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The situation of her husband, children and brother's family was unknown, and Sun Chang'e tossed and turned all night, unable to sleep.

Liu Xia next to him was honest and unexpected. He insisted on letting the little mouse sleep next to him. Sun Chang'e was tortured by him. Xia held the child under his arms and slept properly all night. The child woke up hungry in the middle of the night and cried weakly twice. Sun Chang'e went to warm up some millet oil and fed him. Falling asleep again, Chang'e Sun put him under the quilt, and the dazed Liu Xia held him under his armpit again, and slept until dawn.

It was warmer when cooking in the main room, so Sun Chang'e spread quilts on the kang next to the window in the main room, and put the little one in the quilt, so that she and Xiumei could cook without running back and forth. Look after the children.

Liu Xia and Liu Haiduan sat upright in front of the kang, writing calligraphy with the light from the glass window, Sun Chang'e was kneading noodles on the stove, preparing to steam buns, and Liu Wei was sitting by the stove, waiting eagerly. The roasted sweet potatoes inside are cooked quickly.

Liu Xia suddenly raised his head and said, "Mom, give the baby a name, it's not cool to call it just like that."

Sun Chang'e gave him a white look: "Write well, name it after your uncle or your second brother, your second brother's first child, he must think of a very good name, if only Brother Zeng was here, let him give it to you It sounds so good from a few names."

Liu Xia curled his lips: "Fart, they all said that my fifth brother and I are named Xiao Nier, Liu Gouwang even said a few days ago that he deliberately called me Xiao Xia Nier in front of many people. Xiaoxia girl, I just beat him, he is unreasonable, he found the school and wanted to beat me up."

Sun Chang'e and Mian's hands stopped: "Did she hit you?"

"No, someone called my brother. My brother and others went over to her and told her that if she dared to slap me, we would beat their children three times a day. Liu Gousheng cried in fright and held him back. Mom told her to go."

Knowing that her child was not bullied, Sun Chang'e went on to meet again: "You guys just learn to be hooligans, and you still want to fight in groups, don't you? Let your uncle know carefully and peel you a few miles."

I heard that the commune bought a TV, and there was a foreign movie on it. A group of people ran around killing people and setting fire to it. There was a man named "Chief" who used a throwing knife and made children in several villages near the commune They all like to fight in groups, and they all want to practice flying knives. Sun Chang'e and the others feel uneasy when they hear it in a remote place like Liujialing, fearing that their children will be missed by those hooligans one day.

Liu Hai didn't want to: "The tigress wants to beat our Yao'er, you can't watch me and let her beat her, if Yao'er hits something, my uncle still has to beat me a few times, say I Not a good brother."

Liu Xia rolled his eyes: "I'm going to study in a few days, and I'll fix Gousheng and Gouwang in no time at a place where no one is around. Honestly, let's see if they dare to go home and complain. Now, mother, tell me, what the hell is he thinking, giving them such ugly names."

Xiumei, who was holding the sole of her shoe to let Liu Rui breastfeed, took up the conversation: "You don't even know about this? It's easy to give birth to a cheap name. There are several families in my village who have babies. They are afraid that they will not be able to support them, so they all start up." Such names include Maoshaoer, Maotan, Goudaner, Gousheng, Gouliu, and there is another one called Maobudiaoer."

Liu Xia opened his eyes wide and asked, "What do you mean the cat doesn't have a baby?"

Xiumei explained: "If you don't even like cats, if you leave them there, even cats won't eat them with their mouths, and the little ghost of Hades will even dislike them, so they won't take him away."

Liu Xia blinked: "Really?"

Sun Chang'e laughed: "It's just a thought. I want my children to grow up safely. It is said that cats are the most blessed creatures and have nine lives. Therefore, people who don't even eat cats must have a lot of life."

Liu Xia asked: "Then why not just call it Cat?"

