Chapter 35: Returning to Home
After sitting up, reaching out to stop the dutiful alarm clock at the head of the bed, he no longer lay down as usual, but sat there as if he was in a daze, and after a while, he shook his head vigorously, and felt that the dizziness slowly disappeared, and then put on the bunny cotton slippers that wore the hem and went out to wash. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
After washing, I went downstairs, and sure enough, at the dining table, my parents and brothers were already there.
"Yo, I'm up, I'm ready to get you to lift the bed." The elder brother chewed bread on his mouth and looked at Ling Xin who came downstairs with a smile.
"Isn't it just seven o'clock, you promised me that you will do it." Ling Xin sat down in her place and took a bite of the bread her mother had fed her with her mouth.
After breakfast, the family moved a chair out of the door and began to paste the Nian Hong, the father held the chair, the elder brother climbed on the chair and picked up the upper edge of the Nian Red that had been glued, Ling Xin took the lower edge, and the mother stood behind to calibrate it in the distance.
"A little more, a little more, a little down, crooked, Xiaoxin a little to the left, well, okay." The family pasted two New Year's bonuses together, and the horizontal connection is simpler than the Nianhong that requires the cooperation of two people, because it is not big, one person can hold it with both hands, Ling Hao directly held it with both hands and pasted it under the prompting of his mother.
In fact, there is another reason why I got up so early today in my Chinese New Year's Eve, that is, I want to go back to my hometown today.
Ling Yu's parents are gone, so he didn't go back to his grandparents' house to pay New Year's greetings, but went to his grandparents' house every year.
The family checked and cut off the power of all electrical appliances in the house except the refrigerator, after all, they would not come back until the next day.
Nian Hong was pasted, decorated, put a plate with candy and biscuits on the living room, checked the power supply, and set up the house before locking the door and getting into his father's car.
It's not a very high-end car, but an ordinary car that you can buy for hundreds of thousands. But Ling Xin felt that it was all the same, and no matter how expensive the car was, she couldn't like it, because she got motion sickness......
In fact, it's not the kind that is very dizzy, and it won't vomit, but it doesn't feel uncomfortable, so Ling Xin sleeps as soon as she gets in the car every time she gets in the car, after all, she won't feel uncomfortable when she falls asleep, and she can rest, killing two birds with one stone, isn't it.
My grandfather's house is in Qingtian Village, which is more than 300 kilometers away from Jiangming City, basically before the car starts, it has not left the city and entered the highway, Ling Xin has already sat in the back seat, rolled up, lying on her side, sleeping with her head resting on her mother's legs.
Until the car drove for more than two hours and was about to get off the highway when it was about to arrive, this section of the road had not been repaired, it was still the kind of potholed yellow mud ground, the car was driving on it and constantly subverting, the car had just driven a small pit up and down for a while, Ling Xin immediately woke up, and immediately realized that her nightmare was coming.
That's right, a nightmare. If there's anything bad about going back to my hometown every year, it's the only way to go. It takes more than an hour for a car to drive on such a long road, in fact, there is only one-fifth of the way left, but this potholed yellow mud road is really not as good as the highway before, so it takes more than an hour.
Ling Xin really wanted to continue to sleep, but the car shook from time to time, turned up and down from time to time, how to sleep, and the discomfort of motion sickness made it even more difficult to sleep. Every year, this short journey is a torment for her.
Li Ting watched her daughter's little face gradually lose blood and become pale, so she could only touch her daughter's head with one hand and pat her back with the other, and said distressedly: "If you are uncomfortable, just sleep for a while, right?" I'll call you when I arrive. ”
Ling Xin could only bury her head deep in her mother's arms, close her eyes and count the little sheep in her heart, trying not to care about the dizzy head.
Until the car stopped and was carried out by her mother, if it wasn't for her mother's support, it is estimated that she would have fallen to the ground in dizziness.
It took a breath of fresh air to feel alive, and I have to say that the smell of the countryside mixed with earth and grass is really very good.
Seeing that her daughter's face gradually recovered, Li Zhu pulled her to the house.
The ancestral house of Li Ting's hometown is very large, and perhaps the land in the countryside is not valuable, and there are several houses here that cover an area of 300 square meters.
It is said that in such places, there is usually land but no money to build it.
"Mom." After Li Ting entered the door, she saw her mother sitting in the yard breaking beans, that is, Ling Xin's grandmother.
Ling Xin remembered that her mother said that her grandmother was the kind of person who couldn't stay idle, and she was uncomfortable all day without looking for some work, and a lot of grades did not stop, no, among the three sons and two daughters of the Chinese New Year's Eve old Li family, one son who went out to work and two daughters who married out came back, and they were even more happy to be busy.
"Oh, I'm back, isn't this Xiaoxin, I've grown up, the more I grow, the more beautiful I get, like a doll in a New Year's painting." Grandma wiped her hands with the cloth next to her and beckoned Ling Xin over, looked at Ling Xin, who had reached her waist, and said.
Today's Ling Xin did let Li Ting dress up, but today is not as good as trying on clothes as usual, after all, the clothes worn for the New Year are fixed and have already been prepared.
A festive red cheongsam full of Chinese style, lined with a white long-sleeved shirt, the skirt of the cheongsam only reaches above the knees, revealing the calves in white pantyhose, and on the feet are a pair of red embroidered cloth shoes with a cheongsam on the body. The waist-length hair was split into two strands, and two balls were balled on either side of the head, wrapped in a red cloth, and tied tightly with a red ribbon. The red clothes made her skin even fairer and more delicate, and the pleasing smile on Ling Xin's delicate little face was indeed like a doll in a New Year's painting, which looked really festive and cute.
"Come on, come on, grandma will give you a big red envelope. Grow up quickly," grandma took out a bulging red envelope that had been prepared a long time ago from her right trouser pocket and handed it to Ling Xin.
Although Ling Xin is not bad even if she doesn't need to pay the manuscript fee in the card, Ling Xin still likes the feeling of receiving red envelopes from her elders.
Ling Xin took it with both hands, the smile on her face became brighter, and she didn't rush to take it back with both hands, but held the red envelope with her left hand and her left hand with her right hand in a fist hug: "I wish my grandmother good health!" Many happy returns! ”
"Good, good." Amused her grandmother, and kept touching Ling Xin's ball head with one hand.
"Alas, Xiao Hao is also here. Come over and show Grandma. Looking at Ling Hao, who had grown to 1.8 meters, walked to his side, "It's so big in a blink of an eye, grandma will give you a red envelope." After speaking, he was still touching Ling Xin's pill head with one hand, and his left hand reached into his left pocket and took out a red envelope.
"Grandma is in good health, and her wishes come true." Ling Hao took the red envelope from his grandmother's hand, which was obviously one size smaller than Ling Xin's hand.
Different from ordinary patriarchal families, Ling Xin's grandparents are very "female over men", perhaps because she is the only girl in Ling Xin's generation, and her grandparents like her very much.
Without caring about the hands on her head, Ling Xin turned her back to her grandmother and made a smug grimace at her brother.
"Go in, go in, the old man is waiting inside."
Then my grandmother sat down and continued to break the beans.
The four of them entered the main hall from the front, the grandfather sat on the sofa in the hall and watched TV, Ling Xin and Ling Hao sat on the left and right of the grandfather, "I wish my grandfather good health and a long life." ”
Grandpa smiled and touched Ling Xin's ball head with one hand, and then took out two red envelopes of different sizes with the other.
"I really like my grandparents' open-mindedness." Ling Xin thought in her heart, and the smile on her face became even brighter.