When Shen Zixi was almost three years old, she understood her situation. When she was very young, she knew that other children had fathers, mothers, grandparents, but she only had two aunts and an uncle.
However, occasionally her aunt would take her to meet many people. Her aunt asked her to call them Madam, Grandpa and Grandma, Dad and Mom. Then she knew that it was not that she didn't have family members, but that these family members did not live with them, and they could not meet every day. When they met, they had to hide from many people.
However, this has always been a secret between her and her aunt. She has never told anyone, not even her best friend Xiaoxue in the village.
Life in the northeastern village was simple but happy because her aunt became a barefoot doctor, and her grandparents, great aunts, great uncles, and uncles who were soldiers often sent them money and some hard-to-buy food and daily necessities. She was the happiest child in the village, no doubt about it.
Before she was three years old, her aunt would not let her go out to play casually, and would take her wherever she went. When she was older, Shen Zixi had the right to go out and play with her friends, but this was only limited to the village. It was better when she was accompanied by her aunt and uncle. They could go up the mountain or to the river. In the hot summer, they could even step on the water. However, every time she took her feet out of her flowered shoes, the grandparents next to her would say that she was blessed.
Although her little fleshy feet did look very fragrant and delicious, Shen Zixi didn't want to admit that she was fat.
In spring and winter, Shen Zixi spent more time at home with her aunt. In fact, she also wanted to go out and play, but her aunt was afraid that she would get cold or sick, so she often took her with her and taught her to read and write big characters and numbers.
Shen Zixi sometimes sighed as she looked at her hands that could barely hold a pen, but in order not to disappoint her aunt, she would study hard, playing, eating, and studying at the same time. A lot of knowledge from the book went into her head. Her aunt said that this was the power of genes, because her biological parents were both very smart people, scientists, so as their child, she had this advantage since her mother's womb.
In this way, she became the most educated one among the children in the village. Boys older than her had to call her "Big Sister". There was no other way. Children who were too capable had to take care of a bunch of younger brothers. By picking herbs in the mountains in late spring and summer, she and her friends became rich and could buy candy.
Whenever the aunts in the village saw her, they would put some delicious food in her pocket, sometimes fruits from the mountains, sometimes homemade peanuts. There weren’t many things, but these were unplanned snacks. My aunt didn’t know that this was also one of the sources of her happiness as a child.
When she was seven years old, her wife returned to Beijing first. Her aunt said that Beijing was their home and the Northeast was their temporary residence. To put it in a more literary way, it was their second hometown. So soon, her father, mother, second grandparents all went back.
There are only four of them left in Northeast China.
However, the past six months have been a time of great fun for her. Her aunt was busy with work and reviewing, and she handed over her educational tasks entirely to her younger aunt and uncle. This allowed their three-person team to finally get together and find an organization.
Her aunt and uncle were not going to school for the time being and had to wait until they returned to Beijing to go to high school. For half a year, they took her for a stroll around the village and then to the town, where they secretly ate roast chicken. Her aunt and uncle had a lot of pocket money, so they had plenty of money to spend.
It’s not that the food my aunt cooks is not delicious, it’s just a feeling that is different from eating at home.
Winter was not over yet when she returned to the capital, and she finally understood what her family was like. How should I put it, they were very powerful. Her wife was powerful, her grandfathers were powerful too, and from her father to her uncles and aunts, in short, there was not a single one who was inferior to her. In a military compound, she sometimes heard the sound of other people's children being beaten, saying, "You bunch of good-for-nothings, why don't you learn from the Shen family's children? Look at other people's children, and then look at you. If I had left long ago, I would have been pissed off by you bastards."
Then why don’t you look at the old men in the Shen family? They are well-educated, have military merits, and have a powerful son-in-law. With these conditions, even an incompetent person can be made into a capable person.
Many people in the compound, young and old, envied the Shen family. Of those who were "driven out" of the capital, only a very small number returned, and those who were able to start over safely with their families and children were even rarer.
The Shen family is such a family. The old man has returned in good health. Even in such a cold weather, he is still healthy and has no disasters. This is the stabilizing force. If the children below can strive for more, no one else can catch up with them.
Besides, none of the children in the Shen family are bad, and they know what they are doing very well.
Shen Zixi knew that all this was thanks to her eldest aunt. Her eldest aunt went to the countryside as an educated youth and took her younger aunt and uncle with her, making it impossible for anyone who wanted to do harm to the Shen family to do so. Her second uncle, the only one who joined the army, was very well "protected" by her uncle. She knew this was a compromise. Her aunt said that as long as a person is alive, there is hope at any time. Even if you fall into a mud pond or fall into the abyss, as long as you are alive, there will be a day when you can get ashore and see the light.
She had known this truth since she was a child, so when she met a kidnapper in the village, she did not follow him, but went home in time to tell her aunt. In the end, her friend was rescued, and her aunt said that she had made a great contribution.
When she was seven years old, she went to school. The knowledge in the first grade was very simple. Shen Zixi wanted to doze off in every class. She had learned everything in the textbooks early, but for the sake of the new friends she had just met, it was okay to stay up a little.
Yes, she went from being the big sister in the village to the big girl in the compound.
It doesn’t matter if boys don’t play with her, she will mobilize the girls to play boys’ games and play them better than them!
The year her aunt got married, Shen Zixi was in junior high school. She identified with and liked her uncle who had abducted her aunt, because her uncle listened to her aunt unconditionally. She once secretly saw her very tall uncle being scolded by her aunt by pulling his ears, and he also bent his legs.
She knew that this was the person who would love and care for her aunt for the rest of her life. She was only a teenager, and life was both long and short. She hoped that her aunt would live a happy life.
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