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Chapter 5 Mother’s departure

I remember that in the spring when I was ten years old, everything was renewed, but I was unlucky. I was like a lost star. I got sick every three days, either from colds, asthma, coughs or high fevers. In severe cases, I couldn't even go to school. What's even weirder Yes: I started at just one o'clock, and my mother started again at just o'clock. In short, the mother and son took turns taking medicine, getting injections, and running to the medical room. The originally not wealthy family became increasingly poor. stand up.

That night, the burning clouds in the sky could not be dispersed for a long time.Grandma, fourth aunt, and aunt brought two strange middle-aged women to our house.After dinner, they asked my mother to put chicken, duck, wine and meat on the table. Then, while muttering words to invite the gods, they lit candles and incense, then grabbed a handful of paper money, burned it and threw it on the ground. He burned a few more pieces in a bowl of water on the table, and another woman sat and leaned on the table, moving her legs one by one as she reached the underworld.Sheng Shui, who was "whispering" for a while, said it was my grandpa, sometimes said it was my grandma, and sometimes said it was the deceased uncle and other deceased relatives and friends. In short, they all cried out about the sufferings in the underworld and asked us to burn more paper money for them. , one moment for clothes, the next for food... It makes people panic, and makes people feel terrified when they hear it.

After a while, a woman held a red oil umbrella and swayed around in the main room. Another woman was chattering to the side. She said that our family had three ghosts and that my father was surrounded by villains and evil spirits. , maybe it will destroy our family’s wealth, and we must quickly find a way to stop it, otherwise the wife and children will be separated, and the family will be destroyed. After a while, they said that my mother and I were incompatible, saying that I was someone else’s noble son and daughter in the previous life, so we must You have to give me to someone else to raise, otherwise, either I will die or my mother will die. In short, we mother and son cannot live under the same roof, otherwise one of us will be injured.

"Then will giving this child away will resolve it?" My aunt asked anxiously.Before the two witches could talk, my mother said: "How can you give away the first child? Besides, the eldest daughter is almost ten years old, so how can you just give it away? When the time comes, her father will ask me. Why tell him." Grandma sighed and said to my mother: "Oh, I understand your feelings, that mother is willing to let go of her own child, thinking that when your father died early, I took you six brothers and sisters alone. , the people around saw how pitiful our orphans and widowed mothers were, and they also asked me to give you and your sixth sister away. I was unwilling to live or die, and always felt that my children would eat whatever I had, and they would have no father since they were young. If you don’t report it and give it away, your mother will be gone.” Speaking of this, grandma couldn’t help but wiped her tears. "Mother, there is no other way! Look at their mother and son, who have taken medicine in turn and become sick like this. Don't you just have the heart to see the mother and son die? Isn't this all for the good of everyone?" The fourth aunt rushed Compact stepped forward to persuade.In the end, everyone saw that my mother was unwilling to give me away, so they discussed with my mother and said: "Since you don't want to give it to others, let them (referring to the two witches) choose a day to find her." Dad, go live with him for a while, and let the eldest daughter go to study at the fifth aunt's house, and then talk about it after the catastrophe and the eldest daughter is ten years old. Anyway, her father is rich now, so you can take the second child to look at it. Alright, lest he go out with those wild women ghosts, otherwise, who cares about your orphans and widows at that time." "That's right! Believe it or not, it's good for both of you mother and child to be separated for a while, Why not do it?" My aunt and fourth aunt tried their best to persuade them.Grandma looked at me and my mother and said: "I think it's okay, we still have us at home, so don't worry if you leave the big boudoir to study at her fifth aunt's house, ah." After everyone persuaded, my mother finally agreed up.So grandma and fourth aunt asked the two witches to figure out the day when they would go out, and the time was set on April 25th of the lunar calendar. They went to my father's place with a distant nephew of my father.

The morning before we left was gray, my mother took my younger sister by the hand and put some sorghum candies in front of me, and said to me: "Dear girl, you must be obedient at home, ah. I will go to Wugu's house for dinner at noon. Mom has explained clearly to you, Fifth Aunt, that Mom will come back when we both get through this calamity..." I squeezed the candy in my hand and nodded half-understanding, watching my mother carry my younger sister on her back and follow her. After my eldest cousin disappeared from my sight, from then on, I lived in Wugu's house not far from home to study, and began to live under the fence.

The fifth aunt's family has three daughters and one son. The youngest cousin is the most beloved treasure of my uncle and aunt. Even if I am two years younger than him, I still don't get that kind of treatment. In order to prevent me from knowing, the fifth aunt often cooks delicious food. I asked him to secretly go to the toilet (toilet in rural areas) to eat the eggs. Usually when I eat porridge, I have to get a bowl of it for him and his uncle to eat. Sometimes I feel so anxious that I run to my grandma. The number of times I go there My uncle and aunt were too unhappy to have more uncles and aunts. They didn't even say that they would drive me away, but they would always show off their faces. My grandma took pity on me but didn't dare to try too much to keep me, so she could only secretly give me some candies to eat.

(End of this chapter)