Chapter 4 The Past of the Zhou Family
After the family had dinner, Zhang Guoqing was also weak, and his body was a little unable to support it now. Let's talk to everyone first, go back to the room and lie down next to Zhou Jiao, and finally sleep peacefully.
Zhou Jiao was woken up by the crying of the child, looked at the strange room in a daze, and remembered that they had crossed over for a while, and later gave birth to a son, looking at Zhang Guoqing who was lying on the right and smiled.
Zhang's mother held the child and saw Zhou Jiao wake up: "Jiaojiao, don't move and lie down first." The child lies next to you first, and Xiao Wu will let him sleep, but his head injury is not healed. Today, a cold breeze will blow outside for another day. I'll serve you something to eat first, and I'll take care of you and the kids at night. Let's do it. ”
Zhou Jiao was very happy to listen to Zhang's mother's words, and there was a strong smell of pampering in her words. Thinking back to Zhang's mother with memory, Zhou Jiao regarded her as her mother in her heart.
Zhang's mother is partial enough for her youngest son, if she had already let her youngest son go to sleep in the main room, she could also sleep comfortingly. Zhou Jiao just gave birth to her son, and she will let Zhang Guoqing go to her father-in-law's house early tomorrow morning to report the good news, and there is no way to arrange for her mother-in-law and daughter-in-law to take care of her. Seeing that he hadn't been woken up by such a big movement, he secretly cursed a few deflated people in Lincun in his heart, but he forgot that those guys didn't get a good deal, all of them had blue noses and swollen faces, and even two of them were still detained by the militia after they broke their bones.
Zhou Jiaojiao smiled and said: "Mother, it's all thanks to your old man's presence, otherwise neither of us will take care of the children, you look at such a small one of us and dare not hug it." Mother, look at such a small group, red like a little monkey, so ugly, will you not be able to marry a daughter-in-law when you grow up? ”
Mother Zhang pretended to pat Zhou Jiao's arm and said with a smile: "You child, the child was born to see the wind grow, this kid was born with more than 6 pounds and is honest enough, and he looks very handsome." Don't be careful, do you still need to bring a message when Xiao Wu goes home tomorrow to report the good news? ”
Zhou Jiao heard Zhang's mother mention that her mother's house was still living for a while, and hurriedly found it out from her memory.
The original identity is a little embarrassing, how to say it, the original child grew up with her grandmother, and her father died on the battlefield when she was born.
Her grandmother was the only daughter of the imperial physician family in the early years of the capital, and her family was wealthy, and she grew up with no fingers. The other party is also a well-known scholarly family. On the day of the marriage, before he had time to live in the cave, the little devil arrested the male of the husband's family on the charge of harboring the underground party, and washed the whole family in blood.
Her grandmother still relied on her personal maid to be clever, and only after dressing up in disguise did the two escape from the backyard kitchen and return to her parents' house. My parents couldn't help it, and they were worried about being implicated, Kyoto was in turmoil at the time, everyone was in danger, and the three of them took the housekeeper and the maid to the southern countryside Zhuangzi and fled, and they relied on the family medicine and the soft to survive in the countryside.
After three years like this, my great-grandfather and grandmother passed away, leaving the housekeeper and maid to live in poverty. By chance, I met my husband, who grew up together, and it turned out that the underground party rescued Grandpa Zhou, the only one who survived the serious injury. When Grandpa Zhou went back to find the surviving family, there was no one left, and even the house in the city was deserted, so he directly enlisted in the army in order to take revenge.
Then the couple followed the troops directly. The housekeeper stays in the local pension, and the personal maid is also married. The husband and wife who had no worries had been fighting on the front line, and finally drove away the little devils and liberated the country, the two refused to stay in the army, and took Zhou Jiao's uncle and aunt father back to Zhoujia Village, the ancestral land of the Zhou family.
Grandpa Zhou still hopes that his family will be alive and see the National Liberation Association return to his hometown to worship his ancestral grave. With the couple's retirement salary, they settled down.
Later, the youngest son was Zhou Jiao's father who secretly signed up for the army, during which he met in the army Zhou Jiao's mother Lin Lishan fell in love and got married, two years after marriage, the couple gave birth to Zhou Jiao not long after, Zhou's father hid from Zhou's mother in confinement, and after leaving a letter, he and Lin Lishan, the eldest brother of the Lin family, participated in the secret mission, and sacrificed together, Lin Lishan couldn't accept it for a while, the two closest people just left a body and left, and they couldn't take care of the newborn Jiaojiao after being hit hard. The grandparents who rushed to the scene after hearing the news were brought back from the army to raise them.
Zhou's mother, Lin Lishan, was single and did not remarry directly, and often said that she wanted to see the corpse when she died, and she wanted to see people when she lived. She felt that they had been in this world and would always come back, and she had always refused to accept reality. I don't know what Zhou's mother thought, except for the annual alimony, even Zhou Jiao didn't come back to participate in the marriage.
In the memory of the original Zhou Jiao, I haven't seen my mother except in the photo. I heard that she is still single and rejects many marriage proposals, and her grandparents always comfort Xiao Zhoujiao, her mother loves her, but she can't accept the reality of her husband's death and wants to give her time. But Zhou Jiao still complained about her mother in her heart.
When I was a child, my friends could be spoiled and spoiled to their mothers, but in addition to being spoiled by her grandparents, she actually had to look at the face of her aunt in secret. The eldest aunt, Chen Zhaodi, while enjoying the materials and money often sent by the Lin family, was taboo and envious of the concubine who lost her husband. Zhou's mother's high-level background and beauty made her feel inferior and arrogant, and she seemed to help a few children in the family secretly bully little Zhou Jiao when her grandmother couldn't see it. The things sent by my mother have to be picked by my cousin first, and the child support money remitted is for the public family.
I finally grew up 10 years old, and I already knew the sophistication of people and said that I wanted to find my mother. As a result, the only time on the phone, my mother said in a cold voice that she was performing everywhere and didn't have time to see her. Let her stay in her hometown with peace of mind and fulfill her filial piety for her father. With tears in her eyes, she was completely chilled, and since then she has never mentioned her mother, and even the letters sent have not been touched one by one, and it seems that she will not miss them if she does not open or reply to them.
Zhoujia Village and Zhangjia Village are on the upper and lower villages, separated by a river, and the bluestone bridge connects the two villages. Zhoujia Village is closer to the mountains, Grandpa Zhou is a revolutionary old Eighth Road, Grandma Zhou was a military doctor when she was young, and their husband and wife are very respected in the local area.
Zhou Jiao, the delicate baby of the Zhou family, is beautiful, I heard that her grandfather's family is a soldier, several uncles are also, and her mother is also a soldier, and soldiers are very popular in this era. In addition to the workers, the food, housing and clothing of the soldiers are all paid by the state, and there are monthly salaries, military tickets are used throughout the country, and the supply and marketing cooperatives do not have to queue up to buy first.
Except for Zhou's father who accidentally hung up, no one knew that Xiao Zhou Jiao had not seen them since she was sensible, except for receiving her grandfather's clothes and her mother's annual remittance. said that she loved the child and never saw them pick her up.
I only occasionally heard the eldest aunt muttering a few words, such as the eldest uncle and Zhang's father died together, where the second uncle was stationed abroad, grandpa is a big man who can't take time to visit his old comrade-in-arms and his grandfather, and her grandma is seriously ill again, etc. My brother and daughter-in-law are really weird, they are so beautiful and they don't remarry or raise their daughters, so they can rest assured that they will throw away their hometown, yes, they will throw it.