In the winter of this year, with the sound of a baby croaking on the ground, Xingxing was born in this strange mountain village in front of him, a family of farmers who immigrated here from other places 20 years ago.

Strange Yes, compared to the stars, it is a strange place, my mind is blank, and I have no impression of this mountain village at all. There are no household appliances, the light is still a little dim, and in the room, I am being hugged by a group of women in coarse linen clothes.

was looking at the stars in the room, and he didn't react much to the enthusiasm of these seven aunts and eight women, and he didn't even look at them from beginning to end.

After a while, the star finally confirmed that he was reborn, and he was reborn as a baby, which was not a dream. The black spirit's small eyes couldn't see his little arms and legs at all. Some are just the group of women in front of them, smiling faces. After only a while, I don't know how many people have taken advantage of me. How much saliva the seven aunts and eight women left on their faces.

Looking at the women, speaking in a dialect that they didn't understand at all, and didn't know what it was, laughing and teasing themselves, Xingxing's mind was at a loss.

"Oh, look at this baby, why can't he cry when he pees." Suddenly, a woman said a word that the stars had a little impression of Hokkien.

This made Xingxing stunned, he couldn't have been born in southern Fujian, but the coastal areas of southern Fujian were not the first areas of reform and opening up, how could they still be so backward, with a mind full of doubts, a young head, some could not support it, under the light hands and feet of a woman, in the sound of catheterization, fell asleep in a daze.

When the stars woke up again, the women in the room were gone, and there was only a young couple by the bedside, looking at the stars with love and joy. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are very young, although this couple, although because they are in a mountain village, the man is only 22 years old, and the woman is only 20 years old.

But soon the stars were relieved, this is a mountain village, and in the previous life, I heard that the marriage of men and women in southern Fujian is the earliest region in the country, and it is also one of the more serious areas of overbirth.

The room was quiet, and the star's weak head couldn't help but start recalling.

In his previous life, as an orphan, he didn't know what his surname was, and he didn't know whether it was born after the unscrupulous young man and woman who were in love, or the pair who knew about it, for their own past, but Zheng Zhishang believed in the possibility of the former, according to the age of the previous life, he should have been born in the late 80s and early 90s, and at that time there was no such thing as returning to the city.

In short, Zheng Zhishang was given and abandoned by his biological parents, but fortunately, this young man and woman left Zheng Zhishang on the side of the road, not in the trash, or ruthlessly thrown into the toilet and drowned.

left him a way to fend for himself, and fortunately met the kind orphanage grandmother, who let Xingxing take her surname, and also gave her a name, called Zhishang.

Grandma Zheng, who has no children and no daughters in her life, often holds an old yellowed black and white photo, alone in a daze, the photo shows a young officer in a military uniform, again, Zheng Zhishang asked Grandma Zheng, who is this.

"This is the person Grandma has been waiting for." Grandma Zheng patted Zheng Zhishang's little head lovingly, as if falling into a good memory, with a sweet smile, and said:

At that time, Zheng Zhishang didn't understand why it was the person who had been waiting, and asked, "Why are you waiting, won't he come back?" Grandma Zheng's face stiffened, and she seemed to be in a painful reminiscence, and she didn't say a word.

Afterwards, Zheng Zhishang, who was full of curiosity, although he also asked Aunt Qin, but Aunt Qin also shook her head and said she didn't know.

In short, since being adopted by Grandma Zheng, Zheng Zhishang has regarded this lonely old man as the only trusted and close relative in the world.

In the orphanage, he lived for more than a dozen years. In the reform and opening up, it has also gone through more than 20 spring and autumn periods, and that year, Zheng Zhishang graduated from junior high school, because he was not admitted to high school or technical secondary school.

After a few days of grief, because he couldn't face Grandma Zheng, who cared for him, when Grandma Zheng and another aunt surnamed Qin in the orphanage were not paying attention, Zheng Zhishang packed his bags and left the city where he had lived for more than ten years and began a career of drifting.

After Zheng Zhishang left the orphanage, he went to a coastal city thousands of miles away, where, after wandering for a while, he was introduced by a kind aunt and walked into the factory and became one of the thousands of workers.

