Chapter 214: Grandma
214 Grandma
The car made a big turn, and a straight dirt road came into view.
Wei Gospel breathed a sigh of relief, staggered out of the car, passed by a small supermarket opened by a family, thinking that he couldn't go home empty-handed, bought a bag of peanuts, and went straight to his grandmother's house.
Before he reached the door of the house, Wei Gospel heard the sound of someone scolding from a distance, the sentences were vulgar and unbearable, he covered his ears with his hands, ran forward, and saw two old men with their hands on their waists, scolding, spitting and flying together, if Wei Gospel hadn't stopped him in time, he would have almost pinched each other's necks.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Wei Gospel's eyes widened in surprise, the two old men were more than one hundred and fifty years old, how could they still be like a young man, such a big temperament, he hurriedly ran forward, said good words, like coaxing a child, and said, "Grandma!" Grandmother! Stop arguing, I'm back! ”
The old man's cloudy eyes glanced at her, and the arrogance in his heart was extinguished at once, and he had a fierce expression just now, and in a blink of an eye, he smiled and said, "It's a holiday."
The man glanced at Wei Gospel curiously and said, "Your family has a guest."
She had seen all the guests of her grandmother's house, but she couldn't remember which relatives Wei Gospel was of hers.
Grandma snorted and said proudly, "This is my eldest daughter's child."
The man couldn't close his mouth in surprise, and said in a deep voice: "It turned out to be Yuehua's daughter, don't say it, it's really like Yuehua."
Finally, the man said, "How is your mother doing outside, I haven't seen her in years."
Wei Gospel nodded and smiled, "It's good."
For the first time, she felt that there were still people who cared about her mother.
Grandma put Wei Gospel in her arm and said angrily, "It's been a long time since you came back to see me."
Wei Gospel obediently held her arm with both arms, smiled, and said, "Grandma, I also want to come back, but the school is not on holiday, so I won't come to see you as soon as the holiday is over."
Grandma glanced at Wei Gospel and muttered, "Do you remember coming back?"
Wei Gospel leaned his head on her shoulder and said, "Grandma is angry, I miss you every day, and I specially brought you something delicious!"
Grandma's mouth said something vaguely, Wei Gospel didn't understand too much, the communication between them was not very smooth, Grandma always thought that she spoke too fast, and she couldn't understand it, in the same way, Wei Gospel understood half of what she said to Grandma, and half of it was guessed, but fortunately, she could guess it and not leave ten.
Every time grandma speaks, Wei Gospel always finds it interesting, the cheeks on both sides of grandma are asymmetrical, the left cheek is normal, but the reason for age is slightly sunken, there are two deep wrinkles, as if it was cut by a knife, the right cheek bulges outward, as if he has a table tennis ball in his mouth, and his mouth is a little crooked when he speaks, although it is very impolite, Wei Gospel still can't help laughing, he thinks it is funny, his mother has said that grandma has a toothache when she is young, and every time she has a toothache and has no money to buy medicine, she rolls in bed in pain, and hits her head against the wall, Half of my face was swollen when it hurt, and then my teeth stopped hurting, but the swelling on my face couldn't go away.
Grandma not only smoked but also drank alcohol when she was young, which surprised Wei Gospel, and felt that Grandma was a character, among the people she came into contact with, there were not many men who smoked and drank, not to mention women, in her study career, the words to describe the elderly were "kind", "kind", "amiable" and "smoking and drinking" These words have nothing to do with it.
It turns out that grandma was a bad girl when she was young, if she hadn't heard her mother tell her grandmother's deeds when she was young, Wei Gospel couldn't imagine that this kind old man in front of him lived more chic and comfortable than himself when he was young, thinking about his seventeen years, most of them spent time in school rules and regulations, and they didn't even violate the school rules.
Wei Gospel is not a talkative person, even if she is curious, she also understands that there should be a measure between relatives, and she is afraid of hurting her grandmother's self-esteem, so she doesn't ask more.
Grandma took Wei Gospel's hand and walked into the courtyard.
