Chapter 45: Standing Alone (I)
Early in the morning of the first day of the first lunar month, the people of the island have a tradition of going to the temples of all sizes on the island to pray for blessings. Some people dragged their families with them, and some family members didn't have time to let one person go there on behalf of the whole family.
Last night, little Pete didn't fall asleep until the early hours of the morning. Grandma hadn't slept all night and had gotten up early, thinking that little Pete would be asleep for a few hours. I thought that today was the first day of the first lunar month, and while little Pete was still sleeping, I would go to the temples on the island as soon as possible to pray for blessings, and when the child woke up, he would have come back a long time ago.
Grandma thought of this, so she pushed Fan Ya, who was still sleeping: "Ya! Lesser! Wake up! Xiaoya!"
After Fan Yayin fought with that thief-eyed man last night, she was tired and slept like a dead pig. Grandma pushed for a long time and didn't react at all, she still slept "purr-purr" Zhengxiang!
Grandma was anxious for fear of delaying time, and thought of a way to wake up Fan Ya. She picked up a small handful of Fan Ya's loose hair and gently swept Fan Ya's small nostrils with the ends of her hair.
After a while, Fan Ya sneezed several times one after another, and grandma took the opportunity to push her again: "Xiaoya-Xiaoya!" Wake up! Wake up! Grandma has something to look for you......"
Fan Ya was in a daze, and heard her grandmother say that something was wrong, which scared her last night. Frightened, he immediately sat up, his eyes hadn't opened yet, and he shouted in a panic: "Grandma! Grandmother! Out - what's wrong, give me you - your phone, I'll call my brother. ”
Seeing that the child was scared enough, the grandmother felt guilty, and even stroked Fan Ya's little face a few times with her hand, and couldn't stop comforting her: "Child! Don't be afraid! Don't be afraid! Lesser! You open your eyes and look at grandma, it's okay! It's okay!"
Fan Ya opened her eyes and saw that her grandmother was in front of her, and little Pete was sleeping soundly, and her grandchildren were in the bedroom. Everything around is quiet, looking at the small window, it is still dark outside, and the sky is not yet dawn!
"Grandma! What time is it? What are you waking me up for? Fan Ya asked her grandmother aggrievedly.
"It's past four o'clock in the morning! It's not dawn yet......" Before Grandma could finish speaking, Fan Ya interrupted her.
"Ahh Oh my grandma! Why are you waking me up so early! People still want to sleep! After saying that, he immediately got into the quilt and pulled the quilt and stuffed his head.
"Ya! Grandma has something to tell you, you can go to sleep and continue to sleep, okay! Grandma's good little girl!" Grandma tore off the quilt that Fan Ya covered her head.
"Grandma! What's wrong with you? Ah! My grandma! You're so annoying! Don't let me sleep right now!" Fan Ya was so angry that she was so sleepy that she didn't want to open her eyes.
"Today, on the first day of the New Year, grandma will go to the temple to burn incense and worship the Buddha to pray for our family. It is such a long mountain road to run several temples. Xiao Yaozu just fell asleep, you take a good look at your younger brother. You waited for Grandma to come home, remember? Grandma explained it clearly to Fan Ya.
"Grandma! It's not dawn yet, so don't you go! The mountain road is not easy to walk. When Fan Ya heard that her grandmother went to burn incense and worship Buddha in the dark, she was a little worried about her safety, so she woke up at once, opened her eyes and looked at her grandmother, and said anxiously.
"It's okay! Grandma brought a flashlight, and the more she walked, the brighter it became. While Xiao Yaozu was still sleeping, grandma went early and returned early. My brother is handed over to you, and grandma is leaving! Grandma told me again and again.
"Oh! Got it! Grandmother! Be careful when you go out!" Fan Ya also told her grandmother to take a look, and little Pete, who was still asleep, lay down beside him and continued to sleep.
After a while, I heard a knock on the door downstairs, and I knew that my grandmother had gone out......
In a daze, I don't know how long it has been.
In a trance, Fan Ya seemed to hear a child crying in her ear, and the voice became louder and louder. I feel like my hair is grabbed by someone who I don't know how hard to pull, and I can't shake my head off, and I suddenly feel that my head is so heavy!
She was still thinking in her heart: Am I dreaming again, am I dreaming again? Why is my head getting heavier and heavier, and my scalp is hurting more and more, what's going on?
She was half tired from the fight last night, and she woke up her grandmother in the early hours of the morning, and now she is getting more and more sleepy. In a daze, Fan Ya wanted to wake up as hard as she could, so she reached out and pulled the handful of hair that was being grabbed, and touched a fleshy little hand.
It suddenly remembered that it was little Pete sleeping next to him. Immediately hit a spirit, woke up and looked sideways, little Pete had already cried with tears on his face, and the quilt made him kick it all away.
Fan Ya immediately got up and put the quilt on little Pete again, and she put on her clothes indiscriminately first.
Little Pete was still crying non-stop, Fan Ya lifted the quilt again, picked up little Pete, and kept coaxing: "Little Pete!" Little Pete is obedient - we don't cry - sister hugs you. Wait, Pete! My sister will dress you right away. As she spoke, she held Pete in one hand and Pete's little dress on the square stool beside the bed in the other.
It seems very simple to learn from the way the aunt usually dresses Pete. But Fan Ya wanted to dress Pete today, and he kept crying with his eyes closed, and his hands and feet kept moving.
Fan Ya is not easy to help little Pete and put on a sleeve. The other sleeve took a lot of effort for her to put it in, for fear of breaking little Pete's arm.
Fan Ya was sweating profusely at the same time as she was nervous and anxious, which made little Pete even more uncomfortable, and she cried more and more. After tossing like this for a while, Fan Ya gave up the idea of dressing little Pete, and simply let little Pete lie back on the bed and cover him with a quilt.
found little Pete's rattle, and kept swinging from side to side in Fan Ya's hand, making a crisp and pleasant sound of "dong dong-dong dong", and she grimaced at little Pete again.
But the annoying little Pete, who didn't make him drool out loud with laughter like before.
Today, Pete just opened his eyes, looked at Fan Ya, closed his eyes and continued: "Wow-ah-wow-ah!" Cry.
Fan Ya didn't have anything to do to fix Pete, look at the little alarm clock on the shabby little table, it's only past six o'clock now! According to grandma, she ran all over the mountains of those large and small temples, and then burned incense to worship the Buddha and kowtowed, and it would take at least two hours to come back.
Thinking about Fan Ya hurts her head. This Pete kept crying and waiting for Grandma to come back. I have long cried hoarsely, and I was not directly beaten to death by my grandmother.
Suddenly, she remembered that her aunt had said that when a child cries, he is either hungry or pulling.
So, she pulled the quilt and sniffed Pete, but she didn't smell the smell of, and she was relieved. I thought: Little Pete didn't poop, then it might be hungry, so I'd better hurry up and make him a bottle of milk to drink!
Thinking about it, I immediately went downstairs, found a small Pete bottle, opened the can of milk powder, and added three small spoons of milk powder to the bottle. When I opened the kettle, as soon as my hand touched the cork, I suddenly remembered that my aunt said that the boiling water is too hot to soak in milk powder, the first nutrition is burned, and the second will burn my brother's mouth.
Fan Ya looked for it, and there was no bowl of cold boiled water on her table. Grandma is really a little confused, and she didn't cool a glass of cold boiled water in advance to make milk powder like her aunt.
What now? There is - Fan Ya her little head jumped out of a notice, poured boiling water into the water scoop, put it into the big water tank at home, and then took a big spoon and kept stirring in the water scoop.
To be continued......