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Chapter 1 Another Child

My name is Zhang Zhengyi, from Jiangxi. I was born in the summer of 1977. The detailed date is due to my professional taboos and cannot be explained.

The place where I was born was a family named Zhang in a very barren mountain village in a very barren mountain village.

It is said that this small mountain village was a place where hunters hunted in ancient times to rest. Later, due to the chaos of the world, many people from other places fled here and gradually evolved into a village with more than a dozen families.

When I was born, there were no extraordinary visions of the protagonists in the novel.

If you want to say something weird, I am Qixingzi. The key is that on the night my mother gave birth to me, I dreamed that a person from my house who couldn't even see his face clearly came to me. He stood under the locust tree in my yard, smiled at my parents, and then got into the locust tree.

After this dream, my mother woke up and felt severe pain in her abdomen, and the amniotic fluid flowed down her legs.

My mother quickly pushed my dad to wake him up. When my dad saw that my mom was sweating profusely and grinned, it scared my dad. He put on a coat, took a flashlight and ran out. He was going to invite a baby woman who knew how to deliver a baby in the village.

The so-called "breasted" is actually my dialect for "manifested".

In that era, boys represented productivity. Only with productivity could they have labor points, and only with labor points could they get food coupons, meat coupons, etc. Therefore, the phenomenon of Jiangxi favoring boys over girls was very common in that era. Generally, rural people could not afford to have children in the city or county hospitals. Middle-aged women who had experience in giving birth or helping others took on the role of a stubborn woman. In order to have a son and get a chance, they called the stubborn woman "bringing a child", which means to have children but not a daughter.

Of course, to the present, the phenomenon of favoring boys over girls has basically disappeared, but the habit of calling stable women "bringing children" in some rural areas has not changed, and children are rarely seen now.

Then let’s talk about the Seven Stars. Many people think that the name Seven Stars sounds mysterious and very nice, and seems to be related to astrological signs.

But in fact, the so-called Seven Stars are less than term, and they are born after only seven months of pregnancy. Seven Stars are just a blessing, which sounds better than premature babies, right?

Children born under ten months of pregnancy are much weaker than children born within ten months of pregnancy. According to medical saying, it is due to congenital deficiency and weak vitality. If there is no good medical care, it is likely to show intelligence that is lower than ordinary people.

I am very lucky that although I am Qixingzi, I did not have the problem mentioned above.

The medical equipment in that era was very backward compared to now, and even with the current medical level, my family could not afford the cost, let alone how good medical care I could receive at that time.

Except for my physical weakness, I am indeed weaker than other babies, but I have no problem with my intelligence, otherwise I would not have happened later.

Okay, let's get back to the topic. I was born at almost twelve o'clock in the night. As Wenpo patted my butt, my first cry loudly made the whole room. My father pushed open the door vigorously, almost rushed to the edge of the bed, and carefully carried me from Wenpo's arms. When my father took me into his arms, his breathing became very light.

I can't tolerate my dad being careless. According to my dad later, he went to join in the fun when someone else's child was born, and what about seeing a newborn baby?

But when I was born, my dad saw that I was so small, the size of a palm, holding me like a puppy, my face turned red, and I was crying while panting, and the crying sound was as light as a mosquito.

He was afraid that I would break a little more strength. According to my dad, I was as crisp as a piece of paper.

When I arrived here, it seemed that this was the common situation of having children in that era. I seemed to be just an ordinary child in an ordinary village. There was no strange phenomenon from heaven to identify my extraordinary things, but it was a little weaker than when other babies were born.

But my mother fell asleep after giving birth to me, and then she had that dream again.

This dream is a bit different from what I did before. According to what my mother described to me later, the dream she had this time was the one who still couldn't see clearly. He did not burrow into the locust tree in the yard, but directly into my mother's belly. Only her upper body was left outside and looked at her with her.

My mother woke up immediately and looked at the wall clock on the wall. It only took half an hour to pass.

My mother is really scared now!

It’s not that my mother was not scared by the previous dream, but that I was about to be born after I woke up, which diverted my mother’s attention.

This time I had this dream again, it was still such a scary scene. My mother was so scared that she shouted at my dad in the room. My dad was originally cooking chicken soup outside, which was an old hen he exchanged for two three-pound food stamps from his neighbor.

In that era, I needed food coupons to buy food. I wanted to eat meat. Food coupons and meat coupons earned work points according to personal productivity, and then I took the work points to the rural community team to exchange food coupons, oil coupons, and meat coupons. Since my mother got pregnant with me, my father began to earn work points harder than before, so when I was born, I saved a lot of various tickets at home.

My dad was cooking chicken soup outside, but it started cooking after my dad called Wen Po. He thought that after my mom gave birth to me, she was weak and used to nourish her body.

When I heard my mother shouting in the room, my dad quickly entered the room and saw that my mom woke up after less than an hour of sleep and was struggling to get up in bed.

He frowned, wiped his hands with the rag on his body, hurriedly stepped forward to support my mother, and roared in a low voice: "Why are you still getting up? Take a look at it quickly, I'll make you an old hen, and it'll be dry if you're too late."

My parents are typical rural people. They have not received much education. They speak in a rough manner. The voice is so loud that you think he is angry. People who don’t live in the countryside think it is my dad who feels sorry that the old hens exchanged for food stamps can boil the soup.

But my mom actually knew that my dad was caring about her, but the expression of rural men would not be so tactful.

"Old Zhang, hurry up, go quickly, call the baby girl again. Why do I feel like there is a baby in my belly?" My mother ignored my father's call to lie down. She finally sat up on the bed. When she thought of that dream, something seemed wrong with her belly.

She was so scared that she was a little uncomfortable even when she spoke. In addition, she had just given birth and was seriously injured in her vitality. Her weak trembling tone scared my dad.

"What? You lie down!" Although my father was frightened by my mother's appearance, he was very worried about my mother's health and quickly pretended to be calm. In fact, he was shocked and panicked. He had time to ask my mother to lie down and ran out of the door, without even bringing a flashlight.

From the time my mother gave birth to me, to the time when my mother woke up in a dream, to the time when my father ran out to chase after her mother, more than half an hour had passed.

When my dad saw the light of a flashlight not far away, he gritted his teeth and accelerated again. He panted and chased the son-in-law. He looked up and saw that there were still a few steps to reach the son-in-law's house.

"Old Zhang? Why did you run faster? You can also take the flashlight? (Why are you running so fast? You don't mean to take the flashlight)"

I was born in summer, and the countryside was built against the mountains. Although there were not many families in the village, they were a bit far apart.

My family is away from the mother-in-law's house. If you walk normally, you have to walk half an hour on the mountain road. You know, the mountain roads in that era were not like the one paved with cement now. It was a serious mountain road with many stones and mud!

It was just a mountain road, and my father was anxious to go out, but he didn't bring the flashlight. He leaned against a box of Western matches he had finally gotten from the village, and walked one by one.

When he caught up with the baby girl, he always carried the box with him and showed off whenever he saw someone, but there was only one Western match that he was reluctant to use. He was originally half an hour away and was running while protecting the flames of the matches. It took ten minutes to run. It shows how anxious my father was!

My dad ran to the baby girl, supported her knees with both hands, and inhaled her big breath, and her lungs and bellows seemed to be swelling. My dad took a few breaths and held them in his breath and spoke to the baby girl: "Gui...Gui Fang's belly... there is another one in her belly!"

As he said that, my dad took the baby's hand and trotted back to my house.
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