Since then, Zheng Zhishang has been completely taken care of by his mother, and only his mother takes care of him, every few days, another grandmother in her fifties surnamed Ding in the neighborhood, every few days, will come to help Zheng Zhishang wash his body, is the strange grandmother, who came once, comforted the young mother, and then lamented and left.

There were no more of those seven aunts and eight mothers-in-law in the house, and even the grandmother of her father, who had not appeared since Zheng Zhishang opened his eyes, had never come to visit him. Full Moon did not hold any banquets at home, only young parents, who celebrated with Zheng Zhishang, who came to the world for a month.

The question of choosing a name, the young parents, as if they had forgotten it, did not mention it again.

After being a confinement mother, she will have to go to work in the field. Zheng Zhishang, who was in swaddling clothes, was sometimes carried to the field by his mother, and sometimes he was busy with farm work, so he was placed at the neighbor's grandmother Ding's house, entrusted to take care of her, and only took him back to his home at night.

For Zheng Zhishang, who doesn't cry or make trouble, has urine, feces, and will open her mouth to "babble" when she is hungry, and dances with her hands and feet, she is more well-behaved and trouble-free than her own granddaughter, and Grandma Ding is also very enthusiastic, and always puts Zheng Zhishang and her granddaughter, who is still in swaddling clothes, in a cradle.

He often smiled at his mother and said, "This baby is very easy to bring, more worry-free than my granddaughter." ”

The infant is extremely fragile, due to the young mother's own weakened body, coupled with hard work and malnutrition, Zheng Zhishang's breast milk is also extremely insufficient, and his body is also very weak, and he is often sick. The kind-hearted Grandma Ding will always find some herbs for her young mother and boil soup for Zheng Zhishang to drink.

Drinking bitter herbs, Zheng Zhishang finally survived to his first birthday. He has also managed to rise to the level of a reptile, and he can already "babble" and "mom and dad, grandma".

The young mother, who heard the stars for the first time and babbled "Mom", had never entered the school, and could only speak the local dialect and Hokkien for a long time, but fortunately, the young father who had studied for a few years understood Zheng Zhishang's words. The young face, which has been frowning since Zheng Zhishang was born, finally has a smile.

And the issue of Zheng Zhishang's name was also mentioned by the young mother again.

That night, the young father carefully found a tattered dictionary that he used in school, frowned, and looked at the dictionary while thinking, "Yes, how about you call Wangsheng?" ”

Zheng Zhishang couldn't help but roll his eyes, muttering in his heart, might as well be called Wangcai?

Even the young mother frowned, shook her head and said, "No, Wangsheng is not good, I'm thinking about one." ”

But no, the dialect is called, no matter how it is called, it is Wang Sheng.

The young man's father thought about it a few times in a row, but the mother was not satisfied. Looking at the young parents, who were scratching their heads and ears for their names, Zheng Zhishang was embarrassed to embarrass them, babbling "Dad" while crawling to his father's side, and his young little hands grabbed the dictionary in his father's hand.

"Oops, baby, don't rob it, it's going to break ......"

For the young father, Zheng Zhishang didn't pay attention, grabbed the dictionary, but the strength was small, where did he catch the father, so he had to turn his head to ask his mother for help, before Zheng Zhishang fully used the baby's magic weapon, the mother was generous, and said angrily: "Just play with him for a while." ”

The young father had no choice but to give the baby dictionary to Zheng Zhishang with distress. Zheng Zhishang also grabbed it unceremoniously, put it under his crotch, pouted his buttocks, and turned the dictionary with his tender little hands, looking like he was playing, and he made enough gestures of random searching, and unintentionally found the words Zhi and Shang in the dictionary, babbling, father, and mother screamed for a while, before attracting the attention of young parents.

"Zhishang, Zheng Zhishang......" Before his father could ponder it carefully, the young mother frowned again and interrupted: "This name is not very smooth." ”

The young father picked up Zheng Zhishang and said with a smile: "It's okay, since our baby chose it himself, let's call it this." ”

In this way, Zheng Zhishang's name was finally decided, for this name, the young mother didn't like to call it very much, but called Zheng Zhishang "star", which made Zheng Zhishang very depressed.

No matter what, the big name has been decided, and the nickname can be called whatever it likes. Stars sound good too.

