all the way

The Liujialing Brigade is in the mountains about [-] miles south of Wangning Commune, probably because no one has ever seriously measured how far the road to that poor mountain ditch was, and everyone said it based on imagination or feeling.

Further south, you enter the depths of Fengxi Mountain. The mountains are steep and the forests are gloomy. There is no way for people to live anymore. Therefore, in this Central Plains area, which is considered by most people to be a plain, the people in Liujialing are called "Nanshangou" by outsiders. People in other places with irrigated fields call them "mountains." People living in other ditches and rough villages near Wangning Commune also call them that.

Mountains and flat land are always compared. Compared with the Wangning Brigade where Wangning Commune is located, Liujialing is a big valley, because here the mountains are bigger, the trees are more, and the forests are denser. High mountains and dense forests mean primitive, primitive It means poverty and backwardness, so although it is only the difference between a higher mountain or a shorter one, and the difference between being farther and closer to the commune, the superiority of others is highlighted.

Connecting the Qiongshangou in Liujialing and Wangning Commune, in addition to a winding mountain road that can only accommodate a shelf car, there is also a river accompanying the mountain road. The river flows from Fengxi Mountain, so it is called Fengxi River. The river is not big, but the water flows continuously all year round. The river water is crystal clear before it enters the Wangning Commune.

Liujialing is a natural village of the Liujialing Brigade. In the southernmost part of several villages, there are only about [-] households, and together with five other natural villages, a total of less than [-] households form a brigade.

The home of Liu Changqing, secretary of the brigade branch, is at the eastern end of Liujialing. They are considered neighbors if they are tens or hundreds of meters apart.

In October of the lunar calendar, the nights in the mountains are already very cold, and this year’s season came early again. There was a sporadic light snowfall a few days ago, and today is even colder. At dusk, the wind blew up, and there was light snow again, but the two brothers Liu Changqing The atmosphere at home was very lively, especially at Liu Changchun's house. It was already ten o'clock, and a group of people were still talking around the kerosene lamp, and the woman's painful groans could be heard from the east wing from time to time.

Liu Changchun's eldest son, Liu Mao, is about to become a father, and his wife, Xu Xiaohong, started to have a stomachache when she woke up in the morning, and it has been four or five hours since she gave birth.

Liu Changchun's wife Di Yulan brought out an egg and handed it to Liu Xia who was lying on Liu Kui's back and fiddling with a slingshot.

Sun Chang'e smiled and didn't stop her. After school, Pi Xiaozi went to the mountains and went to heaven and earth. For dinner, he ate corn cakes and a bowl of porridge. He should be sleeping at this time of day. Today, because the second sister-in-law is going to have a baby , Lai will not go home here, he heard people say that newborn babies are ugly, he himself is very dissatisfied, he insists on coming to witness the truth in person.

When his elder brother Liu Kui's two children, Liu Wei and Liu Rui, were born, one he didn't know about when he was young, and the other was not home after school. This time he was determined not to miss it.

Liu Xia, who was tossing on Liu Kui's back, saw the egg, and immediately jumped off the kang with his eyes shining. The egg was hot. He took it over and said, "When you finish peeling, there will be nothing to eat."

Liu Kui peeled the egg carefully and handed it to Liu Xia.

Liu Xia leaned back on Liu Kui's back again, and under the comfortable shaking of his eldest brother, he took out the egg yolk and ate it first with a smile, and stuffed a piece of egg white into Liu Kui's mouth.

"Oh my god - ah -" A high-pitched scream came from the cave next door.

Sun Chang'e and Zhai Yulan decided to go to have a look again, but Xu Xiaohong was a little too loud.

Although Xu Xiaohong usually looks thin, she is not delicate. Today, her stomach hurts from early morning to dusk, and she just quietly told her family that she couldn't eat because of the pain. She even smiled and comforted Liu Maohe. Family member: "It's okay, it will be fine after a while, you eat first."

But at this moment, she screamed louder than ordinary mothers.

Liu Mao stood at the entrance of the cave, looking at his mother worriedly, but he didn't dare to ask again. The elders have said it several times, women give birth like this, and everything will be fine after birth, but he still couldn't help feeling flustered and scared .

