After Hao Jiali's father became a coal miner, he took home from home leave for the first two years, and since his son Hao Jiaming was born, he never wanted to go home again, and Chen Feng soon lost the freshness of his new marriage.

Hao Jiali's suffering began when her father looked for the woman he liked in the city as soon as he entered the city, and abandoned this family in the countryside.

Relatives and friends have scolded Hao Jiali's father for what he did.

After Hao Jiali grew up and became sensible, she realized what her father wanted back then, but her father failed to do so in the end.

This is because women in the city are no better than women in the countryside, in Hao Jiali's hometown, which woman does a man like and then asks a matchmaker, the matchmaker carries a live chicken in her hand, or a piece of pork to the woman's house, if the woman agrees, this family matter is decided.

Then it is tested whether the man and the woman are compatible, and if they are together, the man will give the woman a gift.

The so-called hand-holding gifts in Hao Jiali's hometown are handkerchiefs and headdresses given by the man to the woman, and the woman usually uses Xiaodong Xiaoxi and the like, and the woman also gives the man dry tobacco pouches, straw sandals or something.

After giving the handover gifts, the man gives the woman an engagement gift.

When sending the engagement gifts, the woman's family should set up a few tables of banquets, and invite their relatives and friends to celebrate, at this time the neighbors in the township have not yet participated, because the woman has the right to withdraw from the marriage at this time, so the pomp is too big for fear of losing face, and afraid that everyone will know that it is difficult for both men and women to go on a blind date in the nearby village in the future.

Only when the man finishes sending the engagement gifts, the man chooses a good day and an auspicious day to hold a wedding with the woman will put on a special banquet, at this time the man will invite the men and women of several production teams in the village to sit around the grain field, put up dozens of tables, kill pigs and slaughter cattle from meat dishes to vegetarian dishes, a table full of more than a dozen bowls and plates, hundreds of people in the whole field eat and drink, from morning to night for a whole day, very lively.

After that, as soon as the wedding was held, the man and woman began to have children and lived a married life of a man farming and a woman weaving until they died for the rest of their lives.

Hao Jiali's father, Hao Guang, and Hao Jiali's mother, Chen Feng, are combined according to this custom and process.

A year later.

Chen Feng gave birth to Hao Jiali, Hao Jiali's father entered the city before she was a month, and because of her kindness to Hao Jiali's uncle Chen Qing, Hao Jiali's father was embarrassed to propose to divorce his newlywed wife Chen Feng immediately.

After the birth of her son Hao Jiaming, Hao Jiali's memory remembers that her father has not returned home for almost seven years, nor has he taken the initiative to send money to the family once, and the family has no money, and her mother Chen Feng and uncle Chen Qing went to the city to ask her father to take the money once, and sometimes her mother would return empty-handed.

It was at that time that Hao Jiali personally experienced the hardships and mental pain of her mother's life.

Hao Jiali is both considerate and understanding of her mother's current practice of seeing money as more important than her life, because Hao Jiali sympathizes with her mother, and her mother Chen Feng lives too hard and bitterly with this family of three alone.

At the end of the seventies, when a family relied on labor and earned work to eat, that is, to eat a big pot of rice, Chen Feng was short and couldn't do as much work as a man in the family, so her work was barely enough to support herself, and Hao Jiali and her younger brother Hao Jiaming belonged to the overspending household of the production team.

At that time, the so-called overspending households were not going to the production team to work according to the number of heads, and when they wanted to divide the rations of the production team during the harvest, they had to pay for it.

Hao Jiali's father didn't send money to the family, Chen Feng had no money to buy millet on the production team, and Hao Jiali's two siblings were often so hungry that they were dizzy and walked with trembling legs slightly.

There was no way, Chen Feng crushed his share of the millet into rice and distributed it with the potatoes, beans, corn, sweet potatoes and other miscellaneous grains harvested in the field for Hao Jiali's two sisters and brothers to eat.

And Hao Jiali's sister and brother can't eat at all, and they can't eat enough.

The rice grains are like the embellishment of MSG in modern family stir-frying, these grains are the staple food and often make the two sisters and brothers vomit, the sisters and brothers want to eat a full meal too much, this desire has been tormenting Chen Feng's heart.

Chen Feng couldn't do anything, so he could only cry secretly behind Hao Jiali's sister and brother.

Chen Feng also thought about supplementing nutrition for Hao Jiali's sisters and brothers from the dishes, but because her husband didn't send money home, the chickens, ducks, eggs, and duck eggs at home Hao Jiali's family had never touched the edge, and they were all taken to the market by Chen Feng to sell, and the money was exchanged for salt, kerosene, soap, and daily necessities for lighting.

Hao Jiali's sister and brother are growing their bodies, and without nutrition, the sisters and brothers are understandably skinny and have a bad physique.

