At the foot of Nanshan Mountain, a small village, Zhuangzi is not big, there is a lake in front and a mountain in the back, which is also a treasure land of feng shui. When the wind and rain are good, the villagers do not worry about food and clothing, and they can also rely on the lake to fish, go up the mountain to catch some game, make tooth sacrifices, or mix some pocket money.

On the eighth day of August, a heavy rain fell and it did not end until dawn three days later.

There was a baby cry from the Huang family at the east end of the village, but the rain was too loud, and the baby's cry was drowned in the sound of heavy rain.

The Huang family has five brothers, Huang Laohan has been diligent and diligent in farming all his life, the land is planted well, and his five sons are also strong.

The eldest son of the Huang family is called Huang Ronggui, married a girl from the Zhao family in Houshan, and gave birth to three sons and a daughter.

The second son of the Huang family is named Huang Huagui, married a cousin of a distant uncle's family, surnamed Zhou, and gave birth to two sons.

The third son of the Huang family is called Huang Fugui, married his wife Song, and the Song family gave birth to a son and two daughters, and the baby born on the eighth day of August is the third child of his family, the second girl.

The fourth son of the Huang family is named Huang Laigui, married to his wife Du Shi, the daughter of his carpentry master's family, who has just gotten married and has no children.

The Huang family also has a little ancestor, the old man who was born at the age of forty-four, Huang Guigui. This little ancestor was twenty-five years younger than his eldest brother, and the eldest nephew was eight years older than him!

Grandma Huang helped wrap the newborn baby, so she hurriedly picked up five eggs, and Qingshuiwo poached eggs. Scoop out three poached eggs, twist a little sugar and put them in a bowl, and bring them to Mrs. Liu, who delivered the baby.

He took out a piece of ginger from under the stove hole, washed it, cut a few pieces of ginger and chopped them, put them in an egg pot to boil, boiled them and scooped them into a bowl with two eggs, carefully pinched out a small pinch of brown sugar, put it in, and carried the bowl into the room next to the kitchen.

When a country woman gives birth to a child, she cannot give birth in the main house, and it is said that there is a blood and light that will rush the grandfathers of the family.

They are all waiting for the full-term birth, pick up the wing, move to the wings as soon as the stomach hurts, and only move to the bedroom of the main house after the child is born at full moon.

When Grandma Huang touched it out, Huang Fugui handed her twelve copper coins, picked up twenty eggs, and gave them to Mrs. Liu. Mrs. Liu was polite for a while, but she still took the twelve copper coins, but she refused to ask for the eggs, saying that she would leave them for the mother to make up for her body.

As soon as Mrs. Liu, who had just sent off the midwife, walked into the wing, the eldest daughter-in-law Zhao Zhao, the second daughter-in-law Zhou, and the fourth daughter-in-law Du came over in the rain.

You can't blame them for coming late, the rain came urgently, and it rained heavily, and the old and young masters of the family all went to the ground.

Seeing that the rice seedlings had been filled with pulp, and that they would be harvested in another ten days and a half months, the wind and rain were urgent, and they were afraid that the water would flood the fields, so they were busy going to the fields. Ditches should be dug and ditches should be dredged if there is flooded water.

The women were also busy chasing pigs and chickens and packing up their clothes to dry. Song San's sister-in-law was busy packing up her clothes to dry, and she accidentally slipped and fell, and her stomach, which happened to be almost full-term, hurt in a heavy rain.

When the third sister-in-law came over, the children of the third sister-in-law of Song fell to the ground.

Sister-in-law Zhao wiped the rain on her body with a towel, sat on the edge of the bed and looked at the sleeping baby and praised: "Third brother and sister, you see that this girl has black hair and red skin, and when she grows up, she must be a white and good-looking handsome girl, like the third brother and sister." ”

On Tuesday, my sister-in-law was honest, she only cared about going to the kitchen to boil water, cleaning up the sheets and clothes that had been changed from the plate, and she didn't speak.

Du Shi was the youngest among his daughters-in-law and had no children, so he stretched out his head curiously and looked at it: "Sister-in-law, do you mean that a red child will grow up to be white?" ”

Sister-in-law Zhao took the hot water brought by her sister-in-law on Tuesday and wiped the baby's body, while saying, "Yes, don't look at some children who are born white and grow up to be black." Only the red child who is born grows up to be white. ”

Three-year-old Huang Tao walked in with a small stool and handed it to Du Shi in a soft voice: "Fourth aunt, you sit." ”

Du Shi took the stool and sat down, and took the yellow peach into his arms: "Little peach, my mother gave birth to a sister, do you like it?" ”

"I like it." Huang Tao is thinner than children of the same age, and quiet, although small, she wears clean clothes, and although her hair is thin, she also has two neat little chirps.

