After a simple rebirth

Fu Ma and the others finally finished their chat and returned to their sixth uncle’s house.

Fu Ying thought she was going to light a fire and burn coal, but Fu Ma and Sixth Uncle went out again and didn't tell Fu Ying to light a fire. Fu Ying didn't know whether to light a fire or not. She decided to wait for Fu Ma to come back. It had been so long that she didn't remember where she had put her Sixth Uncle's things, and it was not good to move them around.

Before going out, Sixth Uncle turned on the TV and let them watch TV at home. Fu Zhe wanted to go and play with his old friends, so Fu Ying let him go.

The TV programs at this time are still broadcast by TV stations in various provinces. There is no way to choose what you want to watch. You can only keep changing channels and choose one that is barely watchable.

Mango Channel was still showing "Scarlet Heart", but Fu Ying was the only one who wanted to watch something knowledge-based, so she switched to CCTV to watch a documentary.

During the commercial break, Fu Ying went to the bathroom and stood there for a long time, not sure where the bathroom was.

My sixth uncle’s family never raised pigs, so they didn’t have a pigpen. If they weren’t in the pigpen, they were usually in the backyard.

Fu Ying entered the room where she had slept before. The two beds were the same, but the door to the backyard was not there. She went through the main room and opened the door to the backyard.

The toilet was on the right side, near the prickly ash tree. You could smell the odor as soon as you opened the door. After using the toilet, Fu Ying came out and stared at the backyard in a daze.

The backyard of my sixth uncle's house is not fenced off. As you look out, you can see a vast expanse of green and rolling mountains. On the left is a narrow slope leading up the mountain. On the right is also a slope, but it is connected to a larger area below where plants are planted. The lowest point in the middle is open space.

Fu Ying was not sure whether this area belonged to her sixth uncle's family. The area was twice as large as her sixth uncle's family. However, there were only thin and long trees in this area. No crops or even vegetables were planted there. She didn't know why.

Fu Ying remembers that she would play there when she had nothing to do on weekends. She would even move a small stool inside to bask in the sun and fall asleep there.

The whole town was built on the mountain, and the farmland was also on the mountain. It took nearly half an hour to climb up the slope to reach the two plots of land of my sixth uncle. In spring and autumn, they all went out to plant and harvest potatoes.

Fu Ying remembered that there was a family who contracted to plant fruit trees on the hillside along the way, with a large area of ​​peaches. One year, her second cousin and younger cousin took Fu Zhe to steal peaches at 1 a.m. They stole a schoolbag and came back. They were discovered by a dog and kept chasing them. They said they kept jumping down to the ridge below and ran for a long time before they were not caught.

Fu Ying was terrified when she heard this. The ridges here were all very high. They were not like those at Fu Ying's home where most of them were only a dozen centimeters apart or the same height. Instead, they were basically 1.5 meters or even more than 2 meters high.

Fu Ying asked, and fortunately, although the three people ran in a hurry, none of them sprained their ankles.

Peaches are delicious. The best peach Fu Ying has ever eaten is the Beijing peach, and the second best peach is that peach, which is big, crispy and sweet.

But Fu Ying wouldn't let her go.

Before, Fu Zhe went out to play every day and didn't think it was a big deal, but now he has stolen other people's peaches, it's a big deal. This is not just a snack of eating a peach when passing by, it has risen to an organized and premeditated action.

This is not a small matter. This kind of stealing is wrong. There is no maybe.

From then on, Fu Ying was afraid that Fu Zhe would become worse and would not be able to change his bad habit of stealing, so she kept an eye on Fu Zhe and controlled him for several years.

Fortunately, although he learned to smoke, he did not become overly addicted. Fu's father also kept an eye on him, fearing that he would learn bad things and put him in jail.

He couldn't stay long this time, and his friends didn't dare to take him to do this kind of thing. Fu Ying also took the money from him before he left, leaving only two yuan for him to buy something to eat.

