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I dodged to the right, but my body was too young, I could only watch helplessly as four pitch-black palms kneaded my fleshy white and tender arms and chest for a while.I still have to endure the unsightly sighs of these two little bastards in my ears.

"So fat arms, soft, like lotus root."

"His chest is so slippery, it's more comfortable to touch than my brother's."

Seeing the black palms of the wild monkey groping three inches below my abdomen, I shivered all over.Just when I was about to use my gums to defend the innocence of my territory, a great god descended from the sky, and the evil factor flashed through my mind.

"Master—wow~~~" The little face that dared not speak out was full of infinite grievances. When he saw his relatives, he couldn't hold back and cried bitterly. Thinking about it, he was as pitiful as a little cabbage oppressed by the landlord class baby.Sure enough, the mournful crying and the choking that passed several times scared the grandfather who had just come up from the field and all the folks and elders in a cloud of mist and overflowing with sympathy.

The two who were having a great time felt the oppression behind them, and when they turned their heads, they saw Chief Ge's ashen face and a group of indignant villagers and elders behind him.The wild monkey and the boy in shorts put away their paws in panic, lowered their heads, and stood obediently on the edge of the field as if they had done something wrong.

"Grandpa, Qi!" Being hugged by my grandpa, I pointed pitifully at the two little brats next to me who were hanging their heads and pretending to be obedient.The big tears on the faces of the oppressed poor people don't need money.Behind me, Aying's mother and Heping's father looked me all over nervously, and looked at the two half-year-old boys with very ugly eyes.

"Da Zhu! You brat is causing me trouble all day long!" A short and fat woman emerged from the crowd, grabbing the wild monkey's ear and twitching.

"Mother, I didn't do anything! If you don't believe me, you can ask Brother Dameng!" The wild monkey who was dragged by his ears was hurting, and quickly explained.

"Ms. Zhang, we really didn't do anything, just saw that he was fat, and touched him a few times." The kid next to him moved his body a little timidly, looking at the reddened ears of the wild monkey, and the flesh on the ears was throbbing and painful. .

"Master, Qi—" Seeing the convincing eyes of the kind people around me, I was anxious: I won't let these two wild boys go so easily!The undried tears with a touch of saltiness made my somewhat sunburned face feel hot and painful. I felt wronged and pointed at my scorching cheek, accusing the two of their atrocities.

"Mom! I didn't hit him in the face." The wild monkey was anxious.

I smirked in my heart: There is no silver 300 taels here!

"Stinky boy, how dare you lie! You can see that Kugen's face is red and swollen!" Aunt Zhang looked at my cheeks, her face flushed suddenly with anger, and she picked up the pole beside her and pulled it at the wild monkey.Seeing that the plank was pulled down, the wild monkey was really going to hurt his muscles and bones, so he ran away in fright, and Aunt Zhang behind him was chasing after him with a pole.

"Forget it! It's a joke among the children." The corners of Grandpa's serious mouth twitched.Aying who was behind me gently touched my cheeks that were a little red and swollen with tears in distress.

"It's okay, it will be fine in two days. Everyone is gone, and I have to go to work tomorrow." Grandpa hugged me and went home first.

"This monkey Zhang Tiezhu really doesn't care what he does. Look at how he made the child's face so red and swollen." Grandma gently wiped my cheeks with a wet towel, her distressed eyes turned red.I also wondered in my heart, why is it so hot and painful?The frail body of a child really can't help tossing.

"Mother, let me do it." After Ah Ying took me from grandma, she picked up the small bowl beside her and fed it.The porridge cooked with red dates tastes okay. I pursed my mouth and made a "bar" sound, and the grandma beside me smiled very gratified.

"Slow down." Grandma carefully wiped off the soup hanging from the corner of my mouth.

There is food in the stomach, and the brain starts to feel dizzy and sleepy.In a daze, I heard whispers in the room talking for a while, then the door creaked, and then I didn't know anything.

This sleep was very drowsy, and I felt like I wanted to wake up but I couldn't wake up.Stomach distended uncomfortably, tired all over.I vaguely heard the sound of sobbing outside, and I opened my eyes with the strength of breastfeeding, and saw Ah Ying crying into tears beside the bed.

"Wake up! Wake up!" exclaimed in the ear, "The little guy is really annoying, and he slept for a day and a night, scaring your mother and grandma." Grandma's eyes were red and swollen. Looking at me with an unconcealable smile.

"Baby! Don't scare my mother~~~" The young mother hugged my body tightly, and tears flowed like a flood that opened the floodgate.I wanted to comfort my body, but my whole body was weak. Even my throat was too dry to utter half a syllable, and my stomach was too distended to bear it.

