When I got up in the morning, my wife sent my daughter to the kindergarten, and she cleaned up the room as usual, and my brother was able to sit on the edge of the bed and chat with me.

The younger brother still lives with his mother, and more than ten years ago he met a woman much younger than him, who was young and beautiful, and they lived together for a long time and had a girl. When the little niece was five or six years old, the woman left them because of gambling, and the mother took care of the little niece, and they depended on each other together. Since having a child, my younger brother seems to be a different person. From an unruly and rebellious teenager, he suddenly grew into a responsible father, relying on his strength to earn money to support his family, and he was not wealthy. ，

Jin Wei, why don't you go back? Don't you need to take care of your home? I lay on the bed and turned my head to ask him?

The younger brother said, "You have to stand against the wall every day, and I will stay here for a while, and then when my sister-in-law and your father-in-law can hold you, I will go home at that time." Brother to tell you the truth, if you don't get this disease, I won't have a chance to take care of you here. I've relied on you since I was a kid, you left home to go to school as a teenager and then joined the army, and although we don't often get together, the thought of you makes me feel like I have a backbone. I received a call from my sister-in-law, saying that something had happened to you, and asked me to hurry up, and the first thing I thought of was that you had been in a car accident. I booked a trolley with my mother and rushed here. When I saw you in the intensive care unit for the first time, I was really frightened and thought I was going to lose you, and I never relied on you in this world ever since. You don't know, maybe it was our dad or our mom who was lying there at the time, and I couldn't be so sad.

I asked: When I first woke up, I opened my eyes, I saw my mother at that time, why didn't I see her after that, when did she leave?

The younger brother replied: Brother, if you don't ask, I won't say anything, we know what our parents are like. I said don't be angry, the night before you woke up, too many people were in the hospital and it was useless, so I was left with your uncle and brother at the door of the intensive care unit, and everyone else went home to sleep. As a result, the two of them were at your house, and our mother always referred to Sang and scolded Huai, and the two of them scolded at your house. I wasn't there at the time, and no one could take care of them, who was embarrassed to say that they were so old, and that night our father was so angry that he led the little wife to slam the door and leave, and chatted in the hospital corridor on the second day, and your sister-in-law told me these things. Brother, you didn't know that I was angry at the time, I really wanted to pull them over and beat them up, but fortunately you woke up that day, and I asked my mother to go back too.

Alas, this pair of gifted parents, I muttered to myself.

The younger brother continued: You went to school in other places when you were more than 10 years old, and then you became a soldier, and you were not with our mother, I have always lived with her, I have long known what she is like, and I am used to it. Who let us have such parents, since I have a memory, they were like this when they were in Jinshan Coal Mine. Let me ask your brother, do you still have any memories of Jinshan Coal Mine? A co-worker of mine who worked on the construction site last year is from there, and he said that the area is now old and poor, the coal in the ground is almost gone, and the state advocates new energy sources to prevent mining. The young and capable people all went to the city to work, and the old people and children were left there.

Jinshan Coal Mine, I muttered in my mouth, and my thoughts drifted back to that wealthy coal mining town.

On a flat piece of land, a young man is pouring some wheat straw into a pile of yellow mud, then digging a pit in the middle of this pile of yellow mud, pouring water and stirring. The stirred yellow clay with wheat straw is put into a custom-made rectangular wooden frame and dried in the sun. The sun-dried ones are called large quantities and are used to build houses. My memory is from that time, it was my first home. At that time, there was a family surnamed Zheng living in the front yard of my house, his family had 4 daughters, a son, the youngest son, the east side of my house was a dirt road, my house was above the road, and there was a family surnamed Liu at the bottom of the road, with a son and a daughter. The children were raised by their family, and the women of this family could not have children, and my mother scolded her for being an old man when she fought with her.

One sunny evening, the burning clouds on the horizon reflected the earth red, I was playing with a group of children on the dirt road under the slope of my house, my mother was holding firewood in the yard, and it was time to make dinner, when an old man with an allegro and fairy wind bones passed by, he squatted down in front of me and said to me: You little fellow, why don't you stay in the sky and run to the mortal world to do something? Whose family is so blessed to adopt you. Although the old man's words were not loud, they were very clear. I happened to be heard by my mother, who was holding firewood in the yard.

