In those days, people were worthless!

Both men and women are equally worthless.

Many of the men's families were too poor to afford to eat, and the sons of the landlord's family were only a minority of the social population after all. Many children from poor families went to serve as soldiers, and at that time, there were many battles, and there was a large demand for soldiers, and many people really joined the army just to make ends meet. At that time, the world was not good, there were many, many beggars, bandits, and thieves, all for the sake of the mouthful of food in the mouth.

Women are even more miserable, some have been sold as child daughters since childhood, the living standards of the common people at that time were very low, child daughters-in-law are very popular, the so-called child daughter-in-law, is to be raised since childhood, and when she grows up, she will become the daughter-in-law of that family. Ah Feng is such a hard-working person, who was sold to the Duanmu family since he was a child.

In the blink of an eye, the end of 1946. Shi Chen is seventeen years old, Ah Feng is also sixteen years old, at that time there was no concept of adulthood in marriage, only the age that was not suitable, the family saw that the two of them had reached the age of marriage, so they began to prepare for the "marriage" of the two people.

The Duanmu family chose an auspicious day for the zodiac and started the wedding of that era. On that day, several tables of banquets were prepared in Duanmu's house, and red lanterns were hung at the door. Shi Chen's gunshot wound has long been healed, and he is wearing a double happiness robe today, with red silk flowers on his shoulders and a handsome look. And Ah Feng is wearing a phoenix crown, a red embroidered skirt, and matching red embroidered shoes, which is very beautiful. However, their faces are not good-looking, and the feeling of being prescribed to life is really bad.

They invited the best cooks from the neighboring village to cook, and each table sat eight people, serving eight dishes, eight large bowls: boiled fish fillet, braised shrimp, family portrait, osmanthus fish bones, braised slippery fish, gluten, shredded Sichuan pork, Sichuan meatballs, and then the bowl was filled with red bean rice.

Everyone was chattering, and the parents were chattering. Among them, Zhang Baochang and Zhang Langzhong were chatting at a table.

Zhang Langzhong: "Big brother, now the Kuomintang and the Communist Party are in a very fierce fight!" I don't know who our land will belong to in the future. ”

Zhang Baochang: "Fierce is fierce, everyone is the same, don't we all have to farm with our hands?" ”

Zhang Langzhong: "What do you say is the end of this world?" As soon as I ran away from Little Japan, I just did it again! ”

Zhang Baochang: "This is the same as a child fighting at home, and the child with a foreign surname will be killed first in the war." Then go to the house and close the door, and your brother will continue to work in the nest, whoever wins is justified! Don't you have to settle accounts with your brothers! ”

Zhang Langzhong smiled and said, "Yes, big brother! My brothers have to settle accounts, so you said that you owed me money a few days ago, do you have to pay it back? ”

Zhang Baochang's eyes widened, and he said in surprise: "When did I owe you money?" ”

Zhang Langzhong smiled and said, "Big brother, have you forgotten? The last time you said you were going to invite us to drink, I ended up drinking too much and sleeping on the table. You and the shopkeeper of Wang's pharmacy, Widow Wang, didn't know where to go, but when I woke up, the second child asked me for wine money. I'm still paying for the sake on credit! ”

Zhang Baochang smiled and said, "Haha, it turns out that you are talking to me!" ”

Zhang Langzhong blinked his eyes and said, "Oops~ What is a cliché!" Wine or not wine money is nothing, I want to know now what you did with Widow Wang that day? ”

"How much does it cost to drink?" After speaking, Zhang Baochang stretched out his hand and took it into the pocket of his clothes.

In this way, people disturbed and made noise for a day, until the last guest was sent away.

Shi Chen and Ah Feng began to spend candles in the cave room.

After a while, the village often passed by a group of people wearing dogskin hats and yellow jackets. They carried a variety of weapons and everything, such as three or eight big covers, Hanyang-made, pheasant necks, and began to walk north in a queue.

Shi Chen squatted at the door of his house and watched these marching teams with guns, and he who liked guns in his heart began to be happy again, with a happy smile on his face. Shi Chen's father was wearing a torn cotton jacket, his hands were stuck in the cuffs of his clothes, standing beside Shi Chen, his eyes were full of uneasiness, his eyelids wrinkled and said, "I'm afraid there will be another war!" ”

A few days later, there were a lot of big planes in the sky. From time to time, he would fly over the roof of Shi Chen's house, and Shi Chen, who was sitting idle in the yard, saw the plane and became excited again. He picked up the broom that was placed in the yard to sweep the floor, pointed the broom head at the plane, the broom surface was clamped under his armpit, and then he made a "gun" of his own imagination, and he pointed the broom head at the plane, moving with the direction in which the plane was flying. There was still a babbling in his mouth: "Da Da ~ Da Da ~ Da Da ~ " until the plane flew to the heavenly realm that he couldn't see, and then put down the broom.

Ah Feng was also pregnant with a child, and her belly began to grow day by day. Shi Chen's mother saw that her daughter-in-law had a child, and when she thought that she was about to become a grandmother, she began to treat Ah Feng well, and would not let Ah Feng do some work that was too hard and tiring.

Tomorrow the sun sets, the moon rises in the east, day after day. The sky began to warm up slowly, and the wind blew through the willow trees, and the catkins rose on the wind until they reached the mountainside not far away. People began to work industriously again, and the quiet in the fields made the murmuring sound of the stream beside them. The sun's rays also poured into this peaceful village, and the world seemed to have never been at war, and everything was so beautiful.

Shi Chen is still so fun-loving, but when he is playful, he will not forget Ah Feng, who is pregnant with a child. Whenever he passed by the gentle river, he would always take off his straw sandals, then pull up his trousers and walk down the river barefoot. In the spring, the water temperature is not too high, and it can even feel a little prickly. He walked barefoot to the reeds in the river and stared at the reeds with his eyes to find a place where the water was bubbling out. He saw a place where the blisters were flowing very fast, and then he threw himself into the water with his hands free, and scribbled in the water! A big catfish was caught, the catfish was slippery, Shi Chen put it in the grip, the fish began to struggle to break free from side to side, seeing that it was about to fall into the water, Shi Chen saw that the situation was not good, so he threw off his arms and threw it on the riverbank. The fish flew into the air, landed on the shore and continued to flutter. Shi Chen picked a long reed leaf from the river and came to the shore. The catfish didn't flutter much anymore, but moved its gills quickly and breathed, he hung the fish with reed leaves, and then carried the fish home happily.

At that time, people rarely had access to meat, even Shi Chen, who was born as a rich peasant. Ah Feng at home is pregnant and needs nutrients. There was no good source of nutrition in the house, so Shi Chen gave his woman the nutrients he needed in this way.

As the sun sets, smoke rises from the chimneys of every house. Today, there is one more dish on Shi Chen's table, roasted fish soup.

At that time, the idea of preference for sons over daughters was very serious, and it was found in many places in China. The mother-in-law kept putting fish and meat in Ah Fengli's bowl, and said, "Feng'er, eat more, eat more, feed your grandson!" Feed your grandchildren! ”

Ah Feng nodded hurriedly while eating.

Maybe pregnancy was the most comfortable time in the life of a woman in that tragic era.