In the mountains south of the Qinba Mountains, the Qinglong River and the Xiangu River meander down, and the gurgling river flows day and night, converging into the water river in the town of Huang, and then flowing through the Ji River to join the Haohao Han River. The town of Huangxi, a place known as "water into rice", originated from the common people's belief that the two rivers supplied the Ganwei water spring and irrigated the fertile land.

The whole town has jurisdiction over ten administrative villages, this place of mountains and mountains, jackals, tigers and leopards often haunted in the past, most of the ancestors fled to this deep mountain to escape the war and wade through mountains and rivers to multiply, reclaim the wasteland slopes, rely on the sky to eat, barely fill the stomach. Far away from the county seat, the news is blocked. In the sixties, there were no roads, and county officials and postmen had to walk for three days to reach them.

With the reform and opening up, migrant workers went to the city to earn money, which changed the quality of life and concepts here. Watching the sketch dialogue of the GI on TV: I didn't have a wife before I was fifty, and I got used to it after I was fifty. Zheng Shengyang smiled, and then his eyes were moist, he was not "stupid to death", he was the debt of his parents in his previous life, and he came to repay the favor in this life, with only one eye and only one home......

Zheng Shengyang lives halfway up the hill in Biandong Village, which is separated from the center of the market town by a large mountain. It is bounded by the river into the water, with Biandong Village in the east and Xiangyang Village in the west. Xiangyang Village and Xiangyin Village are bounded by Xiangyang Village on the top of Xiangyang Mountain, and the end of the mountain is like a Buddha's foot stretched out. Further down the river is Lanhegou Village, until it is separated from the Tangba in the neighboring county.

The land in Biandong and Xiangyang villages is relatively fertile, and the crop yield is high. In Xiangyin Village, the large and small mountains are connected one after another, and the land is extremely barren. The people at the bottom of the ravine enjoy very short sunshine every day, and the corn and wheat planted are harvested at least half a month later than in Xiangyang Village. Especially in winter, a thick piece of clothing does not dry for several days.

There is a river called Xiangyin River at the bottom of the mountain in Xiangyin Village, with it as the boundary, this side of the river belongs to Pingli County, and the opposite side belongs to the jurisdiction of other counties. In the eyes of the people who rely on the sky for food, they often don't understand why their ancestors chose to settle here. In the summer, when the rain is looking forward to rain, the rain on the other side of the river falls one after another, but there are no grains on this side of the river. Sometimes I burn incense and worship the Buddha and ask for rain, but I see Xiangyang Village below, but Xiangyin Village does not fall, as if I have been spelled.

He thought it was the same to try to see the world with one eye, but the world looked so strange and mysterious to him. He loved the world with all his heart, but the world seemed to ignore this small kindness......

One eye is not born with one eye. In 1968, in the Biandong Brigade, Zheng Shengyang's birth brought joy and hope to the family. The adults listened to his clear cry, looked at the big watery eyes, and decided that he was a smart child. Although the boy is not unusual, it is the first happy event for the Zheng family in eight years.

The neighbors brought wheat, corn, potatoes, and the like that were almost plucked from between their teeth to celebrate. Shengyang's grandfather, Chef Qin Huaisheng, not only brought meat dishes, but also gave a gift of ten yuan. The guests were happy to eat, and he was happy for his deaf daughter.

Zheng Shengyang's mother, Qin Liangyan, has good facial features, medium height, thin body, and a gentle and kind smile on her face.

Father Zheng Dakuan is a person who has no quarrel with the world, compared with his uncle Zheng Dabao's tall body, he is short, thin, and rarely speaks. But the relationship between the two brothers has always been good, they do not separate their families, they live together, and everything in the family is decided by the uncle. Since the eldest mother, Sun Yifeng, gave birth to a stupid Zheng Shengnan eight years ago, she has never been pregnant.

The eldest lady's mother's family is in the stone ditch of the Xiangyin Brigade, and she was introduced to know her, although she lacks food and clothing, but her body is very strong, her face is big and her chest is firm, and her buttocks are round, which is considered to be the best object for giving birth to a son in the local area, and it is almost love at first sight to meet a tall and strong man like the uncle. The uncle was very satisfied when he saw that she could speak well, and that she was good at tea and rice and needlework, and she married in less than a month.

It's just that they didn't expect that their son turned out to be a widow with dementia, and the husband and wife worked hard day and night to have a second child, and it didn't work to take the traditional Chinese medicine prepared by Qin Sheng, so they lived a depressed life. Compared with the deaf Qin Liangyan, she is a waste, but the child is born so smart. If he is reborn and bullies Katsuo in the future, then his life will be even more difficult. So it was discussed that she would only have one child, Zheng Dabao thought about it and agreed with her to do so.

The couple talked to Zheng Dakuan about this matter, saying that there were already two male babies in the family, and eating was a problem, and it was enough for Qin's mother to give birth to Shengyang. Zheng's father never disobeyed their ideas, and the two children were rice farms in the blink of an eye, eating more than adults, plus they had to study and marry a daughter-in-law, and their ability was indeed limited.

In 1969, the Revolutionary Committee called on laborers to build the Xiangyu Railway (Line 3), in addition to eating and drinking, they could also earn ten points.

In 1972, when the eldest uncle came back to visit relatives, she found that Qin's mother was pregnant with a child again, and she was about to give birth. The uncle blamed Zheng's father for not listening to the arrangement, and the family had a large population, so he must not add more food.

But the next night, the child fell to the ground, it was a girl, the aunt and the uncle were very angry, and the whole family did not have any joy. The girl's hard work to raise her is also someone else's, and it is a pure waste of rations.

Zheng's father said that the family was separated, and he would bring the two children to grow up, and the uncle looked contemptuous, "Just the two of you, my brother and daughter-in-law are not only deaf, but they can't even cook." Is it realistic that you have to earn a job and take care of two children? If it weren't for me and your sister-in-law supporting this family all these years, I'm afraid you wouldn't even be able to support yourself, let alone two children. ”

"Then please ask the eldest brother to agree to keep this child!" Zheng's father begged, he knew that it was hard to take care of the child, and in the past three years, fortunately, Shengnan carried Shengyang to work with him, otherwise, he would not be busy at all. But Liangyan really didn't mean to conceive a child, she couldn't learn from others to throw it into the toilet and drown.

"You've learned to grab your mouth now, how we negotiated in the first place. Look at the sister-in-law in the backyard, the child has given birth to five, and the family squeezes one bed, what is the difference between two pigs with piglets. The whole family didn't have enough to eat, and they were thinner than a monkey. The clothes worn by the adults are all worn out and changed to the eldest children, and the older children can't wear them and wear them to the second child. The children's usual entertainment is to pick off lice on each other's heads and clothes, bite lice eggs, so poor, how will they marry a daughter-in-law in the future? "Uncle is very angry, I haven't seen him for a few years, and he has a temper. There are seven people, and after living a life, they have become like Aunt Wang's family.