"Mom! Why is my baby's belly so swollen?" A gentle palm ran along his belly and found that his belly was so swollen that the veins were faintly exposed, like a round and ripe watermelon, as if it might burst at any time come the same.

"Indigestion." Grandma's face was a little dignified, as if hesitating to speak.

I remembered that in my previous life, my son also had this problem when he was two years old. At that time, I was so frightened that I went to the library to look up information about it.In modern times, this problem is not a disease at all, it is a functional disorder of the digestive system in children caused by microscopic bacteria.But in the early 70s in China, this was a relatively common problem that caused high infant mortality.

There was some faint fear in my heart: the last time it was my stomach disease that killed me.

"Mom! Will the baby be okay?!" Ah Ying grabbed grandma's arm, staring hopefully at grandma's eyes. She needed a reason, a reason to reassure her and make her frightened and manic. Reason to calm down.

"It'll be fine!" Grandma clasped Ah Ying's shoulders tightly, her firm tone seemed to give her all her strength and faith.it will be fine!I said to myself: at least the young mother Ah Ying cannot lose her first child.

"Aying! Sister Mei is here!" Ge Heping, who had just entered the courtyard, shouted anxiously.Ah Ying stood up abruptly as if she had found a life-saving straw, and ran to open the door.

"How is Sister Mei's child?!" Ge Heping's panting face was covered with sweat, looking at the middle-aged woman who was also exhausted and asked anxiously.

"It's safest for children to have snacks and breastfeeding—" Before Sister Mei finished speaking, Ah Ying collapsed on the edge of the bed, weeping uncontrollably.Sister Mei looked distressed and said, "This is not the time to blame yourself. This disease must be treated as soon as possible, otherwise the child will be in danger." She said with a pair of cool hands gently on my forehead, "The child still has some symptoms. If you have a low-grade fever, you can't delay it."

"Sister Mei, I beg you, you must save my child." Ah Ying stood up and knelt down abruptly with a "plop".My heart slammed into a hard rock, and it hurt so badly that I burst into tears.

"Get up! It's not that I don't want to help Ah Ying. This is a minor emergency in the village, and we don't have that medicine at all! You have to take the child to the hospital in the county as soon as possible!" Sister Mei lifted Ah Ying up, anxiously Said anxiously.

"I'll take the child to the county right now!" Ge Heping picked me up from the weak bed.

"Peace! Wait a minute and I'll go back and get some money to bring with me." After the grandma finished speaking, she ran towards the main room.

"Both of you husband and wife should clean up, after all, it's a county town and you won't be able to come back immediately." Sister Mei reminded.

"Peace! What happened to the bitter root?!" Ge Baojin and Ge Jianguo hurried back from the production brigade without cleaning up their bodies.

"Father! I'm going to the county seat, I'm afraid it's too late—" Ge Heping didn't dare to continue.

"County town?! It's more than 30 kilometers away from here!" Ge Jianguo looked at me on the bed who didn't even have the strength to cry, with a serious expression, "Dad! Borrow the production brigade's wheelbarrow and use it to speed up!" Ge Heping said fiercely. Thinking of it, he looked at Ge Baojin, the leader of the first team, with pleading eyes.

"No!" Ge Baojin flatly refused.

"Father! The longer the time drags on, the child may not be able to hold on!" Ge Heping refused to give up. For the first time, he yelled loudly at his father whom he had always been in awe of, his flushed face full of anger and incomprehension.

"I know!" Ge Baojin turned around sharply and roared angrily, his round eyes were slightly red and swollen, and the veins on his forehead were throbbing violently.The father and son glared at each other, and neither of them gave in to the confrontation, and the surrounding atmosphere suddenly became tense.

"Grandpa—" I called grandpa softly with all my strength. I would be surprised if grandpa agreed to lend the wheelbarrow.Although I haven't known him for a long time, I know that he loves his grandson no less than the love given by a young father.But at the same time, he is a loyal Party member. Coming from the 21st century, I deeply admire such national grassroots cadres.

"Grandpa's good grandson!" Hearing my call, grandpa ran to the side of the bed in three steps, picked up my small body, and held me in his arms.This iron-like middle-aged man had red eyes, and seemed to have too much to say to this child who was less than one year old, and finally swallowed all the bitterness, stood up and walked out of the room silently.

In the end, the young father and mother hurried on the road with all of Lao Ge's family property of 130 yuan and a thin quilt.Grandpa didn’t come to see me off. Looking at the increasingly blurred figures of grandma, uncle, and aunt under the willow tree at the head of the village, I felt a sense of belonging at that moment, like a seed falling into the warm and moist soil. Started to take root.

9. Noble...

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