this year.

Hao Jiali was just over eight years old when she said this.

It was from this time that Hao Jiali's miserable life began.

Now whenever Hao Jiali calms down and thinks about this past, Hao Jiali can't help but shake her head to herself.

Hao Jiali didn't know how she said this sentence at that time, what she should do after saying this, and what to do to make money to support her mother and younger brother, these Hao Jiali didn't think about it in her brain.

Also, his father Hao Guang said in the telegram that he was dead, what does the word death mean, what does it look like when a person dies, Hao Jiali has never seen a dead person in the village when she is so old, Hao Jiali has always felt that her father should still be alive.

Although Hao Jiali had no impression of her father at all, and even her father's appearance Hao Jiali was described by the villagers and her family, Hao Jiali had not seen her father once since she was eight years old, and her father's voice and smile had always been a vague concept in Hao Jiali's mind, and her father's life and death were also a vague concept in Hao Jiali's mind.

In addition, Chen Zhanjun, who returned from the Korean battlefield, said that Hao Jiali's father would not be alive, but he should see the corpse when he died.

Even if he couldn't see the body, Chen Zhanjun was skeptical of Chen Qing, Cao Juying, and Chen Feng's reply from Hao Jiali's father's unit, saying: If Lili's father had an accident in the coal mine and the body was buried in the mine, Lili's father's unit would at least come to the deceased's house to report the funeral, and second, the unit would call the deceased's relatives to attend the memorial service. Based on this telegram, I think that Lili's father must not be in this world, and the judgment of the few of you is too arbitrary.

Hao Jiali also knew that this telegram was clearly an excuse for her father to avoid her mother.

Hao Jiali and Chen Zhanjun have the same idea on this point.

Because, Hao Jiali's father can't stand the endless quarrel with Chen Feng.

simply, he didn't do anything to give the family a complete break, so that Chen Feng was completely dead by asking him for money.

As for why he wanted the telegraph operator in the unit to reply to Chen Feng's telegram like this, and where did he go? Hao Jiali and everyone else had no way of knowing.

Later, Chen Qing entered the city instead of Chen Feng, who couldn't walk on his legs, and went to Hao Jiali's father's unit to inquire about the news in person according to Chen Feng's wishes.

Hao Jiali's roommate in her father's dormitory refused to reveal a word, and jokingly teased Chen Qing and said: Your brother-in-law has gone as a son-in-law.

Chen Qing had no choice but to go to the leader of Hao Jiali's father's unit.

Unfortunately, the leader of the coal mining unit in charge of the workers' personal file materials went to inspect the mine this day, and the remaining two clerks in the office replied to Chen Qing in unison: "I'm sorry! This is not our business, and we have nothing to say. ”

Chen Qing had no culture and thought that this was the answer given by the leader of the unit.

So, Chen Qing left the office of the leader of Hao Jiali's father's unit empty-handed.

After that, Chen Qing did not inquire in many aspects of the coal mining unit, or asked the leaders in charge of Hao Jiali's father a few more times, and he did whatever Chen Feng told him to do.

And Chen Qing not only didn't hear the news of Hao Jiali's father, but even almost got lost when he returned.

Because the coal mining unit is so large, all the roads in this mining area, that mining area, and all the roads in the mining area are black paint, and the color of all the red brick houses in the mining area is a mixture of brick red and coal ash black, like the ink painting of a painter, Chen Qing is dazzled and can't find a mark to go back.

This is also the reason why Chen Qing did not stay in the coal mining unit for too long, looking for Hao Jiali's father everywhere, these years Chen Qing followed his sister Chen Feng into the city, knew where to go to Hao Jiali's father's unit where to take the car, transfer the car, arrive, enter the city and ask him to go somewhere else, he is simply no different from a headless fly, he definitely can't find the direction and loses the direction.

Soon, Chen Qing came back from the city, and then told Chen Feng a few facts about him in the coal mining unit with his own eyes and ears: Hao Guang is really not in the coal mining unit, I asked the leaders and workers of the coal mining unit, and no one knew where Hao Guang went.

After that, Chen Feng and Cao Juying really believed that Hao Jiali's father was no longer in this world for a long time.

Chen Feng and Cao Juying have been washing their faces with tears all day long.

And Hao Jiali's father gave the family such bad news like a thunderbolt on a sunny day for himself to be easy and clean, and made the old, small, and crippled in the family, and Hao Jiali, who was only eight years old, picked up the burden of supporting the family at a young age.

Therefore, when Hao Jiali stood up and said this sentence to support her mother and younger brother, Chen Feng and Cao Juying were immediately shocked when they heard it.

