When I was a child, our family had a hard time, and my father wanted a son very much, so we had a total of five children in our family, and only the youngest was a boy.
This story is purely fictional, please treat it rationally
The poorer we are, the more children we have, it leads to the poor living conditions of our family, often we eat the last meal without the next meal, when we were children, the clothes we wore were "inheritance", my sister wore it, I wore it after my sister wore it, my sister wore it after my sister wore it, and my sister wore it after my little sister wore it.
Of course, my brother certainly doesn't wear the clothes we wear, he's always clean.
Dad liked his little brother Glory the most, but he died the year after his brother was born.
When Dad was still there, he would often run out to play mahjong, and as long as he lost money, he would come back to make Mom angry, and we girls would be scared by Dad's fierce appearance every time.
When my sister sees her mother being beaten, she will often be the first to rush up to protect her mother, and my father will shift the target and whip my sister on the back with a belt.
"Little rabbit cub, you still learn to rebel, I beat your mother, and you come to protect you, then I will fight you together." ”
Seeing that my sister was beaten, I would also rush forward, hoping that my thin body could help my sister and mother block some of the damage.
Dad scolded and waved in his hand, "You hen who doesn't lay eggs, for so many years, you haven't given birth to a son for me, the people in the village are pointing at my backbone and scolding, so many girls I want to give away and you refuse, keeping it will only waste the family's money!"
Dad was relieved, so he threw his belt and clothes into the ground, and ran back to the house with his rice bowl to enjoy.
"Zhaodi, Pandi, are you two okay?
"Wow, wow~" Before my sister and I could speak, the two younger sisters on the side began to cry, obviously frightened by their father's appearance just now.
"Don't cry! Your father is upset when you cry! You have cried all the blessings in the family!" Dad let out a roar of anger from the room, and Mom and Sister hurriedly covered their mouths.
"Mom, we don't hurt, do you hurt. I hugged my mother with tears in my eyes.
"As long as you're okay, Mom is fine. ”
Later, when my mother became pregnant, people in the village said that my mother's belly must be a boy.
Knowing that his mother was pregnant with a boy, his father was honest for a while, and he no longer did anything to his mother, but went to do some odd jobs to make money, and bought meat for his mother to make up for his body.
"My eldest son~ The eldest son of my old Zhao family, come quickly, when you are born, your father will give you all the delicious food. "Dad always touched Mom's belly and said to himself.
Later, his mother really gave birth to a younger brother, and his father named him Zhao Rongguang.
After having a younger brother, my father worked harder, and he wanted to make money to buy a big house for my younger brother, but his attitude towards his mother was still the same as before.
My mother has not been in good health for many years, especially after giving birth to her younger brother, it is difficult for her to get out of bed every time, and the range of movement is only a small part from the house to the kitchen.
Mom was weak, so we took the initiative to take over the work of taking care of my younger brother, who was babbling and waving his hands in swaddling clothes, and we looked at how much we liked it.
When my younger brother was born, my eldest sister was only 12 years old, and it was inevitable that I would not notice anything about taking care of my younger brother.
"Second sister, I put my brother on the sofa, you look at it, I'll go to the toilet. ”
My sister put her brother in her arms on the sofa and turned to me.
"Okay!" I was playing a game with my two younger sisters in the yard when I heard my sister's voice and hurried to the house.
My sister was so anxious that she had already come out before I could get to the house, "Sister, why are you in such a hurry." I joked to her, but she didn't have time to pay attention to me and ran to the bathroom.
As soon as my left leg crossed the threshold of the hall, I heard a cry, and I hurried to speed up my pace, and found that my brother had fallen off the sofa!
Mom heard the cry and hurriedly got up and came out of the house, the two of us looked at each other, did not react for a while, and after a second of reaction, Mom quickly picked up my brother.
Maybe my sister was too anxious to stabilize just now, or maybe my younger brother was moving by himself, his whole body fell to the ground, and the corners of his eyes hit the corners of the short bench.
My brother's delicate skin opened a small opening, and blood beads seeped out of it, and my mother hugged my brother for a while to comfort me, and I hurriedly ran to pull some tissues to wipe off the blood stains for my brother.
In the countryside at that time, almost all the toilet paper used at home was dry and coarse, and when I wiped it with a paper towel, my brother cried even louder.
My sister also heard a cry when she came out of the toilet, "What's the drop?", knowing that her brother broke the corner of her eye, she also began to panic.
"It's over, it's over, it's going to be told to my father, I'm going to be beaten to death. My sister was so anxious that a thin layer of sweat broke out on her head.