Zhai Yulan patted her son's arm: "It's okay, Mao, Xiaohong is too thin, her pelvis is narrow, and the baby is slow to come down. It's like this. When your aunt gave birth to her youngest son, she was the seventh child, and it was almost a day after giving birth, with a small buttocks." Every child is slow."

After a few minutes, Liu Mao returned to the main room, and he patted the snow on his body and said, "It's raining heavily."

After eating the eggs, Liu Xia said to Liu Kui contentedly: "Brother, I'm going to bed first, and you can call me after the second sister-in-law gives birth. I want to see the baby." After speaking, he took off his clothes and got into the bed , Just like at home, I fell asleep within 2 minutes.

Xu Xiaohong's moaning and screaming continued for several hours. At about three o'clock in the morning, Sun Chang'e ran in with blood on both hands: "Disease in labor, the baby will see the hands first."

Several drowsy men woke up suddenly, Liu Mao's face turned pale, shouted "Xiaohong" and ran out, slipped at the entrance of the cave and fell far away, got up without hesitation Rushed into the Dongwu cave.

Liu Changqing held down his brother who was about to rush out, and said to Liu Kui: "Go and help your mother boil more water and bring it over, beat some eggs for Mao's wife, and put more brown sugar." After speaking, he walked out.

Outside the strong wind was blowing snowflakes dancing wildly, Liu Changqing stood outside the window of the cave dwelling and said to the inside, "Fifth sister-in-law, what do you think?"

Wu Yuni replied wearily and calmly: "I'm spinning, the baby is not old, it should be about the same, but our daughter-in-law's bones are too weak, and her pelvis is too small, so it will take longer."

She is the midwife of more than a dozen villages in this area, hereditary, and she also went to the county to receive training as a barefoot doctor. In the past forty years, she has lost count of the number of children born by her hands, and she has very rich experience.

No one here has the concept of going to the hospital to give birth. The health center of Wangning Commune has only a few dilapidated houses, and there are not many husbands, and the words are ugly. To be honest, the level of the midwives there is not as good as Wu Yuni, and, to It costs five or six yuan to deliver a baby there. That money is enough for a large family of children to finish their junior high school tuition.

Liu Changqing felt relieved, and turned to look at Liu Changchun who was also relieved: "Go back, tomorrow I will ask your sister-in-law to bring two rabbits to Fifth sister-in-law."

The men sat silently in the cave dwelling in a daze, it was already past five o'clock in the morning.

Liu Xia, who had been sleeping soundly all this time, suddenly sat up, smiled without any confusion, jumped off the kang with his padded jacket on, pulled his shoes and ran outside: "I gave birth, I heard, I heard the baby crying. "

Liu Kui didn't catch Liu Kui, and Liu Xia had already run out. Following him, there was a faint cry of a baby outside. If he hadn't known in advance that someone had given birth, the cry would have been ignored at all, it was too weak .

Liu Mao's ecstatic voice came in: "Uncle, Uncle, Brother, I gave birth, Xiaohong gave birth, haha, I gave birth..."

The men all came out and stood outside the cave dwelling where Liu Mao and his wife lived, all heaving a sigh of relief.

Liu Kuiti sneaked Liu Xia to catch him, but Liu Xia struggled, his legs were covered in white snow: "Our mother said that I should be the first to see the baby when it is born, so I will go in and have a look. "

Liu Changqing didn't speak, and helped the elder son hold down the younger son, Liu Kui tightened his grip on the younger brother and entered the house: "Women give birth to a place where men don't like to go."

Liu Xia struggled like a loach: "Why are you unhappy? I don't look at the second sister-in-law, I look at the children."

Liu Kui pushed Liu Xia down on the kang and said, "It doesn't look like anyone is happy, our mother will take the baby out after a while, you can look at it as you like."

Liu Xia kicked his legs: "I must watch it now, I must watch it now, my mother told me to watch it first."

Liu Kui stuffed Liu Xia, who was twisting the rope and kicking his legs, into the bed, sat on the edge of the kang and pressed him: "It's almost dawn, you go to sleep for a while, baby, after the fifth aunt washes the baby, the elder brother will come and show you. Hit or not?... Ah... If you kick again, I will hit you..."

"Liu Kui, hurry up, go back and tear down the door of our west house. The Mao family is still bleeding. You Wuniang is afraid that you will bleed a lot. Someone has to send it to the commune. Call Xiaoling too. I'll call you Brother Fulai." Liu Changqing ignored the snow all over his body, pushed his eldest son out, and pulled off the quilt that Liu Xia was covering: "Yaoer, go to sleep with your fourth brother, I won't go to school tomorrow, stay home and listen to your mother." talk,."

