My father was born in 42 and had seven sisters, six boys and one girl. My father was the youngest, and my eldest uncle was born in 28, 14 years older than my father.

The eldest uncle is very legendary in the local area, first, his diligent and studious story makes everyone talk about it, and second, he is young and becomes a "big official" in the eyes of his old family, which makes people revered and envious.

Seven fathers, brothers and sisters, including grandparents, this big family, with the ups and downs of the uncle's career and turbulence, there are life and death, there are wives and wives separated, very tortuous, under the impact of the tide of history, a person's efforts, a family's struggle, the strength seems so small, so insignificant.

The eldest uncle is very studious, he has a good performance in childhood, other people's children are still playing, he knows to study hard, the old family often says, the eldest uncle will hold a book when herding cattle, while herding cattle while reciting.

The great uncle's studious efforts were valued when he finished high school. When Fengxin County had just been liberated, there was a shortage of talents, so my uncle was specially called into the army, entered Nanchang City, and worked in the Provincial Public Security Department.

At a young age, he served as the first director of a police station in a district of Nanchang City, and by the time he was 55 or 56 years old, he was already the director of the Nanchang Water Public Security Bureau.

The eldest uncle was extremely loyal to the party's cause and extremely loyal to the family, at that time his salary was about 20 yuan a month, and he had accumulated a lot of money, and he had been selflessly helping his grandparents, a big family.

The grandparents used the money to buy fields, buy family property, and used the 200 yuan sent by the eldest uncle to buy an old house next to the ancestral home. Because their children are beginning to grow up and start a family, there is no longer enough house to live in.

The selflessness of the eldest uncle is remembered by this big family, and even to our generation, we all remember the kindness of the eldest uncle, and the family feelings are therefore very close.

At the beginning of liberation, life was still poor, there was little land in his hometown, and his grandparents' family was particularly miserable. Six sons and one daughter all have to open their mouths to eat, and often they eat the last meal, and they don't know where the next meal is.

Grandma is a child daughter-in-law, wrapped in a footcloth since she was a child, which is what the old society called "three-inch golden lotus", she trembles and is dangerous when she walks, she can't work, she can only do some housework, and the burden of life is all on her grandfather.

Grandpa was industrious and loyal, and on the eve of the defeat of the Kuomintang, no one in the local area was willing to serve as the "chief of security", and the "chief of security" was similar to the current township chief. The place was unmanaged, and the Kuomintang ** before the defeat found his grandfather and let him serve as the local "security chief".

Because of loyalty, but also because of the livelihood, grandpa accepted such an arrangement, but also accepted the arrangement of fate, after he was the "chief of security" for a day, the local liberation, this day of the "chief of security" experience, for the future family impact, laid the groundwork.

At the beginning of liberation, the policy was still unclear, and families were still running for a living, and several of Grandpa's sons grew up one after another. The problem of food and drink could not be solved by the lack of fields, so the grandfather took his son and pushed the "wheelbarrow" to the neighboring counties and even the provincial capital Nanchang, relying on the sale of some agricultural supplies to maintain the family's survival.

"Unicycle" is quite common in the hometown, very versatile, a single big wooden wheel, on both sides of the bracket, behind the handrail, the handrail is generally tied with a thick strap, sometimes in front of the strap, to help pull.

When using, grab the two armrests by hand, carry the strap on your shoulder, and then you can push it out. The brackets on both sides are used to hold goods, and can also sit on people, which is labor-saving and lightweight, and can be walked on the road and can also be walked through the fields.

I don't know who invented the "wheelbarrow", and I don't know when it appeared, it has always existed, it is rare in the mountains, but it is popular in every household in the plains. It carries the growth of I don't know how many generations, and carries too many memories of the old family.

It is indispensable for working in the fields and transporting fertilizer, rice, and seedlings. Walking from afar, trafficking goods, loading equipment, buying goods, and not doing without it. Even marrying relatives and daughters, visiting relatives and friends, it is also indispensable.

