Chapter 1 There is also a child

My name is Zhang Zhengyi, a native of Jiangxi, born in the summer of 1977, the detailed date forgive me for professional taboos, I can't explain.

The place where I was born is a family surnamed Zhang in a very barren mountain village in the northwest of Jiangxi.

It is said that this small mountain village was used by hunters to rest their feet in ancient times, but later because of the chaos of the world, many people from other places fled here, and gradually evolved into a village with more than a dozen families.

When I was born, there were no extraordinary visions of the birth of the main character in the novel.

If you want to say weird, it's that I'm Qixingzi, the point is, on the night my mother gave birth to me, I dreamed that a person from my house who couldn't even see his face clearly, stood under the locust tree in my yard, smiled at my parents, and then got into the locust tree.

After this dream, my mother woke up, and then felt a sharp pain in her abdomen, and the amniotic fluid ran down her legs.

My mom hurriedly woke up my dad, and my dad saw that my mom was sweating profusely and grinning with teeth, but my dad was frightened, put on a coat with all his hands and feet, took a flashlight and ran out.

The so-called giving birth to a child is actually my dialect for "stable woman" here.

At that time, boys represented productivity, and only when they were productive could they have work, and only when they had work could they get food stamps, meat stamps, and the like. Therefore, the phenomenon of preference for sons over daughters in Jiangxi was very common in that era, and the general rural children could not afford to go to the city or county hospital, and those middle-aged women who had experience in giving birth or had experience in helping people deliver babies took on the role of a stable woman, in order to be able to give birth to a son, and beg for a lottery, so they called the stable woman "giving birth to a child", taking the meaning of giving birth to a child and not giving birth to a daughter.

Of course, up to now, the phenomenon of preference for sons over daughters has basically disappeared, but the habit of calling a stable woman "giving birth to a mother" in some rural areas has not changed, and a giving birth to a woman is rarely seen now.

Then talk about the seven stars, many people think that the name of the seven stars sounds very mysterious, very good, and seems to be related to the stars.

But in fact, the so-called Seven Star Son is less than a month, a child born after only seven months of pregnancy. Qixingzi is just a blessing, it sounds better than a premature baby, right?

According to medicine, it is due to congenital insufficiency and weak vitality, and if there is no good medical care, there is a high probability that it will show intelligence lower than ordinary people.

I'm lucky that even though I'm a seven-star son, I didn't have the problems mentioned above.

At that time, the medical equipment was very backward compared to today, and even if there was the current level of medical care, my family could not afford to pay for it, let alone how good the medical care I could have at that time.

Except that my body is indeed weaker than other babies, I have no problem intellectually, otherwise I would not have had the following incident.

Alright, back to the point. I was born at almost twelve o'clock in the night, and after my first cry lit up the room as Wen Po patted my buttocks, my dad vigorously pushed the door open, almost rushed to the bedside, and carefully carried me from Wen Po's arms. By the time my dad took me into his arms, he was breathing very lightly.

I can't tolerate my dad being careless, according to my dad later, he went to join in the excitement when someone else's child was born, and he saw what it was like to have a newborn baby.

It's just that when I was born, my dad saw that I was so small, a big palm, holding me like a puppy, my face was red, and my mouth was crying, and I was panting for breath, and the crying sound was as light as a mosquito.

He was afraid that if I had a little more strength, I would break, and according to my father, I was as brittle as a piece of paper.

At this point, it seemed that this was the common situation in those days when children were born, and I was as if I was just an ordinary child born in an ordinary village, and there was no vision from heaven to recognize my extraordinary, except that I was weaker than the other babies when they were born.

But my mom fell asleep after giving birth to me, and then she had that dream again.

This dream was a little different from what I had done before. According to what my mother later described to me, this time she had a dream that the person who still couldn't see his face clearly, he didn't drill the locust tree in the yard, but went directly into my mother's belly, and only the upper body stayed outside, staring at my mother.

