On the sixth day of the Chinese New Year, Ms. Guo of the Blue Sky Rescue Team found a large flower jacket while maintaining the road. Looking closer, it turned out to be a little boy with frozen lips and bruises.
I can't help but think of that winter before the pandemic. I went to school that morning as usual, and as I passed the village next door, a large group of people stood in front of the culvert in the village, not knowing what they were doing. Because I was in a hurry and didn't pay attention.
When I came home in the afternoon, I listened to the neighbors say: At five or six o'clock in the morning today, a big lady who got up early went out and heard movement in the culvert, so she walked over to see. There was still fog in the winter morning, and the line of sight was not clear at all, and the big lady took a few steps to kick a soft thing. Then there was a faint cry on the ground. Looking down, it was a newborn child with an umbilical cord. There was only a little toilet paper under his body, nothing else. Startled, the woman quickly took off her cotton jacket, wrapped up the child, and brought it home.
Later, a few days later, I went to the barbershop and listened to the barber brother of the village say that the big lady had brought it back and judged that she should have just been born, and it was very likely that she was a young unmarried mother. He called his family up to see if he could find the mother nearby. The family turned around and didn't find it. He told the village cadres and reported to the police. I was also taken to the hospital for a check-up. Originally, it was to be sent to the welfare agency, but the family's son and daughter-in-law had been married for several years, had no children, and were ready to do test tubes. The eldest bride asked her son and daughter-in-law about their wishes and asked them if they would like the child. The little two were reluctant, but the eldest lady and the eldest uncle felt that they could raise it. The daughter-in-law's mother also advised them to raise them, saying that it was fate.
As a result, the village was closed on the third day.
Later, I heard that the family had registered the child. It so happens that this big bride's mother's family is my own village, according to the generation, I have to call her an aunt, and this summer I still saw this aunt and her daughter-in-law with a big belly leading this little girl who is more than two years old back to her mother's house. The little girl has white skin and double eyelids, which is very beautiful and well-behaved, similar to her pregnant adoptive mother.
Everyone in the village said: They should be a family.
May this little boy be like that little girl: healthy, happy!
