inscription - Zhang Hua is a simple and kind-hearted rural woman. In the era of family planning when a couple could only have one child, she faced a family environment with no money and power. In order to give birth to a son, she lived a good life. In the life of a normal person, she put down the dignity that a woman should have, and started her miserable life under various temptations... When Li was talking to his son Dalong, who had just escaped from family planning and rushed home, there was a noise from outside. He walked out of the house and looked up. It was the village secretary Zhao Sisheng leading a group of people, walking towards him along a path beside the fish pond. The big carpenter was about to turn around and enter the house, when Secretary Zhao greeted him and said, "Defu, come here quickly, the township chief is looking for you."
When the big carpenter heard that the township chief was looking for him, he was frightened and turned pale, and hurried He walked over and said, "Head of the township, what do you want from me?"
At this time, a middle-aged man in his forties came over, greeted the big carpenter and said, "I heard that your family is doing a lot of fish pond farming. Yes, let's come and take a look."
The village secretary came over and said, "Defu, please give a detailed report to Mayor Zhuang about your future plans. "
At this time, the middle-aged man named Mayor Zhuang, He handed the big carpenter a Daqianmen brand cigarette, and then struck a match to light his cigarette. The big carpenter quickly declined and said: "Head, this is impossible. There is no way I can let you light a cigarette for me. ."
After several pushbacks, Mayor Zhuang said with a smile: "You are my brother, can't I light a cigarette for you?" Seeing that he couldn't stand it, the big carpenter had to lower his head and come over. , while asking Mayor Zhuang to light a cigarette for him, he bowed his hands and said humbly: "Head, I'm offended, I'm offended."
Township Chief Zhuang took a puff of cigarette and said: "Master Jiang, since the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, The government supports some people to get rich first. You have done a very good job in making your family rich, and you have already gone ahead of our township government. Today I am here to tell you, don’t worry about your thoughts, let your hands and feet go, and do it boldly. , I hope you can become the first 10,000-yuan household in our township."
Then, Mayor Zhuang led a dozen cadres from the township government and the village around the fish pond, and then turned to him. Village secretary Zhao Sisheng said: "Old Zhao, look at the large river beach in front of you. There is also grass growing there. The village can consider organizing some labor to dig out two more fish ponds and hand them over to Master Jiang to run them. That's right. Our government must give strong support to comrades with business acumen like Master Jiang."
After seeing off Mayor Zhuang and his party, the big carpenter returned to the house and took a long breath and said, "Just now, you can take me. "I'm so scared."
At five o'clock in the afternoon, watching the sky gradually darken outside, the old carpenter said to his eldest son Dalong, who was about to leave: "It's dark and the road is not safe. You should get up early and leave tomorrow." "
"I'm a grown man, so I won't get in the way. Besides, Zhang Hua just gave birth, so I won't worry if he doesn't go back," Jiang Dalong said, pushing the bicycle to leave.
At this time, the big carpenter carried a basket of eggs from the house, about a hundred of them, and put it on the stand behind Dalong's bicycle. Then he asked his wife to bring a rope. The big carpenter helped Dalong tie the basket while He told his son: "When I saw Zhang Hua, I said calmly, don't complain all the time. Although the child is my mother's heart and soul, but in this situation, if you want to have a chance to give birth to a boy in the future, if you don't do this, there is nothing else." Solution."
"Da, don't worry, I know how to do it," Jiang Dalong said, pushing the bicycle along the path beside the fish pond and walking towards the east road.
二
Zhang Hua looked at the sky getting dark outside. Her husband Jiang Dalong had been away for a day and had not come back yet. She lowered her head and looked at her daughter in her arms, who was sucking breast milk. Zhang Hua felt mixed emotions in her heart.
At this time, her husband Jiang Dalong's disgusting words in the morning sounded in her ears again. Thinking about how she would live her life in the future, she felt sad and tears could not stop flowing down the corners of her eyes.
Just as Zhang Hua was wiping his tears, he heard his eldest daughter Xiaomei shouting happily outside: "Mom, Mom, eldest (dad) is back."
"Oh, Dalong, why did you get so many eggs? "Jiang Delan's voice came from outside.
