Chapter 13 Give Yourself a Vacation
I don't know if I talked too late last night, or the whole person was too tired, I didn't hear the alarm clock in the morning, and when I woke up, it was already bright, and I looked at the time carefully, it was already more than 9:00.
My daughter had already woken up and was lying quietly next to me, studying with my phone. If you look closely, it turns out that you are constantly entering passwords, there are too many errors, and there are already warning prompts.
"Baby, don't lose again! Too many mistakes, your phone will lock. "I spoke up.
My voice was so sudden that she didn't expect it, her little finger suddenly flickered on the screen, and the phone fell to her bare little shoulder.
"Mom-Mom-" Her little mouth was as pouting as a cherry, her cheeks bulging, and a pair of big round eyes winked at me, begging for forgiveness with a cute expression.
"You can't play with my phone without permission, remember!" I warned, grimacing.
"Got it, Mommy. She looked innocent and a little disappointed, "But, the day before yesterday, you clearly said in the hospital that you wanted me to play in the future?!"
"Good memory!" I circled my thumb and forefinger, and let go of my index finger, which bounced like a dragonfly on the half of her forehead that was covered by the hood.
"Mommy- it hurts—" she cried out as she covered her forehead.
"It's okay to play, but you have to follow my rules, every night after dinner, half an hour each time, do you hear? Remember to ask me before you take your phone, when the time is up, you are not allowed to mess around." If it's OK, we'll start doing it tonight. "I'll make the rules first, so that I don't lose control from the beginning.
"Okay, Mommy", she jumped out of the bed happily, patting her two fleshy little hands, as if she had received a long-awaited gift, and as if celebrating the victory of her wish, her mouth chattering, "I can play with my phone!
"Okay, get up, pack up and go to the hospital. "I got up and cleaned up.
"Okay", the voice was cheerful like a singing lark.
"You two are counted, the sun is shining on your buttocks. "Mom's voice came from the living room.
"Grandma, my mother promised to let me play with my mobile phone!" the daughter couldn't hide her excitement and announced to her mother.
"Your mother is really used to you! What can you do if you are so small and short-sighted?" my mother did not agree with my approach, and began to worry about it.
"Grandma-grandma-", the daughter was a little unhappy.
I heard my mother's words, but I didn't want to discuss the good or bad anymore, I had promised my daughter, and there was no way to take it back, only to keep my promise.
Before leaving, thinking of the company's affairs, I hesitated for a moment, and decided to send a message to the American editor Xiao Li, "Xiao Li, please help me tell the company, I want to take a vacation." "Since I am ready to resign, I don't care about it so much, I will take the accumulated ten days of annual leave first, and then I will take it seriously, and I will ignore anything.
"Sister Lan, you haven't been coming to the company recently, and the company's business ......," Xiao Li asked in the message, as if he was referring to something.
"Yes, I'm not going, I'll talk about it after the vacation, I've been so tired lately. "I went back.
"Okay, got it, you have a good rest. Xiao Li said.
"Lan Lan, why did you come back so late last night? I see that when you came back, you looked like you were on your mind, did something happen?" My mother brought out a plate of sweet potatoes cut into long strips from the kitchen, and a bowl of yam and soybean rice porridge, the sweet potatoes were orange and flushed, very sweet, and they were frequent guests at our breakfast table, and almost every day. My mother's persistence and execution are really unmatched, and I often think that if I could do this, countless novels would have been written, and becoming famous and starting a family would be just around the corner.
"It's okay, maybe a little tired, I've had too many things lately. "I don't want my mom to worry.
"That's good, you got home at one o'clock in the morning last night, right? Who are you with? You won't eat until midnight when you accompany a customer, you're so crazy! I don't think Qiangzi's face is very good, you have to pay attention! The children are so old, they are no longer children, everything has to be measured......" It seems that the mother has misunderstood.
"Mom, what are you thinking?!" I don't know what she will continue to say without interrupting her.
"And who were you with last night?" the mother chased after her.
That's the purpose.
"Swallow, remember?" I said.
"Swallow, Swallow, isn't that your classmate?" Mom began to search for memories in her head.
"Don't talk about it, Mom, we're going to go to the hospital quickly, you can clean it up, let's go together." After changing the medicine, I'll take Chenchen and you two to go shopping. "It's time to go out for a walk, I'm going to give myself a complete vacation these days.
