The first time Han Xiaoxiao saw her brother was on her 6th birthday in 1995.

It was getting dark, and her father hadn't come back yet.

A few days ago, someone from the town commanded the road to repair the row of trees at the entrance of the village, and the trees had not been pulled away at this time, and they were staggering across the road, and it was even more difficult to get down at night. My mother was not at ease, so she asked her to go to her uncle's house and borrow a flashlight and wait on the way to her, so that she could take a picture of her father.

In fact, for Han Xiaoxiao, she would rather her father never come back for the rest of her life. As soon as he came back, he drank and asked for money, and he was drunk.

In the past few days, her mother has gone to bag the big families in the village who have orchards, and she can earn more than 20 a day. This is still her mother's lame leg and working too slowly, and the mother-in-law who works fast earns more than 40 a day. Han Xiaoxiao had been thinking about waiting for a while to buy a new pair of cloth shoes with her mother, and she saw Sister Xinfeng wearing white cloth rubber-soled shoes at her uncle's house. Her shoes are all picked up and worn by others, and they always don't fit. It's just a matter of wearing old clothes, just not cold. But if the shoes don't fit, it's a real sin to wear them. Grinding the big toe and heel to break the skin, pain.

Sister Xinfeng is 3 years older than her, and her family has money to open a battlefield, and her uncle sent her to the town to go to primary school. She said that everyone wears white cloth shoes in school, which is clean, and a pair costs 5 yuan, which is quite cheap. Han Xiaoxiao thought to herself, 5 yuan, 500 fruit bags. So I didn't dare to tell her mother, thinking that she had to find a way to get the money out of her mother.

As a result, this morning, a second-rate son from the same village came home to bring her father and said that he would come back after running errands today, so that he could prepare more food and drink some in the evening.

It's no fun to buy shoes now, so it's good not to be beaten. As soon as her father came home, he called those fox friends to drink and play poker, and when he lost, he thought she was unlucky, and her mother couldn't give birth to a son, so that he had no face outside. She had to move or kick her when she scolded so hard that she ran fast, and her father didn't bother to chase after her father before she was hit twice, dragging her mother back to the house and locking her out of the yard. It doesn't matter if it's cold outside or not, and it doesn't matter how much she's wearing. It was only when there was a "humming" sound in the house that her mother came to open the door and let her in.

I was thinking about it in my heart, when I saw a black shadow coming on the potholed road, and when the black shadow got closer and closer, I found that it was her father Han Daguang, and he was walking this way with a big thing on his back.

Han Xiaoxiao thought to herself, it's really strange, since she can remember, her father has been messing around outside under the guise of going out to make money, and she didn't see him carrying a single hair home, why did she bring such a big bag of things back today.

Before she could walk up, the other side lowered her voice and pouted her in a hurry: "Dead Nizi, according to the soul!" Don't turn off the light yet! At this moment, Han Xiaoxiao saw clearly what Han Daguang was carrying on his back, and he was clearly a living person!

"Dad, who is this?"

"Get back in here!"

After turning off the flashlight and not being able to see the road clearly, Han Xiaoxiao staggered back behind her father, and fell into the mud puddle carelessly, her rag shoes and trousers were covered with black mud. Her father walked fast in front without looking back, and she quickly got up to chase after her.

As soon as I entered the courtyard, I heard Han Daguang kick open the door of the house, which frightened the woman in the house, "Ah! The ground screamed. Howl mother! Hurry up and get a bowl of cold water for Lao Tzu. ”

When Han Xiaoxiao entered the house, she saw her father pouring water like a cow on the side of the kang, covered with sweat, his eyes bulging like a toad, and his face was black with sweat marks.

There was a little boy lying on the kang, looking bigger than her. The light bulb has been used for many years, but it is not bright, and the dim light shines on the boy's face, and Han Xiaoxiao is stunned. The face is so white, I don't know if I fell asleep or fainted, I just lay quietly, my cheeks were red, and my lips were red, but I was so dry that it was cracked, and a little blood oozed out, and it looked dazzling.