The rain was pouring outside the house, and Huang Laohan came back from the field with his four sons, and by the way, brought back a few grandsons who were fishing in the shallow ditch by the public yard at the door.

The Huang family has many sons and a lot of land, Huang Laohan went out to run through the dock with the boat when he was young, and bought land when he came back after earning money, and gave birth to three sons one after another during the period.

When he gave birth to his third son, he went on an ocean trip with the fleet, and he went far that time, and he slipped three big ships in one trip, and he couldn't come back in a year or two.

When I came back, it was smooth sailing, this time the owner made a lot of money, and I was very happy in my heart, and I was very kind to the people brought by Mr. Huang's hometown, and promised to share how much money one person shared when he arrived home.

The big ship will arrive home in more than ten days, and who knows that there will be an accident at the door of the house, and it will be robbed by a group of pirates. The owner of the boat, an eleven or twelve-year-old boy who followed him to practice his courage, and Huang Laohan and the two escaped back, and the rest were all gone, and the corpses did not come back.

Huang Laohan returned to Huangjiaji with a small owner who only had half a life on his back, took the reward money and returned to Huangjiazhuang, concentrated on planting his land, and no longer dared to do this life-giving business.

The Huang family, five sons, four daughters-in-law, six grandsons, three granddaughters, plus the old couple, is just twenty people.

Other people's families are all members of the same family for several generations, and they will not be separated after the old one returns for a hundred years. Huang Laohan is not, as soon as his son gets married and lives for a month, he will be divided.

All the sons were divided into the same: three main houses with stone walls and thatched roofs, and a kitchen with a thatched roof attached to the wings, but the walls were mud walls, and a courtyard with bamboo fences. Three acres of paddy fields, six acres of dry land, and one acre of vegetable garden.

A set of farm tools, a set of pots and pans, and each with the bedding and clothes for the time of marriage, is considered to be separated. In the first year, the family can also eat the vegetables grown at home, and the pig can be divided into ten catties of meat during the New Year.

The next year there was nothing, everything had to be on your own.

Not to mention, Huang Laohan has seen the world in the end, and with such a family, his son and daughter-in-law are quite energetic. Not only are the brothers in a good relationship, but the concubines also have a good relationship, after all, they don't eat in the same pot. Unlike other families in the village, you often do less work, and whoever eats more than the other eats, and they make a noise when they disagree.

Huang Laohan led his old son Huang Guigui directly back to his old house, and the eldest son and second son also led their little cubs back to the house. When a daughter-in-law gives birth to a baby in the countryside, there is no reason for her father-in-law and uncle to run before and after to visit.

The fourth son Huang Laigui saw that his daughter-in-law had not come back, and he had no cub to lead, he had only been married for more than two months, and he had not been separated for a few days, so he simply followed Huang Laohan back to the old house.

Huang Delei is the eldest son of Huang Laosan, the third among the brothers, six years old this year, his skin is tanned and bright by the sun, bare, barefoot, carrying a string of fish and swaying back behind Huang Fugui.

The children in the countryside are wild, and in the summer, boys basically don't wear clothes until they are seven or eight years old, go up the mountains and down the river, see the sky with a bare ass, and go crazy outside with bare feet.

Huang Delei's brothers were named by grandfather Huang Laohan to find someone in the town, when Huang Delei's uncle's brother was born, Huang Laozi went to the town the next day, first the eldest son was called, and the one-year-old man named "Huang Deguang." ”

When the old man named his eldest grandson in the town, he thought that he already had four sons at that time, and the grandsons would have to queue up in the future, and if he came to the gentleman every time to name him, it would be expensive and troublesome. simply let Mr. give it once, so the name of the little brother of the Huang family who was one year old after his birth came in order according to "Bright and Fair, Loyal and Filial Piety Etiquette".

Why is it eight words, because Mr. gave eight words, Huang Laohan spent the money of one name to get eight names, and he already felt that his old face was red, and he thanked him again and again and went home, and he will have a grandson in the future, so come back later!

Huang Fugui went to change his wet clothes first, then brought Huang Delei over to scrub them clean, and put on his clothes before coming to see his third child.

"This child was born well, just now my father secretly told me that he had found someone to calculate, this child is blessed in life, and the Wang family is blessed." Huang Fugui rubbed his hands and looked at his newborn daughter and smiled.

Huang Delei's wet head lay on the side of the bed, stretching out his head to look at the little sister sleeping in his mother's arms on the bed.