"Gu, it's not much. This is my eldest brother. My mother asked me to bring it to Zhang Hua for confinement," Jiang Dalong outside said while taking the basket off the back rack of the bicycle.
At this time, Zhang Hua vaguely heard his aunt Jiang Delan complaining to Jiang Dalong in a low voice: "You bastard, Zhang Hua has been talking about you all day. He didn't even eat lunch because he missed you. Come in and have a look." Your wife and children."
Jiang Dalong held his eldest daughter Xiaomei in his hand, lifted the door curtain, walked to the bed, and looked at Zhang Hua lying on his side with his back to him. He was about to speak when Xiaomei lay on the edge of the bed and said, "Mom, Mom, I want to see my sister?"
Zhang Hua turned around and said, "Sister, you just went to bed. Go outside to play with cousin Wangcai. Wait. My sister is awake, I'm calling you."
After watching Xiaomei leave, Zhang Hua had a sullen face and no smile at all. He glanced at Jiang Dalong who was standing in front of the bed and asked, "Yamato heard that it was another girl. They were angry. "Hello?"
Jiang Dalong said with a smile: "They are not angry, and they asked me to bring a lot of eggs. Don't take what I said this morning seriously. You see, the family planning policy is so tight now." Not only will we be fined, but we will also need surgery. If we don’t do it right, we will have no chance to have another baby in the future. If that happens, we will be destitute and we will have no son in this life. "
" Stop talking about it. After the full moon, I went to have a sterilization operation, and my family was wiped out, so I took my two daughters with me." After Zhang Hua finished speaking, he pulled the quilt and lay down.
Jiang Dalong stepped forward and helped Zhang Hua pull the quilt, and said: "Don't talk about it now, just sit in confinement with peace of mind, I will ask my aunt to add eggs for you to eat."
After dinner in the evening, Jiang Delan brought hot water , let Zhang Hua wash her face, watched her fall asleep, and then went to the back room and asked Dalong: "What do you say to your mother and Dahe?"
Jiang Dalong told his aunt what the big carpenter meant, and then said: "Gu, I'm worried that Zhang Hua won't agree to give the child away."
"Dalong, what do you think?" Jiang Delan asked, looking at Dalong.
Dalong handed Wangcai a cigarette, then lit the cigarette in his mouth, took two puffs and said, "Auntie, we farmers can't live without our sons no matter what. Right now, I think this is the only way."
"Dalong, you have to listen to me. Don't mention the matter of giving the child away now. After Zhang Hua's confinement is over, find time to talk about it slowly." After Jiang Delan finished speaking, he got up and left the back room.
三
On the night of the twenty-fifth of the twelfth lunar month, as soon as it got dark, the big carpenter brought a pig hind leg and four large carp to the home of the village secretary Zhao Sisheng.
The secretary let the big carpenter into the back room, and while passing the cigarettes, he complained: "Brother, you can come over and have a chat. You always spend money to bring things. In this way, our brothers are out of sight."
The big carpenter While lighting the cigarette, he said: "I didn't spend any money, the fish was caught in my own fish pond."
The two chatted for a while, and Secretary Zhao asked: "Has Dalong's wife given birth?"
The big carpenter took two puffs. cigarette, then sighed and said: "It's a girl again?"
Zhao Sisheng hesitated for a moment, looked at the big carpenter and asked: "Then what are your plans?"
"Secretary, I am not satisfied with you either. According to the current situation The family planning policy requires not only a fine, but also a sterilization operation. If this is the case, the Dalong family will be wiped out." After the big carpenter finished speaking, he coughed twice, then stretched out his hand and pinched He coughed up snot and then said: "Please do me a favor. I want Dalong to give this child away so that he can be reborn when he has the chance. We ordinary people cannot live without a boy."
Zhao Sisheng thought for a while, raised his head and said: "Defu, according to what you said, I don't have any objection. As I said, as long as no one goes to the village to report it, the village will not look for you."
Just when the big carpenter was about to leave, Secretary Zhao said: "Defu, wait a minute. Let me ask you, what do you think about the fish ponds that Mayor Zhuang said two days ago?