"Huh?" He Xiumei and Sun Chang'e didn't react at first, but when they figured out what Liu Xia said, they couldn't help laughing: "Who would name this child Cat?"

"Me!" Liu Xia opened his eyes wide and said solemnly: "Our baby is called a cat, you see he is so small, he looks like a mouse, so he deserves a big name, so he is called a cat," Liu Xia said. As he spoke, he threw himself on the kang, lay down next to the big mouse, poked his little face lightly with his fingers and called, "Cat, cat, uncle is calling you, promise me, cat, cat?"

Even Liu Hai, who was writing, couldn't laugh or cry, and stretched out his hand to drag Liu Xia down: "He was only born a day ago, and he will promise a fart, you can write quickly, if you can't finish three sheets, I can't spare you when you come back, I will call The fourth brother came over to eat roasted sweet potatoes."

After lunch, Liu Yu went to read those broken comic books under the blanket again. Anyway, she couldn't do anything this day, so she might as well sleep in to be warmer.

Liu Xia dipped the diluted ink and continued to write: "Mom, sister-in-law, Mao'er will be called Mao'er from now on, how nice it is."

Sun Chang'e put the steamed buns into the pot, and cursed with a smile: "Fart, at most, it's just a nickname. It's called a cat in our house. If you go to school and call it a cat, it won't make people laugh. You are so nice." The name is still disgusting, the child will see this name when he grows up?"

Liu Xia thought about it, and it made sense: "Then it's a nickname, I don't care, I think it sounds good to be called a cat, Mom, you can call it a little bit, and you will know how nice it is when you call it."

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Chang'e thought the nickname was pretty good, but she didn't want Liu Xia to be too proud, so she turned her head to Kang and called out, "Cat~, um, it just sounds weird."

Liu Xia was happy for a moment, but immediately thought of his name again, and he was a little depressed: "My name is not nice at all, people regard me as a little girl, when I grow up, I will change it myself. It's a nice name."

Xiumei said: "What do they know? Your name is the best. In the future, the commune will definitely perform movies. You can go and see "The Electric Wave That Never Dies" next time. The male lead in it is Li Xia, who is Sun Daolin plays you, a one-man hero, you are a hero."

Sun Chang'e put the lid on the pot, bent over to look at the sweet potatoes in the stove: "That's right, that's what your uncle Zeng told your uncle back then, oh, little turtle, write well, don't just talk too much."

Uncle Zeng’s name is Zeng Guangtong, and he lived in the Liu family for 11 years. Except for Liu Kui and the two girls, the names of the other boys in the Liu family were all given by him. He started.

One day in October 1967, Liu Changqing went to the commune for a meeting. When he was about to leave after the meeting, he heard a group of people making noise in the compound. He and a group of other brigade secretaries went to watch the commotion and found a large group of people wearing patched clothes like him People surrounded a man in his forties who was wearing a neat Chinese tunic suit and wearing glasses, and was complaining emotionally. At the man's feet was a bedroll and a few leather bags that only people in the city had.

Wangning’s brigade secretary said that the man’s name was Zeng Guangtong, a counter-revolutionary who came back from Kyoto. He seemed to be a painter. It's been many years, his father left the village a few years before liberation, and now Zeng Guangtong has made some mistakes and has been sent back to his hometown.

People from the Commune Revolutionary Committee let him live back in the old house, and the people of the Wangning Brigade were responsible for supervising his transformation. At that time, those people surnamed Zeng made a fuss and refused to let him live in the village. In the courtyard of the brick and tile building, people would come and make trouble every day, asking Zeng Guangtong to move out. Today, it seems that they just kicked people out.

Since a year ago, many confusing things have happened in the commune, and the secretaries of these brigades who are also peasants dare not say anything, so as not to make a wrong sentence and cause trouble for the upper body. After leaving, Liu Changqing wandered to the gate to find a place to sit.

