When she got up the next morning, Shufen went to the orchard for a spin. ranwe?n?ｗ?ｗ?ｗ?．? Judging from the small hole poked in the ground by the crutches, my father had already arrived early to prune the pear tree.

Yang Zegui began to fall in love with this orchard. Judging from this year's income, excluding the cost of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, the income brought by the pear orchard has exceeded 200 yuan -- which is quite remarkable for an ordinary farmer's family in Yangjiawan! Coupled with the money earned from silkworm racks and pigs, this poor and frightened cripple man has finally turned around! Ten years ago, who would have dared to imagine such a good life?

But the whole family knows that with the current traffic situation and labor force, it is no longer possible to expand the planting area of pear trees! After all, once this seasonal fruit is piled up, you can only watch the hard work rot. What's more, now there are pear trees everywhere in Wanwan.

Yang Zegui leaned his cane on the trunk of the tree, rested his broken leg on a tree, hooked a long branch with his left hand, and cut off the excess branch with mulberry scissors with his right hand. This self-reliant head of the family has become even taller when he works!

"Dad, it's early!" Shufen picked up the branches that had been cut off from the ground and tied them up with slivers—these were all good firewood!

"Why don't you go to the brigade today? If you're busy, you're busy, and there's not much to do! ”

"Dad, I ......," Shufen muttered, "I don't really want to go...... I don't want to do this anymore......"

Yang Zegui had just pulled down a branch with his left hand, and when he heard his daughter say this, he let go of his hand in surprise, and the branch popped out with a "whoosh", almost hitting him in the eye. "Why?"

"I don't think I'm this material, you don't know what people say is so ugly!" Shufen put a bundle of branches on the sill, and then sat on the branches, with tears of grievance in her eyes.

"Just because it's ugly?" Yang Zegui jumped two steps on one foot, then picked up the crutches under another tree, and came to Shufen's side with one foot deep and one foot shallow.

"Dad, not only because it's ugly, but if they want to scold me, if I can cooperate to beat the child, then I don't think I have anything to do, but ......"

"Shufen, pity the hearts of parents all over the world, who are you for, and you are reluctant to knock out the flesh and bones in your stomach if you say you will knock it out!" Yang Zegui took out a cigarette pouch from his pocket.

Shufen snatched the tobacco leaves like she did when she was a child, then pinched them into small pieces and wrapped a large cigarette roll for her father. "But look at it, not all of them are the same, they just don't care about giving birth or raising, they can't afford to eat, and they give birth to one after another, especially if they want to have sons! But many have sons and have to give birth to a ......."

"There is no way, the concept of 'raising children to prevent old age' is not unique here, hundreds of thousands of years!" 'Family planning' is a new thing, to be honest, I couldn't accept it at first, but if I can't accept it, I have to accept it, otherwise we will always be poor. I've read all the propaganda books you brought back, and it's time for us to change our old concepts! ”

"Dad, if only everyone was as sensible as you are! This is indeed what it is now - the poorer you are, the poorer you are! This side told them to go to Anhuan, and the other side ran to the personal doctor to get the ring. There's really no way! ”

"Shufen, since you can see this, you should start with these and solve the problem slowly. People scold you for killing you, that's also human nature. When I was the accountant of the brigade, I was younger than you, and people thought I couldn't do well, but no matter what I was in the brigade, I was just a bowl of water, and I just had a clear conscience! But your job is more complicated than Dad's, and the key is to deal with so many resentful people! But you must remember that the human heart is flesh and blood, compare the heart to the heart, and one day they will understand your ......"

Her father's words made Shufen suddenly brighten. The early morning wind blew from Xiejiaba, brushed the bare pear treetops, brushed the father's calloused hands, and brushed the girl's beautiful face.

After breakfast, Shufen took her little sister's hand and walked along the mossy stone road towards the Jade Emperor Temple......

When she arrived at the third group, Shufen decided to go to the family that scolded her yesterday by herself. She knew that the family was also surnamed Yang, and the man's name was Yang Zeming, and he should be called uncle according to his generation; The woman's name is Dai Mengqiong, and she was married from a foreign country. Now I have three girls, and I have been pregnant for six months in my belly, and I don't know if it's a man or a woman.

Because of the fines and heavy agricultural taxes, the family was already too poor to open the pot. The three dilapidated tiled houses had not been rebuilt for four years, the water seeping from the backs had washed out a deep ravine in the earthen walls, and a few bamboo poles and branches supported two narrow pig-and cattle pens. And there was only one very thin black pig and a cow with hair standing on end.

Shufen walked around the pigsty for a while, and then walked towards the eaves. There was a mess of straw everywhere in the courtyard and on the eaves, and if it weren't for the little girl who was walking towards the cowpen with straw, I really couldn't believe that there were still people living here.

