"Grandma, why don't you sleep so late?" Shu Jin was about to turn the key when the door opened from the inside, revealing an old but kind face.

"Wait a little one! Come in, come in. The old man hurriedly took a step back and beckoned to the girl.

"Xiaoxiao, I bought wontons!"

The old man glanced at what his granddaughter was carrying.

"Well, grandma, do you want to eat some together?"

"Grandma doesn't eat it, you quickly sit and eat it while it's hot." The old man pulled the girl to sit on the wooden couch.

Watching the girl slowly eat the wontons one bite at a time, the mist rose, and a similar scene from many years ago floated in her cloudy eyes.

In 2002, at that time, she took Xiaoxiao to work in the cold storage every day, the winter in Ningchuan Town was bitingly cold, every time she got off the night shift, walked on the way home, she held her little hand tightly, her hand was cold, the little hand was colder than her, and the grandparents and grandchildren held hands with each other to keep warm.

On such a cold night, the shops along the street have long been closed and locked, and every family may have hid in the quilt and fell asleep, but the sound of wooden fish beating in the alley was the same as them, and they were night walkers in this dark night.

"Xiaoxiao, do you want to eat ravioli?" She shook the little girl's hand and looked down and asked.

"Grandma, where are the wontons sold?" The little girl looked around, but found no open shops.

"Xiaoxiao, listen, the sound of knocking on the wooden fish is the one who sells wontons." She gestured in the direction the voice was coming from.

The little girl pursed her lips and listened to the sound of knocking and beating getting closer and closer to her: "Why do you want to knock on the wooden fish to sell wontons?" ”

She thought for a while and said, "This is the custom of our town, my grandmother used to knock on wooden fish to sell wontons like this when she was a child." ”

"Grandma, I want to eat."

"Okay, buy us a bowl for our little one." She rubbed the girl's little head and smiled lovingly.

"How do you sell this ravioli?" As the stall passed by, she called out to the vendor on the stall.

"Three pieces a bowl, do you want a bowl?" The peddler said, rubbing his frozen hands.

Seeing that the guest nodded and asked, he immediately got out of the car and turned on the light to boil the underwater wontons.

"It's getting colder and colder in the past two winters." The hawker is also a middle-aged man who is over half a hundred years old.

"yes, it's cold." She also agreed, bent down, hugged the little girl in her arms, and touched her little face with the back of her hand, "It's so cool! Grandma covered up. ”

"How old is this little girl?" The vendor asked casually as he glanced at the thin little girl.

"5 years old" she hugged the little granddaughter in her arms, it's good, our family is 5 years old.

"Isn't that kindergarten?"

"I haven't read yet." She touched her frozen nose, her voice was a little choked, Xiaoxiao, wait another year, and when grandma has saved enough money and has a pension, she will send you to school.

"Oh, okay, take it back and eat it while it's hot, the little girl is so thin, but you need to eat more."

The vendor took the money and put it in his pocket, stepped on his numb feet, and rode the stall truck to continue knocking on the wooden fish, and the figure gradually merged with the night, leaving only the sound of the wooden fish coming from all directions.

It's always like this, for the sake of livelihood, not afraid of the cold, not afraid of hard work.

She was holding Xiaoxiao in one hand and wontons in the other, and it was already more than 9 o'clock in the evening when she got home.

"Little, eat while it's hot, warm up." She opened the lid for her and took out the spoon and put it in the ravioli.

The little girl nodded, took off her gloves that had been sewn many times, scooped a wonton with a spoon in her hand, and blew it, not putting it in her mouth, but turning around and coming towards her.

"Grandma, you eat first." A childish voice rang out in the room.

"Grandma doesn't eat, snacks." She couldn't help but blush when she looked at her little granddaughter so sensible, rubbed her little head, and gently coaxed her.

"Grandma, you eat." The little girl's beautiful eyes were stubborn, and she looked at her without blinking.

"Okay, I'll eat." She compromised, then leaned over to catch the small ravioli that the girl brought to her mouth.

Later, no matter what Xiaoxiao said, she didn't eat anymore, just sat and watched her Xiaoxiao quietly and eat in small bites, so little people never made a sound when they ate, even if they were hungry, they never gobbled up.

"Grandma, go to sleep first!"

This is no longer as immature as when she was a child, and her voice has become crisp pulled her out of her memory, and the little one at this moment seems to be intertwined with the little one when she was a child, she blinked her cloudy old eyes, and the phantom dissipated, and then slowly spoke: "Okay, then grandma will go to sleep first, and you will rest early." ”

"Hmm" the girl nodded, scooping a mouthful of soup into her mouth.

At the corner of the stairs, the old man looked at his granddaughter who was eating wontons with his head down, and only felt that the time of the past ten years had passed too fast, and in the blink of an eye, Xiaoxiao was already so slim.

This year's Mid-Autumn Festival, the eldest son and the second son brought the whole family to the old man's place for dinner. Needless to say, he is in charge of the kitchen, he is two daughters-in-law.

During the banquet, the dark waves flowed, and those who were interested should be clear at a glance.

"When I was cooking, I didn't even come down to help when I was upstairs; When eating, he was more active than anyone else, and the ribs were put into his bowl. The second daughter-in-law, Ye Yun, said in a weird manner.

