In October, 1985, my mother gave birth to me.

It's autumn, and no one tells me about it, and even if I do, I won't understand.

I heard that people born in autumn have good nature, but who knows?

When I was pregnant, my mother did everything, farming, doing housework, everything in the house was taken care of by my mother, and I was quite obedient, growing up obediently in my mother's belly, waiting for birth.

My grandparents retired from the family at a very young age, and there is an aunt at home, who is the eldest lady of our family, and my mother has become a servant of a large family, and my father works in a factory and rarely takes care of the family, but fortunately, my father is very good to my mother, otherwise it is hard to imagine that my mother can always persevere.

Our family is in Nan County, my mother's maiden home is in Zi County, there is a long distance between the two counties, and we have to walk for a long time, but we have to take a car and pay a few cents, and my grandfather is a housekeeper at home, and my married father's salary is still all handed over, so my mother can only walk back to her parents' house.

However, people at that time seemed to be accustomed to moving between different places on their legs. In the countryside, there will be a market in different counties on a fixed day every month, which is a rare way for people to entertain, every time at this time, everyone changes into clean clothes early in the morning, and goes to the market in pairs, talking and laughing all the way, but it is a very pleasant thing.

Zi County is three, six, nine to catch the market, if the mother plans to go back to her parents' house will pick the time to catch the market, she will make an appointment with the neighbors in the village who plan to go to Zi County one day in advance, so that the road will not be lonely, my mother likes this very much.

After I was pregnant, my mother would still walk to my grandfather's house, sometimes just to catch the market.

I don't know if I don't have to rest in bed when I am pregnant with a child, but when I was in my mother's womb, my mother was still doing farm work, turning the soil, planting vegetables, hoeing weeds, watering, and nothing was left behind.

On the afternoon of the day I was born, my mother was still washing a big basket of sweet potatoes by the river with her stomach up, and she came home to cook dinner for a large family.

I thought that my parents would not like me if I was a girl, but they were very happy to see me, and my grandparents seemed very calm, they should be looking forward to being a grandchild. There was no figure of her aunt, and she had already gone to chat with Zhou Gong at that time.

After dawn, my father asked someone to bring a letter to my grandfather in Zixian County with the news of my birth, and they arrived at our house with a lot of delicious food in the afternoon.

My grandfather has two children, my mother is the eldest, my grandfather likes my mother, and my grandmother feels sorry for my uncle the most.

Grandpa is tall and always wears clean and smooth clothes, he is a rare old man who loves cleanliness in Zi County.

He was originally a carpentry technician, working in the provincial capital, and his grandmother was also there, and later his grandfather received a letter from his brother, saying that his hometown had land, so he should come back quickly, so they returned from the provincial capital to the remote Zi County.

Was the land so important to the people of that time, maybe yes? Land is the life of countless generations, which is so incomprehensible to us who can buy anything in the market.

My grandfather was born as a landlord, and settled down in the provincial capital after studying, and his elder brother also joined the army very early on my grandfather, and his legs froze when he climbed the snowy mountains, and then his limbs were amputated, and then he returned to Yushi and got a job.

Born as landlords, they never thought that there would be hope for life after experiencing the days of "defeating the landlords".

After receiving the news of the division of land, my grandfather and my grandmother quickly returned to Zi County, which was the place where my grandfather was born, and he had not been back for many years.

At that time, the foundation of the old house was still there, and with a longing for life, my grandfather built a home on the old foundation, and it was in that home that my mother and uncle were born.

In addition to farm work, the guild helped the villagers do some carpentry work, and over time carpentry became his job again.

In the summer, he put on a white shirt and went out with tools, and when he came back at night, his grandmother washed and dried the shirt, and when the weather was bad, he had to use the fire to bake it, so the next day he went out in white clothes again.

In winter, his padded jacket is still white, and the original dark blue fabric has long been washed and faded by his grandmother.

With his exquisite craftsmanship, his grandfather became a well-known carpenter, and sometimes even people in Nan County would ask someone to ask his grandfather to help when building a house, of course, this is paid. It was with such a father that my mother and uncle had a good life at that time.

The good times continued like this, until when my mother was just in junior high school, a relentless fire burned my grandfather's hard-earned home as clean as his clothes.