Chapter 17: The Most Beautiful Place in a Dream
"Yau Yau, get up. I've made you your favorite omelet rice, hurry up and eat it. In my sleep, someone kept shaking my body and whispering my name.
I reluctantly rolled over and tried to continue sleeping, but my body was picked up and walked out, and after putting me on the sofa, my father went to bring me the omelet rice he made and put it in front of my nose, the tempting fragrance completely emptied my sleepiness, I cheered and snatched the omelet rice from my father's hand and put it on the coffee table to devour it.
My mother took the cup of water and handed it to me, and whispered, "Eat slowly, drink some water first." I haven't seen my mother smile so happily for a long time, and my mood has changed a lot.
After Grandma served the table, Dad brought him all the breakfast. In addition to my favorite omelet rice, there are also my mother's favorite soup dumplings and my grandmother's favorite soy milk. My father said with guilt: "In the past two years, I have put too much energy into my work, so I have too little time to spend with you. In the future, I will try my best to arrange my work reasonably and spend more time with you. ”
On that day, it was my father who went to take me to school, and I stuck to my father at the school gate and didn't want to enter the school gate. My father comforted me softly, but I just didn't want to go in. My father thought I didn't want to go to school, but I just wanted him to stay at the school gate for a while so that others could see that I had a father too, and that my father was handsome and tall, better than all of their fathers.
I greeted everyone I knew at the door and introduced my father to them, and I wanted to cheer when I saw him greet them one by one.
When I got up, my father was unusually not going to the construction site to supervise the work, and when I woke up, I saw him sitting firmly on the sofa reading the newspaper, my mother watching a soap opera on TV, and my grandmother sitting on the balcony basking in the sun. This is the tacit agreement between my mother and me, as long as it is a weekend, I can sleep until I wake up naturally, and they will not ask me to get up for breakfast.
When my father saw me get up, he urged me: "I feel like washing up and eating, and I will take you to the playground to play today." I cheered and ran over and kissed him, and ran to wash up like a cheerful man.
My father really gave me a big surprise, and I had been looking forward to this opportunity to go to the playground for a long time. We live in the north of the city, and the playground is in the south of the city, which is far away, and my father is busy and my mother can't drive, so I haven't been there once. When I listened to my classmates at school, I could only look envious, and when I asked my mother to go, my mother always said, "When your father is not busy, let him take us there." ”
This is several years.
On the way to the playground, my father drove steadily, my mother sat in the co-pilot and chatted with him, and my grandmother sat next to me and looked out the window.
The playground on weekends is crowded with small groups of families and queues for almost every event. Mom and Dad wanted me to have a good time, so the two of them lined up separately, and I was only responsible for playing inside. When I encountered a high-altitude project, I didn't dare to go up by myself, so I pulled my parents to accompany me, and my mother waved her hand to take care of my grandmother, and motioned for my father to accompany me. My father's expression flashed with some embarrassment, and I was happy in my heart: Could it be that my father, who had always been steady, was afraid of heights? I looked at my grandmother, who smiled and nodded at me.
During the rapid ascent and descent, my ears were filled with hoarse screams, and I closed my eyes in fright when I reached a certain height, and I didn't dare to open them until the elevator began to slow down. My mother took the camera my father had just bought and was very happy to take pictures of me, and when I opened my eyes, she was still pressing the shutter. I hurriedly hugged my father's arm and happily made a "victory" gesture. My father was also very cooperative and leaned his head over and cooperated with me to take pictures.
I dragged my father back to my mother and grandmother, and I happened to meet a man in a neat suit and asked us to take a family photo for him. The father next to him didn't seem to have recovered from the frightened elevator just now, his eyes were looking ahead, his body froze there and didn't reach out to pick up the camera handed by the other party.
The man on the opposite side had his hands frozen in mid-air, his expression a little embarrassed. I took his camera for my dad and said, "My dad is too amateur to take pictures, let my mom take pictures for you." My mother tacitly took the camera from my hand and nodded at the man. The man turned and took a few steps back, stopping beside a mother and son.
This family of three standing together really wants to use the word 'dazzling' to describe it. The man's image and temperament just now were already first-class, and his wife was gentle with a hint of charm, and there was some melancholy in her charm, like a beautiful woman described in a poetry book.
The little boy next to me looked a few years younger than me, and his eyebrows and eyes were very similar to his mother's, probably because he was suddenly stared at by a few of us strangers, and he was a little restrained, and he clung to his mother's side and refused to look up.
Holding up the camera, the mother shouted to them, "Madame, relax, smile, and lean closer to her husband." She lowered her head and pulled the boy to the man's side, the corners of her mouth twitched, still a little unable to let go. The mother didn't insist anymore, and after taking a few pictures for them, she returned the camera.