"It's ugly, like a little monkey." Huang Delei muttered. Huang Fugui, who was at the tip of his ear, slapped his head: "What nonsense, you are not as good as your sister when you were born." ”

Huang Delei has never seen what he looked like when he was born! The eldest sister was born when he was still young, and he didn't remember. I could only crawl out of bed stupidly and pull my eldest sister Huang Tao to watch my second aunt kill fish.

It's so helpless to be a child, I don't even have the right to speak!

Three days later, after the rain, Huang Guigui sat on the shoulders of his eldest brother Huang Ronggui to see his niece!

Don't look at Huang Guigui's young age, he is one year younger than Huang Delei, but he can't stand the seniority, the whole family from the eldest Huang Ronggui to the baby in swaddling clothes knows that no one can afford to mess with this uncle.

Huang Guigui climbed onto the bed of the third sister-in-law, and sat side by side with Huang Delei on the edge of the bed to eat fried beans.

Huang's precious clothes are all made by Grandma Huang, and each piece of clothing has two big pockets, peanuts are ripe for peanuts, melon seeds are ripe for melon seeds, potatoes in winter, and lotus pods in summer. When you don't catch the green and yellow, fry the soybeans and fry some dried fish, which is enough for this uncle to chew for half a day!

The uncle asked while eating fried beans, "What is the name of the three girls?" ”

The little brothers and sisters of the Huang family are all sorted from oldest to smallest, not individually.

For example, Huang Deguang, the eldest son of Uncle Huang Ronggui's family, is the eldest son, the second son Huang Deluo is the fourth son, the third son Huang Dexiao is the sixth son, and the eldest daughter Huang Mi is the eldest girl.

Huang Deming, the eldest son of the second uncle Huang Huagui's family, is the second son, and the second son Huang Dezhong is the fifth son.

Huang Dou's father Huang Fugui is ranked third among the brothers, the eldest son Huang Delei is also ranked third among the little brothers, the eldest daughter Huang Tao is the second girl, and the third girl Huang Dou is naturally the third girl.

Huang San's sister-in-law touched the soft hair of the third girl and said, "I haven't named it yet." ”

The old man grabbed a handful of fried soybeans from his pocket and ate them crisply, and when he heard that the second girl didn't have a name, he raised the soybeans in his hand and said, "It's called soybeans, it's called soybeans." ”

Huang Fugui on the side heard that his younger brother was really smart, so he made a decision. Poor second girl who is still asleep, just like that, she has the name "soybean", and no one thinks to ask me if I am willing.

Soybeans will follow the uncle when they go, and the mother will be busy with housework, although the yellow peach is small, but she is as well-behaved as a little adult, and she follows her mother every day. Soybeans didn't want to sweep the yard, watch the chickens, and go to the vegetable garden to pull weeds, so they followed the uncle all day long.

It's good to follow the uncle, there is meat to eat.

Uncle was reluctant to take soybeans with him when he went out to play, and a female girl who couldn't walk well was annoyed when he saw it. I can't stand the sweet head of the soybean mouth, and the old uncle coaxes it.

When the uncle here touched the loaches, he piled up a few stalls of mud with his hands, and the soybeans over there said: "Uncle, you are so smart, if you block a dam like this, the fish will not be able to escape." ”

The clever old man immediately blocked an earthen dam on the terrain, and there was a nest of fish in the dam with nowhere to escape!

Soybeans, who stood on the shore that afternoon to show the clothes to the uncle, were rewarded by the uncle with a boiled egg that he no longer liked to eat.

A few days later, the uncle made a slingshot that could shoot birds under the praise of soybeans. There are no rubber bands, and the range of the slingshot made of turned cow tendons is average, but fortunately, it is durable. The bird didn't shoot one, and most of the poultry and livestock in the village were passed by the uncle, and the chickens flew and the dogs jumped every day!

Because of this slingshot, Soybeans shared the snacks of the uncle for half a month.

Uncle thinks that the second girl is not bad, don't cry or make trouble, listen to the command, and play with it in the future.

The uncle went to the private school in the village, and the soybeans followed. At first, Mr. was reluctant, after all, the child was small and afraid of making trouble. But Soybeans were well-behaved and quiet, and sat at the uncle's feet, silent.

When I came back from the private school, my uncle wrote big characters, and Soybean took a branch and wrote it on the ground in the yard. Later, the husband had to hand in his homework, and the uncle was playful and didn't have time to write, so he asked Soybeans to help.

Huang Dou felt that she must have drunk diluted Meng Po soup when she was reincarnated, otherwise, why would there be a lot of strange things in her memory.

However, as I get older, the more things in my memory fade, and slowly I get used to this kind of life.

However, soybeans still carry some remnants of the previous life in their bones. Like, the love of money.

In the morning, the uncle came to call Huang Dou to go to the private school, but Huang Dou refused to get up, hugged the quilt and chirped and said, "Go in the afternoon." ”

Uncle didn't care, he called Huang Delei and left.