The big carpenter just stood up, then sat down and said: "Secretary, as the saying goes: the first bird is shot, and I don't want those households with ten thousand yuan." You know, when the production team divided the land, no one wanted it because of the concave terrain. I thought it would be a pity to lose it, so I gave it to others. Since I agreed, I couldn't just throw away the land I got. I had no choice but to dig the fish pond later. "
" Defu, look at this, I will be responsible for digging the fish ponds and paying for the fry, and you will be responsible for raising and managing them. If we catch fish at the end of the year, we will share the profit in half, but you can't tell anyone about my participation," Zhao Sisheng said to Carpenter Jiang.
The Carpenter thought about it for a while and said, "Okay, I listen to you. of. "
The big carpenter who returned home, after careful consideration, in order to create the illusion in the village that Dalong's family went out to find carpentry work, he asked Dalong's family of three to rush home to celebrate the New Year on New Year's Eve. Zhang Hua knew After finding out the truth, he had no choice but to leave his second daughter, who was not yet one month old, to the care of Aunt Dalong.
After breakfast on the first day of the Lunar New Year, he came back in order to let people in the village know that his family was working outside. , Dalong deliberately took his eldest daughter Xiaomei around the village. When someone asked him when he would go out again, Dalong would smile and say: "It's so busy in the factory, and the director wouldn't let her go." He came back to celebrate the New Year because he had been away from home for several months and wanted to come back for a visit. He would leave after the second day of the Lunar New Year and so on. "
When Dalong was taking Xiaomei out to play, Zhang Guihua asked her daughter-in-law Zhang Hua: "Do you want to have a son? "
Zhang Hua looked at her mother-in-law in surprise and said, "Mom, I've been dreaming about it, why don't I want to, but, but,"
"But what? If you want to have another baby, give this girl away." Otherwise, you will be fined and you will have to go to the hospital to undergo ligation. You said, how can you still give birth by then? "Zhang Guihua interrupted Zhang Hua.
Zhang Hua stared at Zhang Guihua for a long time and said, "Mom, I can't bear to part with this child. "
" I know that children are the flesh that fell from the mother's body, but do you have any other ideas? Zhang Guihua looked at Zhang Hua and asked.
Seeing Zhang Hua standing there in a daze without saying a word, Zhang Guihua stood up and said, "Think about it carefully." "
After she finished speaking, she walked out of the house and asked: "At noon, your family and Erlong's family should go to the fish pond to have lunch. "
After Dalong yelled like this during the day, several men in the village who got along well with him came to the house at night. No matter how Dalong refused, everyone had to go with Dalong this time. Looking at Jiang Dalong scratching his head and head at this moment, there was no There's a solution. Zhang Hua smiled, walked over, and said to the men: "You are all brothers who grew up with Dalong. We want to help you from the bottom of our hearts, but can we go to work in a furniture factory?" Dalong said. It doesn't matter, it's the factory director who has the final say. When Dalong returns to the factory this time and communicates with the factory director, I will inform you again. "
Under Zhang Hua's persuasion, everyone chatted for a while before leaving. Looking at the men's leaving figures, Jiang Dalong smiled and said to Zhang Hua: "Thank you just now, wife, I really don't know how. Advised.
Zhang Hua rolled her eyes at her husband and complained: "Don't be careless about things you are not sure about in the future. If you can't do it, you can't just agree to it." "
At this time, Xiaomei ran into the house from outside with a big red apple in her hand. Zhang Hua looked at Xiaomei's happy look, took the apple, and asked: "Who gave you this big apple?
Xiaomei smiled and said, "This is what Xiaocui's mother gave to me." "
Early in the morning on the second day of the lunar month, Jiang Dalong rode a bicycle in the biting cold wind. Xiaomei was sitting on the big shoulder in front, and Zhang Hua was carried on the back frame. He quietly left home and arrived at around nine o'clock in the morning. His aunt's house.
After watching Dalong and his family come back, Jiang Delan was busy making lunch happily and said with a smile: "Zhang Hua, I gave the child a name. You see, she was born in the twelfth lunar month. Her eldest sister's name is Xiaomei, and she is called Dong." "How about Mei?"
Zhang Hua said with a smile: "I think it's okay, let's call her Dongmei."
On the second day of Xiao Dongmei's full moon, when she was having breakfast, more than thirty people suddenly came to the village. Cyclists surrounded Jiang Delan's home.
(to be continued)