When my mother heard that she was going out, she was also very happy, so she immediately took off her apron and put away her job. I deliberately found a maroon long-sleeved shirt to put on, carefully combed the hair that just reached my chin in front of the mirror boy a few times, put a small black satchel on my back, changed into black and shiny black flat-heeled leather shoes, and waited at the door while talking.
The three of us talked and laughed, and soon arrived at the hospital, changed the dressing, and the doctor said that the daughter's wound had begun to heal, and there was no fever within 48 hours, so it was almost certain that there would be no major problem, as long as the normal insistence on changing the dressing, the stitches could be removed soon.
For this reason, I took them to the old Yuhua Western restaurant nearby. I haven't been here for a long time, and the restaurant is still the same, with the same faint lyrical music, the same Western-style seating arrangement, and the same various hazy gestures whispering in the dim light. For me, eating Western food is like "quiet".
We ate everything from appetizers, pre-dinner bread, salad, spinach soup, to the main plate of snowflake steak and dessert at the end.
Knives, forks, cups and plates filled the table, and my mother was screaming about waste, while happily practicing the knives and forks that were not yet proficient, and after a while she forgot whether the knife was on the left or the fork was on the right. My daughter used them as toys and filled empty cups with water for my mother and me to drink until I cried out to surrender.
After passing the belly, I wanted to take them to the mall and buy some seasonal clothes by the way, but neither of them was willing, so I had to follow them to the park.
As soon as I arrived at the gate of the park, my daughter took me to the store next to me, bought her favorite toy of blowing bubbles and a small net for fishing, and then came to the small river in the park with one on my left hand and one on my right shoulder.
This small river is at the very edge of the park, and it bends long and runs through the whole north and south, the water is not deep, and you can see the bottom of the river and countless small fish when you look down.
The embankments on both sides of the river, one side goes up directly to the road, and on the other side is a specially developed footpath and reed bushes, which are next to the riverbed, and the footpath is next to the reeds, paved with green bricks. The southern end of the riverbed is wider, surrounded by willow trees on the bank, and the water is full of water lilies, but the autumn leaves are not as lush as in summer. The north end of the riverbed is narrower, some aquatic plants stretch out in the water without restraint, dense or sparse, high or low, there are some artificial boulders lying in the water in a section of water without aquatic weeds, gray and white, many people like to wash their feet here by the water flow on weekends, and catch fish and shrimp with small fishing nets, which is very lively.
Today is a working day, and I only see people passing by occasionally, which is a little cool and deserted, but it has become a stage for us to enjoy our carnival.
I accompanied my daughter to run and blow along the sidewalk, flying the bubbles all over the sky, only to see the sunlit bubbles, colorful all over the sidewalk, on the reed poles, on the small yellow wildflowers on the bank, and in the river. The little dragonfly that flew by chance, although it was agile, also couldn't dodge it for a while, and burst the bubble at once, as if it had experienced a drizzle. The daughter was naughty, deliberately ran to the middle of the bubbles, stretched out her arms to catch the one next to her, and jumped over the top of her head with her head, like a little dragonfly, but people avoided it, she was deliberately afraid of it. It is a bit difficult for the released bird to control her free play. I just don't care.
Of course, the small net in my hand is not bought for nothing. We chose a position on the big rock in the river, squatted down and threw off our arms, fished and let go, and tossed the small fish enough to choke them, so frightened that none of them dared to approach our reflection in the water.
My mother started to play with her, but when she got tired, she sat down under a small tree next to her, and looked at us, shouting and laughing, as if there was no one around.
Sad time is always slow, but happy time is always with dazzling light but like lightning speed. Unconsciously, the last touch of the sunset has been hung on the willow treetops at the south end, and the mother's original gray hair under the small tree has been dyed ochre-colored, and the last bubble, also with a faint multicolored glow, slowly flies up with the wind alone, and the light figure silently feathers in the boundless sky.
We realized that it was getting late, and it was time to wrap up today's event.
"It's time to go home, I said. "Looking at this familiar river, which can no longer be familiar, today I have infinite nostalgia.
"Xiaohe, I'm very happy today, are you happy?"