Chapter 92: The Hardships of Growing Up
"Okay, it's getting late, you're ...... Let's go back. ”
"Okay......
This old Liu looked back and wanted to tell Xiaohong a few more words, but he saw Xiaohong singing children's songs in the back room, coaxing Xiaoqi, and Xiaoqi was sleeping sweetly in Xiaohong's arms.
"I vacated the back room for Xiaoqi and Xiaohong to live in, and I live outside." The father explained.
"Let the baby sleep on such a good bed inside, and the baby can just build a small bed in the stove house." Lao Liu was surprised, he didn't expect Lao Sheng to arrange for Xiaohong to live in the best room in this house.
"It's okay, she sleeps with Xiaoqi at night, and she can take care of her"
"Don't worry, this Xiaohong is different from other children, she can wake up with a little movement."
"It's okay, I take turns with Xiaohong, but sometimes I am very busy at work, and I have to deal with work matters, so let Xiaohong take the baby ......"
"It's okay, the field manager, you can arrange her at any time, it's ...... I'm not going to bother you this night, and you're going to bed early......"
Bidding farewell to the field chief's house, this old Liu hummed a little song along the way.
For a farmer who has a fixed income of 9 yuan a month, which is a huge amount of money in a year, he seems to have begun to arrange the use of this money......
For Lao Sheng, having this little nanny to take care of Xiaoqi seems to be a great favor for himself.
He doesn't have to run countless times up and down the mountain every day to take care of Xiaoqi and pay attention to work.
Xiaoqi can also eat some food, and the little nanny Xiaohong sometimes cooks some noodles for her or something, but she takes good care of Xiaoqi.
Xiaoqi no longer needs to be bolted, this young lady will take Xiaoqi to the square in the field after lunch, and sometimes help her go to the mountain stream next to the field to pick some flowers to play.
In the summer, catching fireflies is even more essential, as well as butterflies, dragonflies, grasshoppers, ants, these are all fun things.
I'm afraid it's childlike!
Xiaohong is like her little mother, and her sister loves her and takes care of her.
I remember one time, my father had just received the money from the county to buy production tools for the entire spring afforestation land, and was just about to put it in a drawer, when someone hurriedly ran to find the field manager.
It turned out that there were two employees in the field who were fighting because of the assigned tasks.
"Field Chief......" is the stupid three in the field who came to call his father, and said vaguely in a hurry.
After a long time, my father roughly heard clearly, and hurriedly turned around and followed the man, and my father hurried away.
In a hurry, I forgot to put the money away.
It had just been in a drawer, but it was halfway open and not closed.
Later, this Xiaohong found money, and when she saw such a big pile of money, she had never seen it, and she was afraid that the thief would come, so she didn't dare to move.
This stupid boy held Xiao Qi in front of this money. The whole day did not eat, did not drink, only a little milk was fed to the child.
When her father came back after about eight o'clock in the evening, the little red cried miserably for the first time.
"Uncle, I want to pee...... Money...... Money...... With so much money, I don't dare to touch it. After Xiaohong sent the child to her father's arms, she ran away.
After going to the toilet, the child came back crying, she said, "Uncle has so much money, I'm afraid that there will be thieves and bad people, and I don't know what to do." ”
The father looked at the drawer, which was still ajar when he left in the morning, and thought to himself, "This stupid boy doesn't know how to close the drawer of this cabinet with this money." I think the child is timid, he doesn't dare to move anything, he doesn't dare to touch anything. I've been guarding this drawer all day. ”
"Uncle, hurry up and see if this money is less, I'...... I have an explanation ......."
My father ordered the money, and it was a lot.
Looking at the half-grown child in front of him, his father's eyes were also moist.
Probably this is what a good quality kid looks like.
She didn't roll up the money to run.
This money is the money for spring afforestation in the field, which is indeed a huge amount of money for an ordinary person.
She didn't steal a half, and she didn't even dare to close the drawer where the money was kept.
An honest boy indeed!
Since then, her father has given her another dollar, 10 yuan per month, and the son of a doll is 3 yuan more than other adults.
I am afraid that there is no higher nanny income than this in the whole county!
It wasn't until Xiaoqi was five years old that she was supposed to study, and Xiaohong went from a full-day job to a half-day.
Xiaohong has been doing her best to take care of Xiaoqi all these years.
My father also had time to arrange production, so he focused on his work.
Xiaoqi can study, which is a good thing, and at this time, common sense has set up a school for the children of employees.
It is said that the school is actually some junior high school students who have not been admitted to high school, and they come to bring these children who should be of school age.
These big kids come and teach these kids. These children are relatively complicated, and when they say they go to school, they actually lead the children together.
The quality of teaching is even more difficult to talk about.
It is said to be teaching children, but in fact, it is to lead children, there are no teaching materials, there is no plan.
At that time, one of the teachers who led these half-grown children was Xiaoqi's sister, but it was indeed the one that Xiaoqi was most afraid of.
