In autumn, the mountain fruits are ripe, and the eggs have long promised me to wait for the sour dates to ripen and ask his father to make us sour date noodles to eat.

Jujube is a kind of wild shrub, which generally does not grow tall, about two meters high, and only about half a meter low, and is everywhere in the mountain roads and ravines around our village. When the jujube is ripe, the fruit of the jujube is small, the jujube core is large, and there is not much flesh, and there are many thorns on the branches of the jujube tree, which are also called thorns. Be very careful when picking, otherwise it will be easy to prick your hands and arms.

The taste of jujube is sweet and sour, which helps digestion, and is one of the best snacks we have to satisfy our cravings in childhood. It can also be reprocessed into sour jujube noodles, after picking back the sour jujubes, use a mill to grind the fruit and the jujube core together like white flour, and then add water to boil it into a block to eat, take a piece and put it in the mouth, you can not chew it immediately and swallow, you can completely hold it in the mouth and melt the sour jujube noodles with saliva little by little, and the sour jujube goes down the throat into the stomach, and the sweet and sour taste can fill the mouth and the taste buds of the entire tongue, which is extremely delicious.

As soon as school was out that day, when the bastard got home, he took his eldest sister to pick sour dates. The bastard is five in the family, the four sisters above, the only boy in the family, the whole family regards him as the pearl of the palm, and his father and mother are even worse.

The eldest sister couldn't resist him, so she took the small bag and took him with her.

You don't have to go too far, out of the village to the hillside, there are sour dates everywhere, all of them are wild, many people are too lazy to pick, only the greedy children occasionally come to pick a little.

If the eggs are small, they will pick the ones that are lower, and the eldest sister will pick them easily, and the ones that are not easy to prick. After a while, I took off most of my pocket.

At this time, disaster fell from the sky.

He saw a few larger jujube trees a little higher in the middle of the sour jujube tree, so he tiptoed to reach out to pick them, and he had to guard against the spikes next to him from piercing himself. The body lost its balance, and the instinctive reaction was that the body could not pounce forward, and for fear of the sour jujube pricking, it staggered to the side, and then slid and rolled down the ravine on the side.

The ravine is not deep, it is more than one meter, I didn't cry after rolling down, I still stood up and wanted to climb up, the eldest sister saw it and exclaimed, and hurriedly ran over and jumped down the ditch to help him up. The bastard didn't feel it at first, and he still shouted in his mouth: Pick a little more, there are many greedy classmates.

But when he sat for a while and tried to stand up, he found that he couldn't stand up.

The eldest sister could only carry him home, and the eldest sister only took him a fall and went home to rest for a while.

No one thought that a bowl-sized stone would break the bastard's vertebrae and paralyze him with a fall.

When the bastard got home, he kept complaining about low back pain, and the eldest sister said to rub him, and when he touched his waist, the bastard howled like a pig. The eldest sister panicked and told the second sister to hurry up and call her father back.

When the adults came back, his father noticed that it was not good and called the village doctor again. The village doctor can take a cold medicine to treat a small illness with headache and brain fever, but he still has some experience in medicine, and he told the father and mother to go to the big hospital quickly, I am afraid that the child will fall on the vertebrae.

A month and a half later, the eldest sister shed tears all the way and returned home with the eggs on her back.

When I heard the news of the bastard's return, I spread my legs and flew to his house.

As soon as I entered the house, I saw the bastard half-lying on the kang leaning on the futon, and the bastard also saw me, and the tears fell down, and he cried and said to me: "On the first day of junior high school, I can't move my legs, I can't run anymore, and I can't play with you in the future." ”

I said anxiously, "Why did you fall so hard, why didn't you let the doctor cure you and come back?"

He wept and didn't speak, and his eyes stopped looking at me.

"Then why don't you go to other big hospitals to take a look? Who can fight with me with bayonets in the future?"

The bastard shook his head and whispered, "I can't play, I can't play anything, I have to lie down for the rest of my life." ”

I don't know how to persuade people, after all, I don't know how to comfort people when I'm young. Standing in front of him silently looked at him.

