She made fire by setting up a stall

Zhang Qin is a golden phoenix who came out of the mud nest of the Zhang family.

Zhang Qin's parents are ordinary-looking, plus they face the loess all day long, and the husband and wife are thin and dark, but Zhang Qin was born beautiful since childhood, with fair skin and taller than both husband and wife. People often joke that Zhang Qin is not the biological child of Zhang's parents.

In the valley more than 50 years ago, there was no mention of going to the health center for giving birth, so it was rare to say that there was a mistake. Besides, when his wife gave birth, he was guarding outside, and it was even less likely to make a mistake.

Since there is no mistake, there is a possibility that Mrs. Zhang stole someone behind his back.

Some people in the village were just joking, and some really thought so. Zhang's father listened to it a lot, and he became interested in it. The more he saw his eldest daughter, the less he looked like himself, and the more sure Zhang's mother was cuckolding him.

Few of them in the whole village were good-looking, and the husband suspected that the concubine was an educated youth who came to the village. For this reason, he secretly compared the appearance of his eldest daughter with the male educated youth in the village.

Later, he felt that the eldest daughter had a similar nose to one of the male educated youths surnamed Xiang.

Zhang's mother was beaten several times and wanted to die. Later, the village chief came to the door.

The village chief told Zhang's father in front of the whole village that he had asked Xiang Zhiqing, but Xiang Zhiqing didn't know Zhang's mother at all, and it was impossible for him to like other people's daughter-in-law.

Father Zhang still didn't believe it. He pricked Zhang Qin's hand while she was sleeping, took the blood, and dripped it with his own blood in the basin with water. Unexpectedly, the two drops of blood really merged together.

Later, some villagers came out and said that Zhang Qin's ears resembled Zhang's father.

Zhang's father compared his eldest daughter's ears, and the more they looked the same, he thought about the blood test, and thought that it might be his family's ancestors who gave birth to a beautiful girl.

After all, he never did anything like beating his wife and daughter in public.

He never beat his wife in public again.

Zhang's father thought that if this girl was good-looking, she would be able to marry well in the future, and their family could also receive more dowry gifts.

When Zhang Qin opened her mouth, the good name spread across the mountains to several neighboring villages, and some people even came to Zhulin Village to see it. When Zhang Qin reached the age of marriage, the matchmaker who came to the door almost broke the threshold of the Zhang family up.

Zhang's father was proud that he would reject anyone who came to propose marriage, as long as they were from the village.

Later, Zhang's father asked Zhang's mother to take her daughter to the town to buy clothes, and the son of the director of the supply and marketing cooperative at that time fell in love with him.

At that time, the reform and opening up, the director's son went into business by himself, and opened a shop to sell clothes.

Zhang Qin's partner has business acumen, and within two years of her marriage to the director's son, he became a household of ten thousand yuan.

After Zhang Qin, many girls who thought they were good-looking were unwilling to marry early, and tried their best to marry in the town.

As for the county seat, they dare not think about it.

In the eyes of people at that time, the county seat was a big city.

The eldest sister who runs a supermarket is lying when she says she is not envious, but since Zhang Qin is already standing out of her reach, she is no longer envious.

Back then, she didn't want to send Zhang Qin too far, and married the son of the village head.

"Then, does the eldest sister of the Zhang family live in the town or the city?" Hammer lowered his head and asked.

According to the eldest sister, Zhang Dadong's parents didn't think much about him, and the only one who cared about him was his elder sister. For the sake of the kid's peace of mind, they might as well take him to see his elder sister directly.

"Not always living in the town." The eldest sister said: "Her son bought her a house in the city, and her spouse built a villa in the town, and there are several more."

Really is more popular than dead people.

I am used to living in the town, but when I go to the city, I feel that it is too noisy and there are too many people. Generally, the elderly do not want to live in the city.

"The last time she came, I asked, and Zhang Qin told me that she and her partner can still move now, so they live in the town. When they can no longer take care of themselves, they will go to the city. It is convenient to see a doctor and live in the city. , her sons said that they would hire the best nurses to take care of their husband and wife."

"I don't know if she's in the town now." The elder sister said, "The last time I saw her was Qingming Festival. It's been several months."

"How did Zhang Dadong get along with those three brothers before he was alive?" Hammer asked again.

"It's just so-so." After all, many years have passed, and the eldest sister can't remember the past clearly, "Dadong and those three are so different in age, and Dadong works every day, how can he have time to get along with those three? ?”

"Besides, it is said that crying children have milk to eat. Dadong has a cold temper and will work hard. Except for his sister, he doesn't say a few words to his parents all day long. The three of them hugged again. To put it bluntly, their parents must like those three." At that time, life was difficult, and their parents left some food and drink for the three younger ones, as did their grandparents.

Hammer touched his chin, thinking about whether to tell Zhang Dadong the real situation.

Zhang Dadong survived being trapped for decades, so he shouldn't be so fragile.

The eldest sister talked a lot, and she didn't realize it until later. She looked at Hammer and Qu Hao in confusion, "How do you know Zhang Dadong? He's been dead for decades, and you don't even know him?"

