Chapter 2: A Strong Mother
Li Qubing, who was sleeping, was awakened by the shouts. When he opened his eyes, his mother was looking at him anxiously. Seeing Li Qubing open his eyes, Li's mother immediately asked, "Does it still hurt?"
Looking at his mother's sweaty head and her eyes anxiously holding tears, although her butt still hurts very much, Li Qubing still said: "It hurts a little, but nothing is wrong. It's just that her butt hurts a little, and it doesn't hurt anywhere else!"
"It's fine. I was so scared. I ran home as soon as I heard that you fell from the tree. If you had a few things, how could your dad and I live with you?" Shi Xiaohua couldn't help but shed tears.
"Mom, what about my uncle (bai, the meaning of father in local dialect)?"
"Your uncle and your sister went to the north to weed corn. I dare not climb trees again in the future. What if something happens to you fall from such a tall tree to the ditch?"
"I know, I will never climb trees again!"
Li Qubing looked at his mother who was nearly 30 years younger than her white hair, and couldn't help but think of the world suffering for a lifetime. Her head was covered with silver hair, her face covered with calluses and cracks. She couldn't help but feel sad. Tears couldn't help but flow down. She got off the bed, reached out to hug her mother, buried her head in her shoulder, and shouted "Mom".
Li's mother had never seen her son like this. Moreover, her son's temper was relatively stubborn and never acted coquettish. She cried like this and never hugged her child after she went to elementary school. She couldn't help but feel anxious and said, "What's wrong? Does it hurt a lot? Let's go to the hospital to take a look."
As he said that, he broke away from Li Qubing's arms, and hurriedly looked at his son up and down. He didn't notice anything wrong with his son, so he said, "Why did he suddenly cry?"
"It's nothing, I just want to cry suddenly."
Li Qubing realized that his behavior just now was a bit inappropriate. In order to change the topic, he said, "Mom, what are we eating tonight? I want to eat steamed braised noodles."
"Okay, I'll go down to the ground to pick beans and make braised noodles at night."
"Well, let's cook another egg porridge."
"Okay. You rest at home, don't run around." After saying that, Li's mother touched her son's head, then turned around and went out.
Seeing his mother limping out, Li Qubing's heart couldn't help but feel pain. His mother's legs were lame, one of which was seven or eight centimeters longer than the other, which made her not only limp and even stand much harder than ordinary people. One leg had to stretch her tiptoe desperately, and the other leg had to be slightly bent to keep her feet on the ground.
It’s all the damn times, it’s all the backward times - people who live in that era are unfortunate because it’s an era of poverty; but people who live in that era are lucky, it’s an era of gradually getting better. - The suffering experience of parents’ generations is part of the real memory of that era, and it’s a record of that era truthfully!
My mother was born in 1952 and was the fifth child in the family. When she was 11 years old, she had a poisonous sore on her right leg. China in that era was still an agricultural country. Even in 1990, China was still an agricultural country. Lack of doctors and medicines was one of the characteristics of this era. In the words of my mother, "We were sick when we were young and only had one word: We couldn't resist and leave sequelae, and we died. It's not like you, I got a severe cold just after the first month, and I used the wrong medicine in the commune and gave you atropine. You almost died, but your father was dragging us both on a cart.
When you arrived at the hospital, your whole body was purple and you couldn't even cry. The doctor gave you an injection, and you gave you an injection, and you would only cry after pulling out the injection. If it were in our childhood, you would have died long ago!" So, my mother was unfortunate. She encountered poisonous sores during the development period of her body. Although she was optimistic in the end, the delay was a bit long, which affected her development, and eventually led to poor development of one leg, which was 7 or 8 cm apart. After recovering from the illness, she went to school and was ridiculed by her classmates. She did not persist, did not go to junior high school, and she got off school after graduating from elementary school, and began to work hard in the fields!
My father was born in 1945, the year when the Anti-Japanese War was victorious. My father had a Tu-Communist since he could remember that he knew the Chairman and always loved the Chairman. It was because of the arrival of the Tu-Communist led by the Chairman that my father went to school. Although he had just reached the fourth grade of elementary school, it was because my father felt that his family was poor and did not want to drag down his family, so he took the initiative to leave school. Unlike my uncle, who was born in 1941 and was a few years older, he was 12 years old when he ran a primary school in the countryside. He had not attended a day and only went to the literacy class.
The father and brothers have no sisters. The family is poor, and with the four young men, they are even poorer. They have no houses, no money, no things, and no culture. Therefore, although the four brothers are all innocent and look good, marriage has always been a difficult problem!
My uncle was born in 1941. In 1973, he went to the Pingdingshan area next door with the production team to build a reservoir (equivalent to the current "city"). He died by a stone and was unmarried when he died.