Those from the Zeng family are all from the poorest, older women and the elderly. They know that they may not be able to get up at any time due to their status as poor peasants and their age. To drive out counter-revolutionaries, you can't say that they are at fault wherever they go, so they let go of the old and pretending to be crazy and stupid.

Liu Changqing watched at the gate for more than an hour. Seeing that the fire was almost ready, he walked over and pulled Sun Zhiyong aside and said, "Director Sun, isn't he just a counter-revolutionary that no one dares to touch? Let's see what you can do. Let's do it. Don't make trouble, this counter-revolutionary can be handed over to our brigade, where the mountains are high and the roads are far away, there are miles of work for him to do, with his body, he can't even open his mouth to eat. , let alone run away, I will help you watch him reform through labor."

Sun Zhiyong was in a state of desperation to deal with these old peasants who usually bowed their heads but didn't look up, and their homes were at the gate of the commune. He couldn't help it. When Liu Changqing said this, he couldn't help but be grateful. In addition, he usually had a good impression of Liu Changqing, and he held Liu Changqing's hand. Shaking again and again: "Changqing, you have done me a great favor today, don't worry, every year from now on your brigade will be the first to distribute the relief food, if you need anything from now on, just ask me, I will take care of it."

From then on, Zeng Guangtong lived in the cave dwelling of Liu Changqing's family.

In the first summer after Zeng Guangtong arrived in Liujialing, a group of people marched into Liujialing in a mighty manner. Liu Changqing led a group of young people from his own village and stopped them with hoes and shovels.

The leading revolutionary general was in his early twenties, and his grass-green military uniform was soaked through. He bravely stood up and pointed at Liu Changqing and ordered: "On behalf of the Wangning Commune Rebellion Command, I order you to hand over the counter-revolutionary Zeng Guangtong to me."

Liu Changqing asked unhurriedly, "Why hand it over?"

The young revolutionary was impassioned: "Let him go to the commune to accept criticism from the broad masses of the people."

Liu Changqing was lukewarm: "Why criticize."

The revolutionary young general was a little dazed: "...? That, that, kneeling on the stage and criticizing with a high hat."

Liu Changqing was furious: "You shitty reactionary, I have so many people supervising the counter-revolutionary and working under the sun at the same time, but you want him to rest comfortably on the table and To cover him with a hat, tell me, what kind of awareness do you have, and what do you want to do? Are you rebelling for Chairman Mao or for counter-revolutionaries?"

The young revolutionary general couldn't react for a while, and pointed at Liu Changqing angrily for a long time: "You, you, you are talking nonsense, I am Chairman Mao, a young revolutionary general, a Red Guard..."

Liu Changqing thrust the shovel into the ground, and kicked the young revolutionary general in the stomach: "Fart, you are that bastard Liu Shuanjin, right? What's your name? Liu Nuo? Yes, you are Liu Nuo, you dog You son of a bitch, dare to run wild on my land, make excuses for the counter-revolutionaries not to work, see if I don't kill you, a little counter-revolutionary, Liu Shuan is a wimp, he can't even manage his son well, I will replace him today Discipline discipline you..."

Wangning is a remote place, and there are only a group of active rebels. The whole commune knows that Liu Changqing often goes to Wangning for meetings, and he has heard of Liu Nuo's notoriety for a long time.

Liu Changqing picked up the shovel, and the young revolutionary generals didn't understand how their majestic Red Guard rebels became counter-revolutionaries after a few words. He opened his legs and ran, and a group of people from Liujialing chased after him with hoes. The speed of the young generals was comparable to that of hares in the mountains, and soon disappeared without a trace. ,

For the next 11 years, Zeng Guangtong lived in the Liu family and worked in the fields with the people in Liujialing. He taught the children of the Liu family how to read and count when it rained or other weather that was not suitable for working in the fields. As long as you grasp it, it will come out.

He circled the back of Liu Chuan and Liu Ling's homework with a pencil, and the birds seemed to fly out of the paper, and the flower buds seemed to be blooming with dewdrops;

When Liu Chuan and Liu Ling draw a random flower and plant, he can write a few lines of short poems on the side.

