Chapter 3 Section 1 The Most Hasty Birth

Among the ancient and modern Chinese and foreign emperors, the birth of the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty is probably the most hasty. The bad rule of the Yuan Empire made Zhu Wusi, a poor farmer, no longer interested in childbearing. At the age of forty-seven, he has been tortured by life like an old man.He and the forty-two-year-old Chen Erniang already had three boys and two girls at this time. If they conceived a child at this age, they would be laughed at, which meant that the two of them were too aggressive in doing that.However, accidentally, she was still pregnant. Zhu Wusi and his wife are used to resigning themselves to fate.The jokes had to be made by others. Now that you are pregnant, you should carry it, just like carrying a pumpkin in your pocket.Anyway, it's safer to put it in your stomach than in your pocket, and it doesn't prevent Chen Erniang from tending chickens and pigs, planting seedlings and weeding.

The problem is that the Zhu family's house is a bit too cramped for the upcoming newborn.A family of seven lived in three low thatched houses in Zhonglidong Township, Haozhou. One of the roofs had collapsed and there was no time to repair it.There is no extra ration in the grain store.The whole family has worked hard all year round, and there is always not enough food to eat. Every year, they live on wild vegetables for one or two months, which makes the faces of the whole family turn blue.But there was no sadness on his face during the May Fourth Movement. He had gone through too many catastrophes in his life, and the boat would naturally go straight when he reached the bridge. Since God sent another little life into this world, there was always a way to support him.

In the forty-ninth year after the Mongols conquered China, at noon on September 18, the first year of Yuan Wenzong's Tianli calendar, October 21, 1328 in the Gregorian calendar, Chen Erniang had lunch, cleaned up the dishes, fed the chickens and ducks, and moved With little feet, he hurried to the ground.It is the most stressful time for autumn sowing of wheat, and there is no delay for a moment. Walking to the side of the Erlang Temple in the east of the village, my stomach hurts, and then I remembered that there is still a child in my stomach!Suppressing the pain, he turned his head and walked home. As soon as he entered the house, leaning against the wall and gasping for breath, the child was already moving.He slid down the wall involuntarily, and as soon as he lay down on the ground, the child had already fallen to the ground.

The cry was very loud. However, no one noticed this newborn life.This child is like a blade of grass in the field in the world, there is no more if there is more, and there is no less if there is less.His existence means nothing to this world.Only Zhu Wusi faced a very serious problem: the child was born without even a rag to wrap his body around.You can't be naked like this all day long! Fortunately, the second elder brother found a piece of broken silk when he went to the river to fetch water, which relieved the urgent need of Lao Zhu's family. Other than that, there are no more difficulties, and you don't even need to worry about the name. This child is of the "heavy" generation, ranking fourth.However, the traditional social habits are big rankings, and brothers and cousins ​​are ranked in order, which is exactly the eighth, which is called "heavy eight".

Like a little pig and puppy, Zhongba grew up on his own.Future, education, career, what are they, no one bothers to think about them.Since I was a child, I have never worn new clothes or shoes.When an adult goes out to work, tie him to the leg of the table with a rope, and let him cry, sit, crawl, eat dirt, and play with his toes on the ground; Herding cattle and weaving straw mats at night, I yawned so sleepy that I went to bed.May Fourth was honest and cowardly outside, and anyone could bully them, but at home they were vicious, and when they saw a child slacking off, they would punch and kick them up, no good or bad.