The man took the camera, thanked him, and asked, "Do you want me to take a picture for you too?"
I nodded hurriedly: "Okay, okay, thank you, uncle." ”
I sat cross-legged next to my grandmother's wheelchair with my parents standing behind me. The man on the other side held up the camera and instructed us: "The child leans closer to grandma, the couple stands closer, and the man can put his arm around his wife's shoulder." ”
The father didn't know if he hadn't eased up or couldn't make too intimate movements in front of outsiders, he felt uncomfortable when he put his arm on his mother's shoulder a few times, and scratched his head in embarrassment, and his mother smiled, put her arms around him, and put her head on her father's shoulder. The man on the other side smiled and helped us take a few pictures, and he couldn't stop sighing: "Your atmosphere is very good, and the shooting effect is very good." ”
When I turned to say goodbye, I don't know if it was my delusion, but the lady seemed to have forgotten a deep glance in our direction, and the melancholy in her eyes was even more melancholy than before.
The mother looked at their backs and couldn't help but praise: "What a talented and beautiful pair." My father and grandmother didn't pick up, so I quickly agreed: "Yes, yes, the children born by good-looking parents are far more beautiful than others, and I have never seen such a beautiful little boy." ”
My father didn't look very good, but my mother opened a bottle of water and handed it to him, and he waved his hand not to drink, and never spoke. His mother patted and rubbed his back gently, but his expression did not improve. I didn't expect his fear of heights to be so great, and I couldn't help but feel very guilty in my heart, and I couldn't let him suffer such a big sin just because I was happy.
I turned my head to look at my grandmother, who was staring at my father with concern in her eyes, but there seemed to be something else that I couldn't understand. As if noticing that I was looking at her, my grandmother changed into her usual faint smile and said: "You go to play with your mother, your father was afraid of heights when he was a child, and when he was a child, he had to follow his neighbor's brother to climb trees, but after climbing up, he didn't dare to come down by himself, or your grandfather went up to carry him down." I see that he can't relax for a while, you go play, just let him accompany me to find a place to rest. ”
I used to hear my grandmother talk to my mother and me about my father's childhood, and I had the impression that he had been a decent person since he was a child. Others play with mud, he is doing his homework, others go to catch fish, he is doing his homework, others go to the mountains to chase hares, he is still doing his homework, all in all, he is a good boy who loves to learn, but he didn't expect to have a time when he went up to the tree, and he was so cowardly.
I asked my father, "Dad, do you want it, are you dizzy?" My father frowned, as if trying his best to restrain himself from throwing up, and only replied after a long time: "My stomach is tumbling badly." Drink saliva and press down, and sit here for a while. You go play with your mother, it's easy to come out, don't spoil the fun. ”
His mother asked him, "Do you really care? ”
The father patted his mother's hand and replied, "It doesn't matter to me, you go and play more with the child." It's easy to take her out for a trip and let her have a good time. ”
My mother didn't insist anymore, and after arranging for him and my grandmother to sit down in a place with fewer people, she took me to experience other programs. I walked for a long time, and when I looked back, I saw that my grandmother seemed to be talking to my father, who lowered his head and was far away, so that he couldn't see his expression clearly, but I felt that the air around them seemed to be a little dignified.
At that time, after all, I was young, and after sitting on the merry-go-round and spinning to the music, all the worries and worries in my heart were instantly gone. My mother, like other parents, stood quietly in the crowd, waving happily to me only when I turned around, or holding up the camera to me, and I made all kinds of funny expressions to take pictures with her.
All afternoon, I was immersed in the novelty of all kinds of new things, and I wanted to try everything I saw, but there were too many queues, and half of them were anxiously waiting and looking. When I was riding the pirate ship, I saw a family in the queue who had just taken a family photo. The boy was still snuggling up to his mother, and the child's father was fiddling with the tickets. Waving in their direction, the boy's mother nodded at us and turned her gaze to the side, but it was the child's father who waved enthusiastically at us.
After I tried the projects I was interested in, I was a little exhausted, so I went back with my mother to meet my father and grandmother. Father's complexion looks much better, and grandma's face is also good, and it seems that she is resting well. When I got in the car, tiredness hit me, and I fell asleep leaning on my grandmother, so much so that I didn't know how I got out of the car, and when I opened my eyes again, it was already the next morning.
I didn't know exactly what my grandmother said to my father that night, but my father has been on fewer business trips since then, and he has tried to rush home to finish his meal, and although most of the time we are at home repeatedly studying drawings or reading books, we are still very happy. And my father didn't mind me disturbing him when he was working, so the huge study became the place where I spent the most time with my father. I never bothered when he was working hard, and when I was doing my homework or reading, he would come over to tutor one or two, and I thought that the happiest child in the world should be me.