Text: Li Dongping
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My parents are now seventy and eighty years old, and I went to see them every ten days and a half, and when they met, the old mother would be half angry and half strange and said, "You are old, your wings are hard, and you have left your father and mother." It's really a little Maga, with a long tail, and married a daughter-in-law who forgot her mother. If I had known that you were like this, it would have been better to give you away that year."
At this time, my father, who was originally forgetful, would stretch out his old hand of pine bark and grab me at once, as if someone would snatch it away.
Looking at my father, who was already in a state of age, I remembered some of my old memories with my little sister.
I am the fifth in the family, with four older sisters in the front, and a younger sister and a younger brother below.
One year, the family really couldn't open the pot, and the father and mother looked at a bunch of children and really wanted to hang themselves.
At this time, the neighbor's grandmother quietly came to discuss with her mother, she said: "My family has a relative in the city, gave birth to a few children, and now I still want a girl." Nowadays, family planning is strict and no children are allowed, so I have been asked to help see if I can get a girl in the countryside. ”
The grandmother next door also said to my mother: "If you want, you can give a little girl to my relative, and in the future, the child will be in the city, and life will be much better!" ”
When the honest father heard that he was going to give away his child, he jumped up from the broken bench and hurriedly said: "Blind and fallen, that is not OKAY, if the neighbors know it, they will not be laughed at to death!" ”
The second grandmother smiled and said, "Such a bunch of children can't be raised well, and giving them to other people's families may be able to enjoy happiness!"!
I was four or five years old at the time, and when I heard that I could eat and dress well in the city, I said, "I'll go, I'll go."
Maybe the second grandmother is too thin, and she is optimistic about the handsome appearance of the two-year-old little sister, so she had to skim her lips and leave. Later, I still heard others say that I had many children in my family, and there were other people to match, and my mother had the idea of giving someone, but my father resolutely disagreed, and finally left us.
For that, I cried for a while.
For another year, there was a neighbor not far from my grandmother's house who had not had children for many years, and they were both fools and could not take care of themselves. But the ancestors of the family were landlords, and the family had grain, and one of their sisters came up with the idea of raising a child for his brother, and after a hundred years, someone would be able to retire to the end.
The sister of the foolish couple may promise that as long as they give them one, the parents of the child will get a hundred pounds of Chen wheat. This time, Daddy's head shook like a rattle, and he didn't agree.
But after that, when we disobeyed again, my mother frightened us with this matter, saying, Whoever commits another crime will give you to the foolish couple on the village of your grandmother, which frightens me and my little sister to change their faces and dare not come out.
At that time, our children were late in understanding, and at the age of seven or eight, we believed what others said. The second eldest bride, who loved to joke, said to me that I had picked it up by my mother, and my biological parents had a pair of small mouths who wanted food, and I actually believed it.
Because my mother treated us too harshly, there was good food, all left to my brother, if I did something wrong, I would be beaten to death.
At that time, I hoped that my own father and mother would come to me and get me out of the sea of suffering.
Now think about how ridiculous it is, my parents have so many children in their families, they can't afford to raise them, they are almost given to others, where there is still the ability to adopt other people's children.
At that time, it was difficult for me to understand why my parents, who were so poor at home, kept having children, and they couldn't afford to raise them. However, where do I know that in the countryside at that time, everyone was wrapped up in such a thought -- no filial piety has three, and no queen is greater. And sooner or later, daughters will have to marry out, and sooner or later they will all be people.
My little sister, who was very dependent on her father in her childhood, also liked this youngest and cutest girl, and she often rode on her father's back. The mother often said that if it were not for your father, the little sister might have really sent someone.
Nowadays, as soon as her father is a little ill, the little sister is busy, especially filial piety, and really does not deserve her father to hurt her.
Now that the parents are old, they also show the benefits of having more children, and there are always children who come to visit at home. They may have forgotten the history of giving away children in difficult times. I often joked, why don't you give me away at that time, in that case, I may really become a city person.
The mother said that dogs born of dogs hurt, cats born of cats hurt, and of course they hurt themselves. You are not kittens and puppies, and you say that you will give people away.
Seriously, in our village, there were several families who gave their children to others. I am very grateful to my parents, who would rather endure poverty than still raise us with hard work, so that my sister and I have the opportunity to live in this big loving family.