My mother woke up immediately and looked at the wall clock, and it was only half an hour.

My mom is really scared right now!

It's not that my mom wasn't scared by the previous dream, it's just that I was about to be born after waking up, which diverted my mom's attention.

This time I had this dream again, and it was still such a scary scene, so scared that my mother screamed at my dad in the room. My dad was boiling chicken soup outside, and this was an old hen he bought from his neighbor in exchange for two three-pound food stamps.

In those days, you needed food stamps to buy grain, and if you wanted to eat meat, you needed meat stamps, and both food stamps and meat stamps were earned according to personal productivity, and then the work points were used to exchange food stamps, oil stamps, and meat stamps in the rural social teams. Ever since my mom got pregnant, my dad has been working harder than ever to earn money, so when I was born, my family had a lot of tickets in store.

Originally, my dad was boiling chicken soup outside, but my dad started boiling it after he called Wen Po, thinking that after my mother gave birth to me, her body was weak and used to make up for her.

Hearing my mom shouting in the house, my dad hurried into the house and saw my mom waking up less than an hour from a sleep, struggling to get up in bed.

He frowned, wiped his hands with the rag on his body, hurriedly stepped forward to help my mother, and shouted in a low voice, "Why are you still up?" Hurry up and squint for a while, I'll boil the old hen for you, and I'll boil it dry when it's late. ”

My parents are typical rural people, they have no education, they speak coarsely, and their voices are so loud that you think he is angry, and people who have not lived in the countryside think that my father is distressed that the old hen that he exchanged for food stamps will boil dry soup.

But my mom actually knew that my dad was caring about her, but the way rural men expressed it would not be so tactful.

"Lao Zhang, hurry up, go quickly, call the birth mother again, why do I feel that I still have a child in my belly?" My mom ignored my dad telling her to lie down, she finally sat up in bed, and when she remembered the dream, her stomach seemed to be a little wrong.

She was so scared that she couldn't even speak, and just after giving birth, her vitality was greatly damaged, and the trembling tone of weakness scared my dad too.

"What? You lie down! Although my dad was frightened by my mother's appearance, he was very worried about my mother's body, so he quickly pretended to be calm, but in fact, he was so frightened and panicked that he only had time to tell my mother to lie down and ran out of the door, without even bringing a flashlight.

From the time my mother gave birth to me, to my mother's awakening from a dream, to my father's running out to chase after my mother, more than half an hour has passed.

When my dad saw the light of a flashlight not far away, he gritted his teeth and suddenly increased his speed again. He panted and chased after his mother-in-law, and when he looked up, he was still a few steps away from the door of his mother-in-law's house.

"Lao Zhang? Why do you run faster? Flashlight also taken away? (Why did you run so fast, and I didn't mean to take the flashlight)"

When I was born, it was summer, and the countryside was built on the mountain, and although there were not many people in the village, it was a little far away.

My house is far away from my mother-in-law's house, and if you normally walk, you have to walk for more than half an hour on the mountain road, you know, the mountain road in that era is not like the road paved with cement now, it is a serious mountain road with many stones and mud!

On such a mountain road, my dad was in a hurry to go out, and he didn't bring a flashlight, completely relying on a box of Western-style matches he had finally gotten in the countryside in his pocket, and walked one by one.

When he caught up with his son-in-law, the box he always carried with him on weekdays, and he took it out to show off when he saw people, but there was only one Western-style match left that he was reluctant to use, and he was originally more than half an hour away, while protecting the flame of the match, while sprinting, it took ten minutes to run away, which shows how anxious my dad is!

My dad ran up to his mother-in-law, put his hands on his knees, and inhaled heavily, his lungs and bellows fluttering. My dad took two sharp breaths, and insisted on holding these two breaths to speak to his mother-in-law: "Gui ...... Gui Fang's stomach ...... There is still ...... in the stomach And one more! ”

With that, my dad took his mother-in-law's hand and trotted all the way back to my house.