Liu Xia watched Liu Kui rush out, and Liu Changqing also took the quilt and went out, froze for a moment, put on cotton trousers and a cotton jacket and ran out as well.

The yard was in chaos, Xu Xiaohong stopped shouting, and the newborn baby stopped crying, but Liu Mao's hoarse and frightened cries became louder and louder.

Di Yulan put on a scarf, put on the shelf cart and pulled it to the door of Xu Xiaohong's cave.

Sun Chang'e took out another quilt, and kept telling her: "You don't need to worry about anything, the child will leave home for me and you will be hit. Don't panic on the way. I have your elder brother, it's okay."

Liu Ling ran down while buttoning up his padded jacket. He was only fourteen years old, and he was thin, so he couldn't actually lift heavy things. However, the mountain road, which was tens of miles away, was covered with so much snow, and it was very strenuous to walk. He was halfway Switch hands so that others can take a breather.

Within a few minutes, another burly man ran over from the west slope. Once he came, he joined the busy ranks without saying a word. He was Liu Changqing's west neighbor Liu Fulai.

Soon, Xu Xiaohong was wrapped like a huge silkworm chrysalis, fixed to the door with ropes and lifted out.

Even if the road from Liujialing to Wangning is sunny, one person can't pull an empty car when going uphill, at least an adult man needs to push it behind. By borrowing strength, save some effort.

Liu Changqing watched Liu Changchun, Liu Kui, Liu Mao, and Liu Fulai lift the people up. Liu Ling and Zhai Yulan pulled up the trolley and followed them. They turned around and said to Sun Chang'e, "Look after the children, I have to go first, and go to the commune to find them." Secretary Wang, if he is really bleeding, he must be sent to the county hospital immediately."

The secretary of the commune, Wang Changmin, had a broken jeep, which had sent seriously ill patients to the county more than once; but with the snow today, the jeep could not go to Qianhe Mountain... Liu Changqing sighed secretly.

Liu Xia pulled Chang'e Sun's clothes and yelled to Liu Changqing, "Uncle, please slow down when you pass the Yaopo slope, it's very slippery when the snow falls there."

"I know, Yao'er, you are obedient at home, don't call your mother..." Liu Changqing's last words were drowned in the wind and snow.

Liu Xia was sitting under the quilt, tense and stiff all over. In the small bundle next to his left leg was a child, a wrinkled, pink ugly child, a little bigger than a mouse.

Sun Chang'e went to the kitchen to cook for Wu Yuni, and Liu Xia felt that he should look at this child as a matter of course, so he just kept staring.

In fact, he felt that he was the uncle of the clown boy, and he should be dangling in his arms. The elder sister-in-law and Sun Chang'e would dangle Liu Wei and Liu Rui when they were sleeping in their arms.

However, now Liu Xia dare not hug, the baby is so soft, Liu Xia's black claws are very good at climbing trees, picking birds, hitting people, and writing, but he can't hold this baby easily.

"Squeak—" The door opened.

Liu Hai came in with two bowls: "Our mother said that we won't go to school today, and told you to sleep after eating, you can eat, I'll go down and pick up brother Liu Yu."

Liu Xia carefully moved a little away, lifted the mattress by a corner, Liu Hai put the bowl on it, Liu Xia said, "Ask our mother why he has been sleeping all this time, do you need to feed him?"

Liu Hai gave him a blank look: "How can he eat? He has to breastfeed. Our mother said that I will wait for my sister-in-law to come and feed him after eating."

Liu Rui is now one and a half years old and hasn't been weaned yet. His sister-in-law He Xiumei said that weaning a baby in winter is too much of a burden, and she would wait until the weather is warmer in spring, but she didn't expect it to be just in time for this little one.

As soon as Xiumei pushed the door, she was taken aback by the situation on the kang: "Hey, Yaoer, you know how to hold a baby?"

Liu Xia was leaning against the newspaper-covered wall at this moment, wrapped in a quilt, and only a little red and green edges were showing from the small bundle in his arms: "He is about to wake up and cry, I have no choice but to hug him and shake him." .”

