13 My heavens have fallen
There was a sea of people outside the examination room, and it was not easy to make reluctant physical contact with people from all walks of life and then break out of the encirclement and enter the gate safely. As in the past, the hot and boring summer secretes sticky sweat. This road is also sending away and ushering in batches of college entrance examination troops. The college entrance examination is like a large slaughterhouse, but thousands of parents are happy to send their children to the execution ground, and when they are separated, they do not forget to tell not to be nervous and have a point of fate. It seems that the falling flowers are unintentional, but in fact they exert pressure. Roughly speaking, die well, don't be afraid of death, after crossing this Nai He Bridge, the opposite side is a brilliant life. In this regard, grandma is different from most parents. My grandmother told me that if you want to study, you have to be a human being. My grandmother never had a word about my good and bad grades. It seems that those score rankings are not as important as the two front teeth of my two front teeth receiving daylight. It's not my self-obscenity, my grandmother once said that nothing can match my laughter. I know there's a lot of water in it, but it can't stop me from being happy. Although my grandmother has always had the attitude of watching the flowers bloom and fall in front of the court, I have always wanted to fight my way out of the siege and enter the ivory tower that has been deified and gilded by the outside world. I despise this kind of chaos in my heart that rushes to college, but for my grandmother's eyebrows in the year before last, even if I knew that my grandmother didn't care about this, I went all the way here, worked hard to do questions, worked hard to improve grades, and tried to be a good student in society. The strange thing is that I, who have always been utilitarian, do not pray for the title of the gold list now, on the contrary, I am more curious about what my grandmother will do for me at noon today. Let's end this summer and build a snowman with my grandma in the winter.
When I got home, I went to Shuncheng Street to buy my grandmother's favorite steamed buns. I rode all the way, for fear that the exhaust fumes of the car would pollute and tarnish my white buns.
"Grandma, I bought buns!" because I live on the first floor, and the bicycle barks at the house as soon as it is tied. Passing by grandma's bedroom and kitchen all the way.
"Milk," are you asleep, I muttered to myself, took the key from my bag and opened the door.
The room was quiet, and I slowly pushed open the door of my grandmother's bedroom and saw my grandmother lying on the bed with her back to me. I crept closer, the bun in my hand still hot.
"Ahh I felt that something was wrong, my grandmother had been sleeping very lightly, and my heart couldn't help but tighten. I walked over my grandmother's body and found that her body was so cold. I slowly put my hand on my grandmother's man, but I didn't breathe.
I sat down on the floor slowly, if I didn't have to wait for the next basket of steamed buns, if I had come back a little earlier, if I hadn't gone to the college entrance examination, if I could have sent my grandmother to the hospital for a check-up, would everything have been different. I looked at my grandmother, she was lying on the bed so gently and kindly, as if she was asleep, did Hans Christian Andersen's Sleeping Beauty also fall asleep like Grandma. But she will never wake up, and there will be no prince to kiss her and save her from all her life of so suffering.
For as long as I can remember, there was no grandfather and no parents. The grandfather in my grandmother's mouth is handsome and chic, and he has fought in the civil war and carried a gun. Dad is very smart, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, saying that my thick eyebrows are very similar to Dad. Mom is graceful and beautiful, saying that my brown eyes are the same color as my mother's. I don't know what kind of truth my grandmother hid from me, I only know that my grandmother painted a wonderful world for me, so that it was many years before I realized my grandmother's joy and hard work.
Get up, take off your shoes, and get into bed. I lay down next to my grandmother and looked at her like that, and I gently took her into my arms. Singing excerpts from Henan Opera that my grandmother loves to sing, just like my grandmother coaxed me in the past. It's the first time I've looked at a person so greedily, like an exponential function of growth, and I'm not satisfied no matter how I look at it. I leaned into her ear and whispered.
"Milk, have a good dream. ”
Grandma was alone when she left, and there was nothing around. Just gone. In the morning, I haven't said goodbye yet.
"Xiao Ai, you haven't eaten breakfast yet. ”
"Oops, it's too late, don't eat it. ”
People always like to take each other for granted, and I thought we had many more days to come, many mornings, many mornings to eat together.
I didn't even say goodbye, and now, I don't have a chance to say it again. If she tries her best to say anything, she won't hear it. The loss of the whole world is only a matter of moments.
In the afternoon, I had to take an exam, and I had to go to the kitchen to fry a few of my grandmother's favorite dishes.
What does grandma like to eat, it seems that grandma who I don't like to eat is very fond of eating. Grandma likes to eat fatty meat and pick lean meat into my bowl. My grandmother likes to wear and wear her old clothes, saving money and buying me new clothes. Grandma likes cheap ones and leaves the expensive ones to me. I put down the spatula and cried. I really couldn't help it, I was really sad, I still cried. The pain was even more unbearable than I had imagined.
After finishing the math exam in the afternoon, I dialed Shi Qing's phone. I haven't been through life or death in my life, and I don't know what to do. I just wanted someone to tell me how to find a warm home for my loved one so that she wouldn't be so cold underground.
"I'm sorry, but the phone you dialed is turned off. "I told myself not to mess around, that my grandmother could only rely on me.
I don't even know how to finish the English test, in short, the college entrance examination is over.
Now, find grandma a second home.
My grandmother's retirement salary was not high, there were almost no savings, and I sold everything I could. It's barely enough to count. It's just that the location of the cemetery is not good. There is no sunlight and no living plants.
"Speed up, wash it bigger, and the picture frame should be gorgeous. ”
The master of the photo studio looked at me and said, "It's still a little strange to wash the color." ”
In the photo, grandma and snowman are smiling like children.
"Milk, look here, quick. ”
"Milk, are you really 80 years old this year, how can your skin look like 18 years old, it's completely milk skin. "I looked at the freeze-frame photos in the camera and coveted my grandmother's beauty.
"You kid, you're out of shape. I just know how to make grandma happy. ”
I'm really not exaggerating, grandma is really white. When I was young, I must have been a beauty, and I had such a beautiful singing voice. I don't know how many idiots looked forward to her smile back then. The white snow and golden light are beautiful pictures of the north from anyone's point of view.
Grandma was afraid of the cold, but she especially liked snow. When it snows, my grandmother will say that it is good, and the crops will not be dry.
"But we don't have land. Grandma seemed to care more about the crops than I did. "When I was a child, jealousy came for no reason.
"That's because the crops grow well, so our family can eat strongly. ”
Grandma's eyes were crooked, and I happily rolled in the snow several times at once. How old was I, eight or nine? I can't remember.
For me, winter is the season I look forward to the most. I wish it was winter for 365 days, and it snowed every day for 365 days. When I was in the first year of junior high school, I took a geography class for the first time, and I learned for the first time that there are really 365 days in the world where winter is live. The names of those places can be Norway, Russia, Canada. When I got home, I told my grandmother that we could settle in Norway, Russia, Canada. Grandma looked at me with a smile and lowered her head to continue chopping cabbage.
"Grandma, don't you believe me, as long as you can speak English, English is the international language, and it works anywhere. ”
"Why don't you believe it, with my granddaughter, it's good to go anywhere. ”
I put my arms around my grandmother's waist from behind, and so did I, as long as I was with my grandmother, I could go anywhere.
The photo has been washed and framed. This photo was taken the winter before last, and it has only been two years, and so many wrinkles have quietly crept up on my grandmother's forehead. The sun shines on grandma and the snowman, and everything is so beautiful. The person taking the photo and the person in the photo are alive, but we are in different spaces. I want to believe it.
Later, because Uncle Li next door helped to take care of it, everything went smoothly. Little did I know at the time that an abyss was waiting for me to leap into.