Story 88 Someone Under the Bed (1)
Jiang Hai went back to his hometown in the Northeast with his parents for the New Year this winter vacation, because his parents came out to work very early, so although he is a northeasterner, he was born and raised in Hebei. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Dad's hometown is in Heilongjiang, a place that sounds very cold. Jiang Hai also went back with his parents a few times when he was a child, and at that time he felt that the house in his hometown was broken and cold, and the kang he slept on was cold and hot.
And this time I went back to be different, I heard my mother say that my grandmother's family has built a new house, and my uncle and new aunt are preparing to get married in the new house, and now they are waiting for us to go back!
A few days later, Jiang Hai and his family of three took a train for nearly 20 hours to reach their destination, Suihua, Heilongjiang Province.
As soon as they got off the bus, they saw that their uncle was already waiting at the exit of the station, Jiang Hai jumped up and shouted, "Uncle! I'm here! ”
The uncle immediately happily stepped forward to take the luggage in their hands and said, "I'm tired, go back and eat something and sleep well." ”
Jiang Hai's uncle Jiang Dawei is a rural youth who is not good at talking, because he is too honest, so he is 30 years old before he decides on this suitable family business, the woman's family did not ask for a bride price of 180,000 yuan with a mouth like other girls, and their mother's only request is to let the Jiang family rebuild the house.
So Grandma scraped together a little bit with her relatives, and Dad took out some of his savings and finally built a new house. My mother complained a lot about my father because the house I live in now has a loan that hasn't been paid off!
But my father said, "I can't look at my brother and not be able to marry a daughter-in-law just because he has so much money!" ”
Jiang Hai's mother Su Hong is not an unreasonable person, but every family has a difficult scripture!
Jiang Dawei usually in addition to farming, but also raised some rabbits to supplement the family, he is driving the big tricycle that usually sends rabbits to pick up Jiang Hai today, this cold winter, sitting in the back of the tricycle, Su Hong's face is getting more and more difficult to look ......
Fortunately, it didn't take long, and they arrived at the tun where Jiang Hai's grandmother and they lived, and as soon as they entered the village, Jiang Hai saw that his grandmother came out to greet them from afar!
Jiang Zhiyuan looked at his old mother's faltering appearance, looking much older than the last time they met, and his heart was inexplicably sour.
Su Hong saw that her mother-in-law was still going out to pick them up in the winter, and she felt a little unbearable, she was so old, it was slippery outside, and if she fell again, it would be more than worth the loss at that time, so she hurriedly got out of the car and helped her mother-in-law and said, "Mom! On this cold day, why don't you wait at home, what are you going to pick up? ”
But Grandma Jiang Hai smiled and said, "When I think that you guys are coming back soon, I can't sit still at home!" ”
Jiang Hai also walked to his grandmother's side and helped his grandmother with his mother, "Grandma! Do you want to miss me? ”
When the old lady looked at her eldest grandson, she said happily, "Yes! I just want my eldest grandson to be alone! ”
A few people came to a brand-new courtyard with laughter, Jiang Dawei pointed to this courtyard and said to Jiang Zhiyuan: "Brother! This is our new house. ”
Jiang Zhiyuan looked up and saw that the vermilion lacquered door still exuded a smell of paint, obviously it had just been painted for a few days. When I walked into the yard, I saw that it was cleaned up neatly, and a few new houses made of red bricks were really a little festive.
Grandma Jiang Hai has been widowed for many years, and finally brought up her two sons, and now as long as this youngest son gets married, she is also the right old man.
Grandma took Jiang Hai's hand and came to the side room of the east house and said: "This room is specially reserved for you by grandma, grandma knows that you don't like to sleep on the kang, so she asked the carpenter in the village to make a bed for you, sit and watch, is it comfortable?" ”
Jiang Hai looked at the extremely simple wooden bed, the futon on it looked brand new, he sat on the bed, although it was not as soft as the bed at home, but compared with the fire kang, this was simply VIP treatment.
"Thank you grandma! It's still my grandmother who is good to me. Jiang Hai said coquettishly.
As soon as Jiang Hai walked into this house, he felt that it was significantly taller and brighter than the previous house, but I don't know why, I always felt that it was not as comfortable as the old house before, although the previous house was dilapidated and old......
At dinner in the evening, Grandma Jiang Hai said to Jiang Zhiyuan: "The day of the second child is set, and I asked Li Sangu in the village to see it, which is the 16th of this month." This year's Chinese New Year, our family has added another mouthful of people. ”
Su Hong smiled and said, "Maybe I'll add another bite next year?" ”
When Grandma heard this, the folds on her face opened.
When sleeping at night, grandma must Jiang Zhiyuan and Su Hong sleep in the east house, in the northeast, they generally pay attention to "big east and small west", that is, the elders should sleep in the east house, and the juniors will sleep in the west house.
But now Westinghouse is the marriage room of the second son Jiang Dawei, and it is not suitable for the eldest son and daughter-in-law to sleep in it, and there is only a folding bed in the Westinghouse, which can't sleep two people at all.
So the old lady must let them sleep in her own room, but Jiang Zhiyuan couldn't bear to let his wife sleep on the folding bed alone, and finally pushed it around, so Su Hong had to sleep in the same room with the old lady, and Jiang Zhiyuan slept in the side room of the Westinghouse himself.
Jiang Hai, a teenager and a half-year-old, could sleep anywhere, but the old lady had cleaned up the room for her eldest grandson in the morning, and he couldn't help but be afraid that it would break his grandmother's heart.
Jiang Hai was tired from the fatigue of the journey along the way, and it stands to reason that he should fall asleep as soon as he dips his head into the pillow, but for some reason, he has insomnia. It's winter, and the windows of the house can't be opened often, perhaps because of poor ventilation, and there is still a smell of white ash in the house that has just been painted.
But this is not so that he can't sleep, but he always feels uncomfortable, he just turned over in bed and couldn't fall asleep, I don't know how long it was, just when Jiang Hai was about to fall asleep, suddenly a clear cough sounded on the bed!
Jiang Hai sat up with a spirit, he felt as if he had heard a cough just now?
At this time, the moonlight outside the window shone into the house through the glass, even if you don't need to turn on the lights, you can see the whole picture of the house, but there are no other furnishings here except for a few miserable white walls, if there is someone else Jiang Hai should also see it at a glance!
Jiang Hai pricked up his ears and listened carefully for a while, but there was no sound, and he thought to himself, could it be that he heard it wrong? Or maybe he's dreaming......
Thinking of this, he fell on the bed and continued to count the sheep, and just as he was drowsy, suddenly, "cough cough ......" another clear cough sounded.
This time Jiang Hai listened to it sincerely, the voice should be a man coughing. (To be continued.) )