Less than ten minutes after unloading the burden, I took a few rice balls in a plastic bag, and took advantage of the last twilight of dusk to ride a motorcycle to my grandmother's house.

"Big grandma. Liu Qingshan stood outside the wooden door and shouted inside, "It's me, I'm Qingshan, I'm here to send you something good." ”

Before he could speak, there was a sound in the courtyard, but as soon as he opened his mouth, the sound in the room stopped abruptly. It's as if he's an open light, one press to turn it on, and one press to turn it off.

Liu Qingshan lay on the door, listening carefully to the movement inside, and for a while, there was no sound inside.

He had no choice but to shout at the door: "Grandma, I brought you a few big rice balls, which I picked up from the mountains today." ”

Smack. Finally, there was a sound in the courtyard, probably a stainless steel spoon or other iron object fell to the ground, and in the hazy night, it groaned weakly in pain.

"Grandma, open the door, I'll bring it in for you. Liu Qingshan said, "I don't know why you don't want to see me, but I really want to see you, I want to see if you are okay, I want to see if you need help, if you have something at home that you need strength to do, or it is more troublesome, I can help you do it, grandma, open the door, I am Qingshan, I am Qingshan." ”

Inside the courtyard, the twilight has been cast a dark shadow.

A dim light came out of the door of the small concrete living room on the first floor, enveloping a basin of clear water in the courtyard.

Next to the clear water, there is a cement pier. On the cement pier, there is a porcelain white plate still stained with green onions, a deep-mouthed soup bowl, a porcelain white rice bowl, and a pair of chopsticks.

On the ground, a stainless steel spoon lay quietly.

Next to the spoon is a pair of very small feet, which at a glance you know are the products of the previous feudal period.

With his feet up, he was dressed in old, but unusually clean clothes. The dark gray color is not exaggerated or dazzling, as if the life of the old lady is so low-key that it makes people feel distressed.

Her hair was white, so white that she didn't have half a black strand in sight.

Although her old face is no longer vibrant, the tenderness in her eyes still seems to be shining with a starry sky.

She listened to the pleading voices of the children outside the hospital, her heart softened, and her eyes became wet.

"Grandma, open the door and let me see you. "Let me see you, I want to see if your hair is a little grayer, I want to do something for you." ”

Every time she heard his voice, she struggled to open the door for him to come in, but she didn't dare to open it.

Although she did not give birth to a son and a half daughter for the Liu family, she loved every child of the Liu family in the palm of her hand.

Whether it is Liu Daliang, who is indiscreet, or Liu Erliang, who is honest, or Liu Yuanhe, who is romantic, or Qingshan's generation, the hard-working Qingshan, and the naughty and cute children of Daliang's family.

She always tries her best to give them the best love.

As if she wanted to make up for the guilt of not being able to have children and not being able to pass on the family to her husband, and it was like a natural motherhood that made her love these children unconditionally.

In fact, every time Aoyama came, she would secretly hide behind the gate, listen to his breathing, and feel his presence.

This child is the most sensible of all the children, and the one she can't rest assured.

However, because of this, she could not see him.

The boy had been begging outside the door for a long time, and his voice was a little choked.

She couldn't bear him to linger in the cold wind any longer, so she said: "Qingshan, go back, I'm fine now, I just don't want to see people, I don't have anything to do at home, usually your second uncle often comes to help me do things, you don't have to worry, you go back, just hang things on the door." ”

"Big grandma. Liu Qingshan was pleasantly surprised.

Although the grandmother didn't open the door, the grandmother said so much to him.

That's an unprecedented step forward.

He didn't dare to beg the grandmother to open the door anymore.

Because, many things in this world are not in a hurry, if you force the grandmother to be in a hurry, maybe she will not even talk to him like before.

He nodded again and again at the night: "Well, okay, grandma, these rice balls are big, one of them weighs almost a pound, I will hang it on the door for you, you must remember to take it in, otherwise others will take it." ”

"I know, Qingshan, it's getting dark, you shouldn't have dinner yet, you go back quickly, don't worry about me." The eldest grandmother said again.

Liu Qingshan listened to the gentle voice of the eldest grandmother for decades, and was so excited that he burst into tears, and hurriedly hung a bag of rice balls at the door, and then said goodbye to the eldest grandmother excitedly, and hurried home.

He had to go home and tell his parents the good news.

"Hehe, is your grandmother willing to talk to you?" Liu Yuanhe thought it was funny, "What's this? Every time I go to her house, she will open the door and let me in." ”

Liu Qingshan squinted: "Dad, is it interesting to hit people like this?"

Wu Cuimei said with a smile: "Qingshan, it's good, as long as you continue to persevere, I believe that your grandmother will definitely see you." ”

"I'm surprised, I'm so handsome, so temperamental, why doesn't my grandmother want to see me, but she wants to see my father and my second uncle?" Liu Qingshan shook his head, really couldn't figure out the reason.

"Is there something wrong with the aesthetics of the eldest grandmother, and she thinks that dirt buns like my dad and my second uncle are more pleasing to the eye?"

"Rabbit cub, what are you talking about, your father and I were famous beautiful men in all ten miles and eight towns back then. ”

"Vomit~~~"

"In other words, there are so many rice balls, we will definitely not be able to eat them all. Wu Cuimei stared at the rice balls that were probably half a sack, and said with a smile, "Qingshan, look, it will be the winter solstice in a few days, your uncle said they were coming, let's keep these rice balls, and when your uncle and they come, take them out and give them to eat, okay?"

Liu Qingshan exhaled helplessly: "Oh, Mom, what are you doing with it? Don't think about your mother's family whenever you have anything good? If you want to give it to your mother's family, then it is better to send it to my second grandfather and a few younger brothers and sisters, oh, and my third uncle, if they receive these fruits, they will definitely be very happy." ”

Hearing this, Wu Cuimei was not happy: "What do you mean that as soon as I have good things, I think about my mother's family? Isn't my mother's family your relatives? Do you think that you have your father's blood on you, but not your mother and mine? Don't I just say leave a few fruits for them, look at how stingy you become." Besides, when you come back from picking these fruits, is your grandmother the first thing that comes to my mind?"

"Also, if there aren't many of these fruits, only a few, and we can eat them ourselves, then I definitely won't let you keep some for your uncle and them. But now that there are so many fruits here, what's wrong with leaving a few for them to eat? Why are you so stingy?"

Mom counted it down, leaving Liu Qingshan speechless.

Women can't be reasonable.

Anyway, there are still a few days before the winter solstice, and who knows whose stomach these fruits will enter in these few days?

In this case, why argue with my mother.