Ye'er was getting closer to the due date, and Grandpa didn't say anything, but I could already clearly feel Grandpa's strong desire for us to have a boy. Grandpa can't be blamed for this.

Listen to my father and mother tell stories about my grandfather. My grandmother left my grandfather because of a serious illness when she was less than 30 years old, leaving behind a pair of children, my aunt, who was only seven or eight years old at the time, and my father, who had just turned one year old. At that time, life was very hard, and it was not liberated, and my grandfather worked long hours in the landlord's house, and often took a red tassel gun to see the green, and I didn't know what it meant to see the green. I asked my mother what it means to be a young man, and what kind of work does it belong to? My mother said that in order to prevent the poor from secretly harvesting the ripening crops in advance, those landlords and old fortunes would hire people to carry red tassel guns to patrol the fields day and night.

Grandpa works day and night like this, and he still can't get the food and clothing of the family, and a big man with two underage children, life is not easy to imagine. Grandpa really had no choice, so he gave his aunt to a family to be a child daughter-in-law, and when his father was six or seven years old, he gave his father to a family to herd cattle. So my father was illiterate, and many of the truths were not educated by my mother, and I only relied on my grandfather's fragmentary education, but even so, it was a blessing in misfortune to be able to survive.

In loneliness, loneliness and poverty, Grandpa learned to gamble. That's probably one of the most effective ways to spend time. My family was very prosperous in my grandfather's generation, my grandfather had five brothers, except for my grandfather, the other brothers had five or six boys, and only my grandmother gave birth to one boy and passed away after my father.

Although we were poor at the time, because we were close to the mountains, there were many stones used to build houses, and if you had the strength, it didn't take much effort to build a few huts to live in. In my grandfather's generation, the brothers divided their families, and my grandfather was divided into three small huts that were not far apart, but later, because of his grandfather's gambling money, he sold two of the small houses to others at a price of 50 yuan and 10 yuan respectively, leaving only an old house for his own residence.

It wasn't until we were liberated here that the lives of my grandfather and father improved. Grandpa took his aunt home, and then married in a beautiful way. My father has grown up slowly, and the family has divided the fields, and my father follows my grandfather to take care of the family's fields.

Grandpa because of the long-term work in the landlord's house, actually learned a good cooking skills, but whenever we here people encounter red and white happy events, they will always invite grandpa to be a chef, grandpa in the age of nearly eighty, and often someone to ask grandpa to be a chef, and then grandpa over eighty years old, is too old, grandpa only under our persuasion, no longer go out to help others. At this time, Grandpa would always say "I'm sorry" to the people who came to ask him for help, with a humble attitude and a little guilty. The years are not forgiving, and grandpa is really old.

When I was a child, my brother and I liked my grandfather the most. As long as Grandpa came back from working as a chef for others, Grandpa would always have a towel in his hand, a bar of soap, and then more or less sugar cubes and pastries and the like. At that time, the relationship between people was very simple and simple, it was an obligation to help others, and I had never heard of receiving wages, and the main family only symbolically gave the people involved in the help a towel, a piece of soap, a few candies or a few pieces of pastry at the end of the matter, and people called these items "small gifts", that is, very small gifts, indicating that they were just expressed.

At this time, we brothers would always gather around Grandpa until he sat down, and Grandpa would give us the candy cubes or pastries in his hands one by one. Then, we rushed to touch Grandpa's head, Grandpa always shaved his head, and his white, short, hard hair was tied in the palms of our little hands, itchy, very comfortable! Grandpa always fanned us and asked us about studying at school, allowing us to touch his bald head.

When my grandfather was eighty-three years old, he was gone, and he missed my grandfather very much.

Listening to my mother, my grandfather was very short-tempered when he was young, and he always couldn't get used to his mother's steamed steamed buns or cakes, because his mother always didn't grasp the heat well, and always made the steamed buns or cakes paste. My mother's skills in making pasta are still not very good, but now that I have an electric baking pan, my mother is no longer mushy in making cakes.

After the liberation, although the life of my grandfather and father was much better, I still had an unsatisfactory life.

Later, the land was nationalized, and they participated in the collective commune together, and my grandfather and father were members of the collective production team. Grandpa and father are busy all year round, and when they settle accounts at the end of the year, they often owe money to the collective production team, because grandpa has developed a bad habit of gambling money in the past, so that he always advances the money that should be paid at the end of the year to gamble in advance, so grandpa and father are often busy all year round and always don't get a penny.

This situation did not change radically until the father married the mother. Because my father got married, and then we had four brothers and sisters, and we had to spend money everywhere, my father negotiated with my grandfather, and my father asked the production team to keep separate accounts for his and my grandfather's work, so that my father finally had the money to raise us to grow up, and my grandfather sometimes felt guilty, and would always help my father from time to time.

Grandpa was still gambling in his eighties, but at this time, grandpa gambled, and we persuaded grandpa to kill time. Grandpa is old, old, although gambling money, but has long lost the original hot temper, now grandpa gambling money is just to kill time, to live for the rest of the day, we brothers will always pay salary, more or less to grandpa a little pocket money; Because the amount of money that grandpa gambles now is really small, so small that it is only a few dimes to win or lose.

I know the reason why Grandpa really wanted us to have a boy, Grandpa's time, our country still belonged to the agricultural civilization, and Grandpa had not yet come out of this agricultural civilization that had been going on for thousands of years.

Grandpa knew that the survival of human beings in an agrarian society depended on strong labor. Without the prosperity of his grandfather's generation, it would be impossible for his grandfather's family to build so many huts; If my father had several brothers, he would not have been bullied for water transfer, land, and so on in the rest of his life。。。。。。 In short, in an agrarian society, the role of boys is indeed much more important than that of girls. The key is that my brother and sister-in-law gave birth to three girls in a row, and because I have a job and because of the basic national policy of family planning, Ye'er and I can only have one child, and I really understand my grandfather's expectations.