These two young people looked to be in their 20s, about the same age as her son and daughter, and they had nowhere to get to know Zhang Dadong.

Qu Hao was not good at lying, if he told the truth, he was afraid of frightening the elder sister, so he could only look at the hammer.

"Someone entrusted us to find Zhang Dadong's family." This is not a lie, but the person entrusting him is Zhang Dadong himself.

The eldest sister was thinking a bit crookedly, "You are not the children of those educated youths back then, are you?"

These two people are not locals. Zhang Dadong died 30 years ago, and they are not locals if they can have a relationship with Zhang Dadong, only those educated youths back then.

She remembered that Zhang Dadong seemed to be really close to an educated youth.

Hammer was silent.

Qu Hao didn't know whether to speak or not.

The silence between the two of them is tacit understanding in the eyes of the elder sister.

"I didn't expect that there are still people thinking about our mountain valley. Those educated youths who went to the mountains and the countryside in those days wished to leave early and never come back." It's not that the eldest sister never thought about finding an educated youth at that time, and those educated youths were all from the city. If she could marry one of them and bring her back when the educated youth returned home, then she would become a city dweller.

It's just that this thought only passed through her mind once before she denied it.

She went back to wash clothes by the stream once, and heard from a woman in the village that there was an educated youth in the next village who secretly had sex with the daughter of the village head's family. Later, the girl was found pregnant, and the educated youth promised the village head that she would Treat the village chief's daughter well, and later when the educated youth returned to his hometown, he could not take the pregnant girl with him before leaving, so he promised the village chief and his daughter that when he went back and settled down, he would come back to pick up their mother and child.

Like many people, there is no going back.

Later, the girl gave birth to the child, a daughter, but did not wait for the educated youth to come back.

The girl is not married yet, so it is impossible to bring a child.

The village head threw the child away, and he was still on the mountain.

I heard that the child was taken back and raised by a childless couple in another village.

The eldest sister specifically asked the people in the village, and they said it was true, so she gave up the idea of ​​looking for educated youths.

Thinking of this, the eldest sister had to sigh that Zhang Qin could understand Zhang Qin's appearance. Eight out of ten educated youths in the village had expressed friendship with her openly and secretly, and some said they would take her back to the city.

Zhang Qin refused.

In the following years, every time she thinks about it, she feels lucky. There are also people in the village who secretly flirt with those educated youths, but none of them really walked out of the mountains with them in the end.

"Which educated youth are you descendants of?" The eldest sister became curious.

Hammer rubbed the tip of his nose with his thumb, "This—"

The eldest sister had an expression that I understood, "It's hard to say?"

People didn't want to talk about it, and she couldn't insist on asking, since the two young people had something to do with their village, and they wanted to know, so the eldest sister said, "Don't go looking for those three."

"Why?" Qu Hao asked strangely.

The elder sister looked Qu Hao up and down, "You young man is rich at first glance, right? If you come to the door, the three will have to chase you, and your wallet will bleed."

Hammer thanked the elder sister first, and then asked: "Sister, can you tell us the address of elder sister Zhang Dadong's home?"

"It's not a bad thing for you to find her, is it?"

"Sister, no, we are really entrusted by others." Hammer assured.

The eldest sister believed it, and she told Hammer Zhang Qin's address.

The eldest sister felt that if she didn't tell, the two of them would find out if they went to the town to ask.

Regardless of whether it is necessary or not, Hammer asked Zhang Dadong for the home addresses of the three brothers.

Hammer bought a few more packs of biscuits, paid for them, and left with Qu Hao under the watchful eyes of the eldest sister.

On the way back, Hammer asked Qu Hao, "Do you think we should tell Zhang Dadong?"

"Yes!" Qu Hao didn't even think about it.

"If he knows that his parents don't want him, his father is dead, and his mother is still demented, won't he be very sad?" Zhang Dadong was less than 20 years old before he died, and his thoughts stopped at 20 years old. Connect him with adults.

"He's a ghost." Qu Hao said.

Hammer was stunned for a moment, and then put his arm around Qu Hao's shoulder, "It hits the nail on the head, brother!"

They've all become ghosts, so there's nothing to be afraid of.

Back in the car, Hammer told Zhang Dadong all the news he got from the elder sister.

Zhang Dadong was only stunned for a moment, and he resumed his usual cold expression, "The only thing I miss most is my sister."

"Then do you want to visit your brother and your mother, or go directly to the town?"

"They're all here, just take a look at them." Zhang Dadong looked out the window without blinking for a long time.

The homes of the three brothers had to go up.

The three brothers had nowhere to go, but they lived not far from each other. They were unwilling to support their old mother, but they couldn’t let the old mother starve to death. In the end, the village chief gave them two choices, either Zhang’s mother and three sons lived next to each other, or Zhang The mother lives in the old house, but the three sons have to deliver meals every day.

Of course the three brothers all chose the second one.

This day it's the second child's turn to deliver meals.