It should be said that Fu Zhe still has some money, and he still has 25 in savings. I don't know why he carries it with him, isn't he afraid of losing it?

Fu Ying returned to the fireplace and continued watching TV, waiting for Fu's mother and the others to come back.

Fu Zhe came back around four o'clock, while Fu Ma and Sixth Uncle came back after five o'clock. When they came back, he directly called them out and said they were going to eat at Eldest Uncle's house.

This uncle should be considered as my cousin.

Sixth uncle and eldest uncle are brothers. The other one is Fu Ma’s cousin. For Fu Ying, she should just follow Zhao Ming and call him uncle.

The situation over there was even more complicated. Although several of my uncle's brothers had separated into different families, they all lived in the same yard and each had children. Fu Ying had never been able to tell who was whose family, so she just called out to everyone she met.

I went to my eldest uncle's yard and entered the innermost one. Actually, I didn't know how many uncles there were. There were quite a lot of people inside, and it felt like there was not enough space for two tables.

Fu Ying couldn't recognize them, and Fu Zhe didn't call out to them. The two of them were stunned. Uncle Six said to them, "Why did you call out as soon as you came in? It's only been a few years and you can't recognize your uncles?"

Fu Ying...you really thought about it.

Mother Fu had no choice but to point at them one by one, and Fu Ying and Fu Zhe called them one by one. When Fu Ying called Fourth Uncle, she took a serious look at him because she had never seen Fourth Uncle before.

She couldn't recognize which uncles were which, but she knew that there were four uncles here.

The fourth uncle was the youngest and married the latest, so she had never met him. She only recognized the fourth aunt because she stayed at the fourth uncle's house when she came back and knew some of the situation there.

My fourth uncle had five children, the first four were all daughters, and the fifth was finally a son. The year Fu Ying came back, his eldest daughter was in junior high school, the second and third were in elementary school, the fourth was just over two years old, and the fifth, the only son, was only three months old. Because of the pressure of having so many children, my fourth uncle also worked outside alone, and my fourth aunt was the one who took care of the children at home, carrying her youngest son to do things all day.

The idea in Yunnan Province is a bit strange. They say they don't favor sons over daughters, but they must have a son. If they don't have a son, they will be criticized. In serious cases, they feel like they will have no descendants. They say they favor sons over daughters, but they don't only value sons. They are actually very good to daughters. As long as they want to study, they will support them. They don't deduct the betrothal gifts for sons. Most of the money is kept by daughters as their own pocket money.

Fu Ying remembered that when her fourth aunt carried her youngest son to and fro, her youngest daughter was very quiet because her mother had no time to take care of her. Fu Ying happened to be free to play with her, so she just sat in Fu Ying's arms and didn't make any noise.

To be hypocritical, the little girl was so well behaved that it made people feel sorry for her, but Fu Ying, as an outsider, couldn't interfere. It's not that her parents didn't love her, they just couldn't always be with her.

At this time, my fourth uncle should have been married for several years and still had daughters.

The adults sat at one table and the children sat at another. Fu Ying and Fu Zhe were considered the children, and their eldest aunt and fourth aunt took care of them.

The two girls called their fourth aunt and kept running to their fourth uncle after eating. They must be his eldest daughter and second daughter. The fourth aunt was very nice, and it seemed that the fourth uncle was also very nice. He patiently held the two daughters and sat down. The children couldn't stay and ran out to play.

The dishes tonight should have been prepared by several aunts. They are a bit like the dishes for a banquet, but not as exquisite and grand. However, there are more than nine dishes.

My aunt was very enthusiastic. It seemed to be a family culture. Fu's mother was also overly enthusiastic when entertaining others. Fu Ying finished her meal quickly and refused to have more rice.

Because the kids ate so fast, there were only two people left at the table. Fu Ying was so embarrassed that she had to leave the table quickly regardless of whether the food was delicious or not.

Fu Ying helped to clean up, and her aunt persuaded her to go out and play.

Fu Ying doesn’t know anyone, so there’s nothing fun to do. She might as well lend a hand!