One night in 1981, at half past four in the morning, the cold wind docked on the treetops and made a "whirring" sound.

It's icy, but it's still comfortable to hug a thick blanket!

The villagers of Panlong Village closed their doors and windows to block the howling north wind outside, and lay down in the quilt to fall asleep, and from time to time uttered dream-like words: "It's so comfortable! It's so cold outside, don't wake me up. ”

Suddenly, a cry of "wow wow" of a newborn baby landing on the ground came from a tiled house at the foot of a hill at the entrance of the village, breaking the silence of the entire village.

A man's voice in the room was hurried and stern: "Hurry up, it's too late, it's dawn, and someone is coming!" ”

A trembling old woman's voice came out: "Daddy, I'm ...... I...... I can't do it! ”

"Quick! Fast! Covering your nose with the placenta won't leave a mark! The man's voice was without hesitation, with a hint of impatience.

The night was like a huge black curtain, covering the cold and shivering river on the side of the village entrance.

The cries of newborns in the house gradually faded, and the village returned to calm.

It's as if nothing happened, and it's as if everything happened without a trace.

Under Zhu Shuilian's body, a lot of bright red liquid flowed out of the bobo.

But her mother and husband had no time to take care of her.

She heard the newborn's cry and opened her mouth to ask if it was a boy or a girl, when a wave of heavy tiredness and sleepiness hit her, and she passed out.

When she woke up, it was already dawn.

The chickens were clucking and squeaking at the door of the house, the pigs were barking in the pigsty, and the dogs were barking in the vegetable garden behind the house.

But I couldn't hear the child's crying, and I couldn't even hear the child's snort when he was sleeping.

Zhu Shuilian supported the chuang board with both hands, wanted to straighten up, sat up and glanced at the child, as soon as she exerted force, there was a burst of warmth below, and the red liquid gushed out again.

"Don't move! The baby is too big, you have a lot of tears there, bleeding profusely! I just used herbs to help you compress the wound, and finally stopped the bleeding, and the herbs will be dyed red again, I'll help you change it later! This is chicken soup, you drink some to replenish your body first. ”

Mother Qin Fengying came over with a bowl of chicken soup, put the chicken soup on the table next to her, sat on the futon, and put her arms around her neck to feed her.

"What about the kids? Boy or girl? Zhu Shuilian leaned softly on Qin Fengying's arm and asked anxiously.

"It's another daughter."

Qin Fengying raised a hand and wiped her tears.

Holding Zhu Shuilian's hand, holding the chicken soup, his hand trembled slightly, and the chicken soup in the bowl splashed and dripped a few drops on the pillow.

Hearing the word "daughter", Zhu Shuilian pulled away Qin Fengying's hand with her hand, tilted her head, and lay down in a daze, her body straight and straight, as if she was dead, and her eyes stared straight at the ceiling.

She didn't graduate from elementary school and only went to the third grade.

Because of his good looks, when he was 20 years old, he was taken by Zhang Changwen from the same village and found a matchmaker to propose marriage.

When the parents saw that it was Zhang Changwen who came to propose, they nodded like chickens pecking at food, and immediately agreed to this family business.

Her family is surrounded by walls, and the whole family works in the production team, although her hands and feet are diligent, rising and returning at sunset, and working hard, but she receives food with the work she earns, and she can't eat enough at all, and she is often hungry.

I heard that Zhang Changwen has food stamps every month in his unit, and he can use food stamps to get food in the town: cassava, rice, noodles, and meat.

Her parents couldn't be happier.

Besides, Zhang Changwen looks like a talent, although the people in the village gave him a nickname: "Ertunzi", with a wooden personality, and he can't let out a fart for a long time, but how many girls in the village can marry someone with food stamps?

Marry him, at least the problem of food and clothing will be solved!

So the two families hit it off and soon got married for the two young people.

In the most beautiful years, in the envious eyes of other girls in the village, Zhu Shuilian was wearing a red bridal suit and holding a black umbrella in her hand, followed behind Zhang Changwen, who was wearing a black groom's outfit and also holding an umbrella in her hand.

From her mother's house to her mother-in-law's house.

Behind the bride and groom is a row of people carrying baskets, playing and singing, and setting off firecrackers as they walk.

After she got married, she gave birth to three daughters to him one after another, but she couldn't give birth to a son.

Zhang Changwen is stubborn: "If you can't give birth to a son, you can't pass on the roots, I can't let my family break the roots in my generation, I must give birth to a son!" ”

When he gave birth to two daughters, he was originally promoted in the unit at a speed like a rocket ascending to heaven, and he was already a leader at a young age of less than 30 years old.

After changing jobs, Zhang Changwen first worked in logistics for a year in a high school in the county seat, and then a county bureau issued an order to transfer him to the bureau.

In 1979, the year after returning to his hometown, his third daughter Zhang Hu was born.

In 1981, Zhu Shuilian became pregnant again.

The village chief came a few times, and bitterly persuaded Zhang Changwen to take Zhu Shuilian to the hospital for an abortion: "Comrade Zhang, if you come out with another one, if you are reported, your job will be lost!" ”

Zhang Changwen's handsome face could not see joy, anger and sorrow, only persistence.

His brows were furrowed, and his eyes were fixed on the cigarette butt that had just been thrown down on the ground, and the cigarette butt was curling, just like his unwilling state of mind: "What's the use of working without a son?" ”

Seeing that persuasion was ineffective, the village chief left in a huff.

As a rural woman with no education and no knowledge, Zhu Shuilian is simply obedient to her husband.

Zhang Changwen is a person with a unit, knowledge and culture, who pulled her, her daughter and her mother's family out of the predicament of hunger.

It's like, a drowning person grabs a life-saving straw.

Her husband is her heaven and her earth, and he said that he would give birth to a child with a handful, so she would give birth to him.

He said that three daughters are enough, and if it is a female doll, he will give it away, and if he doesn't want it, then he doesn't want it.

It's just that how did she know that she almost lost her life and gave birth to her daughter, who was ordered by her husband to take her mother, Qin Fengying, to take her life.

Then, walk for half an hour on the mountain road, carry it to a small forest in a neighboring village, and bury it.

At that time, the sky was already a little cloudy, the shadows of the trees were swaying, Qin Fengying had a ghost in her heart, and she acted in a hurry, but she didn't notice that in the grass by the stream, there was a pair of ignorant eyes, watching all this happening in the shadows.

In the originally quiet woods, the streams whimpered, and the early insects spread their wings and chirped.

Birds hop up and down in the treetops and sing a song, waking up more critters in the woods.

Fish and shrimp bounce in the stream, the night passes, and a new day is about to begin.