Chapter 56: The Past (6)

Fu Xiaoli has a grandmother, three uncles, and a big aunt (eldest aunt)

My grandfather died of stomach bleeding when her mother was nine years old, and my uncle was still in my grandmother's womb

I heard my mother say that when my grandmother gave birth to her little uncle, she gave birth when she went to the toilet alone, so she held her little uncle in one hand and asked her mother to bring her scissors

The young mother didn't understand the big deal of giving birth, but she obediently gave the scissors to her grandmother, who used the scissors to cut off the umbilical cord, and then took her uncle back to the room to dress him

At that time, it was during the Cultural Revolution, when there was no food, no warm clothes, and no collective food, no friends, and one person raised five children to grow up

Neither my grandfather nor my grandmother were locals

They come from L County, a mountainous area with difficult conditions, where their grandfather is a cadre and their grandmother was born in a wealthy family, so they can be regarded as well-known, right?

I heard my grandmother say that at that time, there was no pot in the house, a big collective! Of course, everyone had to eat and work together, but my grandparents had a pot at home, and although the pot was not big, it was also a symbol of status at that time

When two seven or eight-year-old children walked outside his house, they fainted there, and when the grandmother saw them, she carried the two children home (the grandmother was very thin, one meter five tall, and weighed less than eighty pounds), at first the grandmother just thought they were sick and wanted to ask them for a doctor

But then I thought that it would be better to make something to eat for them first, so my grandmother finally got some rice milk (fried rice into a pulp) in her own pot and fed it to them

After eating rice milk, the two children actually woke up, and the grandmother's heart flowed at that time, it turned out that the two children were either sick or hungry

My grandmother had a very kind heart, and she saved two eight-year-old children with her hand-to-hand work, and when the two children grew up, one became the local county magistrate and the other became the director of the hospital

It's a pity that my grandmother's fate changed later

Grandma was born as a daughter, it can be said that she has lived in a family without worrying about food and clothing since she was a child, and later married her grandfather, and she did not suffer any hardships in life, and her hard life should have started with the death of her grandfather

Therefore, it is impossible for everyone to have unlimited scenery for a lifetime, the so-called 30 years in Hedong, 30 years in Hexi, no one will be smooth in a lifetime, and it is impossible for someone to be unlucky in a lifetime

As a cadre of L County, my grandfather resolutely decided to bring his wife and daughter (only Fu Xiaoli's eldest son at that time) to P County after getting the news of the internal relocation

P County belongs to the plains, and the conditions in all aspects were better than L County at that time, the water flows to the lower places, the people go to the higher places, everyone wants to live a good life, and there is nothing wrong with my grandfather making such a decision

What's more, this is also following China's policy

My grandfather became one of the first migrants

From L County to P County, it takes one or twenty days to walk quickly, and more than a month if it is slow

On the way, they met another family who had migrated to P County, and the two families walked together to P County, because they both moved to a strange place without relatives and no reason, so the two families could become friends in the past

Coincidentally, the family is located in P County and their grandfather is in the same village, but they are not in the same team, and they can be regarded as relatively close

In L County, my grandfather is a cadre, my grandmother's family is rich, and I don't need to worry too much about life, but in P County, my grandfather and grandmother are poor