Takahara told Shirayuki:

In the southeast of the Great Plain of North China there is a southern city. 30 kilometers northeast of Nancheng, there is a Tugang village. It is a three-county border. There is a north-south Dasha River in the west of the village, and the river runs day and night, singing songs all the way, running from south to north.

The river originally ran through the east of Tugang Village. Due to the frequent flooding of the river, it has been diverted several times before it becomes what it is now, passing through the west of the village. If there is a big flood, the Dasha River bursts, and the original river channel in the east of the village will still be flooded, and the sound will still be there.

Tugang Village is called Tugang, and the terrain is actually very low-lying. How the name of the village came to be is unknown to people today. Perhaps because the terrain is too low, the soil hill is the hope of the ancestors in the village. Due to its close proximity to the Dasha River. The terrain is too low for many crops to survive, so only red sorghum can be grown here.

Red sorghum is a water-loving crop, and it grows even when soaked in water every day. Red sorghum is the staple food of the villagers. The families who can eat red sorghum all year round are all good people in Tugang Village. More people need to mix a lot of bran into the sorghum flour, or the residue left over from making vermicelli. Red sorghum itself is very rough and has a bad taste, and this sorghum flour dry food mixed with impurities often breaks the throat, which is really difficult to swallow.

In this Tugang Village, the family with a high surname is a very small family name. Although the family name is small, it has a good reputation. The head of the Gao family is called Gao Facheng. This is the grandfather of the plateau.

Gao Facheng was born poor, an orphan since childhood, and his widowed mother struggled to survive. Gao Facheng was just 15 years old and began to drive big trucks to deliver goods. In today's parlance, it is called running transportation, running around day and night, earning food by working hard. His mother was terrified of her only son every day.

Gao Facheng used hard work to maintain the life of the mother and son, and the children of the poor were in charge of the family early. Gao Facheng was not afraid of hardships and could endure hardships, exchanged sweat for harvests, and later married a wife and became a family.

Ill-fated, Gao Facheng's first wife was a stone girl in the same village. The two are very fateful, although they have never met, they are very concentric when they hold hands, and they have the feeling of seeing each other late. Who knew that the sky did not follow people's wishes, but because of natural disasters, life was even more difficult, and this stone girl unfortunately died early. But the wife failed to leave a man and a woman to the Gao family.

Gao Facheng deeply misses his wife, and the difficult life makes him have to let go of his pain and continue to run around. Someone else introduced Miss Yan to Gao Facheng. This was introduced to someone on the way to deliver goods to someone. This Yan girl gave birth to three boys and one girl for him.

The eldest son, Gao Jianan, is Gao Yuan's father. The second son Gao Jiaxing, the third son Gao Jiayi, and the eldest daughter Gao Jiazhi. After the Gao family had it, the Gao family began to prosper.

Gao Facheng accepted the lessons of his childhood. The eldest son, Gao Jianan, was just 15 years old, and he married the Ke girl from Hejiazhuang for his eldest son. This Ke girl's name is Ke Shuping, she is the eldest of the Ke family, and there are three brothers and one sister below. In the Ke family, Miss Ke was in charge of most of the housework of the Ke family. She struggled, but her parents relieved her, and her younger siblings respected her.

Miss Ke, who entered the Gao family, the eldest daughter-in-law of the Gao family, took over all the housework of the Gao family at once. Gao Facheng felt unprecedentedly relaxed. He handed over all the planting and cultivation rights of a few acres of thin fields to his eldest son, Gao Jianan, and began to enjoy Qingfu himself. However, the good times did not last long, and his wife, Mrs. Yan, returned to the west. This is another blow to Gao Facheng.

Later, someone introduced Miss Hu to Gao Facheng.

The eldest son and eldest daughter-in-law of the Gao family are filial piety and virtuous, which makes the whole village envious. The eldest grandson of the Gao family landed and named the plateau. At this time, Gao Facheng's third wife was also pregnant. When Gao Yuan began to walk, Gao Jiawen, the fourth son of Gao Facheng, also came to the world. This is the little uncle of the plateau.

This little uncle Gao Jiawen's milk was not enough, so Ke Shuping weaned her eldest son Gao Yuan and left all the milk for her brother-in-law to eat.

A few years later, Gao Facheng added a second daughter, and Changsun Gaoyuan was 15 years old at this time. That's all for later.

Gao Yuan's father, Gao Jianan, only studied for a few days and started farming at a very young age. At the age of 15, he took on the burden of farming.

The Gao family has a few acres of better arable land on the edge of the village. When Gao Facheng was happy, he went to this field to take a look. The Gao family still has a few acres of depression, which is far away from home, and has accumulated water for many years. They were sold to the Gao family as wasteland. Gao Facheng never patronized. Gao Jianan sows red sorghum seeds in muddy water, and after autumn, harvests red sorghum in waist-deep water. In terms of age, the man from the high family is still a child, and he looks like a middle-aged man, and the hard work can be seen.

Gao Jiaxing, the eldest brother of Gao Jianan, read a lot of books, and later became a famous local iron abacus, and he stayed away from agriculture. The last family moved to the big city, which is also a story for later.

Although the second brother Gao Jiayi did not study, he learned the unique craft of burning bricks and tiles, which is very popular in the countryside. You don't have to sell much strength, but your income is very good, and your life is very good. He also stayed away from agriculture.

Not to mention the third half-brother Gao Jiawen. He was born as a student, became a people's teacher, and later held the position of principal.

There are nearly 20 people in a large family, all of whom rely on the Gao family man to work in the field alone. Gao Jiannan and Ke Shuping and his wife, as the eldest son and daughter-in-law, are busy and busy, and they work hard for the life of a large family.

Although the Gao family is not a famous family, they have a strict hierarchy. Gao Yuan was less than a year older than the little uncle, and they all sat at the same table to eat, but they were treated differently. Gao Yuan eats a nest head with chaff, just like his parents. The little uncle Gao Jiawen and the grandfather Gao Facheng ate white-flour steamed buns, with different generations and different treatments.

Gao Yuan may have experienced the hardships of his father's farming and his mother's hard work in housework since he was a child. Therefore, he has never begged his parents for good food, and he has never compared his life with his little uncle Gao Jiawen. Perhaps he knew that he had a low status and a humble status in the family, so he never picked and picked on meals.

Bai Xue suddenly stretched out her thumbs with both hands:

"Gao Yuan, your parents are so great, you yourself have been amazing since you were a child. Admire, admire, admire. ”