Return to 1983: Starting from hunting in the mountains

Chapter 1 Rebirth in 1983, a family of four

"Jiansheng, wake up quickly, it's time to eat."

"Jiansheng?"

These little girls are getting older and younger. I am already over sixty, but usually they are all very well-behaved and call him Grandpa Lu. Today is strange.

It's just that this voice is vaguely familiar, I can't remember it...

Lu Jiansheng is the janitor of the women's dormitory of Jiangcheng University. He is a five-guaranteed household with no wife and children and is all alone.

However, in fact, Lu Jiansheng had a wife and children, and they had a pair of lovely twin daughters. However, his wife and daughter both died in an accident forty years ago!
  Lu Jiansheng was born in Liuligouzi Village, Lailong Township, Guangzhou County, where there are many mountains, little land and poor people.
  In 1983, every household tightened their belts to live a better life, and Lu Jiansheng was no exception. His family of four was only allocated three acres of land, and they had to pay public grain. There was simply not enough food to eat.

His wife Bai Ruoxi was an educated youth from the city. He met her while working on the brigade farm in 1978. She was seventeen or eighteen years old at the time. Not only was she very beautiful, but she was also well-educated. Lu Jiansheng was shocked at first sight. One glance makes you even more interested.
  Girls of that era were naive and easy to deceive, and although Lu Jiansheng was a farm boy, he could still be considered a handsome young man. So at the beginning of 1979, Lu Jiansheng married Bai Ruoxi, and there was not a penny of bride price at that time!
  At the end of the same year, they gave birth to twin daughters Tangtang and Xixi.

Lu Jiansheng's family was already so poor that they couldn't get rid of the problem, not to mention that they suddenly had two more mouths. Now the two children are three and a half years old. They don't have enough to eat every day, and sometimes they cry because of hunger.

Lu Jiansheng and Bai Ruoxi had no choice but to give one of their children to a relatively wealthy family in the village.

As a result, Bai Ruoxi accidentally fell into the river on the way to deliver the child. When Lu Jiansheng saw it, there were only three corpses. The death of his wife and daughter made him feel guilty and painful for the rest of his life. After that, he left his hometown alone and spent his whole life away from home. drift!
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With red eyes, she knelt down and touched Xixi's head with her slender hands, her face full of reluctance, but her family really couldn't afford to support her, and if she had the option, how could she be willing to give her daughter away.

His head hurt a little.

Xixi's voice was soft and waxy, but she was so sensible that Bai Ruoxi felt heartbroken.

Looking at the small, dark room still built with adobe, and even the beds under the beds were made of straw, it made him feel as if he had arrived in the 1980s.

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"Silly girl, there's nothing mom can do about it."

"Mom, Xixi is also hungry! She wants to eat."

"Tangtang Xixi, be good! We can eat it when daddy wakes up."

"Mom, Xixi is not hungry, wuwu~ Xixi is not going anywhere, Xixi just wants to be with her mother and sister, Xixi is not hungry anymore! Mom, don't cry."

"Mom, Tangtang is hungry and wants to eat."

Lu Jiansheng, who was lying on the old wooden bed at home, had already opened his eyes.

"Xixi, after dinner, mom will take you to Aunt Liu's house. Then you can have a full meal. Xixi needs to be obedient when you get to Aunt Liu's house, you know?"

Bai Ruoxi touched her daughter's little head. Seeing her two daughters being so sensible, she felt guilty and self-blame.

"Tangtang is not hungry either! Mom, don't give your sister away."

Tangtang's milky voice sounded milky, and her big watery eyes were now red.

But Tangtang and Xixi are three and a half years old this time. They can't taste any oil or water all year round. Their bodies are malnourished and their hair is as yellow as a pot of withered grass. If this continues, they may not be able to survive.

Bai Ruoxi's voice was trembling, and then she pulled Xixi into her arms and said:

It's just that this room, which can be described as a bare-walled house, feels vaguely familiar to him.

"Why are there cries of women and children?"

When Lu Jiansheng arrived at the main room of this dilapidated adobe house, he saw only a shabby wooden table with one leg missing and two tattered chairs.
  Just when Lu Jiansheng didn't know where he was, suddenly three figures at the door suddenly bumped into his mind. He looked at the three figures in front of him, one large, two small and three. Lu Jiansheng had already recalled the figures thousands of times in his mind.
  It actually appeared in front of him in such a real way.

He, this is not a dream!

"Bai~Bai Ruoxi, Tangtang Xixi..."

He was surprised to find that his voice was no longer old-fashioned, but youthful and energetic.

Lu Jiansheng lowered his head and quickly glanced at himself.

He wore a patched cotton coat, and even his shoes were old-fashioned cloth shoes with many patches. The shoes also had insoles made of wheat straw.

Isn't this what I wore when I was young?
  No wonder it felt so familiar to him! It turns out that this was his home forty years ago.

He is reborn!

"Haha~" Lu Jiansheng smiled and burst into tears, instantly flooding his eyes.

He suddenly walked towards Bai Ruoxi.

At this moment, Bai Ruoxi had heard Lu Jiansheng's voice. She wiped her tears and said, "Jiansheng, wake up. The meal is ready and I'll serve it."

Before Lu Jiansheng could hold Bai Ruoxi's hand, she had already walked into the kitchen, leaving only Tangtang and Xixi.

At this time, the two little guys saw Lu Jiansheng walking toward them, and immediately ran behind the door. The two little guys stretched out their hands,

He opened the door and looked out with four big round eyes.

"Tangtang, Xixi~"

He called his daughter's name, two names that had appeared in his dreams countless times.

"Come here, daddy, give me a hug."

At this moment, Lu Jiansheng just wanted to give these two children a good hug.

But two little guys.

Whoa whoa crying.

"Dad, don't spank Tangtang!"

"Oh~Dad! Xixi will be good."

Lu Jiansheng couldn't help but be stunned. Then he remembered that in this era, boys were favored over girls, and children were educated with sticks.
  Lu Jiansheng was not exempt from vulgarity. In addition, in order to support his family, Lu Jiansheng dug ditches for the brigade in the countryside.
  He does hard work, and his temper is not very good over time. What's more, he can't take care of the two little guys when he is running around all day long. Therefore, the two children are afraid of him, but deep down, he also loves the children, but~
  Just as he was about to explain, Bai Ruoxi came over carrying two large enamel bowls.

The large enamel bowl was cracked everywhere, and a lot of the enamel had fallen off, exposing the black bowl body.

However, Lu Jiansheng's eyes turned red when he saw the food. There was no food. There was only brown sweet potato rice in the enamel bowl. This kind of food is made by grating sweet potatoes into shreds, washing them with water to make sweet potato flour, and then drying the sweet potato chips into sweet potato rice.

This kind of food is cheaper than grain, but it is not easy to preserve and is prone to moisture and mold. The sweet potato rice in this bowl has a musty smell.

The other one was filled with wild vegetable paste, which was better than sweet potato rice.

However, when he saw Tangtang and Xixi looking at the sweet potato rice and touching their growling bellies, and seeing the mushy wild vegetables drooling, Lu Jiansheng felt extremely distressed. After that, no one would eat anything, but now in this Home is a good thing.

(End of this chapter)