Hao Jiali looked at her mother's hardship, in order for Chen Feng to earn a little more work, in order to let Chen Feng share a little more grain, Hao Jiali took her four-year-old brother Hao Jiaming from the age of six After school, the two sisters and brothers went up the mountain to chop firewood, look for pigweed, and took the initiative to undertake the task of giving Chen Feng extra work points under the pig farm of the production team.

When Hao Jiali was eight years old and Hao Jiaming was six years old, poor Hao Jiali and her younger brother Hao Jiaming's hands were all devoid of children's immaturity, their hands were full of pigweed tears, and the palms of the firewood knives were as hard as cocoons, and the two sisters and brothers often went up the mountain to chop firewood, and were so frightened by snakes that they rolled down the hillside, and their faces and bodies were full of scars that were pricked and bleeding.

Every now and then, Chen Feng looked at the sensible Hao Jiali and Hao Jiaming and choked up and said, "Child! If you want to blame your unconscionable father, you abandoned you, and let you starve and freeze with my useless mother, you were born in such a family! I hope that you have suffered enough in this life, and you will be reincarnated in a good family in the next life. ”

Hao Jiali later understood that this was all thanks to her father Hao Guang.

After Hao Jiali's father Hao Guang had no feelings for Chen Feng, his month's salary was all spent on finding his satisfactory woman in the city, and the money ended up in a bamboo basket.

Because the women in the city are much more complicated than Chen Feng.

Although Hao Jiali's father was a talent, he lived in the countryside for 20 years before entering the city, and the rustic atmosphere of the countrymen was still engraved on his body.

In addition, he dresses himself up unkemptly, wearing a white short-sleeved undershirt issued by the unit in summer, blue pants for the police, and a military cotton coat draped over his body in winter to spend a winter.

But he just wants to spend money on women who can't get it.

Also, Hao Jiali's father's salary of 20 yuan a month, the meal will be only a dime or two cents a meal in the coal mine canteen, at that time there were no current fast food restaurants, takeaways, grandmother cross-bridge rice noodles, etc., etc., there is not even the least fast food restaurant, and there are very few hotels, this man's money is still saved for Hao Jiali's mother and daughter, but he still has to spend money on drinking,

Wine Hao Jiali's father must drink it even when the sky falls, and he can't quit.

This is entirely due to Hao Jiali's hometown, which is called a drunkard village.

Every household in the village will make wine, sorghum wine, glutinous rice wine, sweet potato wine, everything.

These wines are made from a wine-making herb in Hao Jiali's hometown.

This kind of grass grows everywhere in the fields, in the fields, and on the mountains, with long rhizomes and white flowers.

Hao Jiali often saw her grandmother Cao Juying pulling out a basket of baskets to wash them, using a bamboo sieve specially to dry the goods, holding these wine herbs and putting them on the roof to dry, so that the wine herbs could be crushed into ashes, and then the ashes and water were rolled into balls and then dried, and after drying, they were packed in a plastic bag and tied up, in order to prevent them from being breathable and damp and moldy.

Then every time after steaming the rice for winemaking, Cao Juying will sprinkle some wine herbs and mix evenly, dig a round hole in the middle of the wine tank, cover the round hole and the whole tank of steamed rice with a clean cloth, and pile a bed of rotten quilts on top of the cloth, and the wine will be brewed.

After the sake is brewed, there is no movement on the first and second days.

On the third day, the house began to smell a faint smell of wine.

On the fourth and fifth days, the smell of wine wafted from the outside of the house, upstairs and downstairs.

After a week, the aroma is strong and pungent.

At this time, the round hole in the wine tank is automatically filled with liquid, these liquids are called water wine, and the steamed rice next to it is called sake lees, but whether it is water wine or sake lees, it is fragrant and sweet at this time, even people who can't drink can have a bowl of two seas and won't get drunk.

However, the men, women and children who are addicted to alcohol in Hao Jiali's hometown do not like to drink the wine at this time, because for them, the wine is not strong enough to enjoy it, and they have to wait until the wine is old to drink.

When the wine is a little older, the villagers who are good at wine begin to gather together to fight for wine, until they all fight hard and can't get off the table, their tongues are knotted, and their bodies are like mud and want their families to carry them home or carry them home.

These drunkards were carried home by their families after a bowl of sobering soup boiled with camphor trees drank down and began to fight the toilet again, the deep amount of wine has to run the toilet two turns, two bubbles of urine, after going home with nothing to do, the amount of alcohol is shallow on the left bowl of right a bowl of sobering soup, left a trip to the right to run to the toilet, and finally pull the urine without alcohol to sober up.

Hao Jiali's father and these peers in the village have practiced such a wine courage and amount of alcohol since childhood, but after entering the city, the hometown characteristics of the wine have nothing to drink, three meals a day Hao Jiali's father can only drink liquor, but also drink high-concentration bamboo leaf green to satisfy hunger, bamboo leaf green was a famous wine in those years, it is conceivable that Hao Jiali's father's monthly expenses are naturally large.