The boys of the Huang family basically have to go to private schools to be literate, and it doesn't matter whether they take the test or not. Normally go at the age of seven, follow my husband for five years, I don't want to miss it, and at the age of twelve, I can go home to farm and learn the craft.

As soon as the uncle left, the soybean immediately climbed out of the quilt, put on his clothes and shoes, first went to the stove room to wash his face and rinse his mouth and eat, and after eating, he picked up the basket and shouted Huang Tao: "Sister, go, pick flowers." ”

Huang Tao was also accustomed to the little adult posture of soybeans, took the basket and brought the knife, and said hello to the mother who was busy in the vegetable garden, and the young ladies went out.

Huang Tao's house is the first in the east of the village, and to the east is a dry land, all of which are Huang Laohan's family, planting soybean sorghum. Further east is a big road, which leads to the county seat at one end and the town at the other. There is a wharf and a river in the town, and boats in the river can enter the sea for a few days, so there are still a lot of vehicles and pedestrians on the main road.

Soybeans and Huang Tao went out and turned left to the west, first passed the second uncle's house, the two brothers of the second uncle's family, the eldest was called Huang Deming, who worked in the town restaurant, and the younger one called Huang Dezhong to go to the private school.

The young ladies carried the basket to the uncle's house, and saw the eldest sister of the uncle's family, Huang Mi, sitting at the door with the soles of her shoes through the fence.

Soybeans shouted across the fence: "Eldest sister, my second sister and I went to the side of the mountain to pick flowers, will you go?" ”

Hearing her sister shouting, Huang Mi hurriedly put down the soles of her shoes, turned around and went to the stove room to carry a basket out: "'Go, I'll go too, pick flowers and come back to sell money to buy silk threads." ”

Huang Mi has recently been learning to be a female red, and she is very fascinated by these embroidered silk threads.

The three sisters walked all the way to the side of the mountain, the South Mountain is not too high, but the forest is deep and the grass is dense, and the mountain winds for dozens of miles.

The flowers they were going to pick were mica grass, and the weather was hot, and the mica grass was just beginning to bloom. Cut off the flowers, tie them up, carry them back, dry them in the sun, and take them to the pharmacy to sell them when the parents are in the market, and there will be more or less copper plates in their pockets.

In the summer, there is a lot of work in the fields, and the adults have to water and weed, and the adults don't have the heart to do this. There are many children in the village, and there are few who come to earn this money, and all the boys who can go to the field go to the field, and the girls have to do laundry, cook and take care of the younger siblings at home.

A few of them who have spare time do not come out, and even if they work hard to cut them back, the money from selling them will not fall into their pockets. Unlike the Huang family, there are many children who are used to it, boys are sent to learn literacy and skills, and girls are reluctant to let them go to the field to endure hardships, at most they help cook at home and learn needlework. The Huang family also has a rule, whoever earns the money is who's own, and adults are not greedy.

It's not that adults don't want to be greedy, the key is that Huang Laohan doesn't allow it. Huang Dou had to sigh from the bottom of her heart, how much she was created to meet such a wise and martial grandfather.

Soybeans have little strength and can't cut mica grass, so they can only cut the thatch under the command of the big sister to make a straw rope. When the two sisters cut down the mica grass and there was a small bundle, she ran over and tied it up.

At noon, several bundles of mowed mica grass leaned together, standing in the field, looking from a distance, like a few children, crouching in the grass and whispering. Wait until the sun is night and then carry it back, it is much lighter, the countryside is simple, and no one will worry about how many children cut this little medicinal material.

In the afternoon, the sun was poisonous, and the two sisters were not allowed to go out, but Xiao Huangdou had to accompany his uncle to study.

There are no female dolls in the village to study, and soybeans are an exception. Now soybeans, I don't pay to go to private school every day, but Mr. likes this beautiful and well-behaved, sweet mouth and very smart little girl.

Mr. is the only child in Huangjia Village, and he is also the family of Soybeans who did not come out of the five suits, ranking seventh in order, and Soybeans called him "Seventh Grandpa".

The seventh grandfather used to have a good family background, but he took the test as a child and then took the Xiucai exam, but he returned again and again.

When the son can marry a daughter-in-law, his heart will die, so he will come back and plant a few acres of land with peace of mind, and teach the children in the village by the way, and mix up some pocket money.

Originally, the seventh grandfather still wanted to find some hope in his son, but unfortunately the seventh grandfather was too expensive to study, and when he married his daughter-in-law, he only considered being honest and capable, and as a result, the sons he gave birth to were not the material for studying.

It's really a frustration for a father, a stupid nest for a mother!