One and a half years later, Zheng Zhishang has also been able to clearly use Mandarin to express his meaning, and at the same time, he has successfully risen to the level of an erect animal, barely able to walk a few steps, compared to the granddaughter of the neighbor's grandmother Ding, that can be said to be a little progress, that little girl, now can only crawl on the ground, full of snot, like a slug.

This made Grandma Ding often tease Zheng Zhishang, laughed and joked, and said: "The cleverness of my baby has been stolen by your baby." If you have a chance in the future, you must remember to help our family Xiuqin.

Zheng Zhishang, who can already walk, his young mother, rarely entrusts Zheng Zhishang to Grandma Ding's care, Zheng Zhishang more often goes to the field with his young mother, his parents work in Tianli, and he plays alone on the ridge.

Zheng Zhishang doesn't like to go to the ground with his mother, every time he plays on the ridge, he always ushers in those weird eyes, always staring at his feet, like a god in the temple, looking at Zheng Zhishang sadly.

Although he wanted to go to Grandma Ding's house, Zheng Zhishang had never told his mother, and he also knew that although Grandma Ding was a good person, she was not his biological grandmother after all, but she also had her own things to do and couldn't take care of him all the time.

Over time, Zheng Zhishang gradually got used to the eyes of these people, no matter how he said it, he was a human being in two lives, but he smiled instead, "uncle, uncle", and called politely. There were fewer pitiful eyes, in exchange for shaking their heads and sighing, in their words, "It's a pity, how can such a well-behaved baby be born like this......"

On the ridge, waiting for the parents to finish their farm work is very boring. Zheng Zhishang also gradually found a way to pass the time, often sitting in the mud, or looking at the farmhouse not far away, or looking at the mountains across the river in a daze, I don't know what he was thinking?

Once, the young mother, looking at the young back of the star, asked, "What are you looking at, star?" ”

Zheng Zhishang also understood his mother's Hokkien language, looked back at his mother blankly, and said immaturely: "Didn't think about anything?" ”

The mother took a sip of water, said a few words of concern, and then turned back to the field to do farm work. Now Zheng Zhishang has also figured out that the era he lives in has ended two months before Zheng Zhishang was born, and now the college entrance examination has resumed when Zheng Zhishang is almost one year old.

If there is no change in history, in a few months, it should be the time for the Third Plenary Session of the 13th CPC Central Committee, and the implementation of reform and opening up will begin next spring.

Looking at the busy parents in the field, I couldn't help but cry and laugh in my heart, even if the household responsibility system was implemented?

The economic power of the family is not in the hands of the father and mother, but in the hands of the grandmother, and the young laborers in the family are the young parents and the second uncle and sister-in-law who have just become adults. As for the third uncle and the youngest fourth uncle, they are both still in middle school, one is in the third year of junior high school and the other is in the first year of junior high school.

Alas, when the time comes, I am afraid that the burden of this family will still have to be borne by young parents.

As for the two aunts, they have already married, the eldest aunt also married a family in the same village in order to build a house a few years ago, and the second aunt married a grandfather in a neighboring township in the same county in exchange for a daughter-in-law, that is, her mother, and became Zheng Zhishang's eldest aunt.

The two aunts are also married, and they can't help them, and they are all big families, and several cousins and cousins are in elementary school, and life is very difficult.

A few days later, Zheng Zhishang was in a daze, had another serious illness, had a high fever, and took several doses of herbs given by Grandma Ding in a row, but it was useless. In the end, Grandma Ding said anxiously: "We can't delay any longer, we have to hurry up to the town's health center." ”

It's a pity that Zheng Zhishang's grandmother didn't agree to this proposal, "What kind of health center do you go to, don't you want money?" ”

My father had no choice but to speak in a low voice, asked his friends one by one, scraped together, and finally borrowed a few yuan, and took the dazed Zheng Zhishang to walk more than 20 miles overnight to the township health center. This is the first time that the stars have gone outside of the mountain village.

Although I didn't know anything in a daze, when I woke up, it was already two days after I was at home.

Later, Zheng Zhishang learned that his mother, who had always been gentle and hardworking, had a big quarrel with his grandmother for the first time that day because of his medical treatment. I don't know if the grandfather felt sorry for his grandson, or because of the pressure from his mother, he secretly gave his mother ten yuan to let Zheng Zhishang come back from the ghost gate again.