Cao Juying stopped crying, and immediately burst into tears and smiled: "Lili! You're making grandma poor, look at your hands and feet are as thin as dried radish strips in the sun, can you pick or carry them? You raise your younger brother and mother, how do you raise it? What to raise? ”

"Mom! You are also serious about children, you are only eight years old like her? You don't ask her, two days ago she also said that the last two big teeth in her mouth have just fallen out, and her new teeth to be replaced have not yet grown. Chen Feng didn't even look at Hao Jiali and said.

Hao Jiali was in a hurry, she grabbed Cao Juying's hand and begged: "Grandma! Believe me, I really have a way to get money for this family. ”

Cao Juying still smiled and said, "You get the money, are you going to steal or rob?" If you go to steal and rob, I tell you, you'd better not have that thought, grandma will break your hand with a stick. ”

"No, it won't, grandma! I will never do this kind of thing to disgrace our Hao family, I really have a way. Hao Jiali hurriedly argued, she wanted to try her best to convince the two adults, she didn't want to see her mother sad and anxious.

Although Hao Jiali was left with Chen Feng's legs to walk, the production team of the pig farm was looking for pigweed and chopping firewood to earn work, Hao Jiali was still confident.

Chen Feng figured out Hao Jiali's thoughts.

Chen Feng pointed through Hao Jiali's thoughts and said: "Don't think that you can support me and your brother if you earn this little bit of work on the pig farm, you can support me and your brother, don't even think about it, the materials from the production team are only enough to stuff the teeth, and you can't even fill a corner in the stomach, so it's strange that you and your brother are dizzy and sweaty if you are not hungry." ”

Cao Juying was a little dissatisfied with Chen Feng's attitude, and Cao Juying scolded Chen Feng: "Chen Feng! I don't like to hear what you say, you say that Lili is still a child, she has this heart is good, you really expect her to be able to support the family, you can't say this, what pig farm this little work, you don't look at the child, alas! I can't bear it. ”

"Mom! This is Lili herself here and she said unknowingly, and I didn't ask her to do this," Chen Feng didn't appreciate it.

"Besides, this is also caused by your conscienceless son, who is tall and strong, and he doesn't give money to this family when he earns money, and he will harm his wife and children, what can I do, I have done my best." Chen Feng complained.

"It's my son's fault again, I'm not blind, I can see it," Cao Juying complained in her heart dissatisfied with Chen Feng.

"Besides, my legs have been tired like this for this family, how do you tell me to go to work in the production team? How to feed this family? Could it be that I need to climb to the production team to work? I can't help it, at this time, I can't expect Lili to support this family, I don't count on her, who else do I count on? Whoever told her to have such a conscienceless father, who told her to be born in such a family, she was just as miserable as the two of us, she accepted her fate! Chen Feng gritted his teeth and said, ignoring Cao Juying's black face.

After speaking, Chen Feng stared at Hao Jiali coldly with wide eyes and said to Cao Juying: "Mom! Look at it, ah! Take a closer look, how similar Lili is to your dead ghost son, the two father and daughter are like a seal box printed with glutinous rice and glutinous rice cakes, if she raises this family, she is paying off the debt for your dead ghost son, this is accumulating yin virtue for your dead ghost son, and doing good deeds. ”

"Don't talk about Chen Feng! The more you talk, the more unpleasant it becomes! How did you become like this? How can you take your resentment against my son on your child, you are embarrassed. Cao Juying was angry, after Cao Juying interrupted Chen Feng's words, she pulled Hao Jiali's sister and brother away, and scolded Chen Feng without looking back as she walked: "Lili! Don't listen to your mother's nonsense, she's insane, grandma will never let you take on the responsibilities of an adult at such a young age, grandma will find a way to support you. ”

Hao Jiali was dragged by Cao Juying for a few steps and stopped, and then Hao Jiali raised her little face and said to Cao Juying: "Grandma! If you feed my brother and me according to the method you told my mother, your method will disgrace our Hao family's face, I don't agree. ”

"You don't agree?" Cao Juying leaned over and asked Hao Jiali: "If you don't agree, then you tell grandma about your way to support your brother and mother, if your method works, grandma will agree, if it doesn't work, you can only use grandma's method." ”

Cao Juying asked Hao Jiali stupidly.

Hao Jiali is in trouble, she really has no choice, after all, she is only eight years old, an age that only knows how to play, even if she has been learning how to survive with her mother Chen Feng over the years, but these methods of survival have been used up by adults, these methods have no effect on the current situation of the family, and the family must think of new ways, thinking that the mother's leg is broken, and the father is not alive.

But how could Hao Jiali think of these methods, Hao Jiali couldn't think of it, Hao Jiali was speechless after listening to her grandmother's words.