Chapter 25: Auntie

At night, my mother was sulking, my father was drunk and unconscious, and Li Xi was cooking dinner on her grandmother's back. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

Grandma's teeth are not good, so what she makes is a clear soup with little water, little oil and salt, soft and chewy, and even the plate of chili peppers has become tasteless due to too much water, losing its essence.

Mom was not in the mood, seeing such a meal only took two bites and went back to the room, grandma saw that her mother ate too little, and asked with concern, "You don't eat it?" If you eat such a little, you will be hungry easily in the middle of the night. ”

Mom didn't look back, and said bluntly: "It's not delicious." ”

Grandma's face stiffened, and she said in a low voice: "I don't want to cook, and I want to dislike it." ”

After speaking, he said to Li Xi: "Your mother, like your father, is still picky eaters, and she ......is picky when she has nothing."

Li Xi pursed her lips, not knowing what to say, well, in fact, she couldn't speak yet, just looked at her grandmother in a daze.

Suddenly, Li Xi was held in her mother's arms and walked away, leaving her stunned grandmother sitting alone at the table, still holding a warm meal in her hand, but the seat was cold.

Li Xi pulled her mother's collar and babbled at her grandmother, hoping that her mother would look back and not be angry, but her mother held Li Xi in her arms, and simply said that Li Xi couldn't see her grandmother, entered the door, and closed the door with a bang.

Li Xi thought that grandma must be very sad at this time, how good it would be if she would leave, she would definitely go over and hug grandma.

After a long time, a grandmother's sigh finally came from outside the door, and it was long and sad, which made Li Xi's heart tense when he heard it.

Then there was the sound of grandma cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks, Li Xi's brain could even imagine the picture of grandma bowing her back and wiping the table, so humble, any person could ignore her so much, and she was so lowly to the dust.

Li Xi listened to her father's snoring and the snoring of the fan, and her mother sobbed in a low voice, and couldn't help but think of the days in her previous life, there was no difference.

This suffocating silence lasted until grandma came to knock on the door, "Xingling, the water is boiled, I have washed it, you come out and wash it for Xixi!" ”

After speaking, he stood for a while and then returned to the house, with a squeak, and the door slammed shut.

In Li Xi's impression, during the day, grandma is always alone at the railing looking at the entrance of the village, and at night she always stays alone in the room, there is no TV, only the electric fan is accompanied, but unfortunately, even the electric fan does not take long, because to save electricity, grandma always holds the old pu fan, and the sewing is full of flower cloth, which is longer than Li Xi's age.

In the past, Dad would call Li Xi to call Grandma to come over and watch TV, but Grandma took a lot of effort to enter the room and didn't have anything to say to Mom and Dad, and slowly the TV couldn't see clearly, she didn't come, she often made Li Xi forget where Grandma did when she sat at the door, and occasionally remembered that she looked like an outsider.

Li Xi thought, grandma must have understood, so she didn't come.

So all day long, accompanied by a faint light, he sat silently until he fell asleep.

There are good and bad times between grandma and mother, Li Xi clearly remembers that her aunt bought an induction cooker for her grandmother, but because the electricity meter turned faster than the electric fan when her grandmother used it, she was scolded by her mother, and asked her not to use it anymore, but grandma didn't dare to say anything, just pressed the key, put it away and put it back in the box, and never took it out again.

Later, Li Xi moved to the town with her parents, mother and sisters, and her grandmother stayed in the countryside because of her inconvenient legs, and no one talked to her, Li Xi couldn't imagine that grandma's days like this passed year after year, or longer, and from the moment she died her husband, she began to live such a life, her sons were too young to understand what she said, and when they grew up, they were managed by their daughter-in-law, and it was impossible to talk to her anymore. But she still guarded the broken house and the broken bed for the rest of her life.

Mom said it's a pity, can you go back and see grandma? Li Xi didn't listen.

Until one day, my mother came to the school with red eyes to find Li Xi, and she couldn't cry, "Grandma is gone." ”

At that time, Li Xi thought that her mother actually loved her grandmother, but she, like Li Xi, didn't like to express it, and she couldn't even see her heart clearly, and she always hurt the people she loved.

Mom heard Grandma's footsteps walking farther and farther, opened the door, and whispered, "Mom, come and bathe Xixi, I'll wipe Dabao's body." ”

Grandma was so happy that she said, "Okay! After speaking, he reached out and took Li Xi from his mother's hand, and said, "Today's chicken at home gave birth to an egg, I will scramble it into egg fried rice for you, take it warm, you eat it first, it will be cold later, if you don't eat it, you will really be hungry at night." ”

Mom lowered her head, the light was very dim and she couldn't see her mother's face clearly, Li Xi thought, Mom must be moved!

"Okay, I'll eat later, Mom, go to bed early today, I'm tired all day." Mom went to scoop water from the pot to wipe Dad's body as she spoke, and she walked with the same hands and feet, which was very unnatural.

Mom was busy bowing her head to take off her clothes and take a bath for Li Xi, but she didn't see it, she only smiled and responded, "Okay, okay." ”

Li Xi looked at her grandmother in the water and smiled, her face full of serenity.

So dreamless all night.

The next day, Li Xi was still in a dream, and heard someone scolding his father, "Dabao, you are also thirty years old, how can you still not understand anything at all, you know how to play cards all day long, and you can't win money, others go to play cards because there is spare money at home, you follow others to play cards, the family's belongings are not enough for you to lose, Mom is a lot older, and you have to worry about you, now you have a pity, what do you don't need to spend money on reading and eating and clothing when you grow up?" ”

"You say that you are tired of working outside, so you at least have to work in the field, right? Don't do anything, other people's houses sell a room full of watermelons for so much money, and those citrus baskets fill a middle hall, what about you, you haven't been willing to do anything seriously since you were a child. ”

"If you don't say sell, then you must at least have your own food, right? Look at what you eat at home? What age is it now, and red peppers are fried every day. If you don't have money to buy vegetables, you can grow a little more vegetables yourself, and you will grow so fat without vegetables! ”

“……”

This kind of scolding lasted for about a morning, and Dad sat on the small bench and didn't dare to say a word, Li Xi thought, people with such power, I'm afraid that only Dad's sister and her aunt are afraid!