When Zeng Guangtong came to his house, Liu Ling was just one year old, and the third grandpa pinched him, saying that his five elements were short of water, and his lifeline was weak. Liu Changqing wanted to give the child a good name to find a way to make up for it, but he thought a lot. A bunch of names didn't feel right, so I just called him "baby baby" every day. Later, thinking that Zeng Guangtong was a learned man, I asked him to help me choose a name.

In fact, everyone who knew Liu Changqing regarded him as a man of culture. Only Liu Changqing felt that the words on the inscriptions he learned because he wanted to carve stone tablets and seals could not be regarded as real knowledge.

Zeng Guangtong said: "Ling, ling of ice, water becomes ling when it is extremely cold, ling turns into water when it meets heat, they are all one thing, hard will not allow gold and stone, soft will not be inferior to spring breeze, it is born in accordance with the time, changes with the time, thousands of years. Things that change in the same way without changing their essence, such things seem to be soft and weak, but they are actually tenacious and unyielding.”

Liu Changqing and his wife were very satisfied with Liu Ling's name, so they asked him to rename their second son Liu Bao. Come up with a word that can complete both of these things.

Zeng Guangtong said: "Chuanba, Chuan, the five elements are gold, which means auspiciousness. The water comes from other waters, and the ditch flows into the big water and the sea. It is called Chuan Shui. Geographically speaking, the land between two mountains is called Sichuan. It is a place where water and grass are abundant and the land is fertile, where people can be nourished.”

Liu Hai is short of water in the five elements, Zeng Guangtong is very straightforward: "Liu Hai, we will no longer be short of water. Boys must have a mind that embraces all rivers. In the future, the country... will return to normal. Let the children travel all over the world and see See the beauty of the world."

No one expected that Liu Hai's future life could really be said to be all over the world.

Liu Xia's horoscope was calculated by Zeng Guangtong: "This child has everything in gold, wood, water, fire, and earth. Since he is born with perfect five elements, let's pray that the child will be a free and happy person." Xia: Congren, upright and kind, righteous and fearless , Martial arts masters, you can be said to be a hero who never grows old in the rivers and lakes, and the sky is like a rainbow, this should be your last child, let him be like the ranger who walked the sky with the sword in ancient times, live willfully, regardless of the world, Live happily ever after!"

Zeng Guangtong left after the Chinese New Year in 78. Half a year later, he sent Liu Changqing the first letter, telling them that he was back at his home in Kyoto, that he was idle and that his days were going well. They don't have to worry, they will write letters every now and then.

When young Liu Chang was an apprentice, he was smart, down-to-earth and diligent. After a few years, he was forced by his master to master official script and running script. He could not only carve stone tablets and chapters, but also read a lot of books. The People's Liberation Army went to the Korean battlefield again, because of its culture, it has gained a lot of glory, and his good handwriting is even more popular. Now the red slogan in the most conspicuous place of the commune compound reads "Learn from Dazhai in agriculture and learn from Daqing in industry ", "Long Live Chairman Mao" and "Study hard and make progress every day" at the gate of Wangning School, "Exercising to defend the motherland" were all written by the propaganda officer when he went to the commune for a meeting.

The children in the family have been ordered to write with a brush every day since they knew how to hold a brush. The posts he made were all when he came back from Kaesong for the New Year when he was a child. Posts, "Xiyue Huashan Temple Monument", "Cao Quan Monument", "Xiping Stone Classic", Jian Ji Zhi Biao, "Xuan Shi Biao", "Quick Snow and Sunny Post", "Huang Ting Jing", "Buddhist Sutras" , "Stele of Cao E"... etc., these are the things that every child should start to copy from the age of five; after the age of ten, they start to copy Wang Xizhi's running script "Thousand Characters", "The Sanzang of the Tang Dynasty", "Orchid Pavilion Preface" Wait, every day three newspapers have to be written on both sides.

