When She Wenfang was in Huaiyu Songyuan, he suffered all his hardships.

Since four or five months of pregnancy, Yu Songyuan's stubborn nature has been revealed. Three or twice a day, I had to jump up and down in the womb, punch and kick. often frightened She Wenfang and She Wenxiu sisters, not knowing where they would be pregnant, and whether they would jump out of their stomachs.

When she was more than six months pregnant, once She Wenfang was picking beans in her vegetable garden, she suddenly felt that her abdomen was punched several times, and she shivered in pain, and her mouth was cold, and she fell on the ridge of the field. Looking left and right, there was no one around, and then she reacted, it was the son in the stomach who punched her a few hard times, and directly put her to the ground.

She Wenfang has always been obsessed with this, and after Yu Songyuan was born, every time she thought of it, she hated it so much that she couldn't help but want to slap him a few times.

At that time, it was three years after the natural disaster, the canteen of the brigade collapsed, and each family began to live their own small life. The mother, who had a big belly at night, was so troubled by Yu Songyuan in her stomach that she couldn't sleep, she was miserable, and she became more and more frightened and worried.

Yu Xinhe comforted his wife and said, "Now is the rule of the world, and there is no demon." This little bastard is so noisy, I have given birth to so many children, I'm afraid this one is here to inherit my mantle. In the future, he will either be a great talent who has helped the country in the world, or he will be a heinous bastard. ”

"Bastard" is a dialect of northern Jiangsu, which refers to those demon kings who do not learn and have no skills, are lazy to eat, and harm the township. In fact, in his heart, Yu Xinhe was already full of expectations for this child, and he didn't believe that Yu Xinhe would give birth to a little bastard with him.

Conceived in October and delivered in one day. Yu Songyuan didn't seem to have made enough fuss, so he refused to come out. When his mother was about to give birth, he not only jumped out by himself, but on the contrary, due to the improper position of the fetus, he caused dystocia and almost killed She Wenfang.

The mother struggled for her life to finally give birth to this naturally stubborn son. In the early hours of the morning, a loud cry announced the birth of baby Yu Songyuan.

With a scale, nine and a half pounds, the whole family is jubilant. But She Wenfang seemed to have exhausted all the strength of her life, fainted all of a sudden, and slept for three days and three nights.

According to Aunt She Wenxiu, Yu Songyuan came out with black hair and was very energetic. The midwife held him to his father, Yu Xinhe, who had already opened his eyes and stared straight at his father.

Yu Xinhe said hatefully, "Evil animal, your mother made you make trouble to death, Lao Tzu must raise you little bastard, and see what kind of demon you are!" ”

After Yu Songyuan was born, the most extraordinary thing was his loud voice. It is said that the cry of the birth was long and sorrowful, like a loud military horn in the barracks, and all the people in the village could hear it clearly.

Usually, he doesn't cry like other children. I only cried three times a day, and it was like being scalded by boiling water. Generally, at noon, at night, and at night, they cry once each, which is very regular.

His cry was also special, high-pitched and loud, the loudest of all the children. When the night cries, the whole village is woken up from their sleep. Moreover, once you cry, it is useless to breastfeed, coax or hug. After a while, when the crying is over, go to bed when it's time to sleep, dance and talk to yourself when it's time to play, and be happy.

Yu Songyuan was the same age as his uncle and brother Yu Songquan, and more than three months after She Wenfang gave birth to Yu Songyuan, She Wenxiu also gave birth to Yu Songquan. The two babies are put together, and it is said that as long as Yu Songyuan cries, Yu Songquan will cry. Yu Songyuan doesn't cry, Yu Songquan never cries, it's very uniform.

She Wenfang and She Wenxiu are twin sisters and concubines. Maybe it's because of the kinship, the blood is connected, and the two children are also like one person. Yu Songyuan has a lot of eyes and is domineering, but he cherishes his little brother very much. Just able to talk and walk, the two children play together, in and out, Yu Songyuan always holds Yu Songquan's little hand.