"It's better than the little doll on my uncle's calendar." Han Xiaoxiao thought to herself. Just as she was about to speak, she heard her mother pull her father's shirt and ask, "What's going on?" Which one? This look is the city baby. Tell me about it, daddy! ”

Han Daguang drove all the way with people on his back, and just passed his breath at this time, his ears were buzzing, and he couldn't do it, "Mourner, what are you calling!" There is also Kai, "Han Daguang gave her a door" to go out, Lao Tzu had something to do with his mother, so he went to the Westinghouse and went to sleep quickly. ”

Han Xiaoxiao's house has a total of two rooms, east and west, with a broken stove in the middle, and the walls on both sides of the smoke are black and linen. Usually she sleeps with her mother in the east room, and there is a bunch of rags in the west room, all of which are the strips of cloth and old pants that her mother picked up from doing chores at other people's houses. She didn't like to go to the Westinghouse the most, it was damp and cold, but as soon as her father came back, she could only nest in that shabby house.

This will make her stomach wonder, where do you have the heart to sleep. I ran around to the West House, made some noise, and crept to the door of the East Room to listen to the two men.

"I met this boy when I went to the hospital today to ask for money."

"What do you want?"

"Oh, someone just gave us money to let a few of us go to the hospital for ordinary work! It doesn't make sense. The boy and his mother led the doctor, his mother talked to a doctor, and left him to get an injection in the house, I saw that the boy was groggy and quickly hugged back, and rushed all the way to the township by car. ”

"What? You've stolen someone's baby?! ”

"What do you mean by stealing? Yes?! What is stealing? If it weren't for the death of the old Han family, would I be able to do this? You gave birth to a money-losing goods, and I am not allowed to find someone to support you in the old age? ”

"Woo" her mother was just about to cry, but before the tears fell, she heard a "pop", "Niang, are you afraid that others don't know and want to greet you?" Shut your mouth for me! Hurry up and see what this boy looks like, it's hot all the way, don't be confused, I have to feed a fool when I turn back. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Han Xiaoxiao heard the sound of pulling his shoes, and hurriedly ran back to the West House to pretend to sleep on the kang.

There are no light bulbs in the Westinghouse, and it is as big as a sparrow, except for a clay kang that is about to collapse, and there are three black walls.

Han Xiaoxiao's eyes widened, pondering what he had just heard. I can't lie down if I have something in my heart, I want to turn over, but the kang is too small, and there are many things, so I am really panicked, so I just stay stunned and think blindly.

This family has never been well fed and clothed, it used to be like this, and now that she has an extra mouth to eat, her life may be even more difficult in the future. And listening to what his father meant, this stolen male baby is the descendant of his old Han family, and his own daughter has become a drag oil bottle.

The more I thought about it, the more I couldn't sleep, I couldn't turn over my back and back, and I moved back and forth like a sore, fanning and fanning the little hot air in the quilt, and my hands and feet were so cold that I couldn't be honest. In the end, he was still young, he couldn't stay up all night, and he began to get confused after a while. In front of me for a while, it was the white cloth shoes on Sister Xinfeng's feet, and then it was the white face of the boy, and finally fell asleep.

Before dawn, Han Xiaoxiao woke up from freezing, although the weather in April was not as difficult as in winter, but it was the coldest time before the sun came out in the morning, and he still covered himself with a small thin quilt. As soon as the quilt was rolled up on her body, she sat up, scolding in her heart, my own daughter is frozen here, and the one who doesn't know where she came from sleeps comfortably on the kang in the east house. Thinking of the decision I made before going to bed last night, my heart was not so aggrieved.

