Jiaojiao felt that the relationship between her and Lingmei had always been very iron, because the adults in the family had a conflict, she and Lingmei still had normal contacts, and called each other to go together with a code.

As for why the adults were angry, Jiaojiao later learned that it was caused by a sentence she asked Lingmei: "Sister Ling, was Sister Qin brought by the fifth aunt?" You and Sister Qin are not the same father, is it true? ”

When Lingmei went home, she asked the fifth aunt, and the fifth aunt blamed Huang, saying that she was talking nonsense in front of children.

Grandma deliberately went to Jiaojiao's house to reprimand Huang, and Huang said: "This is something that everyone knows, what can't be said!" This is not the kind of day before, you can remarry and you can't say it, the child doesn't understand it when he hears it, and asks, what's the matter? Is it something to be ashamed of? ”

Jiaojiao didn't understand why the fifth aunt wanted to hold on to this matter at the moment, and later figured out that in that era, women married for the second time, and men married for the second time, even if the woman was a dead man, it was a very humiliating thing.

Men have to marry the eldest daughter of Huanghua, and grandma married the daughter-in-law of the Min family who was a dead man's daughter in the same village, and took a daughter of the Min family to marry the fifth father.

Jiaojiao still remembers listening to the second aunt learn from the fifth father: "Mom, why do I want to marry a second-headed parent?" The brothers are all married to yellow flower girls. ”

What kind of means and methods did grandma use to subdue the fifth father and the second aunt did not say, anyway, in the end, the fifth father married the fifth aunt.

Because of this, grandma and grandpa feel indebted to the fifth father, except for the youngest son Lao Jiu, who is going to school the most, it is the fifth father, who helps to do farm work in the mountains, dry rice, and break grain...... The fresh vegetables, meat, and lard in his own garden are at the disposal of the fifth father's family.

When the Huang family didn't have an awkward relationship with the fifth aunt, Jiaojiao was always a frequent visitor to the fifth father's house because of her and Lingmei, at least when her mother was hiding for family planning, when her father was always missing inexplicably, she had been living in the fifth father's house, and the food at the fifth father's house was very good, and a lot of oil was put in the stir-fry, which was better than when Jiaojiao's family had no younger brother.

Adults don't care about children, Jiaojiao and Lingmei have a tacit understanding as usual, but sometimes they will complain in front of Jiaojiao because of their mother's unfair handling of grandpa and grandma, and Jiaojiao has also had a few awkward fights with Lingmei.

So, when there was no dormitory in the evening self-study school on the first day of junior high school, Jiaojiao shared a room with her eldest sister, and the third and fourth sisters shared a room, and only went home on weekends a week.

Jiaojiao was happy that she finally got rid of the miserable life of cutting pigweed and cow grass, not that she didn't like to do these two things, but that there was no grass for her to cut.

Every place has a master, can not be cut, those growth slightly better on the mountain grass, and dare not mow, will encounter rats, and snakes, speaking of these two things, Jiaojiao is most afraid of rats, once she cut the grass on her own mountain, a knife down to see a big mouse under the body of five or six fluffy small rats moved, she was rolling down the mountain at that time.

On another occasion, whenever the rice was harvested, the straw had to be tied tightly at one end, and the other end of the pestle was placed in the field where there was no water, and when the straw was dried, it was pulled out of the field and piled up under a big tree to form a haystack for winter use.

Jiaojiao helped her mother, and just pulled open a bundle of straw, she saw dozens of wriggling little rats inside.