The bastard father opened his mouth and said: "The first day of junior high school, let's come and play with the bastard less in the future, he will cry when he sees you, and he will feel better when he can't see you." Obedient, the first year of junior high school. The voice was full of helplessness and depression.

In the evening, I accompanied my father again. My father and my father both worked in a cannery, and they had a good relationship.

After talking about the situation for a while, my father comforted him and said, "If it really can't be cured, if it can't be cured, let's have another one." ”

The father sighed and said in despair: "After having a child, his mother will be sterilized, or it will be done." ”

The topic was too heavy, and my father couldn't stay long, so he said that he wanted to leave, and when he was leaving, he suddenly remembered something, and said to the bastard: "The bastard is well recuperated, and he will get better when he grows up, so let's do it, even if you are sick, you can't delay your studies, you can't have no culture, right? ”

After my father finished speaking, without waiting for others to speak, I preemptively said, "Zhong, I'll come to make up for you after school." ”

Since that day, I have been more focused and serious than ever in class, I think that I will be a little teacher after class, and fortunately I am only in the second grade, except for math is Chinese, and it is much simpler, so I can be competent.

I didn't even go home after school, so I came to the house of the bastard. At first, he was very resistant, and he didn't learn at all, and he didn't listen to anything I said. I was anxious and said, "If you don't learn again, I'll really never come again, aren't you afraid that I will ignore you forever?" I persuaded him with the usual tricks of children, and the bastard listened to it, and began to accept my supplementary lessons little by little.

The bastard family has since lost their laughter and has become dull and depressed.

When everyone in the family is at home, they are quiet, and when they eat, they hear the sound of chewing, there is no laughter, and no one takes the initiative to say a word. Say a word or two unless it's necessary. The most vocal is when his mother quarrels with the eldest sister.

The mother put the blame on the eldest sister, and her face was covered with dark clouds all day long, gloomy as if she was in a thunderstorm at any time.

The eldest sister is now at home like a little mouse who is angry, and she doesn't dare to breathe, and she carefully does everything every day, lest she cause a lightning storm in her mother.

That's it, the bastard girl also looks at the eldest sister everywhere and is not pleasing to the eye, and the eldest sister is in tears when she has nothing to do.

After school that day, I ran to the door of the bastard's house before slowing down, and walked in lightly, and as soon as I entered the yard, I heard the bastard girl arguing again: "What can you do with such a big girl? Tie a pocket is not strong, see if the chicken eats it? Who do you show all day with a straight face? Let you take care of your brother, and let you break him like this? Our family has been broken since then, do you know?" The eldest sister didn't dare to say a word. I can only silently do everything over again.

The eldest sister was working without saying a word, and when she saw me coming in, she didn't answer, and I saw that her dry eyes did not have a trace of brilliance.

I went into the house, dropped my bag, and sat down next to the bastard, who looked at me and asked me, "What's wrong with you?"

I didn't speak, I just sat stupidly.

Seeing that I ignored him, the bastard crawled up to me and said, "......Got into a fight with someone? I almost forgot that he couldn't help me anymore.

I looked at the bastard and said, "I'm a little afraid to come to your house, I hear your mother nagging and arguing with your eldest sister if you have something to do, I'm annoyed to hear it." But what should I do?"

At this time, the bastard shouted loudly outside: "Mother, don't make any noise, I'm going to class." ”

After shouting, the bastard sighed like an adult and said: "Who said it's not a mile, I've been tired of listening to it for a long time, and I've told my mother several times that it's not bad for the eldest sister, it's me who is clamoring to pick sour dates, but my mother can't listen to it." ”

The courtyard was quiet, and I opened my schoolbag to prepare for a lesson to the bastard, and the bastard sounded seriously.

On the way back from the bastard's house, I walked slowly, the sky was dark, I was not in a hurry to go home, thinking about my heart. Listening to the nagging of the bastard every day, I don't wait for me to teach the bastard anything, and I don't want to go because I'm afraid I'm annoying. Growing up in my grandmother's house, I haven't heard my grandparents like that, of course, my parents haven't complained, and I haven't said even a word I don't like to hear about the difficulties of my uncle's life.

Thinking about it, I arrived at the door of the house, and suddenly a thought popped into my mind, yes, I can let the bastard come to live at my grandfather's house.