Every time Liu Changqing went to the commune for a meeting, he had to collect newspapers. Anyway, there would be a lot of them at that time. Newspapers only last one day, and no one cares about them when they expire, because newspapers often have photos of great leaders and other heroes. I dare not sell it for fear of being caught by someone with a heart, but storage is also a problem. There are mice everywhere. If it is not in the right place, it may cause disaster. Therefore, people in various offices of the commune are very happy to treat these ancestors as difficult to serve The newspaper was given to Liu Changqing.

Liu Changqing is not afraid of getting into trouble. In Liujialing, except for the work team who came here a few times when it was first liberated, a young Red Guard general came here in so many years. Usually, no one would come if you invited him. The people in the village couldn’t eat enough. It’s not warm, no one cares who those people are in the newspapers, and no one will travel dozens of miles of mountain roads to expose Liu Changqing’s letting children use newspapers to write. What they do most is to borrow a few to paste windows or wipe their buttocks.

The newspapers that Liu Changqing took home can be said to have been used to the fullest, and they have overfulfilled their great mission. Each newspaper has been used many times, and it will be thrown away only when it is hard and deformed.

Liu Changqing would also ask those people in the commune for some ink and writing brushes. At that time, these two things were the most indispensable. They were needed for writing big-character posters, letters of determination, and slogans. Anyway, the government paid for them, and Liu Changqing helped them. It was an unspeakable trouble to solve, and they were happy to give him a favor.

When Liu Changqing got home, he diluted the ink and let the children use it for practice. They usually use diluted water with just a little black trace. For the exam once a week, they use real ink, and they will be beaten if they don't write well.

The children of Liu Changqing's family were all circled in red by the teacher in the large-character textbooks at school, but everyone at home was beaten for writing, but after a long time, the fun came. The brothers often competed by themselves to see who wrote it. Even better, as time went by, all the children in the Liu family could write well.

It's just that it's really useless these days.

Zeng Guangtong once said that Liu Changqing was born in the wrong place, or he must be a talent.

But Liu Changqing himself never thought of it that way, people say what they say, and if they have time to think about what they have and what they don't, it's better to set up a rabbit for the children to eat.

Later, Zeng Guangtong named Liu Changqing's grandsons "Wei" and "Rui". The plants were lush and prosperous, and he hoped that Liu Changqing's family would be like trees in the mountains, and their descendants would prosper.

The sweet sweet smell of sweet potatoes came out. Sun Chang'e pushed aside the charcoal and pulled a few roasted soft sweet potatoes into an enamel basin. Liu Wei stretched out her hand to grab it, but Xiumei screamed in fright: "No! If you dare to scratch, your claws will be burned."

When she yelled, Liu Rui, who was sleeping with milk, also woke up, clamoring to go down to find grandma, Liu Xia carried him off the kang, went to get a good-looking sweet potato, and kept turning it back and forth with both hands. burn hands.

Liu Hai and Liu Yu also came over, and the whole family ate a hot sweet potato. Liu Xia secretly squeezed the softest part of the sweet potato and brought it to the cat's mouth. Xiumei grabbed his back collar and pulled it up: "Mom, look at this silly boy, Yao'er, he secretly feeds sweet potatoes to the cat."

Sun Chang'e came over and slapped Liu Xia on the back of the head: "You two hundred and five, you want to choke the child to death."

Liu Xia wiped the sweet potato into his mouth and twisted his neck dissatisfied: "It's so soft, the cat will definitely eat it."

Sun Chang'e stretched out her hand to give him another slap, but she heard a thud outside as if someone had fallen, the room fell silent, and then, except for the three youngest, they all stood up and ran outside.

Covered in mud, Liu Fulai sat by the stove exhausted, and brought a shocking news: Zhai Yulan was gone.

Liu Yu sat paralyzed on the ground with tears all over her face and her mouth opened wide, but she couldn't cry out.

