Chapter 21: The Second Birthday

On the eve of New Year's Day, Yangyang's second birthday arrived, and this time it was completely in the countryside. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Mother made a collar bun for her little grandson, that is, the bun is steamed into a circle shape, which can be put around the neck, indicating that there will be no hunger in the future and there will be endless food. When I watched my mother put the collar bun on Yangyang's neck, for some reason, an ancient story that I had learned in a primary school textbook came to my mind: A lazy man eats bread! My son will not grow up to be as lazy as the little protagonist in the lazy man eating bread, right? Probably not! With a smart mother like me, I would never be able to educate such a lazy person!

My birthday present to Yang Yang was an electric toy police car, for which I spent 12 yuan! Yang Yang didn't gnaw on the collar bun that his grandmother put on his neck at all, but took the collar bun off his neck and threw it aside, grabbed the electric toy police car and didn't let it go.

"Silly boy, if you don't eat a bite, you'll starve in the future!" Mom was very dissatisfied with Yangyang's performance, so she broke off a small piece of bun and stuffed it into Yangyang's mouth!

Yang Yang completely ignored his grandmother's rough behavior, chewing buns while fiddling with his first toy car on the ground.

When I turned on the switch of the toy car, this little police car suddenly screamed and scurried on the ground like a demon! And Yang Yang immediately followed the demon, waving his two arms, chasing the toy car and jumping and screaming, with a novel light in his eyes! There is also a person who is fascinated by electric cars, that is my 85-year-old grandfather. Grandpa also smiled and followed behind his great-grandson, his eyes fixed on this modern toy. He must have never played with this kind of toy when he was a child, not even I, who was born in the sixties, and the toy I remember was only a punching bag and four sheep crutches.

The noise here made the brother and daughter-in-law next door noisy: "Can you be quiet, Xiaobao just fell asleep." ”

My brother-in-law just gave birth to a baby two months ago.

I looked at my brother-in-law's unhappy look and quickly turned off the switch of the toy car. But Yangyang saw that the car stopped all of a sudden, and began to get anxious, he pulled one of my hands over, pointed to the car on the ground, and said "Run, run!", and motioned for me to make it move.

"The car broke down. "I lied to Yang Yang and said.

"Ahh

"Then let him play a little longer. Grandpa helped Yangyang speak, I don't know if he feels sorry for his great-grandson, or if he also wants to play.

"Grandpa, Xiaobao is sleeping!" the brother-in-law reminded the grandfather loudly, obviously dissatisfied with the grandfather's partiality.

"Little sister is sleeping, let's not quarrel with her, okay?. Seeing the situation in front of her, Mom squatted down to persuade Yangyang.

"Okay, let's wait for my little sister to wake up and then play, okay?" I also walked through to do Yangyang's ideological work.

But Yangyang didn't listen to persuasion at all, and to everyone's surprise, he suddenly grabbed the toy car and smashed it to the ground, and suddenly, the electric police car was shattered, and the debris was splashed all over the ground! I hurriedly picked up the car, turned on the switch, and found that the car did not react at all, not only the wheels did not move, but the lights did not flash. This made me angry, I couldn't accept the fact that this luxury toy car was scrapped within an hour, and I didn't think much about throwing my hand and slapped Yangyang in the ass, and yelled at him:

"I'll never buy you a toy again!"

"Wow!-" After being beaten, Yang Yang opened his mouth wide and cried, the sound was noisier than the siren of the car just now!

"You're still not letting my children sleep!" the brother-in-law yelled.

I grabbed Yang Yang's arm, dragged him from the house to the courtyard gate, and then threw him down, and I retreated alone, closed the door, and watched him cry through the crack in the door! When I was young, if my mother wanted to treat me like this, I would run far away, hide behind a tree, or in the pyre, so that my mother could not find me, and then I would not show up until my mother had been looking for her for several hours with a sore leg and a dry mouth. Now I was also worried that Yang Yang would run away like me, so I kept an eye on the door, but it soon became clear that my worries were unfounded. Yang Yang didn't run, but turned around and slapped the door with his two little hands, crying:

"Mommy!"

I muttered to myself, opened the door and picked up my precious son.

"If you don't cry, your mother will take you back, and if you cry again, your mother will give you to someone else, and she doesn't want you. I scared Yang Yang and said.

"Mommy, Mom!" Yang Yang hugged my neck, snot and tears running down my clothes.

I put Yangyang on the ground, squatted down and took out a handkerchief to wipe his tears and snot, and at this time, I saw my brother pushing a bicycle back from outside, and there was a pure black little paparazzi who looked less than a month old in the frame.

"Look, puppy!" I pointed to the puppy and coaxed Yangyang.

"Yangyang, uncle gave you a puppy to play with, do you like it?" the younger brother picked up the puppy and handed it directly to Yangyang.

Yang Yang stopped crying when he saw this living gift, he looked up at his uncle, looked down at the puppy, and couldn't figure out what kind of toy it was for a while. It was obviously the first time he had seen such a small dog, and he imitated the dog's barking while pouting and "Wang, Wang, Wang", while running around the yard after the puppy.

Seeing that Yangyang was happy again, I was relieved to go to the kitchen to help my mother cook.