The little girl was no more than five or six years old, and although the straw was not heavy, the fluffy grain grass covered almost her entire body. She struggled to move, not even noticing that there was a "strange guest" in the house. Shufen took the straw from the girl's hand, then took out a fruit candy from her pocket. The girl shook her head in astonishment, and looked at the pretty "bad" sister in a floral dress, which her mother had told her. Maybe there were no adults at home at this time, and the little girl had to put her hands behind her back in the face of the "bad guys" and obediently "tie her hands".

Shufen stuffed the candy into the girl's jacket pocket, brought the grain grass to the scalper, and turned back. The girl was still motionless, and the fruit candy had slipped from her tattered pocket to the ground. Shufen crouched down and pulled the girl's hand behind her back. "Brother Zhao, take it, I'm Sister Shufen, have you forgotten?"

The gray-faced girl moved her lips, then closed her mouth again. How could she forget that this is Sister Shufen? She is the second sister of Sister Shufei, and Sister Shufei brought her a lot of pears when she was in school! But the mother said that now she is the director of women, she is a bad person, and she is the one who wants to pull her mother to disembowelment!

Shufen picked up Brother Zhao. "Sue Sister Sù, what about your mother?"

"Don't sue you, you're a bad person!" Brother Zhao struggled, Shufen reluctantly put her down, and Brother Zhao ran into the house with a smoke.

Shufen smiled bitterly. Oh my God, now even the children in the village call her "bad guy"! But when she thought of her father's words, she was not discouraged, and followed the child to the house.

The room was equally disorganized, and the brisk steps of children kicked up a cloud of dust. In addition to the hall house, two low sloping houses are lined up on both sides, the east house houses two older children and the child's grandmother, and the west house houses Yang Zeming's two sons, with a milk doll under the age of one.

Brother Zhao pulled the weak grandmother out of the East House. The old lady was in her sixties, carrying her sleeping third sister in a basket, and holding a bamboo crutch in her hand. "You're a girl from the fourth family of Yang, right?"

"Yes, second mother-in-law!" Shufen hurriedly went over to catch the distant grandmother who was about to put down the back, and then grabbed two straws and wiped the dusty bench and asked the old lady to sit down.

"Girl, I heard that you guys are engaged in 'family planning'? The pot-bellied woman with the doll was shaved by you? The old lady said "scraping" means curettage.

"Well, second mother-in-law, now that China's population is large, especially in rural areas, the economy must be expanded, the population must be controlled, and the state advocates that a couple only needs one child......" Shufen is already familiar with those slogans.

"Fuck it! Which child will retire in the future? Like me? If you don't want your uncle, which of your three aunts are married to the distant mountains and forests, which one will take care of me? The old lady paused on the ground with her bamboo cane, and then shook the back of her back for fear of waking the child.

"I'll take care of you, mother-in-law...... I'm going to cook......" Zhao Di said very sensibly when he saw his grandmother so excited, and then went to the stove house outside the eaves, which was also made of bamboo poles and thatch.

"Second mother-in-law, look at how sensible your brother Zhao is......"

"Sensible, that's also for someone else's family! I don't believe it, when it comes to your uncle's generation, our family can still cut off the incense? ”

"What if my aunt has another girl this time?"

"Then let's get pregnant again!"

"But......" Shufen sighed, and looked around the house with four walls, knowing that this doll landed, then she had to pay a "fine" that was enough to bankrupt the family! "Second mother-in-law, in fact, the countryside in the future is not what you think, maybe we will have nursing homes in the countryside, and roads will be built everywhere, like my aunt They go home from the Chahe River, take the bus, and they can get home in an hour!"

"You don't coax me! Girl, you also listen to your mother-in-law's advice, you do this job, or you can't give birth to only one in this mountain! I see that you are tired and tired all day long, and you will not get a good one in the end! ”

"I know, the second mother-in-law ......" Shufen wanted to explain the great truth about the vicious circle between poverty and having more children, but she really didn't want to argue with this quick-thinking but stubborn old lady. What about my uncle and my aunt? ”

"Run! You come to catch people and scrape the baby, you may not know how to run ......" The old lady began to get excited again.

"Hey......" Shufen sighed. Suddenly, smoke billowed from the west side of the eaves of the stairs, accompanied by the screams of children, which were immediately muffled by the "crackling" sound of burning plants and trees.

"It's not good, recruit brother...... Shufen reacted immediately, and strode across the threshold that had been decayed - the stove house was on fire! The pungent smell quickly spread, and the flames spread to the pigsty with a devastating force—the dried bamboo poles and wood, and the corn stalks that had just been recovered, were already burning......

Zhaodi's grandmother also sensed that something was wrong, picked up the doll and came out of the house, and was so frightened that she collapsed to the ground.

"It's on fire, put out the fire......" Shufen shouted hysterically for help. The house happened to be on the ridge of Mao'er Mountain, and the whirring wind was helping to make the abuse.

Shufen took the basin and scooped water into the tank, only to find that the bottom of the tank had already been seen. She didn't think too much about it, and poured less than a scoop of water on herself, rushing into the sea of fire with teeth and claws......

"Recruit Brother ......"