When Sister-in-law Liu finished telling this story, it happened that the chickens in the village began to croak one after another.

My parents were very unhappy after hearing this, my dad was mainly worried about my mother's physical condition, and at the same time, he was also afraid that our family would be like Lao Zhengtou's family, which was inexplicably wiped out.

But as a man, as the pillar of the family, he knew that he had to stand up at this time, and it would be good to at least say something.

So he stammered and asked Sister-in-law Liu, "That...... Captain Chen...... What kind of person is he? ”

In this case, my dad tried his best to calm down, and quickly recalled the story that Sister-in-law Liu had just told in his mind, and he always felt that there would be someone in that story to solve his worries. Although my dad was still scared, he was very keen to grasp the key character in the story, that Captain Chen!

In Sister-in-law Liu's narration, the captain surnamed Chen could not be an ordinary person, not to mention his magical roar, just from the scene where he saw the death of Lao Zhengtou's family but did not react at all, he is not an ordinary person.

You know, even when my parents heard this scene from Sister-in-law Liu's mouth, they felt shocked, let alone the people they saw with their own eyes.

"How can I know?" Sister-in-law Liu glanced at my father, which means that she also listened to her sister, how does she know what kind of person Captain Chen is?

My mom finally relieved, and I don't know if she was too involved in listening to the story, or if someone in the family made her feel safe, and her stomach was not uncomfortable, but she was still very weak.

My mom saw my dad's concern, so she spoke to my dad: "Didn't Lao Zhengtou's grandson die before this happened?" Look at our children, don't you live well? I guess I haven't slept well in the past two days. ”

At last, she paused, as if thinking of something, and struggled to get out of bed.

"Why are you going?" My dad saw my mom gesturing to get out of bed and hurriedly stopped her.

"It's dawn, I'll make you some porridge, Sister-in-law Liu, you've been busy all night, you can also have some breakfast here and then go back to rest!"

At that time, rural people were like this, and it was normal for them to work in the fields the next day after giving birth. It's just that my dad feels sorry for my mom and doesn't let her get out of bed.

My dad didn't say a word, just pressed my mom and lay down again, covered her with the quilt, and my dad said, "What are you doing?" I'll do it. Sister-in-law Liu, eat porridge at home and then go to rest. ”

After saying that, my dad didn't care whether Sister-in-law Liu agreed or not, so he went out of the house directly and went to the kitchen.

After breakfast, Sister-in-law Liu went home.

And when my mother was in a daze, my father fed me a bowl of rice soaked in chicken soup that was very thin and thin, and then fell into a deep sleep.

My dad was fed some "nutrients" (rice soup made from rice in the Jiangxi dialect) and I didn't make a fuss, and my dad held me until I fell asleep, and then he put me in the cradle and sat on the railing at the door of the house and rolled up a cigarette.

At that time, although there were whole packs of cigarettes sold, my family was in a remote mountain village in Jiangxi, and I didn't have a whole pack of cigarettes to buy.

At that time, my dad had a few packs of cigarettes brought by the trustee in the countryside, which he was reluctant to smoke, so they were tightly wrapped in plastic bags and placed on top of the old-fashioned closet in his room, which was more than one meter high. Only during the Chinese New Year will he take down the plastic bag, wipe off the dust of the previous area for a year, and then take out a bag and smoke it very cherished.

On weekdays, he rolls tobacco with cigarette paper, licks it with his tongue at the joint, and the cigarette paper can be rolled up firmly, and then struck an ordinary match to light it, and then begins to swallow clouds and spit out smoke.

Later, according to my father's recollection, he didn't know how many cigarettes he rolled that day, and he didn't know how long it was, but after my mother was woken up by my crying, he threw away the cigarette in his hand and swept the cigarette butts with a broom.

"Hungry?"

My dad never seemed to say anything caring, and when he saw my mom wake up, he naturally thought that she hadn't eaten anything in the morning, and didn't ask my mom if she was feeling better.