The marriage between my father and mother was in the Spring Festival in 1974 - a combination of an older man and an older woman with disabilities. This caused others to look down on others and even discriminate. Yes, a family formed by two uneducated poor people, one is a cripple - who can watch it? They are all holding back their laughter and watching jokes.
My mother knew that others were laughing at, but there was no way out. In the production team, rural people had only three ways out - going to school, joining the army, and recruiting workers. But these three methods were not applicable to this family, and they could only count one day. So when the production team was in the production team, my mother always used crutches, and she was a little relaxed and she was not so tired. But after the household contract responsibility system was in the household, my mother threw away the crutches and tried hard to walk without the crutches. She worked hard in the fields and worked hard - basically, her parents were the ones who spent the longest time in the fields, the earliest to go and the latest to come back. It was to prove that we were poor, but our poverty was not caused by ourselves, and we would live our own lives.
My mother's strength, hard work, and hard work have a great influence. In 1990, when she was reborn, her family was no longer the poorest in the team. Although she was still in the middle and lower reaches, her life could still go on.
It is precisely because of my mother's strength, my hard work, gossip disappeared, and my strange vision disappeared. Even the people who said that they were cripple behind my back were gone. Therefore, my mother has always taught Li Qubing and his brothers - to be self-improvement! It is not scary to be poor, but not to know that self-improvement is scary. I don't believe that working hard will make you poor for the rest of your life!
Parents are the best teachers for their children, and this is true. The strong mother's strength not only affects the father, but also affects the children. Li Qubing's eldest sister is 3 years older than Li Qubing. She was 1.5 years older than Li Qubing. She was one and a half years younger than her, and she was 76 years younger. She started learning to cook at the age of 5. She was able to cook all the meals at home with her second sister at the age of 7. She was able to cook all the meals at home by the age of 10. Although she was not proficient in everything in the field, she could do everything.
Seeing his mother's figure leaving the yard, Li Qubing lay on the bed again and began to think randomly.
What should I do?
Well, let's first consider your own advantages:
1. I was a migrant worker in my previous life and had a deeper understanding of the general trends in the Internet industry and the game industry.
2. I know the trend of housing prices in China in the next 28 years, and I also know the situation of economic development in China in the next 28 years.
3. I know several situations in the stock market in the next 28 years: after rising to more than 2,200 points in 2001, it fell for four consecutive years, and by 2005, it only had less than 1,000 points; in 2007, it rose to 6,100 points in 2007, and fell to less than 1,600 points in November 2008, and then rebounded to 3,400 points and then fluctuated all the way down to 1,850 points; thus starting the second crazy, directly rushing to 5,100 points, and then slashing to 2,600 points. Later, the country said that it would be a slow bull market, and the stock market slowly began to rise from 2,600 to 3,500. But I knew almost nothing about other stocks except that I knew that China God Car had developed into China Hard Car and became famous in the global stock market!
4. My knowledge level is now at the level of graduating from a key university. Although I have returned it to the teacher for a long time because I don’t have to do it, and my English is never good, but I am basically in Chinese, history, politics, geography, etc.! This is beneficial for my future studies and relationships.
5. I know the national and international political forms in the next 28 years - but this will only be used at a certain level, and now I know it and I don’t know it!
My own disadvantages: I am poor, my family is too poor! I am young, 12 years old, what can I do at the age of 12?
The evening meal was steamed braised noodles and egg porridge, which made Li Qubing very delicious.
The weather in the Huanghuai Plain in July is very hot, dry and hot, and with the lack of wind, it makes it even more stuffy. I can't stay in the house at all, and there are too many mosquitoes in the yard, so I can't sleep. At night, the family can only shake a palm fan in the yard to prevent mosquitoes from biting and chatting, and when it's not too hot, I go into the house to sleep.
After talking nonsense, the eldest sister suddenly said, "Brother, when I burned bricks last year, didn't you say that I didn't burn enough bricks? In the summer, I bought some bricks to build a house? When should we buy bricks?"
"Yes, there is still 20,000 bricks left. Alas, I worked hard for a year last year and burned 200,000 bricks: your third uncle's 40,000 yuan, our family's 40,000 yuan, your eldest brother's 60,000 yuan, and your fourth brother's 60,000 yuan. Your eldest brother's house has been built, and your fourth brother's house will be started after the work is done. After they build, we will build your third uncle..."
I was having a cool night chatting, and the people who talked were unintentional, but a thunder suddenly exploded in Li Qubing's mind!
My brother will burn bricks!
To be precise, I didn’t know how to burn bricks, but how to burn kilns and burn kilns. I remember when I was a child before I was reborn, one year, I, uncle, fourth uncle, uncle, old man, second uncle, eight cousins, and 8 people. As long as the farm is slack, I started to burn bricks and then dry them. In late autumn, I made a lot of bricks and burned them. My father spread the kilns and burned them for a winter! This is what my father is talking about now!
Chapter completed!