Wei Gospel likes grandma from the bottom of her heart, there are not many people who really care about her, except for her parents, no one seems to like her anymore, of course, she is withdrawn, she doesn't need the care of others, and she has never cared about others, but it's good to be loved, grandma is the only person she really wants to repay when she grows up, so she will always say: "Grandma, when I grow up, let you follow me to enjoy Qingfu."
Wei Fuxin said: "Grandma, what did you just quarrel about?"
Grandma said: "I didn't make any noise, she said that our chickens ran to her vegetable garden and ate the cucumbers she planted, so I quarreled with her."
Wei Gospel laughed and said: "Grandma, just for this little thing, you are all neighbors for life, you must live in harmony in the future, don't quarrel."
Grandma gently took her hand and walked into a simple kitchen, Wei Gospel squatted in front of the earthen stove to light the fire, although the kitchen was ventilated on all sides, but the smoke and water vapor were filled inside, Wei Gospel bent down and lowered his head, choking and coughing.
There was a big iron pot on the stove, and my grandmother turned a bowl upside down on the lid of the iron pot, and the bottom of the bowl was filled with water.
Wei Gospel couldn't help but wonder, her mother also steamed steamed buns by herself, but she didn't know what ritual she wanted when steaming steamed buns, and said strangely: "Grandma, what are you doing with a bowl on the lid of the pot?"
Grandma tested the bottom of the bowl with one finger, took out her finger, and explained: "When the water at the bottom of the bowl is hot, the steamed buns inside will be steamed."
Wei Gospel smiled: "Grandma is really smart."
Steamed steamed buns Wei Gospel has no experience, but the mother steamed steamed steamed buns, she is always responsible for the fire, sometimes the mother put the steamed buns into the pot and went out to work, Wei Gospel can't master the heat, sometimes the time is not enough, the steamed buns in the pot are half-cooked, sometimes the boiling is too much, the water in the pot is boiled dry, lift the lid of the pot, the steamed buns inside are as hard as bricks, for this reason, she was not less counted by her mother.
Wei Gospel stuffed the wheat straw into the hearth, and the fire inside was extinguished by the filled straw, and then it "boomed" all at once, and the stove continued to smoke out, and grandma calmly coped with it, not only did Wei Gospel burn down the small kitchen she built, Wei Gospel saw that there were sparks coming out, and quickly stepped on it with his feet, and after a while, grandma put her fingers into the bottom of the bowl to test, and retracted it violently, and said with satisfaction: "Okay."
Wei Gospel said, "Okay?"
Sure enough, when the lid of the pot was lifted, the white steamed buns inside were very good-looking, and the grandmother wiped her hand on her clothes, picked up a hot steamed bun with chopsticks, and said cautiously: "Taste delicious or not, you young people love to be clean, you won't dislike me for being dirty."
Wei Gospel laughed and said: "Grandma, what did you say, how could it be, how could I dislike you, the steamed buns are steamed, and I am dying of hunger."
The dinner was quite hearty, Wei Gospel wanted to go and say hello to his aunt, living under the same roof, it was not good to turn a blind eye, but his grandmother stopped her and said, "Don't go to her house."
Wei Gospel was obedient and obedient, although she didn't have much contact with her aunt, she had also heard some bad things, and she felt sorry for such a considerate old man, and no one took care of her in her old age.
After dinner, grandma moved a small stool and looked up to watch TV, Wei Gospel saw that it was getting late, wrapped in a quilt on the small bed behind her, staring and drowsy, as if she couldn't wake up every day, lying on the bed and wanting to sleep.
The TV screen flashed and flashed, and there was a sound of the male and female protagonists arguing inside, just listening to the lines inside, you knew that it was a vulgar idol drama, Wei Gospel opened his eyes slightly, and saw that his grandmother was watching with relish, he opened his mouth and didn't make a sound, and his whole body trembled with laughter, Wei Gospel raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "Grandma, do you understand?"
Grandma didn't look back, and said, "I understand, I understand."
One pointed to the character inside and said, "This boy likes this girl, this girl doesn't like him, likes another boy."
The vulgar love triangle, Wei Gospel took a breath, yes, I really understood, admired the five bodies on the ground, lying on the bed on all fours, she originally wanted grandma to turn off the sound of the TV to reduce it, affecting her sleep, and she was afraid of disturbing grandma's good mood, and said in her heart: "Forget it, who makes grandma like to watch it."
