Bodhisattva, does not believe in the wizard's father's set, his son can be regenerated if he is gone, now is the season to grab water, he is a cadre in the village, and the Yang family reservoir under construction is in the east, and if he does not take the lead in repairing the reservoir, it will not be a matter of people's words. But it was such a coincidence that "Yang Abacus" ignited the explosives to blow up the stone, but his leg was crushed by the big stone and fractured. The brothers of the Yang family worked together to bring the injured Yang Laosi to the executive hospital, and his right leg was amputated, but fortunately, his life was saved, and instead of Yang Laosi's right leg, it would be a branch of wood crutch made by the wizard, and the fourth knew that he would never want a son again in this life.

"Yang Abacus" returned to Yangjiawan from the hospital, he could not participate in the vigorous production movement, and the budget-conscious guy was still there, but the commune removed him from his accounting position, did not pay a penny of compensation and gave him a radical adventurist hat, the commune did not care to praise this accounting hero, because the great proletarian revolutionary leader ** his old man died in Beijing. Yang Laosi didn't complain, he couldn't do the work of grinding on his shoulders and backs, he didn't let himself plan to plate, he always had to live, the three daughters were still watching to eat, and the child and her mother would take care of him. It only took Yang Zegui a year to stand up and pick up a lot of dung with a cane, and the back basket and dustpan that he bent down to weave also earned work. However, he missed Jianhua, or maybe he really wanted a son too much.

Of course, Fu Shun didn't care about Yang Zegui's past, he only knew that Yang Cripple gave birth to three daughters and died two sons, and he was just a substitute for Yang Lao's fourth son. But Fushun will never forget how he came to Yangjiawan.

The ignorant Fushun and the rich family didn't know what his brother's tears represented, and that night, he fell asleep early. The hot weather makes the children especially greedy for the coolness of the midsummer morning, and on the bamboo mat woven by his father, Fushun rubbed his eyes and called out to the eldest brother and the rich family. The uncle brought in a woman and said to Fushun: "Shun baby, your mother is here to pick you up." Xiao Shunzi opened his eyes suddenly, he was afraid that he was dreaming, he couldn't remember his mother's appearance for a long time. Fu Shun looked at the eldest brother with a blank eye, Fu Qiang knew that this woman was not Fu Shun's mother, but from today on, at least Fu Shun had a mother.

"Shun'er, she is your mother, and you will call her mother in the future. It's the eldest brother who has no interest, and you are not too young, go to Yangjiawan, your mother will hurt you, and come back to see the eldest brother and your younger brother when you grow up in two days. The three brothers cried together, and the little rich family didn't know where the second brother was going, but he knew that it was really difficult for the eldest brother to take the two younger brothers. Fu Qiang didn't know if what he was doing was right, but he knew that the lame Yang Zegui was a good person, Yang Zegui's mother-in-law was very capable, and Fu Shun would not suffer if he went to the Yang family.

In this way, eight-year-old Xiao Fushun followed this strange "mother" over three mountains, crossed four rivers, and walked from morning to evening before arriving in this dilapidated tiled house. He hates his eldest brother, and the ruthless eldest brother would rather keep the rich family by his side than him. These three dilapidated low houses are far inferior to the courtyard of the Liu family, and the three female dolls with dirty faces are not cute at all, but he still has to call his sisters and sisters, except for the hall in the middle, his parents sleep in one, the four brothers and sisters are squeezed into one room, and there are two narrow broken wooden beds, Shufang sleeps with her two younger sisters, and Fushun sleeps alone.

In the past four years, he has also tried to run back to the muddy ditch several times, but each time he has been beaten by a "ruthless" cripple. He didn't know what happened to his eldest brother and the rich family, and he didn't know why they had never come to Yangjiawan to see him after so many years.

In the Yang family, Fushun's favorite is Shufen, Shufen, who is the same age as him, runs to the school of the brigade every day with a canvas bag on her back, with two small pigtails on her head, she is clean at any time, she speaks softly, and her beautiful melon seed face is smiling at any time. Therefore, Shufang, who looks stupid, stopped going to school early. Since the second sister went to Shiqiao Middle School to study, the little Shufei followed the friends of the "production team" to study in the village school.

But Fushun doesn't like the elders of the production team to joke about him and Shufen, in his eyes, he is just Shufen's brother, and there can be no love between brother and sister. Ignorant children know some things, the beautiful Shufen is already in junior high school, and she doesn't like this brother who runs in the mud every day, she is going to study, she is going to the city in the future, and she wants to be a cadre.

"Her mother, you said that if Shufen continues to read this book, we are afraid that we will not be able to stand it? The baby is getting bigger and bigger, and the boss is still going to get engaged this year? Yang Laosi, who was smoking dry cigarettes, sat on the edge of the bed and asked his mother-in-law.

"Yes, as far as the grain in our fields is concerned, we have paid the payment, that is, our family has eaten it, and we can't sell it for a few dollars if we want to. I called someone to go to Xie's house and said it, but people didn't think we were poor, but that family had many sons, you know, Xie Jingfeng's family in Xiejiaba. The day after tomorrow, I will meet on the street, and I will do the wine this year after seeing that it is hot! "A virtuous woman can always think so thoughtfully.

"Yes. It's just that...... Maybe the second child is afraid that he won't be able to read this book, the eldest is married, and there are many ways to live in the house, but the baby of the Liu family can do a lot of work, after all, it is a male baby's family, plowing the fields, digging the ground and picking things, and the pigs and cattle at home and the land kept by themselves always have to be done by people. Yang crippled his pipe on the crutches beside the bed, turned and lifted the quilt to cover the hands of the woman leaning against the head of the bed.

The woman took out her calloused hands and wiped her eyes. "Zegui, don't want the second woman to study, I'm afraid it will kill her, I'll do it, the rich baby can also do it, and the third woman? When the boss gets married, one less person will pay the payment, and the field will be one less, and we won't be able to do so much! ”

Yang lame moved half of his leg and lay down on the bed. "Don't say it, I'll go to Teacher Hetian and say that the second child doesn't study, you go to the street the day after tomorrow to see the baby of the Xie family, if you want me, I'll call someone to do the marriage, or we will call Granny Wang to help the other family."