My dad was in the coal mine, and the new coal that had just been mined in the pit had to be bagged by a lot of people like my dad who carried it out of the pit from the bottom of the pit. I went to the coal mine to find my father, and if he hadn't taken the initiative to talk to me, I wouldn't have recognized which one was him, and if he had closed his mouth and closed his eyes and sat on the coal pile, you wouldn't have been able to tell which was coal and which was him. He did all the manual work to increase his nutrition. There are a few hens that lay eggs at home, and every morning I make an egg water for my father, take an egg and beat it into a big bowl, then stir the eggs well, pour in the boiling water that has just been boiled, and put some sugar into it, which is very delicious, and my brother and I can't drink it at that time.

That night, the family killed a hen that laid eggs, and entertained the old man with fairy bones. I vaguely remember that my parents were pious and respectfully sat on the kang and listened to the old man's reasoning. On the morning of the second day, my mother made an extra bowl of egg water for the old man to drink, and when the old man left, he did not forget to tell my parents that they must provide me with education, even if it is to smash the pot and sell iron, as long as I read, I will attack to the end. The old man left satisfied, and my parents respectfully sent him out the door.

There is a small ditch on the dirt road just after a light rain, and it is the nature of children to play with the water. I and the boy at the bottom of the dirt road were building a dam out of gravel and earth on a small ditch. I was in the upper reaches of the small ditch, and I first cut off all the water with sand, gravel and soil, and stored the water, and when the water was stored enough, I dismantled the embankment that blocked the water in an instant, and the stored water rushed downstream.

The boy downstream, the dam was not strong enough, and the water I let go of washed away his earthen dam in one fell swoop. The child sat on the ground and cried, and his mother heard her own child's crying at home, and rushed out and scolded me. My mother heard a scolding outside in the house, and when she came out, she saw that she was scolding me, so she stopped doing it at that time, and ran to the dirt road and scolded each other. Since then, the relationship between my family and the family surnamed Liu has not been good, and I remember that the two families stood in the courtyard of their own house and scolded each other several times.

Usually, my parents watched very closely and did not let our brother go out, because the mountains were full of deep pits where coal had been dug, and I often heard parents talking about who was missing.

When I was in elementary school, it was the first time I saw so many people. I didn't understand why those children excluded me, even though I wasn't naughty, but slowly I realized that I didn't have a hukou in the local area, I belonged to the foreign population, and in the words of the locals, my whole family was blind. Alienated by other children, I don't like to go to school, let alone study, and my parents are very strict with me in managing my reading, because they remember what the old man said. I remember clearly that because I didn't study well and didn't pass the exam. In the evening, before dinner, my father put a rope around my neck and told me that if I failed the exam, he would strangle me, and my mother also used a kitchen knife to scare me back and forth on my neck. Another final exam, I failed again. When I got home, I took out the exam notice from the cotton gloves and handed it to my parents, and then I picked up the rope in the corner of the wall, which my father used to put around my neck. I put the bench on the kang, then stepped on the kang and got on the bench, put the rope through the beam, pulled a buckle, and put my head in it. My mom was so frightened that she rushed over and hugged me tight, holding me high. Ask me what I'm going to do? I said, "Death is a matter of time for me, and it is better for me to come by myself than to bear the infamy of killing your son." My mother cried and shouted: Silly son, we are scaring you, I hope that my son will become a dragon, if you are not willing to learn, we will never force you again. I dragged the rope noose with both hands, stood on the floor of the house in a daze, opened my mouth wide and stared at my eyes, the thief's father, squeezed out two words in my mouth, what about you? Dad controlled his emotions for a moment, then turned and slammed the door.

One morning, my brother and I hadn't gotten up yet, and it was noisy outside. When we got up, we found out that my parents had a fight with the family down the slope, this time with hands. Hit it in my yard. Because my family is blind, the other party doesn't take our family seriously at all. Mom broke the other woman's head with a shovel.

In the end, I paid for the medical expenses, and my family had to sell the only big item, a four-wheeled vehicle.

Soon we moved and went back to the place where I had a hukou, and I was happy to know that no one would call me blind again.

After learning the news that we were moving out, the family was very happy and knocked on the pot in the yard.