On January 21, 1984, it was cold.

In Jiayang County, Heilongjiang Province in the early morning, it was freezing and snowy.

As soon as the sky was clear, the chimney of Qi Youheng's house, who lived on the riverside, was already emitting white smoke.

The second door slammed open, and a stream of heat rushed out, and a bare-headed half-sized man jumped out of the house, ran to the halberd stack at the edge of the yard, quickly drew a few halberds, and ran back, and a man's scolding came from the house: "You bear thing!" Let you hold two firewoods, you really hugged two for me? Ah! I'm going to kick you to death, and I'll dare to go out in the morning without even putting on a hat! As soon as he turned his head, he saw that his son didn't even close the door, and the cold air rolled in, and the fire surged, and he shouted, "Close the door!" ”

- The daughter-in-law was not at home, and this morning, it almost killed him.

The boy giggled and ran to close the door, but before he could close it, he heard a bang on the door outside.

"Who?"

"Open the door for your grandfather!" With the north wind, there was a faint voice of the elderly.

When the kid heard this, he hurriedly ran to open the door: "Master, why are you here?" It's early in the morning! ”

Outside the door was an old man, with a layer of hoarfrost on his dogskin hat, and on his beard and eyelashes. With a big cotton hand in his hand, he pushed the gate, threw the horsewhip to his grandson, stamped his feet outside the gate, and walked in.

As he walked, he looked left and right at the yard, the snow in the yard had not yet been cleared, and he looked at the somewhat messy coal sheds and halberd stacks, and immediately frowned.

Slowly walk into the second door. There was another exclamation from the room, and he said impatiently, "What a call! Forty or so people! I'm here to see the orb! ”

The old man's name is Qi Shengxuan, he is 83 years old this year, and he lives in Taiping Village, eight miles away from the east of the city. He was older and less awake, and it snowed last night, shaking him to wake up early. As soon as I opened my eyes, I heard my eldest grandson sweeping snow in the yard, and muttered to my granddaughter-in-law who came out to pick up firewood and cook, "The fourth uncle's Baozhu has a cold, so the hospital has made the wrong medicine, and it seems that it will not work." ”

The old man slammed the door, "What's the matter?" ”

"Yesterday ......"

"Why didn't you say it earlier?" The old man drank heavily.

"Master, you're asleep...... Besides, the fourth uncle didn't call, and Baozhu specified that it was fine......"

"Get out!" The old man raised his foot and kicked it, but Qi Baojiang, who was already forty-five years old, didn't dare to hide, and suffered a kick from his grandfather.

"I raised my son, and I have to sweep the snow, don't you think it's too bad?" The old man scolded, went back and dressed up, and went out to set the horse, Qi Baojiang hurriedly followed, and was whipped off the climbing plow by the old man. The old man whipped his whip, and the old horse stomped his hooves twice, and jogged, heading straight for the county seat, and along the way, there was not even a rutted footprint.

Qi Youheng helped his father into the door and sat on the sofa, "Dad, Baozhu is nothing serious, penicillin allergy, it looks scary, the doctor said it's fine!" ”

"I've heard that there are people with allergies!" Old man Qi refused to even take off his cotton hat and was in a hurry to go to the hospital. "Hurry up, go to the hospital!"

"Master, it's too early, the hospital won't open!"

"The little cub wants to coax me, what is the hospital closed?"

"Dad, let's drink some porridge, it's early, Baozhu can't get up, there are so many people in the ward, I have to wash." Qi Youheng looked at his father helplessly, it was not yet seven o'clock.

"Okay then." Old Man Qi took out a small cigarette pouch pot and a blue-black towel bag for tobacco from his pocket, Qi Youheng took out a pack of big front doors, and asked his father to smoke his own, "Dad, smoke this, it will save trouble!" ”

"No!" Old Man Qi glanced at his son and said angrily.

The kid who was holding Chai He just now ran over to fill his grandfather with cigarettes and light cigarettes.

Old Man Qi took a sip and coughed twice.

"Dad, don't smoke when you cough!" Qi Youheng persuaded.

"Nope." The old man said without raising his eyes.

The atmosphere was awkward.

"Master! Time to eat! I don't know who shouted in the kitchen. Old Man Qi went to the side of the stove pit and knocked the cigarette bag and pot, sorted it out and hung it on his waist.

There were five people at a table, all of them men, Old Man Qi looked at his son, and then at his three grandsons, "Your daughter-in-law is in the hospital?" ”

"Well, Xiuzhi stayed with the bed last night, and there was no room in the ward, so let me leave one person." Qi Youheng handed the chopsticks to his father.

"Oh. Did you send a letter from Baoguo? Old Man Qi asked as he took a sip of porridge and sandwiched a piece of salted cucumber. Only then did the children and grandchildren at the table dare to use chopsticks to eat.

"I'm here, I said that I might be able to come back for the New Year this year!" Qi Youheng drank a mouthful of bud rice noodle porridge, the bud rice noodle was not stirred well, there were a lot of pimples, and there was a bit of a mushy taste, the daughter-in-law was not at home, no one knew how to cook.

He handed his father another steamed bun.

"Enough. Eat it all and go to see the orb after eating! The old man broke half of the steamed buns, and gave the remaining half to the little grandson.

The whole family held the porridge bowl and sped up the pace of eating.

Old man Qi drank a large bowl of porridge and half a steamed bun, and put down his chopsticks.

Qi Youheng brought out another bowl of egg water from the kitchen, "Dad, you drink." It's hot. ”

"I'm full, you're here again!" The old man glanced at his son.

"Isn't this water just boiling?" Qi Youheng argued. "Drink it, don't take up any space."

The old man glanced at the three grandsons who were staring at the egg water, "It's okay." Then he squeaked and drank and said to his three grandsons, "Your days of happiness are yet to come!" ”

When the three boys heard this, they hurried to eat.

After the five grandparents finished eating, it was just after seven o'clock, and they were urged by the old man, and they didn't even clean up the table, wrapped a small quilt around the lunch box, put it on, and got on the horse to climb the plow, and went to the hospital.

In the entire Jiayang County, no one has used horses to climb the plow for a long time, and there are a few early risers on the street, who are good at watching the horse climb the plow, and someone who knows Qi Youheng also greets him, "Section Chief Qi is working so early?" ”

Qi Youheng replied indiscriminately, and in a hurry, he drove the horse and the plow towards the county hospital.

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Shen Mengxi seems to have had a long dream, in which a child is singing, "When I leave you gently, let me go back to my north......"

She was so tired that she just wanted to keep sleeping.

But the gradual recovery of her body made her nose smell a familiar long-lost breath, which was the smell of Laisu water from the hospital. I felt a hot thing next to my arms, and it was extremely comfortable.

But he couldn't open his eyes for a while.

Slowly, she heard a noise, the door closed loudly, and it bounced back, and it bounced back, and it banged again. It seems like a lot of people are coming in and out.

Shen Mengxi, who has rich experience, suddenly realized that this is his new life again.

She thought that she had killed too much and would not be reborn, but she did not expect to be reborn again.

I didn't have time to think about it, but suddenly I heard a sharp voice shouting: "Fish tank!" Fish tank! Fish tank! ”