Sitting on the edge of the kang, Xiumei smiled and said, "I thought you had a grudge against the children. Xiaowei and Xiaorui would disappear if you got closer to you. They cried to death and you refused to take them to pick them off." Persimmons and jujubes." She stretched out her hand to take the small bundle from Liu Xia's arms, casually lifted off her blouse, revealing her plump breasts, and moved the mouse-like child over.

"Cough, cough... um... ah..." The child's weak cry sounded, and the ugly head was still twisted to the side to hide.

Liu Xia leaned over nervously: "Sister-in-law, are you choking on him?"

Xiumei stretched out her hand and pushed Liu Xia's head away: "Go, it's not touching yet." She tucked up the little mattress covering the child again, and sent her nipples over again: "Come on, oh, eat Mimi Alright, good boy eat Mimi."

"Cough, cough, cough... ah..." The child's crying sound became a little louder, and his little face turned red from holding back, making him look even uglier.

"How's it going? Have you eaten yet?" Sun Chang'e came in, holding Liu Rui in her arms, followed by Liu Wei, Liu Hai, and Liu Yu.

Liu Yu and Liu Ling belong to the same zodiac sign, a few months older than Liu Ling, and stronger than Liu Ling, but half a month ago when he climbed a tree to drink persimmons, he fell from the tree and broke his left arm. It was fixed with wooden boards, so Xu Xiaohong was not called to get up when he was sent to the hospital.

Last night he was ordered to sleep obediently in his cave dwelling and not to get up to cause trouble. When Liu Hai woke up this morning, he told him that he only knew that his sister-in-law was having a difficult labor, and that his parents and elder brother might go to the county overnight.

Xiumei adjusted her posture again in embarrassment: "I don't want to eat, I cry before the milk is in my mouth, Mom, didn't I say that children will pick people after eating their own mother's milk, what's wrong with this child?"

Sun Chang'e put willow rui on the kang: "Some children are born like this, and young children are also like this; I'll cook millet and feed him rice oil."

Liu Xia asked: "Which time? That's not a milk." At the same time, Liu Rui, who had crawled over to pick up the child, pressed his feet against his stomach against the wall, making him unable to move.

Liu Rui giggled happily, thinking Liu Xia was teasing him.

"You haven't had milk for a few days, you insist on feeding Dali with rice oil, and rice oil supports you." Chang'e Sun carried Liu Wei onto the kang, turned around and went out to cook porridge.

The millet porridge was boiled for an hour, and the child whimpered and cried for an hour. When Sun Chang'e dried the rice oil, she turned a spoon upside down, dipped the handle of the spoon in the golden yellow sticky millet oil, and placed it on the small bowl. The child's mouth, the child sucked immediately.

"Hey, he really eats, he is so young, how do you know it's eating?" Liu Xia was so excited: "Mom, tell me to feed him, I will too."

Sun Chang'e concentrated on feeding the child and said without raising her head, "Little ancestor, can you live in peace for a while? Mom is about to die, so I quickly fed the child to sleep for a while, and I have to cook for you at noon!"

Liu Xia pouted and sat there feeling unhappy, but within 3 minutes, he came over to watch the children eat again.

Liu Yu and Liu Hai were a little at a loss for the big mouse that fell asleep after eating, and Liu Xia hugged the big mouse in his arms again like a mother, very proud.

He Xiumei graduated from junior high school. In the past, whenever the weather was bad and some students in the family could not go to school, she or Liu Kui would teach Liu Ling and Liu Yu their homework, and then Liu Ling would teach Liu Hai and Liu Xia.

Liu Yu was unreliable. When he was in the same class as Liu Ling, Liu Ling was firmly in the top three of the whole grade in every exam, and he firmly occupied a place among the bottom three.

Liu Hai was born in July of the lunar calendar, more than two years older than Liu Xia, who was born in November. Rural children go to school late, and Liu Hai happened to be eight years old when he was supposed to go to school. , Liu Hai, Liu Xia and Liu Zhaosen, the eldest son of Liu Fulai's family, went to the commune primary school in Wangning together.

Liu Ling and Liu Yu started school normally, and it was time for the second grade; Liu Hai and Liu Sen registered on the first day, and the rule for them to register for school here is to count to a hundred, and they are not allowed to go to school until they prove that they are not fools.

