The morning in the mountains is a different kind of beauty.

Even in such a cold winter, there are no birds on the branches, no insects in summer, but there is space and tranquility.

My brother and I each stood by the concrete dam with a bowl of water, brushing our teeth diligently.

My grandmother got up as soon as she was shining, and they all said that when people get old, their sleep will become shorter, and it seems that this is indeed the case.

Smoke rises from the earthen kitchen, and a skinny old man cooks breakfast for her two grandchildren.

My brother and I finished brushing our teeth and both helped out in the kitchen.

My brother lit the fire, I was in charge, and my grandmother was in charge of guiding.

At breakfast, I told my grandmother about going back to the city with us.

Grandma politely refused, saying that she had lived here all her life, and in the end, she had to be buried in this field to be at ease.

After breakfast, when my brother was washing the dishes, I leaned over to him and said, "Wencai, come with me to the back mountain after washing the dishes." ”

My brother asked me what I was doing, and I honestly said, "Didn't you learn from a carpenter before?" Let's go to the back mountain to cut some wood, and make an old man's chair for my grandmother from the big wooden blocks piled up in the kitchen. ”

"Old man's chair?" the elder brother stopped what he was doing, his brows furrowed slightly.

With a twinkle in my eyes, I nodded and said, "Yes, the old man's chair, it's the kind of chair that can sit on it and shake it back and forth by itself, will you do it?"

"Yes, yes, but ...... There are no carpenter's tools. "My brother is guilty.

I raised my eyebrows and smiled slyly.

"Who said no, you forgot, our grandfather was born as a carpenter, and his tools are all stored in this house. ”

"Okay, wait a minute. The corners of the brother's mouth were raised, and the action of washing the dishes was a little neat.

Ten minutes later, my brother and I went to the back mountain with an axe.

In the back mountain, there is a small forest, which was planted by my grandfather in the past, saying that it is the policy of the village to plant trees to get rid of poverty.

It's just that my grandfather is not even there, and this poverty still hasn't been taken off.

The small trees of the past, the big trees of today, are just the right time for you to exert your residual heat.

My brother and I watched each other with an axe, and it took us a long time to cut down a tree, and we watched for more than an hour before we finished cutting two.

"Two trees, that's almost enough. ”

The elder brother spoke, and the two of us dragged a tree back.

Although it was winter, the weather was cold, and it was even colder in the mountains, but after some labor, my brother and I were already sweating, and it can be said that we were sweating profusely and sweating like rain.

Grandma held a bamboo hand warmer in her hand, sat on the stone pier at the gate, and saw that one of us was dragging a big tree back, and she was so tired that she couldn't breathe, and immediately took small steps to wipe our sweat in distress.

"My good grandson, what are you going to do here? ”

I went into the house and carried three low wooden stools to the dam, and my brother helped my grandmother sit down and explained, "Grandma, we are going to make you an old man's chair." ”

When my grandmother heard this, she looked at me and my brother with suspicion on her face, and said unfavorably, "Just the two of you, do you know how to work as a carpenter?"

I sat down next to my grandmother and said, "Grandma, Wencai used to learn the craft from a carpenter in our village, you only need to take out the guys that your grandfather used to eat, and Wencai can make you an old man's chair!"

The elder brother also sat on the other side of his grandmother and chimed in: "Grandma, you take out one of the things that your grandfather used as a carpenter, and I promise to make you an authentic old man's chair." ”

My grandmother was amused by me and my brother, and she told us, "Those things are in the wooden box under my bed." ”

"Since your grandfather left, no one has touched it, and I don't know if it can be used after so many years. ”

"When I was young, your grandfather said that when he was old, he would make two old people's chairs, one for him and one for me, and we would sit there together and watch the sun rise and set. ”

"But in the end, he left first, and my old man's chair was not found. ”

"But now it's okay, my two eldest grandsons can fulfill my wishes, and God is not kind to me, thinking that my wife is dying, give me a little favor. ”

There is an indescribable calmness and indifference in my grandmother's tone, and this attitude of looking down on life and death may only be available when I am old.

But my nose suddenly sore, and my eyes moistened as quickly as if they had entered sand.

I held my grandmother's hand and said with a sad expression: "Grandma, you will live to be 100 years old, Peng Zu has lived to be 800 years old, you have to learn from him." ”

"Hahaha. ”

My grandmother lovingly rubbed my hair and let out a hearty and sincere laugh.

"Okay, grandma will live to be eight hundred years old, my good grandson, don't cry, manly, stand up to the sky, tears can't flow out easily, good. ”

After a while, the elder brother came out of the hall carrying a large heavy wooden box.

He placed the dusty wooden box in the dam and opened it.

It is filled with all kinds of tools for carpenters.

I can't name the specifics, but it looks very professional at first glance, probably just unconscious!

My brother and I first shaved the branches of the two big trees, then cut off the bark, and then cut them into several sections according to my brother's request.

Next, it's time for the older brother to show off his real skills.

In addition to eating, the elder brother did not stop for a moment.

By the afternoon, he was already cutting wood directly in a short-sleeved shirt.

Although he was wearing short sleeves, his back was still wet with sweat, and the sweat the size of beans dripped on the wood, and his grandmother happily wiped the sweat for his brother from time to time.

How warm this scene is, if Dad can see it, he should be gratified.

I made the old man's chair for three days in a row, and my brother did it without spending a nail or a drop of glue.

Not only is the surface polished smooth and smooth, but the structure is even more ingenious.

In order to make it easier for his grandmother to move, he also specially designed the bottom and rollers.

The elder brother said that he used the most primitive Master Lu Ban technique, so it took a long time.

I praised the wheelchair, I didn't expect my brother to learn this craft so well, he could make a finished product and buy it!

Grandma touched the smooth old man's chair, and her joy was overflowing.

It seems that we decided to make an old man's chair for my grandmother, and we did the right thing!

However, it was the fourth day since I came to my grandmother's house, and it was time to say goodbye.

When I thought that after we left, my grandmother would have to live alone in this mountain again, and I suddenly felt very uncomfortable.

I went into the house and spread the blanket and cushion I had brought from my backpack on the old man's chair, and my grandmother happily sat on it.

The warm winter sun sprinkled all over this world, and also sprinkled on the faces of our grandparents and grandchildren.

"Grandma, we're leaving tomorrow. ”

I said this sentence anyway at dinner.

Although there was a slight shock on my brother's face, we have been living here for a few days, and it is inevitable that we will leave.

"Oh, I see, let's go tomorrow morning after breakfast. ”

My grandmother's face was full of reluctance, and so was my brother and me.

But life is like this, there is no eternal reunion, only a brief reunion and inevitable parting.

Paragraph by paragraph, the cycle repeats.

Sleepless tonight.

The next day, my grandmother still got up early, my brother and I washed up, and breakfast was already on the table.

After breakfast, my brother washed the dishes, and I packed my things and prepared to say goodbye to my grandmother.

Grandma was lying on the old man's chair, looking at the rising sun in the sky, with a happy smile on the corner of her mouth, and her expression was leisurely and calm.

My brother and I stepped forward.

"Grandma, we're ready to go. ”

Grandma didn't answer us.

She couldn't answer us anymore.