80s Taoism

Zhang Jiaohua was born on July 14, 1985 in the lunar calendar. The fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month is the Hungry Ghost Festival. The Ghost Festival is commonly known as the Ghost Festival, and ancestors are worshiped every year before this day in rural areas. Zhang Jiaohua's parents are both farmers, he is the eldest in the family, and he is also the youngest. Because the first child of the parents is a boy, according to the family planning policy, only one child can be born. On the dam of Meizi'ao Reservoir, a shocking slogan was written in lime: ran away from my son to find my father, ran away from my father to demolish the house.

The reason why Zhang Jiaohua is called Zhang Jiaohua is because Zhang Jiaohua's grandparents think that taking a cheap name is easy to support. Beggar is "beggar", originally only as a nickname. Who knew that during the census in 1990, Zhang Jiaohua's parents were not at home, and the village party secretary Zhang Dechun directly changed Zhang Jiaohua's nickname into his real name that day. People in the countryside are not so pretentious about their names. Their names are filled in their household registration books, and they don't have the thought to change their names anymore. Zhang Jiaohua became Zhang Jiaohua's name.

Originally, Zhang Jiaohua was no different from ordinary rural kids when he was young. They eat and drink the same way, act like a spoiled child with their parents, bully their grandparents, fight and scold the little kids in the village, steal a dime from their parents to buy a popsicle, eat softened grapes from Zhang Jiujin’s vines, dig out bird nests in the mountains...the same, nothing special. But Zhang Jiaohua experienced a different thing when he was six years old, which completely changed the trajectory of his life.

Children from poor families are in charge of the family early, and children in Meiziao learn to help their parents with housework and farm work from an early age. Zhang Jiaohua is no exception. When he was five years old, he was responsible for cooking, sweeping the floor, pulling pigweed, collecting firewood, and herding cattle at home. It's not that Zhang Jiaohua is sensible early, but that as long as the children in Meizi'ao Village are not stupid or stupid, by this time, they have to do things.

When grazing cattle, they go up the mountain early in the morning for an hour or two, and then go home for breakfast. We set off at four or five in the afternoon and didn't come back until it was dark. Cattle are the most precious livestock in the countryside. At that time, one family could not afford to raise a cow. Several households gather together to raise a cow. A cow needs to tend ten or twenty acres of land. To make the cattle work, the cattle must be fed regularly.

Of course, for the little kids in Meizi'ao, the time of herding cattle may be a good time worth recalling for a lifetime. Because when the cattle are herding, as long as the cattle are driven to the mountain, the little kids can play freely. Of course, the cow accidentally ran down the mountain and ate a large piece of other people's seedlings. If he didn't escape and was caught, he would definitely chase him home and demand compensation. There is always a good meal. But the scar is healed and the pain is forgotten. On the second day, the little kids who had recovered from full blood would go their own way again.

Summer is the happiest time for cowboys. Although when going out, my parents told me in every possible way not to take a bath in the pond. But in the mountains, the little brats are grandson monkeys who can turn the world upside down.

The little kids who often herd cattle with Zhang Jiaohua are all members of the same family with the same surname. But although they are the same age, they are not of the same generation. In Meiziao, there are often adults who call him uncle kid.

Gou Wa is the oldest among the six people, and the rest of them have to call him Uncle Shiba. Jin Hushi, Fugui, Xiaoshuan and Mancang are of the same generation as Zhang Jiaohua.

Jin Hu was the oldest among them, two years older than Zhang Jiaohua. He was eight years old when the accident happened and he was only in the first grade. Mancang is the youngest, one year younger than Zhang Jiaohua. Fugui is one year older than Zhang Jiaohua. Xiao Shuan and Gou Wa are as big as Zhang Jiaohua.

The day of the accident was when Jin Hu was on summer vacation. The seventh month of the lunar calendar is a few days away from Zhang Jiaohua's birthday.

During that period of time, for some unknown reason, Zhang Jiaohua felt sleepy every day, yawning everywhere he went.

On the afternoon when the accident happened, Zhang Jiaohua couldn't even lift his eyelids when he arrived in the mountains, so he found a random shade and lay down on the grass and fell asleep.

I don't know how long he slept, but Zhang Jinhu ran over and kept pushing Zhang to beg for flowers.

"Calling, calling, wake up! Calling, calling, get up!"

Zhang Jiaohua couldn't open his eyes, moved his body, and fell asleep again.

Zhang Fugui also ran over and pushed Zhang to beg for flowers.

"Call the flower, call the flower, get up and go take a bath with us."

This time, Zhang Jiaohua responded, "Okay." But his body moved a bit, and he fell asleep again.

Then the other five children all ran over, screaming non-stop.

"Calling flowers, get up!"

"Biaohua, come with us to fish in the pond."

"Ballery, let's go."

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Zhang Jiaohua still couldn't open his eyes, he didn't know why he was so sleepy. He could hear the voices of several friends very clearly, and he could even feel their movements, but he couldn't open his eyes no matter what.

Zhang Jiaohua was finally woken up by his father Zhang Youping.

As soon as Zhang Youping came over, he lifted Zhang Jiaohua onto his lap and beat Zhang Jiaohua's butt.

Zhang Jiaohua was in so much pain that he woke up. As soon as he saw Zhang Youping, he knew he was in trouble. He thought the buffalo he saw had eaten other people's crops.

"Father, I won't dare to sleep when grazing cattle anymore. Mother, come and help me. I can't help but sleep." Zhang Jiaohua burst into tears. He still doesn't know what happened.

Zhang beggar Liu Qiaoye immediately showed her astonishing toughness like the old hen protecting the cub, "My cub did nothing wrong, why did you beat him?"

"Let's go out to herd cattle together, and Jinhu and the others are gone. You let me meet their parents, how can you speak?" Zhang Youping said painfully.

"It was an accident. It's not the beggar's fault." Liu Qiaoye's voice dropped a lot.

"Mother, what happened to Jinhu and the others?" Zhang Jiaohua asked in confusion. All he remembered was that the five of them kept calling him to take a shower, but they just couldn't open their eyes. If he wasn't so sleepy, he would have gone to fish in the pond.

"Jin Hu and the others drowned. It was dark, and you didn't go home. We all came out to look for casual workers. We found the cows in the fish pond. Their clothes were on the bank. After groping for a long time, they all came out. They were already stiff. If we didn't see that your clothes were not there, how would we know we came here to look for you!" Liu Qiaoye couldn't help crying when he said this.

"Jin Hu and the others are not dead! They are here. Jin Hu, why don't you talk!" Zhang Jiaohua's words made Zhang Youping and his wife sweat coldly down their backs.

Zhang Jiaohua looked to the side, and there were five little friends sitting beside him, all smiling silly at him.