When I was a child, I went back to my hometown, and I once saw the "wheelbarrow" marrying, wrapping the "wheelbarrow" with a big red cloth, and the bride wore a red hijab and sat on one side of the "wheelbarrow", and the other side sat with the bridesmaids, and then it was a team carrying the wedding dress, beating gongs and drums, and welcoming back to the man's home.

The dowry dress is more particular, and two pieces of wood are specially made of poles, and in the mountainous areas, two straight bamboos are generally used instead. The bridal garment is tied to a pole, and then a horizontal strip is attached to both ends, and a canvas is put on, one person in the front and one in the front, and the canvas is carried on the shoulder, and the pole is held in the hand, and you can move forward.

The greater the number of dowries, the more bars, indicating that the heavier the woman's dowry, the more pomp and circumstance. At that time, the number of bars was also a comparison, competing for the height of the higher than the long, I estimate that the word "lifting the bar" comes from this.

"Unicycle" marrying, for a period of time after liberation, is a new social and new fashion, time to push forward, generally use a sedan chair to marry. Time goes back, this kind of "wheelbarrow" has now withdrawn from the stage of history, and it is rare to see it in my hometown, and the few cars that are there are are preserved as monuments.

The hardships of life are the easiest to remember, and my father often talked about it. When he was a child, he had no clothes until he was eight or nine years old, and he was naked in the summer, and the situation was similar in every neighborhood family.

My father also has a very deep memory of eating, and the three meals a day are generally porridge, which is particularly thin, and it is difficult to see a few grains of rice. The staple food is generally "bran cake", which is made of chaff from milling rice and rice cereal, and after eating, it is difficult to digest, and the butt hurts when you shit, which is regarded as self-deprecation by your parents.

Eating "bran cake" and drinking porridge accompanied my father until he went to college, and when he went to college, he had rice and white flour steamed buns. When I came home during the holiday and ate "bran cake" again, my father smiled and said, "I haven't eaten 'bran cake' for a long time", and before he finished speaking, he was hit the head of his pipe by his grandfather, and he grew a big bag.

"Without us eating 'bran cake' for you to study, how can you eat rice and white flour steamed buns!" , my father's joke caused my grandfather to be surprisingly angry, and my father never dared to make such a joke again.

His father had great respect for his elder brothers, who grew up and worked hard, but he was the only one who was young, and compared with his elder brothers, he was taken care of by his grandparents and brothers the most, and suffered the least.

The second and third uncles had no education, they had been working in the countryside, and they had to suffer the most, and they pushed "wheelbarrows" to sell things, and they walked the farthest and the most. My father also participated, but his role was to press the car, and the "unicycle" was most afraid of unbalance, and my father would sit on which side was light, so as to ensure the balance of the "unicycle".

Listening to the fathers, the second aunt went to the grandparents' house since she was a child, which is equivalent to a child daughter-in-law, and the father was almost brought up by the second aunt, and when the second uncle went away to sell goods, the young father was taken by the second aunt as a companion until he was eleven or twelve years old.

It is said that after the eldest uncle joined the work, his grandparents made a request to him that the youngest brother should study, so from the day his father went to school, the cost of studying, including the living expenses during the later university years, was borne by the eldest uncle.

The eldest uncle is selfless and loyal, during his father's college years, he was at a low point in his life, his life was not rich, and it could even be said that it was hard, but he still faithfully fulfilled the instructions of his grandparents and kept his father through college.

So my father was in college, and he was also nervous, and his father often talked about the difficulties during the period, when he was young, he couldn't eat enough, so he used his brain on the meal ticket. Meal tickets are cards made of cardboard, and each time you eat, you put a checkmark on them with a ballpoint pen.

My father and his classmates carefully erased the hook and continued to use it as if they had not checked it, and wiped it so many times that they almost wiped the card through.

The traces of erasure are so obvious, and I don't know how my father and his classmates got away with it, my father didn't explain it, he just smiled at this question, maybe there are some stories in it, and only they know how to do it.

My father's life was hard during college, and it was also reflected in his wear, a pair of leather sandals, through the winter through the summer, and the cold feet in winter would cause frostbite, which could grow into a petal while squeezing out of the sandals. A body of clothes, short hands and short feet, just like the current popular hoisting.