Aunt Sun and Uncle Zheng first walked to Tangba, then took a car to Tianshan Station, and quietly put the child at the door of a household that looked like a good family. The couple couldn't write, so they couldn't tell the child about his birthday, thinking that if the child could eat enough, he would be lucky to survive. Then after running for a while, Aunt Sun was relieved to see someone coming out to pick up the child, and then walked to the next place, waiting for another car to go to the third line.

Zheng's father returned home in despair, took a stick and handed it to Qin's mother, asking her to beat him, saying that it was his responsibility to lose the child. Mother Qin let out a long cry and whipped him a few times with a stick. Seeing him crying, she stopped, this is her husband, how can she be so ruthless. Walked to the door and cried, grabbed his hair, and hit his head hard. Father Zheng asked Shengyang to hold her legs, looked at Shengyang, and hugged him tightly, as if he was afraid of being snatched away again. I don't understand why, her ears can't hear, but her heart can't hear, as if the whole world is condemning her for not abandoning her own flesh and blood.

From then on, Qin's mother often chattered and called "Hua'er", which was the name she gave her daughter, and her temper became more and more irritable. He also often has nightmares at night and wakes up looking for his children everywhere.

Zheng's father felt that life was already hard, working during the day and not sleeping well at night, so he slept in separate beds to avoid conceiving a child again. Shengyang and Shengnan slept in the same bed, and the brothers often wet the bed, so they arranged for Qin's mother to wash diapers, beat pigweed, push mills, carry water, and get firewood every day.

Qin's mother was doing heavy housework, and she was so tired that her back and legs hurt, but the two children were always in front of her, and she was comforted a lot. Katsuo led Shengyang wherever he went, for fear that he would fall or bump into him. There is only one younger brother in the family who plays with him, and the other children in the courtyard always dislike him as a fool. It's hard to have a little sister.,It turned out to disappear for no reason.,Supposedly,The little sister is gone, he should be happy.,So as not to let him carry it again.。 But there was no crying or laughter at home, and I didn't like the atmosphere.

In the summer of 1973, when the adults were harvesting wheat, Shengyang and Shengnan ran around with the wheat pile, and accidentally Mai Mang got his right eye, and his eye was very painful. Zheng's father washed with water and blew with his mouth, but he didn't find any foreign objects, but his eyes became more and more red and swollen. It's going to rain all the time, and everyone is busy outside, so we can only let Katsuo take care of him and comfort him.

At night, it was pouring rain outside, Shengyang was crying at home, unable to make a torch, the mountain road was not easy to walk and he was afraid of mudslides, so Zheng's father had to coax him to wait for dawn to go to the doctor. He didn't sleep all night with Shengyang in his arms, the sky was bright, and he barely saw the road and set off with him on his back. The rain never stopped, Zheng's father covered Shengyang with plastic paper, wore a hat and a coat, and was muddy all the way, falling down and getting up several times. This is his only son, don't let anything happen.

Finally arrived at the health center, the doctor prescribed some anti-inflammatory drugs, and when he saw Shengyang crying, he poured a cup of hot water and asked him to drink a few tablets immediately, saying that there was no major problem and that it would be fine in a few days. Zheng's father bought a few cents of fruit candy on the street, which made Shengyang's eyes feel much better. He ate one, handed it to Zheng's father, and said that the rest was left for Katsuo and his mother, and Zheng's father said that he didn't like to eat candy and left it for him to eat.

Back on the mountain, Shengyang gave the sugar to Qin Mu and Shengnan, and it seemed that his eyes were really much better, and he began to jump. Zheng's father was afraid that he would catch a cold, so he changed his wet clothes and took a hot bath by the way. Seeing that he was fine, he finally put his mind at ease.

Katsuo and Katsuyo watched the eaves water falling from the eaves one after another, and when viewed from the side, they were connected in a row, like a bead curtain, like a waterfall, and it was a different scenery in their minds. The underground stone slabs were smashed out of a row of small nests by the water, and the two took off their straw sandals and used their bare feet to catch the water from the eaves to play, stepping on the nests and jumping around.

