47 kilometers west from Qingzhou County, there is a cottage surrounded by mountains - Zhoujiazhai.

There is Qinglong Mountain on the left behind the wall, and there is Houlong Mountain behind it. For generations, the common people have called these two mountains Longshan.

There are eight villages around Longshan, where more than 100 households of the Han, Yi, Miao, Buyi, and Gelao tribes live, and there are more than 90 households of the Gelao nationality.

There is a land temple on the left side of the Zhoujiazhai village.

There are two camphor trees that can only hug one by holding hands with four or five adults, and the people in the village call these two camphor trees "sacred trees".

During the New Year's holidays, the villagers who live here should go to the Land Temple, the Mountain King Temple, and the foot of the sacred tree to burn incense and worship the gods, and ask the Bodhisattva to bless them.

The mountains here are green and fertile, the water is beautiful and the fields are fertile, and the people are outstanding.

Zhoujiazhai at the foot of Longshan Mountain lives with the surnames of Zhou, Jiang, Wang, Pan, Zhu and Zhao, except for the Han nationality surnamed Jiang and the Buyi ethnic group surnamed Pan.

Five families surnamed Zhou, great-grandmother once took 13-year-old grandfather Zhou Zhichen from Dingxian County through the Brown River rope bridge at the junction of Dingxian and Qingzhou during the Qianlong period.

Great-grandmother often taught her son Zhou Zhichen:

"Son, your father is in his hometown in Dingxian County, and on the 27th day of the lunar month, he carried salt and sold it, and froze to death on the side of the road halfway home. In the spring of the second year, the ants moved the grave and buried it, and our mother and son escaped from the wilderness and finally lived here, you must be diligent, don't be lazy, and life will slowly get better. ”

Every time, Zhou Zhichen always said: "Remember, Mom! ”

Zhou Zhichen married at the age of 18 and had four boys and one daughter.

The eldest son Zhou Qide, the second son Zhou Qiqing, the third son Zhou Qixue, the daughter ranked fourth, named Fourth Sister, and the youngest son Zhou Qirong.

The second son Zhou Qiqing died early, and the three sons and daughters grew up under the care of Zhou Zhichen and his wife.

In 1916, the young Zhou Qixue married the Wang family of his own clan, and the Zhou brothers gave birth to eleven children.

The eldest son Zhou Jinquan, the second son Zhou Jinwen, the third son Zhou Jinyou, the fourth second Zhou Jinguo, the fifth son Zhou Jinhan, the sixth son Zhou Jinwen, the seventh son Zhou Jingui, the eldest daughter Zhou eldest sister, the second daughter Zhou Huaimei, the third daughter Zhou Huaiyou, and the youngest daughter Zhou Youzhi.

According to Zhou's family rules, Zhou Qixue's children call Zhou Qixue's eldest brother Zhou Qide uncle, Zhou Qixue's second brother as second uncle, their father as their third uncle, Zhou Qixue's younger brother as their fifth uncle, and Zhou Qixue's younger sister as their fourth father.

Wang's family, living in Jingyan Shangzhai, his parents have lived in Shangzhai for more than 100 years, and there are five buckets of land.

Wang's father, Wang Jiadeng, has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, fighting and grabbing, and is proficient in everything, and he is famous for dozens of miles.

After Wang Jiadeng gave birth to five sons and three daughters, the second daughter of the Wang family, and the second daughter and Zhou Qixue got married, Zhou Qixue and his wife got up early and went to bed at night, worked diligently, and kept the family thriftily, and the whole family lived a solid farm life.

In 1943, the eldest son Zhou Jinquan, the third son Zhou Jinyou, and the seventh son Zhou Guiqi died of illness one after another. The eldest grandson and eldest granddaughter fell ill and had no money for medical treatment. Originally, the eldest daughter died, and six people died before and after.

After Zhou Qide died of illness, he left a son and a little nine sisters, who were raised by Zhou Qixue and his wife, and the eldest son Zhou Jinquan passed away, and a son and eight subjects were less than five years old. Zhou Jinting and his original wife Wang gave birth to a son less than two years old, and after the death of his eldest brother, he took his sister-in-law as his wife, and he did business outside for a long time without paying attention to the road.