She will fight Xiaoqi!
She speaks vulgarly and often beats and scolds Xiaoqi.
Since Xiaoqi left Xiaohong there, there has been no second person to protect her besides her father.
Xiaoqi tasted pain for the first time!
At that time, Xiao Qi heard a lot of rumors that he was a broom star.
said that his mother was killed by herself, and her life was too hard. said that if he died, Xiaoqi's mother might be alive.
It seems that her sister and brother hate him. Hopefully she'll die soon. In this way, the pain of the mother's death can be calmed.
Xiaoqi is a child, she doesn't understand this, she just feels sad, she just feels sad.
Sometimes I tell my father
The father said, "That's not the case, don't believe it." Mom is meningitis, she died of illness, and the doctor can't cure her, and it has nothing to do with you. ”
But these words still hit Xiaoqi deeply!
She has changed, and she has become more and more inferior since she went to school.
She sometimes thinks that if she really died, would her mother come back to life?
She thought of all kinds of ways to kill herself, and she thought about how to get her mother back.
She thought of many, many ways, but none of them came to fruition. Mom didn't come back either.
The father looked at the school he ran in the field, and he didn't seem to teach anything serious, and Xiaoqi, the child, seemed to smile less and less.
Father sent Xiaoqi to the school in the brigade again.,I always feel that there are at least regular teachers there.。。 It's still better than the classes in school.
Xiaoqi was also transferred to the brigade to take classes, but he had to walk more than six miles every day and go back and forth more than ten miles.
The winters are long and hard.
Xiaoqi persists!
This winter. Lao Sheng returned to his hometown and took Xiaoqi with him.
Lao Sheng's hometown is in Jiangnan. It is thousands of miles away from the Gobi Desert in the northwest.
Since Xiaoqi's mother passed away, until Xiaoqi was six years old, his father never returned to his hometown.
Except for the year that can never be erased in the memory.
In the year that Xiaoqi's mother died, Lao Sheng and his three closest relatives all passed away.
One is his wife, the other is his mother, and the other is his mother-in-law!
For Xiaoqi, she lost her mother, grandmother, and grandmother in the same year!
All three died in the same year!
How many people in the world can taste such a spectacle?
Xiaoqi's mother was the first person to pass away, followed by her grandmother, and then her grandmother.
When I first got the news, Xiaoqi was just six months old.
Her father took her thousands of miles to mourn, and it was the middle of winter at that time.
Fortunately, there are few afforestation tasks in winter, and the work can still be arranged.
At that time, the train was very slow and slow, and there were very few vehicles.
It was a trip home alone, and it took seven days to get there. It takes half a month to drive back and forth.
When the family took a telegram. By the time we arrived, the funeral had already been completed.
Father!
Can't fall down!
After the grief, it is still necessary to solve the problem.
In the face of the loss of his loved ones, he himself does not seem to be qualified to be sad.
But life goes on. She still has this child, he can't have an accident!
Within half a month of arriving at my hometown, my grandmother left again!
This is an indescribable trauma!
This is the second time that Xiaoqi has returned to his hometown after he was born.
This time is different, for the reunion of the New Year.
Xiaoqi's home is in Nanjing. There are many relatives in southern and northern Jiangsu.
For Lao Sheng, his elders are gone, but there are still many brothers and sisters, and these relatives are missing......
Xiaoqi's mother is from northern Jiangsu, and her mother is a well-known local wealthy Wang family.
Xiaoqi's father and mother were originally cousins.
This kind of love like a family seems to be closer than ordinary love.
It is also closer and more reluctant.
When he arrived at the border of Jiangsu, the first stop was to visit his relatives in northern Jiangsu.
My grandfather has long passed away, and my grandmother is no longer there.
My father took the creek and the first stop was to go to the grave for his grandparents first.
The cemetery is familiar to Kosu.
Ever since she could run, she often ran to her mother's grave to find her, hoping to get her out of the grave.
But it never materialized.
There are fewer relatives in the mother's family now, only one of my mother's eldest sisters is 24 years older than Xiaoqi's mother.
Mother, for Xiaoqi, is always a strange topic.
The void without an outline in that memory is desolate.
She misses her so much!
Some people say that what a person lacks when he is a child will spend a lifetime of energy to ask for it, but he can't ask for enough or can't ask for it.
Just like Mother Yu Xiaoqi, that's how it is.
Six-year-old Xiaoqi is ignorant and ignorant.
Jiangnan's grandmother gave birth to 12 children in her life, but only Xiaoqi's mother and the eldest sister survived.
At that time, my sister seemed to be fifty or sixty years old, and Xiaoqi didn't remember what her father told her, but she only remembered that when they met, the family had a solemn expression.
They sent Xiaoqi to bed early.
At this time, it has been 6 years since my mother passed away, but this pain has hit every mother's relatives.
This family doesn't even have very many pleasantries.