Chapter 2 Separation

Sitting on the back rack of the bicycle, Liu Ye looked at his father's back as he worked hard to board the bike, and suddenly bent forward into a bow, and suddenly straightened into a wall. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Dad swiftly shuttled through the crowd, love and happiness flowing across his big white face. The sun-softened asphalt road drew a zigzag gray rut under Dad's car.

A gust of wind lifted the yellow butterfly flower dress on a blue background on Liu Ye's body, she lowered her head and straightened the skirt lovingly, tears dripping onto a butterfly's wings like pearls with broken threads.

After eating at noon yesterday, my grandmother went back with her small blue package, and my father and brother Liu Yong took her to the station. The moment she saw her grandmother stepping out of the door, Liu Ye suddenly burst into tears, her grandmother's departure means that she is really going to be cut off from her hometown and the people in her hometown who have been connected by blood for 14 years, and she will be in this strange city like a lonely goose in the future, chirping mournfully, but who can understand her trill?

Grandma choked up with tears and said, "Ye Mao, study hard, grandma will often come to see you." ”

Liu Ye suddenly threw herself into her grandmother's arms, and grabbed her grandmother's thin arm with both hands, "No, grandma, I won't let you go!" Liu Ye knew that it was impossible for her grandmother to come to see her often, more than 2,000 miles away, she took a bus, and she had to change trains, it took almost a day, and her grandmother was still motion sick when she was in the car, how could she come so conveniently and often! Thinking of this, she suddenly felt so frightened, from the birth to today, Liu Ye has never left her grandmother, in her mind, her grandmother is her mother. And to his biological mother, Liu Ye felt so strange. She suddenly thought of her stepmother in "Snow White" and "Cinderella". She hugged her grandmother tightly, and her tears wet her grandmother's beige silk clothes that she was willing to wear when she went out. In her mind, her grandmother was so beautiful and perfect. Although she lived in the countryside, her grandmother cleaned herself up neatly, and the clothes she wore were always washed clean and scratched. Her hair is combed into a nice bun. Every morning, when her grandmother spread her hair out and combed her hair, Liu Ye looked at her grandmother's ink-dyed black hair and fantasized that her grandmother was as young as her mother. On many occasions she had her grandmother cut her hair short to shoulder length, like the hairstyle used to be worn by women in their forties at the time. But my grandmother smiled and refused. "Silly Ye Mao, grandma is almost sixty years old, how can she keep a young man's head!"

"Grandma, you're not old, I won't let you get old, you see that the king next door has white hair, and she still has short hair that reaches her ears!"

"People are working 'old Red Army', and my grandmother is just a housewife!"

In Liu Ye's mind, her grandmother is the greatest woman in the world, and no one can compare and replace her. She looked at her grandmother's wrinkled face in a daze, and asked curiously, "Grandma, you must have been very beautiful when you were young." Liu Ye seemed to see her grandmother's beautiful and moving face when she was young from the three prominent characteristics of her grandmother's white skin, big eyes, and high nose bridge.

"Yes, my grandmother had long braids when she was young," she said, gesturing her hand at the hem of her dress, "and it was almost to the hem." Grandma's eyes looked fixedly ahead, as if recalling the good old days, "I used to be the famous 'country flower' in our township." After saying this, my grandmother embarrassedly took out a handkerchief and wiped her lips, and said self-deprecatingly, "What are you doing with those past events, I am really old." She looked up at Liu Ye lovingly and said with a smile, "It's still my Ye Mao beautiful!" ”

"Grandma, I'm not as pretty as you were when you were young. Why don't you look like you with my eyes? She pouted, winked and muttered, "Mommy's single eyelid was inherited to me." ”

Mother dragged Liu Ye away from her grandmother, and her grandmother turned around step by step.

"Ye Mao, remember that your physics textbook should be put away." Grandma's aging and prolonged voice caused warm ripples in Liu Ye's heart.

Liu Ye ran upstairs and opened her physics textbook, which contained a thick wad of money, and she counted it, a total of two hundred yuan. Liu Ye opened his mouth wide in surprise, this is the luxury Phoenix bicycle that can be bought at that time!

Liu Ye lay on the bed and wept silently, even though her mother was screaming downstairs, she didn't want to come down. The picture of her life in the past 14 years was slowly unfolded by a pair of big hands of memories and presented on the screen of her brain.

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"Ye Ye, the brightest star is you." Dad hugged Liu Ye, facing the vast Milky Way, pinching her index finger and pointing at the sky above her head. Liu Ye opened a pair of ignorant eyes, nodding his head at some point, so Liu Ye knew his position in his father's heart. In the sixties and seventies, the combination of three sons and one woman was a very common phenomenon, unlike the one-child families that began to prevail in the 80s, and the children could never appreciate the brotherhood. "But why did Mom and Dad leave themselves and my brother at my grandparents' house?" Liu Ye's little head was never able to figure out this question. Once her grandmother told her that the city was too chaotic, and her parents were too busy at work to take care of her, what if she ran into bad people? After growing up, Liu Ye understood her grandmother's intention to protect her chastity and integrity until she got married.

Liu Ye is lonely, especially after her brother returned to his parents in Z City, she felt even more lonely. Living in a commune facing the street with her elderly grandparents, she sleeps with a kind of panic every night. Her little head flashed with the story that her neighbor Satsuki told her, in which there was always a thief hiding in the water tank, and when the people went to sleep, they lifted the lid of the water tank and climbed out. Sometimes the thief in the story will cunningly hide under the bed, revealing a sharp knife in the dead of night.

Every night, Liu Ye had to check the latch and the water tank over and over again. She lifted the sheets and knelt on the pedals, looking down at the bed, until everything was in the way, and she dared to go to bed. Sometimes her grandmother argued that she was a strange problem, and Liu Ye pouted and glanced at her elderly grandfather, and then lowered her head and quietly wept.

"Yo, our Ye Mao is so squeamish, grandma will cry when she says it!" After saying this, her grandmother took Liu Ye in her arms and took out her hand to wipe her tears. Liu Ye thought that if her grandfather was as young as her father, then she would not be afraid of anything.

Liu Ye loves her grandparents. At one point, her father seemed to be serious about telling her that he was going to take her back to the city. She hid behind her grandmother's back and cried for an hour. She wept silently, holding her voice tightly to prevent the cry from coming out. made Dad angry and distressed, and finally had to dismiss the idea of taking her back.