Ding Haixing closed her eyes and lay quietly on the hospital bed, isolating everyone's curiosity in the ward.

But I recalled the past: Ding Haixing was born in the war era, which was the most difficult years of the Anti-Japanese War.

Childhood was spent in the sound of enemy guns, hunger, and poverty.

Both parents are honest farmers, and my father Ding Fengshou can be seen from the name how much he hopes for a bumper harvest every year. He once served as a civilian husband for the Eighth Route Army, and had an award certificate issued by the army, which he was proud of, and after liberation, he framed it in a mirror frame and hung it in the most conspicuous position at home. It is also because this reward of revolution proves that when the components were divided after liberation, they became poor peasants.

The great-great-grandfather of the Ding family was born as a bell doctor who walked the streets and alleys, and his medical skills were widely welcomed by the people in the township. In a turbulent society, he later made a fortune by fate. After years of careful management, it has become a well-known medicinal herb merchant.

During the Republic of China, the uncompetitive grandfather was obsessed with smoking *big* cigarettes, and after losing the family, he himself smoked to death.

The big mansion where it was warm in winter and cool in summer was also the only property in the family, and it was also bought by a nouveau riche.

After burying Grandpa Ding, Grandma Ding took the ten-year-old Dad Ding and Aunt Ding, who was babbling, almost penniless.

Grandma Ding's house didn't bring anything with her, in fact, it had already been sold, and there was nothing to bring. Only to the new owner's house, I asked to take some of the books from the study with me.

The new owner's family finally got the mansion they longed for, and it was not in vain that he led Grandpa Ding astray.

So it's okay to be generous to let Grandma Ding take it away, and it's okay to kindly ask the people in the family to help take it away.

So Grandma Ding was not polite, and let her subordinates pull a whole cart of books and move to the countryside to live, in Grandma Ding's heart, gold and silver can be discarded, with these books, the Ding family can make a comeback.

The family lived in a courtyard outside the three stone houses in Xinghuapo, and this broken stone house was still Grandma Ding's 'dowry', because the land in Xinghuapo was barren and Grandma Ding's maiden family was not taken care of, so it became Grandma Ding's dowry.

Grandma Ding's old women, wrapped their little feet, pay attention to women's lack of talent is virtue, because of the family, so can count and write, especially good at embroidery, and raise a pair of children.

Ding's father only went to private school for a few years, and his family was backward and couldn't afford to pay for it, so he never studied again.

I really don't have this talent in medicine, so the books at home are put on the shelf.

Five years later, Ding's father, who grew into a teenager, went to the town's carpenter shop as an apprentice, and finally married Zhang Cuilan, the daughter of the shop owner.

But in these chaotic years, Ding's father, who had just been married for half a year, was arrested by the national army.

Immediately after that, the devil called again, and the grandfather and grandmother of the Zhang family were killed by the devil again. Zhang Cuilan didn't know how to do carpentry work herself, so she closed the shop.

Zhang Cuilan took Grandma Ding and her sister-in-law to hide in the countryside, after the birth of the eldest grandson, Grandma Ding embroidered all day long for the family's livelihood, plus missed her son, and finally died of depression.

Zhang Cuilan took her sister-in-law and son to beg for a living.

Thankfully, Ding's father escaped back two years after being arrested.

The family was reunited, but in the years of war, as soon as there was movement, the whole village hid in the mountains.

Life is difficult but it is passable, and Ding's father has been fortunate countless times that grandpa has done a good job. Otherwise, after liberation, the capitalist's hat will be buttoned up one by one.

Seeing the true face of the national army, and the father-in-law and mother-in-law were killed by devils, whether it is national hatred or family hatred, the couple is naturally a red heart towards the party and joined the revolutionary team.

After liberation, Ding's father is now the production captain of the Xinghuapo Brigade.

Mother Zhang Cuilan used to be the 'eldest lady' in the carpenter shop, and now she is an ordinary rural housewife who used to be a member of the Women's Rescue Association.

The eldest brother Ding Guodong is 23 years old this year, and he was once engaged, but because of the famine, his fiancée's family was anxious to marry her, first, to save some food, and second, to ask for a bride price of five liters, that is, ten catties of wheat.

In the years of famine, half a bag of sweet potatoes can marry a daughter-in-law to enter the door, and the woman's family wants ten catties of wheat, which is simply a lion's mouth.

The Ding family simply took out such a heavy bride price, and the people at that time gnawed up the bark and wild vegetables, so how could there be food. This marriage can only be stopped! The fiancée had the heart to marry, but she couldn't resist the elders in the family and the hungry family with gold stars, and finally married someone else in tears.

Until now, he can't support himself, how can the eldest brother have the heart, marry a wife, just drag it down, and now he is the captain of the production team.

The younger brother, Ding Guoliang, is 17 years old this year, and the whole family tightened their belts to send him to high school.

Xinghuapo is located in the north, next to the mouth of the Yellow River, a remote mountain village, the land is barren, and it really depends on God to enjoy food. Because the family was too poor to afford the two of them to study, Ding Haixing, as an older sister, gave up the opportunity to go to school to her younger brother.

The younger brother came back from school and taught Ding Haixing what he had learned in school, so Ding Haixing had no problem reading, reading newspapers, and reading and writing.

Aunt Ding's aunt Ding Mingyue is the widow of a martyr and works in the town commune and is the accountant in charge, and she can be regarded as eating imperial food, and she and her 15-year-old son should be liberated and depend on each other for their lives.

"Little Miss Ding." The nurse went back and forth, interrupting Ding Haixing's memories.

"Ahh Comrade nurse. Ding Haixing struggled to get up.

"No, no." The nurse kindly said, "Don't arch the needle." Holding a large teapot in his hand, he said, "This is hot water, you can drink some of it!" ”

"Thank you! I'm really bothering you. Ding Haixing thanked him.

The nurse put the tea jar on the bedside table, and with her help, Ding Haixing leaned on the head of the bed, and the pillow behind her was placed vertically by the nurse, so that it would not rest her back.

The nurse handed the big teapot to Ding Haixing and said, "Hurry up and drink it!" This was specifically instructed by Dr. Cheng. ”

Ding Haixing held the tea jar, the lid was taken away by the nurse, the rich sweetness came to her face, and she looked down at the red and blackened water, which was brown sugar water.

Ding Haixing was sour, his eyes were sour, and he turned red in an instant, and he looked at the teapot in a daze.

"Drink? This is brown sugar water. The nurse lowered her voice and said, "This is specially made for you by Dr. Zheng to replenish your body." ”

"Thank you!" Ding Haixing said in a thick nasal voice, brown sugar is not easy to buy for countrymen. People in the city also have to have sugar stamps, and they rarely eat sugar. Only when giving birth to a child and confinement are I willing to buy some brown sugar to replenish my body.

"Drink it!" The nurse urged, it was really distressing to look at her, and she was so thin that it seemed that a gust of wind could blow people away.