The farm work in the field is busy, and if they are locked up at home, they will have a lot of fun by themselves, which will definitely reassure the two adults. In the meantime, the two sisters, She Wenfang and She Wenxiu, only need one person to rush back to feed. The little brothers each hold a milk to eat, do not fight or grab, and will never fight or quarrel if they do not eat enough.

When they were four or five years old, their stubborn nature was exposed, and they began to commit great sins. The usual pattern is that Yu Songyuan is a karmic root, and Yu Songquan is just charging into battle. Since the age of five, he has been hated by adults. "Bad deeds are notorious and evil", this is the evaluation of Yu Xinhe and Yu Xinmin's brothers on their youngest son.

At that time, women used the toilet to go to the toilet, and the Yu Songyuan brothers often saw their mother and aunt pouting their big buttocks on the toilet. They first caught a dozen foreign peppers from the old elm tree behind the house, and kept throwing them on the paper with straw sticks, dropping a large number of thorns and poisonous hairs. Then, these twigs and poisonous hairs were carefully sprinkled on the toilet lid of She Wenfang and She Wenxiu.

That night, She Wenfang and She Wenxiu were hit one after another, and both of them jumped up from the toilet as if they were on fire. The buttocks were red and swollen, sour and stinging, restless, and extremely painful, and the two families had almost no sleep all night.

Fortunately, Yu Xinhe is familiar with ancient books and is quite familiar with medical science. He and Yu Xinmin didn't care about teaching the two naughty boys, but climbed to the old elm tree in the middle of the night to catch a small pile of foreign peppers, carefully turned over their belly with their fingertips, and smeared the two women's cheeks and thighs with the liquid in their bodies. It wasn't until the afternoon of the next day that the two returned to normal.

After figuring out the reason, the brothers Yu Xinhe and Yu Xinmin couldn't help but hahadaxiao, while the sisters She Wenfang and She Wenxiu were ashamed and indignant, hating the roots of their teeth, crying and laughing, and almost going berserk.

The price of the prank was that two naughty boys, both five-year-old, were held down by their own mother and beaten violently, and their buttocks were red and swollen for several days. In fact, being picked up by their mothers for mischief has happened almost every day in their childhood history, and it has never stopped.

Yu Xinhe has three sons and two daughters, the eldest son Yu Songdong has already served in the army, and the eldest daughter-in-law is the director of the Women's Federation of the brigade, responsible for the birth of the whole brigade. The second son is in school, and the third son is Yu Songyuan. The eldest daughter became a private teacher, and later went to Fujian with the army. The youngest daughter is four or five years younger than Yu Songyuan, and she is the favorite old man of the old couple.

Among the three sons, Yu Xinhe's favorite and most worrying him is this youngest son. It is said that three-year-olds look big, and seven-year-olds look old. By the age of six or seven, the brothers Yu Xinhe and Yu Xinmin had already faintly felt that the naughty boy Yu Songyuan had revealed a trace of extraordinary flavor in his stubbornness.

When Yu Songyuan was seven years old, the sixth squad of the Yujia Village Brigade came to two decentralized households from southern Jiangsu, and they were all wearing "hats". Long before the two families came, Yu Xinhe heard that the two families were from southern Jiangsu, so he asked Yu Xinmin to build a house for them on the foundation of the Yu ancestral hall and the Yu family's old house.

"No, no!" When the political captain Zhou Kun heard this, he ran to Yu Xinhe's house to find Yu Xinmin and resolutely expressed his opposition.

Yu Xinmin is the leader of the production team of the sixth squad, and the movement is under the control of the political captain, and the construction of houses for the decentralized households is under the control of the production captain. So, he asked rhetorically: "It's just two houses, why can't you do it?" ”

"These two households, one is the current *** family member, and the other is the 'black five category', both of which are ** objects. They are here to receive the education and transformation of the poor and middle peasants, and the house is built in such a haode place, do you want to treat them preferentially? Zhou Kun made an impassioned statement.