Liu Xia simply followed to join in the fun, but when he arrived at the elementary school in the commune, Liu Sen couldn't count to nineteen. Liu Xia then counted all the way to one hundred, and then the big and small cried together: Liu Sen cried Ken goes to school and wants to go home, don't count; Liu Xia cries and insists on going to school with the fourth, fifth, and sixth brothers, and refuses to go home.

Liu Changqing put in a lot of effort, the last person gave him two slaps on the buttocks, and bought three pieces of sweet potato candy for a penny, so Liu Sen finally stayed.

But Liu Xia refused to eat it, and slapped the candy in his hand away, lying on the ground and rolling, crying to death, and wanted to go to school, but he was only six years old, and the school teacher refused to accept it. Pulling the shelf cart with only one arm, and carrying Liu Xia who was kicking and beating like a monkey like a soil monkey under one arm, he returned home and promised to let him go to school next year.

In the second year, Liu Changqing had long forgotten the words to coax the children, but Liu Xia still remembered, and he repeated the same tricks and cried a lot, and finally he and his three brothers went to Wangning to go to school every day.

Liu Sen persisted for less than three months, and returned to the elementary school of the Liujialing Brigade as soon as the weather became cold.

As for Liu Xia, his third brother Liu Chuan, who went to high school in Wangning for the first two years, and his elder brother Liu Kui, who retired from the army two years later, carried him on the slope of Shangyao every morning, and carried him home from Shangyao after school in the evening. Back until he was in the fourth grade.

In fact, the Liujialing Brigade has a school, in Zhangjiabao, from the first grade to the fifth grade, consisting of three mixed classes in a large courtyard, but Liu Changqing sent all the children in his family to the school in Wangning Commune.

When Liu Changqing was nine years old, he went to Kaesong as an apprentice, and when he was 17, he joined the army.

He has seen how vast the outside world is. Although there are restrictions on household registration and they are very poor here, he still wants his children to see the world as much as possible. Wangning Commune is also very backward and closed, but Anyway, there will be two buses from the county every day, and people from outside will come and go, which is better than the silence of the stagnant water in my village for hundreds of thousands of years.

Except for him, no one in the village is willing to let the children suffer the hardship of running dozens of miles of mountain roads every day: so what if they go to Wangning to go to school, and they have to live in this poor mountain valley even if they become the number one scholar.

But occasionally, there will be people who are not reconciled and have the same idea as Liu Changqing, wanting their children to see more of the outside world.

The third grandpa was the one who brought Liu Changqing to Kaicheng back then. One of his great-grandsons came to go to school with the children of Liu Changqing's family from time to time, but most of them failed to go to junior high school and returned to the Liujialing brigade. School.

The snow outside was still falling, and Liu Xia was holding an ugly big mouse in his arms, leaning on Liu Hai's back, falling asleep amidst Xiumei's eloquent explanation and the howling of Liu Wei and Liu Rui.

When Liu Xia woke up again, it was dark in the cave, and the big mouse in his arms was gone, he called 'Mom' in a daze, but no one answered, Liu Xia lay down and continued to be dazed.

After a while, Liu Hai came in and lit the kerosene lamp hanging on the wall. Only then did Liu Xia see clearly that the little mouse was sleeping next to him.

"Sixth brother, I'm always in a panic." Liu Xia rubbed his legs and grinned.

Liu Hai hurriedly put the steamed bun in his hand on the windowsill and said, "I'll get you the urine pot, hold on! If you dare to wet the bed again, let our mother beat you."

Liu Xia drank a big bowl of millet and sweet potato porridge before going to bed, and now he pissed for a long time.

Liu Hai took the urine pot out and emptied it, and went to bring him dinner again: "Our mother said that you are sleeping and your body is hot, and the wind outside is strong, and you will catch a cold and have a fever if you are excited, so let's eat here .”

Liu Xia took a big bite of the sweet potato noodle bun, looked at the big mouse beside him and asked, "How do you eat it, baby?"

Liu Hai lay on the kang and looked at the big mouse, wanted to touch his face but dared not: "Our mother boiled rice oil for him before feeding him."

Liu Xia asked worriedly, "Our uncle and the others haven't come back yet?"

"Well, the snow is more than a foot thick. If our uncle and the others send the second sister-in-law to the county hospital, they will definitely not be able to come back today. Today, no car can pass Qianhe Mountain. Our mother and sister-in-law are also in a hurry. I don’t know how the second sister-in-law is doing.”

