In that era of material scarcity, people's dreams were simple, and everything was simple. After all, our complexity comes from our heavier and heavier desires. ’

Ever since I was sensible, I have loved listening to stories, especially stories about my grandparents when I was ignorant, and stories about them and my parents.

Lying in bed, I could hear the stories my grandparents tell me, including me when I was younger, and they dotted their lives.

When I was young, my grandfather was not short in his seventeens at that time, and his big skeleton was quite upright in Chinese clothes, and his adolescent grandmother fell in love with his grandfather at a glance, so their story began to kick off.

Grandma told me that there was not so much romance in their time, grandpa could occasionally say a few flirtatious words, but also touched her throbbing heart at that time, chatting and chatting naturally together, the parents of the two parties did not have any special requirements, looking at people are okay, can help with farm work, and then will say a few words of pleasing words, basically agree.

The two formed a new family together, and soon ushered in the birth of a new life - a dragon and phoenix fetus. At that time, a decent job could not even support a family, but it could not be lost, for the birth of father and aunt, grandpa took care of it at home for only a few days, grandma just resisted everything, doing farm work during the day and taking care of two children at night, and the children tossed and even couldn't sleep all night.

Grandma said that it was really hard during that time, but looking at the two children, it seemed that they had endless energy, thinking that they would eventually get through.

When my father and aunt were just able to walk, my grandmother handed them over to the care of my grandfather, who had a disease and severe urinary incontinence. One hot summer afternoon, my grandfather went to the toilet as often as usual, this time for a longer time, when he came back to take care of the children again, I saw the boiling kettle rolling down the inner tank and shattering, and the aunt was crying in fright in front of the hot and shivering father.

Grandpa was also anxious and helpless, and when grandma went back to see this scene, she was so anxious that tears rolled in her eyes, so she could only take her father to the nearby barefoot doctor to see it first, and used some herbs and home remedies, which was somewhat relieved but the effect was not very obvious in the short term. The summer heat can't be thought about too much, from the scalp to the back, it began to become inflamed and ulcerate, and my father cried all day long, even crying until he was dumb, and my grandfather received the news from my grandmother and quickly ran back from the place of work, and put my father on foot from the village to the town for treatment.

During this time, the young grandmother traveled around, not only looking for home remedies, but also paying homage to the nearby temple. This burn missed the best treatment due to the delay at home, and the limited medical conditions, and finally left a big scar, which made my grandmother feel very guilty.

When his father was old enough to go to school, he always dressed tightly, and his classmates slowly began to cast strange eyes, and he went too far enough to start picking up his scars, and then always laughed and teased him in the form of jokes, after all, his father couldn't bear it, and dropped out of school before finishing elementary school to work as a coolie to earn money, and his grandmother didn't severely criticize him after she found out.

"I think it's better for you to study, your injuries can't stay in the sun for a long time."

"I don't read, Mom, do you know what they think of me, I can't stand their cynicism, I hate the way they look at me."

Grandma didn't say anything more, if Dad hadn't suffered that catastrophe, she would definitely slap Daddy's ass with a thorn strip at this moment, and now she only hopes that Dad can grow up steadily.

Burns brought a lot of sequelae to my father, and in the days to come, as long as I was doing heavy work, being scorched by the sun, or staying up late, I would always feel suddenly dizzy at some moment.

is about to reach the age of adulthood, another problem gives grandma a headache, and Dad's scar has spread throughout the village and even the whole town, although it is well covered up, it still can't help but be talked about by people, as the so-called good things don't go out and bad things spread thousands of miles. Grandma thought of the worst-case scenario, maybe Dad will be a bachelor for the rest of his life, but what parent doesn't worry about their children.

Grandma told me that my mother often complained to her later, saying that my father had deceived her, if it weren't for that eloquent mouth, how would she marry my father, a poor boy who was useless, and often complained that grandma just couldn't stop laughing, and when she saw grandma laughing, her mother seemed to have said something wrong, and she blushed and shyly echoed and laughed.

Mom is from the next county, came to our county to visit relatives, and met with my father in a chance gathering, just such a simple girl was coaxed step by step by this boy with sugar-coated cannonballs.

Ever since Dad met Mom, Grandma has been quite happy and treats Mom as a baby bump. My grandparents were quite reluctant, and when I heard my grandmother say that they had me, they let go of their prejudices.

The time when Mom and Dad met was the hardest time for their lives, Mother was very hardworking, and Dad was running around doing business, she was alone for half of the day, Dad was a casual person, and because of the disasters when he was a child, he had an inferiority complex and a strong personality in some things later, Mom is also a very strong person, and Mom is generally a mother supervising Dad, which makes the later days gradually better.

I heard from my grandmother that my parents had me two years after they met, and at that time they had not yet received a marriage license, and they had not even had a decent wedding in the future.

I later heard my mother complain, and my father always played with a hippie smile, and as I grew up in my mother's womb day by day, my mother's belly grew bigger and bigger, and my father thought that the days of running around and living without a fixed place should be over. He took out part of his savings and rented a modest house in a fishing village, so that his mother could recuperate in peace, the fishing village is not big, and the reason why his wandering father temporarily lived here was that he had done aquatic production, and in the past two years, aquatic production was indeed okay, at least for the time being, he could still do fishing business and maintain a relatively stable life.

The grandmother who was far away from home always wanted to say that she could help serve the confinement child, but her father did not agree, he always felt that he was already very indebted to his parents, and now even if he is busy and suffers, he will try to let his parents worry as little as possible.

The days of pregnancy in October are struggling for mothers, and as a new mother there are many things to look out for, and the living conditions themselves are not very good. My father was always very happy, but in fact he was very anxious in his heart, and he had to think about not only the present, but also the future life.

My mother noticed that my father was starting to smoke more, and when my father came back from fishing and trading in the market, he always finished smoking in the corner of the door before going in.

One day, my father had just finished smoking and put the cigarette butt on the ground to extinguish it, and my mother slowly walked out of the house with a big belly.

"Smoke less." The mother paused for a moment and continued, "Why don't you let my mom or your mom help me?" ”

"It's okay, I'm not tired." After saying that, the father helped the mother into the house.

"Our baby is about to be born, so don't move."

The father sat down on a stool and put an ear on his stomach. "Child, I want to hear you call Mom and Dad"

"Yes, kid, did you hear me, Mom and Dad are waiting." The mother also gently stroked her stomach.