Her father and mother must not let this boy go out, he wants to be at home with his own way to treat him, and he will be told to listen to him. Anyway, her father is messing around outside every day, and her mother still has to go out to work, no one cares about him, she has the final say in this house, and she has to be close to her if she has anything to eat and drink. What if he runs, well, if he does. Anyway, it can't be worse than it is now.

Han Xiaoxiao's family is really poor, not to mention color TV, and he doesn't even have a radio. So she doesn't know what kidnapping is and what crime is, but she knows that her father is not a good thing, and what he does is not a good thing.

The eldest aunt often scolded in front of her, saying that her father was not a good product in her womb, and her grandmother gave birth to her father to death, and I didn't hear of anyone who gave birth to a child and died of pain, obviously it was for him Han Daguangke. Within a few years, her grandfather drank too much and fell into a ditch in the dark light, slept overnight, and froze to death, which further fueled this story.

Han Daguang did a basket of immoral things in the village for stealing chickens and dogs, and secretly played tricks to eat. In his thirties, he couldn't marry his mother-in-law, so he was so greedy that he looked at the eldest daughter in the wheat field every day, which made everyone in the village shout and beat him, but they didn't dare to provoke him for fear of finding bad luck.

It was also her mother's bad life, when she was a child, she went up the mountain to hunt pigweed and encountered a snake, and she was so frightened that she rolled down the slope and broke her leg, and there was no health center in the village at that time, and the family was not willing to spend money to go to the town. Let her lie on the kang for two months, lying lame all her life, on crutches every day, her muscles have atrophied, her crooked legs are really ugly, and she has delayed her work, and the boss is not too young to get married.

Her uncle was still the village chief at that time, and there was an old girl in the family who was really not good-looking, and his mother-in-law was even more unwilling, thinking that the sister-in-law would be on fire when she ate dry rice for nothing. Just like that, she gave her mother to Han Daguang, a poor bachelor.

Her uncle Li Guangyuan originally wanted to solve the old problem in the village, marry his mother-in-law and have another child, so that he could take care of it, do some business, and save the villagers from coming to him every day to complain, he can't manage it, and he doesn't want to cause a fuss. For this, he also cleaned up the old yard of his house and gave it to Han Daguang and his sister to live in.

didn't think about it, this Han Daguang married his own lame girl not only did not restrain himself, but intensified. gathered a few second-rate sons from neighboring villages to make a world in the name of his brother-in-law on the nearby boundary, making him, the village head, bear the notoriety of a village bully for nothing. It's just that her lame sister can't control a man, but every time she is beaten and wronged by Han Daguang, she runs to her eldest brother's house to complain, and she shouldn't have given her to Han Daguang in a daze, even if she is an old girl for a lifetime, it is better than being angry every day now.

Now I don't know if I'm a big brother. The one who was the sister-in-law was even more powerful, and scolded the sister-in-law with a head and face, saying that she was ugly and weird, and God hated it. If you don't go to be an ancestor, will your legs be lame and your heart will be black? Feed the unfamiliar white-eyed wolf!

Li Xiuhua was stunned and forgot to cry, and reacted for a long time, "Ah! He howled and ran home.

Since then, the two have completely broken up. The brother and sister-in-law over there are eager to die and never get along, and here they are so poor that they can't open the pot, so they can only come to the door every once in a while to borrow this and that. The old people who know each other in the village are still there, and it's not good to really care about the life or death of their sisters, for fear of gossip. When Han Xiaoxiao was born, she was held by her mother to beg for things, and her aunt was so angry that she was afraid of vomiting blood when she looked at it more.

In such a family, Han Xiaoxiao understood personnel early. I'm afraid of being beaten, so I run fast, and if I want to eat enough, I have to be smart, and I will pick some delicious food from other babies when I have the opportunity. At most, I was scolded a few words by the adults in the village, but I couldn't lose the meat if I was scolded, so it didn't hurt or itch, and I was over with a cheeky smile and a smile. And because it doesn't hurt or itch, it grows so big in a mess, and I don't think it's very difficult.