But fortunately, my mom had long been accustomed to my dad's way, she nodded, got up and sat on the edge of the bed, reached into the cradle, and held me in her hand.

My dad didn't say a word, he turned around and went out to make my mom hot chicken soup.

After a while, when my dad had warmed up the chicken soup and carried me back to the cradle from my mother's hands, my dad habitually looked up at the wall clock, and it was already noon. My dad brought the chicken soup to my mom, turned around and went back to the kitchen to get me "nutrition".

After my dad fed me some "nutrients", I stopped making a fuss and fell asleep in the cradle. That's when my mom and my dad started to discuss things.

"Lao Zhang, I just ...... I had that dream again. "My mom put down the bowl, thought about it, and told my dad anyway. After all, after listening to Sister-in-law Liu's story, my mother was not worried that it was fake. It's just that this time my mom wasn't afraid.

Later, according to my mother's recollection, she said that when she had the third dream, she knew very well in the dream that she was dreaming, and she also remembered what Sister-in-law Liu said, but when she thought of me who was just born, my mother said that she didn't know where the courage came from, she only felt very angry, and then she was not afraid, and she scolded the person in the dream. But what exactly I scolded, my mother doesn't remember.

Many years later, when I heard my mother talk about this past, I couldn't help but burst into tears, is this the nature of mothers who want to protect their children, and maternal love?

I think this may be a talent for all mothers, the things that have always been afraid, as long as they think of their children, they actually have the courage to face it, even hard!

After listening to what my mother said, my dad was silent for a long time, and looked at me who was asleep, and he seemed to have made some decision.

After a while, my dad gritted his teeth and said to my mother: "I'll put the child in Lao Wu's house for two days, and I'll set off for the city later, and I'll find Captain Chen alive or dead!" ”

Lao Wu's family and my family are neighbors almost a kilometer apart, and the relationship with my family is very good.

It's not that my dad doesn't worry that my mom can't take care of me alone, but he remembers the baby's laughter in the story told by Sister-in-law Liu, and it seems that everything happened because of the baby's laughter.

So, in fact, my father was a little afraid of me, but he was reluctant to really leave me alone, so he had to put me in Lao Wu's house for two days.

This was the unjust death of me when I was still an infant, I didn't do anything, I was still a child at that time!

Although she knew what my dad meant, she still said to my dad excitedly when she heard that my dad was going to send me away, "No! The child is my flesh, and I can't let him go! ”

My dad is a very macho person, and he is a bull temper, he makes decisions that no one else will object, seeing my mother's excited reaction, he was already annoyed and immediately exploded, and his voice couldn't help but be much louder: "Are you going to do this?" This child is with you, can I go to the city with confidence? ”

This roar, my dad didn't know why he felt much more comfortable, but it woke me up.

Babies, no matter what the reason for waking up, will cry non-stop. This cry made my dad irritable again, and my dad didn't wait for my mom to say anything, just picked me up, turned around and walked out of the house.

As he walked, he also shouted: "I'll send this beast to Lao Wu's house!" ”

Yes, my dad was just afraid that I would bring some disaster to the family, but now he directly defined me as a "beast", as if I would really destroy the door of my old Zhang family as if I was the grandson of Lao Zhengtou.

My mom was so quick that she didn't even have time to put on her shoes, so she jumped out of bed, hugged my dad's arm, and half-sat on the ground, crying and trying hard to prevent my dad from taking a step forward, but she was too sad to say a complete sentence.

But how can my mother's strength compare to my father's? In addition, my father's bullish temper came up, so he hugged me and dragged my mother forward step by step.

Just when my dad was about to step over the door, he was blocked by a person, who was shorter than my dad, but the figure blocking my dad's way was so stable that no matter how my dad tried to push his head against the man, and hit the man sideways, the man didn't move at all.

My dad was about to scold, but the man opened his mouth very calmly: "No need to go, I'm here." ”