Xiumei cried and patted his back: "Xiaoyu, baby, you cry, cry, baby... Woo... Mom, what's the matter? What's wrong with this... Aunt..."

Sun Chang'e's face was full of tears, and she hugged Liu Wei and Liu Rui who were crying like a fool.

Liu Hai and Liu Xia cried and squatted beside Liu Yu: "Fourth Brother, Fourth Brother, what's wrong with you..."

The snow was too thick, and Di Yulan slipped and fell at the bend of the big slope in Shangyao. She and Liu Lingla couldn't keep the shelf car, so they also rushed down, taking Liu Ling out.

Liu Changqing, who had just been replaced by Liu Mao and was going to go to the commune to find a jeep, only had time to grab Liu Ling's ankle in a hurry, and when he slid halfway up the hill, he desperately grabbed a wild jujube tree with one hand. Di Yulan fell into a ravine more than 30 meters deep like that.

Now, Xu Xiaohong is being rescued at the county hospital, but the doctor said that she is not sure of resuscitating her;

Liu Changqing lost a layer of skin on the palm of his left hand, and more than a dozen needles were pierced into it. His head was injured, but there was no major problem;

Liu Ling got three needles on her head, and had a lot of bumps on her body, but her life was not in danger.

However, Zhai Yulan was directly knocked down the hillside by a truck that fell from behind her, and her neck was broken. After a day and a night of rescue work, she was already gone early this morning.

Three days later, the third grandfather gave up his coffin.

Sun Chang'e and several Liu family men who came to help built three stoves in the yard of Liu Changchun's house, preparing for the funeral.

Liu Fulai took two people to Wangning Supply and Marketing Cooperative to buy white cloth and other things for funerals, and sent a letter to Liu Chuan with them. In fact, they didn't have much money with them, and they couldn't buy a few rice cloths. Take care, afraid that something will happen again.

Liu Xia was sitting under the quilt, beside Mao'er, Liu Wei, and Liu Rui.

The two children also seemed to understand that the family had encountered a great misfortune, and it was rare to be quiet. Liu Wei read the comics obediently, and Liu Rui gnawed on her thumb for a while before falling asleep.

Sun Chang'e led an old man in and closed the door.

"Uncle Six, I know it's embarrassing to say something, but I really can't help it, Uncle Six, Changqing has taken all the Qianqianerhei at home, and I'm going to tear up the cloth shirts and buy paper ties today. All money is borrowed.

Fulai, it took a lot to rescue Yulan, and Xiaohong lost a lot of blood, and the money is definitely not enough... I know my grandfather is old, you have to keep some money in your hand, Uncle Six, I really don’t care Do you know where to find money..."

Sun Chang'e burst into tears as she spoke. She had never had a good life, but she never thought that she would be so helpless these two days. Liu Changqing is an upright man. After she gets married, she only needs to take care of her family and children. Money matters have never been difficult.

Uncle Six sighed, took out a small black and blue cloth bag from his arms tremblingly, and unwrapped it layer by layer: "It's not that Uncle Six doesn't help you at Changqing's house, you know that your grandfather's illness , can't stop taking medicine all year round, he still wants to come and see you today, I won't let him.

I have been worrying about raising him because of his hey disease. I will not let the sheep at home eat milk after ten days. I still serve the ewe every day, just to let him drink A bowl of goat's milk, goat's milk is hot in nature, it feeds his disease, if it wasn't for the goat's milk, he would have been unable to sleep every night, and he couldn't even catch his breath. "

Sun Chang'e wiped her tears and nodded repeatedly: "I know, Uncle Six, I know you are in trouble."

Uncle Six handed her a handful of money: "Just a little bit, I remember it was 15 yuan."

"Hey, that's enough, Uncle Six, that's enough."

Uncle Six saw Liu Xia sitting on the kang and the little bundle next to him, walked over and leaned over to pull back the quilt: "This is Liu Maoli's boy? Why are you so thin?"