There is no birthday cake on Yangyang's birthday, because the birthday cake is a foreign play, and now it is only popular in the city, and the people in the village are not used to eating this kind of big cake covered with cream, but they are used to eating noodles on their birthdays, and the long noodles indicate longevity. Of course, it is indispensable to accompany the table with snacks.

Originally, I rarely thought of Lu Tao now, and I was slowly adapting to the days without him, but I suddenly remembered him when I was seasoning the buckwheat jelly made by my mother. The first year I knew him, on my birthday, he invited me to a bowl of buckwheat noodles in front of a snack stall on the street. At that time, after he saw that I had finished eating the cold noodles, he apologized and said that he did not invite me to the hotel to eat, and said that he would invite me to the hotel to eat hot pot when he earned money in the future. I remember saying that jelly is good. I don't understand why I said that at the time, but I actually like to eat hot pot very much. Now I think, did I rarely ask for anything at the beginning, because I was worried that Lu Tao would be embarrassed or unhappy? So I don't want to embarrass a person, and I always worry that he is unhappy, is it because I like him? It seems that at the beginning, I did like Lu Tao, but as for why it developed between us to such a point later, I did not expect it.

Reminiscing about the buckwheat noodles that Lu Tao invited me to eat back then, I suddenly felt that something was wrong -- today was Yangyang's birthday, why didn't Lu Tao react? That is, he didn't send gifts back, and he didn't call back.

I was in a cranky thought, and before I knew it, I made all the dishes I planned to make today's plan with my mother, and I brought a dish of dishes to the house, and as soon as I walked to the center of the courtyard, I felt that the yard was too quiet! Yangyang?

"Yangyang—!" I called out to my son. No one answered.

"Yangyang-!" again, but no one answered.

I went back to the house and looked for it! I searched every room, and I didn't!

"Mom, Yangyang is gone!" I reported to my mother in a panic.

Not only is Yang Yang gone, but the little black dog is also gone! The two little ones must have run away together! I saw that the courtyard gate was wide open! Next, the whole family searched every corner of the house and the yard again, but there was still no Yang Yang and the little black dog! The family hurriedly ran outside the gate, searched everywhere, and shouted one after another, but they couldn't see the shadow of Yang Yang. Now I was completely panicked!

"Chen Yongfu, where did you get my son?!" I began to shout at my brother.

"Didn't Yangyang follow you?" asked the younger brother.

"Follow me there, my mother and I are cooking, who will watch if you don't look at the children?"

"When I went back to the house, I saw that you and Yangyang were playing with the dog in the yard, and Yangyang was not lost in my hands. ”

Hearing my brother say this, I really can't remember who accompanied Yang Yang in the yard before I went to the kitchen to cook, but I can be sure that there were definitely adults in the yard at that time, and I wouldn't leave Yang Yang alone in the yard!

My mother even found the village chief and asked the village chief to broadcast a search revelation on the loudspeaker in the village, but ten minutes later, there was still no shadow of Yangyang!

"Yangyang—!" I cried out like crazy, my heart full of fear. I can't imagine what my world would be like if I lost Yangyang, it must feel like the end of the world has arrived!

Fortunately, when I was about to cry, Yangyang was hugged back by Aunt Liu, who lived not far from my house, followed by the little black dog.

"Just now, these two little ones went to my house, Yangyang ate an oil cake from my house, and the puppy ate half of my steamed bun. Aunt Liu said.

When I saw Yangyang, my tense nerves relaxed. When I got home, I reflected on how the accident happened, and thought that my brother had brought back a live toy with no switch!

"If it weren't for your little black dog, Yang Yang would never have walked out of the door, I deliberately shut him out of the door in the morning, and he wouldn't run!" I am holding my younger brother accountable, which is what I like to do since I was a child, because when I was a child, my parents always protected him, and if I didn't find out his problems, my parents wouldn't speak for me.

"What, you lost your son yourself, but you came to blame others?" Of course, the younger brother was not convinced.

"Take your dog away tomorrow. I said angrily. My brother and I have been fighting for 20 years, and arguing and arguing are almost the norm for us.

But the brother-in-law on the side quit, she stood up to defend her husband and said: "Second sister, you are too unreasonable, you and your son were noisy this morning, not letting my Xiaobao sleep, and now you are scolding Yongfu for no reason, this family is that you are tyrannical, a married girl, stay at her mother's house all day long and don't leave!"

I quarreled with my brother, no matter how fierce the quarrel was, our words were also measured and not bladed, but if you listen to my brother's daughter-in-law, you will destroy me directly!

"Okay, no one should shout, today is Yangyang's birthday, you should be happy, look at what you all look like, the older you are, the more ignorant you are! Now start eating, no one is allowed to say a word that disappoints the fun, whoever wants to say it, get out of here!" Father, the most authoritative person in the family, finally spoke.

After listening to my father's words, I shut up and stopped talking, hugged Yangyang and bowed my head to eat. Not only did I obey my father's orders, but more importantly, I didn't want to ruin Yangyang's birthday party, and I didn't want to waste the twelve dishes that my mother and I had worked so hard to make. But in the middle of the meal, I have already thought about it, as soon as Yangyang's birthday is over, I will take him back to the city to live and send him to kindergarten!