Dreaming of 1988, I have the ability to see ghosts and ghosts

Everything was settled, and my grandmother and I were very happy. I also planned to visit Wang Fang's house after the New Year to tell her the news of my transfer.

After all, she is the first friend I have made in all these years. If I don't tell her, and she finds out I didn't go to school at the beginning of the month, given her personality, she will not only be anxious but also angry.

Also, before the next semester starts, I need to take a certificate issued by the Education Commission to Sanxiang Middle School to pick up my file, and then take it to Houhu Middle School to register for school. This way, I can do these two things at the same time.

In this way, I did my homework every day and helped my grandma collect some firewood. As the Spring Festival approached, the weather was getting colder and colder, and my grandma and I had to warm ourselves by the fire every day.

After dinner that night, it was already very dark. Grandma was lighting a fire, and while warming herself by the fire, she was using an iron rack to hang a tin kettle to boil water.

"Grandma Xu, Grandma Xu, open the door quickly!"

Suddenly there was a rapid knock on the door, which startled me, and the sweet potato I had just taken out of the fire fell to the ground.

Grandma quickly got up to open the door. I bent down to pick up the sweet potato that had fallen on the ground and dusted it off.

"Who is it?" grandma asked as she opened the door.

As my grandma opened the door, a gust of cold wind blew in, and I realized that it was drizzling outside. The cold wind was so chilly that I couldn't help but shiver.

"Grandma Xu, it's me!" A woman's weak voice came from the door.

"You, are you Huang Wei's wife Xiao Min? Why are you here so late at night? Come in quickly. It's so cold, look, it's raining."

Grandma sighed and invited the visitor into the house.

I looked up and saw a woman in her 20s. She was wearing a dark red cotton-padded jacket. Her hair was all wet and stuck to her face. Her clothes were also wet in a large area. She was wearing a pair of black cloth shoes that were covered in mud. She looked very disheveled.

"Feng'er, quickly get your sister Min a dry towel."

Grandma brought a chair and asked Xiao Min to sit next to the fire, while she called me and spoke to her.

"Xiao Min, come on, warm yourself by the fire. You must be frozen. It's really late in the month. Where are your family members? How could they let you run out alone?"

Grandma took the towel from my hand and wiped the water off Sister Xiaomin's head while speaking angrily.

Only then did I see that Xiao Min in front of me was actually a pregnant woman. From the way she sat down, it was not difficult to tell that she was at least five months pregnant.

I looked at her blankly. Could it be that she had a fight with her husband and ran away?

In this day and age, it is common for men and women to quarrel or for men to beat women.

Some women who were beaten panicked and ran away because their parents' homes were far away. Not knowing where to go, they hid in their neighbors' homes.

I looked at her with great sympathy and said to grandma.

"Grandma, do you want to get a pair of slippers for Xiaomin? Her shoes are all wet."

"Thank you!" Sister Xiao Min looked up at me, and I found that her eyes were full of tears and her expression was very nervous. She must have suffered a great injustice.

"Okay, okay! Go get it right away."

After listening to my grandma, I turned into the room and took out a pair of cotton slippers made by my grandma.

Grandma also found a foot basin, poured some hot water, and let her soak her feet before changing her into slippers.

After everything was settled, she told us that she had run away from her sister's house today.

It turned out that she and her sister both married into our village. Her sister married into our Team 6, and she married Huang Wei from Team 2.

After getting married, I gave birth to a daughter who is 3 years old this year. My family still wants another child. Of course, they would be happier if it was a son.

However, family planning has been enforced more strictly in recent years, and family planning propaganda slogans are posted everywhere in the village.

"Marry late, have children later, have fewer and better children, and live a happy life."

"Equality between men and women, good parenting and good marriage, creating a happy family."

"Family planning concerns you and me. Caring for our homeland is everyone's responsibility."

"Adhere to family planning and achieve coordinated development of population, economy and society."

Yes, when my mother gave birth to me, each family could only have two children. In recent years, each family can only have one child.

In order to respond to the call from the country, the staff of the Family Planning Office and the village women's director have been very busy in recent years.

Married women in the village who have given birth to one child are not allowed to have a second child. Those who do not have a second child are forced to have an IUD or sterilization surgery.

Once a woman is found pregnant, she will be forcibly taken to the hospital for an abortion.

The women were in panic and hid everywhere.

Xiao Min is one of them. After she gave birth to her daughter, she was also forced to have an IUD inserted. I don’t know what happened, but maybe the IUD fell out, and she got pregnant this year.

After finally getting pregnant, she and Huang Wei dared not tell anyone and carefully nurtured the baby in their bellies, fearing that they would be discovered by the family planning team.

But as the months went by, she usually didn't dare go out, but for some reason, others still found out.

In order to avoid being tracked by the family planning team, she has been living at her sister's house these days. Today, for some reason, she discovered someone peeping at her sister's house.

She felt something was wrong, so she ran away from her sister's house while the man was gone.

Seeing several people coming out from behind, she knew they must be people from the family planning team coming to arrest her, so she hid in a haystack under a ridge.

After those people left, she wanted to go back to her sister's house.

Then I thought again, I was afraid that the group of people would make a surprise attack, so I had to run somewhere else quickly. It started to rain, so I ran to my house.

"Alas! I don't know what's going on in this country. In those years, they encouraged my generation to have children, saying that more children means more blessings. Now, they don't allow us to have children anymore, saying that it's good for eugenics."

After listening to Xiao Min's story, grandma sighed repeatedly.

I knew all these things. Seeing Xiao Min looking aggrieved, I didn't know what to say, so I asked.

"Sister Xiaomin, have you had dinner?"

I think she must have run away from her sister's house a long time ago.

"I haven't eaten it yet." She looked at the roasted sweet potato in my hand and said embarrassedly.

I quickly handed her the remaining half of the sweet potato.

"Oh, I didn't even think of that. Feng'er, you stay with Sister Xiaomin and chat for a while. I'll go heat up some food for her."

After saying that, grandma went into the kitchen.

"Thank you, Grandma Xu. Feng'er, you can eat the sweet potato. I'll eat the meal that Grandma Xu will heat up later."

Xiao Min didn't take the sweet potato I handed over.

"It's okay, Sister Xiaomin, I'm full a long time ago. You can take it first, and grandma will heat up the food soon." I said with a smile.

Maybe she was really hungry, she said thank you, took the sweet potato from my hand and started eating it in big mouthfuls.

Seeing that she almost choked, I helped pour a cup of hot water and put it in her hand. She smiled at me with gratitude.

After a while, grandma put a bowl of hot rice in her hands.

After she finished eating, she stood up to wash the dishes, but her grandmother pushed her down on the chair.