The new book of the burning prairie star

While I was collapsing, my feet could not help but walk towards the home in my memory. When I walked into the village, I saw many people carrying the newly harvested wheat to the village threshing ground. It was the wheat harvest season. No wonder the weather was so hot. The weather was really good for drying the grains. If it didn't rain, it wouldn't take long for the grains to be dried and stored. Farmers couldn't help but smile when they saw the extra grains at home. Whether they sold them for money or kept them for their own consumption, it was the hope of life.

We walked to a thatched house and saw a fence made of vines and short wood surrounding the yard. It was probably to prevent poultry such as chickens from harming the vegetables planted in the yard. After all, these fences could be destroyed by a ten-year-old child with malicious intent, let alone an adult. It was not the same concept as modern walls.

I pushed open the door and walked into the yard. The yard was quite large. The first thing I saw was a bunch of beans hanging on bamboos. The leaves next to them were drooping listlessly, looking lifeless. There were also some vegetables planted in the yard. Without exception, their leaves were listless, and some of the leaves had turned yellow, showing the domineering heat of the midday sun!

Walking through the yard to the main room, there is a square table, six long benches, and several benches made of small wooden boards. Going straight ahead of the main room, there is a large room with a door on each side. It is very dry inside, and the wheat that has just been dried a few days ago is placed inside, which is also used as a grain storage room. There are two rooms on each side of the grain storage. The room on the left, close to the grain storage, is where the head of the Yang family, Yang Dashan, and the old couple Zhang, that is, Yang Biao's grandparents, live.

The Yang Dashan couple had many children, but only three sons and one daughter survived and got married. The eldest daughter was born when Yang Dashan was weeding, so she was named Yang Chucao. There were few people in the village who read books, and even fewer who could read, so the children were named casually. They were called whatever their father or grandparents were doing when the child was born. When she grew up, she married a butcher named He from the neighboring Changping Village and had two sons. The eldest son, Yang Lidi, was actually the third child in the family, but the first child died in the confinement period. He married Wang and had two sons and two daughters.

The second son, Yang Taishi, married Xiao Zhang and had two sons and one daughter. The eldest son is Yang Biao, the daughter Yang Xiaohua is eleven years old, and the youngest son Yang Lin is eight years old.

The third son, Yang Zhenzhen, married Li and had two daughters, Yang Caixiang, nine years old, and Yang Qianxiang, seven years old. Li was also pregnant with a five-month-old fetus. After feeling her pulse with an old Chinese doctor, he said it was a boy. Yes, the age difference between the two sisters and this baby was quite large, because the previous pregnancies were said to be girls by someone who felt their pulse, but Li took medicine to abort them without hesitation.

Opposite Yang Dashan's room lived the family of the third brother Yang Zhenzhen, next door lived the family of the second brother Yang Taishi, and opposite, next door to the old couple lived the two sons of the eldest brother Yang Lidi. Originally, it was Yang Lidi's family who lived there, but later, as the children grew older, it became inconvenient to live there, so Yang Lidi built two more rooms on the east side of the old house for himself, his wife, and his two daughters to live in. Yang Taishi saw his eldest brother building two more rooms, and he thought his son needed quiet to study, so he also built two rooms on the west side of the old house as Yang Biao's study and sleeping room.

Maybe because none of the male members of the Yang family had ever received an education, and they didn’t want their younger generations to be blind and have no hope in their lives, so with this in mind, Yang Biao and other cousins ​​all went to school. However, Yang Lidi’s two sons didn’t like studying and were forced to do so by their parents.

In the eyes of Yang Lidi and his wife, studying is something that cannot be abandoned. Most of their peers in the village go to school, and the world respects scholars. All things are inferior, only reading is superior. If you don't study hard and diligently, you won't get what you dream of.

The two brothers were often spanked by the teacher because they could not recite the books. After two years of studying, they refused to go to school again. Seeing that the children would cry and scream at the mention of studying, their mother Wang had no choice but to let them go.