After five years of struggle and hard work, he finally became an intermediate technician in the factory. In the past five years, Zheng Zhishang, while working hard, while using his spare time, diligent self-study, never forgot the expectations of Grandma Zheng, two years ago, passed the adult technical school graduation examination, obtained the secondary school graduation certificate.

Obtaining the first professional certificate in his life, Zheng Zhishang was so happy that although he missed Grandma Zheng very much, he didn't dare to go back. Because Grandma Zheng, from beginning to end, she hopes that she can be admitted to high school, go to college, and become a college student, and she has not yet had the face to go back to see Grandma Zheng.

It is precisely in this way that Zheng Zhishang soon calmed down, continued to start his hard self-study, put his limited salary into various materials, cram schools, and began his journey of applying for adult universities.

In three years, you will be able to get your university diploma and you will be able to go back to visit Grandma Zheng.

Dreams are always beautiful, but the reality is extremely cruel, how many people, missed in time, from the early thirties of the last century, to the beginning of the twenty-first century, Grandma Zheng has gone through more than 80 years, the old Grandma Zheng, there is not enough time, wait for Zheng Zhishang to graduate from the teaching class, happily take the graduation certificate back to see her.

Just a few days ago, after class, Zheng Zhishang was about to go back to the rental house to rest, when he received a call from the orphanage, it was the call from the orphanage's Aunt Qin, and he didn't have time to ask how they knew their address and phone number.

Zheng Zhishang heard the other end of the phone, after hearing the voice of an aunt in the orphanage, he only felt his head buzzing, and the sky was spinning, until the aunt called a few times, "Zhishang, are you still there?" Grandma Zheng is most concerned about you, when will you have time to come back and see her for the last time......" In the end, which aunt also began to cry.

"Yes, Aunt Qin, I'll go back immediately."

Yes, which orphanage Grandma Zheng, who has been taking care of Zheng Zhishang, is critically ill. Zheng Zhishang, who didn't know how he hung up the phone, didn't have time to enter the dormitory that had already arrived at the door, and didn't have time to ask the counselor and factory manager of the teaching class for leave, so he ran to the station and rushed back overnight, the city that had been away for six years, but always dreamed of returning.

Zheng Zhishang, who was in grief, regret, and self-blame, did not expect that on the highway, a catastrophe was waiting for him. Suddenly, the bus, out of control, slid crookedly for a while, then rushed out of the fence and fell under the viaduct, and then lost its impression.

Looking at himself with his little arms and legs now, Zheng Zhishang babbled and smiled self-deprecatingly, Grandma Zheng, she should have left with regrets. Then he quickly shook his head and expelled the thought from his mind. No, good people should live a long life, right? A person as good as Grandma Zheng must still be alive.

The young couple didn't know what Zheng Zhishang was thinking, and when they saw Zheng Zhishang's small movements, they were full of love and amusement.

It is also a newborn baby, where can there be any complicated expressions on the face, or only, with the mouth open, squinting, silly laughter, and the whine, "babbling" crying.

With dark eyes, looking at the young couple, Zheng Zhishang felt a little indescribable in his heart, he was an orphan in his previous life, but he didn't expect that God would give him a pair of parents in this life in order to compensate him. It's just that Zheng Zhishang can't be happy.

"Nong, this baby, it's time to go to a name. What's your name? ”

Although the young woman used Hokkien language, but fortunately, Zheng Zhishang heard that she was preparing to choose a name for herself, and she was stunned for a moment, and she couldn't help but be a little anxious, and she still cared very much about the name in her heart.

After hearing that the young man pondered for a while, and thought that he couldn't think of any nice names, he said, "Don't be in a hurry, it's not too late to get it after the full moon." Zheng Zhishang also breathed a long sigh of relief. I was born, the full moon, how to count it is also a month later.

At this time, the young couple who were teasing Zheng Zhishang did not expect that in their opinion, the baby who was still in swaddling clothes was already thinking about how to do some damage when choosing a name.