About a few months later, the third uncle, who was about to graduate from middle school, was expelled from school because he had a fight with his classmates at school and injured a teacher, although his father personally ran to apologize to others and made promises. However, the teachers in the school still fired the third uncle, and one of his father's teachers said to his father: "Ah Sheng, your younger brother can't compare with you." ”

My father's academic performance is very good, he has always been the first in the class, and there are many awards that my father won when he studied (of course, these awards were bought by the teacher out of his own pocket in order to encourage his father, and they were all books, notebooks, pens or something, which was regarded as indirectly supporting his poor father to go to school)

However, although my father did well in his studies, because the family lacked labor, he was too poor to pay the tuition, and he only went to secondary school for less than two years, so he went home to work as a farmer. I don't know if this is a big regret in my father's heart, always thinking about letting his younger brothers realize their dreams of going to school.

Father's dream, in this era, want to let his younger brother come true, impossible, in the turbulent ten years, did not follow the revolution, peace of mind to go to school, I am afraid that there are very few people, maybe it is precisely because of this, the father's teachers will take extra care of the father, after the turbulent ten years, who can still calm down to learn, even if you want to learn, you can no longer learn.

After the third uncle returned home, he was still very loved by his grandmother, and it could almost be said that he was pampered, at least in Zheng Zhishang's eyes.

is also a member of the family, the third uncle who is idle at home can be lazy and not go to the ground, and as a woman's mother, she not only has to go to the field, but also do the housework of the family. often boiled an egg or something for the third uncle to eat in private, but the parents who went to the ground did not eat it, and even Zheng Zhishang did not have a share.

However, Zheng Zhishang is not uncommon, but he is unhappy with his mother and father in his heart. But my mother and father, though they knew about these things, did not say anything. It was only a few nights when I heard my mother crying softly alone.

Since then, Zheng Zhishang, who is not yet two years old, although he seems extremely young, often turns out his father's neatly packed books, and flips through them randomly. In this regard, although his father, who cherished these books very much, did not blame, but happily read to Zheng Zhishang.

It's just that my father was deeply poisoned by the local dialect and Hokkien, and his pronunciation was extremely inaccurate. Fortunately, Zheng Zhishang is a human being, otherwise he would be the same as his father.

And Zheng Zhishang also found another thing to do besides being in a daze, holding a small stick or something, pouting his white ass, and scribbling on the muddy floor. For her mother, who has never entered the school, she can't understand this, so she naturally thinks it's scribbling, although she has more dirty clothes to wash every day, but she doesn't blame Zheng Zhishang.

Once, when Zheng Zhishang was pouting his ass and burying his head in scribbling, maybe he was too addicted, and even his father didn't know it when he came behind him. The young father, after seeing the scribbles of the stars, was very excited, and suddenly picked up the stars, but the stars were startled.

"Xingxing, you can write......" The happy Mo Yan couldn't wait to hug Zheng Zhishang and turn around a few times. The young father who calmed down, hugged Zheng Zhishang, full of joy and relief, and quietly admired the crooked words written by Zheng Zhishang on the ground.

Zheng Zhishang was also a little panicked, but he was not a child less than two years old, and he could write, what a strange thing. But he soon calmed down, poked his fingers, and asked with a blank face, "Dad, is this the word?" I copied the scribbled ...... from the book."

"Hmm" The father came back to his senses, looked at Zheng Zhishang, and nodded, "Xingxing, do you know how to pronounce these words?" ”

In the face of the young father's questioning, the stars twinkled their big eyes, shook their heads, and said immaturely: "No." ”

"That star, do you want to learn?"

"Yes," Xingxing replied in a childish voice:

The young father, when he heard Xingxing's answer, was so happy that he smiled heartily and said, "Xingxing is still young, he can't go to school yet, and he can't go to school until he is eight years old." ”

"Oh, why do you have to go to school at the age of eight......" Zheng Zhishang replied with a slight loss, holding his fingers, as if counting, and muttered in his mouth: "The star is now two years old......" I finally breathed a sigh of relief in my heart, and the fact that I could write was finally over.

This is a question that the young father does not understand, and he does not know a father who has not finished middle school and has never walked out of the mountains to see the outside world, only that this is the policy of the above. However, seeing Zheng Zhishang's somewhat lost smile, he said with a smile: "Xingxing, don't be afraid, we can't go to school, we can learn at home." ”

That's it, since then, Zheng Zhishang began to read and write with his father, and Xingxing is also happy with his father's enthusiasm, and he can finally have an excuse to use his father's pen and notebook.

But the young mother, seeing the father and son, said with a smile: "Nong, baby, still young, where can I learn this......"