My grandmother looked at the corpse of the child not far away, and then looked at the little wooden figure in the red coffin, and did not answer Xinyangzi's words, but asked for the red coffin from my grandfather's hand, and the coffin lid was buttoned and held in her hand, and she pondered again. (Full text without ads)

After a long time, my grandmother let out a long breath and said to Xinyangzi: "Discuss with Dayou, let him find a carpenter to open the coffin, and find a place to bury the child's body." ”

Xin Yangzi was just about to agree, but my grandfather spoke at this time, "What about the tree in the child's eye socket, put it in the coffin and bury it together?" ”

My grandmother glanced at my grandfather and asked my grandfather, "Brother, can you do it?" If you can get your hands on it, take that tree...... Pull that tree out of the child's eye. ”

When my grandfather heard this, he didn't say a word, and walked towards the child's corpse with a crutch, and my grandmother saw this and hurriedly beckoned Xin Yangzi to accompany her to the front yard to find Dayou.

As for how my grandfather pulled the tree out of the eye socket of the child's corpse, I will not write anymore, the situation of stepping on the child's head with one foot and pulling the tree out with the other hand is too bloody and cruel, and it is not pulled out all at once, the tree has taken root in the child's head, and my grandfather shook and shook more than ten times before pulling it out. Originally, my grandmother's experience, I wanted to modify it a little bit, to make it look less bloody and cruel, to make it a little better, but, before writing this experience, I said hello to the people in the group in advance, but I didn't expect that many people in the group said that they wanted to see the real thing, and they had seen it bloody, and they didn't want me to tamper with it, so I smiled bitterly......

Straight to the point. My grandmother and Xinyangzi came to the front yard, and Dayou was busy making lunch, when the two of them realized that it was almost noon.

Xin Yangzi dug up the child under the tree, and briefly told Dayou, hoping that he could open the coffin and bury the child. Dayou's face turned pale when he heard this, but he did not refuse the request to give the child a coffin, he nodded again and again, and he went to the back of the house to look at the child's body, when my grandfather had pulled the hawthorn tree out of the child's eye socket. After seeing it, he returned to the front yard, looked guilty and frightened, and said to my grandmother in a trembling voice, that is the son of the Southern Barbarian......

At noon, only Xiaozhen got up and ate a little, Xinyangzi ate a little, my grandmother, my grandfather, and Da Youyou, there were three, and they didn't eat a bite, and they couldn't eat it. It's because I feel guilty and afraid. My grandfather was sick when he was pulling out the trees, and as for my grandmother, I don't need to talk about it.

In the afternoon, Dayou went out to find a carpenter, and my grandmother and they found a small ravine with the red coffin and the hawthorn tree, and burned a fire, and scattered the ashes in the ravine.

As for the little wooden figure without a head in the coffin, my grandmother took it back to Dayou's house, told everyone to avoid it in the courtyard, and she went to the back room herself.

The child of the eldest couple fell asleep on the bed in the back room, and after eating in the morning, he slept until now, and he has not woken up until now.

My grandmother lifted the list on the child's body, lifted the clothes on the upper body, put the wooden figure on the child's belly, covered it with a larger piece of yellow paper together with the child and the child's belly, and wrapped the little man and the child's stomach with a white cloth......

Afterwards, my grandmother came to the yard, pulled Xiao Zhen aside, explained Xiao Zhen, from this time, into the house to look at the child, the white cloth silk wrapped around the child's belly can not be touched, wait until the second watch in the evening and then untie it, the wooden villain and the yellow paper, take it to a place where no one is there and burn it, when burning, you can't let others see it, you can't let the second person know.

Xiao Zhen hurriedly nodded in agreement.

At this point, there are many couples and children, and it is basically over. At this time, I went out to find a carpenter and didn't come back, my grandmother didn't want to wait for him any longer, so she said goodbye to my grandfather and Xinyangzi and Xiaozhen, and left the small mountain village.

When I returned to Huanghuadong, it was already half the day, Xinyangzi made a pot of tea, and let my grandmother and grandfather drink tea before going home.

During the tea, chatting, Xin Yangzi asked my grandmother curiously, where did the little wooden man go? My grandmother didn't answer him directly, but smiled and said, you'll know in a few days.

Sure enough, a few days later, Xinyangzi came to my grandfather's house again and told my grandmother that Dayou and his wife had come to me again with their child, and their child was now full of southern dialect and couldn't understand a word.

My grandmother smiled when she heard this, and told Xinyangzi in detail about the matter between Dayou and the Southern Barbarians. After finishing speaking, she said to Xinyangzi, at that time, she sent the seven spirits in the wooden villain into the body of the big child, which gave the child the memory of the son of the Southern Barbarian, and now there is their child, which is theirs and also the Southern Barbarian, but this is nothing, the child of the Southern Barbarian was only four or five years old when he died, and he couldn't remember much, go back and let the two of them raise the child well, and they should atone for their sins.

Xin Yangzi listened, nodded, and returned to Huanghua Cave......

About a month after this incident passed, my grandmother had a pregnancy reaction, and my grandfather gave her a pulse, and she was very happy to be pregnant with a child, and the whole family was very happy.

At the same time, Wang Caoyu's granddaughter-in-law and Wang Xiaoshun's daughter-in-law were also pregnant.

