"Go to the leech field quickly, the kids are hungry!"
Grandma Tong didn't look up and urged Sui's mother. Sui's mother hummed, stood up and said, "I'll make some fried noodles for you. It'll be ready in a minute!"
"Mom, I want some fragrant spicy food!"
Mi Xiaodie squinted her eyes and licked her lips. In her childhood memories, there was a big bowl of spicy and fragrant noodles made by her mother.
When Sui Ma went out, Grandma Tong took off her reading glasses, put the paper-cut in her hand on the white cardboard, and pushed it in front of Tie Jun.
"Tiewazi, take a look, do you like it?"
"I like it, I like it so much, Grandma Tong, thank you!"
Tie Jun took one look and was shocked again. Without thinking, he blurted out.
If it looked similar in appearance before, it can definitely be said that now it is both spiritual and physical, especially the eyes and corners of the mouth, which are exactly the same as those on Tie Jun's face. Tie Jun is truly impressed.
"Grandma, I want it too!"
Seeing that the old lady actually cut the signature, Mi Xiaodie was a little jealous, and pouted her lips to support Grandma Tong.
"Brother, treasure it carefully. Grandma Tong rarely gives away signed paper-cuts. What you are enjoying is the treatment of a foreign guest!"
Tie Jun understood why Mi Xiaodie behaved like this and felt grateful. He stood up and hugged the old lady.
"Hehehehe, this baby is so heart-warming and doesn't dislike me as an old woman. Grandma likes it!"
Feeling the old lady's gentle pat on the back, Tie Jun thought of his deceased grandma again and his eye circles were a little red.
“It’s quite like being an old lady!”
Mi Xiaodie's powers of observation were astonishing. When she saw Tie Jun's eye circles turning red, her jealousy disappeared and she muttered in a low voice.
After calming down his mind, Tie Jun let go of Grandma Tong and sat down again. Grandma Tong looked outside, probably thinking that she would have to wait for a while, so she put on her spectacles again and picked up the red paper.
"Fourth child, you don't like to talk. He certainly doesn't say much about the life experiences of you five children. Grandma will tell you today how you and fifth child were picked up."
"Grandma, don't talk anymore, wait until I come again..."
Mi Xiaodie glanced at Tie Jun, probably because she didn't want Tie Jun to listen, so she opened her mouth to stop Grandma Tong.
"Are you afraid that Tiewazi will listen? You idiot, grandma just wants Xiao Liu and Tiewazi to listen, because they have more contacts with people than you do, and they might be able to help you find your biological father in the future!"
"My biological father is still alive?"
Mi Xiaodie exclaimed, and Grandma Tong nodded.
"Probably still alive."
"Grandma, please tell me quickly!"
Mi Xiaodie was so eager that she didn't forget to threaten Tie Jun after she finished speaking.
"Boss Iron, listen selectively, do you understand?"
"You should plug my ears if I shouldn't hear them!"
Tie Jun smiled bitterly. His treatment matched what Ma Ji said in his cross talk, fellow villagers, close your eyes!
"Haha, grandma will tell you first how you got your names."
This is a mystery, Da did not say it, Mi Xiaodie immediately entered the female schoolmaster state, staring at Grandma Tong intently.
"The big baby was picked up by Ni Da when he was listening to the Shanghai Opera in Shanghai. He said he picked it up, but in fact, someone put it next to Ni Da.
What I listened to that night happened to be Sai Jinfeng's song "Drinking Water, Thinking of the Origin, Never Forgetting the Roots", and the eldest baby was stuffed with banknotes and a small gold bracelet in his infancy.
Youda said, when he picked up the big baby, he opened his two little hands as if he were about to fly. He saw Sai Jinfeng written on the door of the theater, and casually gave him Mi Xiaofeng..."
"Grandma, grandma, the eldest sister loves to sing Shanghai opera. Her mother may be an opera singer in that theater. I'm serious and won't ask the opera troupe."
Mi Xiaodie seemed to have discovered a new world and came to shake Grandma Tong again.
"Stop shaking it, grandma is almost falling apart!"
Grandma Tong hid behind, and Mi Xiaodie retracted her hand with a smile.
"Alas! You have not experienced the old society. If an actress had an affair and gave birth to a child, not only would her master kick her out of the school, she would not even be able to earn a living.
The mother of the eldest baby is not an easy person. She was able to raise the eldest baby until he was seven months old. She definitely had no intention of giving it away. If you think so, she must have got herself into a lot of trouble.
In addition, she was able to choose Youda because she must have been observing him for many days. She knew that Youda was from Xijing and that he was a kind and honest man.
Then, while you were engrossed in watching the show, I placed the eldest child next to you."
The old lady's analysis was so reasonable that Tie Jun couldn't help but nod in admiration.
"The second baby was picked up by you when you were at the foot of Changbai Mountain and performing the funeral for Baijiazhuang. There were two sika deer under an old pine tree.
When they saw Youda coming, the two deer did not run away. They bowed their heads and lifted the cloth bundles under their feet. Youda walked over and the two deers ran away to look.
There is your second sister Xiaolu on the ground, and there is a warm milk bottle in the package. Do you understand, the second baby was also given to you by someone else?"
"Sanwa was picked up by you in Guangzhou. In winter, at dusk, it was raining. Youda hid in a small hotel, leaning against the window to watch the fish stall below selling fish.
Business was not good and it was getting dark. The fish stall owner closed the stall, put up plywood, locked the door and went home.
At this time, a woman wearing a headscarf and veil ran over, knelt down and kowtowed to you who was leaning against the window, then pointed to the ground, held an oil-paper umbrella and ran away.
Did you hear that your three sisters were not picked up by you? The third baby is called Xiaoyu, that’s how they got here.”
"My mother sent me and Xiaofeng as gifts?"
Mi Xiaodie frowned and asked in a low voice.
"It's not you two. It was you who picked it up."
Grandma Tong stopped cutting paper and shook her head.
"It was the summer of 1968. Youda and his three children were looking for a living in Ningxia. They passed by Shizui Shanxi Beach, which is at the foot of Helan Mountain.
You also know that our northwest is always short of water. When you went to Shahu to fill the kettle, Sanwazi pointed at a big 28 by the lake and shouted.
Youda was very happy after not seeing anyone for several days, picked up Sanbao and ran over.
On the edge of the lake, your mother was lying on the ground, lifeless, with your sister on her back. You were sitting on the edge crying, your throat was hoarse from crying. When you saw you, Daguang opened his mouth and couldn't speak.
There is a corps and the May 7th Cadre School nearby. You Da let the third baby take an interest in you, pick up the fifth baby, ride on the big 28 and run towards the corps.
We called people, but no one recognized your mother. The people in the army were kind-hearted, so they sent someone to call the people from the cadre school.
When the people from the cadre school came, they also said that she was not one of them. They discussed for a long time and buried your mother first, and then started to discuss which of your sisters should be adopted.
Don't be angry. Youda had no intention of adopting you at that time. The main reason was that his burden was too heavy and the three babies turned him into an old man.
Moreover, he knew at that time that he might have liver cancer, and every time he felt pain, he would push it hard with a trumpet to get through it."
Mi Xiaodie began to cry softly. Tie Jun and Liu Shengli could understand her state of mind at this time, and they could even imagine the hard life she lived as a child.
Tie Jun unconsciously reached out and patted Mi Xiaodie's back. Mi Xiaodie shrugged her shoulders.
"You are a married man, please stop photographing me and be careful of the impact!"
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean anything else, I just wanted to comfort you!"
Tie Jun retracted his hand in embarrassment and explained with a blushing face.