"Sister, get up and eat!" Brother Liu Yong, holding a bowl of rice in one hand and a bowl of chestnut stewed chicken in the other, came to the bed, and he carefully put the meal on the writing desk. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"Mom knows you're used to eating rice, so she made it for you." "We all eat noodles." He added.

"Has Grandma eaten?" Liu Ye asked subconsciously.

"Sister, grandma is gone, and Dad sent her back."

Liu Ye's tears flowed out again.

Liu Yong took out a handkerchief and handed it to Liu Ye, "Sister, I was not used to leaving my grandfather and grandmother to come to my parents four years ago, I miss my grandfather and grandmother and you every day." One time I sneaked to the station, got in the car and ran back to see you, do you remember? ”

"Yes." Liu Ye nodded, and the scene in his mind of his twelve-year-old brother carrying a turquoise striped bamboo mat and wearing a straw hat suddenly appeared in front of his grandfather, grandmother and her who were having lunch.

Grandma first put down the bowl, stepped forward in surprise and grabbed his arm, as if she was afraid that he would run away, and then took him in her arms, as if she didn't believe it, touched his head and face, and looked back at her grandfather who was stunned on the side, "Old man, I'm not dreaming, right?" ”

Liu Ye ran over at this time, took the bamboo mat on his brother's back, and shouted happily, "Grandma, it's my brother who is back!" ”

As if he had suddenly woken up, Grandpa put down the chopsticks that had been stretched out in the air, took out his checkered handkerchief and kept wiping his tears. Liu Yong ran to his grandfather and shook him, "Grandpa, I'm coming back to see you!" He playfully put his straw hat on his grandfather's head.

"Yes, yes!" Grandpa's voice was soaked with tears of excitement, and it was sprinkled with joy and love.

After a while, the neighbors who rushed to hear the news crowded the house, and they asked Liu Yong with concern how he came back. When Yoo Yong told them that he would take a car first, then a train, and then a car, they couldn't believe their ears.

"My mother, such a young child, how can I run back thousands of miles by myself, I really can't think about it! My old mother! They praised with a sigh of relief.

"Then what are you bringing a bamboo mat for?" An aunt asked curiously.

"I was resting on it when I was in the car." Grandma hurriedly replied, "You said that this kid is distressed by the dead, and he doesn't know anyone, so he dares to take someone's car!" ”

"I told the driver's uncle that I wanted to go back to D town to see my grandfather and grandmother, and people praised me for my filial piety. So let me sit! The elder brother said proudly with his black and shining eyes like black jewels.

Since then, the brother's intelligence and bravery have become good material for the people of the town to talk about and educate their children.

"But now I'm used to it. We all have to grow up, and we have to leave our elders and step into society to realize our own life values! Do you understand? "My brother, who is only two years older than Liu Ye, enlightens her like a teacher who is kind and seductive.

Liu Ye nodded silently.

Liu Yong stepped forward and patted her on the head, "Brother went to college in the provincial capital, and he will come back to see you often." ”

In Liu Yong's heart, the younger sister is much closer than the two younger brothers. Yes, they grew up together in their hometown, and a beautiful childhood is the happiest and most cherished memory in this life.

……………………

"Xiao Ye, your name needs to be changed. Your brother's name is by the three points of water and by your fire word by the word guilt. He's been admitted to college, and it's not good for you. You can change it to Liu Mei. The plum blossom blooms proudly, the ice is clear and jade, and it has always been praised by the world. On the other hand, water can drift wood, and Dad hopes that your brother's success will bring you good luck. ”

Liu Ye was very moved by her father's words, and she remembered that her father had pointed to the brightest star in the sky and told her that the star was her, and she understood that in her father's heart, she was as important as her brother and brother. But her prejudice against her parents against sons and daughters is like a shadow under the light, shaking on the white wall of her subconscious, which cannot be erased. Even many times Dad sneaked her to the store alone so that she could enjoy a special treatment and drink a sweet drink called "soda". Liu Ye looked at the orange liquid in the crystal clear glass bottle, and the desire to drink was like countless little insects scratching her heart, making it difficult for her to hold herself. In the 70s of the 20th century, soda, like Jianlibao in the 80s, was not something that ordinary children could afford to drink.

Every time Liu Ye took a few sips greedily, he stopped sensibly, looked at his father timidly, lowered his head and whispered, "Dad, take it back, let my brother and brother drink it!" ”

"Drink it yourself, leave them alone!" The obvious preference in her father's words, Liu Ye has never been able to understand, she stubbornly excludes this kind of fatherly love in her heart. The door of her soul and the windows were tightly closed, and no matter how her father and mother beat with the words and actions of love, she stubbornly refused the sunshine of love that came in.

Liu Ye's emotion was like the breeze that had just blown, passing by in an instant, and disappearing without a trace in the blink of an eye.

She followed her father into the vice principal's house, where she heard her parents' conversation and knew that she could come to this school thanks to the vice principal's introduction. So when she thought about meeting the person who was helping her, she felt uneasy.

"Xiao Ye, is that you?" When the kind-faced vice-principal in her early forties suddenly called out her name, she was sitting on a wicker chair with her head bowed and fiddling with her school bag.

"Ah, it's Uncle Zhang! How did you get to City Z? Liu Ye, who has always been taciturn, said warm words that surprised his father. Seeing his father's stunned gaze, Liu Ye buried his head in his chest again. But there was a warm current flowing through her heart.

She remembered that when she was in D Town, the old Uncle Zhang who often came to the house to see her and her brother with delicious sweets and snacks.

In Liu Ye's memory, Uncle Zhang waved a whip, pulled a donkey cart loaded with heavy goods, bowed his waist and walked the upper road (slope), as if the cart would slide down the slope and press on him at any time. The thick bandage was firmly slung across his body, as if it were about to be strangled into his flesh. The sun is like fire, Uncle Zhang's bare and emaciated spine is tanned by the sun into the color of pig liver, the arched back is like a bow about to break, and the beads of sweat are like crystal teardrops crawling all over the bow surface. Old Uncle Zhang's dark and thin face was oppressed by suffering into a silent fence wall. However, although the fence wall was rough, it revealed a solidity and solidity that could not be destroyed by wind and rain. In particular, his two thick eyebrows, which are as heroic as swords, show that he is different from other coachmen. It proclaimed aloud to the onlookers for its owner that no amount of suffering could bring him to his knees. How did Uncle Zhang become the vice principal of the school now?

Liu Ye suddenly remembered that his grandmother once said that Uncle Zhang was an intellectual who was a rightist. Liu Ye, who was less than ten years old at the time, couldn't understand the praise and disparage of the word "rightist", but she remembered the story of Uncle Zhang's belly.