After autumn and winter, time flies, and soon it is 1949.

This year, my grandmother was thirty-one years old, my grandfather was eighty-two years old, my grandmother was sixty years old, and my grandfather was forty-two years old.

In April of the same year, in late spring and early summer, my father was born.

On the same day, Wang Caoyu's great-grandson, Wang Xiaoshun's son, was born. My father was born at noon, and the great-grandson of the king grass carp was born at night.

Both families are very happy, especially my grandfather's family, looking forward to the stars and the moon, and finally looking forward to the child after so many years, and the depression that was suppressed in the chest of the whole family finally vomited out happily......

In our place, do not drink full moon wine, are twelve days of "eating noodles", after the child is born twelve days later, invite relatives and friends to come to the house to eat noodles, that is, noodles, generally steamed noodles with steamed buns, and then mixed with fried vegetables, mixed and then steamed for a while, you can get out of the pot, just like the nature of the lo mein, however, I think it is much better than the lo mein, I have been particularly fond of eating steamed noodles since I was a child, but now the stomach is not good, the steamed noodles are too dry, rarely make to eat. Now there are many people trying to save trouble, children eat noodles are replaced by boiled instant noodles, seven plates, eight bowls and a large table of meat and vegetarian dishes, on the last plate of cooked instant noodles, everyone here clips a chopsticks, it is a process, a scene.

On the day my father ate noodles, there were no guests at home, relatives and friends on the banks of the Yellow River had long since stopped contacting, and not many people from the village came. During this period, Xin Yangzi came with two apprentices, Chen Blind also came, and my grandfather had a good relationship with the mountain protection group.

At that time, Chen Blind seemed to have the ability to tell fortunes and read feng shui, but my grandmother's impression of him was not very good, according to my grandmother, at that time, Chen Blind had to calculate a hexagram for my father, my grandmother hugged my father, but did not let him calculate, Chen Blind had to give up.

My grandfather was happy at the time, drank a few taels, took advantage of the wine, went to Wang Caoyu's house, Wang Caoyu's family is also giving the child twelve days, my grandfather drank a little more in their house, and finally my grandfather said, in the future, our two generations of children, don't talk about it again, beat these two children, even if they are equals, and when the two of them are sensible, call the two of them kowtow to worship the handle, and the brothers will be commensurate in the future.

Twelve days later, the whole family began to think about choosing a name for my father.

My grandfather is both civil and military, and at the age of twelve he was admitted to Xiucai, of course, taking a name is to catch it, and I took several names in one breath for my grandfather and my grandmother to pick, my grandma picked and picked, but there was no favorite, and finally, she remembered her dream and told my grandfather. When my grandfather heard it, the woman in the yellow skirt had a lot of ceramic dolls in the basket, and my grandmother took a short-shirt doll with a hammer in her right hand and a green dragon in her left hand, and thought about it and said, then call this child "Zhenlong", my grandma heard it and thought that this name was good.

My father's name was also decided, the big name Liu Zhenlong, at that time my grandmother wanted my grandfather to give him another word, my grandfather waved his hand and said, what years have passed, I have long lost those words, don't take the words.

Wang Xiaoshun's son, the name was also taken by my grandfather, when my grandfather held Wang Xiaoshun's child, remembered Wang Caoyu, remembered their various things on the Yellow River, and blurted out: Wang Sihe.

Life is like this, generation after generation, multiplication, and life......

At this time, the three-year civil war was nearing its end, and the communist army was losing and retreating, and the communist army attacked the city and plundered the land, destroying the withering and decaying.

On the first day of October in the solar calendar, **in **Chenglou, the founding of the People's Republic of China was announced, and the news quickly spread to our small mountain village, but the people in my grandfather's family did not feel anything, especially my grandfather, his life has gone through two changes of dynasty, the Qing Dynasty was replaced by the Republic of China, and the Republic of China was replaced by New China.

At this time, our family built a new house, just west of the old house. As for my grandmother, she secretly built the little gold left in the house into the wall, which I left for my father, but ...... In the second year, that is, in 1950, in June of the solar calendar, the "Land Reform Law of the People's Republic of China" was promulgated, and the people referred to it as "land reform". Of course, since the founding of the Crackdown, their slogan has been "Fighting the local tycoons and dividing the land." This movement actually began in 1920, but it was all partial, this time it was nationwide, and on the entire map of Chinese mainland, no corner was spared.

In the autumn of the same year, the dozen acres of land that my grandfather's family had worked so hard to reclaim in the past were all divided, and this newly built house was also divided......

As a result, my grandfather's life is much more difficult, there are no long-term and short-term jobs at home, my grandfather's legs and feet are not good, and I can only rely on my grandmother to maintain myself outside the home, working in the field during the day, and I have to take care of the children when I go home at night.

The following year, that is, in 1951, on the first day of the tenth lunar calendar, Halloween, the second child of the Xiaochang couple who tied paper in the West Village was born, a girl, named Chang Ruiying, this is my mother.

Time flashed, and it was 1952, when my grandmother was thirty-four years old, my grandfather was eighty-five years old, my grandmother was sixty-three years old, my grandfather was forty-five years old, my father was three years old, and my mother was one year old.

There is a family in the East Village, and something has happened......