"I'm back!Where have they gone?" I'm really afraid of what, as soon as my sister finished speaking, I heard my father's voice, and now my brother's eyes are still oozing blood.
"What are you all doing here? Oh, my eldest son, let Daddy hug me. In the blink of an eye, Dad was out into the courtyard, and the door was not closed, so he could clearly see a group of us gathered around the hall.
He strode over and picked up his brother from his mother's hand, and put his greasy face on his brother's face, and the brother who had just been coaxed by his mother began to cry again.
"Oh, why are you crying, Glory" Dad turned his face away and stared at his brother's little face.
"What's going on, what's the bleeding, who did it?" My dad was furious when he saw the red in the corner of his brother's eye.
He walked around, and saw that several of us were hanging our heads and did not dare to speak, "Who did it?"
He yelled, my brain jerked, and I blurted out, "It's me!" I wanted to hug my brother, but I didn't pay attention, and he fell down......
The heavy slap slapped me in the face, and after a sharp pain, the left side of my face became numb.
It was just a moment of silence, and soon, countless voices burst out around me, the sound of my younger brothers and sisters crying, the voice of my mother begging for mercy, and the voice of my sister helping me defend myself.
But soon the sounds faded to my ears, as if everything had been put into a glass enclosure that was not too big or small, and then completely cut off.
There was no sound in my left ear.
My mother used her thin body to take me into her arms, and pleaded for me in a hoarse voice, and she became a low, dilapidated temple, sheltering me from the wind and rain.
"Looking for a beating, aren't you?" he grabbed my mom by the hair, slammed her to the ground, and slammed her face into the ground, and my mom was beaten and curled up on the ground.
The men's cursing, the women's screams, the children's cries cease as the abuser is exhausted.
In the middle of the night, the snoring of men and the sobbing of women were mixed, and my mother gave me medicine with red eyes, and then went outside the house to clean up the mess, we were huddled in the small bed, and she hugged us tightly.
Mom told us about her teenage years.
"Once upon a time, your father was not like this, when she was young, she was very good to me, he would save money to buy me beautiful jewelry, he would be afraid that my feet would hurt and I would go to the market, and he would buy me beautiful clothes. ”
I reached out and tugged at the crumpled rags on her body, "Mom, you're lying. ”
She turned her back and ignored me, burying her head in the covers and grunting, slowly beginning to remember.
When my mother was young, she was the most favored youngest daughter in the family.
My mother has an older brother and two older sisters, and although the family is not very rich, she has never treated them badly, and most importantly, grandpa has never been patriarchal.
On the contrary, the grandmother who teaches and educates people has always taught his uncle to be good to his sisters, and his uncle also listens to his grandmother's words.
My mother was very beautiful when she was young, and the neighbors liked her very much, "Lao Zhou, your daughter is so beautiful, she will be blessed after seeing it, and you will be blessed when the time comes." ”
"As long as she is safe, it doesn't matter if she enjoys happiness or not. ”
"Then why don't you look at our kid, the two of us are about the same age, and we can be regarded as kissing each other. ”
"Hey, what kind of thing she wants to find in the future, she has to decide herself, we can't give her a random decision. ”
Grandma sent people away with a joke.
Later, when my mother grew up, I went to the town with my second aunt to play and met my father.
She and her second aunt made an appointment to go separately and wait until the sun was about to set at the market entrance, and it was because of this decision that my mother began the second half of her painful life.
She wandered around the bazaar, ready to buy something to take home, and after a while, she saw a delicate hairpin, tried to take the purse from her pocket, but when she touched it, it was empty.
"Before going out in the morning, my mother gave me two yuan, and I deliberately put it in my bag, why didn't I have it?"
She quickly realized that she had lost her purse, and the anxiety instantly flooded her body, and she hurried back, wondering if she had just fallen on the road.
She walked from the east end of the bazaar to the west end, and then from the south end to the north end, but she did not see her pink purse, and she was in a hurry, and heard as if someone was calling her.
"Girl, are you looking for something?"
She turned around, and the man in front of her was sitting on the stone pier with a big grin, with a straw hanging from his mouth, and he was only wearing a sweatshirt in the weather in April.
"Yes, I'm looking for my wallet. ”
"What does it look like?"
"Pink, embroidered with a peony flower on it. ”
"Is that it?" he pulled a splash of pink out of his pocket and threw it straight at her.
She didn't react for a while, she couldn't catch it steadily, her wallet fell to the ground, she picked it up in distress, patted the dust, "Yes, that's it! It's my wallet, thank you." ”
"It's useless to thank me, you have to remember me, my name is Zhao Shiping, I live in Zhaojia Village, what is your name?"