However, Zheng Zhishang did not expect that on the evening of the second day after his birth, the situation would change. The family, who was still rejoicing for the newborn, fell silent after a short day of rejoicing, and the whole family seemed to be shrouded in a dark cloud, and there were fewer seven aunts and eight women who came to visit the stars. Those relatives who came to visit the stars also had a touch of pity and sighs in their eyes.

It turned out that this evening, Zheng Zhu, the aunt who came to clean Zheng Zhishang's body, found that this newborn baby was actually missing two toes on his right foot, and his right calf was obviously thinner than his left calf. This discovery soon spread throughout the family, and also made the young couple instantly shroud this layer of clouds that could not be dispersed.

The sudden change, even Zheng Zhishang, who was still in his infancy, didn't react, his brain buzzed, and he lost his thinking, God, aren't you playing with me. Zheng Zhishang, who came back to his senses, also wanted to confirm whether what his aunt said was true. But this little arm and leg can't be hooked at all, where can you see your feet.

Looking at the young mother leaning on the head of the bed, crying in a low voice, there is no longer the joy and joy of being a first-time mother, and even Zheng Zhishang, who has not been fed, has not remembered.

The young father on the side also frowned, frowned, drooped his head, and his eyes swept over Zheng Zhishang from time to time.

Outside the house, there were still the wailing voices of several women from time to time, "Oh evil, what kind of evil did the puppet family do, how could such a ...... be born?"

After a long time, another voice spoke in Hokkien and said, "This child can't keep ......."

In the lobby outside the house, it was quiet in an instant, some were looking down in thought, and some were looking left and right, as if they had no idea.

Zheng Zhishang couldn't help but be stunned in his heart, and he was inexplicably worried that he would not be abandoned again. In the previous life, there were many examples of children being ruthlessly abandoned by their parents because of their congenital deficiencies. Looking at this young couple, and then looking at the poor family background, Zheng Zhishang, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that there was this possibility, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart, he was a man in two lives, and he was abandoned in his fate, this god is really fair to himself.

But fortunately, what Zheng Zhishang feared did not happen. did not heed the advice of many relatives in the family and abandoned Zheng Zhishang. After a night of silence and a day of silence. The young couple, in the house, after a quiet discussion, quarreled.

Finally, the young father comforted the young mother and said, "The child is not guilty, since he has come to our house, we have the responsibility to raise him." ”

"But what will the child do when he grows up? He is like this, he can't earn a job, can he have a girl in the future, is he willing to marry him? How can you support yourself......"

In the past two days, the relatives have said the most to this young couple, and it is no wonder that although the young mother is overflowing with maternal love, her heart will be affected, and the thought of the future of this young life that has fallen from her body, even her own can not be supported, and the life is bleak, it hurts. It is better to suffer in the future than not to have happened.

"Don't worry, the child will always have a way to live, even if you have to believe in ......" The father of the young family obviously does not have much confidence, and he is also full of worries about the future of this newborn baby.

At this point, Zheng Zhishang realized that the era he lived in was probably still before the reform and opening up, and the peculiar product of labor division was not the distribution system in the countryside during the commune period.

For history, although I have not entered the school and studied systematically, I also have some understanding, although it is said to be a big pot of rice in that period, it seems that everyone has food, and how can it be possible to achieve the productivity at that time. For the sake of industrial construction, agriculture was a time of serious exploitation, and the peasants toiled every day and only earned their share of labor. He received a pitiful ration for his work.

For a family with only one laborer, the whole family has fewer mouths, but if there is one more mouth, it is thought that the whole family, each of whom has to share a little.

In that era when there was no security, a normal labor also meant one more job for the whole family, and one more ration. In that era when there was not enough to eat, a normal person was so important to the whole family. Thinking of this, Zheng Zhishang was also completely relieved, no wonder the whole family was like this.

And the young mother finally remembered that since last night, she only cared about her own sorrow and forgot to pay attention to the young baby, gently rubbed and picked up the swaddling clothes, black Lingling's big eyes, looking at Zheng Zhishang of the husband and wife, "This child, why don't you eat, drink, or make trouble for a day and a night, will it be ......?"

"No, what if he's smiling?"

Yes, Zheng Zhishang is laughing. No matter what, this young life was finally saved, and Zheng Zhishang was spared the fate of being reincarnated as a lonely.