The reason why Wei Gospel likes to be close to Grandma, on the one hand, he feels that she treats her sincerely, and on the other hand, Grandma is a person who never spreads negative energy to her, and will not say anything about "Seventy-three, eighty-four, the king of Hades does not call himself to go", and what "I don't know if I can live until you graduate from college", and other topics about life and death, every time I hear something like this, Wei Gospel doesn't know how to pick it up.
Grandma will never throw such a problem to her, she is positive and optimistic about everything, which is different from her mother, Wei Gospel thought: Mother's sentimentality should be inherited from grandpa, who doesn't like such an optimistic and cheerful old man.
Wei Gospel said that he wanted to eat corn, and the next day, Grandma went to the corn field, broke a few corns and came back to cook them, Wei Gospel gnawed like a hungry wolf, and said while gnawing: "Grandma, when I grow up, I will take you to my house, and I will take you around, do you say okay?"
Grandma smiled: "Okay, eat slowly, don't choke."
Probably the root of the disease caused by smoking and drinking when she was young, grandma always kept coughing, what the specific illness was, Wei Gospel was not clear, when she didn't cough, she always gasped, as if she didn't have enough oxygen, she needed to inhale a lot, oxygen could meet the needs of her lungs, listening to her rough panting, Wei Gospel felt uncomfortable.
Grandma took out a small plastic bottle from the dark drawer, poured the white pill inside into the palm of her hand, and then took out a few yellow glass bottles of similar size, carefully counted the particles according to the doctor's instructions, and muttered: "Gospel, come and help me see, is the medicine in this yellow bottle take two pills, this medicine is too powerful, you can't take more, last time your grandfather took heavy medicine, and slept for two days, which frightened me, you come and help me take a look."
Wei Gospel looked at the bottles and cans on the table of his grandmother, there were twenty pills of medicine in her palm, she ate it three times a day, it was really a medicine jar, just a cough, according to the current developed medical technology, could it not be cured, not to mention an elderly man in his seventies, that is, a young man in his twenties and thirties, taking so many medicines a day, for a long time, the body can't stand it.
He said distressedly: "Grandma, who bought these medicines for you, did you go to the hospital to see it, what did the doctor say, taking too much medicine is not good for your health, or go to the hospital and let the doctor give you a comprehensive examination, now that the technology is so developed, cough is not a big problem."
Grandma said: "I've seen it, I've seen it, your uncle took me and your grandfather to the hospital for a checkup last year, it's all old problems, and I won't cough if I take some medicine."
As he spoke, he picked up the water in the bowl and skillfully swallowed the pills in his palm, Wei Gospel's heart was like a mirror, the medicine in these bottles could only treat the symptoms but not the root cause, seeing that his grandmother's cough was getting worse and worse, he was anxious and complained that his uncles were not filial.
Seeing that Grandma finished taking the medicine, carefully put the medicine bottle back in the drawer, looking at her serious and cautious appearance, Wei Gospel knew that those medicines were just simple for Wei Gospel, but they were not medicines for her, they were used to save her life.
Wei Gospel stood aside, after taking the medicine, grandma's breathing gradually stabilized, her eyes were slightly moist, while grandma was not paying attention, she hurriedly wiped her tears, turned around and said, "Grandma, are you better?"
Grandma said, "It's much better."
Wei Gospel reached out and stroked Grandma's back, hoping to relieve her cough, frowned and said, "Grandma, you have raised six children, but you are old, but no one cares about you, it is really unfilial."
Grandma said: "Why are you not filial, your uncle and your aunt are very filial to me, and your aunt comes to see me every week, and they are all filial and filial."
Wei Gospel said: "Grandma, they don't take you to the hospital to see a doctor, you also say good things for them, the law says, children have the obligation to support their parents, according to the law, children do not give their parents alimony, parents can go to the court to sue them."
Grandma was amused by Wei Fuxin's angry and serious expression, and said, "You kid, what stupid thing to say, I will cook you a few corns, remember to take them back to school to eat."