On Sunday, my grandmother got up early, sat on a wicker chair, and carefully combed her hair from top to bottom with a wooden comb. Grandma's hair floated down long and long like a crumpled black coarse cloth. Liu Ye stared blankly at his grandmother's long hair, fantasizing that his grandmother was as young as her mother. Suddenly, she noticed that there were some gray hairs on her grandmother's head, and she chuckled in her heart, and the terrible thought of her grandmother's death flashed in her mind. My grandmother's health was not good, and injections and medicines were her regular behaviors. "Break the jar and survive the new jar." Grandma smiled and comforted her several times, but she was still haunted by this terrible thought, she didn't dare to imagine what her life would be like without her, it would be unimaginable. She quietly came behind her grandmother, "Grandma, I'll help you comb your hair." When Grandma gave her the comb, she pretended to take the comb in her left hand and comb it up and down, while quietly reaching out her right hand and plucking the gray hair from her grandmother's head.

"Grandma, you won't be old anymore." She said with an innocent smile.

"Silly child, how can the old lady not be old, what is she getting old now! Not old! ”

"I'm not old, I'm not old, I won't let you get old!"

Grandma dressed neatly and went to the vegetable market, and when she came back, she bought carp, pig's trotters, and a small basket of cherries for Liu Ye. The bright red and lovely cherries are presented in small and delicate bamboo baskets, which are both pleasing to the eye and mouth-watering.

"Ye Mao, you go to Liu Xia's house and let her come to our house for dinner at noon."

"Okay!" Liu Ye agreed briskly and walked towards Liu Xia's house in the grain management office.

Liu Xia's mother is an employee of the grain management office, and she is a very fashionable and beautiful woman with a mushroom head. Although she is already a half-old, every time she walks through the town, she always attracts the envious gaze of passers-by. Especially the sloppy women of her age, with their hair disheveled, and who could open their breasts and breasts on the street, cursed jealously and fiercely, "Broken shoes!" After that, they would turn back to each other and ask, "How did she take care of her?" ”

"They only have one child, and they are single, so of course they have time to clean up! It's like we give birth to a litter like a sow! ”

Liu Xia's biological father is a car driver in the county, and for some reason, her parents divorced when she was three years old. Since then, my mother has poured all her feelings into Liu Xia, "You are your mother's future, you are your mother's hope!" "Mom is like reading a poem, teasing Liu Xia with emotion. Although the young Liu Xia didn't understand what "future" and "hope" were, she knew that her mother loved her. Her mother spent most of her salary on Liu Xia, and she bought her finished clothes that were rarely seen by children in small towns. The pink corduroy gown had a light gray edging on the neckline and cuffs and pockets, and a white bird fluttering on her chest embroidered on her chest, which she could only buy in county stores. It's a rarity in a small town.

Once a little boy playing with Liu Xia, when he saw the bird on Liu Xia's chest, he dropped the mud he was playing with and reached out to catch the bird. As a result, the little white bird became a little yellow bird. Liu Xia ran home crying, and her mother comforted her with a piece of yellow-orange-orange bread, "It doesn't matter, just wash it!"

"No, no, it can't be washed off! Let him pay! She wiped her tears from the back of her hand and pointed at the little boy. The little boy lowered his head and sniffed and hummed quietly, "I didn't mean to! ”

"Okay, mom will go to the county seat to buy you better clothes than this, okay!"

Mother picked up Liu Xia and kept kissing her on the face. This is the warmest and most beautiful memory of Liu Xia's childhood.

Since her mother remarried, Liu Xia has felt that her mother is no longer the mother she used to be. Although her stepfather, who was an agricultural assistant in the commune, was also kind to her, she felt that it was just a façade. Especially after the birth of her younger brother, Liu Xia became a superfluous "Cinderella" in the eyes of her mother. Although Liu Xia still dangled in front of her every day, and even deliberately sent it to her arms in order to attract her attention. But she had turned a blind eye, and even pushed her away in disgust, like kicking away a brick or a small stool in the way. Mom kept asking Liu Xia to wash diapers and clothes for her younger brother every day, or take her younger brother to play. When my brother was accidentally bumped into him, my mother would scream nervously, hug my brother and coax him, and kiss him on his little face. The pity on his face was wet with teardrops. When her face turned to Liu Xia, she would change from the tenderness just now to the angry crown. She put down her younger brother, grabbed Liu Xia's grassy hair before she could comb it, and dragged her to walk in place a few times. Don't forget to pound her hard on the back and ass. Liu Xia's tears flowed silently, but she stubbornly didn't cry. Seeing her younger brother laughing next to her, her eyes were full of hatred. Sometimes she wonders if she deliberately let her brother bump into it. Her brother's tender and chubby little face should have been the source of her love and happiness, but how did it become the embodiment of her disaster!

She doesn't know why her mother has changed beyond recognition all of a sudden, is it because she has a stepfather and a younger brother that she has become superfluous? She also had the idea of going to the county town to find her father, but that thought disappeared like a flash of lightning. Because she left her father with her mother when she was less than three years old, many years have passed, and her father has become a strange and difficult shadow in her heart.

It was a beautiful summer afternoon, and the river was rushing happily into the distance as the river flowed through the round goose warm stones, and the dense willows on the banks swayed gently in the breeze, like a graceful dancing girl. The sun was blazing, and the children who were playing barefoot on the stone pavement were screaming for hot feet, and their mothers were constantly splashing water on the pavement. Then there was white smoke, and in an instant the road was dry again. The children had to put on their shoes and no longer dare to touch the ground. Under the bridge and cave, there is no world, the slightest cool breeze blows, and the coolness penetrates from the skin into the heart. It's still the children just now, who will be driven by their mothers to escape the heat under the bridge piers. The mother was washing the clothes, and they were playing with the water next to them. The water is so clear that it's hard to see fish swim by. They played with the stones and the sand, and occasionally picked up something that had drifted down from the upper reaches of the river, and they cried out for joy.

Liu Ye rubbed his clothes on the slope of a large smooth stone with brown mixed white patterns under the bridge pier. Beside her stood a girl carrying a basket full of dirty clothes, and she was bending down to put down the basket she was carrying on her arm, when the enamel basin in her left hand fell heavily on the stone slab as she put her clothes away. She hurriedly squatted down and picked up the enamel basin. Liu Ye saw that a large black mark had been left on the bottom of the back of the enamel basin. The slate was covered with white porcelain shards. The girl cried out in a panic: "What to do, what to do!" Then her beautiful Danfeng's eyes were full of tears. The girl's skin is so tender and white, Liu Ye has never seen such a white and tender complexion when she is so big. Her big eyes were watery, and there seemed to be waves of light flowing in them. Her high nose bridge and small cherry mouth are so perfectly combined on her face that it is easy to think of ancient ladies' pictures. Her plump face not only reveals the grace of a classical lady, but also shows the charm of modern fashion. She was tall and tall like a small aspen tree. Liu Ye suddenly felt that she was so familiar? Oh, Liu Ye remembered how much she resembled the heroine in the recently sensational movie "Little Flower". Standing beside the girl, Liu Ye felt a little inferior. Whether it is height and appearance, Liu Ye is far inferior to her. She suddenly thought of the allusion of "Pu Jia Yi Yushu". This is what Uncle Zhang said. Cao Rui asked Mao Zeng, who was not good-looking, to sit with Xiahou Xian, who was known as the jade man, and people sarcastically said that this was "Pujia leaning on the jade tree". At that time, she listened to this allusion in a daze, but now she really understands the connotation of this allusion.