They used their little hands to catch the water from the eaves, splashing on their faces, laughing happily, and the water flowed down their arms into their clothes. When the clothes were wet, I was afraid of being blamed, so I squatted there and played with stones until the clothes were warm and dry.

Early the next morning, Zheng's father was awakened by a knock on the door, and when he saw that it was Qin's mother's thirteen-year-old nephew, Qin Du, kneeling there, so early, it was estimated that he would set off in the middle of the night. He said that his mother-in-law had died, and Zheng's father hurriedly asked Qin's mother to get dressed and set off, and the weather was bad, so he could only entrust the two children to his neighbor sister-in-law.

At noon, Wang's sister-in-law cooked a meal and sent it over, and saw that the two children had been sleeping in bed and couldn't wake up. I ran over and touched my head, and found that it was very hot, so I quickly went to get a basin of cold water and put a towel on my forehead.

Wang's sister-in-law's family was almost poor and white, originally three earthen houses, and the three brothers lived in one family. The east corner of the house is surrounded by a bamboo fence into a small bedroom, just enough to put a large board bed, on the right hand side is the stove, the board board, the entrance position is the fire pit, and the free position is a small black square table. There is no furniture at home, some back baskets and mats are placed in the attic, and at first the five children sleep together on the bed, and then the children are older and can't squeeze in, so they spread wooden planks on the attic, put straw on the mat, and put together a little cotton wool for a few older children to sleep.

Sister-in-law Wang's body is relatively thin and accompanied by a bit of arrogance, she doesn't want to owe others, and others don't owe her, life is hard, but there are no complaints, and she lives normally. I've heard of people starving to death in the past, but at least they haven't gotten to this point. Therefore, whether it is clear soup with little water, artemisia mixed with corn paste, as long as you can feed it, you can always survive until the children grow up, and when they can also earn work, life will be better.

She still has a bit of a look, and although her husband and children's clothes often smell of sweat, her own clothes are clean. Because of this, when she was working in the brigade, she was always talked about, especially Zhou Qian, who always found some opportunities to say some painless anecdotes to harass her.

She made two bowls of sour and spicy pea noodle soup according to the earthwork, let them eat it, and then covered them with a quilt and waited for them to sweat. In the afternoon, Katsuo felt much better, so he got up, and Sister-in-law Wang was happy to see that he was getting better. It is not easy to watch the child for others, in case there are three long and two short, it is not clear to say, her family has no money to go to the health center for treatment, so she can only use the local method.

It's just that Shengyang has a high fever that doesn't go away, and her mouth is full of nonsense, she keeps changing it with a towel, taking a bath with mugwort, rubbing her belly button, and seeing that she is getting better, Sister-in-law Wang continues to help take care of it, and the medicine for his eyes is given to him on time.

Three days later, Zheng's father and Qin's mother returned home and found that Shengyang had lost a lot of weight and had no energy at all. Sister-in-law Wang said that she had been catching a cold for several days, but it had eased somewhat. Moreover, Katsuo is already all right, and I believe that Katsuyo will be fine in two days. Father Zheng thanked her for her careful care and gave her two more liters of food as a token of gratitude.

The sky is clear, and Zheng's father is going to work again. That morning, Shengyang suddenly found that he couldn't see anything in his right eye, and the pain was intense, and he wanted to vomit nauseously. When Wang's sister-in-law heard him crying, she ran to the mountain to call Zheng's father back, and Zheng's father hurriedly carried him to the health center.

The doctor said that it was too late, and the child had a turnip flower in his right eye, which gradually shrank and he could no longer see. This was caused by a variety of complications, and it took too long, so the child was given painkiller injections, prescribed a few pairs of medicines, and asked Zheng's father to take Shengyang home.