Shu Jin pursed her lips and looked at the ribs in her bowl, and suddenly lost interest.

"Mom, you don't say a word, what do you care about with inconsequential people during the holidays."

The person who spoke was Ye Yun's daughter Ning Shuang, the four-year-old cousin of Da Shu Jin, who had been admitted to the civil service examination for a year after graduation and worked in the town government, with good ability, but too arrogant; Looks mediocre, but overconfident.

"Yes, brother and sister, let's finally get together, don't let her lose your interest." Boss Ning Kuan shook his chopsticks, and his eyes glanced in a certain direction unintentionally.

"What are you doing, are you trying to me off, an old woman?" The old man's chopsticks slammed on the table, and his lips kept shaking in anger.

"Mom, what are you angry about, and I don't talk about you." The second Ning An sandwiched a peanut and said casually while chewing.

"By the way, Shu Jin, I heard that you were admitted to Linda is true or false?" In order to change the topic, Ning Shuang seemed to ask casually, but a sense of jealousy surged in his heart, why could this stinky girl whose parents didn't love be admitted to Linda.

"It's up to you whether it's true or not, what do you think." Shu Jinping replied flatly, this meal is really bland and tasteless.

Ning Shuang was choked and took a sip of soup angrily.

"Shu Jin, if you are admitted to Linda, you won't be like this, what university is not to study, our Ah Xuan has been admitted to a university, and the salary is still more than 6,000 a month after graduation, and I don't know if you have a job after graduating from this famous university." Ning Kuan patted his tall and sturdy son beside him, his eyes were no longer mocking, but full of pride.

"If you have a job or not, don't bother my uncle to worry about me." Shu Jin replied expressionlessly, and looked at Ning Kuan without waves.

Just glanced at it, and just when he was about to turn his gaze, he met his eyes with his eldest cousin Ning Xuan.

The 24-year-old man had cold eyes, a hooked nose, thin lips tightly pursed, and there was no temperature in her eyes.

Shu Jin pursed her lips and withdrew her gaze, she has little contact with this cousin, she has never said a few words since she was a child, and she doesn't like the eyes like poisonous snakes, and she rejects them very much.

"Shu Jin, eat more." The eldest daughter-in-law, Zhu Danfen, put a piece of duck head into the girl's bowl, and the words she said seemed to be caring, but in fact, her tone was flat and meaningless.

"Thank you, auntie." Shu Jin glanced at the black duck head, turned his gaze indifferently, and did not move it. But she will not be less polite.

The old man on the throne saw all this in his eyes and listened to it in his heart, and she only blamed herself for not being able to protect her little, and could only watch her being bullied by them.

Those who are her closest people, she is in a difficult situation, she knows very well that if she maintains Xiaoxiao a few more words, they will definitely look at Xiaoxiao as a thorn in the side.

The old man sighed softly, only feeling that he couldn't swallow it.

Later, everyone chatted harmoniously, just because the topic no longer pointed to the finger.

"Shuangshuang, you work in the government, this job is really good!" Ning Kuan smiled, revealing a mouthful of smoky yellow teeth.

"Uncle, I'm average, Brother Xuan's work is better." Ning Shuang smiled shyly, and the compliments came as soon as he opened his mouth.

"Yes, big brother, your Ah Xuan looks very good, his salary is good, and he is still working in the hospital, so we can ask him for help if we have any problems in the future."

Ye Yun's sycophant shot deeply in Ning Kuan's heart, no one in the Ning family knew how important Ning Kuan regarded Ning Xuan.

"You all think Ah Xuan is good, but it's a mother, and you don't care much about your eldest grandson." Ning Kuan tugged at his lips.

"Ning Kuan, why don't I care about Ah Xuan, I didn't give a red envelope when he was admitted to college? I didn't give a gift during the New Year's holidays? I didn't give New Year's money every year? The old man's cloudy old eyes were stirred up and he glared at his eldest son.

"Mom, don't you know what your son's temper is? If you are angry with him and break your body, you really have to ask Ah Xuan to help. The eldest daughter-in-law, Zhu Danfen, squirmed her lower lips and said slowly.

"I'm full." Shu Jin really didn't want to stay in such an atmosphere, and got up to leave.

Ye Yun stopped it loudly: "Shu Jin, who taught you to be so unruly?" Don't know how to respect the old and love the young? The elders haven't left, and you want to withdraw first? I really don't know how Linda admits students like you, but they only look at grades and not morality. ”

She sat back, clenched her back teeth, clenched her hands into fists, unable to show the slightest emotion, talking to such a person was completely lowering her own pattern, she treated her as her second aunt, she didn't think she was a niece, she spoke with a gun and a stick, she endured; Yin and Yang are weird, she endures; She endures life's attacks; She endured it, for no other reason, but she didn't want to embarrass her grandmother, who she cared about.

One day, she will fly out of this cage, she will get rid of the restraints of her whole body, such a festive meal, she will not eat at all, but stones, and her teeth will be hard, and she will hurt her whole body if she swallows it.

She would rather eat such a beautiful August 15 with her grandmother and boiled noodles together, simple but palatable, plain but warm.