Sun Chang'e explained: "Liu Mao's daughter-in-law had a big reaction, and she couldn't eat much until she gave birth. She was already thin. When the fifth sister-in-law saw her earlier, she said that she was thin and had a narrow pelvis. She was afraid that giving birth would not be easy. After all It hits the spot, alas, I only hope that Xiaohong can survive, otherwise, what will happen to the child!"

Sun Chang'e's expectations, or the expectations of Liu Changqing and Liu Changchun's family, came to nothing. Xu Xiaohong passed away forever in the early morning of the fifth day after giving birth.

Cat didn't have a full moon like other children, and no one remembered that he had a full moon.

Liu Mao has been lying in the cave dwelling of the two since Xu Xiaohong was buried, without eating or drinking for a few days. Liu Kui and Liu Chuan, who hurried back from the army, have been staying with his house. Liu Mao has never left the house, nor has he glanced at it. own son.

Liu Changchun suddenly seemed to be 20 years old, his hair was almost gray in a few days, and he didn't say a word for more than 20 days.

Liu Yu cried hoarsely, and ran to lie on his mother's grave in the middle of the night. Liu Kui, Liu Chuan and Liu Hai searched for it in the middle of the night, and when they got home, they were too cold to speak.

Liu Changchun's eldest daughter, Liu Yunzhi, stayed at her mother's house for a week. Her husband's family lived in another commune not far from the county seat, more than 50 miles away from Liujialing.

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Daughter Liu Yuzhi is five months pregnant and stays at her natal home with her husband. She cooks for several men with her aunt Sun Chang'e every day. Whenever her mother is mentioned, she can't stop crying. Sun Chang'e and Xiumei accompany her every day. she weeps.

On the second day of the cat's full moon, Chang'e Sun got up in the morning and boiled two eggs for Liu Xia to learn.

Liu Xia didn't know what was going on: after the funeral for the second aunt and second sister-in-law, the dozens of wax rabbits hanging in front of the cave at home disappeared mysteriously as in previous years, and the eggs at home were never eaten again. There are no vegetables, and the daily meal is just a little pickled radish. When he suddenly saw two eggs, Liu Xia was a little overwhelmed.

"You have a baby today. You are 11 years old. Let's grow up quickly." Chang'e Sun touched the head of her youngest son, her eyes were full of helplessness and distress. The sisters-in-law who met every day suddenly disappeared. The beautiful and virtuous nephew The daughter-in-law also left, and she suddenly felt that life is so boring.

Liu Xia took the hot egg and stuffed it into the pocket of the cotton-padded jacket, looked at the cat sleeping in the bed, and took out another one: "Mom, grind the egg yolk into rice oil and feed it to the cat, it's sure won't choke him."

Sun Chang'e hesitated for a moment, but reached out to catch the egg.

Liu Kui now sends a few younger brothers to school every day. After passing the steep slope of Shangyao, he watched his younger brothers walk another section before turning back.

When Liu Xia came back from school in the afternoon, it was not completely dark yet, so he dropped his schoolbag and ran away with the cans in his arms.

There are several slopes between the third grandpa’s house and theirs, and they can be seen from a distance. It takes at least 20 minutes to walk there. Liu Xiagang and his brothers ran for [-] miles on the mountain road, sweating all over, but he didn’t feel that Tired, jumping up and down is very joyous, there is still thick snow in the ditch and the place where the sun is behind, but the place where I often walk has been completely dried out.

He ran into the third grandpa's house and yelled loudly into the cave: "Grandfather, sixth master, I'm here to milk the goat!" Then, without waiting for a response from inside, he went to the sheepfold with familiarity and took the canned food The lid of the bottle was carefully placed on the stone at the door, and the goat was pulled to the clean side, squatting down, holding the goat's milk with both hands, and began to milk the goat.

The canning bottle is a light blue glass bottle, and you can clearly see the goat milk entering in a thin line, and then more and more, Liu Xia counted: "...Twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, Thirty, good."