Liu Xia looked at the big mouse next to him again, and asked softly, "Sixth brother, will he die from dystocia and hemorrhage?"

Liu Hai was startled, and looked out of the window, no one would be reassured: "Who did you listen to? Don't dare to talk nonsense, it's unlucky, if my mother hears it, she will beat you up."

Liu Xia said: "Zhang Changxi from my class said that his neighbor died when he gave birth the year before last. He heard from those in charge that his mother had dystocia, hemorrhage, and died after bleeding."

Liu Hai was also a little scared: "No way? Our second sister-in-law won't die, right? She's fine, besides, the baby is born..."

Liu Xia looked at the ugly child who was sleeping soundly, and nodded: "Well, the second sister-in-law is definitely fine, our child will definitely not have a stepmother, stepmothers are good grandchildren."

The spacious yard of Liu Changqing’s house is about one mu, and there are five holes facing the sun lined up in a row. All of them have semi-circular beams on the door and a big window on the side. There is no kiln in ten miles and eight villages that can compare with their house. , This was slowly remodeled by him and his boss Liu Kui over three years. They are all bluestone coupon doors. The glass was obtained by Liu Kui entrusting a comrade-in-arms brother who was the factory director of the county glass factory the year before last. Defective products, free of charge, in fact, there are only a little air bubbles or hair spots on it, which does not affect the use at all.

The west wing house is a large tile-roofed house with three bluestone walls. The stones were built by himself, and the red tiles were bought at Yaopo by entrusting the secretary of the commune, Wang Changmin. Months after the house was built, everyone in the village was envious.

This is the only red tile house in a dozen or so villages near them.

The westernmost cave dwelling is where the three youngest sons live. In the past few years, Sun Chang'e had to pull out the wet quilt from inside to dry every morning, but it is much better in recent years.

Farther to the west, there is a small cave dwelling without a bluestone gate, which is specially used for firewood.

Less than ten miles away from the Wangning Brigade is the Luogezhuang Coal Mine. Liu Mao works as a contract worker in the coal mine, but the people here have never burned coal, can't afford it, and can't bring it in, so every household has special firewood. cave dwellings.

Liu Xia usually sleeps with Liu Ling and Liu Hai in the westernmost kiln, and Liu Yu usually sleeps here with Liu Xia and the others, similar to his own home. It's inconvenient, so I just went home temporarily for half a month.

Not only did Liu Xia toss around the house during the day, but he was also dishonest at night. When Sun Chang'e came to wake them up and eat in the morning, most of the time he saw Liu Xia naked, with his legs on his back. The appearance of the brothers, she was really afraid that after one night, Liu Yu's arm would be damaged again, or they would simply lie on the ground, and there was no way to let the injured Liu Yu go home.

Today, there is no one in Liu Changchun's house, so she let Liu Yu come back to live again.

Sun Chang'e and Liu Changqing were married for several years, and when she was planning the marriage for Liu Changchun, she asked other aunts and sisters-in-law of the same family to help sew the quilt. They said that Liu Changqing and Liu Changchun were not blood brothers.

She was very shocked at the time, and also a little angry. Her husband hadn't told her about such an angry thing for so many years. Did she think that if she found out, she would dislike Liu Changchun.

But she didn't show it at the time, and she asked Liu Changqing what was going on when there were no outsiders.

Liu Changqing's answer surprised her. Liu Changqing was stunned for a while before he said: "Our uncle and Uncle Shunde are best friends. Changchun was less than two years old and Shunde's aunt died. Their family is not prosperous. Well, Uncle Shunde has no other family, and he is a man who can't take care of children. Changchun is almost raised by our mother, and he stays in our house all year round except for the New Year's day.

I am three years older than him, and I have always regarded him as my brother. Later, when Uncle Shunde was seriously ill, he was worried and entrusted him to my uncle. In order to let Uncle Shunde go away with peace of mind, my uncle asked me to be in front of Shunde. Shulimian and Changchun kowtowed to their brothers.

I never thought of telling you about Changchun specifically, because I have long forgotten that Changchun is not my real brother. "

Sun Chang'e followed Liu Changqing and treated Liu Changchun as her own brother. After hearing this, the pimple in her heart disappeared. She was angry not because of Liu Changchun, but because she felt that her husband did not trust her. Now I know Things were not what she thought at all, and she was relieved.

