"No, I just want to tell you something. Someone reported that you are pregnant. I have been to your house no less than eight times. All the women in the village have been sterilized, but you have a headache today, a stomachache tomorrow, and your period the day after tomorrow. , it's a fucking thing." Sweat broke out on Li Li's mother's forehead, thinking: How did this matter spread so fast. Li Li's mother didn't say anything. Village Chief Mu curled his lips and snorted. "Don't think that you are the only one who wants a son. There are not many people in our family who have been exterminated. Sterilization is a fatal order of the party organization. How many times have I told you. If I let you go, no one will let me go! When the time comes, If the boss blames me, who will save me?" Li Li's mother said nothing, she knew that nothing she said would work anymore, no one would believe her, and nothing she said would work.
Seeing that Li Li's mother didn't say anything, Village Chief Mu stood up angrily and said, "Don't act like a dead pig that is not afraid of being scalded by boiling water. The day after tomorrow, the township will focus on repairing the ligation, and I can't save you. What the hell if you have any Well, let's have an abortion first and then perform a sterilization." Village Chief Mu walked out without forgetting to slam the door hard. The fence of the vegetable garden stretched out and almost caught the village chief's sleeve. "What a damn bad luck!"
The words "Abort first, then sterilize" kept hurting Li Li's mother's eardrums. Her head was enlarged, and she was cursing Li Hong, who was two and a half years old, and Li Na, who was one year old. "If your stomach is not up to par, just take it out on the baby. If you are capable, give birth to it." The mother-in-law continued in the back room. Li Li's mother has a relatively gentle personality, but today she couldn't help it anymore, "I'll give birth, how will I give birth, where will I give birth?" "You are such a stubborn person, go to your old uncle and hide." The mother-in-law reminded Li Li's mother with one sentence. Li Li's mother's uncle is a forest ranger. Never got married. It is 100 miles away from Lijiacun.
If you want to leave, you must leave immediately. In the middle of the night, Li Li's mother packed up: water, toilet paper, child's pad, dry food, boiled eggs, pickle sticks, hatchet, matchbox, and a change of clothes. After cleaning up, she kissed the two girls on their faces and set off with Lao Li. We must take mountain roads, we must take small roads, and we must speed up. Old ladies in rural areas have no problem walking on mountain roads, even if they are pregnant.
It's a mountain road, it's better to say it's a trail trodden by shepherds. Fortunately, it is early autumn, and the poplar, willow and old locust trees have no leaves and stand alone on the top of the mountain, like the group of old bachelors in the village, helpless but helpless. The leaves on the hazelnut stalks have also fallen off. There is no dew, so you don't have to worry about your clothes getting wet. But they had no cover, for fear of being discovered by others. I had no choice but to rest under the trees during the day and start climbing the mountain at night. Mountain people, women in the mountains, women who no one cares about in the mountains are extraordinarily strong. Walking on the mountain road is nothing, even if they are pregnant, it doesn't matter.
The thatch on the road was slipping, and Li Li's mother said: "It depends on whether this baby's life is long or not!" Li Li's father said: "You crow's mouth, this is my son, he must be my son, Zhang Banxian said you She must be carrying a son!" "Don't be too happy too early, I'm afraid it will be a girl again. If it is a girl, just throw it away!" Li Li's mother said. "Throw it away? Are you willing to do it? Besides, it is said that angry children are not allowed to throw it away now. They will be sued. If you can't eat it, you will have to walk away." Li Li's father said. If this were the case in the past, no one would really care. Children have always been appendages to their parents and can be handled at any time. This is Chinese tradition and no one will raise any objection. Even now, beating and scolding children in China seems to be a private matter of the family, and almost no one cares about it.
After walking for two days, there is less than 30 miles left. Li Li's father said to Li Li's mother: "Mom, you have to go by yourself. The rest of the way is easy to walk. I have to go back. Maybe the family is already boiling." Li Li's father's rare gentleness made him Li Li's mother was suddenly at a loss. She knew that this man was now counting on her belly.
Mother is more valuable than her son. This is a truth that has existed since ancient times. This is especially true in Lijiazhuang, a small mountain village that has been forgotten by modernization for a long time.
Li Lim's mother knew that as soon as they left, the women's director and the village chief would come and ransack the house. She specifically told Li Li's father to take a detour so as not to expose his whereabouts. Although Li Li's father is cruel to his wife and children, he is absolutely obedient to the village cadres. Maybe he is a soldier, and his legs get weak when he sees the leaders. But he also wants a son, so he and Li Li's mother are like a grasshopper on a vine.
Li Li's mother walked for more than a day and finally arrived at her uncle's forest farm. She hasn't been to this forest farm for ten years. I relied entirely on my own memory, but luckily I found it. She slammed the wooden door hard. The door opened. "Oh, girl, why are you here?" Li Li's mother had tears in her eyes. The old man seems to be much older. Back then, my uncle fell in love with a girl from the same village, but Li Li's mother refused and beat the girl with a stick. As a result, the girl committed suicide by cutting her wrists. From then on, the old uncle became the forest ranger, and he never had a partner, let alone got married and had children.