Yu Xinhe handed Zhou Kun a cigarette, "These are two different things, where the house is built has nothing to do with education and transformation." They are from the birthplace of our Yu ancestors, and it is normal for people to take care of their lives! ”

Yu Xinhe spoke, and although Zhou Kun was reluctant in his heart, he had no choice but to agree.

The Yu Xinhe brothers and She Wenfang sisters have a high prestige in Shili and Eight Townships. They became famous during the Anti-Japanese War and were famous anti-Japanese heroes, who were famous on both sides of the Guan River, and everyone knew about them. In Yujia Village, Yu Xinhe is the patriarch, and Yu Xinmin is the production captain of the sixth team, they are highly respected, and no one can challenge the authority accumulated over the years.

There is a deep-seated reason why the Yu brothers have not seen anyone yet, and they have come to help these two decentralized households, that is, the ancestral home of the Yu clan is also in southern Jiangsu, and their roots are also in Wuzhong. They have a natural psychological affinity with the devolved households from southern Jiangsu, the hometown of their ancestors.

As the ancestor of the Yu family, who is a wealthy family, why did he move from the land of fish and rice in southern Jiangsu and the rich land to the wild and desolate reeds and grasslands in northern Jiangsu, this is not a mystery but a historical truth. It originated in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, the great migration of people that lasted more than 100 years, that is, the famous "red scarf scattering" (or "red fly scattering") event in the early Ming Dynasty.

In the early years of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang issued an order to evacuate the population of Jiangnan. In the third year of Hongwu (1370 AD), the Zhu Ming Dynasty, which had initially determined the world, began to migrate more than 4,000 wealthy gentry from Su, Song, Hangzhou, Jia, and Hu, and went to Linhao to reclaim fields. 140,000 wealthy businessmen in Jiangnan were forcibly relocated to Fengyang Prefecture.

In the following more than 100 years, the Ming Dynasty successively migrated wealthy families and clans from all over the south of the Yangtze River to various parts of northern Jiangsu. According to historians' estimates, about 450,000 wealthy gentry whose ancestral home is in the south of the Yangtze River gathered in Changmen in the northwest of Suzhou City from various places in Wuzhong, and then under the escort of officials and soldiers, they traveled by boat and migrated to Yangzhou and Huai'an in northern Jiangsu.

This large-scale population migration, which lasted for a hundred years and lasted for an unprecedented scale, is known as "Hongwu Dispersion" or "Red Turban Dispersion" in history.

The ancestral home of Suzhou Jurong Jiangnan Wang clan Yu lineage, its first generation a total of 58 brothers, it is in the early years of Hongwu this tragic population migration, led the whole family of hundreds of people from Suzhou Changmen departure, under the escort of the official army, took the waterway to the north of Jiangsu that was a long saline-alkali land and a boundless reed barren beach, boiled salt fishing, grass as the standard, reclamation and construction of the port, multiplication, people gradually prospered.

After the "fifty-eight heads" of the Yu family settled in northern Jiangsu, in the following hundreds of years, after the great chaos of the Ming and Qing dynasties and the Republic of China, its branches migrated many times, and when the new China was founded, the descendants of the Yu family in northern Jiangsu have spread all over the country.

By the time of Yu Songyuan's father, Yu Xinhe, due to decades of frequent wars, the once tall and majestic Yu clan ancestral hall in northern Jiangsu had long been annihilated in the flames of war. There are only tens of thousands of people left in their ancestral homes in northern Jiangsu, distributed in a number of natural villages centered on Yujia Village.

Yu Songyuan has never met his grandparents, uncles and grandparents (Northern Jiangsu dialect, grandparents), let alone enjoy the love from them. Father and master have always been secretive about their family history, and after Yu Songyuan is a little older, he can only find out a little bit of his once glorious family history from the mouths of the old people in the village.