The heavy family burden made Zhou Qixue, who loves to talk and laugh, become silent. Wang's eyes turned red from crying. The eldest son, Zhou Jinquan, was buried on the waist slope, and the soil up and down the waist slope was reclaimed by the Zhou family.

As long as the Wang family came here to work, it would be painful to see the grave of their eldest son. Crying why your life is so bitter, crying that your eldest son will be reincarnated as soon as possible.

One day, Wang went to the waist slope to shovel ashes, went home for breakfast, walked to the back of the village, and heard the sound of two camphor trees making a "rustle".

Wang felt numb in his heart, and turned his head to see a large flower snake six or seven feet long and a bowl mouth crawling out of the hole in the tree.

Wang's "ouch", his feet were numb, the hoe on his shoulder fell, and he collapsed to the ground, unconscious.

When I woke up, I didn't know where the flower snake was crawling.

She picked up the hoe and buckled it over her shoulder, and went home sullen. After breakfast, I put two catties of "climbing wine" of the Gelao people from the wine tank, and asked Mr. Zhu to turn the book and measure the characters three miles away.

Mr. Zhu said: "This is the big flower snake that your eldest son has become, tell you that he is not your son, don't cry anymore, your eyes are blind from crying, and you can't see the light." The body cried badly, and there was no one to make it to eat. You're going to cry, and the snake will come and scare you. ”

Since then, Wang endured the pain in his heart, worked in this side, and no longer shed tears.

On March 23, 1945 (the tenth day of the second lunar month), the morning rooster dawned, and the Zhou family and his wife got up.

Zhou Qixue went to add fodder for cattle and horses, and Wang turned the fire and lifted the pot from the foot of the cupboard and put it on the stove to wash his face.

More than 10 families in the village have gotten up early to get up with firewood. Not long after, the whole village was full of smoke. The chickadees on Longshan Mountain and by the stockade "chirp" non-stop.

Zhou Qixue led the ox and carried the plow to the big nest to plow Laizigou.

After the New Year, spring is coming, some people in Zhoujiazhai are busy digging vegetable seeds, some people are busy shoveling ashes, some people carry dung to the ground, and some people are busy helping people to borrow ox plough soil before the year before they have not finished plowing the soil.

After washing his face, Wang took the back shelf from the cowpen building, took out his back from the slab wall of the cowpen building and put it on his back, and carried the back shelf to the four squatting soil backpacks and grass.

The third daughter, Zhou Jinchun, carried a bucket to the cat cave three miles away to carry water.

Jin Chun thought as he walked, "A few days ago, listening to my sister-in-law, my mother seemed to be very tired in the past two days. When I was picking vegetables in the field, I saw that she was sweating profusely, and it turned out that she didn't work like this. ”

Thinking about it, my steps unconsciously quickened. When you get to the Bainashu canal, press the front bucket into the water. The water splashed out, the bucket was full, and it was lifted ashore, and the back bucket was pressed into the water, and then it was lifted vigorously, and the shoulders were tilted back and forth to pick up the water. After a slope and a bay, he returned home sweating and poured water into the stone jar.

Hang up the pole and put the bucket away. Jin Chun went to the cowpen at the foot of the wing building to see if his mother had come back from the backpack.

She hurriedly ran to the door of the village, and saw that her mother was carrying the grain grass on the stone ladder at the gate of the village.

There are 24 stone steps at the entrance of the village, and my mother is going up 14 of them, and she struggles to move her steps, and the grass is swaying on her back.

Jin Chun ran over with tears in his eyes, and helped his mother up one stone step after another, until he finished the last stone step.

When she arrived at the circle door, her mother slowly squatted, put down her back shelf, stood up and pulled her back, panting in her mouth, sweat dripping down her cheeks.

Jin Chun threw himself into his mother's arms and cried and said, "Mom, don't carry it, wait for me to carry it in the future!"