Zhao Shiping jumped down from the stone pier and jumped in front of his mother, he was not very tall, only about half a head more than his mother.
"My name is Zhou Shunfang and I live in Xishang Village. "Good girls always have an inexplicable admiration for those bad boys, and my mother is naturally no exception, she has a good impression of the person in front of her.
In this way, the two met and exchanged names and addresses with each other.
After that time, Zhao Shiping would always go to her, and after going back and forth, the two naturally became a couple.
When my mom and grandpa mentioned it, she was two months pregnant.
"I don't agree! Look at what he looks like? Look at you again! He has a big belly before he gets married, and you don't know how to be ashamed! Don't be delusional, he doesn't even have in-laws at home, and he's far away, who will serve you when he marries him? Hurry up and go to the health center and beat the child, and break off with this person!"
"I don't want to! I'm going to marry him, give birth to a child, and he promises to be good to me for the rest of my life!"
In the end, she had a big quarrel with her family, threatened to break off the relationship, and ran to the other side of the mountain to marry my father.
At the beginning, Zhao Shiping was really good to her, but after the first child gave birth to a girl, his true colors were revealed, and he began to beat my mother in various ways, punching and kicking her whenever something didn't go well.
In the second year of my brother's birth, my dad drank too much alcohol and accidentally fell down the ditch and drowned.
He was an orphan since he was a child, and he had no relatives or friends, so we didn't even help him with the funeral, and buried it hastily.
His death is a great thing for us, no one will ever beat us again, and we will no longer have to endure the pain of the night.
But what we also have to face is that after his death, our family has no financial resources, and eating and drinking have become problems.
Approaching the end of the year, my mother opened her flour bag and saw the flour that had already seen the bottom, and she began to worry.
It has been more than half a year since my father died, and his bones were buried in the wheat field by us, maybe his obsession may be deep, there are often floods in the summer, our family's wheat was flooded, only a few loads were harvested, and it is a miracle to be able to hold on to this day.
"Our flour will bottom out soon, how can we spend this year? Mom's two worried eyebrows were squeezed together.
"Mom, we still have some potatoes and sweet potatoes in the cellar, I guess we can hold on a little longer, and when spring comes, the wild vegetables in our field are all exposed, and we can dig some wild vegetables to eat." ”
"No matter how difficult it is at home, you always have to eat dumplings during the New Year, and without dumplings, how can it be considered the New Year. ”
"Mom, why don't we borrow some wheat?"
"Ask who borrowed it? Your father has no relatives or friends here, and almost everyone in the village has been offended by him, and no one will want to lend it to us. ”
On the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month, my mother hesitated again and again, but still called my sister and me over, "Girl, my mother has to ask the two of you for one thing today, can you go to your uncle's house and ask him to borrow some wheat, otherwise we really won't be able to survive this year." ”
My sister and I looked at each other, "But, we don't know where my uncle's house is..."
When we were so old, my mother never took us back to our parents' house or my uncle's house, but my uncle came to see us a few times.
"I'll take you there, and when I get to the place, I'll point it out to you, I don't have the face to ask him if I borrowed it, but he sees that you two are still children, and maybe he will agree. ”
My mother entrusted my younger siblings to Grandma Wang, who lived alone next door, and took my sister and me on the road.
When I walked halfway there, it snowed in the sky, and although it was not very heavy, it was soon covered with a thin layer of silver and white, and I walked and slipped.
After stumbling and falling a few times along the way, we finally arrived at the entrance of my uncle's village, and my mother pointed out the place of my uncle's house, so we hurriedly found a place to hide.
My sister and I trotted to my uncle's house.
My uncle was clearing snow in the yard, and when he saw that it was the two of us, he immediately came over and removed the wood from the gate.
"Zhao Di Pandi, why are you, I haven't seen you for a long time, and my uncle almost didn't recognize you, what about your mother?" said the uncle as he patted the snowflakes on our bodies.
My aunt heard the movement and walked out of the house, "Ah! Come in, get inside, it's cold outside." ”
As soon as we entered the house, the two of us smelled the fragrant taro, and my cousin and cousin were sitting by the fire, and the room was warm and unbeatable, compared to the damp and dark environment of our house.
My aunt brought us two bowls of boiling water and put some sugar, "Drink some to warm up, why did you two come here, just the two of you?"
"Just the two of us, walking. ”
"Walking so far, but tired, the two of you tell your uncle if there is any difficulty at home, otherwise you two will run so far for the New Year. ”
"Uncle...... Our Family...... There is almost no noodles, and our wheat was flooded before, so my mother asked us to borrow some wheat......"
