Chapter 19: Grandma's House
One of the things that Liu Lang remembered most when he was a child in his previous life was to go to his grandmother's house to play, and the feeling of letting himself go was definitely the best memory of his childhood, even in his nearly forty years of life, there was nothing that could replace that kind of pleasant memory.
Liu Lang's grandmother's house is in the countryside, said to be a rural area, in fact, it can only be regarded as a suburb, only about six or seven kilometers away from Liu Lang's home, but in this era there is no big urban construction, even the widest road is only a dozen meters wide, and it is all dirt roads, standing on the side of the road for half a day can not see a car passing, riding a bicycle on such a road, if the weather is good, it is better, but if the weather is bad, it will be miserable.
A few days ago, it had just snowed in Fucheng, and a few days later, there was still a lot of snow on the road, after all, there was no obligation to remove snow in this era.
Liu Lang's father rode the permanent 28 bicycle, and his mother sat on the back seat with Liu Lang in his arms, and this journey first passed through a road full of snow, and then the road became narrower and narrower after leaving the city, and finally it was only three or four meters wide, but this road passed through a piece of mud, if in the summer, there were wild grass more than half a meter high on both sides, and many graves could be seen in the depths of the mud, if no one dared to walk this road at night.
After crossing this mud, you have to pass through an iron bridge more than ten meters long, below which is a stream that has been frozen, and there are many people playing on the ice.
From Liu Lang's house to his grandmother's house, a short distance of six or seven kilometers took an hour, sometimes uphill Liu Lang's father could not ride and his mother came down to help, this way is almost described as trekking through mountains and rivers, and when they walked into the yard of their grandmother's house, Liu Lang's parents were sweating profusely, and the sweat on their foreheads was steaming out of mist in the cold air.
"My eldest grandson is here!"
Grandma and grandpa came out of the house, followed by Liu Lang's uncle, aunt, second uncle, third uncle, uncle, second aunt and aunt, by the way, and the uncle's son and daughter plus a local dog also followed.
Grandma and grandfather are also many sons and grandchildren, with a total of four sons and three daughters, Liu Lang's mother is the second in the family, and she is also the only urban worker with a city hukou.
"Eldest sister, brother-in-law, you are here, come quickly, come into the house and warm up!"
The thirteen-year-old aunt was the first to rush to the front and took the New Year's goods in the eldest sister's hand.
"Let me see this genius nephew!"
The second uncle took Liu Lang in the arms of the eldest sister.
"Hello second uncle!"
These uncles and aunts had all gone into the city to see Liu Lang before, and it was not too abrupt for Liu Lang to say hello when he opened his mouth.
"Oh, you can call your second uncle before you are a year old, little one, do you know me?"
Several others immediately came over.
"Hello uncle, third uncle, uncle, second aunt and aunt!"
Liu Lang immediately came to say hello collectively.
"Haha, what a genius, what a genius!"
Everyone laughed when they heard this.
After entering the house, the heat suddenly hit the face, and the family began their respective "work" after greeting Liu Lang's family for a while.
The eldest uncle and the second uncle pulled Liu Lang's father to sit on the kang and set up a kang table and began to play poker, the third uncle and the old uncle were in the back, and Liu Lang's grandfather put on glasses and used poker on the side to start "fortune telling" for the coming year, and the ladies began to prepare for lunch.
Liu Lang, on the other hand, sat on the clay kang, a feeling he hadn't experienced for nearly 20 years.
Grandma's earthen kang is too big, can accommodate seven or eight people to sleep, if you squeeze some, even ten people can lie down, Liu Lang such a child can run on the kang, in the previous life, until Liu Lang went to college when Grandma's family lived in this earthen house, although low and simple, but through the window you can see a big garden outside, it is winter, there is nothing in the garden, but if it is spring, this garden will be planted by grandpa Grandpa with all kinds of vegetables and fruits, what onions, eggplants, tomatoes, cucumbers, pears, Hawthorn, jujube, etc., in autumn, a garden is a harvest scene, here becomes Liu Lang's paradise, every time you come to pick a lot of melons and fruits.
But Liu Lang's favorite is still summer, when he was a child, during the summer vacation, Liu Lang lived in his grandmother's house, every day and a group of children of the same age around him played wildly, went to the river to fish, went to the forest to pick mushrooms, sometimes you can see wild rabbits in the mountains, a group of half-grown children will chase and intercept, all the children have become donkeys at the end of the day, tired like a dead dog, and the next day after sleeping.
The reason why Liu Lang likes to stay at his grandmother's house is because there are mountains and rivers here, which are not comparable to the city, and secondly, as an only child, he will have an inexplicable sense of loneliness since he was a child, living in the city, there is no brother or sister as big as himself, and Liu Lang finally found a child who is about the same age as himself in his grandmother's house.
The eldest brother and eldest sister of the uncle's family are only four or five years older than themselves, barely the same age, these two guys are still stupid and stupid, looking at Liu Lang's cousin and not saying a word, children, the first time I saw a living person, I was still a little restrained.
"Big brother and big sister, come and sit!"
Liu Lang sat on the clay kang with some hot buttocks and greeted them, looking like a little adult.
"Your name is Liu Lang?"
The eldest sister greeted herself, Liu Lang had already been to her grandmother's house on the National Day, and she had met her brothers and sisters, but the child's memory was very poor, and the other party had forgotten a little when she met again.
"Well, yes, I'm your cousin. ”
Big brother and sister were a little reserved at first, but soon, they played together, and big brother brought out his own toys.
"Look, this is my gun, this is my knife. ”
Liu Lang's eldest brother took out wood to make knives and guns, although they were made of wood, but the appearance was very similar to real knives and guns.
"You did this?"
Liu Lang asked.
"I can't do it now, it's all my dad did for me, I can only do this!"
Liu Lang's eldest brother took out another "grenade" made of wood.
"Boom!"
The other party threw the grenade on the kang and made an explosion sound in his mouth.
"I'm guerrilla leader Li Xiangyang, surrender my gun and don't kill me!"
Liu Lang's eldest brother learned the lines of the movie, and said loudly with a wooden gun.
Liu Lang's eldest brother has been ingenious since he was a child, and he can use axes and saws to make all kinds of wooden toys in his teens, Liu Lang often asks for swords, guns and swords from him, and he can immediately attract the attention of his playmates when he takes them home, so that he has a lot of limelight, but this eldest brother will no longer go to school when he goes to high school, and when he grows up, he will follow Liu Lang's uncle to learn some electric welding and fire drought work, and set up a small factory to find some small jobs, his ingenious talent is in vain.
"I have toys too!"
Liu Lang took out the tangram and handed it to the other party.
"What is this?"
"It's a tangram, it can be arranged in all kinds of shapes, you see!"
Liu Lang moved a few times at will, and soon the figure of a small fish was laid out.
"It can turn into a tree!"
"And the bridge and the house!"
The seven irregular shapes quickly changed into various things in Liu Lang's hands.
"This is fun!"
The eldest brother and sister became interested, threw the "knife and gun" in their hands aside, and picked up the tangram to play.
After dinner, Liu Lang's father and the second uncle and the second uncle continued to play poker, the second uncle had good luck and had won more than a dollar, Liu Lang's aunt and second aunt sat on the kang and played with sheep bones, the northerners are commonly known as "Galaha", the old uncle and the third uncle set up chess and killed together, Liu Lang's mother was chatting with his grandmother and grandfather.
There are games for adults and games for children, and even in this age of lack of entertainment, everyone is having fun and not getting bored.
Liu Lang's family stayed at his grandmother's house, and left after lunch the next day, and the short three-day Spring Festival holiday was spent like this.