When he was about to stand up, the trembling old man behind said: "Squeeze more, the cat is full moon, it should eat more."

Liu Xia hesitated: "Master."

The old man nodded at the sheep: "From now on, squeeze five more times each time. Grandpa is old and can't drink as much. The goat's milk smells bad, and no one wants to drink it."

Liu Xia smiled and agreed: "Oh, I got it, but, grandpa, my mother said you are not old, you will be the first birthday person in our village to live to be a hundred years old, my mother said that good people will live long."

The old man smiled and walked slowly back to the cave.

On the way back, Liu Xia walked very honestly. The mouth of the can was too big, and it would spill if he walked too fast, but he was reluctant to spill it.

He came up with this idea when he heard the sixth grandpa say that the third grandpa drank goat milk every day to prevent his illness. When the family members came back with the bodies of Di Yulan and Xu Xiaohong, he found the canning bottle and went alone. The third grandpa's house, the third grandpa watched from the side, asked the eldest grandson to teach Liu Xia to milk, and told him that he could come every day to squeeze half a bottle back, and since that day, Liu Xia has never been free for a day.

The winter night in the mountains is unusually quiet, the sky is high and far away, the moon is already more than half round, and the undulating mountains and rivers in the distance and near are very clear. It seems more peaceful and vast.

Liu Xia tightly protected the canning bottle in his arms with his left hand, rubbed his frozen face and ears with his right hand, and walked carefully on the mountain road.

When he got home, the whole family had already started eating. Although their cave dwelling was the most spacious in the whole brigade, but now there were so many people in the house, it seemed very crowded. Liu Xia is now sleeping in his parents' cave dwelling with the cat. inside.

Dinner is corn grits and sweet potato porridge, steamed buns mixed with corn and wheat, and half a small bowl of dried radish.

After Liu Xia ate a bowl of porridge and two steamed buns, he ran to the stove and looked at the bowl of goat's milk in the water in the big iron pot.

Zhang Changxi told him this method.

Zhang Changxi's youngest aunt went to Sandaohe Commune in her neighbor when she was seven or eight years old. Last year, she was admitted to the Yuancheng Health School. She has since become a city dweller who eats commodity food. She said that there are things on people's hands, bodies, and surroundings There are many dirty bacteria that are invisible to the human eye. If you eat them, you will get sick and have a stomachache. Wash your hands before eating. The bowls and chopsticks you eat have to be boiled in boiling water every day. Cook for a while, half an hour. Especially the bowls containing milk and goat milk are more likely to be stained with bacteria, so many people will have diarrhea after drinking milk.

Liu Xia specially asked Zhang Changxi to write a letter to ask his aunt what to do. His aunt asked the teacher of the health school, and said that the milk should be boiled before drinking, and boiled for about 5 minutes. The baby's milk bottle should be boiled every time. One click, and you'll be fine.

Now, the cat's daily dinner is goat's milk, and millet oil at other times.

The goat milk rolled, and Liu Xia looked at the horseshoe watch in his arms. After five minutes, he turned his head, and Liu Kui came over and took out the bowl of boiling milk and put it in the cold water of the washbasin to freeze.

After a while, Liu Xia took out the bowl and wiped it dry, and slapped it with his face, um, he didn't get burned anymore, and called his mother: "Mom, I got hit, shall I feed the cat?"

The house collapsed a few days ago, the adults didn’t care about the cat, it was Liu Xia who greeted him, now Liu Xia can hold the cat very skillfully and use a spoon to feed milk and rice oil, and he even secretly fed the cat A little sweet potato, washed down with milk, did not choke.

Chang'e Sun picked up the cat and said, "Hurry up and do your homework and write big characters. When you're done, hug him. I'll go with your uncle to see your second brother and your uncle."

Liu Xia went over and spread out a newspaper on the kang, pouted angrily and replied: "Oh."