Uncle nodded, "Okay, I know, you can't wrap dumplings for the New Year without flour, and my uncle will bring it to you later." ”
"Hey, I've liked these two little girls since I was a child, they look so pleasing, but they're too thin. My aunt touched my sister's face and said.
"Wear it so thin, and I'm not afraid of the cold. My aunt got up and went into the back room, and took out two brand-new padded jackets, "Come and put them on, I sewed them for your cousin, it's just too small, you two can see if you can put them on." ”
As soon as the padded jacket was put on, our bodies warmed up.
"It's just right, let's get dressed and go, so I don't have to worry about wasting it. ”
Uncle happened to drag two big bags over, "Uncle Maizi won't give it to you, you have to grind it into flour, it's too troublesome, you just carry these flour and go, there are twenty catties here, and I'll talk to my uncle when it's not enough." ”
"Thank you, uncle, I will return it to you when our wheat harvest is good next year. ”
"Don't mention that you haven't paid anything back, your mother is my own sister, you are my niece, can I still watch you starve to death? Don't leave at noon, stay at your uncle's house to eat." ”
My aunt stewed us some cabbage vermicelli with bacon and two bowls of fragrant rice, we hadn't eaten meat for a long time, and when we smelled the fragrance, we couldn't stop drooling.
"Don't hang on, go and call your mother over to eat. ”
My sister and I were dumbfounded, and quickly explained, "Uncle, the two of us came by ourselves. ”
"Lie to me, you two have never been to our house, how can you know where it is? Your mother may be afraid that I will say that she doesn't know where to hide, you think about it, on such a cold day, your mother is freezing outside. ”
Thinking of my mother's frail and sick body, the two of us couldn't take care of it so much, so we hurriedly ran to find my mother.
When my uncle saw us running out, he didn't hurry up and followed.
"Mom! Uncle let you in for dinner, and he said he knew you were coming. ”
My mother refused, and my uncle came over at this time.
"Shunfang, these children in the family are very tough on you, you had to marry that man back then, and you had a big quarrel with your parents, and now your life is not easy, do you regret it?"
Mom didn't say a word, and began to sobble again.
"Let's go, go into the house and sit down, my brother hasn't seen you for a long time, chat with my brother, your sister-in-law misses you too, you used to have the best relationship, if you don't go, she should be sad." ”
Finally, under the persuasion of my uncle, my mother entered the house with us and ate fragrant bacon stewed vermicelli together.
After we had eaten and drunk enough, my mother and uncle had finished exchanging heartfelt feelings, and it was time for us to go home.
"It's not easy to walk on snowy days, I'll ride a tricycle to send you, although it's not frost-resistant, but it's better than you walk. ”
Mom repeatedly shirked, but my uncle and aunt still insisted on sending it, and finally the three of us got into my uncle's three-wheeled carriage, and the two big bags of noodles were also resisted by my uncle, and my aunt also specially found a quilt to cover us.
My mother and uncle were still chatting all the way, and my sister and I fell asleep in a daze.
When we woke up, we got home, and my uncle helped us unload our things.
Before leaving, he said to his mother, "Shunfang, take the child back to see your parents on the second day of the Lunar New Year, for so many years, they don't even know what the child looks like, they have been thinking about you, Mom's eyes are almost blind from crying, I look forward to you going back..."
"Okay, brother, thank you, I'll go. ”
My uncle didn't say anything more and turned away, but I saw tears in his eyes.
When she got home, her mother put the two flour bags on the stool and prepared to pour them into the flour bowl, she opened the flour bags and let out a soft breath.
"What is this?" we leaned over to see that there was a newspaper bag inside, and when it was opened, it was a large piece of pork, and there was twenty dollars underneath.
We immediately understood that these were put in by the uncle.
The mother's emotions could no longer be held back, and tears fell down her eyes.
That year's Chinese New Year was the first happy year for our family for so many years, my mother wrapped us with meat-filled dumplings, and made braised pork for us with the excess, and we each ate with a mouth full of oil.
On the morning of the second day of the sophomore year, our family packed up neatly and prepared to go to my grandmother's house to pay New Year's greetings.
In fact, my mother regretted it a long time ago, and she didn't dare to go back, because she was afraid that her grandmother would find out about her domestic violence, and she was afraid that her grandmother would be distressed, so she didn't dare to go back.
In the days to come, we will only get better and happier.
I will never forget my uncle's help to us for a lifetime.
This story is purely fictional, please treat it rationally