Liu Changqing and Sun Chang'e regard Liu Changchun as brothers, and Liu Changchun regards Liu Changqing and his wife as relatives, so the children of the two families have been as close as a family since childhood. Liu Mao and Liu Yu are just like Liu Changchun back then, almost Growing up in Liu Changqing's parents, Liu Mao seldom lived in his own home before he got married, and lived with Liu Chuan all the time. It wasn't until Liu Chuan joined the army that he gradually got used to going to his own home to sleep at night.

Liu Yu is also in the infant period except for breastfeeding. She has been on it with Liu Ling and the others since she was a little older. During traditional festivals, people need to go home to worship their ancestors. Chang'e gave birth to two sons, so she didn't have to worry about anything, she just waited for them to call "Mom" and she was hit.

After dinner, Chang'e Sun watched Liu Yu lay down and fell asleep, and told Liu Hai several times to be alert while sleeping, not daring to touch Liu Yu's injured arm before returning to her cave.

Today Liu Xia is sleeping in the cave dwelling of Liu Changqing and his wife in the east. He stripped himself naked and got into the quilt. The quilt was patched and patched, and the original patterns of red, willow and green can hardly be seen, but he is not covered by the boss like other mountain people. Let the bright light of the brain oil grind, and the ice is cold next to the body.

Sun Chang'e is a clean person, no matter how cold the winter is, the bedding must be taken out and washed every month in turn. Usually, as long as there is sunshine, the bedding must be pulled out to dry every day. The bedding that looks worn out is actually thick and warm.

There are many children and there is no extra cloth tickets at home, so there is not enough cloth to make clothes for the children, let alone replacement pants. Liu Xia only has one pants. When he was young, he loved to wet the bed, and he didn't wear them when he got up the next day Afterwards, Sun Chang'e forbade him to wear pants to sleep, and he himself happily fell asleep naked, and it gradually became a habit.

Liu Xia lightly touched the little face of the big mouse with his fingertips, and it was a little cold. He moved him carefully in front of him, stretched out his left arm, and wrapped the big mouse under his armpit: It's cold, hey, it turns out that the baby is so ugly, huh, it's definitely not like this, I'm sure I'm not as ugly as you, I'm sure not!"

The author has something to say: You: "you" in the local dialect, not a respectful title.

Uncle: The sound reads "bai", father.

Uncle: father's elder brother, and so on.

Niang or Da Niang, Er Niang: Uncle's wife, and so on.

I don't know much about typography, so I will introduce the relationship between the characters in text form:

First generation

The five sons of Liu Changqing and Sun Chang'e, from oldest to youngest: Liu Kui, Liu Chuan, Liu Ling, Liu Hai, and Liu Xia.

Liu Changqing's righteous brother Liu Changchun.

Liu Changchun and Zhai Yulan have four children: Liu Mao, Liu Yunzhi, Liu Yuzhi, and Liu Yu.

According to the local customs, the children of the grandson of the first father are all in the family line. Although Liu Changqing and Liu Changchun are not related by blood, Liu Changqing and Liu Changchun regard each other as brothers. The relationship between the two families is very close, so the children of the two families also Ranked together: Liu Kui, Liu Mao, Liu Chuan, Liu Yu, Liu Ling, Liu Hai, Liu Xia.

Second generation

The sons of Liu Kui and He Xiumei: Liu Wei and Liu Rui.

The son of Liu Mao and Xu Xiaohong: Liu An.

Others

The third grandfather is the title of Liu Kui and his generation. The third grandfather is the brother of Liu Changqing's grandfather, that is, Liu Changqing's cousin. He took Liu Changqing out of Liujialing to Kaicheng.

Uncle Six is ​​the son of the Third Grandpa, and his sixth son is also the family rank

This is not important, and it will rarely appear in the future.

As for Liu Fulai, they are all from Liujialing, the same clan, a distant branch, and the same generation as Liu Kui, but they are no longer ranked with their branch. He called Liu Changqing "Seventh Uncle" because Liu Changqing was in his family. The ranking of the branches is the seventh.

Although Liu Fulai's children play with Liu Xia and the others every day, they actually want to call Liu Xia and the others "uncles". There are many such cases in rural areas.