Chapter 6 Where did the third sister go?
It was Sunday, and Zhang Yu, who was eight years old and in the second grade, and Zhang Zhou, who was six years old and had just entered the first grade, did not have to go to school.
The girls are alive, and even Zhang Ze, who is still in infancy, seems to be able to sense the happiness of his mother and sisters.
The third sister Zhang Hu took out a bamboo toy, stuffed the vegetable leaves into a small bamboo tube, inserted a bamboo branch into it, and pushed it hard, the moment the vegetable leaves left the bamboo tube, the crisp sound of "soldiers" was released, Zhang Ze grinned as soon as he heard the sound of the leaves bursting, and laughed non-stop.
Zhang Hu found that his sister liked her little trick so much, and Ye Zi became more and more energetic.
The early birds get worms, and the girls are eager to help their mother with the housework.
Zhang Yu went to the vegetable garden to pick sweet potato vines for pigs to eat, and Zhang Zhou swept the floor with a broom.
Zhang Hu played with his fifth sister for a while, and found that his mother forgot to open the door of the chicken pen, and the chickens that were locked in were singing vigorously, and turned his head to Zhang Ze and said, "Sister, you rest first, and I will play with you later", ran to the chicken pen and opened the door.
A dozen chickens regained their freedom and scrambled to jump out of the hen pen.
"Giggled" around Zhang Lake.
"Are you hungry?" Zhang Hu ran back to the utility room, followed his mother's example, filled a large spoonful of rice bran, and stumbled towards the courtyard with the spoon in his hand.
"Yo, Hu'er, you have to help your mother feed the chickens!" Zhu Shuilian came out of the kitchen, saw Zhang Hu who was walking unsteadily, and hurriedly ran over to take the big spoon in the third daughter's hand.
"Hu'er, let's play with my sister!"
What a sensible man!
Why would anyone not like not wanting a daughter?
Zhu Shuilian was sad for a while, if her fourth daughter was also there, how good it would be!
Zhang Yu, who was picking vegetables in the vegetable garden, was busy working and thinking: Dad hates me and my sisters so much, I really hope he never comes back.
Why do you have a mother and a father? All she needs to do is have a mom!
Mom is the hardest-working, strongest, and most beautiful person in the world.
She never saw her mother have a moment of free time.
Mom is either working in the fields or in the vegetable fields: planting vegetables, fertilizing, weeding.
Or in the orchard, in the mountains, in the kitchen, hand and foot non-stop work.
When I used to live with my grandmother and uncle, my mother went to work in the production team during the day, and came back at night to light a fire to cook, clean, help her and her sister take a bath, and sew clothes; In addition, I also have to serve my grandmother's food and drink.
Every day before dawn, my mother would get up, carry a bucket of water, and go to the nearby pond to wash the family's clothes.
Cook breakfast for a large family and feed my sister.
After all this is done, he can hurriedly eat a few bites of cassava porridge, and then rush to the production team to receive the task and work.
Every time it rained heavily, others hid in the house, only her mother took her, wearing a "raincoat" made of a simple knot made of white adhesive paper, holding a bamboo tube in her hand and carrying a hoe on her back, going to the fields to dredge the water flow in the wind and rain.
Afraid of heavy rain, the water will block the field and drown the seedlings; Or worry that the water is too big, the ridges will collapse, and the seedlings will be washed away.
When she was a child, her grandmother didn't let her and her sister Zhang Zhou pick pomegranates from the tree to eat, and when she saw them standing aside, she deliberately picked the pomegranates from the tree and threw them into the pond.
When my mother came back from the production team and saw them crying, she put on water shoes and went down to the pond to touch the pomegranates, and finally touched all the pomegranates that her grandmother had thrown down, washed them and gave them to eat.
Pomegranates are so sweet! She and her sister finished eating, and they still wanted to eat with their tongues in their mouths.
Mom watched them eat so sweetly, and kept smiling on her face, even though Grandma kept humiliating her with words on the side.
Even if she was scolded by her grandmother, her uncle fenced up to prevent her from going out, and her father came back to beat her, her mother never shed a single tear.
She had never seen her mother cry.
Mom is very good-looking.
Large, bright eyes, a high forehead, a smile that reveals a mouthful of white teeth and a pair of deep dimples.
She also wants a pair of deep dimples like her mother, but unfortunately, she doesn't look very much like her mother, so naturally she can't inherit her mother's deep dimples!
Among the three younger sisters in the family, only the fourth sister Zhang Ze inherited her mother's appearance, and when she smiled, her dimples appeared, not to mention how good-looking she was.
Dad was like a devil in a nightmare to her.
She and her sister called Daddy, but he never answered; She didn't know if her father had hugged her when she was young, and since she was sensible, she had never seen her father hug her sister.
Dad never smiled at them, not even once.
Dad didn't know what grade she was in.
As long as he spoke to them, including his mother, he looked like they were prisoners and he was a policeman.
She remembered that once, the eldest sister Zhang Zhou was not optimistic about the second sister Zhang Hu, so she pulled a soak of urine in her father's coat.
was discovered by his father Zhang Changwen, and without saying a word, he slapped him, which made the eldest sister Zhang Zhou dizzy for a while, her feet were unstable, one stumbled, her forehead hit the corner of the wall, and she broke a hole, and the blood flowed.
As if nothing had happened, he just frowned, stared, and walked away.
When she saw this scene, she was frightened.
Not daring to shout loudly to her mother, she trembled and walked to the vegetable garden, found her mother, and told Zhu Shuilian that her eldest sister was injured.
The mother hurriedly went to find the stinky grass, kneaded the stinky grass out of the juice, and applied it to the wound on the eldest sister's forehead, which stopped the bleeding.
This incident left an indelible shadow on her young mind, so much so that later, whenever she saw her father, her feet would go limp.
For more than ten seconds, I couldn't take a step.
can only stand in place, waiting for Zhang Changwen to walk past her and walk away, and then she will return to normal.
Of course, what frightened her even more was that when she was six years old, the sister that her mother gave birth to disappeared overnight.
She clearly remembered that her mother's stomach was bulging during that time, and she also asked her mother, "Mom, are you going to have a baby again?" ”
Mom touched her belly and smiled and said to her, "Yes! Mom will give you a little brother, okay? ”
She replied in a childish voice: "Yes! All right! I like my brother! ”
"Don't you want a sister?" Mom asked her with a smile.
"I want my sister too, but I already have two younger sisters, Mom, your husband has a younger brother, let's have another sister!" She replied innocently.
"Okay! Then the mother gave birth to a younger brother. ”
Later, she heard from her mother that at that time, she was still born with a younger sister.
She once asked her mother, where did the third sister go?
Mother first told her that the third sister was given away by her father.
"Where's it going? I want to see her. ”
She asked again, but her mother Zhu Shuilian was unhappy: "Little child, why do you care about so many things?" ”